Chapter 569: Creating Panic
Chapter 556 – Creating Panic
Vienna Palace, having just received the good news that Ava had been captured, Franz didn’t have time to be happy before the bad news followed.
Franz does not care about the reasons provided by the Russians. The “massacre” had become a fact, and it was too difficult to keep it a secret with so many participants, what was needed now was the aftermath.
If the time had been different, it wouldn’t have mattered. The reputation of the Woolly Bear was not good, and adding the name of “Butcher” to it would not cost him a penny.
Europe seldom occurs massacre incident, but similar things are often done. On the surface of the robbery is more civilized than the massacre, but in fact, the consequences of the robbery are almost the same as the massacre. Food is robbed, let the people how to live?
Before the 19th century, the population of the European continent could not go up, the main reason is the war accompanied by looting, a large number of people died of starvation because of the lack of food.
The colonies, not to mention, were not much cleaner than anyone else. It’s just that the colonial empires controlled the world’s discourse and everyone pretended not to see it.
Foreign Minister Weissenberg: ”Your Majesty, the news of Ava’s massacre will certainly not be kept from us, and the immediate aftermath is needed now.
The public opinion is not worried, the people will not care about the death of the Ottomans, at most, they will only have a few words of emotion, it is the British who are in trouble. If the government in London takes advantage of the situation, it will be very bad for us politically.”
Come on, this is all straight up assuming that it was the Russians who massacred the city, and not believing the Russian explanation at all.
Franz also does not believe the Russian explanation, the local people fierce resistance he believes that there is, but everyone so jumped out to resist the Russian invasion, this is not funny?
The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic state, and many ethnic groups fantasized about independence. From the outbreak of the war to the present, the Vienna government has been in contact with the Ottoman domestic leaders of a number of ethnic groups.
Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Arabs, Kurds and other ethnic groups all have a tendency toward independence.
If they were asked to rise up and rebel, perhaps people would still hesitate, but if they were asked to sell their lives for the Ottoman Empire, that would be absolutely impossible.
There are no minorities left in Ava? I’m afraid no one would believe that. If you want to cover it up, you have to leave some people behind to testify!
The Ottoman Empire has serious ethnic conflicts, under normal circumstances, it is not difficult to find a group of oppressed minorities to testify, who cares about the truth in front of hatred?
Maybe a lot of people would clap their hands and say the Russians did a good job. Not to mention these oppressed nationalities, there would be many people within Austria who would applaud the Russians.
Prime Minister Felix: “Napoleon III had just died and Napoleon IV had just succeeded to the throne, the internal conflicts were enough to keep him busy, and in a short time the French did not have the energy to participate in the Near East war.
The government in Paris is just waving flags and shouting, and if they don’t take any real action, the government in London can’t actually do anything.
The Prussians were too busy annexing Poland to care about their Ottoman allies. Maybe they’d even be glad that it broke out and helped distract them internationally.
The war in Ava was all done by the Russians alone, it doesn’t involve us yet. As long as the Russians bite the bullet, they can keep dragging it out.
The world is not a peaceful place, there’s news every hour, so chill out for a while and when new news comes out, public opinion won’t be able to care.”
There was something underhanded about the way this was handled, and the Czarist government would take the full brunt of the pressure. No soldiers landed in Austria, and it wasn’t hard to set it aside.
After hesitating for a few moments of effort, Franz made a decision, “There is no need to rush, just leave this option to the Tsarist government.
The Russian army can either clean up the military discipline to avoid similar situations; or continue to kill all the way, so although there are a lot of people who oppose this, but there are also a lot of people who support it.
The Ottoman Empire was a nightmare for Europe, and now that it could be completely eradicated, I’m sure the people wouldn’t resist. The Russians had no reputation to begin with, and it wouldn’t hurt to make it worse.”
Dead Roads are not dead. Since the Russians were the ones who caused the problem, it was up to the Tsarist government itself to come out and make things right, and Franz didn’t want to take the fall for anyone.
Perhaps it might still be a good thing for the Tsarist government. The Russian people had never been afraid of the Tsar’s brutality against his enemies, and the Ava massacre was a good distraction for the people at home.
In any case, by winning the war, the Tsar’s government would be able to use the prestige of the war to suppress the backlash caused by the reforms.
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St. Petersburg, Alexander II’s face was terribly gloomy. The truth of the Ava massacre is not important, but how to deal with the aftermath.
In any case, people are killed by the Russian army, even if it is again denied, can not stop the mouth of the masses, the responsibility is not pushed out.
Just see Alexander II casually threw his hand, the hands of the document thrown out, cold drink: “Humph!” Turned his back to the crowd, asked: “What is the position of the Vienna government, this war diplomacy but they are responsible for?”
That’s right, there was also a division of labor between Russia and Austria. Diplomacy, an area of ineptitude, was naturally not grabbed by the Tsarist government.
Experiencing a series of social poisonous beatings, Alexander II has soberly realized that diplomacy is not child’s play, and cannot rely on taking things for granted to be able to solve problems.
Foreign Minister Chris Basham stepped forward, “Your Majesty, the Vienna government made a promise that they would be responsible for setting the European countries right, but international public opinion is something they can’t do anything about.”
This answer was somewhat unexpected by Alexander II, in his opinion this incident was caused by the Russian army, after this kind of thing happened, the government of Vienna should also be worried, how could they agree to it in one go?
In contrast, public opinion was not put in the eyes of Alexander II, the newspapers want to scold then let them scold well. Anyway, have been used to, if that day the European newspapers did not scold the tsarist government news, that is the real “news”.
“It can’t be that simple, can it? The Vienna government agreed so quickly, what is Franz playing?”
This is Alexander II and Austria dealings summarized experience, basically the Vienna government as long as the quick to agree, there will be additional conditions.
Foreign Minister Chris Basham awkwardly explained, “The Vienna government is proposing: either we clean up our military discipline to avoid similar things from happening, or we continue to carry on with the massacre.”
Hearing this answer, Alexander II was first shocked, then brightened up.
The “massacre” would cause international censure, increase the will of the Ottoman people to resist, and also encourage more people to run away.
It would not be so easy to expel the local population. In a different army with a bad reputation as “butchers”, it is feared that the majority of the population would flee.
The Ottoman Empire, no matter how hard it tried, could not keep all the people confined to their localities, and this kind of difficult implementation was not something that could be accomplished by a feudal empire.
As long as the panic was created and a large number of Ottoman populace joined the fleeing ranks, the allied forces had already won strategically.
With the Russian army sweeping all the way down, I’m afraid that by relying on the refugees, they would be able to drag down the Ottoman Empire. People need to eat, if the Sudanese government does not have a way to solve the problem of these people’s food, hungry people can do anything.
If the rear is in chaos, how can the front fight? Alexander II did not think that the Ottoman Empire in the front line of the strategic supplies stored, enough to consume this war.
After thinking about it, Alexander II still did not dare to make a decision, asked the crowd: “What do you think?”
Finance Minister Kristan Val: “Your Majesty, this needs to grasp a degree. There are tens of millions of Ottomans, it is impossible to kill them all, and the international community cannot tolerate it.
The Austrians meant to create an atmosphere of panic and force the people in the coastal areas to move inward, not really to kill all the Ottomans.
If the Ottomans were really pushed to the point of fighting us to the end, this war would be endless. We’ve been holding it up for too long, first defeating the Ottomans and forcing them to cede their land and make reparations.
To destroy the Ottoman Empire is not a matter of overnight, we must be prepared for a long war.
Launching a war against the Ottoman Empire every ten or twenty years and gradually eating them up is the best option.”
This “best choice” is based on the financial, the tsarist government’s limited financial resources, really if all at once to destroy the Ottoman Empire, they can not eat, will only be cheaper to the Austrians.
After pondering for a while, Alexander II nodded: “Send a telegram to the front line, so be it. Remember to tell that idiot Ivanov that the war behind must be fought.
I don’t want a similar oops to happen a second time. The Russian Empire can’t afford to be tossed around like this, if he can’t do it, go home before it’s too late.”
As the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Ivanov was to blame for the outbreak of the “massacre” in Ava.
As for the person concerned, even if it is to be held accountable, it is not the turn of Alexander II personally disposed of, otherwise it would have to be the following people do!
The problem of overstepping the bounds of the hierarchy is a taboo in any country. All let the Tsar to finish the matter, the following ministers do what?
Once these people were idle, infighting was about to break out. If you look in the history books, you will find that most of the party disputes broke out because the ministers were too idle.
Idle egg pain, it is difficult to not give birth to some should not have distractions. Today you count me, tomorrow I count you, time will be infighting, other things will not do anything.
“Doing more is more wrong, doing less is less wrong, not doing good.” Once this twelve-word maxim becomes the official code of conduct, then this country is tragic.
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Ava, after being blood-washed, the city has become so eerie that walking down the street will send shivers down your spine.
The Russian army, after all, is only an outsider, it is impossible to search every corner, there are still fish in the net.
The master and disciple Akjol were one of the lucky ones, taking advantage of the chaos to hide in the cellar of the blacksmith’s store and escaped.
Late at night, the Russian army had closed up and returned to camp. Ava city people are dead, the Russian army naturally will not be heavily guarded.
A few escapes were not taken seriously by the Russians at all. In the course of the battle, there were quite a few who took advantage of the chaos and ran away.
With so many Russian soldiers involved, secrecy was simply impossible. Trying to kill and silence, the Russians couldn’t do it either.
It would be better to spend energy for the possible leaks than to think about what to do in the next battle. If someone escaped, the panic would spread, and perhaps the surrounding countryside would be empty without their having to wait for them to kick them out.
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(End of chapter)