Chapter 615: Constitutional Monarchy

  Chapter 602 Constitutional Monarchy

Not fighting for it is not the same as not participating in the fight, even if you are not interested, you can still go and join in the fun.

With Austria’s current strength, no one can ignore, should have that share is not less.

Even if you do not fight for the colonies, that can be rewarded. Here made concessions, but also from other places to make up for the loss.

The exchange of benefits is the essence of international diplomacy. How is it possible to just want to take advantage and not want to pay the price?

All the benefits let you take a family, other countries how to mix? Can’t afford to mess with, can’t afford to avoid it, not to play with you is.

Now is not the era of one country, no country can cover the sky. If you don’t want to become a loner, you’d better follow the rules of the game.

Once the rules of the game are broken, the biggest loss is bound to be the rule maker. Because the rules themselves are set by the makers in order to safeguard their own interests, reshuffling who can not guarantee that they will be able to occupy a dominant position.

Unluckily, Britain, France and Austria are three old empires, personally involved in, and dominated the rules of the game, the current rules of the game itself represents the interests of Austria.

Determined the general policy, the specific negotiation work, do not need Franz worry about. What can get, that will only be known through the negotiations.

Franz could not possibly judge the strategic objectives of each country, and the so-called prior targeting was complete bullshit.

Just like British diplomacy, people who don’t know think that the British have formulated a series of plans, and the Foreign Office carries out diplomacy in accordance with the pre-determined plans.

However, as far as Franz knows, British diplomacy has no so-called long-term diplomatic plan at all, and there is only one core of diplomatic work – national interests.

Specific plans were made on an ad hoc basis according to the actual situation. A detailed plan in advance does not apply to diplomacy.

International diplomacy is volatile, today is an enemy, may become a friend tomorrow, even friends and foes can not be determined, and how to ensure that other countries will go according to your plan?

Any successful diplomatic powers, will be around the international interests, flexible adjustment of their own foreign policy row, rather than mechanical according to the plan.

This point Franz see very accurate, twenty years ago Austria’s most important foreign policy is the Russian-Austrian alliance, to the present has become the British-French-Austrian alliance.

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Coordination of international relations, ease the conflict between the major colonial empires, but also involves the distribution of the remaining colonies, obviously not overnight can be completed, this negotiation is destined to be protracted.

In Jerusalem, a meeting of European countries on mediating the Turkish-Polish conflict had begun. Prior to the meeting, the Ottomans and Persia had already exchanged fire several times on the border.

Only each other have scruples, are as far as possible to maintain restraint, the conflict was suppressed by the two countries high-level.

In general, the two sides are mutual victory and defeat, Persia also a little loss. This result was very disappointing to Franz, who was prepared to support Persia to cause trouble to the British, but now he had to regretfully cancel this idea.

Even when fighting the Ottoman army, which was greatly wounded, he could not obtain an overwhelming advantage, so this kind of chess piece has no investment value.

It would be better to support Afghanistan, this chess piece, although it can only be used as a small soldier, people are also a small soldier who has crossed the river. Although the volume is small, but the combat power is still reliable.

With the support of Russia and Austria, Afghanistan has also trained a new army over the years. Unfortunately, Afghanistan is too poor, limited by financial resources, only trained out of the three infantry divisions that are not organized.

This has been the result of the Afghan government being militaristic and joining the Austrian funding. Otherwise, they couldn’t even afford to raise a modern infantry division.

In contrast, Persia’s situation is much better, even if it has fallen, the family background is not comparable to Afghanistan.

If the government is capable enough, it’s still not hard to train a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand modernized land forces. Having so many armies in place is enough to dampen British ambitions.

All in all, feudal agricultural countries are not suitable for the era of hot weapons, and their meager financial income determines the upper limit of their strength.

The Jerusalem Conference was bogged down at the beginning, and it was clear to all that there was no way to talk here.

Both the Ottomans and Persians had the backing of the Great Powers behind them, and as long as the bosses behind the scenes were still pulling the strings, they could only hold out.

Unfortunately, now the British, French and Austrian countries are still in a constant tug of war, the negotiation table naturally impossible to produce results.

Persia asked the Ottoman Empire to compensate for the losses, the Ottomans asked Persia to compensate for the pension, the atmosphere is very tense, the representatives of the two countries are close to a direct duel.

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At the same time as the Jerusalem conference was at a stalemate, the British also honored their promise to the Ottoman Empire, and the first three million pounds of war loans were already in place.

For Chancellor Midhat, this was the first good news he had received since taking charge of the Ottoman Empire.

With this amount of money, the rebellion in the country could be suppressed and order restored in the country. Then the social reforms will be carried out, so that the Ottoman Empire will rise again, and then to Austria and Russia to avenge the shame.

Okay, that seems a bit overthinking. Idealists, though, are still understandable, and their ideas are always beyond their capabilities.

The YPG official, Mehadra, reported in a low voice, “Chancellor, in the last few days, His Majesty has frequently summoned conservative and religious leaders.

All the conversations were held in secret, but judging from the expressions on these people’s faces as they left, they should have been talking to each other.

After coming down, these people have kept an unusually low profile, and even their daily human interactions have been reduced.

At the same time, they secretly had more secret letters, including multiple military generals who had contact with them. Preliminary judgment is that their conspiracy is coming against us.”

Al-Shabaab came to power through a coup d’état, and Abdul Hamid II was propped up by them.

However, this sultan is not restless. He was in favor of the Ottoman Al-Shabaab before his succession, otherwise it wouldn’t have been his turn to succeed, but after his succession, things changed.

Abdul Hamid II was not willing to be a puppet sultan, and he was originally close to Al-Shabaab, but was naturally driven by power to the conservatives.

Now that the Ottoman Al-Shabaab is in a position of power, Abdul Hamid II, even though he has brought the conservatives into the fold, is still somewhat out of his depth.

However, with the resolution of the refugee crisis, the situation has changed, and the conservatives have put all the blame on the government, and the popularity of the Ottoman Youth has plummeted.

This allowed Abdul Hamid II to see the opportunity to engage in petty maneuvering, many times making the Al-Shabaab government unable to step down.

This naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Al-Shabaab, and the relationship between the two sides became very frosty. As the leader of Al-Shabaab, Prime Minister Midhat will not sit idly by.

The Ottoman Empire was different from European countries, where every transfer of power was accompanied by bloody killings. The current situation is that a step back is not a wide sea and sky, but an abyss of ten thousand feet, and it is not surprising that Midhat sent someone to spy on the Sultan.

If it is not to avoid causing domestic unrest, perhaps Midhat have sent someone to take out Abdul Hamid II, have abolished a sultan, he does not mind to do it again.

Midhat said fiercely, “Notify the cabinet and ministers to meet here tomorrow afternoon to discuss the reform of the constitutional monarchy.”

Not being able to depose Abdul Hamid II didn’t mean that Midhat couldn’t fight back. Constitutional monarchy reform is the best option.

Most countries in Europe, at present, have adopted constitutional monarchies. But there are many kinds of constitutional monarchies, some countries have a lot of restrictions on the rights of the monarch, and some countries just hang on to the name and have no restrictions at all.

Of course, all in all monarchs have real power in this era, and no one has fallen so far as to be reduced to a rubber stamp. Monarch power is still at its peak now, and is the most powerful person in a country.

This did not prevent Midhat from using the constitutional monarchy reforms to overthrow Abdul Hamid II, as there was no uniformity in the constitutional monarchy itself.

For example: the Austrian constitutional monarchy, the only thing that really had any practical effect was the explicit provision of the Emperor’s annuity, which prevented the Emperor from taking extra money from the treasury for hedonistic purposes.

Otherwise, there are almost no restrictions, and they have even been strengthened. The so-called laws of the constitutional monarchy were drafted by Franz himself, and the emperor had the right to change them at any time.

In the British constitutional monarchy, for example, the king’s powers were more limited, but overall the king was still the supreme leader and held the power of the state.

The most prominent is the Russian constitutional monarchy, not even specific legal provisions, God knows what to rely on to limit the power of the Tsar.

The main basis on which many people in later times have argued that Tsarist Russia was a monarchy, rather than a constitutional monarchy, is that the Tsarist government legally had little to no restrictions on the Tsar’s rights.

This is all a minor issue, as long as it is held up as a constitutional monarchy. Midhart, while idealistic, was not so radical as to be arrogant enough to want to abolish the Sultan and go straight over to the republican era.

In the Ottoman Empire this kind of religious belief in the country to play the republican system, itself is very bullshit, may be popularly elected to power all the religious leaders.

So it was enough to turn Abdul Hamid II into a rubber stamp under the banner of constitutional monarchy reform.

(End of chapter)