Chapter 1116: The Tangled Carlos

  Chapter 1095 – The Tangled Carlos
Japan is not close to the British Isles, even if an agreement is reached immediately, immediately loaded from London and shipped back, it would be two months later.

What’s more, the armored forces are technical soldiers, familiar with the equipment, basic training also need a certain amount of time, to be able to put into the battlefield in half a year, are considered highly efficient.

For the current Russo-Japanese War, it can only be regarded as distant water. If you want to quench the thirst of the near, you still need the Japanese Army to work hard by itself.

On this issue, no one can help, in terms of specific tactical command ability, the front-line officers are obviously better than the government in this group of civilian officials in the field.

Professionals can’t handle it, let alone amateurs. Japan’s family base is too thin to withstand any kind of setback, and it has not yet reached the point of capriciousness.

Ito Hirobumi: “The Far East battlefield is a bit troublesome, but overall it is still within our control.

According to the intelligence provided by the British, the Siberian Railway will not be opened to traffic until the second half of next year at the earliest.

Together with the late opening and integration time of the railroad, it is estimated that it will not really be able to function until the beginning of 1906, and we still have enough time.

The trouble is the international situation. The fight between Britain and the Holy Roman Empire is getting more and more intense, a lot of things have been brought to the surface, even do not bother to cover up.

There’s no telling if they’ll fight one day. The Empire is too deeply tied to Britain, and now it’s at war with the Russians, so once the battle for hegemony breaks out, we simply have no choice.

Although the Royal Navy has absolute superiority, the British are invincible; but the Holy Roman Empire, which spans Asia, Europe, and Africa, holds the land hegemony that is equally unshakeable.

Both families have their own absolute advantage, the final outcome of this battle for supremacy, no one dare to easily jump to conclusions.

The two tigers will be injured, for the rest of the world, it should be a good thing.

But it’s just the Empire’s bad luck that the war with the Russians happened to break out at this exact time. One bad move, and we’re going to be drawn into the battle for hegemony.

Judging from the current situation, it is very likely that neither Britain nor the Holy Roman Empire will be able to help the other, and will finally be forced to choose a truce.

They are big families, it doesn’t matter if they fight a war, we, the countries implicated in it, will be out of luck.

Similar cases are not unheard of in history, just as in our Warring States era.”

Ito Hirobumi’s concern was definitely not unfounded. With Japan’s national strength, running off to participate in the hegemony struggle between Shinra and Britannia, the end result would definitely end in tragedy.

Even if the British won and sided with the victor, the fate that awaited them would definitely not be pretty.

There is no other reason, only the strength is not good. The Russians alone have exhausted them, where there is the ability to go elsewhere to grab land.

If they win, they can’t share the spoils; if they lose, they may lose their entire fortune. This kind of hegemony struggle, put on who is not willing to participate in ah!
This kind of lesson, the Japanese government is not lack of. “Japan’s Warring States period” is mostly a village-level fight, but it is still feasible to learn from the experience of the ancients.

When a few daimyo fought for supremacy, the first to go down were the lesser vassals. If you follow the boss in a battle, not only do you have to be cannon fodder, but you also have to pick up the rest of the spoils of war.

If you suffer heavy casualties, then you can only recognize your own bad luck. When it comes to a little more benevolent, may also be more or less care, to help save the family heritage; encounter ruthless, directly annexed by the main family.

Prime Minister Katsutaro: “Ito-kun, there is no need to think too much. The international situation is beyond our control, and what the Empire can do now is to win this war.

As for the hegemony struggle between the Holy Roman Empire and Britain, we can only follow the situation and wait for an opportunity.

As long as the empire grasps the extent of the situation and does not get too deeply involved, even if the Holy Roman Empire is victorious, the Vienna government will not be able to travel far enough to seek out the empire’s bad luck.

Besides, judging from the current situation, the possibility of both losing is the greatest, and the danger to the Empire is not great.”

Distance is the best moat, and for Japan at this stage, being far away from the European continent is the greatest advantage.

No matter how fierce the struggle between Britain and Austria is, the main battlefield is in Europe. The possibility of the Japanese government becoming a bystander is very high as long as it doesn’t burrow into it itself.

Even if the British boss is not happy, there are still the Russians to take the fall! The fact that they were too busy with the Russo-Japanese War to be distracted from looking south is the best reason.

Holding the Russians back and taking the pressure off Britain in India is their greatest contribution to the League.

Of course, Katsutaro’s premise for such a conclusion was that Britain and Russia had not hooked up.

If the Russians had fallen to the British, they would have had no choice but to end the war and head hard south.

After all, the British weren’t taking any of their money. Since they had taken people’s money, they would have to live to pay it back.

……

The Japanese government, which is miles away, is feeling the pressure, and the European countries that are facing the storm directly, that’s even more so.

It’s the once-in-a-decade standing season again, and at this point, everyone has to make a choice.

“Choice is greater than effort” applies to countries as well. After this step is taken, it will be difficult to turn back.

In the next few decades, whether to “eat fragrant, drink spicy”, or “eat chaff and swallow food”, depends on the results of this wave of bets now.

Paris, since the end of the Continental War, this international metropolis has fallen into a second-tier city, in the international sense of presence is getting lower and lower.

In the past, the kind of Paris government a stomp, the earth are going to shake three times of the grand situation, has long gone.

Now there is just a Bourbon dynasty in the narrow gap to survive, not the slightest bit of the former European hegemony of arrogance.

Not only has the government lost its momentum, even the people have lost their confidence, and the arrogance of the past is nowhere to be seen.

The revolutionary holy land, which was originally lively in thought, is now like a puddle of stagnant water. With the end of the war, the heyday of a hundred schools of thought came to an end.

The campus debates with boiling blood and passion no longer exist, and the passionate and romantic streets of Paris are nowhere to be seen.

I don’t know when the people of Paris are no longer interested in discussing politics, and the news of international events is not as attractive as the discounts in the stores.

Once the capital of newspapers, the city has been reduced to the point where the newspapers are no longer available, as if the people don’t like to read them.

The scene in front of him casts a shadow over Lloyd George, who is on a mission.

The vibrant Paris no longer exists, now there is just a group of walking dead who are just trying to survive.

Ask yourself, can such a France take on the heavy responsibility of the “anti-Godzilla”?
Lloyd George himself is not sure. Just come all the way here, no matter whether it can work or not, the work always have to continue.

No one expected, the Vienna government on Britain’s withdrawal from the free trade system will be so fierce reaction, directly pierce the last layer of windowpaper between the two countries.

The smell of gunpowder in Europe was suddenly thick, however, Britain’s strategic plan, but only just kicked off.

Seeing that the war is approaching, the flag of the anti-Shiraz alliance has not yet been erected.

The main force in the booking, the hairy bear, is busy fighting with another teammate, Japan. If the internal problems are not solved, how can we talk about anti-Shinra?

But time waits for no one, the arms race is already in full swing, Shinra and Britannia are having a dumpling competition at the moment.

Even if war broke out tomorrow, Lloyd George wouldn’t be surprised.

In order to increase its chances of winning the war, the British government was doing its best to bring in allies at the moment. It doesn’t matter if it’s a powerhouse or a soy sauce faction, as long as it can be pulled over then it’s all the better for it.

In the opinion of the British government, “even a rotten boat has three pounds of nails”, not to mention the once awesome French Empire. Even if how to decline, that is not the general small countries can be compared.

In a sense, the British government’s judgment is not wrong. The current France is still a “big country” with a population of more than ten million. Although it has been weakened greatly, but there is still the depth.

Unfortunately, the “heritage” is just that: “heritage”. Until it is transformed into strength, the deepest heritage will not be able to support a big country.

The current France is a typical case in point, no matter how rich the historical accumulation is, it can’t withstand the continuous bleeding and tossing of the Antifa Alliance.

First of all, it violently destroyed the military industry of France, and then it relied on commodity dumping to kill the heavy industry of France.

If only the industry is damaged, then it is just, the most critical is the Russians show.

Originally, the French still welcomed the entry of the Russian army, and at the Congress of Vienna, the Czarist government was the only one of the anti-French allies who advocated letting them go, and even had a big fight with various countries because of this.

Unfortunately, this “ally” was expected to come over, but it was a wolf in human skin.

With the help of the Russians, the French managed to fall from the edge of the cliff to the bottom of the abyss.

No matter what pride, backbone, feelings, hatred, all in the Russian army under the butcher knife trembling.

Just look at the peaceful behavior of the Parisian populace, it’s all due to the Russians. But anyone with a backbone has either been sent to God or is contributing to the construction work of the Siberian Railroad.

As far as the eye can see, there’s a lot of yin and yang. The Russians have almost killed all the young men, and the rest are mostly old and weak women and children, so it’s hard to make things happen.

Lloyd George can see, even if the French participate in the war against God Luo, can only follow the soy sauce.

Want to act as the main force, that also have to have soldiers to do ah?
If you simply calculate the youthful labor force, it is estimated that the next door of Belgium, and France are not much worse.

Although France still has a population of seventeen to eighteen million, but can take out the army, at most only a few hundred thousand.

Not to mention and God Luo confrontation, estimates that they move, the neighboring Sardinia, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain will solve them.

Of course, a shortage of men could also recruit women. Theoretically, France could still form a million strong army.

Unfortunately the French did not have this opportunity, the anti-French alliance limited the armament of France early, the number of armies was limited to death.

Even the purchase of every rifle and every round of ammunition had to be approved by the Allied Command, not to mention the expansion of recruitment.

It is estimated that without waiting for them to complete their domestic mobilization, the troops in France would have finished them off first. Changing governments, it’s not like the Antifa coalition hadn’t done it before.

Knowing is knowing, what should be fooled should still be fooled. If a war breaks out, every bit of power is valuable.

France’s strength is not good, but this does not affect them as cannon fodder. Even if they can’t help on the front battlefield, making a scene to be able to consume Shen Luo’s resources, that’s also good.

Britain and France are hundreds of years of feud, and incidentally pit the French, Lloyd George has no heart pressure.

With the heart to try, Lloyd George came to Versailles.

Revisited the same place, but saw in front of the eyes of the earth-shattering changes. Not only has the palace changed owners, even the interior decoration is not as good as before.

As a French ballad goes, “Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles, Versailles …….”

From the time of its construction, the fate of Versailles has been linked to France. In recent centuries, countless events involving the history of France have been staged here.

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Not waiting for Lloyd George to finish his awkward bragging, Carlos interrupted ahead of him, “Sir George, there’s no point in talking about any of this.

Your country also deserves a lot of credit for France falling to the present state. Without your country’s cooperation, we wouldn’t have lost so cleanly in the Continental War.

Now talking about the friendship between the two countries, I’m sorry, I really don’t feel the friendship of your country. All I see with my eyes is the betrayal of an ally.

At this point, it’s useless to say anything. France can no longer withstand any more tossing and turning, instead of wasting your time with us, your country should think about what to do about the challenge of the Holy Roman Empire!”

Anglo-French friendship, in itself, was a false proposition. Over the past few hundred years, the two countries have been hostile for dozens of times longer than they have been allied.

Even so, in the only few alliances that had been made, France had suffered greatly.

The wind and water had turned, and now it was the turn of the British to perpetuate the challenge, and Carlos had been very facetious if he hadn’t fallen on his sword.

Wanting France to take up arms and go to war with the Holy Roman Empire again for the benefit of the British would be an insult to Carlos’s intelligence.

Lloyd George was not surprised by the rejection. Even he had prepared his mind to be thrown out, and now he was still able to sit here and talk, that was already a very good result.

Even though it was the former previous government that did it, it was still an indisputable fact that Britain had screwed over France.

Being screwed over so badly, it’s only normal to have grievances, and it’s only a problem if there are no grievances.

It’s just that Lloyd George can’t say much on this issue.

In the view of the French is Britain’s betrayal, only to lead to their own defeat; but stand in the position of Britain, why not because France is too waste, are not waiting for their own preparedness to defeat.

“Your Majesty, France used to be a great country, but now what I see is full of depression and people are not happy, don’t you want to change all this?

As long as the Holy Roman Empire exists for one day, the mountain of the Anti-French Alliance, your country will not be able to cross it for one day.

If you don’t want to sink, the best thing you can do is to join us.

As long as the Holy Roman Empire is crushed, your country can immediately regain everything it once had and once again stand at the top of the world.”

It would be a lie to say that one would not be moved. It was only that the blueprint that Lloyd George had depicted, no matter how magnificent it was, could not make up for the weak land forces of the Anti-Holy Roman Alliance.

Joining in now, it would be another rehash of the last Continental War, and France would still have to single-handedly take on the continental countries.

The only difference is that back then they had the ability to do so, but now they do so, that is the proper cannon fodder.

But not to participate, the reality is indeed as Lloyd George said, this is France’s last chance.

Once missed, it is estimated that the next century do not want to turn around. Whether it is a victory for Britain or the Holy Roman Empire, they will be the target of suppression.

After hesitating for a while, Carlos slowly said: “Your Excellency do not need to say anymore, even if the interests are big, it is also necessary to defeat the Holy Roman Empire, before you can eat.

With your country’s military power, even if you add us, you still don’t have any chance of winning on land.

Your country has the Royal Navy in place, the big deal is to strategically contract, not afraid of the Holy Roman Empire’s retaliation, we do not have such a condition.”

Make up your mind and refuse?
That was completely overthinking it. Anyone else in Carlos’ position would be thinking of flipping.

Not agreeing to an alliance with the British was partly because he really wasn’t sure of winning, and partly because he purely didn’t trust the British.

If these two problems could be solved. Then joining the Anti-Shiraz Alliance wouldn’t be a big deal.

Obviously, this was unrealistic. Unless the British were able to pull together all the countries in Europe, it would simply not be possible to converge on the anti-Shitlero momentum.

(End of chapter)