Chapter 586: A Lowered Temperament
Chapter 573 – Pulling Down the Sense of propriety
The plan did not change quickly, looking at just noisy noise, just do not see the movement of the French government, Franz had to admit that he misjudged.
The table was overturned, but less French this protagonist involved, the situation did not develop as Franz expected.
The Paris government seems to have staged a farce, in fact, it happens to be the most in line with the interests of France’s choice.
What France needed now was to keep a low profile and minimize its presence. If they jumped out to fight for the Rhineland at this time, Britain and Austria, who were having a falling out, would immediately abandon their preconceived ideas and come together to suppress them.
France is strong and happens to be adjacent to the Rhineland region, geopolitics dictates that this issue can’t get around the French. Instead of taking a stand, the Paris government was pulled in by all sides.
Vienna Palace, looking at the intelligence in his hands, Franz shook his head helplessly.
This time, overturning the table, whether Austria has made a profit or a loss, it is still unclear, but the Kingdom of Prussia is certainly earned.
If you follow the British plan and make a sudden move at the International Conference, there will be only one buyer for the German Federal Reich.
The business of buying by force, naturally, is not as high as two buyers competing for the price. It was estimated that the financial crisis of the Berlin government would be over with the sale of the Rhineland.
Foreign Minister Weissenberg: ”Your Majesty, the Berlin government has put out the word that it intends to sell the Rhineland region, and now both Belgium and the German Federal Empire have expressed interest.
However, Belgium lacks the support of the Great Powers, and unless they can gain the support of the French, the deal will be difficult to complete even if the Prussians want to sell it to them.
Problems also arose in the German Federal Empire, the issue of the Rhineland region’s belonging had already been raised in the Reichstag, and many representatives of the states had already made it clear that the Rhineland region must be joined in a state situation.
If George I hadn’t adjourned the session in time, perhaps the parliament would have made a decision by now, cutting off the possibility of direct central government jurisdiction.”
(George I of the German Federal Empire i.e.: George V of Hanover, in the original time and space Hanover was extinct and did not have this monarch)
It was evident that Weissenberg was still regretting that the German Federal Parliament had been a step slow, if a resolution had already been made, then Austria’s goal would have been achieved.
As for the support of Belgium’s acquisition of the Rhineland, it was a pretext from beginning to end. The reason was very simple: Belgium was too close to France.
Without French support, they might have had a chance to compete; with French support, they would not have had a chance to compete.
The French were not doing charity; since they supported Belgium, they were bound to get something in return.
If the Kingdom of Prussia sold the Rhineland region to Belgium on the front foot, and then Belgium turned around and gave the resources on it to the French, wouldn’t it be a wasted effort?
In terms of industrial development, the resources of the Rhineland region are still more valuable to France than the Italian region.
Napoleon III took the Italian region, in addition to increasing the territory, population, market, resources on almost no gain, but let the resource crisis of France more serious.
Before the occupation of the Italian regions, there was no need for the Parisian government to worry about the energy of the Italian regions. Not anymore, these problems became the problems of the French themselves.
Every year, France needed to import hundreds of thousands of tons of coal from the outside world, a number that would continue to climb with industrial development.
The impact on the French economy may not be obvious in the short term, but if it takes a decade or eight, France’s heavy industry is going to fall behind.
The original time and space France into a usury empire, is the lack of local resources, the need to import from the outside world to pull up the cost of industrial production.
Higher production costs, the sales price had to be increased. This has led to many French industrial and commercial products in the international loss of market competitiveness, forcing capitalists to transform.
For the purpose of containing the French, it was a matter of principle that the countries that acquired the Rhineland could not be pro-French.
Undoubtedly, the German Federal Reich did better in this regard, diplomatically hovering between Britain and Austria all the time, than Belgium, which swung between Britain and France, leaning on it.
Chancellor Felix: “Let’s see what Belgium chooses first! If the Belgians are ambitious and want to build a strong country that can say no to the French, then it’s not impossible to give them the Rhineland.
We also need a nail to contain France, and we can’t do that without some strength. Prussia would have been the best choice, but they are growing too fast.
If we didn’t need the German unification strategy as a cover, it would actually be a good choice to let Hanover get the Rhineland region and integrate the German Confederation.”
In order to take it, you have to go with it, and Hanover integrating the German Confederation doesn’t actually affect Austria’s unification of the German regions.
Because by the time Franz felt the time was ripe to do it, Austria already had the power of a world hegemon and was not afraid of being swarmed.
Purely in terms of interest, the German Federal Empire was already a piece of chicken ribs, and only by taking the Rhineland region was it barely considered meat.
There are so many states in the German region, if they are all let in, the Reichstag will be lively. It is estimated that a large part of the future central government’s energy will be used to reconcile internal relations.
The German region has been divided for hundreds of years, the people have long been accustomed to the politics of the states, coupled with the religious factor, to change the rules of the game is bound to suffer backlash.
This must find someone to take the blame, otherwise it will be a crisis of rule. The fact that the German Second Empire in the original time and space had not been able to completely solve this problem was enough to illustrate the problem.
Prime Minister Felix wanted George I to take the blame for this, and when he had finished off the many small states, Austria would then jump out and pick the peach, and the hate value could be much less.
Franz nodded: ”This issue can’t be rushed, it’s very easy to do the favor for others by rushing.
The national policy has already been formulated, so let’s follow the steps. It is a taboo to change the plan at the drop of a hat. This drama must go on, at least we have to fight for ten years.
By then, even if the gangs, we have also become a great power. Even if Britain and France want to make trouble, they have to have the strength to do so.”
Ten more years, this is Franz’s minimum requirement. If possible, it would be better to live for twenty or thirty years.
By then the French themselves had fallen out of favor, and Russia and Prussia had successfully escalated into feuds. The British, even if they wanted to make a demonic move, would have to stop because they could not find a fighter.
In the original time and space, the London government did not fully suppress the Americans, but chose to die to the German Second Empire, one of the most important reasons is that they could not find a hitter.
Under Franz’s butterfly effect, the industrial revolution in this time and space advanced much faster. Not only did electricity begin to popularize in advance, even the development of the internal combustion engine was much faster, and the diesel engine had already been born.
Although it still remains in the laboratory stage, there is no way to promote its use, this is also a major advancement in the power system. Power system development to a certain extent, it was the turn of the birth of the airplane.
The air force has developed, is Austria to replace the British hegemony time. This is not Franz goat, is really the Royal Navy is too powerful, want to rely on the Navy directly overtake is simply not realistic.
“Use your own shortcomings to gain the strengths of others.” Isn’t this getting tired of living? The original time and space German Second Empire proved with the facts that the British would not leave their competitors the opportunity to catch up with the Royal Navy.
Austria’s geographic location was a bit better than the German II Empire, but the nature of a multi-front war remained the same, without the geographical advantage of having a continent all to itself that the US had.
The same could not be said of the birth of air power, and Franz was no wimp when it came to competing with the British in an emerging field. Deploy a circle along the Mediterranean, the lines of communication between the continent and the mainland were stabilized, and so was Austria.
Austria’s mainland population has exceeded seventy-five million, and the Russian Empire is comparable to the British mainland is more than twice as much, the African colonies still have more than ten million, and the longer the delay the more obvious demographic advantage.
As an old empire with a vested interest in its own right, Austria had no shortage of resources or markets, and no urgent desire to challenge the world order.
It was better to leave the burden of challenging the world order to the newborn empire. Unless there is a soft target to be pinched, challenging the world order is a high-risk, low-reward business, and more than 90 percent of the results are not enough booty to make up for war losses.
From God’s perspective, the old empire is not the real enemy, but the newborn empire is the threat.
The most typical is Britain, France and Austria, we are each other’s biggest rivals, or contradictions, however, the three countries not only did not break out in war, but also the first alliance.
The biggest problem is the lack of motivation to start a war, everyone is a vested interest, under the hands of a large number of colonies, their own are eating up, who still have the heart to rob others?
To realize that war also has a cost, from the first Near East War, the war between European countries directly broke out, almost all in a state of loss.
Even if the Kingdom of Prussia to obtain a large area of territory in return, want to realize the profit, it is also decades later, a short period of time is still a money-losing business.
From the investment theory, the outbreak of war between the big countries belongs to the high-risk, low rate of return investment, naturally unpopular.
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London.
Countries condemned the Russian Empire’s invasion of Poland, met the deadbeat Tsarist government, naturally achieved no effect.
The Russians refused to retreat, and none of the European nations would intervene. This did not stop the conference from continuing, and the question of the legitimacy of William I as King of Poland became a new focus.
Simply put, as long as the Kingdom of Prussia was willing to give up the Rhineland, William I would be the legitimate King of Poland, and even the merger of Prussia and Poland could be legal.
The opposite was not necessary since. The Iron Fist of Imperialism will show what legitimacy is.
Justice, justice, justice, all came to naught at the London Conference. Without realizing it, everyone’s modesty was pulled down a few more points.
(End of chapter)