Holy Roman Empire

Fools miss opportunities; wise men seize them; successful men create them; opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

Since the Tsarist government wanted to withdraw from France, it would not be held up by a "pretext".

The only way to withdraw without provoking a backlash from the Anti-French Alliance was war. Only if the Russian Empire was at war with a third country would the Tsarist government have sufficient reason to withdraw its troops and not be blamed by the nations.

If you open a map, you will see that the Russian Empire has few neighbors left, that Europe is a hard place, that the British in South Asia are not to be trifled with, and that only the East is easy to bully.

Before the Tsarist government could find an opportunity to create a pretext for war, someone came to the door with a handle. A "Declaration of War of All Nations" was sent across the ocean to Europe, and without waiting for any response from European countries, the Tsarist government was the first to declare war.

The Tsar's government was the first to declare war, without waiting for the reaction of European countries.

Fortunately, this was only a farce, and the war letter was only circulated internally and not handed over to the ministers, which did not yet constitute a real war letter. ......

It is not important to be legalistic, all the Russians wanted was a pretext to play on the issue, and the Far East Empire just happened to deliver the goods itself.

In the end, it was not clear whether to fight or not, how to fight, and to what extent, the Tsarist government was still not clear.

It is not necessary to say anything about what happened afterwards, but the Far Eastern Empire was going to be unlucky this time anyway. The Russians took the lead, the British naturally will not be idle, the Japanese will not say.

The butterfly effect, tossing away Italy, Germany and Austria, the United States was divided into two, and finally will make up a few allied forces, this question can only be asked God.

The question can only be asked of God. ......

New Foreign Minister Leo Frankel: "Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon the Tsarist government declared war on the Far Eastern Empire and also sent us an invitation ......"

Without waiting for the Foreign Secretary to finish his sentence, Franz interrupted: "Refuse them outright. The international situation is changing, and one day we may have to fight with the British.

The Empire does not have the strength to compete with the British in the Far East, and it would not be wise to divert attention into the Far Eastern Empire at this time.

Pay close attention to the next movements of the Tsarist government, and if they are to withdraw their troops from France, make sure to hold them off for two months to buy time for the formation of a peacekeeping force."

The reason is a bit far-fetched, but it is true that the core of Shinra's strategy is not in East Asia. Such a densely populated region is not a target for Shinra's expansion either.

In contrast, the importance of France is much higher. No matter how ruined France was now, the Vienna government did not dare to take it lightly, given the glorious history of the French.

"Your Majesty, the Czarist government has announced plans to withdraw its troops. The Russians have decided to withdraw 220,000 troops from France under the pretext of war necessity.

After the implementation of this plan, the total number of Russian troops in France will be reduced from the current 270,000 to 50,000.

We have already received the diplomatic note, and the Allied Command is expected to receive it soon, and now we are waiting for its implementation.

Of course, if we ask for a two-month moratorium on withdrawals, the Tsarist government should give that face."

Foreign Minister Leo Frankfurter reminded him, slightly embarrassed.

The war had provided the Tsarist government with an excuse to withdraw troops. Without withdrawing all troops at once, it was assumed that the Tsarist government wanted to hang around with the Antifa coalition and was not ready to make things worse.

Since it did not want to make things worse, the Vienna government's request for a two-month delay in the withdrawal of Russian troops was not a problem.

In any case, that's more than 200,000 troops. To withdraw such a large number of men and weapons from France to the Russian Empire, without the cooperation of the Holy Roman Empire, the Tsarist government would not have been able to do it in a year or two.

It was obviously a good thing for the Holy Roman Empire that not all the Russian troops were withdrawn.

Someone had to do the dirty work that had to be done in the shadows. As long as the money was paid in full, the Russian officers and soldiers would not be afraid to take the blame.

With this professional team, it would be very helpful to maintain the international image of the Holy Roman Empire.

Franz did not think that the French would welcome the arrival of the troops of the Holy Roman Empire without the Russians. Although the military discipline of the Holy Roman Army may have been better, the centuries-old feud between the two countries could not be resolved overnight.

Franz knew that the "old sesame seeds, rotten grain" crap would be brought up again.

Even if the French were indifferent, the British would still help them awaken their dormant hatred and stir up conflicts.

History has proven that hatred cannot be solved by mere tenderness; most of the time, it is better to use the bayonet.

Franz did not have the extravagant hope that he could win the hearts of the people in France. As long as the situation can be stabilized, the French will not jump out to make trouble for themselves in the next struggle for hegemony.

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London, UK

The resurgence of the Far East is definitely a good thing for the British government. After receiving this good news, Prime Minister Robert Cecil's whole body was energized.

It wasn't easy, except for the first day of his tenure as Prime Minister, but he had never been so happy in the rest of his life.

There was no way around it, the international situation was too unfriendly to Britain. Looking across the strait at the European Union, Robert Cecil could only sigh, or he could only sigh.

With all the effort and calculation, that only increased the time for Shinra to integrate the European continent, and did not solve the problem at all.

I have to acknowledge the power of geopolitics, as an epoch-making European hegemon, as long as Shinra is not a rebel, European countries must lean over.

This is no longer a question of interests, but a more central issue of survival. In the cruel international competition, small countries have no choice but to cling to the strongest.

Of course, these are only minor inconveniences, which can be followed by a lot of shouting, but their real value is still very limited.

The real concern for Britain or the Russian-Austrian alliance, not to deal with this trump card combination, the future of Britain will be in the sea and the Shinra fight, on land and the Russian-Austrian alliance fight.

On the sea Robert Cecil Prime Minister does not pander, the Royal Navy alone is not afraid of anyone; land on the tragedy, it is really hurt.

Now there was a silver lining: the Russians, for whatever reason, were moving eastward, relieving the pressure on Britain in India.

In order to defend India, these British governments did not spend little effort. Not only did they invest heavily in training the colonial army, but even the declining Persia was financed by Britain.

The Persians were not expected to do anything, as long as the Persian Empire was able to hold out long enough to keep the Shinra army from pushing all the way to India.

National strategy was never easy to decide, and since the Czarist government chose this moment to beat up the Far Eastern Empire, the Russians' eastward strategy was basically a foregone conclusion.

The next question was how to hit the Russians in the east, get rid of the multi-front warfare problem, and then break the Russian-Austrian alliance and finally bring the Russians to their side.

The plan was complicated, difficult to implement, and the success rate was a shade lower.

But it was better to have a plan than no plan at all. At this point, the only way for Britain to continue its hegemony was to bring the Russians into the fold.

The Russian Empire in its heyday was obviously unable to do so. They were drooling over India, and Robert Cecil dared not seek the fur-bear's skin.

Against this background, it was necessary to weaken the Russians and create a sense of crisis in the Czarist government.

It was almost the same pattern as in the original time. Before the Russo-Japanese War, there were sharp contradictions between Britain and Russia, and German-Russian relations were very good; after the war, German-Russian relations deteriorated rapidly, but instead, British-Russian contradictions tended to ease.

Despite France's mediation, the underlying reason was that the Tsarist government felt threatened by the Germans. Otherwise, the loan alone would not have been enough to make the Tsarist government give in.

After all, the debt is not a new thing. If the ancestors could do it, why not Nicholas II?

The Russians were under real pressure from successive tsars who wanted to get rid of their dependence on Vienna, not to mention the current situation.

On the one hand, the Russian-Austrian alliance reassured them that their interests were deeply tied and could not be untied for a while; on the other hand, India was close at hand, and greed overcame fear.

Once they were beaten up by society and found that they did not have the strength to take over India, reality overcame greed and the Czarist government should have been afraid.

The result of fear, naturally, is to find someone to embrace. As for complete attachment to Shinra, that's complete nonsense.

It's a trick of small countries, and even if a big country could put its head down and throw itself at the problem, people wouldn't dare to believe it.

If Britain is finished, then the relationship between the Russian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire is the relationship between the world's dick and the world's boss.

The dependence of the world's dick on the world's boss can never be seen as harmonious.

Since time immemorial, the penis has been the object of oppression, with no exceptions, so why should the Tsarist government believe that the Vienna government would show mercy?

Based on the traditional friendship between the two countries?

Politicians are not idealists, and when they make choices, their minds naturally run to the bad side. That's why we have the story of the second and third world leaders hugging each other and working together against the world leader.

Frankly speaking, Robert Cecil is deeply skeptical of the Anglo-Russian idea of hugging up to the boss.

After all, the contradictions between Britain and Russia are equally acute, and even if they are forced to come together temporarily under the pressure of the Shinra, it is difficult for them to work closely together.

But the reality is cruel, without France as a gold medal fighter, Britain's layout in the European continent is missing a piece, in the strategic has fallen into full passivity.

Regardless of whether or not it was justified for Britain and Russia to join forces, the British government had no choice. The two countries embraced to share the pressure, better than to work alone.

Now that we have seen the light, it is natural to celebrate. But it's now office hours, and in order to keep his rivals from getting a hold of him, Robert Cecil can only suppress that turmoil for now.

"The international situation has finally changed, and the Russians themselves jumped in before we had a chance to do anything. The next question is how to cut them down.

Although the Russian Empire was powerful, the forces they could devote to the Far East were very limited.

Not to mention that the Trans-Siberian Railway was not yet operational, and even if it had been, the problematic railroad would not have been able to support many troops.

The problem was that although the Far Eastern Empire had some strength, their government was too corrupt to fight the Russians.

If we want to hit the Russians hard in the Far East, it's obvious that they alone are not enough, we need more pieces, and the Japanese can't stay idle."

Once again, it turned out that pies don't fall from the sky for no reason, and if they do, they are usually poisonous.

The Vienna government's support of the Central Asian Railway had quality problems, and the British secretly supported the Trans-Siberian Railway, which also dug a hole.

Perhaps the usual use is not a big problem, but once the volume of freight traffic increased, it immediately made the Tsarist government understand that railroads also have a temper.

This was the inevitable result. If the Russians' plan succeeded without some traps and logistical delays, then the British government would be throwing stones at its own feet, wouldn't it?

The Far East, you know, was the sphere of influence of Britain. He said, "I don't think it's a good idea for John Bull to give up his life for others.

Foreign Minister Cameron: "Prime Minister, it's still too early to do anything. The Trans-Siberian Railway is not open, and the Russians can't project their power across it.

A mere handful of soldiers in the Far East, even if all of them are wiped out, won't hurt the Russians' vitality.

It might be too difficult to move eastward, and the Russians would shrink back and pick up the southward strategy again, which would be troublesome.

In order to better entice the enemy, in the short term we had better let the Tsarist government experience victory first. It just so happens that the Far Eastern Empire is now ...... again."

As the saying goes, "If you can't give up your child, you can't lure the wolf. Most people would be reluctant to give up their own children, but if it were someone else's children, there would be no such pressure.

Political friends and foes are always in a flash. Just a moment ago, he was saying that he would support the Far Eastern Empire and the Russians in pk, and in a split second, he decided to sacrifice the interests of the Far Eastern Empire to lure the enemy in.

We can see that Cameron has a deep understanding of the essence of British diplomacy. In the shortest possible time, he showed the professionalism that should be expected of a British foreign minister.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Pavel: "Sir is right, the amount of force the Russians can put into the Far East is indeed too small to have any weight at all.

The Russians' eastward strategy not only meant the bankruptcy of Vienna's plan to bring the disaster south, but also threatened Shinra's land dominance.

The Viennese government could not see the Russians complete the Yellow Russian Plan, and they were the last people who wanted the Tsarist government to succeed.

Regardless of whether the Russian-Austrian alliance remains unbreakable or not, if the Russian eastward strategy shows any signs of success, the Vienna government is bound to take action to suppress it.

After the first successful step, if they try to take the second, the Russians will find that the whole world is their enemy, especially their closest allies.

By then, even if the Russian-Austrian alliance can barely hold together, it will exist in name only, and our chance will come.

But the Russians alone were not enough; to deal with the Holy Roman Empire, the Empire needed more allies."

The mention of the word "allies" gave Prime Minister Robert Cecil a headache. He had no choice but to inherit an economic boom and a diplomatic mess.

Although his predecessor, who was the most capable of all the British prime ministers, had brought Britain to the edge of a precipice by misjudging France's strength, he had to remedy the situation.

To remedy the situation was to overthink it. From the establishment of the Continental Alliance, Britain had little room for diplomatic maneuver.

After all these years of trying, Britain had no real ally. Japan could not be counted; it was just an insignificant little brother that did not qualify to be Britain's ally.

Right now Robert Cecil doesn't know who to pull, and who he can pull, besides the Russian Empire.

"Does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have any suggestions?"

It's better to leave such complicated matters to the professionals, even though the foreign minister's bitter face doesn't look like .......

Foreign Minister Cameron replied: "The European countries can't be counted on, they can remain neutral, and that's the result of God's blessing.

There are a lot of independent countries in the Americas, but not many of them have the strength, and even fewer of them can be brought together by us.

The United States of America is naturally the most valuable country for us to bring together, followed by the Allied Powers.

Unfortunately, these two are bitter rivals. If we were to bring these two countries together, we would not have to do anything but regulate their relationship with each other.

If we had to choose between the two, the other one would probably be pulled over by the enemy. With the Vienna government's diplomatic capabilities, the probability of this happening is no less than 90 percent.

In addition to the pair of enemies, the remaining countries - Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile - are also targets of the Foreign Ministry's public relations efforts.

However, all of these countries have one thing in common - a lack of power. It's okay to make a political splash, but it's impossible to expect them to make much of a contribution.

At the most, they could distract the enemy and threaten their colonies in the Americas, which would be of limited help to the overall situation."

Britain was also responsible for the rivalry between the United States and the Allied powers. From the time of the joint intervention of France, France, and Austria, it was a recipe for the present antagonism between the two nations.

In terms of digging a hole, Britain was a professional, and France, Austria, and Spain, who had joined forces with her, were no slouches.

At the time of the American North-South divide, the four countries, as arbiters, coincidentally mined the boundary line.

The leaders of the United States and the allied countries, whose political tactics were still immature, obviously did not encounter this kind of game, and the specific people in charge of the following were even more confused, involving the entire delegation of the four countries.

The end result was that the post-war relations between the already hateful governments of the North and the South became even worse because of the border issue.

If the previous war had not been so fierce, the national cohesion of the two countries was not strong, and there were still a lot of internal conflicts, there might have been a second PK.

In fact, if the European powers had not erupted internal contradictions and relaxed their provocations of relations between the two countries, the North and South governments might have fought.