Holy Roman Empire

After sending off Thomas, Napoleon III summoned the think tank for the first time, and it should be the meeting of the ministers.

Anyway, it ’s almost the same. Appointment by favor is Napoleon III ’s consistent style of employment. The think tank also serves as a minister and has no cabinet.

Chancellor of the Exchequer: Earl Monil (the speculative gold lord), Army Secretary Arnold (younger thug and part-time strategist), Police Minister Mopa (the strategist), Interior Secretary Pesini (the strategist), and Navy Dike (support The owner of the ship), the colonial minister is his nephew ...

Do n’t look at the fact that this group of people are all related households. In fact, the business they did is not bad, at least much stronger than the July dynasty, and a lot stronger than the later Third Republic.

In addition to the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, during the reign of Napoleon III, France's economy developed rapidly, the people's living standards were significantly improved, and most of the world's second colonial empire was brought down during this period.

Army Secretary Arnaud warned: "Your Majesty, the British are treating us as guns. Once their plans are successful, Russia and Austria are our enemies, and our options for international politics in the future will be very limited.

Moreover, it is not so simple to interfere in Austria. The multinational coalition forces are actually nominally nice.

Countries are distributed in the south, the north, and the sea. If you want to coordinate relations and organize coalition forces, such a big movement cannot be kept secret at all.

The Austrians are not stupid. Once they receive the news, they only need to do one thing. Before the formation of the coalition forces is completed, the Prussians are arrested and beaten.

Without the Prussians to the cannon fodder, this time of the intervention war, unless we put out all our efforts, otherwise the coalition gang of rioters will soon be broken by all."

Arnault is talking about experience. Only the four-nation coalition on the battlefield in the Balkans has a chaotic command system. Now that there is a nine-nation coalition, who can bring so many different teammates?

They are also experienced pit teammates. The Nine Nations Allied Forces acted together, not only to guard against the enemy, but also to guard against their eight allies, which is simply terrible.

"Catch the Prussian beating?"

"Arnau, do you think the Austrians will catch the Prussian beaten as soon as possible?" Napoleon III asked with interest

Arnaud replied: "Yes, Your Majesty. If the formation of the Nine Nations Allied Forces is completed, even if Austria can defeat the Allied Forces, in order not to be isolated, they will also try to avoid fighting with the Allied Forces.

But the Austrian government can't directly admonish it, otherwise how to explain to the people?

Franz-Joseph I was young and full-bodied, and certainly could not bear the grievances, and could not find the trouble of the British, then it would be okay to catch the Prussian to bully the vent?

In order to evade the responsibility for the failure of this operation, the Government of Vienna should support this operation, just to transfer the anger of the people to the Prussians.When we organized the coalition forces, the Kingdom of Prussia was almost over.

If the Russians are also taking advantage of the fire, then before the arrival of the coalition forces, Russia or Austria will first divide up Prussia."

As a younger part-time thug, Arnault usually loves to do things—mang, now analyzing problems, often with this kind of thinking.

For Arnold's analysis, Napoleon III shined.In order to consolidate the throne, he can work with Russia. It is normal for the Viennese government to catch Prussian beatings in order to avoid responsibility.

Traitors are always more abhorrent than enemies, killing or killing Prussia. The resentment in the hearts of the people is out. The government can not only survive the crisis smoothly, but also take advantage of it.

As for the intervention of the coalition forces by various countries, Austria has no way to prevent countries from sending troops. Is there no way to delay everyone's sending time?

After the formation of the coalition forces was completed, the Prussian government also successfully received the lunch.Revenge for the Kingdom of Prussia, who does not exist, who does it without interest?

At least Napoleon III did not think anyone had that kind of international spirit.The big deal was that the Austrians had a busy life and withdrew from the newly occupied land.

Persini added: "Your Majesty, in addition to attacking the Kingdom of Prussia, Austria may choose to strike first and attack Paris!

Our main force is not in the country. The Austrian army has reached the Bavarian border and can enter our country as long as it passes through Baden. With the strength of the military and the sudden attack, it is likely to succeed."

Sneak attack on Paris, this is a high-investment, high-yield plan. Once successful, France will fall into chaos, and it will be impossible to cause trouble for Austria for at least three to five years.

The Russians can also take the opportunity to capture Constantinople and shut down the British and French allied forces on the Crimean peninsula. The British can only shrink in the British Isles. At most, the navy comes out to sway, and the entire European continent is free The Russian-Austrian League is vertical and horizontal.

Napoleon III sneered: "That is to say, the British are making a bad idea from beginning to end?"

Pesini analyzed: "Your Majesty, this is the plan most in the interest of the British. The success rate of the Austrian attack on Paris is too low. Even if Marshal Radski personally commands, this chance will not exceed four levels.

This is still in the situation where we are not prepared. As long as we are prepared and the front-line troops are strengthened, the Austrians can only attack by force.

The conflict between us and Austria has not yet reached the point where you die or die, and the Vienna government should not take the risk and die with us.

As long as they could not conquer Paris within a month, our frontline troops withdrew, and it was their turn to be unlucky.

In essence, the most important thing about the British plan is intimidation. If the Austrian people can be deterred by the momentum of the Allied Forces of the Nine Nations, their goal will be successful.

If the Russian-Austrian alliance can be torn, it will be even more profitable.Even if they were unable to do so, they were still preparing to leave the Kingdom of Bavaria to Austria, in fact they did not want to push Austrian dogs into the wall."

After hesitating for a while, Napoleon III made a decision.

"Now that the British have planned, how can we not cooperate? If necessary, we can give the Austrians a hint to encourage them to fight Prussia.

On this issue, we can take what we need, and the three countries of France, Austria and Russia share Prussia, and we can also accept it."

Of course, it is acceptable. The core area of ​​the Kingdom of Prussia, in the Rhineland region, is under the eyes of the French. Austria has disabled Prussia. They are just fishermen and get the most benefits.

ally?When did France become an ally with Prussia, as long as the interests are right, even an ally can betray.

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After leaving the Palace of Versailles, Thomas went to visit the Prussian representative Rotruf.

In addition to the French, the Kingdom of Prussia is also a key link. Prussians who do not have strong combat effectiveness participate. This intervention in the coalition is a joke.

In fact, Thomas was playing drums in his heart, and what happened in Bavaria was terrible.In the event that the Prussian army was also influenced by nationalist ideas, and a battle came to the ground or neutrality, the coalition forces would only cry.

Fortunately, this plan did not prepare for a real fight, but also left room for Austria, and the possibility of a fight is not high.

The two had no friendship and went straight to the topic. After a set of rhetoric and instructions, Rotrov fell into contemplation.

It is the national policy of the Kingdom of Prussia to take advantage of the opportunities of various countries to intervene and kick Austria out of the German region.

Rotrov said dissatisfiedly: "Why do n’t Mr. Thomas let Austria spit out the Kingdom of Bavaria? Indulging their destabilizing behavior in Europe will bring disaster to this world sooner or later."

The British proposal was exactly what he wanted, and the only flaw was that Austria was taken away from the Kingdom of Bavaria.

After the absence of Austria, who can lead Germany, except the Kingdom of Prussia, who else can?This is digging their meat, and Rotruff will naturally oppose it.

Thomas flickered: "Mr. Rotruf, it is not that we want to condone the illegal acts of Austria, but that the Russian-Austrian League must consider it, and your country does not want Russia and Austria to continue to hold groups!"

In the Russian-Austrian alliance, the Prussian kingdom should be the most stressed. It may be that the Prussian government ’s ability to respond in this regard is relatively slow, or it may be that the Nordic three courts alliance has been long, allowing them to ignore this threat.

In short, Thomas admired the performance of the Prussian government as if nothing had happened. If they were changed, they would have fallen asleep, and the Prussian government did not make any big moves.

It is not without action, they were originally preparing to restore diplomatic relations with Russia and Austria, but unfortunately Austria suddenly launched a war of reunification, undermining the plan of the Prussian government.

There was no change on the surface of Rotruf, but he was playing drums in his heart. He always felt that the British were uncomfortable and did not find anything wrong, so he chose to delay the word.

"Mr. Thomas, this matter is too involved. I must first report to the country and wait for the decision of the Berlin government."

Although Rotruff is an amateur diplomat, he has always believed that the soldiers are born in the sky, and only rely on force to seize the most reliable.

If you are not sure, then throw the question to the Berlin government. Although Frederick William IV is also an amateur diplomat, is he king?

There is no way to get a definite answer, Thomas can only leave, do not think that the Kingdom of Prussia will discover their plans, and the French cannot leak to the Prussians.

This is the inherent impression that the Kingdom of Prussia has left to the outside world for a long time. It can be said that before Bismarck, the diplomatic means of the Kingdom of Prussia were very immature. This is an inevitable flaw in the military country.

Without further delay, Thomas still has many things to do, and so many countries are waiting for him to convince him that this diplomatic war is destined to be difficult to fight.

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The activities of the British are doomed to secrecy. Not all countries will keep them secret. Thomas has frequently contacted representatives of various countries, and Metternich cannot be idle!

Unlike the offensive of the British, Metternich's approach is much simpler, that is-to smash money, can't buy the foreign ministers of various countries, can't he buy the maid attendants around them?

Whoever Thomas met and said, most of the content passed to Metternich's ears.It ’s just diplomacy. It ’s normal to pass false information and release smoke bombs. Metternich dare not judge the truth.

Thomas is also a veteran in the diplomatic field. The intelligence collected by Metternich from different sources is different. This means that Thomas said different things to the representatives of various countries. Some of them are still contradictory, and even more. Determine the difficulty.

Looking at the information just sent from the Swiss delegation, Metternich sneered and encouraged Switzerland to send troops to interfere in Austria's annexation of Southern Germany. Isn't it a joke?

As a good neighbor of Austria, the Swiss and the Habsburg dynasty have been dead for hundreds of years, and finally won the peace for decades. Now they are provoking Austria?

Anyway, Metternich would not believe that even if the British promised more, they would not be able to stop Austria from accounting after autumn, at least for Swiss Austria.

Unable to judge the true purpose of the British, they can only continue to collect intelligence.Anyway, some people are staring at the domestic reactions of various countries. If they agree to send troops to intervene, army mobilization and strategic material delivery are always indispensable.

Which country has joined the intervention force does not depend on their representative sitting in the position of the interference country, but on the actual actions within their country.

Metternich was not in a hurry. With his knowledge of the British, if he didn't do anything, it would be a problem.

Now that Thomas was in action, he was more at ease.Conspiracy on the bright side is easier to deal with than conspiracy in the dark.