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After the completion of the Pude transaction, the Russian-Polish war came to an end, and a truce was signed under the coordination of the three countries of Britain, France and Austria.

The mere agreement on a truce did not require the Russians to withdraw their troops. The international community has not given a clear statement on the territorial issue of Russia and Poland.

The nail was buried, and the hatred between Russia and Poland deepened.Under the power of hatred, Pupo confluence went one step further.

The goal of the Berlin government was achieved. Although the Rhineland was lost, the Kingdom of Prussia has reversed its strategic disadvantage after annexing the Kingdom of Poland.

Only when the fists are closed, can the force of the fight be greater.For the Berlin government, the biggest problem now is not the Polish debt crisis, but immigration settlement.

Soon after the restoration of Poland, Poland had not had time to establish credibility.Due to its geographical location, the newly born Kingdom of Poland was threatened by the Russian military and could collapse at any time, and it was not favored by investors at all.

Against this background, it is not easy for the Polish government to borrow foreign debt.Even the British and French who support them cannot throw money into the water.

Therefore, most of the Polish government's debts are internal, and the external part is mainly from the beginning of the restoration of the country. European countries have lent more than 20 million pounds to crack down on the political loans lent to them by Russian talents. One third of them owe Prussia.

Internal debt is difficult to clarify. Affected by the financial crisis, the Polish government has repeatedly devalued its currency and survived the financial crisis by issuing additional currencies.

The sequelae is the domestic economic mess in Poland. Compared with the tsarist government period, the Polish business community has become the biggest victim.

This bad situation is a good thing for the Kingdom of Prussia, creating opportunities for them to annex Poland.

If it were not for the poor Polish economy, the capitalists would not move closer to the Kingdom of Prussia.Without the support of the business community, William I could not be elected.

Now that he wants to annex the Kingdom of Poland, the Berlin government is ready to clean up the mess.

In contrast, "immigrant resettlement" is the real trouble.Not everyone is willing to leave their homes. For many ordinary people, it is not unacceptable to be ruled by the German Federation.

The immigration work was boycotted by the local people, or by the local capitalists.If everyone is gone, who will kill them?

Not only are the capitalists making trouble, the middle class is not buying it.Many people are very concerned about the Berlin government ’s betrayal of the Rhineland region, thinking that this is to abandon them, and subconsciously reject this immigration.

Behind these problems, the main reason is resettlement.Capitalists can move factories, but there is no way to move mines. The Berlin government simply cannot find an industrial base to replace the Rhineland region.

The same is true for the middle class, who changed their network of connections in a single place and completely abolished it, and needed to start again.Most people's income and social status will be affected, and even the current standard of living cannot be maintained.

On the contrary, it is better to deal with the workers and farmers who are the most violent on the bright side. Their requirements are the lowest, as long as the government has money.

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In the Vienna Palace, Franz was worried about the report of the Near East War.It's not that the front line is losing, on the contrary, the front line is playing too well.

According to the plan in advance, the Russians could not get through the Black Sea Strait, and ended the war under the mediation of European countries.

However, the plan did not change fast, and the Ottoman Empire was more wasteful than Franz imagined.He didn't even hold it for half a year, so he lost the land along the Black Sea Strait.

How to stop the truce has become the biggest problem for the Vienna government.A full set of play must be done, and deliberately releasing water can't hide the eyes of politicians of various countries.

According to the current situation, the Ottoman Empire is already in danger.Based on the hatred between the Habsburg dynasty and the Ottoman Empire, what Franz should do at this time is to beat down the water dog and take advantage of this old enemy.

In fact, the Vienna government did the same.In order to delay the time, Franz pushed out an imperial parliament with little sense of existence.

In fact, this has little effect, not only that Austria and the Ottoman Empire have hatred, but other states of the Shinra Empire also have grudges with the Ottoman Empire.

Now the empire is clamoring to kill the Ottoman Empire, and the anti-war factions are almost inaudible, which makes Franz very upset.

In the current situation, the imperial parliament's proposal to increase troops is almost 100%.Franz can't force his men to stand on the opposite side of the people and bear the infamy to be an anti-war faction.

In the case of Austria without sending troops to the Asia Minor Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire was suspended by the Russian army. If Austria also followed the troop, Franz did not think how long the Ottoman Empire, which was badly injured, could last.

Without this unlucky egg, who is the next time you look away?What about the next strategy?

You know that although the Ottoman Empire declined, its size was not small at all.In the current situation, the division of the Ottoman Empire between Austria and the Russian Empire will certainly be choked.

European countries will not agree, and by then it will inevitably be a few more spoils.For Austria, which wants to dominate the eastern Mediterranean, this is very unfavorable.

Franz asked: "How long will the Russian army recuperate before it can attack again?"

The war requires dead people. Do n’t look at the Russian army ’s momentum on the battlefield. In fact, the loss is not small.

In just half a year, the tsarist government added four troops, and now it is time to add a fifth.The total number of casualties has reached as high as 240,000, of which nearly a quarter were killed.

From the perspective of the Tsarist government, these casualties are worthwhile.While replenishing its troops, the Russians, in the name of rest and recuperation, kept changing front-line troops.

According to statistics from the coalition general headquarters, 650,000 Russian soldiers have walked through the battlefield.The bullets destroyed by the light recruit training exceeded 1,500 tons.

The reasons for the Russians are reasonable. The frontline troops suffered too many casualties and need to be transferred back to rest.

The number of casualties is there, even if it is known that the tsarist government is taking the opportunity to train troops, Austria can not refuse.

In just half a year, the Russian army consumed more than 65 million Aegis materials.If you change the Tsarist government yourself, you absolutely will not want to play like this.

This is only the cost of the Russian army. If the cost of the Austrian army is added, this figure will increase by half.

Airship bombing, naval shelling, and ammunition consumption are also not low.Fortunately, the Austrian army in the Middle East is only besieging Jerusalem. If it goes all the way, this military expenditure will be even higher.

The consumption of weapons, ammunition, and strategic supplies is nothing. The largest single expense of war is actually a soldier ’s casualty pension.

Taking Austria as an example, the minimum pension for a soldier killed is 600 Aegis.Every year the various preferential policies and welfare expenditures for the families of the martyrs are at least 10 Aegis, which is 300 Aegis per 30 years.

This is only the most basic theoretical data. Austrian military pensions also need to consider positions, ranks, years of service, and whether they have achieved military merits.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the government to send Whiteboard soldiers to the battlefield.This means that in actual wars, more pensions need to be paid.

On average, for every Austrian soldier killed, the Vienna government has to pay 1,200 Aegis's pension.If 10,000 soldiers were killed in battle, it would be 12 million Aegis.

The cost of dying is large, and the cost of surviving severely injured people is actually even greater.

Not to mention, the government must bear the cost of follow-up medical care, and the government that has lost labor must also be responsible for solving the livelihood problem.

To ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, these expenses cannot be saved.In this regard, Franz is willing to give up the blood, Austria's follow-up pension work is the best.

Fortunately, the Tsarist government did not need to pay so many pensions, otherwise Alexander II would definitely cry to death, and casualty pensions are more expensive than on the battlefield.

With the development of industrial technology, the cost of industrial materials is getting lower and lower, and the cost of human life is getting higher and higher.Later generations attach importance to the casualties of soldiers, but they are actually forced out by high pensions.

Army Secretary Albrecht: "According to the previous practice, the Russian army will replace troops with more than 10% casualties.

The tsarist government has more than 200,000 recruits in the Ukrainian region, and can reach the front line as soon as one week, and it will not exceed half a month at the latest.

The time when we promised to provide combat supplies is about to come. The Russians will definitely take the time. I think the Russian army will attack again no more than twenty days later."

The Vienna government initially promised to provide 150,000 Russian troops for half a year of combat supplies. Later, the two sides made a profit transaction. This limit was increased to 200,000 Russian troops, and the time was extended to the end of 1874.

The Tsarist government had just beaten the Polish, and although it had achieved brilliant results, the wallet was injured.In this context, the Russians naturally have to save money as much as possible.

Only by launching a war before the deadline, can we get more supplies from the Vienna government to prepare for the subsequent war.

The Russian army has been doing this kind of thing, for example: making false reports of war damage and hiding strategic materials.

The front-line Austrian officers had reported it long ago, but the Russians still needed their lives, and Franz did not investigate it deeply.

It is not so easy to conceal strategic materials, at least not by the front-line Austrian officers.It is easy to hide a small amount of materials, but if the amount is large, it is not easy to hide, and the accounts are also uneven.

Austria also sent military officers to follow. Over-reporting war damage must also be checked. In case a problem is found, it is to be held accountable.

The distribution of strategic materials in Austria is carried out according to the number of Russian troops, but people are dying every day on the battlefield, and naturally consuming less people when they die.

However, the quartermasters who distributed materials could not get immediate data feedback. The front-line Russian troops did not reduce the amount of materials they received, which resulted in some additional materials.

Misreporting war damage and hiding materials is mainly this part of materials.If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and as long as the accounts are clean, Austria will not pursue it in depth.

In the end, how much of this material could ultimately fall into the hands of the Tsarist government, and how much was privately divided by Russian officers, is not a matter of Franz's concern.

After pondering for a while, Franz made a decision: "To release the news, we said that we are going to send troops to destroy the Ottoman Empire by half a million."

European countries hope to see a lot of bad luck in the Ottoman Empire, but everyone absolutely does not want to see the demise of the Ottoman Empire.

Without this massive control, Austria can devote all its energy to Central Europe, and the defense pressure of many countries will increase.

At the London Conference, Britain and France were already mediating the Near East War.But this is not enough. The diplomatic pressure exerted by European countries is not enough to make the Vienna government let go.

Franz is now making the demise of the Ottoman Empire just to add a fire, attract the attention of Britain and France, and let them invest more energy to intervene in this war.

It's funny to think about trouble for yourself, and such nonsense has actually happened.