Holy Roman Empire

Time passed in a hurry, and it entered 1885 in a flash.

The postponed development plan for the Near East was launched again, and the world economy also came out of the Great Depression and launched a charge forward again.

Everything is progressing towards the good. In the "principle of asking only big things", the emperor Franz has also been idle.

Perhaps it is older, Franz's hobbies have also changed.I don't know when to start, and I'm hooked on calligraphy.

The quill pen is obviously not suitable for playing calligraphy, so there is a scene of violation, and an emperor Shenluo who practiced calligraphy with a brush was born.

Personal hobbies are just that. The wonderful aristocratic hobbies of the European nobility have gone too much, and they are placed in a large group. Franz ’s hobbies are really nothing.

No minister was full enough to support him, and he couldn't think of coming to interfere with the emperor's daily life, and it was not Daming's imperial history.

Not to mention writing with a pen, even if you live in a palace, no one will run blind.

The emperor ’s purse and treasury have always been separated. In this world of sacred and inviolable private property, outsiders ca n’t talk about anything.

Franz, who has released himself, has no worries when practicing calligraphy and writes whatever he wants.

Those who pass through will find that many famous sayings and poems of later generations appear on the paper very abruptly.

Fortunately, after too long, many of Franz ’s memories have been blurred, and the content written is often only one or two sentences, otherwise the original author will be dumbfounded.

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Colonial Minister Stephen: "Your Majesty, there has been a rebellion in the French Sudan area. The rebels have occupied the Wadi Halfa area and are heading towards Egypt."

There has been some rebellion in French Sudan.It's just that this kind of colonial rebellion will happen every three to five, and it's not news until there is no trouble.

"Aren't our people involved?"

Franz asked in a suspicious tone.There have been too many things that colonial empire stab each other this year, even if everyone signed a treaty and promised not to do anything.

It is also limited to not doing things on the bright side, and no one knows in secret, as long as it is not caught, it is not a problem.

After thinking for a while, the colonial minister Stephen replied: "The colonial government did not support the rebels, and the participation of civilian forces is temporarily uncertain."

This is a sequelae of colonial expansion.There are thousands of colonial forces in Austria, large and small, and dozens of them in French Sudan.

The government's management of these groups is limited to cities and localized areas, and other places are still free for everyone to play.

As long as it does not harm national interests, external expansion is legal.The premise is that the colonial team can knock down the site by themselves and hold it.

The African continent has been divided up. If you want to build a career, you can only focus your gun on other colonial empires.

Everyone rubbed their hands for many years, but the central government did not allow it.Without state support, they ran to challenge a colonial empire.

If you can't do it directly, it's different to do things in secret.For example, now, if the French cannot fight the rebellion, everyone's opportunity will come.

Anyway, the African continent is so large, some parts of French Egypt + Sudan have a total area of ​​more than 2 million square kilometers.Cutting a small piece from it is enough to feed a colonial team.

Similar things happen all over the world.The major colonial empires are trying to exercise restraint as much as possible, and the incidents of colonial conflicts are still emerging one after another. Most of them are made by private colonial teams.

Franz didn't care: "Forget it, as long as the colonial government didn't participate. The folk colonial team wanted to go and let them go."

Just try it out to see what the French are.The French government has been very busy lately, as long as the evidence is not caught by them."

This "busy" naturally refers to the first foreign war provoked by France after the invasion of Annan and the succession of Napoleon IV. The performance of the French army did not meet expectations.

Now has caught up with the Mahdi uprising, enough for the Paris government to drink a pot.

If the rebels could not be kept out of Egypt, then the French ’s losses would be too great.

In case the rebels could not think about it and destroyed cotton plantations in Egypt, the cotton textile industry in France would be hit hard again.

This year, the cotton textile industry is the most important industry in France. One fifth of domestic industrial workers depend on the upstream and downstream of this industrial chain.

If something goes wrong, the entire French industrial system will be affected.Not only France, the textile industry accounts for a large proportion in all industrial countries.

In addition to the cotton producing area, there is also a Suez Canal that is related to the lifeline of France.If the rebels hit the river and threatened by blowing up the river, the Paris government would have a headache.

Perhaps before the rebels blow up the river, international interference forces will come forward.

In order to intervene in the Suez Canal, the British did not know how much they lost their thoughts, and they did not succeed. The opportunity to send them to the door was naturally impossible to miss.

Even the seemingly talkative Austrian government does not mind monopolizing the Suez Canal.

It was the British who were worried about these problems in time and space. In order to preserve the cotton production area and the Suez Canal, the British government also compromised with the local power in Egypt.

Without the support of the Egyptians, the Mahdi Uprising had persisted alone for 7 years before being extinguished by the British.Even the British governor in Sudan was killed by the rebels.

The same thing cannot happen on the French side.

The French government adopted a municipal administration for the colony, and the local forces headed by the Egyptian king had long been suppressed.

Even the Egyptian royal family was relocated to live in Paris, and they took lunch in the recent Paris Revolution.

There is no doubt that now the French can only fight in person to suppress the rebellion.It is also necessary to fight the might of the French army, and then the Indo-South Peninsula appears, and the French Empire will be unstable.

The prestige of the French army is built up by victories. One failure can be an accident, but a continuous failure is not an accident.

Without the strength that the first army of the world deserves, how can France compete with Austria when political diplomacy, industrial economy, and resource territory are all lagging behind?

Colonial Minister Stephen: "I'm afraid this is not enough. Unless we or the British do their best to support the rebels, otherwise the gang of people will not become the climate."

Franz nodded. Although the training mode and mobilization mechanism of the French Army are behind the times, they have to admit that they are still the world's first army.

The original space-time Mahdi uprising was able to persist for so long, mainly because the British had very weak local control, and the British army stationed in the Sudan area had less than one regiment.

Changing the French is different. French Egypt alone can pull out 50,000 or 60,000 troops, including a main French division.

"It's not necessary, no matter how supportive they are, they are not opponents of the French. It is not time to turn their faces, maybe the British can try them."

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Paris, received two bad news in succession, poured a pot of cold water on the ambitious Napoleon IV.

An Nanyuan is thousands of miles away, and even if he suffers a little, it is only a small problem.But Egypt is different. This is the most important colony in France.

"Is it clear, who the hell is that behind the scenes?"

Instead of staying in the Sudan area, the rebels will dominate the country. Instead, they will try their best to fight in the Egyptian area. If there is no international force behind the scenes, Napoleon IV will not be believed.

The Minister of the Interior, Edison, replied cautiously: "According to the information we collected, it can be determined that the weapons in the hands of the rebels were imported from the inland areas, and they were from the British and Austrian colonies.

Whether it was planned by a civilian colonial team or a conspiracy by the governments of the two countries, we do not have enough evidence and it is temporarily unclear."

This is not the answer, but also the standard answer.The three countries of Britain, France and Austria have the strength to do things in the Sudan. In addition to themselves, the two countries are suspects.

You do n’t need evidence, you can directly target, without worrying about injustice.

It is useless to determine the target, and there is not enough evidence, and Yingao will certainly not admit it.It has no effect except to waste time diplomatically.

After suppressing the anger in his heart, Napoleon IV sighed and said slowly: "Forget it, remember this account first, and then liquidate with them later.

Order the Egyptian Governor to immediately send troops to suppress the rebellion, and absolutely not allow the rebels to enter the hinterland of Egypt."

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