The Prussian-German deal was completed, the Russo-Polish War came to an end, and an armistice treaty was signed under the coordination of Britain, France and Austria.

It only agreed on an armistice, but did not demand that the Russians withdraw their troops, and the international community did not give a clear statement on the territorial issue between Russia and Poland.

The nail was buried, and the hatred between Russia and Poland deepened. Under the power of hatred, the Pubo confluence has taken a step further.

The Berlin government's goal was achieved, and despite the loss of the Rhineland, the Kingdom of Prussia had strategically reversed the situation after the annexation of the Kingdom of Poland.

Tighten your fists, and the force of the punch can be greater. The biggest problem for the Berlin government now is not the Polish debt crisis, but the resettlement of migrants.

Poland had not yet had time to establish its credibility shortly after its restoration. Due to its geographical location, the nascent Kingdom of Poland was militarily threatened by the Russians and could collapse at any time, so it was not favored by investors at all.

Against this background, it is not so easy for the Polish government to borrow foreign debt. Even Britain and France, who supported them, could not throw money into it.

As a result, most of the Polish government's debts were internal, and the external part was mainly from the beginning of the restoration, and the European countries lent them more than 20 million pounds sterling in order to combat the political loans of the Russians, of which one-third was still owed to Prussia.

It is difficult to figure out the internal debt, and due to the impact of the fiscal crisis, the Polish government has repeatedly carried out currency depreciation and relied on the issuance of additional currency to survive the fiscal crisis.

The aftermath was a mess of the Polish economy, worse than it was during the Tsarist government, and Polish business became the biggest victim.

This bad situation, however, was a good thing for the Kingdom of Prussia, creating an opportunity for them to annex Poland.

If it were not for the bad Polish economy, the capitalists would not have moved closer to the Kingdom of Prussia. Without the support of the business community, Wilhelm I would not have been elected with a high vote.

Now that the Kingdom of Poland was to be annexed, the Berlin government was ready to clean up the mess.

In contrast, "resettlement" is the real trouble. Not everyone wants to leave their homeland, and for many ordinary people, being ruled by the German Confederation is not something unacceptable.

From the very beginning, the resettlement was met with resistance from the local population, or rather, from the local capitalists. If everyone is gone, who will give them their lives?

It's not just the capitalists who are making trouble, but the middle class is not buying it. Many people resented the Berlin government's betrayal of the Rhineland, believing that it was abandoning them, and subconsciously rejected the immigrants.

The main reason behind these problems is resettlement. The capitalists could relocate the factories, but there was no way to relocate the mines, and the Berlin government simply could not find an industrial base to replace the Rhineland.

The same is true for the middle class, whose network is completely wasted in another place and needs to start over. Most people's income and social status will be affected, and they will not even be able to maintain their current standard of living.

On the contrary, it is better to deal with the workers and peasants who make the most trouble on the surface, and their demands are the lowest, as long as the government has the money, they can do it.

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At the Vienna Palace, Franz was looking at the war reports of the war in the Near East and was worried. It's not that the front line lost, on the contrary, the front line fought too well.

According to the pre-planned plan, the Russians would not be able to open the Black Sea straits, and finally end the war with the mediation of European countries.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and the Ottoman Empire was even more wasted than Franz had imagined. It didn't even last half a year, and the land along the Black Sea Strait was lost.

How to cease the war has become the biggest problem for the Vienna government at the moment. To make a play, you must do a full set, and deliberately releasing water cannot hide the eyes of politicians from all over the world.

As it stands, the Ottoman Empire is already in limbo. With the hatred between the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire, what Franz should do at this time is to beat the water dogs and take the opportunity to kill this old enemy.

In fact, the Vienna government is doing the same. In order to stall for time, Franz pushed out a Reichstag that had little presence.

In fact, this did not have much effect, not only Austria and the Ottoman Empire, but also other states of the HRE Empire had a grudge against the Ottoman Empire.

Now that the whole empire is clamoring for the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, the voices of the anti-war factions are barely audible, much to Franz's distress.

As it stands, the Reichstag passed almost 100 percent of the troop increases. Franz could not force his men to stand in opposition to the people and be infamous as anti-war factions.

In the case that Austria did not send troops to the Asia Minor Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire was beaten by the Russian army, and if Austria followed suit, Franz did not think that the Ottoman Empire, which was greatly injured, would be able to hold out for long.

Without this unlucky bastard, who to turn to next time you look away? What's next?

You must know that although the Ottoman Empire is in decline, it is not small at all. With the current situation, the partition of the Ottoman Empire between Austria and the Russian Empire would certainly be choked.

European countries will not agree, and it is inevitable that there will be a few more spoils to share when the time comes. This is very disadvantageous for Austria, which wants to dominate the eastern Mediterranean.

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

War requires dead people, don't look at the Russian army on the battlefield, in fact, the losses are not small.

In just half a year, the tsarist government replenished its forces four times, and now it was time to replenish it for the fifth. The total number of casualties has reached 240,000, of which nearly a quarter were killed.

From the point of view of the tsarist government, these casualties were worth it. While replenishing their troops, the Russians also kept changing the troops fighting on the front line in the name of rest.

According to the statistics of the General Headquarters of the coalition forces, 650,000 Russian soldiers have walked through the battlefield before and after. The bullets dropped in recruit training alone exceeded 1,500 tons.

The reason of the Russians is reasonable, the casualties of the front-line troops are too great, and they need to be transferred back to rest.

The number of casualties was there, and even if it knew that the tsarist government was taking the opportunity to train its troops, Austria could not refuse.

In just half a year, the Russian army has consumed more than 65 million Aegis supplies with a total value. If it were the tsarist government itself, it would never be willing to play like this.

This is only the expenses of the Russian army, and if you add the expenses of the Austrian army, 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 was only besieging Jerusalem, and if it had been fought all the way, the military cost would have been even higher.

The consumption of weapons, ammunition, and strategic materials is nothing, and the largest single expense of war is actually the soldier's casualty pension.

In Austria, for example, the minimum pension for a soldier killed in action is 600 Aegis. The annual preferential policies and welfare expenditures for the families of martyrs are at least 10 shields, which is 300 shields for 30 years.

This is only the most basic data in theory, and the Austrian military pension also needs to consider the position, rank, length of service, and whether it has made military merits, which are all additional items.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the government to send blank slate soldiers to the battlefield. This means that in an actual war, more pensions will have to be paid.

On average, for every Austrian soldier killed, the Vienna government paid 1,200 Aegis pensions. If 10,000 soldiers were killed, it would be 12 million Aegis.

The cost of dying is high, and the cost of surviving the seriously wounded is actually even greater.

Among other things, the government must bear the cost of follow-up medical care, and the government of the unemployed must also be responsible for solving the problem of livelihood.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, these expenses cannot be saved. In this regard, Franz was willing to pay his blood, and Austria did the best in the follow-up pension work.

Fortunately, the tsarist government did not need to pay so many pensions, otherwise Alexander II would definitely die crying by now, and the casualty pension was greater than the consumption 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. In later generations, countries attached great importance to the casualties of soldiers, but in fact, they were forced out by high pensions.

War Secretary Albrecht: "According to the previous practice, the Russian army will replace the troops with more than ten percent casualties.

The tsarist government still has more than 200,000 new troops in the Ukrainian region, and they can reach the front line in a week at the earliest, and no more than half a month at the latest.

The time we have promised to provide war supplies is coming soon, and the Russians will definitely rush for time, and I think it will not take more than twenty days at most for the Russians to attack again. ”

The Vienna government initially promised to provide 150,000 Russian troops with war supplies for half a year, but the two sides made a bargain of interests, and this limit was raised to 200,000 Russian troops, and the time was extended until the end of 1874.

The tsarist government had just beaten the Poles, and although it had achieved brilliant results, it was wounded in the purse. In this context, the Russians naturally want to save money as much as possible.

Only by launching a major war before the end of the deadline could more supplies be obtained from the Vienna government in preparation for the war that followed.

This kind of thing the Russian army has been doing all the time, for example: falsely reporting battle losses and hiding strategic materials.

The Austrian officers at the front had already reported it, but it was just that the Russians were still needed to die, and Franz did not investigate it deeply.

Hiding strategic materiel was not so easy to say, at least not by Austrian officers at the front. 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 uneven.

Austria also sent officers to follow, and overreporting war damage must also pass inspections, and if problems are found, they must be held responsible.

Austria's distribution of strategic materials is carried out according to the number of Russian troops, but there are people dying on the battlefield every day, and the consumption of people is naturally less.

However, it is impossible for the quartermaster who distributed the supplies to get data feedback immediately, and the materials received by the Russian troops on the front line have not decreased, which has led to an extra part of the supplies.

Falsely reporting war damage and hiding materials is mainly this part of the materials. When the water is clear, there are no fish, and as long as the accounts are clean, Austria will not go deeper.

How much of this material could eventually fall into the hands of the tsarist government, and how much was privately divided among Russian officers, was not a matter of concern to Franz.

After pondering for a while, Franz made a decision: "Let out the news, just say that we are ready to send 500,000 troops to destroy the Ottoman Empire." ”

European countries want to see the Ottoman Empire unlucky, but they definitely don't want to see the Ottoman Empire fall.

Without this big guy, Austria would be able to devote all its energy to Central Europe, and the pressure on the defense of many countries would increase.

At the London Conference, Britain and France were already mediating the war in the Near East. But that was not enough, and the diplomatic pressure exerted by the European countries was not enough to get the Viennese government to let it go.

Franz now made the move to destroy the Ottoman Empire in order to add fuel to the fire, attract the attention of Britain and France, and make them devote more energy to intervene in this war.

Asking for trouble for yourself, such a nonsense thing, actually happened, Franz thought it was funny.