As is customary on the European continent, the next step is the negotiations. In particular, the Vienna system was re-established again, and the French had to abide by this rule.

Since the diplomatic note of the French was delivered, Cavour has hurried to Paris to give gifts and public relations.

It's still useless, the French bureaucrats are not stupid, they know what money can be collected and what money cannot be collected. involved in the assassination of the emperor, it is better to participate less.

Foreign Minister Clio said with a sad face: "Prime Minister, the gifts have been returned, and these people won't even let us in." ”

This is still more subtle, and even more so, he put away the icing and fired the cannonballs back.

In other words, I accepted the gift, stuffed something into the gift box, and threw it out with great fanfare.

Expect them to stop dreaming, these things will at most make them extinguish the fire, and stuff less ammunition when they are clamoring for war.

There is no way, in order for the emperor to see everyone's loyalty, the slogan must be shouted. Even the anti-war faction is now clamoring for a little color for the kingdom of Sardinia.

Who made the investigation show that someone had helped the Assassin and leaked the Emperor's whereabouts, but this person had not yet been caught.

In order to avoid suspicion, no one dares to make this political mistake.

Cavour said helplessly: "There is no result on my side, Napoleon III has no excuse to recuperate from his injuries, and this matter is afraid that it will be difficult to do."

We don't have a choice, though. Since the French do not dare to accept it, they give gifts to the representatives of various countries, and do not save money at this time.

Feeding them, even if it's worth just saying a word for us at the meeting. ”

This is the most rubbish means and the most effective. Now the Kingdom of Sardinia is unable to exchange interests with other countries, let alone influence the diplomacy of countries.

In this context, the only way to do this is to buy off the representatives of the countries. Now the governments of Europe are very angry about the assassination, and they do not want to see the expansion of France.

Even Cavour himself was very angry about the assassination, and he didn't have a good impression of these so-called patriots at all.

If possible, he wouldn't mind just killing those guys, and he would be done. Cavour was not prepared to argue at all about the French's demand for punishment of the murderers, as long as it was not expanded.

He could not bear the demands of the French government for the cession of land. The unification of Italy was far away, and if the land was ceded again, there would be no hope.

Clio whispered: "Prime Minister, the French are also doing public relations, and we may be difficult to compete with them."

The Austrian representative this time, Martic, was a Lombard, and he was the representative of the anti-Sagasian faction in the Vienna government. The Vienna government sent him as a representative, I am afraid that it has something to do with the Franco-Austrian Secret Treaty.

In this negotiation, the Austrians were afraid that they would not be able to count on it. We even have to worry that France and Austria have agreed to divide us. ”

The Lombards are in the Italian region, but the Lombards are not equal to the Italians. To be precise, it is an independent people, a Germanic people, which originated in southern Sweden.

During the independence movement of 1848, the Lombards were divided, with some supporting the Viennese government and others siding with the revolutionary party.

There is no doubt that Martic was able to occupy a high position and must have supported the Habsburgs. As one of the vested interests, he was naturally opposed to the unification of the Italian region.

In the last Aussa War, the invasion of the Sardinian army caused disaster to his hometown, and after the painful experience, hatred of the Kingdom of Sardinia became inevitable.

Faced with such an opponent, Cavour also had a headache. If you want to fool, you don't know where to start.

On the unification of the Italian region? People don't think of themselves as part of the Italian nation at all, even though the cultural traditions of the Lombards are influenced by Italian culture.

It didn't work either, and now the whole of the Lombard kingdom was de-Italising and returning to the German cultural family.

After thinking for a while, Cavour said cautiously: "This information is very important, and we must inform the British immediately. This evening, I personally went to the British Embassy to discuss countermeasures. ”

One Frenchman is going to die, and another Austrian is really powerless. Aside from finding the British boss, Cavour can't do anything now.

It's not that he is not strong personally, but that the enemy is too strong, and the Kingdom of Sardinia is too weak to even be qualified for dialogue on an equal footing.

Now the British want to defend the Kingdom of Sardinia, not only strategically necessary, but also hijacked by debt.

After the Auss-Sa War, the economy of the Kingdom of Sardinia collapsed, and it was all dependent on British capital to survive. The Sardinian government naturally borrowed and borrowed, and the current Kingdom of Sardinia can almost be said to be a semi-colony of the British.

Duties, salt taxes, taxes on tobacco and alcohol, railways, and ports were all mortgaged to the British, and once the Kingdom of Sardinia was finished, the tens of millions of pounds lent by the British were all in vain.

Unless the London government is confident that France and Austria can pay back, the British consortium will not tolerate the end of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

There is no doubt that neither Napoleon III nor Franz could have been the culprit of this injustice.

This is aggression, not inheritance. It has always been the heir who inherits the debt, and no one has ever heard of the invader having to bear the debt.

Tens of millions of pounds were involved, and the British were not easy to face. To be precise, as long as interests are involved, the British will not be able to save face.

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On the other hand, Martic and French Foreign Minister Auvergne had a good conversation. Under the premise that the Viennese government supported the French government's annexation of the Kingdom of Sardinia, it was difficult for the two to reach an agreement.

In return, the French government promised to open a number of overseas colonial ports to supply the Austrian navy.

The Viennese government had already reached an agreement with Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, and with this agreement with the French, the Austrian navy had access to any part of the world's oceans.

Strategically speaking, this means that the Austrian Navy's globalization strategy has taken another step forward.

Of course, the French will gain even more. Now as long as Napoleon III can withstand the pressure of the European countries, he can eat the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Then, the rebellion was slowly suppressed. Anyway, the French have a lot of experience in anti-art, and if they talk to the Italians, maybe they will be able to burst out new sparks.

It doesn't matter if you can't withstand the pressure, at least the road to the Anglo-French alliance is broken. The arrogant French could not always be the little brother of the British.

Especially after harming their core interests, no matter how pro-British Napoleon III was, the two countries would still be politically and diplomatically opposed.

In the British Embassy in France, the atmosphere is very strange.

In order to stand up for the Kingdom of Sardinia, British Foreign Secretary Thomas personally came to the Paris Conference, and he arrived in advance.

Thomas asked solemnly, "Prime Minister Cavour, are you sure what you just said is true?" ”

He must not be careless, if France and Austria agree to divide the Kingdom of Sardinia, they will be passive. There is nothing the London government can do other than shout a few times.

The only way is to act ahead of time and sabotage this Franco-Austrian alliance, or to unite European countries to put pressure on the two countries to make concessions.

Either way, it is not what the London government wants to see. As for the Kingdom of Sardinia, their end is very obvious, it is nothing more than a question of how much to lose.

Diplomacy failed, and he lost all his money; Diplomatically successful, it ends in hemorrhage. It is impossible to assassinate the emperor without paying the price, and the French still have to give face.

Cavour wept and said, "Mr. Thomas, how can I be joking about such a thing?" ”

This is the worst-case scenario, and he doesn't want to see it, how can it be fabricated out of thin air? None of them knew about the capture of the Charcoal Burner assassins in Vienna, otherwise they would not have been puzzled by the Viennese government's approach.

Without this excuse, Franz would not have been able to do so smoothly, even if he wanted to calculate the French.

There were many voices in the Vienna government against connivance with France, and even Franz could not ignore the cries of the people.

After the Assassins were arrested, the situation was different. For the sake of political correctness, all were on the opposite side of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Thomas hesitated for a few steps, then said: "There must have been a change in the Austrian government, and not long ago our ambassador to Vienna received news that the voices in the Austrian government that advocated limiting French expansion were still dominant.

With the presence of the old fox of Metternich, he could not have been unaware of the threat of unbridled French expansion.

In the last Austro-Saxon War, Austria had the opportunity to annex the Kingdom of Sardinia, and they all gave up. Suffice it to prove that the Austrian government has no ambitions for you.

Now that the Austrian government has not crossed the border at all, and none of the cabinet members have changed, it is impossible for the political position to change so quickly. ”

Thomas is very thorough in his analysis, and it is impossible to change political positions at will, which is accompanied by the concept of governance. With the Austrian government's stable structure, it is even more unlikely that something will change overnight.