With the passage of time, the overseas interests of various countries have increased, and the friction and checks and balances between major powers have become more and more numerous, and many times they are passively generated.

Austria wanted to destroy the Ottomans in order to gain a stable rear, and inadvertently penetrated its tentacles into Persia, with the ability to threaten India.

In overseas colonial activities, Britain and Austria have many checks and balances on each other, and the threat is mutual.

You can touch my cheese, and I can take your bread. Everyone is restraining each other, for example:

The Cape of Good Hope of the British, all right under the noses of Austria; Austrian Alaska, next to Canada, also did not break out into conflict.

Today, Austrian Alaska is no longer a land of ice and snow, but a world-famous gold producer.

Of course, this is famous, not because of how unnatural the local gold production is, but mainly because the colonial government has done a good job in advertising.

In terms of ranking, the world's main gold producing regions are: South Africa, Australia, Canada, the United States, Russia, West Africa, and Alaska can only rank seventh.

Austrian Alaska's reputation is mainly due to harsh climatic conditions, which the Austrian poet jokingly called "God's test".

The colonial government of Austrian Alaska, which lacked population, directly took this sentence as a propaganda slogan.

Claiming to the outside world: Alaska has the world's worst natural conditions of gold mines, which is a test left by God to mankind.

Only by withstanding the tests set by God can we make a fortune and reach the pinnacle of life.

Of course, the Russians may not be convinced by the phrase "the worst natural conditions", and there are many gold mines in the Russian Empire with a harsh climate.

It's not wrong to say that it's God's test, but if you don't pass it, you'll really go to God.

In the icy Alaska, more than four-figure gold prospectors meet God on the gold rush every year. Those who have made a fortune are the lucky few who have experienced the test.

Alaska's annual gold production of dozens of tons is also a piece of fat that cannot be easily parted with for the Vienna government.

If the British government is not too sensitive to India, it will find that the power of Britain and Austria to contain each other is not small.

India is delicious, but the Vienna government cannot take any risks until it is eaten with complete certainty.

The premise of a potential threat is "potential", and the British, having been operating in India for so many years, are not paper paste.

Now is the peak of Britain, and whoever thinks that British India is a soft persimmon is easy to pinch, stupidly rushes up and keeps it and breaks the blood and flows out.

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The goodwill unleashed by the government of London, Vienna, pulled the British government out of the panic.

As the saying goes, "If you're afraid, then I'll be relieved." Since Austria is still afraid of Britain, it means that India is still safe for the time being.

In the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street, after rationally analyzing the pros and cons, Gladstone was confused.

"What do you think the Austrian government is trying to do with its sudden goodwill?"

As if thinking of something, Foreign Secretary George's face changed drastically: "What is the real purpose of the Austrians, it is not yet certain." But then, we're in big trouble.

Austria's willingness to conclude a guarantee treaty with us only proves that the Viennese government has no interest in Persia for the time being, not that the Russians are also interested.

The international situation is changing, and although Austria is temporarily ahead of the European countries, their European hegemony is not stable.

It is evident from the goodwill shown to us by the Vienna government that the Austrians did not have the confidence to sit on the hegemon of the European continent.

Neither the ambitious Russians, nor the arrogant French, will recognize their status.

Sandwiched between France and Russia, Austria's continental hegemony is a joke. Perhaps aware of this, the Viennese government never considered itself the hegemon of the European continent.

As time passed, both France and Russia would recover, and Austria would be in big trouble.

Judging from past experience, the Austrians will not confront France and Russia head-on, and most of them will play the trick of diverting contradictions.

I am afraid that in the next step, they will incite the Russians to go south to the subcontinent, provoke contradictions between the Russians and us, and then concentrate on dealing with France.

I am afraid that the North German Empire, which we have planned, will also become the guard guarding the western gate for Austria. ”

The reason why Yangmou is terrible is because it is exposed, and things will still happen.

The ambitions of the Russians were not something that the London government could eliminate. Unlike Russian-Austrian relations, when the two countries were allies from the time of the Anti-French War, and they have been bumping and bumping until now, Anglo-Russian relations are a complete mess.

Even if the Austrian plans were put on Alexander III's desk, the tsarist government would still happily go south to the subcontinent.

The warning issued by the London government can only be counterproductive, and trust this thing is always easy to corrupt and difficult to establish.

Over the past few decades, Russia and Austria have established a basic relationship of trust through three generations of monarchs. Although they were stabbed in secret, the agreements reached by the two countries were fulfilled in the end.

The Viennese government encouraged Russia to move south, and that was a real interest, and the tsarist government would naturally believe it; The British pointed out that Austria was plotting to drive a wedge between Britain and Russia, and the tsarist government would not take it seriously at all.

There is no such thing as you, so how can you talk about separation?

It was even more incomprehensible for the North German Empire to act as a guard, which was determined by geographical location, and they were sandwiched between Fao-Austria, and they could not think of this guard.

Unless the plans for the North German Reich are abandoned and the North German region is allowed to continue to be divided, then the weak German Confederation will certainly not be able to do anything.

This is one of the worst options, not one. External pressure is also the driving force behind the unity of a nation.

Unless the London government personally came into battle to help resist the military pressure of the French, the small states in Germany would fall to Austria in a minute.

After hesitating for a while, Gladstone sighed: "The price that Austria can offer is too high, and it is difficult for the Russians to refuse.

But this is a matter for the future, and the tsarist government should be at peace for a while in a short time. Prepare the Indian satrapy, and in the future Central Asia and Persia will not be peaceful.

Warn the French and let them hold back to their ambitions. Otherwise, an opportunity was created for the Austrians, and the anti-French alliance was reorganized, and they would have cried!

Next, everyone should be on higher alert, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The enemies they encountered this time were different from those of the past, they were much more difficult to deal with than France and Russia, and their previous experience was not of use to them.

In the future, the main battlefield has shifted, from a real fight to a diplomatic game. ”

The Vienna government made a series of moves, and the London government could only respond passively, which made Gladstone very dissatisfied.

You must know that Britain has always been known as a diplomatic power, but now it is being led by the nose, and if you want to fight back, you don't know how to start?

Foreign Secretary George replied confidently: "Don't worry, Prime Minister. In the front, it was only because we were not vigilant enough against Austria that they took advantage of the loophole and fell into a passive state, and this kind of thing will not happen again. ”

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On November 18, 1882, the anti-Turkish alliance successfully met on the Kyzyl River, and the Ottoman Empire became precarious.

In the palace of Ankara, Abdul Hamid II was already in a hurry, ten times worse than the last time in the Near East war when an Austrian airship dropped a bomb on his head.

The British boss is indeed very powerful, supporting them with a lot of supplies, but this is all in the past.

After the Asia Minor Peninsula was divided in two, the western region was completely isolated from the rest of the world and surrounded on all sides by an anti-Turkish alliance.

No amount of material aid can be delivered. Theoretically, the British could also use airships to drop them.

Unfortunately, this is impossible, and the British support for the Ottomans is also limited, and directly sending airships to drop supplies is challenging the bottom line of the anti-Turkish alliance.

If the conflict is exacerbated and itself is involved, the London government can only cry.

Neither Austria nor Russia has a single peek at the strength of the Indian region, but once the two countries join forces, the situation is different.

Not to mention the expulsion of the British, at least there is no problem in bringing the flames of war to the heart of India. At the same time against two of the world's three major land powers, the London government has not gone crazy.

To wage war in defense of the Ottomans? It is estimated that as soon as the suggestion was put forward, Downing Street was about to change owners.

Panicked Abdul Hamid II: "Prime Minister, what should we do now?" ”

Midhart replied uneasily: "Your Majesty, at this point, the enemy will not give us a way to live, and if we want to keep the Ottomans, we can only fight hard.

The Russian army is only more than 80 kilometers away from Ankara, and the next thing we have to do is to prepare for the defense of the capital, and Your Majesty can go to the front line to boost morale. ”

"Do we still have any hope of winning?" Abdul Hamid II asked expectantly

He really wanted to hear that someone could give him an affirmative answer. Midhart is not a sycophant, and the domestic mess makes his heart rhythm crisp, so he naturally won't bend his mind at this time.

"The enemy's advantage is too great, and the chances of us winning the war are almost zero, but there is still hope of keeping the Ottoman Empire.

As long as the anti-Turkish alliance is given the maximum damage, the brutal casualty figures will calm them down and move them to the negotiating table.

When the time comes, pay a certain price and send the enemy out of the country, and we will be able to end this war with dignity. ”

Abdul Hamid II said fiercely: "Okay, I'll go and inspect the barracks." ”

What people are most afraid of is that there is no hope, and even if they know that there is little hope, there will still be people who can't help but try.

By this time, Abdul Hamid II's expectations had also dropped, and it was enough to keep the Ottoman Empire and keep the throne.