When the news of the end of the Battle of Warsaw spread, the whole of Europe was boiling. Newspapers were publishing the news in droves.

You must know that not long ago, the Prussian army achieved the "Great Victory in Warsaw", and the uninformed people have always thought that the Prussian army has the upper hand in the Warsaw area, and such an astonishing turn of events is really unacceptable.

Especially for speculators who bought the Pubo Federation war bonds, it is even more difficult to accept this harsh reality.

Protesters have already appeared on the streets of London, and angry people on the stock exchange have surrounded the inner three floors, the outer three floors, and I don't know how many more layers are in between.

"I was deceived", so I naturally want to seek justice. Only a small part of these people were bought at the beginning, and most of them were high-ranking receivers who were fooled into getting on the boat later.

After the Prussian army won the "Warsaw victory", the British media were optimistic that the Prussian Federation would win the war, and the war bonds issued by the Berlin government rose sharply.

It turns out that the capitalists are not easy to take advantage of, and if the Pupo Federation is about to win the war, how can they leave?

Except for a few front-line workers, the senior executives of Kalmaka Securities, which is responsible for the issuance of Pupo's federal bonds, have long been unknown.

"Smash it!"

I don't know who shouted, and the speculators, who were carried away by the anger, broke through the interception of the security personnel and began to vent to their heart's content, leaving behind a few unlucky staff members who became scapegoats and were ravaged by everyone.

Fortunately, the stock exchange is a key area of the London police, and the atrocities committed at Kalmaca Securities were quickly stopped by the police who rushed to inquire about it.

This is just a microcosm, and in the context of the departure of capital predators, not only the securities market has been hit hard, but the stock market has also been inescapable.

There is no doubt that the banks that undertook the federal loans of Pubo have become the hardest hit areas of this turmoil, and their stock prices have plummeted.

Before the defeat of the Popo Federation, London was already in chaos. In this year, the British government is still very capable of execution, and Prime Minister Benjamin held a press conference as soon as possible to reassure people.

Roughly speaking: creditors still don't worry, the London government will find a way to keep the Berlin government, and the bonds in everyone's hands will not become waste paper.

If you want to interpret it in depth, it can also be understood as: the creditor is still there, but he is very poor now, and he will know when he will be able to repay the money.

War bonds are certainly not to be paid immediately, and the shortest time is three or five years later, and the longest ten or twenty years are normal.

By then, the British government has already changed, and it is also a matter for the later government to worry about, and Prime Minister Benjamin does not mind writing blank cheques first.

However, the British Foreign Office has quickened the pace of action, constantly lobbying European countries to intervene in the Russo-Prussian war, and so far Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium have seconded the armistice proposal of the London government.

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Not long ago, the Austrian government had also received an invitation from the Berlin government to mediate, and Franz had been hesitating, and with the end of the Battle of Warsaw, the matter could no longer be delayed.

"We can't wait any longer, the Russo-Prussian war is coming to an end, we have to act, or the situation will get out of hand." Foreign Secretary Wesenberg proposed

It is indeed about to get out of control, and if the tsarist government really swallows the Kingdom of Prussia, it will be difficult to make them spit it out.

In the present international situation, it is very likely that the Tsarist government will take advantage of Austrian nationalism and use the territory of the Kingdom of Prussia to pay off its debts and put the Vienna government on fire.

What is even more tragic is that the Russians did this, and the Vienna government must not only swallow the bitter fruit itself, but also thank them, at least on the surface.

What does the Kingdom of Prussia have now?

The answer is - debt!

Now that Austria has accepted the Kingdom of Prussia, not only will it not be able to recover the money it lent to the Russians, but it will also have to make up for the tsarist government.

Not only that, but the Berlin government had a huge debt that it would certainly not be able to repay after the war, and now taking over the Kingdom of Prussia also meant taking over a huge debt.

In addition to the debt, the post-war economic reconstruction also required a large amount of money, and there was no doubt that the Berlin government could not afford it, and the central government had to cover it.

And that's just economic, political troubles are even more. If diplomacy is not done well, it will be under the crosshairs of public criticism.

Knowing that it was a mess, and Austria was not wronged, it was naturally impossible to run to pick up the plate at this time.

Intervention became the best option, as long as the Russians were not allowed to occupy the Kingdom of Prussia, and these troubles would naturally not exist.

No matter how much debt there is, no matter how great the difficulties are, it is the responsibility of the Berlin government itself, and it is really impossible to repay the money and can still rely on the debt, anyway, it has not been reunified, and it will not affect the credibility of Austria.

"It's still too early, the strength of the Pop Federation still exists, and it must be consumed by the Russians, otherwise it will be a big trouble in the future." Felix said the opposite

As the leader of Greater Germanism, Chancellor Felix always put the unification of the German regions in the first place, and the Kingdom of Prussia had a strong military strength, which was obviously not conducive to national unity.

Foreign Secretary Wesenberg reminded: "Prime Minister, our first national policy is to localize Africa, and the unification of Germany can only be ranked second.

By now, most of our Africa strategy has been completed, and apart from the French-occupied Egypt, there is only a half-dead Ottoman Empire.

The top priority is to stabilize the European continent as soon as possible, establish a new international order, and look for opportunities to solve the Ottoman Empire first. ”

There are actually many more national priorities in Austria, but they have changed over time, and now there are only two left.

For example, the original Near East strategy, with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, directly became part of the African strategy.

This is also forced, after the localization of Africa, the connection with the local has become the most important. It is indeed convenient to take the sea route, but unfortunately there is no guarantee of safety during the war years.

The superiority of the Royal Navy was too great for the Austrian Navy to be compared. Not to mention catching up with the British for a short time, even the French Navy overwhelmed the Austrian Navy.

Since it can't be done at sea, then you can only find a way on land. Much of the Middle East had already fallen into Austrian hands, and the Vienna government wanted to unite the mainland with Africa, with French Egypt and the Ottoman Empire standing in the middle.

The French are not weak, and the Vienna government has no intention of fighting Egypt for the time being, but the weak chicken of the Ottoman Empire is tragic.

Prime Minister Felix nodded and shook his head again: "It is true that our core strategy is the integration of Africa, but this does not contradict the German reunification plan.

To solve the Ottoman Empire we have a chance, after the Russo-Prussian war the tsarist government will be in peace for a long time, and there is no energy to compete with us in the Near East.

It can be said that in the next ten years, the action against the Ottoman Empire will be dominated by us, and the Russians will not prevent us from extending the railway to the Suez Canal.

On the contrary, the Kingdom of Prussia is even more troublesome, we cannot do it ourselves, and if we do not solve them now, it will be difficult to find opportunities in the future. ”

The boss is not easy to be, especially the boss who loves his own image. Even in the midst of the division of Germany, Austria's leadership was recognized, and the core reason for the recognition of Austria's leadership was the Vienna government's image of itself for decades.

The good reputation that was built with great difficulty naturally cannot be ruined in the civil war. Especially for Franz, the emperor, he would rather make the German regions unable to be unified than smash his own signboard.

Otherwise, it will be embarrassing to find that the country has finally been reunified, and his own throne is gone.

There are many similar cases, and Franz does not think that his descendants are all bullish masters who can live in the town.

If you don't want to pull hatred, then the best way is to let the process of German reunification shed less blood, and even if you really want to shed blood, you must first find a good scapegoat.

In this respect, the Russians were really good allies of Austria. The Ottoman Empire, its archrival in the south, was taken down by Russia and Austria, and the ambitious Kingdom of Prussia in the north was being taken over by the tsarist government.

Every time there was a conflict of interest between Russia and Austria, just think about the contribution of the tsarist government, and Franz's mind was suddenly calm.

It doesn't matter if you have money or not, it's mainly for the sake of Russian-Austrian friendship. The last time the tsarist government announced a default on its debts, the Austrian government was not furious.

Franz interrupted the quarrel between the two: "The mediation of the Prussian war can be slowed down first, and someone can be sent to test the bottom line of the tsarist government."

If they were interested in paying off the debts of the Kingdom of Prussia and wanted to roast us on a fire, they would immediately cooperate with the British and intervene in the war.

Other than that, everything else is negotiable. A weak, even divided, Prussia is the best Prussia.

As long as it is not too much, we can tacitly accept that the Tsarist government annexes part of the land of the Kingdom of Prussia, as long as it does not involve the German regions, everything else is negotiable. ”

The thugs all have an appearance fee, let alone the Russians? Fortunately, they fought all the way, paid millions of casualties among soldiers, and went into debt, so they had to have something in return.

In Franz's view, the Kingdom of Prussia had become so carried away in recent decades that it wanted to stand up for itself against Austria, a situation that had to be combated.

If you don't make an example, what will you do with the German Confederation in the future?

For example, the Kingdom of Hanover, which was eager to try, was not satisfied with the current German Federal Empire, and with the support of the British, it was secretly tinkering with the so-called North and South German plan.

The Vienna government did not look for their bad luck, because Hanover was still in the imaginary stage, and a lot of plans were made, but no real action was taken.

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