Emperor Hua fell into deep thought, and said heavily: "Originally, my preferred alliance was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but now it seems that this empire is not solid, and there seem to be many crises. ”"Your Majesty is saying that the minorities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are not completely left without a choice, and there is another way to go to the United States, in the late 19th century, more and more Austro-Flask Slavs emigrated to the United States, and they were the first to flee the Habsburg countries, but they had to leave the Habsburg countries not out of hatred of the Empire, but because of the suffering caused by the Austro-Hungarian Entente and the oppressive status that the Austro-Crème conferred on the Hungarians."
Zeng Jize said."
That's not what I mean, do you have any news from Hirobumi Ito" Emperor Hua asked with a wave of his hand."
Yes, I have been keeping an eye on the movements of the Japanese, Ito Hirobumi was very active after arriving in Europe, after staying in the United Kingdom, and now I am lobbying the French and Germans to jointly deal with our country, according to my analysis, it is almost impossible for China to get the support of a European power or a sub-power, compared to Japan, China is too strong, no European country wants to see China become strong" Zeng Jize gave his opinion categorically.Similarly, Zeng Jize actually reported to Emperor Hua in the telegram before, it was Emperor Hua himself who did not give up, and had to go to Europe to have a look, this time he only visited three countries, and Emperor Hua basically agreed with Zeng Jize's opinion."
Do you think that the position of Austria-Hungary in Europe is not even qualified to help Hua speak?"
the Hua Emperor wondered."
That's pretty much the case, because his navy is not strong, now in the world, whose navy is strong, who has the most right to speak, except for Britain, is France, the most powerful, so, Britain and France are the most powerful countries, followed by Tsarist Russia, and Germany is rising, only the Germans can really climb the relationship, and we offended Britain, France and Tsarist Russia, China now wants to start a diplomatic situation, it is indeed very difficult."
Zeng Jize said truthfully, "It is also worth paying attention to Serbia, which has now re-established the Kingdom of Serbia and continues to expand its territory and become a force to be reckoned with in the Balkans." ”Serbia has moved from being free from control and expanding its territory to continuing to expand its territory with real independence, and under the influence of the idea of "unifying the southern Slavs", more and more people in Serbia believe that the southern Slavs should be united to form a strong state, in order to get rid of the control of the major powers forever.Although the culture of the southern Slavic peoples belongs to the same root, after years of development and evolution, they have long been different, and Slovenia and Croatia believe in Catholicism, while Serbia and Bosnia believe in Orthodox Christianity.When interests are common, they can be united, and when interests are different, they will be separated.In fact, the Serbs were only inflated by successive victories, and the "unification of the southern Slavs" was only a pretext, and the expansion of territory and spheres of influence and the acquisition of benefits were the things that every country had to do.Hua Huang and Zeng Jize chatted for a while, Zeng Jize meant that Hua Huang is now in diplomacy, it is best to do nothing to maintain the status quo, so that the country can continue to move forward on the road of industrialization.Just like the current Austro-Hungarian Empire, sacrificing the trade that was lost because of the rise of Serbia.Austria-Hungary simply compromised with Serbia and did not impose high tariffs on the pigs raised by the Serbs.Then let time give the empire a new chance.The hurricane of the nineteenth century brought great disasters to mankind in the twentieth century, but nationalism is only an illusion, an illusion of a sense of group identity, and these illusions can only prevail in the destitute lower classes.In the upper classes, the propertied and the middle class, national sentiment was only a tool for crying and hanging, not a sincere determination, and when the empire was really about to collapse, the Czechs were against it, because their industrial products would be deprived of the vast Central European market and the Adriatic outlet to the sea.General social progress and industrialization will increase the size of the middle class, allowing realistic judgments of interest to prevail over nihilistic national sentiments.At the same time, enlightened autocracy, of course, refers to the kind adopted by Emperor Franz Joseph at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ruling by imperial decree when the Imperial Diet was in a state of disagreement and nothing was done.This approach promotes reconciliation among peoples.There is no such problem in Huaguo, when there is a dispute, Huaguo will always vote, in major matters, in fact, the emperor generally sets the tone before holding a meeting, and rarely forms a large-scale dispute situation.The restrained, ambiguous, and resolute defense of liberalism, the conservative politics promoted by the emperor's edicts, and the industrialization of society, if they could be won long enough, could dilute the stench of nineteenth-century nationalism.Defend an elegant, enlightened, and cultured great monarchy of Central Europe.Zeng Jize believed that the geopolitics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the collapse of the empire was inevitable.But the Emperor believed that the problems of Austria-Hungary were not as big as many people believed.Although Hua Huang does not know much about history, but in World War I and World War II, which groups were which groups and which groups won the victory, this kind of common-sense question is known to everyone who went to junior high school, because there are history classes in junior high school.The fall of Austria-Hungary was by no means purely due to geographical relations, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell because of its defeat in the First World War.When the ship was about to sink, the peoples of the empire could not wait to flee from it, and Emperor Karl was forced to abandon the empire and go into exile, and Stephen Zweig described with sadness that he witnessed the emperor's train leaving Austria.Austria-Hungary was crushed by a burden it could not bear, but it also crushed the German Empire, in which the German Empire, as a deformed nation-state, did not show any superiority over Austria-Hungary.The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed in 1918 and Emperor Karl left his empire, but the Hohenzollern dynasty also collapsed in 1918 and Kaiser Wilhelm left his empire.Tsarist Russia, the steam steamroller, came to an end in 1917 with its empire.The First World War was beyond the capacity of the three major monarchies involved in the war, crushing Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary, and no matter what system Austria-Hungary adopted on this issue, and no matter how crazy nationalist measures it adopted on the national front, it could not survive the First World War.The inevitability of history is reflected here.However, the Emperor believed that the First World War was an accident of history.The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the previous visit to the Kingdom of Greece, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the current Kingdom of Bulgaria, in fact, everyone faced the same problem.If the feudal form of the kingdom is not well controlled, it is easy to capsize, which is also where the Chinese emperor is vigilant.Although China is now under the leadership of the Huacui Party and is moving towards the road of state monopoly capitalism, its foundation is also unstable, except that China is a single nation and does not have such a complicated situation as the Balkans.It doesn't have to happen, and the emperor is vigilant about the fall of these empires, no matter how powerful the country is, it is difficult to withstand the pressure of defeat, and if he loses the war, it will definitely be a devastating blow to the superstructure, and he must take it as a warning, so the emperor became more and more cautious about the issue of war after the founding of the country.The golden age of industrialization in Austria-Hungary was the 1880s, and with the advent of this "Gilded Age", the empire flourished like never before, but with it the urban proletariat.The imperial liberals, maintaining all the strengths and weaknesses of the German nationalists of the 1848 generation who sought freedom, emancipation, and unity, pinned their hopes on democratic reforms, and that those who paid less than 10 crowns in direct taxes would be able to give new impetus to their cause with the reform of the electoral system and the progress of universal suffrage.But when this part of the electorate did show up, they were shocked by the people they were expecting.These voters, at the turn of the century, had lost interest in the ideals of 1848, the urban proletariat in the modern sense of the word, and the currents of Austria-Hungary were inseparable from this new class.Bismarck met these same people in the German Empire, and in the 1880s Bismarck was shocked to discover that the National Party, on which he had pinned his hopes, could not form a parliamentary majority to support the functioning of the government.Industrialization brought the proletariat to the stage of history, and in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the strength of the radicals of all nationalities came from these people, and the national radicals of the Germanic people followed the "Rosenkavalier" von Schinnerer, who can be seen as the precedent of Adolf Hitler in all respects, including the title "Führer" used by his followers, Adolf Hitler was another poisonous melon that grew from the vine of Schönerel.The Austrian Catholic Church, the great aristocracy, tried to face this disastrous new era.In the 1880s Vienna was heavily built, but the population only rose by 15.All the Austro-Constitutional Empire had to do was sail peacefully through the social gap of this turbulent industrialization.Of course, Emperor Hua understood it, and he only talked to Zeng Jize in private, and of course he would not be kind enough to give much advice to Austria-Hungary."
Your Majesty is still going to visit European countries as originally planned," Zeng Jize asked curiously.President Meng smiled: "Anyway, it's all here, what's the problem with visiting a few more countries, the terminal is Germany, I believe that when we meet with Ito Hirobumi in Germany, I will be able to come up with a way to restrain the British and French" President Meng still has confidence in Austria-Hungary and does not fully agree with Zeng Jize's opinion.The Bohemian problem was not in fact long-lasting, because the young of the Germanic and Jewish intellectuals who did not speak Czech, young of whom could learn Czech or re-employed, could be solved by early retirement with imperial subsidies.The Bohemian problem did not come to the point of incompatibility.If European countries could learn from China and attach importance to pension insurance, social insurance and medical insurance, there would be many fewer tragedies along the way, although these capitalist European countries are more developed than many parts of China.Many Europeans are sick and no one cares, so they can only sit on the side of the road and wait for death, and after they die, except for flies, no one has come to ask for two or three days, which is a world of difference from China's security system.The demands of the common people are actually very simple, there is a food and clothing environment, children can have books and gamble, and when they are sick, they can have a place to see a doctor, and almost 99.999 percent of the people will be satisfied The Chinese emperor stayed in the Kingdom of Bulgaria for two days, and did not receive an invitation from Alexander I of the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Konstantinov, the head of government.The reason why the emperor waited so patiently was because he saw that if there was no help from an external force, this Alexander I would definitely be killed by Konstantinov, who had mastered the army, "This Alexander I's brain is really not good." ”Emperor Hua said helplessly: "He clearly knows that Konstantinov is a pro-Tsarist Russian force, and he doesn't hurry up to contact us and secretly cultivate his own forces Zeng Jize, don't you say that he has already sent someone to contact Alexander I" President Meng generally calls his subordinates by his name, although Zeng Jize is his quasi-father-in-law, but the relationship between the monarch and the minister is here, no one will feel impolite, if Emperor Hua calls Zeng Jize the position, it will be even more strange, if it is in ancient times, it will definitely be more difficult to call.Zeng Jize nodded and said: "I have been contacted, this Alexander I is not a stupid person, but his personality is too arrogant to look down on our Huaguo." ”"I can't look at it, he is looking for death by himself, and he can't complain that we should go to the next country According to the itinerary, we should go to the Kingdom of Romania."
Princess Katrina Kaaf said angrily.President Meng raised his hand, "Since there are common interests, we always have to meet" Everyone was surprised, it's already like this, people don't want to see us, why do you see each other Now it's not that we don't see people, but people who don't want to see us.The defeat of Austria-Hungary was due to the world war, and the outbreak of the world war was inseparable from the policy of Balkan hegemony promoted by Archduke Franz Ferdinand.The hope of Austria-Hungary lay in maintaining peace in Europe and through the most fragile and unstable phases of its society.But sadly, it encountered a world war during this period.This led to the tragedy of the 20th century."
Let time give the empire a new chance" For the life and death of the empire, time is the most precious and ruthless thing, and the lamentations include but are not limited to the Western Romans, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Habsburgs, the Ottomans and the Soviets.However, as a luxury, the time left for the empire is the same as the time for their opponents, and the enemy outside the borders will not sit idly by while you leisurely solve internal problems, and the empire needs to survive before it can talk about diversification.What was the geopolitical environment of the Habsburg Empire?
To his north, German relatives still harbored illusions of Greater Germany, to the east Tsarist Russia to regain the dream of a Great Slavic empire after the defeat of the Far East, to the south of him the emerging Italy to the south of the Adriatic Sea after barely squeezing into the last train of the Great Powers, and to the southeast a series of small Slavic states were stirring up at the instigation of Russia.Austria-Hungary is an egg dancing on the tip of a knife, and even without Sarajevo, the slightest misfire can drag the country into the abyss of war, and what is even more difficult is that showing weakness in foreign policy will further stimulate the ambitions of the two ill-intentioned neighbors of Germany and Russia.And what about the Reich's ability to defend itself"The Reichstag was in chaos, with the Reichstag announcing policy in a speech in German and Czech nationalist parliamentarians angrily denouncing the Chancellor in Czech.The wave of nationalism in the nineteenth century was not because countries liked to smell "ugly", but because nationalism was the most brief, effective, and able to keep their countries alive in the international jungle of the jungle.After the war, racism, the extreme alienation of nationalism, brought great disasters to the world and its people, and even nationalism was stigmatized.On more than one occasion, nationalism has been asserted as barbaric and backward, and is the product of the last generation, but in fact, several multi-ethnic countries today still rely on the implementation of the same official language and the same value orientation to form the national identity of the whole country, and this method is still the standard paradigm of nationalism.However, it is more moderate and more tolerant of different groups than in the nineteenth century.The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which lived surrounded by the jungle and powerful enemies, had the illusion of building a pluralistic empire that stumbled even the official language.Zeng Jize believed that no matter how the "Austro-Hungarian Empire" was reformed, it would be hopeless.Because of the golden age of the economic development of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, during this time the Austro-Hungarian Empire has done relatively well in economic development, and the Austro-Hungarian economy is revival, but the politics cannot keep up; Secondly, the Austro-Hungarian compromise is an impossible problem and obstacle on the road to Austro-Hungarian reform, so if you don't solve the Austro-Hungarian compromise, no matter how you want to reform, you will also be resisted by the Hungarian region, and it will be a dead end.It was a year when liberalism swept across Europe with nationalism, and no country on the continent was spared, except for closed Russia.But this is not so much a disaster as an opportunity.Europe has been closed by the smoky miasma of feudal society for too long, and it really needs a hurricane to sweep it away.As the country most affected by this hurricane, too many opportunities awaited the Habsburg Austrian Empire.This hurricane will sweep away all obstacles to the development of capitalism: serfdom, tariff barriers, aristocratic privileges, and Hungarian nationalism.Especially Hungarian nationalism.As I said at the outset, the settlement of the Austro-Hungarian compromise was the main obstacle to the solution of all the problems of reform in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and at the same time, it was not possible to abandon this great kingdom, which occupied half of the territory of the Empire.A war against Hungary was inevitable.The Emperor waited for another three days, but finally did not find a chance to meet the fool Alexander I, and sullenly stepped on the train to the Kingdom of Romania."
Your Majesty, don't be unhappy, after Romania, as well as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy and Germany, we still have a lot of opportunities, and besides, it is not completely impossible to meet at the top of the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal."
Seeing that Her Majesty's interest was not high, Princess Katrina Kafu patiently enlightened.Hua Huang smiled slightly, "I'm fine, you don't have to persuade me, Zeng Jize is right, the key is to rely on ourselves, even if this trip to Europe, not a single country has done it, it's okay." ”Zeng Jize said with a smile: "Your Majesty is right to think so, mainly relying on our own strength, the powerful countries in Europe look down on our emerging countries, and the small countries in Europe do not look down on them. ”President Meng stood up, walked to the window, and looked at Sophia, who was about to disappear, there was no way for him not to be anxious after three consecutive countries had no results.t1706231537: