President Meng doesn't know how to quickly carry out diplomacy, like the Japanese, with the bribe of women and money, in this patriarchal world, find a breakthrough in improving relations with the great powers, and the emperor naturally knows how to do it.Although the exchanges between countries are not the same as the exchanges between merchants, it is indeed a very fast way to use money and women to gain the support of some high-ranking people in some great powers.However, the exchanges between countries mainly depend on the interests of the countries, so the Chinese emperor has never been as diplomatic as the Japanese.The great powers supported the Japanese because Japan was too small and had too few resources to threaten the interests of Britain and France, which could be used to balance Tsarist Russia, and now after Tsarist Siberia was recovered by China, Japan can be used to counterbalance the rise of China.Therefore, it does not mean that Huahuang can obtain the support of a certain great power country by spending a sum of money.Maybe he was in a hurry to go to the doctor, maybe he was really anxious and wanted to speed up diplomacy, anyway, the emperor is now raising this issue.Princess Katrina Kafu said: "Our diplomatic expenses have always been not low, and the relationship with officials with diplomatic power in various countries is good, otherwise, Your Majesty's trip to Europe will not be able to visit so many countries smoothly, but I think the amount of payment is almost the same, and if you pay more, it doesn't make much sense." ”Emperor Hua understood what Princess Katrina Kafu meant, knowing two or three big people, and knowing twenty or thirty big people, in fact, is almost the same, you can't make two or three hundred big people in every country, not to mention, even if you make friends with so many people, it can't be converted into support, and there are too many things that collect money but don't do things."
Tell all the European foreign affairs departments, the embassies of each country, that the entertainment fee in the last three months has been increased by three times, whether it is useful or not, burn this pillar of incense."
Hua Huang sighed."
Yes, Your Majesty."
Princess Katrina Kafu knew that Her Majesty was not soft on spending money on the Bureau of Statistics, but the foreign affairs department has always maintained the habit of being diligent and thrifty, and the main expenses are usually used to make friends with the other party's foreign affairs department, and her own expenses are very small.If it is not a last resort, the emperor will not give such an order.If the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Spain do not improve, only Britain, France and Germany, Britain and France have a conflict of interest, and it can be seen from the attitude of a group of younger brothers in Germany that the German and Austrian powers do not attach importance to China at all.In this case, the situation is extremely critical.What is the most annoying situation is to determine the person who must be befriended, but others are simply too lazy to pay attention to you in advance must give it first, this truth, Hua Huang naturally understands, but then it is meaningless, in that case, Hua Huang will honestly retreat to the mainland, just rely on Hua Guo himself, on the basis of self-preservation development, it must be much more powerful than the real history, at least, do not have to worry about being bullied by the powers.But the Emperor of China is not reconciled, at this rate, by the time of the First World War, even if China does not cause trouble, the war will definitely affect China, and it is not possible to avoid the First World War, and the World War II will lead to intricate contradictions between the imperialist countries due to the imbalance in the political and economic development of capitalism.At the end of the 19th century, the Anglo-German contradiction became the main contradiction between imperialism.Under the guidance of this contradiction, the Triple Alliance with Germany as the core and the Triple Entente with Britain as the core were formed one after another.The continuous expansion of armaments by the two major military aggressor groups finally led to the outbreak of World War I.The First World War was an imperialist war that ended with the defeat of the Allies after nearly four years of fighting between the two warring parties.The First World War was a catastrophe for humanity that greatly changed the face of world history.The emperor doesn't like war, but if he doesn't like it, it doesn't mean that it won't happen.Therefore, Huahuang, who has entered this era, sometimes leads the times, but most of the time he is dragged along.Sweden and Tsarist Russia were not included in the consideration of the Chinese emperor at all.Kingdom of Sweden: Relying on Army Reform.A large number of arquebuses were installed, artillery was created, and a standing army was formed.As a forerunner of military reform, Sweden had limited population and resources, and the era of Gustav II was at its peak.Russian Empire: Constantly expanding its territory through annexation, digestion, annexation, the Russians possessed the largest war potential in Europe.However, the natural defects of Tsarist serfdom made life miserable for the Russians, and the people were extremely angry.It can still survive when it continues to expand, and once it is frustrated, it will continue to have civil strife.The weakest link of imperialism is not a lie.The British Empire: Relying on sea power and the vast wealth brought by the colonies.Colonies spread across the globe, and a large navy made Britain invincible for hundreds of years.The huge amount of gold contributed to the financial development of the United Kingdom, but the combination of the two led to the deindustrialization of the country, which in turn led to heavy losses under the challenge of Germany, and finally lost the world's first place.The First French Empire: Relying on Social and Military Reforms.With the help of the Revolution, France centralized its military and civilianized its army, while its military achievements largely depended on Napoleon's genius.The expansion of France stems from the solid foundation of the Bourbon era and the impetus of the Revolution, diplomacy is the weakness of France, and the restoration of the internal Bourbon dynasty greatly involved the power of France, and after the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, France has never returned to the top.The German Empire: Relying on Social and Military Reforms.Germany, which focused on industry and education, defeated Austria and France to support the war, and was a slick diplomat, but in the end it failed on the way to challenge the world.Germany had the ambition to annex the European continent and worked for generations to do so, but at the same time violated the interests of Great Britain, France, and Russia beyond the limits of its capabilities.Austria-Hungary of the Austrian Empire: The Habsburgs used a marriage strategy to gain large territories, concentrating their power on the Austrian Empire after losing control of Spain and then the Holy Roman Empire.The Austrian Empire was more industrial, with a more relaxed domestic political situation and a smooth diplomatic approach.However, its mixed ethnic composition and more than 20 languages are vulnerable to the wave of nationalism.The cohesion of the German Empire was mainly based on three pillars, German nationalism, rapid economic development, and the overwhelming dominance of Prussia within the Empire.Prussia integrated the Lesser German region through three dynastic wars, and naturally enjoyed great prestige in the German region as the accomplisher of the mission of national unification.At the same time, Prussia, which annexed Hanover, Hesse, Kassel and other states after the Austro-Prussian War, could represent almost the entire North Germany, and even the accession of the four southern German states could hardly shake Prussia's dominant position.But even so, we cannot consider the nascent German Empire to be a centralized state, since Bavaria has always maintained embassies abroad and has comfortably rejected German requests to inspect the Kingdom's military exercises.So until the First World War, Berlin could not be sure whether the southern German states would jump into the fire pit of war together, but fortunately, the German nationalism in the German National Liberation War and the 1848 Revolution had already become a huge monster under the deliberate guidance of Wilhelm II And the dream of glorious dedication fell on the battle line that seemed to be eternal for a long time.Now it was Austria's turn to look forever crumbling but to stand up to the First World War.The Austrian Empire still retains the dream of a universal empire, but the history it carries on her backs has always constrained her steps.The privileges of empires vary from place to place.In order to pursue the ideals of a universal empire, to transform the empire with the same values and the same administrative system, and to save the empire, we have to meet the challenges of these historical legacies.For heavily oppressed areas, this only eases the burden of being test-driven.For regions that otherwise enjoyed sufficient autonomy, this was just another example of Habsburg tyranny.The goal that the monarchy tried to achieve was in a nutshell equal oppression, and Joseph II's attempt was sadly blocked by the nobility and the church, and failed.But the revolution of 1848 and the Habsburg victory in the Hungarian War gave the empire an unprecedented opportunity to re-establish a centralized unitary state.Chancellor Prince Schwarzenberg was busy with diplomacy and suppressing Prussia's ambitions in Germany, while Home Chancellor Thomas Bach dominated domestic affairs.During this period, Hungary's historical privileges were abolished, and other nationalities, even the Croats, who remained loyal to the Habsburgs in the 1848 Revolution, lost their parliaments and self-government.Vienna became the sole center of power in the empire for this short period.However, after successive defeats in the Franco-Austrian and Austro-Prussian wars and the collapse of the imperial authority, Franz Joseph had to choose the Austro-Hungarian compromise in exchange for the support of the Hungarians.The Austro-Hungarian Accords gave only one-fifth of the population the same voice in Austro-Hungarian affairs as the other three-fifths.Andrassy once reminded the Kossuthites in a speech, "If anyone complains that the terms of our agreement are not in favor of Hungary, I will reply that we are currently paying only 30 percent of the common expenses, and enjoying the same rights as those who pay 70." ”In Transleitania, although a tolerant national bill was passed in 1868, which gave minorities broad rights to use their national languages in the local government, and in non-Magyalian areas minorities could be elected as the chief executive of the local government, the future Magyar chauvinist government made the bill nothing but empty words and strong irony.The peoples of Leitania, abandoned by Emperor Franz Joseph, felt a deep sense of betrayal.Loyal Croats, in particular, supported the Habsburgs during the turmoil of 1848, the Italian Revolution and the Hungarian War, but received no political or economic benefits, and were eventually abandoned to the Magyars.The Austro-Hungarian negotiations coincided with similar negotiations between the Empire and the Czechs, who were willing to grant similar autonomy to the Czechs in exchange for Bohemia's loyalty to the Empire.There was a fundamental disagreement between the imperial government and the Czech nationalists over the amount of autonomy and the size of the autonomous regions.The Czechs insisted that Bohemia was the Bohemian Bohemia, just as Hungary was the Magyar Hungary.It was even called for this to be extended to the whole of Greater Bohemia, including Moravia and part of Silesia.This demand was beyond what was acceptable to the Reich, since "the fulfillment of the wishes of the Bohemians was the death sentence of the Germans."
We can sacrifice Little Russians, Ukrainians for the Poles, and Slavs and Romanians for the Magyars, because the former will be assimilated by the Poles and the latter by the Magyars, but the Germans will not be assimilated by the Czechs. ”The ethnic distribution within Austria-Hungary was that there were still a large number of Germans in Great Bohemia, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia.In 1868 the negotiations of the Austrian Jie did not lead to anything, and the desperate Czechs tried to enlist the help of the French.At this time, France needed Austria to fight against North Germany, and Franz hardened his attitude when he learned that the Czechs were trying to get help from the French.At this time, Andrassy made the final stroke to the dying Austrian negotiations, pointing out that satisfying the Czechs' conditions would lead to a civil war."
You're going to use artillery to get the rights of the Kingdom of Bohemia recognized, if not, then don't implement this policy."
After the Czechs rejected a policy of lesser autonomy, they lost the window of opportunity to gain autonomy.By the end of the 19th century, when the Czech nationalists were willing to accept the division of jurisdiction along ethnic lines, and Vienna once again extended an olive branch to the Czechs by issuing a linguistic decree stipulating that in the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech would become the lingua franca like German, and that all officials must be proficient in both languages, the goodwill of the Reich was countered by the Austrian Germans.The Germans in Austria-Hungary were undoubtedly a lost bunch.I was a German myself, but I am no longer a German.In fact, some Germans are eager to realize the Greater German dream and return to the German mother country.The only thing that the emperor can look forward to is the sphere of influence of Germany and Austria, and in the sphere of influence of Germany and Austria, in addition to the boss Germany, now the emperor only has the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Spain to continue to work hard, such a situation, how can the emperor not be in a hurry t1706231537: