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Except for these people, the rest are real refugees.

Of course, this 540 million is a theoretical figure, and it is definitely not that much in reality. Many frail and sick people saw God when they first fled, and the most they can escape is 80 million.

Before and after the outbreak of the Russo-Prussian War, Austria received a total of 143.6 million refugees. According to the current situation, it is difficult to exceed 150 million.

The protest of the Vienna government played a role. Prussia and Russia did not have the courage to drive the refugees over, and the refugee wave that Franz was most worried about did not happen.

More than four months have passed since the refugee crisis broke out.They have not received relief for such a long time, and in fact there are not many people left.

This means that the number of deaths caused by the refugee crisis directly exceeds the combined number of deaths in Prussia and Russia.

It’s not that I don’t know, but I was taken aback. Adding up all the data, the direct population loss caused by the Prussian-Russian War exceeded 800 million, and the indirect population loss was more than [-] million.

These days, there are no fifteen countries in the world with a population of more than 800 million, and there are only eight countries in the European continent: Austria, Russia, France, Britain, Spain, Germany, Prussia, and the Nordic Federation.

Among them, the population of the Nordic Federation is only 800 million, and the population of the German Federal Empire is only more than 300 million. Whether the Kingdom of Prussia can maintain a population of 800 million after the war is still unknown.

Needless to say, this shocking data must be released.If we don't let everyone know the horror of war, how can we appreciate the value of peace?

Looking at this statistical table full of gold, Prime Minister Felix sighed: "The Prussian-Prussian War is the pinnacle in the history of human warfare. After this battle, the era of the European War is over!"

Looking at the cautious Prime Minister, Franz very much suspected that he was intimidated, otherwise how could he come to this conclusion?

Glancing at the crowd, Franz found helplessly that only he, the emperor, did not respond, and everyone else was immersed in the big data of "800 million deaths".

Looking at the expressions of the crowd, Franz very much doubted that after the release of this data, there would be a wave of anti-war in Europe.

Especially for many small countries, whose total population is less than 800 million, what do they use to fill the bottomless pit of war?

Franz interrupted: "Okay, everyone. No matter how great the losses in the Prussian-Russian War are, it shouldn't be our headache.

Whether a war will break out in the European continent or not, we will leave it to time to verify. Now we need to think about the next international changes.

The brutality of the war exceeded our previous expectations, and the impact it caused also exceeded expectations. Now we must re-plan. "

There is no way, international politics is so changeable, it is impossible to follow the plan.The international situation has changed, and if you don't keep up with it immediately, you are doomed to be eliminated.

After a short pause, Foreign Minister Weisenberg said: "Your Majesty, the Russo-Prussian War has shown everyone the cruelty of war, and everyone will be more cautious when making decisions in the future.

Under normal circumstances, everyone will deliberately avoid launching wars on the European continent, and future international competition will gradually shift from the European continent to overseas.

The world has almost been divided up, and the competition for overseas colonies and markets in the future may become unprecedentedly fierce. "

This is an inevitable result. The cost of launching a war on the European continent is too high. If you are not careful, it will easily cause public anger. The benefits you grab may not be able to make up for the war expenses.

For details, you can refer to the Prussian-Prussian War. The Tsarist government finally won the war, and the spoils it gained were not enough to make up for half of the war losses.

In this context, if it is not necessary, everyone will definitely avoid the outbreak of war.

In a sense, the Russo-Prussian War also enhanced Austria's international influence.The Russians killed the Pubo Federation by relying on crowd tactics, which refreshed everyone's three views.

Before that, when the European war broke out, people only had to consider whether they had money or not. Now it was different. Everyone also had to consider whether there were people.

As the scale of wars has grown, the traditional concept of money and soldiers has been eliminated by the times.

In terms of quantity, Russia and Austria are undoubtedly at the first level, and after adding overseas territories, Austria's war potential is still higher than that of the Russian Empire.

Followed by Greater France, with a total population of nearly 6000 million, leaving other countries far behind.

The Russians have proved their strength with numbers, and they are firmly seated as the fourth most powerful country in the European continent.The political structure of the three major powers in Europe tends to develop towards the four major powers.

On the ocean, the Royal Navy's one-superpower and two-power structure is very stable, Britain's maritime supremacy is as stable as Mount Tai, and the two pursuers of Fa and Austria can only watch from behind.

On land, France and Austria stand side by side, followed by the Russians.

Before the Russo-Prussian War, everyone agreed that the French Army was more powerful, but now their ideas have been impacted and their views have changed.

The record of the French army is more brilliant, but the number of Austria that can explode is greater, and the overall national strength is stronger, giving people a feeling of comparable strength.

We can't beat the British at sea, and our strengths on land are very close, so both sides will lose in a fight.

In this context, it is unrealistic to expect Britain, France and Austria to PK.The Big Three who have taken the largest share cannot rob each other, so they can only go overseas to bully the weak.

Franz nodded: "That's right. Most of the next international struggles will take place overseas. After the land of no man is divided, it's the turn of the small country to suffer.

If nothing else, the naval feast is about to begin again.But as long as no one challenges the British sea supremacy, this naval feast will not last long.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can secretly contact France and Russia to try to see if they can sign a treaty limiting the size of the army's armaments, so as to avoid the outbreak of a European war. "

Frankly speaking, Franz also wanted to challenge the British maritime hegemony, but he had to reluctantly give up because of his lack of strength.

This is not enough to build ships. Austria really has a chance to compete with the British in the shipbuilding industry alone, but not in other aspects.

The Austrian Navy has never encountered any decent opponents, so naturally it has no chance to accumulate war experience. The best war experience is to destroy pirates.

If the lack of this aspect can be made up by the number of warships, then lack of money is the real flaw.

Austria's fiscal revenue is not low at all, but under the premise of maintaining the Continental Army, it will not be able to shout for hegemony at sea.

The army is different from the navy. Even if the size of the army is limited, it can be mobilized quickly during war.

To tinker with arms limitation treaties, the meaning of comfort in the heart is greater than the actual binding force.

Of course, something is better than nothing.Before the war broke out, it was indeed possible to save a lot of financial expenses.By saving military expenses in the army, everyone has more funds to invest in the navy.

Even if the British dominance at sea cannot be shaken, it is a great victory to be able to narrow the gap in strength with the Royal Navy.

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Chapter 293 The closest day to hegemony

The Russian-Prussian casualty report released by Austria quickly ignited public opinion. The figure of "800 million" was too astonishing, and everyone's attention was immediately attracted.

Countless people are amazed that it is another "30 Years' War", but the difference from the last time is that the Prussian-Russian War lasted less than two years.

Is there a winner?

Perhaps uninformed ordinary people will say that the Russians won the victory. Anyone who really understands the Russo-Prussian War knows that this is a war that hurts both sides.

Both Prussia and Russia are losers, and the winners are the three fishermen of Britain, France and Austria. The status of the three major powers after the war is even more unbreakable.

As the titular victor, the Russian Empire seems to be called "the fourth largest country in Europe" by the media, but it has actually earned a title.

From the three major powers to the four major powers, it is enough to talk about the political structure. Anyone who takes it seriously will be stupid.

What the Russian Empire has now is the potential to become a fourth leg, not the strength.If the future develops smoothly and the national strength catches up, then there is a chance to reproduce the pattern of the four great European empires.

Before the start of the first Russo-Prussian War, the Russian Empire was one of the four major European empires, and it was also the number one seed player competing with the British for world hegemony.

After tossing around, I experienced two Prussian-Prussian wars, lost millions of troops, paid tens of billions of rubles in military expenditures, wiped out the accumulation of successive tsars, and shouldered huge debts.

The final gain is that it has fallen from the hegemony of the European continent to the fourth place in Europe, and a little bit of territorial expansion that the Russian Empire does not need.

"Reflection", this may be the greatest advantage of the European people.Looking at the list of losses of Prussia and Russia in the newspaper, everyone subconsciously came to the conclusion: the war is so fucking terrible!

Not only ordinary people are frightened, politicians are also frightened by groups of data.For a time, the power of hawks in various countries was greatly reduced, and the trend of anti-war thought began to spread to the whole world.

The Palace of Versailles, the cold casualties of the Prussian War, gave the ambitious Napoleon IV a blow.

Napoleon IV was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the French army, and the French people also had confidence. Everyone believed that the French army was the number one in the world, and that sooner or later the European hegemony would belong to France.

As for the Austrian Empire, which stands in front of France's road to hegemony, if the international situation did not allow it, they would have fought it long ago.

Well, that's just talking.War is not a child's play. France has been busy digesting the Italian region these years.

Now that the Italian region has stabilized, the Paris government has the energy to consider the issue of expansion, but they are still not ready to go to war with Austria.

Although European hegemony is important, the prerequisite is that its own strength is strong enough to keep the fruits of victory.Since the annexation of the Italian region, France has begun a long farming career.

It was originally planned to wait for Prussia and Russia to lose both sides, and then expand to Central Europe and take down the coal mines that France needs most.

Napoleon IV believed that after Prussia and Russia suffered both losses, Austria had no strength to stop them from taking this step, otherwise France would have no chance to annex Italy.

According to the plan, the Rhine River is the boundary, and France will eat Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland and other regions, and appease Austria with the remaining territory of the German Federal Empire.

Not afraid of Austria, this is a tactic.In military parlance, this is clipping the enemy's wings.

Without Belgium and the Federal Empire of Germany, Austria will lose two allies when the Franco-Austrian war breaks out in the future, increasing France's chances of winning.

After assimilating these areas, France's shortcomings have been made up, and then defeating Austria to seize European hegemony can be called a perfect strategy.

In the military, Napoleon IV had a psychological advantage. His ancestor Napoleon was awesome. He beat up the European continent one by one, and almost won.

The current situation is much better than it was then. The Italian region has been occupied, Spain is an ally, and Russia and Prussia have been greatly injured by the war.

There are not many independent countries left, except for Austria, none of which can fight, basically negligible, there is no reason not to win heads-up.

However, the plan did not change quickly. Seeing the number of casualties in the Prussian-Russian War, Napoleon IV's dream of supremacy was shaken for the first time.

No way, as an old opponent, the French government still has a deep understanding of Austria, and the huge reserve force cannot be hidden from their eyes.

Originally, Napoleon IV didn't take the reserve service seriously. No matter how many mobs there were, they would be broken in front of the French Army.

The Russo-Prussian War changed his opinion, and the Paris government also sent a military observation team. The cruel reality told them that the reserve forces can also fight.

As long as there are qualified officers, the reserve service can be reorganized very quickly, and its combat effectiveness is only a little bit worse than that of the regular army. The flaws in quality can be made up for in quantity.

Taking into account the number of standing armies in France, Napoleon IV felt that it might not be enough.If there is a fight with Austria, their baby lump army is likely to be piled to death by the number of enemies.

If the army is expanded, the advantage of the French army in combat effectiveness will no longer exist.

Once the war cannot be resolved quickly, the shit-stirring stick across the strait will intervene. Even if the war is barely won in the end, France does not have the strength to dominate Europe.

There is nothing wrong with it. When France and Austria were making strategic plans, they both put the British on the enemy side, because the risk of being an ally with them is just as great.

The original plan went bankrupt, and Napoleon IV was hesitating whether to continue the "strategic plan to cut off the enemy's wings" or to change it.

As for promising the British to support the establishment of the North German Empire, that is a joke.How can you paralyze them without releasing goodwill?

You must know that most of the troops of the German Federal Empire are used to guard against France, and other areas are hardly fortified. It is simply assumed that no one will invade them except France.

Facts have proved that this judgment seems to be true.Prussia and Austria will not invade the German Federation, and Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland will not be able to defeat them. The threat is indeed only one France.

Before Napoleon IV could make a decision, the French people made the choice for him.The anti-war trend broke out again, and it started in Paris and spread to the whole world.

This is all young and inexperienced, otherwise Napoleon IV should have thought of it long ago.Various trends of thought, new ideas, and new doctrines in Europe... that did not start in Paris, and the "Holy Land" is not in vain.

Napoleon IV should be thankful that he did not act in advance, otherwise the anti-war wave would break out, and the French people would teach him how to behave.

In a sense, Austria also missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and European hegemony has never been so close to them.

If he knew the French plan, Franz would definitely find a way to delay the exposure of the casualty data of Prussia and Russia until the French took military action.

Everyone knows that the combat effectiveness of the army is closely related to people's thinking. The French army's combat effectiveness in the anti-war wave is undoubtedly the lowest.

The French army invaded the German region, and only the French army was affected by the anti-war. The German Federal Army was defending the country, and the soldiers would not clamor for anti-war.

The Austrian army can also be unaffected, and defending the territorial integrity of the German region is a national righteousness.No matter how much you fight against war, it is impossible for the enemy not to fight back when they come.

Anyone who has studied French history knows that when a wave of thought erupts, it is often a period of high-speed dissemination of revolutionary ideas.

Against the background of the whole people's anti-war, if the French army on the front line suffers another big defeat, maybe they will have another revolution.

The success or failure of the revolution is not important, the most important thing is that revolutionary ideas will be contagious, as long as a revolution breaks out inside, the great French Empire will be finished.

The enthusiasm of the Italians for independence is also not low. The revolution broke out in France and caught up with the French-Austrian war. It is difficult for Italian independence organizations not to break out.

So many people are holding back, not to mention Napoleon IV, even if Napoleon went into battle himself, he would be powerless.

After winning the Franco-Austrian War, it was difficult for the German region to think about unification.At that point, no one can stop it except God.

With the unification of the German region, the hegemony of the European continent is a certainty.Even if France and Russia can slow down, it will be more than ten or twenty years later.

Such a long time is enough for many things to happen, such as: making Italy independent, bringing Spain over, or establishing an alliance to tie Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the Nordic Federation on board.

If there is no such thing in reality, Napoleon IV, who was sulking, didn't know that the anti-war wave that made him depressed saved his dynasty.

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Foreign Secretary Dumbledore reported: "Your Majesty, the Vienna government has sent us a diplomatic note, hoping to work with us to lead the formulation of a "European Army Armaments Convention" to avoid another European war."

I have to say that now is a good time to limit the army's armaments. The Prussian-Russian War has just ended, and everyone is still immersed in the "800 million" loss figure and cannot extricate themselves.

The wave of anti-war is still spreading. Whether it is the people or politicians, everyone's fear of war is at its peak.

Hearing this news, Napoleon IV's depressed mood was slightly relieved, and he pretended to be contemptuous: "The Austrians are afraid of this, it seems that they are not very courageous!"

Everyone is an old fritter, so it is natural to see that Napoleon IV's words were insincere.Everyone is a normal person. After seeing the cruelty of the Russo-Prussian War, who can not be afraid.

The most typical example is the members of the military observation team dispatched. Many members of the main combat faction, after experiencing the cruelty of the war, have become vanguards against the war.

It's not that they are afraid of war, it can only be said that they have matured, become rational, and know how to weigh the pros and cons.

Relieving his depressed mood, Napoleon IV continued to ask: "What else, Austria is not short of money now, they can't limit their armaments just for the sake of world peace, can they?"

Napoleon IV was a little unnatural when he mentioned the words "no shortage of money".There is no way he is jealous, and now the two countries with the strongest financial resources in the world are Britain and Austria.