Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Franz Joseph I saw that Queen Victoria remained silent, and was worried that the British ruler would reduce his support for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He said anxiously: "Your Majesty, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's support for Britain is absolutely sincere. At least we regard Britain as an ally like Berlin. Please believe us."

Queen Victoria smiled when she heard this.

This Franz Joseph is indeed not deep enough.

This casual coldness revealed his impatient character.

Queen Victoria wanted to support the Austro-Hungarian Empire even more.

Such people are easier to control, aren't they?

Queen Victoria then said: "Your Majesty, Britain's support is not so easy to get, just like Prussia back then, but you need to come up with something that will make Britain shine."

Franz Joseph I understood the elegant meaning of the words, and immediately knew that the other party was putting forward conditions.

He couldn't help but think of the rise of Prussia back then. Especially Frederick the Great, the uncle of William I.

That was the candidate with the highest support from Britain.

Frederick the Great conquered the east and the west, and finally established the status of Prussia from a small role in Europe to one of the five major powers in Europe.

It was also him who made Prussia, the younger brother of the Austrian Empire, become a major concern of the Austrian Empire.

Britain's rise in Prussia can be described as "hard work and great contribution".

Prussia gave money when it had no money, and gave weapons when it had no weapons.

Prussia broke the pattern of Western Europe dominated by the three Catholics of France, Spain and Austria, and the rise of Protestantism rose with the rise of Prussia.

In short, the Germans are a historical drama of the rise of Prussia and Britain, and Sweden has only become a hot topic.

Today, the Germans and Protestantism are the common discourse of Britain and the German Empire.

Franz Joseph I is not stupid, on the contrary, he knows the times.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire under his leadership is still dominated by Germans, but its Catholic nature has begun to change. Now the ratio of the Protestant population to the Catholic population is tilted towards the Protestant side.

This is a kind of attitude of going with the flow.

It is also a prerequisite for connecting with Berlin, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Berlin.

Don't think this is unimportant. In Europe, religious belief is a weather vane.

This is a prerequisite for determining whether you are of the same kind and whether you can become a partner.

In the past, Spain and France were strong, and Vienna was dominated by Catholicism, but now the British German Empire and the Netherlands are rising, and the rise of Protestantism is unstoppable, and Vienna should also make changes.

Franz Joseph I actually wanted to ask for help from the Netherlands, but the Netherlands did not have enough energy in Europe. At least the European part of the Netherlands needed the constant attack of the German Empire and Britain. Therefore, the Netherlands was just a piece of chicken ribs for Vienna at present, and the Netherlands only used the four countries of the Nordic Alliance to barely protect itself.

Germany was ambitious, and Bismarck was notoriously unfriendly to Vienna. William I was even more of a member of the royal family who had a deep hatred for Vienna, but he knew that both of them were using Vienna, and at the same time they were guarding against and suppressing it.

As for Tsarist Russia, Franz Joseph I could not help but laugh at himself when he thought of it, because Tsar Nicholas I, who was friendly with him at that time, was angered to death by him, because he was so blinded by his own heart that when Britain, France and other countries supported the Ottoman Empire to fight back against Tsarist Russia's invasion of Crimea, not only did they not help Tsarist Russia, but they deployed troops on the border with Tsarist Russia, distracting Nicholas I and finally losing the war. Nicholas I was so angry that he died.

Therefore, the Tsarist Russian royal family hated him to the core, and how could they dare to ask for help from the other party.

Not adding insult to injury is already good.

The two Germans said they were supporting, but in fact, they were more of a drain on Vienna.

Only Britain was the country that Vienna hoped to support the most.

After all, Britain under the leadership of Queen Victoria was now in a period of decline, and Franz Joseph I saw this clearly, so he felt that his arrival was good news for Britain, at least proving that Britain was not alone, just like Vienna needed Britain to prove that it was not alone.

So he came with a sincere alliance, not a lower posture like he did in Berlin.

"Your Majesty, I think the battlefield in Mexico has now entered a period of white deterioration. Mexico's execution of the Mexican emperor has violated the core interests of our major European royal families.

It seems unreasonable for the Netherlands to support Mexico. Therefore, our relationship between Vienna and Melbourne has become worse and worse in recent years, and the interests in the Mediterranean have become more and more colliding, just like the Netherlands supports Spain and Britain in competing for Gibraltar, just like the Netherlands promotes its own interests in Greece to the detriment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean. "

Neither of our two countries can let the unbridled Netherlands damage the interests of our two countries on a global scale. Therefore, I think we should join forces to fight against the Netherlands's global threat to our attention. "

Franz Joseph I looked at Queen Victoria nervously and said: "Mexico is in the hands of our Austro-Hungarian Empire. We will be a major ally of Britain in the Americas in the future, supporting each other with the British army in Canada. The United States will be divided, and the southern United States will It was preserved with the support of the United Kingdom. If we If we occupy Mexico, we will be more supportive of Britain's allies there. The American Confederacy in the north will lose the courage to attack the United States in the south, and Britain's interests in North America will be further strengthened, not what they are now. , Worried about the North American Expedition or the Southern Attack supported by the Netherlands."

Queen Victoria was immediately impressed by the late Franz Joseph. This guy had done his homework and actually knew how to use this to connect the British to support him.

Not bad, not bad.

"Your Majesty, the situation in Argentina seems to be getting more and more tense, and the Dutch's pressure there will further increase. We cannot just sit back and watch Argentina fall into the hands of the Netherlands, not to mention that your British troops are still stationed on the Falklands there. If Argentina It will become a country controlled by the Netherlands again, and it will be a matter of time before the British troops are forced to leave.

This will be a huge disaster for the United Kingdom, so our two countries need to join forces on the interests of the Americas. No matter what, it is definitely a good thing for the United Kingdom to support us. "

"Also, we in the Austro-Hungarian Empire have decided that if Britain supports us, we will select a port in the Gulf of Mexico as a port where British warships can enter and exit freely. We are willing to work with Britain to maintain the security of the Gulf of Mexico."

Queen Victoria was moved, so she said: "Two, one on the Gulf of Mexico and one on the Pacific Coast."

Franz Joseph I immediately nodded and said: "Deal!"