Chapter 50： Frankfurt Conference (1/2)
On March 1, 1848, a conference of state liberals was held in Heidelberg on the initiative of Baden and Wurttemberg bourgeois liberals.
A total of 51 people attended the meeting, most of them were representatives of the South German state, of which 4 were Prussians and only 1 Austrian.
The meeting passed the ”Declaration to the German People” and decided to set up a seven-member committee to prepare the German Preparatory Parliament. (Predecessor of the Frankfurt Conference)
There is no doubt that this meeting is represented for Austria.
No matter what other people think, Franz will not admit the legitimacy of this meeting anyway. I was too busy dealing with domestic issues and ignored these issues. Now that the internal crisis is under control, it is time to get involved in the affairs of the German region.
Unlike in history, the Austrian bourgeoisie was hit hard, and the rest were trembling and trembling, for fear of being killed by the government. Who would dare to come out at this time?
The Frankfurt conference is coming, but the Austrian representative has not been elected. Instead, a group of wanted criminals are preparing to attend the conference.
Franz didn't know what the capitalists thought, and from the beginning it was doomed to failure. How can legitimacy be recognized without the recognition of governments?
”Prime Minister, what do you think of the torment of capitalists this time?” Franz asked
”Her Royal Highness, I don't think it's necessary to pay attention to this meeting. This meeting was originally illegal, and we just didn't admit it!” Prime Minister Felix said calmly.
Austria in this era, as well as the great capital, has the strongest national strength in many German states.
Franz frowned, apparently he was not satisfied with the answer, and the Austrian government did the same in history. The consequences were quite serious. The parliament passed the German proposal and excluded Austria.
In the eyes of Franz, the Prussian kingdom was behind the scenes, otherwise Austria would not be excluded from the beginning.
”Her Prime Minister, do you really think so? If we don't intervene, I guess the outcome of the conference must be the establishment of a small German empire that excludes Austria.
Regardless of whether the meeting is illegal or not, the influence caused by the people is unquestionable, and perhaps there is no obvious feeling in Austria.
But in other regions, the influence has begun to spread. Once the people accept this theory, it will lay the foundation for Prussia to unify the above regions in the future. Foreign Minister Metternich frowned.
The ”European coachman” was not called in vain. Although he did not think that the German region could be unified, Metternich, who pursued European balance, also opposed anyone to unify Germany.
Now that the kingdom of Prussia is very strong, if it continues to create opportunities for them, it will not be a problem for them to annex North Germany.
This is a very big threat for Austria. Historically, Metternich had left politics in this period, lost his right to speak, and was unable to stop all this.
He is still serving as Austria's foreign minister, and of course something must be done at this time, and disrupting the Frankfurt conference is the first step.
This is also the purpose of Franz putting him in the cabinet. In diplomacy, few people in the world can compare with him, although the ”Vienna system” he created has collapsed.