Chapter 411： Six Six Treaty (1/2)

The European arms race has begun, and the negotiations between France and Austria are nearing completion. Napoleon III wanted to establish Greater France, and Franz also wanted to establish the Great Shinra Empire. Both sides had their own calculations.

There is no doubt that the strategic conflict between France and Austria is almost doomed. But the time of the conflict is definitely not now.

Before the empire was established, France and Austria were still allies and needed to work together to share international pressure. This was a cooperation with Tigers.

On June 6, 1866, Wesenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the New Holy Roman Empire, and Abraham, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, signed the Treaty of Six and Six.

The treaty includes: 1. Formal alliance between France and the New Holy Roman Empire, the covenant is valid for ten years;

2. The two countries recognize each other's spheres of influence, mainly in areas under actual control;

3. Austria sold the suzerainty of the two Sicilian kingdoms, the Papal States, Tuscany and other Italian states to France for 20 million Aegis (250 million francs);

4. France sells the French Balkans to Austria for 200 million francs (8 million Aegis), and sells the colonies at the intersection of West Africa and the New Holy Roman Empire for 50 million francs;

5. Austria acquiesces in France's annexation of Belgium, the two Sicilian kingdoms, the Papal States, Tuscany and other regions, and as a cost France does not interfere in Austria's unification of the German region; (the disputed region is on hold)

6. The two countries divided the sphere of influence of the African continent:

The French acquired most of North Africa and parts of West Africa;

(Remarks: mainly parts of present-day Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Niger, Al-Quds and Sudan ...)

The New Holy Roman Empire gained much of West and Central Africa, North Africa, and parts of South Africa;

(Mainly today: Libya, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Central Africa, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, part of Sudan and Sudan ...)

Remarks: Most of East Africa and South Africa that have not been included in the sphere of influence of the two countries. Whoever wins first, the two recognize each other's sphere of influence in the African continent.

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There is no doubt that this six-six treaty is full of compromises and uncertainties. The alliance time is only ten years, and both sides are well prepared for the future.

The core contradiction of the Rhineland region did not make a clear agreement in the treaty, which laid a hidden danger for the future of the two countries.

Of course, there is no verbal agreement in the treaty, who owns it. In other words, whoever's fist goes to whom.

How to determine it, when the French empire is completed, or the German region is unified first, is the time to solve the problem.

In Franz's view, apart from sharing diplomatic pressure with the French, the treaty only divides the interests of the African continent, and France and Austria each occupy a third of the African continent.

If it weren't for the lack of strength of the two countries in East Africa and South Africa, in the end, it would be to add two to five to directly divide the African continent.

Enclosure is just a promise. The African continent is not small, even if it is a third, it is more than 10 million square kilometers.

Franz sent so many migrants in the past, less than five million square kilometers in the actual area of ​​control on the African continent, and the rest were only nominal domination.

Not to mention the French, even if Napoleon III emigrated from the Balkans, there were millions of immigrants in French African colonies, and it was OK to control the coastal areas, let alone think about it.

Austria's colonization is okay. Even if there are colonial strongholds of other countries, it is not a climate, and it is not difficult to clear them.

The French are busy, for example: Did the British agree in Egypt? Another example: In the Morocco region, we also need to ask Spain and John Niu to agree.

East Africa and South Africa, for the time being, are justified without any division. The French really couldn't swallow it, and it was easy to sign a treaty, but there was no strength to make it a reality. That was a joke.

Two points on the African continent is just that France and Austria closed their doors behind themselves. In fact, this plan cannot be achieved without kicking out the British, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch.

For Franz, the Dutch can be ignored, and the Spaniards can also be ignored. These two countries have a small range of influence on the African continent and do not respond to the new Holy Roman Empire.

The treaty will be Austria for a while, and the new Holy Roman Empire for a while. This is the European tradition. There is no way, otherwise it has no legal effect.

The sovereignty of the Italian state is in Austria. Although this is only everyone's default, since the French now recognize it, they can only buy it from Austria.

Similarly, Franz intends to merge the French Balkans into Austria, which can only be paid by Austria itself, otherwise the other state parliaments have opinions.

The colony was owned by the new Holy Roman Empire and was naturally purchased by the central government. Although this is a left-handed right-handed problem for Franz, it is still necessary to follow the legal procedures.

All the states in the empire have benefited from the colonies. Naturally, this cost of colonization must be shared by everyone.

After the localization of the African colonies, there will be more problems. Now these systems must be clarified.

Franz is very satisfied with this treaty. Austria has long lost control of the Italian state, or has never really controlled it.

If the Italian region is annexed, Austria will become a replica of the Austro-Hungarian Empire within ten years.

We need to know that Italy has a population of more than 25 million and is still a nation with a unified cultural tradition. How difficult is this assimilation, Franz has realized it.

After so many years, Lombardy-Venesia still has a strong Italian flavor. In contrast, the rest of Austria has basically changed under the influence of Germanic culture.