Chapter 976： Detain warship (1/2)

For Austria, the greatest significance of the signing of the Vienna Treaty was not to restrict France, but to clear the last obstacle to the unification of the German region.

Russia and other countries have been bought out. Even if the remaining Netherlands, Portugal, and the Nordic Federation want to oppose it, they must consider whether their own bones can withstand retaliation.

European countries do not object, not to mention overseas countries. This year, only European powers interfered in overseas affairs, and there has never been an overseas country mingling with European affairs.

There are no like-minded supporters, and the British are also helpless. Diplomatic protests are ineffective, so can't armed intervention be allowed?

In desperation, the British government can only choose to compromise. At the cost of recognizing Austria's annexation of the German Federation, in exchange for the Vienna government's recognition of their annexation of the French Indochina Peninsula.

Obviously everyone knows that this kind of recognition is similar to whether there is or not. Britain could not prevent the merger of Germany and Austria, and Vienna could not interfere with the British annexation of the French Indochina Peninsula. Recognizing each other is nothing more than a better face.

On June 12, 1892, witnessed by the international community, Austria and the German states jointly signed the ”Holy Rome Treaty.”

Almost at the same time, the German Bundestag announced the dissolution of the North German Empire. In the afternoon, George I issued a declaration of abdication.

As a historical witness, witnessing the destruction of a country and the rebirth of a country within a day, the impact on everyone is undoubtedly huge.

People with a little bit of political mind know that the sky has changed. The European continent has once again returned to the era of the Holy Roman Empire, and the international situation has also changed from the Big Three to the two.

Fortunately, the conflict between England and Austria hasn't intensified, or else just standing in line would be sad. However, everyone knows that this kind of stability is only temporary, and it will be sooner or later that the British and Olympics will turn their faces for world hegemony.

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As night fell, sighs came from the Japanese Embassy in Vienna.

”If you don't come out for a walk, you don't know how fast the world is changing. There is an old Chinese saying that ”Hedong for thirty years, Hexi for thirty years”.

How long has passed since then, the imposing French Empire just fell. I thought that we had developed fast enough, but we were still too far behind compared with other powers.

It seems that reform cannot be stopped. After this war is over, we will continue to deepen structural reforms and strive to catch up as soon as possible. ”

It was Ito Hirobumi, who quickly strengthened his confidence after feeling. It's just that the sorrow between the eyebrows can't go away.

Political speculation has always been a high-yield and high-risk activity. The Japanese government made mistakes in its previous operations and failed to switch jobs in time. Now it has to pay the price.

Fortunately, this speculation left one hand and didn't jump directly on the Frenchman's ship, otherwise it would sink with the ship now.

”Reform, isn't Austria the most conservative country in Europe? Except for the Russian Empire, they are the most conservative.”

Xixiang Congdao asked suspiciously.

This is also the impression of the outside world. Compared with France, which is the vanguard of ”freedom”, Austria is indeed ”conservative”.

Now that ”freedom” has lost to ”conservation”, many people are reflecting on whether France is too ”free”. The causes and consequences of the European War have been disclosed in the newspapers. Everyone knows that France was pushed into the chariot by the ”public opinion” entrapped by capital and finally embarked on a road of no return.

Ito Bowen shook his head: ”Where did you see Austria's conservativeness? Except for the lack of a bunch of big sprayers, no strikers everywhere, no election declarations posted everywhere, what else do they lack?”

Thanks to the strict implementation of the News Act, newspapers are responsible for the authenticity of newspaper content, and the social atmosphere of being kidnapped by money has been reversed.

In this context, it doesn't matter if you spray it, but it must be in line with reality. Randomly sprayed articles are not published in newspapers at all.

There are still walkouts, but they are not as frequent as France, and they will not happen in Vienna. After all the factories have moved, where is the labor movement?

Because the colonies have long recruited immigrants, the Austrian capitalists have to compete with the colonies, and they dare not squeeze workers too much.

It's not that the negative case has never happened. For example, in a...factory, because of the serious labor conflict, the workers collectively ran away with buckets, no orders were made, and the boss was almost driven crazy by liquidated damages.

The ”election declaration” is flying all over the sky, not to mention. This is explicitly forbidden by Austrian law. If you post a small advertisement, you will post yourself in, so naturally no one will do it.

In the eyes of Ito Hirobumi, this is the manifestation of order. Eastern and Western cultures are different, and Japan attaches great importance to rules.

Especially coupled with Austria's current prosperity, it magnifies these advantages. Ito's blog, who is good at learning, naturally wants to learn from it.

After contemplating for a while, Xixiang Congdao nodded thoughtfully.

Austria now has a vast territory, abundant resources, developed industries, a prosperous economy, a strong army, and political stability. What do you want to say specifically?

It is estimated that few people can answer this question. If you insist that it is insufficient, only the Navy is not the world's number one.

However, this is not a shortcoming. Austria is not incapable of developing a navy. Compared with the Royal Navy, it is only in quantity and experience.

These can be solved, the quantity can be spent, and the experience can be accumulated. There is no qualitative difference between the two sides, and there is no great gap between the second and the first.

For Japan, the world's second navy can hardly even think of it. In any case, it is impossible to say that Austria lacks a navy.

After a long time, Xixiang Congdao slowly said: ”Ito-kun, are you planning to restart the Vienna route?”

At the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, Japan inspected a number of European countries. As a result, it produced a number of reform routes, including the Vienna route that followed Austria.

It was only because of various factors that the Vienna route was finally rejected. The Meiji Restoration mainly used the three countries of Britain, France and the People's Republic of China as a blueprint and formulated its own development route based on actual conditions.

In addition to politics, the original Japanese reform line was basically considered a success. Now it is different. With the successive failures of Prussia and France, Japan has also doubted this reform line.

Ito Bowen waved his hand: ”No! Austria's development route can't be copied at all. We don't have their solid foundation, even if we want to learn, we can't learn it!

We must know that the most declining time was one of the four major powers in the world. After Franz the Great succeeded to the throne, he immediately joined the wave of colonization after solving the internal troubles.

After opening up Austrian Africa, Austrian America, and Austrian South Ocean successively, after the strength developed and grown, they turned back and annexed the Ottoman Empire, and only then has the Austrian Empire today. ”