The fool misses the opportunity, the wise are good at seizing the opportunity, the successful is good at creating the opportunity, and the opportunity is only reserved for those who are prepared.

Since it wanted to withdraw its troops from France, the tsarist government would naturally not be held back by an "excuse".

The only way to withdraw troops against the backdrop of an anti-French alliance is to go to war. Only when the Russian Empire went to war with third countries did the tsarist government have enough reason to withdraw its troops and not be blamed by the countries.

If you open the map, you will know that there are not many neighbors in the Russian Empire, Europe is all hard bones, and the British in South Asia are not easy to mess with, and the ones who are easy to bully are only in the east.

Before the tsarist government could find an opportunity to create a pretext for war, someone came to the door. A "declaration of war from all nations" was transmitted across the ocean to Europe, and before the European countries could react, the tsarist government took the lead in announcing the war.

If you don't accept it, you can't do it, but you haven't seen someone who has died like this.

Fortunately, this is just a farce, and the war letter is only circulated internally, and it has not been handed over to the ministers of various countries, so it does not constitute a real war letter, otherwise it would ......

It doesn't matter if it's legal or not, anyway, what the Russians want is just an excuse to play on the topic, and the Far Eastern Empire happens to deliver it to its own door.

Whether to fight or not, how to fight, and how to fight to that point, it is estimated that the tsarist government has not yet figured it out.

Needless to say, the rest of the matter is known, anyway, the Far Eastern Empire is going to be unlucky this time. The Russians took the lead, the British, naturally, will not be idle, let alone the Japanese.

The butterfly effect, tossing without Italy, Germany, Austria and the three countries, the United States was divided into two, and finally a few countries will come up with a coalition of forces, this question can only be asked to God.

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New Foreign Minister Leo Frankl: "Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon the tsarist government declared war on the Far Eastern Empire and sent us an invitation......

Before the Foreign Secretary could finish speaking, Franz interrupted: "Reject them directly." The international situation is changing, and one day we may have a fight with the British.

The empire did not have the strength to compete with the British in the Far East, and it was not a wise man to distract himself from the Far Eastern Empire at this time.

Keep an eye on what the tsarist government is doing next, and if they are to withdraw their troops from France, be sure to delay them for two months to buy time for a peacekeeping force. ”

The reasons are a bit far-fetched? However, it is true that the strategic core of the HRE is not in East Asia. Such a densely populated area? Nor is it the goal of HRE's expansion.

In contrast, the importance of France is much higher. No matter how dilapidated France is now? But given the illustrious history of the French? The Vienna government still did not dare to take it lightly.

"Your Majesty, the tsarist government has announced plans to withdraw its troops. The Russians use the needs of the war as an excuse? It was decided to transfer 220,000 troops from France.

After the implementation of this plan, the total number of Russian troops in France? It will drop from the current 270,000 to 50,000.

Diplomatic note paperwork: We have received it? It is estimated that the coalition command will receive it soon, and now it is waiting for the concrete implementation.

Of course, if we had asked for a two-month moratorium on the withdrawal of troops, the tsarist government would have given this face. ”

Foreign Secretary Leo Frankl reminded with a little embarrassment.

The war provided the tsarist government with a pretext for the withdrawal of troops. Didn't remove the troops all at once? Presumably the tsarist government still wants to mix in the anti-French alliance? I'm not prepared to do things absolutely.

Since it does not want to do things in an end, the Vienna government's request for a two-month delay in the withdrawal of Russian troops is naturally not a problem.

In any case, this is also more than 200,000 troops. Want to withdraw so many men and weapons from France to the Russian Empire, without the cooperation of the HRE? For a year and a half, the tsarist government did not want to do it.

For the Holy Roman Empire, the Russian army was not all withdrawn? Obviously a good thing.

Dirty work that can't be seen is tiring, and someone always has to do it. Just give enough money? Russian officers and soldiers are not afraid to take the blame.

With this professional back-the-back team, is it important to maintain the international image of the Holy Roman Empire? That's very helpful.

Does Franz think that the Russian army has gone? The French will welcome the HRE army. Although the military discipline of the HRE army could have been better? However, the centuries-old feud between the two countries cannot be resolved overnight.

You don't have to think about Franz to know that when the time comes, the broken thing of "old sesame, rotten grain" will be turned out again.

Even if the French are unscrupulous, the British will help them awaken their dormant hatred and provoke conflicts.

History has proven that hatred can't solve the problem by Huairou alone, and most of the time it's more reliable to use a bayonet.

Franz did not dare to hope that he would be able to win over the hearts and minds of the people in France. As long as the situation can be stabilized, so that the French do not jump out and cause trouble for themselves in the next struggle for hegemony.

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London

The resurgence of the far east wind is definitely a good thing for the British government. After receiving this good news, Prime Minister Robert Cecil was in good spirits.

It's not easy, except for the first day of becoming prime minister, he hasn't been so happy for the rest of the time.

There is no way, the international situation is too unfriendly for Britain. Looking at the continental alliance across the channel, Robert Cecil only sighed.

After a lot of hard calculations, it only increased the time for HRE to integrate the European continent, and did not fundamentally solve the problem.

I have to admit that geopolitics is strong, as an epoch-making European continental hegemon, as long as the HRE does not rebel against their relatives, European countries must rely on it.

This is no longer a question of interests or interests, but a more core issue of survival. In the brutal international competition, small countries have no choice but to rely on the strong.

Of course, these wall grasses are just a small trouble, and it is okay to follow the flag and shout, and the actual value that can be played is still very limited.

What really worries Britain is the Russian-Austrian alliance, if this trump card combination is not done, Britain will have to fight with the HRE at sea and the Russian-Austrian alliance on land.

Prime Minister Robert Cecil at sea is not intimidating, and the Royal Navy is not afraid of anyone; It's tragic on land, and I can't afford to hurt it.

Now, at last, there was a turning point, and the Russians' eastward advance, for whatever reason, had eased the pressure on Britain in India.

In order to defend India, these British governments did not go to great lengths. Not only did they train the colonial army, but even the declining Persia was financed by Britain.

Don't expect the Persians to do anything, as long as the Persian Empire can hold out for a longer time and don't let the HRE army push all the way to India.

National strategy was never set lightly, and since the tsarist government chose to beat the Far Eastern Empire at this time, the eastward expansion strategy of the Russians was basically a foregone conclusion.

The next question is how to inflict heavy losses on the Russians in the east, get rid of the problem of fighting on multiple fronts, and then break the Russian-Austrian alliance and finally pull the Russians to their side.

The plan is complicated, the implementation is difficult, and the success rate is a little low.

But it's better to have a plan than not to have a plan. At this point, Britain wants to continue its hegemony, and the only way to win over the Russians is to do so.

The Russian Empire in its heyday was obviously untouchable. People are drooling over India, and Robert Cecil does not dare to seek skin with the woolly bear.

Against this background, it is very necessary to weaken the Russians and give the tsarist government a sense of crisis.

It's almost the routine of the original plane. Before the Russo-Japanese War, the Anglo-Russian contradictions were acute, and the German-Russian relations were still very good; After the war, relations between Germany and Russia deteriorated rapidly, but the contradictions between Britain and Russia tended to ease.

Despite the French mediation, the root cause was that the tsarist government felt threatened by the Germans. Otherwise, loans alone would not be enough to bring the tsarist government into compliance.

After all, not paying off debts is nothing new. The ancestors did it, why couldn't Nicholas II do it?

Not to mention the fact that the Russians were really feeling the pressure as they tried to get rid of their dependence on Vienna.

The relationship between the two countries can be maintained, on the one hand, the Russian-Austrian alliance reassures them, and the two countries have achieved a deep binding of interests, which cannot be untied for a while; On the other hand, India is at hand, and greed has triumphed over fear.

Once socially beaten, found that it did not have the strength to seize India, and reality prevailed over greed, the tsarist government should have been afraid.

As a result of fear, it is natural to find someone to hold together. As for the complete attachment to the HRE, that's complete nonsense.

Attachment is a trick played by a small country, even if a big country can put down its body and run to the past, people don't dare to believe it?

If Britain is not finished, then the relationship between the Russian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire is the relationship between the second and the largest in the world.

The second child in the world is attached to the boss of the world, and no matter how you look at it, it is not harmonious.

Since ancient times, the second child has been the target of much repression, and there has never been an exception, so why did the tsarist government believe that the Vienna government would show mercy?

Is it just the traditional friendship between the two countries?

Politicians are not idealists, and when making choices, their thinking will naturally run to the worst. That's why there is a story of the second and third children huddling together to keep warm and fight against the world boss together.

Frankly, Robert Cecil was equally suspicious of Britain and Russia huddling together for warmth.

After all, the contradictions between Britain and Russia are equally acute, and even if they are temporarily brought together under the pressure of the HRE, it is difficult to truly cooperate closely.

But the reality is cruel, without France, the gold medal fighter, Britain's layout on the European continent is missing, and it has fallen into a comprehensive passivity in terms of strategy.

Regardless of whether the Anglo-Russian alliance is reliable or not, the British government has no choice. It is better for the two countries to share the pressure together than to work alone.

Now that the light is at the sight, it's time to celebrate. However, it is now working time, and in order to prevent competitors from grasping the handle, Robert Cecil can only temporarily suppress the commotion.

"The international situation has finally changed, and before we have time to make a move, the Russians jumped in on their own. The next question is how to cut them.

Although the Russian Empire was strong, the power they were able to commit to the Far East was very limited.

Mo said that the Trans-Siberian Railway has not been opened to traffic now, and even if it has been opened to traffic, this problematic railway will not be able to support many army operations.

The problem now is that although the Far Eastern Empire has a certain strength, their government is too rotten to have the courage to fight the Russians.

If we want to inflict heavy losses on the Russians in the Far East, it is obviously not enough for them alone, we must have more chess pieces, and the Japanese cannot continue to be idle. ”

Facts have once again proved that pies do not fall from the sky for no reason, and even if they do, they are usually poisonous.

The Central Asian Railway, which was built with the assistance of the Vienna government, had quality problems; The Siberian Railway, which the British secretly supported, also dug no less.

Perhaps there is not much problem with ordinary use, but as soon as the freight volume increases, it will immediately make the tsarist government understand that the railway also has a temper.

This is an inevitable result. If the Russians' plan had been successful if they hadn't set some traps and dragged their feet in logistics, wouldn't the British government have shot themselves in the foot?

You must know that the Far East is the sphere of influence of Britain. John Bull can't do self-sacrificing things.

Foreign Secretary Cameron: "Prime Minister, it's a little too early to do it. The Trans-Siberian Railway was not opened, and the power of the Russians could not be projected at all.

Just a few miscellaneous troops in the Far East, even if the whole army were annihilated, would not hurt the vitality of the Russians.

Perhaps seeing that it was too difficult to advance eastward, the Russians retreated and picked up the southward strategy again, which would be troublesome.

In order to better lure the enemy, it is better for us to let the tsarist government experience the feeling of victory in the short term. It just so happens that the Far Eastern Empire is now ...... again"

As the saying goes, "if you can't give up your children, you can't trap the wolf". If you want to give up your own children, it is estimated that most people will be unwilling; If you change someone else's child, then there is no such pressure.

Politically, friends and foes are always in a moment, just now they were still talking about supporting the Far Eastern Empire and the Russians, but in the next moment, they decisively decided to sacrifice the interests of the Far Eastern Empire to lure the enemy deeper.

It can be seen that Cameron has already penetrated the essence of British diplomacy. In the shortest possible time, the professionalism of the British Foreign Secretary has been demonstrated.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Pavel: "Sir is right, the amount of power that the Russians can now devote to the Far East is indeed too little, and it has no weight at all.

The Russians' eastward expansion strategy not only meant the bankruptcy of Vienna's plan to divert the troubled waters to the south, but also threatened the land supremacy of the HRE.

It is impossible for the Vienna government to watch the Russians complete the Yellow Russia plan, and they are the ones who do not want the Tsarist government to succeed at the moment, and we need not be in a hurry at all.

Regardless of whether the Russian-Austrian alliance remained unbreakable, the Vienna government was bound to suppress the Russians' eastward strategy as soon as it showed signs of success.

Having succeeded in the first step, and then trying to take the second step, the Russians will find that the whole world is their enemy, especially their closest allies.

At that time, even if the Russian-Austrian alliance can barely be maintained, it will exist in name only, and our opportunity will come.

However, the Russians alone are not enough, and the empire needs more allies to deal with the Holy Roman Empire. ”

At the mention of the word "ally", Prime Minister Robert Cecil is a headache. There is no way, what he inherits is a mess of economic prosperity and diplomacy.

Although his predecessor was considered outstanding among all the prime ministers of Britain, he miscalculated the strength of France and brought Britain to the edge of the precipice.

Remedy, that's completely overthinking. From the time of the establishment of the European Union of Europe, Britain had little room for diplomacy.

After so many years of hard work, Britain did not have a single real ally. Japan can't be counted, it's just an inconspicuous little brother, and it is not yet qualified to be an ally of Britain.

At the moment, except for the Russian Empire, Robert Cecil does not know who to pull and who can be pulled?

"Do you have any recommendations from the Foreign Office?"

It's better to leave this kind of complicated matter to professionals, although looking at the bitter face of the foreign secretary, it doesn't look like ......

Foreign Minister Cameron replied helplessly: "The European countries can not be counted on, they can remain neutral, it is all the result of God's blessing, and our goal can only be placed in the Americas."

There are many independent countries in the Americas, but there are few powerful ones, and even fewer can be co-opted by us.

The United States of America is naturally the most valuable to win over, followed by the Union States, and unfortunately the two are bitter enemies.

If we bring these two families over, I guess we don't have to do anything, and we will just adjust the relationship between them.

If you choose one of the two, there is a good chance that the other will be pulled by the enemy. With the diplomatic capacity of the Vienna Government, the probability of such a situation is no less than 90 percent.

In addition to a pair of enemies, the rest of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and other countries are also the target of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' public relations.

It's just that these countries all have one thing in common - lack of strength. Politically, it's okay to be strong, and it's impossible to expect them to contribute much.

At most, distracting the enemy, threatening their colonies in the Americas, will be of limited help to the overall situation. ”

The opposition between the United States and the Confederates was also played by Great Britain. From the beginning of the joint intervention of Britain, France and Austria, it has laid a hidden danger for the confrontation between the two countries today.

When it comes to digging pits, Britain is professional, and France, Austria, and Spain, who joined forces together back then, are not idle.

When the North and South of the United States were divided, the four countries that acted as arbiters invariably planted mines on the demarcation of the border line.

The leaders of the United States and the Union States, whose political methods are still immature, obviously did not encounter this kind of play, and the specific responsible persons below were even more confused, and let the delegations of the four countries participate in the whole process.

The end result was that the already hateful governments of the North and the South deteriorated post-war relations because of the border issue.

If it weren't for the fact that the previous war was too tragic, the national cohesion between the two countries was not strong, and there were still a lot of internal contradictions, maybe there would have been a second PK.

As a matter of fact, if it had not been for the outbreak of internal contradictions among the European powers and the relaxation of their efforts to sow discord in relations between the two countries, the governments of the North and the South might have already started fighting.