In the parliament building of the Leopold district of Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a meeting is taking place on the future fate of the Kingdom of Hungary, and Prime Minister Tiza sits on the throne with a tense expression, trying to calm himself.

In this conference room, almost all the big capitalists, big aristocrats, high-ranking government officials, and military representatives of the Kingdom of Hungary were gathered.

There is no doubt that it can only be one thing, or three things, that can bring so many big people together - should the Kingdom of Hungary withdraw from the war? Does the Kingdom of Hungary want to become independent? What kind of system was established after the independence of the Kingdom of Hungary?

On these three issues, the positions of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie were obviously different, which made Prime Minister Tisza embarrassed, and if everyone could not reach an agreement, then the future prospects of the Kingdom of Hungary would not be good, and there would be a civil war!

In any case, it has come to this point, and evasion will not solve the problem, and Prime Minister Tiza decided to solve the easiest problem first.

Prime Minister Tisza sorted out his thoughts for a moment, and then said: "I have invited you here today, I think everyone knows what it is, and I have delayed the time, and now I will start the first topic: should the Kingdom of Hungary withdraw from this war?" Please speak in an orderly manner! ”

Count Corbett-Adolf was the first to speak: "We have paid too much for this war, and from the beginning of the war to the present, there are 2.36 million young men in our Kingdom of Hungary, who have taken up arms and gone to the battlefield.

Now the number of dead and wounded is 424,300, the number of wounded is 1,964,100 (note: casualties can be accumulated), of which another 262,000 are disabled for life, and this is only already counted, our actual casualties command more, at least the more than 400,000 people in the Russian prisoner of war camps, less than half of them may survive now!

This is only the casualties of the army, although we have not been able to count the number of civilian casualties, but the preliminary estimate is that there are still seven or eight hundred thousand, and the number of refugees in Budapest alone now exceeds 500,000, and the normal order of the Kingdom of Hungary has been disrupted!

In addition to the human casualties, we now have more than 40 per cent of the country's land area, and the economic damage is incalculable, in my opinion it will not be less than a billion pounds!

We give so much, but what do we get?

It's a pity that there is nothing!

Of course, if we insist on saying that there is, it is a bunch of empty checks issued by the central government, which cannot be cashed anyway, and there is no need to consider it now!

Now that the war has been going on, everyone must understand that the Allies have lost, and even if the Germans can finally turn the tables around, we will still not be the winners!

If this war continues, the Kingdom of Hungary, which has suffered heavy losses, may not even have an independent status after the war!

For the sake of the future of this country, I hope that everyone will support the withdrawal from this war! ”

As soon as Count Corbett-Adolf finished speaking, there was thunderous applause in the room, and the question of withdrawing from this war was not very controversial, after all, the Kingdom of Hungary could no longer fight.

But how to withdraw from this war, it is worth considering, whether to defect and join the Entente, or simply announce the withdrawal from the war, and then remain neutral?

The consequences of these two different choices are completely different.

If the Entente were to join, then the Kingdom of Hungary would continue the war and turn against Austria, and everyone would have no incense at all.

If you withdraw from the war directly, but do not participate in the Entente, although it is also a betrayal, it leaves room for détente with Austria, so as not to form a mortal enemy, but the Entente side is not so easy to explain, how can it be possible without paying the price?

Thinking of this question, Viscount Siegel suddenly spoke: "I have no objection to withdrawing from this war, but how to withdraw from this war now?" And what kind of conditions did the Entente give? Mr. Prime Minister, you have already been in contact with the Entente powers, and I think we are all qualified to know what you really want! ”

These were all to be expected, and for the sake of secrecy, although everyone knew that the government had negotiated with the Entente, the specific conditions were still kept secret, and it was reasonable for them to want to know now.

Prime Minister Tissa replied calmly: "We have been in contact with Britain, France, and Russia respectively, and the results are not bad!"

Britain and France have made it clear that as long as we join the Entente and declare war on the Central Powers, they will not be guilty of the past, and will provide us with a loan of 20 million pounds, and we will also receive a corresponding spoils according to the size of our contribution to the war.

If we simply withdrew from the war and did not join the Entente, they would welcome it and would not hold us accountable for the war.

The Bulgarian government also made a commitment that they would not hold us accountable for the war as long as we joined the Entente in the war.

But the territories they occupy ours will not be returned immediately, and if we do not join the Entente and withdraw directly from this war, then we need to pay them a ransom for these territories.

If we join the Entente, they will decide whether or not to waive this ransom based on the size of our contribution on the battlefield.

The contact with the Russians is not very smooth, but they have no right to decide now, once we join the Entente, we will be allies, and the Entente will not let them do anything to their allies! ”

Obviously, the terms of the Entente were not favorable, but they were enough to make them account to their countrymen. The Italians had taught them that if the price was too high, they would not honour it.

The terms of the armistice given by the Entente were obviously forcing them to declare war on the Central Powers, otherwise it would be difficult to withdraw from the war, but the more this happened, the more it showed that they were sincere.

If, like John Bull did with the Italians, he agreed to all the conditions, and in the end he could not fulfill them, he could only turn his face and deny people.

Oh, and I don't know that John Bull played a trick to get the Italians to admit that it was the conditions they demanded were too high, which made the Entente turn around and reverse some of their adverse diplomatic effects.

After John Bull announced the terms of the armistice demanded by the Italians, people all over the world now think that the Italians are greedy and not enough to ask for their own hardships.

Of course, the parties involved know that these conditions are all false, and even if the Italians are crazy, they do not have the courage to put forward this condition.

But the British announced it, and the Italian government admitted it, and no one continued to do much trouble.

The conditions are as follows: 1. The French shall return to all the territories ceded to France by the Italian Government, including the area of Nice;

2. After the war, the Italians gained Croatia and Slovenia......