Scholars from all walks of life began to discuss that Greece was currently in a state of co-ownership, that the king and queen had equal powers, that they were crowned together, and that if the two divorced, the coronation of the year would also be invalid, and they would lose their legal power at the same time, rather than continue to govern separately.

These ulterior motives are of course not accepted by the Greek authorities, and Zhou Chenggong cannot control the local forces, but he firmly controls the economic and diplomatic departments, so that he can always express his attitude on behalf of Greece. Therefore, the official attitude of Greece is actually the attitude of Zhou Chenggong himself.

Greece announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Britain and the withdrawal of diplomatic consuls in order to put pressure on Britain. But all this was the work of the British, who had already sent the message through Austria, to get Greece to abandon its marriage to France. But Greece did not accept it, and neither did France.

As a result, Britain continued to be tough, Greece announced the severance of diplomatic relations, and Britain froze Greek assets in London and cut off Greek financing channels in London.

Greece, in turn, announced that it would issue bonds in Marseille, France, with the underwriters being the European Bank and the Bank of France, in fact, the main investors are European companies, and the purpose of pulling in a French bank is to silence domestic opponents, otherwise they will start to preach that Zhou Chenggong is a Chinese puppet. In fact, Zhou Chenggong doesn't care much about these statements now, because of the Athens he firmly controls, he can firmly control the trouble, and the local forces that he can't control can't control no matter how much trouble he can't control. It's just that he doesn't want to cause some changes at home while having a diplomatic conflict with Britain.

During the confrontation, the Greek authorities sent a mission to France to complete the marriage proposal, and the French fleet escorted the princess to Greece, where the wedding was completed in the Greek Orthodox way under the auspices of the Orthodox Patriarch of Athens.

Britain began to take frequent diplomatic actions, hoping to convene an international conference on the Greek question to resolve the question of the Greek throne.

Greece and France are also active, and apparently now Greece and France are tied together.

Prussia has always followed British policy, but in southern Europe, Prussia could not speak. Austria is on the side of Britain, firstly, because Austria and France are competitive, and France's advantage in Greece means that Austria will be at a disadvantage in Greece, and secondly, Greece's geographical location makes him have a serious competitive relationship with Austria, in the Black Sea trade, Greek merchants and Austrian merchants who have the Black Sea outlet to the sea have launched fierce competition, and Austria's other access to the sea, the Adriatic exit, is the west coast of Greece. The Ionian Islands were now under British control, and Greece had been trying to get them back.

Now Austria promised to side with Great Britain, who promised to transfer the Ionian Islands to the Austrian Empire, which would give it control of its own access to the sea.

Russia, on the side of France and Greece, watched its Black Sea trade go back and forth between the Greeks, the Austrians, the British, and the French, and it was impossible for the Russians not to feel aggrieved. The Chinese railway, which led to the Black Sea, passed through Russian territory, and it was not Russia that benefited the most, and the Russians could not have been dissatisfied.

However, because of the Crimean War, Russia promised to abandon the maintenance of its navy in the Black Sea, and Britain, France and Austria agreed to restrict Russia from rebuilding its navy in the Black Sea, with the aim of preventing Russia from entering the Mediterranean. Now that France is in opposition to England, Russia has ample reason to break through this restriction. As for Austria, the Russians had long been dissatisfied with Austria taking the lower Danube.

With the marriage between Greece and France as the fuse, the international order in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region was unbalanced, with Britain and Austria on one side, France and Russia on the other, and other forces, even Greece itself, as the fuse, could only be pawns in the game of the great powers.

The British successfully convened the London Conference to discuss the Greek question, focusing on the legitimacy of the Greek king after the divorce of the royal couple.

Britain proposed that in view of the fact that Greece has not been able to establish a normal state since independence, and the incompetent and irresponsible political behavior of the Greek king, countries should reconsider the choice of the Greek king. Britain proposed that a Greek king be re-selected from among the European royal families, and Britain proposed that the family of the Dukes of Oldenburg-Schleswig-Holstein send a prince to serve as the king of Greece and spread modern civilization to Greece.

Austria expressed its support. It is believed that Greece has been too deeply influenced by Eastern culture, and that Greece should be allowed to return to European orthodoxy and rebuild Greek Christian civilization. Obviously, a prince from China could not play the right role.

France objected, France had just married Greece and naturally did not want to see his son-in-law lose the Greek throne like this. Moreover, the marriage with Greece is pinned on the big chess piece of France and China to strengthen political relations, which has just been laid out, and the forces of all parties have not been coordinated, how can they give up.

Therefore, the French believe that Zhou Chenggong's rule in Greece was a success, ensuring the long-term stability of Greece. As for the reason for the other party's divorce from Queen Connie, the French also think it is legitimate. The French can cite countless examples of European royal families divorced because of the issue of heirs. If nothing else, your British Henry VIII was married six times, and even separated England from Catholicism in order to divorce his ex-wife.

The attitude of France was supported by Russia. The Russians believed that in the Orthodox tradition, women had no right to inherit, and that in order to avoid the absence of a male heir, the Greek king should be allowed to choose his marriage again. Russia also threatened that if there was no male heir in Greece, the succession of the Greek king would fall into the hands of the Chinese royal family when the king and queen died one after another, and in order to avoid this phenomenon, European countries should support the Greek king to choose a new European princess as his consort.

The two major powers of Britain and Austria, France and Russia are inextricably linked.

But no one took into account the attitude of the Greeks involved, which caused the Greeks to be angry, and in the capital, Athens, an organization called the Greeks Party or the Hellenic National Party, launched a huge demonstration.

This organization consisted of young, educated Greek nationalists who seriously protested against the wanton trampling of the dignity of the Greek people by the European powers, who resolutely opposed any foreign interference in Greek affairs, and who shouted the slogan that the Greeks themselves should call the shots of the Greek problem.

At the same time, the Greek king Zhou Chenggong began to play the role of a victim and a weak person through public opinion, playing the sad card. At the same time, his ex-wife continued to support him, and the two even appeared together in public on many occasions, pushing the West's arbitrary decision on Greek sovereignty and the change of the Greek head of state to the height of insult to the entire Greek nation.

Zhou Chenggong also pushed for local councils controlled by various local powers to discuss whether Greece would accept the re-dispatch of the king from Europe. The vast majority of local parliaments, after heated discussions, have resolutely resisted the dispatch of new royal families in Europe. Zhou Chenggong has always been regarded as "his own people" by the local powerful faction, and under Zhou Chenggong's rule, their power has not been weakened, and the children of local famous families have held most important positions in the Greek government. The king also turned a blind eye to the encroachment of state-owned land by local forces as they pleased.

Where to find such an "acquaintance" king? In addition, now Britain obviously supports those liberals, and the liberals have formed a government-in-exile in London, really let the liberals return home, and the nativists still have a good life?

As a result, it was rare for the local powers to firmly support the king, creating an impression of unity from top to bottom of Greece.

In this atmosphere, Britain simply could not force a resolution to replace the Greek king.

But the British could not have only one means, and there was more than one British thug. In north-western Europe, it was generally Prussia, and when necessary, Austria, France, and Russia could act as British thugs, and in the present situation, Austria was the most suitable thug.

However, Metternich in Austria was a guy who did not see the rabbit and did not scatter the eagle, and under his command at that time, he was slow to join the Napoleonic Wars and wait for the price to sell, if it were not for Napoleon's political wisdom was too inferior, maybe Austria could have joined the side of Napoleon, who seemed to win.

If Austria wants to risk going to war with France and Russia at the same time, Britain may not be able to afford this high price, so Austria seems to be a suitable thug, but it is also a thug that is basically impossible to use.

It has always been British policy that anyone can ally when necessary. And the most hostile to Greece was not England, not Austria, but the Ottoman Empire.

Because of the independence of Greece, the Ottoman Empire lost too much. Having lost not only the Greek peninsula, but also Moldova and Wallachia, the loss of control of the lower Danube, the loss of Bosnia, and the continued high degree of autonomy of Serbia, it can be said that the independence of Greece allowed the Ottoman Empire to lose only half of its European territory.

However, the independence of Greece and the crushing defeat in the Crimean War allowed the Ottoman Empire to accumulate enough reform energy, and the recent Ottoman Sultans and some effective ministers have been promoting reforms, but in the end they have been destroyed by vested interest groups, the largest of which is the Yenisrid feudal military group, who have repeatedly coup d'état, abolished and killed the Sultan.

Mahmoud's cousin Selim III died in a coup d'état carried out by religious forces, his elder brother Mustafa IV was deposed, Mahmoud did not sympathize with the two elder brothers, and Mustafa IV was killed by his own order, because the other party also wanted to kill him. The Ottoman tradition was that the successor would kill all his brothers, with an unusually cruel and primitive nomadic atmosphere.

The Ottoman Empire, which Britain co-opted, at least looks like it has been reborn after ten years of reform. Dealing with a Greece that split off from the Ottoman Empire doesn't seem to be a problem.