None of the European powers such as Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria were represented, because none of them recognized the Republic of Mexico.

It was not that Britain would not accept Mexico as an independent republic, but that Juárez's attitude on the debt issue was unacceptable to Britain.

Immediately after Juárez took over as president, he announced that all of Mexico's foreign debts would be deferred for two years and that no interest would be paid for those two years. This was not a reason for the British to be unacceptable, but Juárez announced that during the civil war, the loans taken by the Ferdinand and Carlos regimes in the north would be nullified and not recognized by the new government.

This is emotionally reasonable, because the loans that Carlos and later Ferdinand II borrowed to suppress Juarez and let Juarez repay them are really emotionally unacceptable. But the money, which was mainly provided by Britain and the United States, was also huge, although not as much as the debt owed to China, but it was more than 10 million pounds.

As for China's debts, even those borrowed during the Carlos period, Juarez only announced a moratorium on repayment, and did not mean not to repay. In addition, the Bank of American Corporate Corporations reached an agreement with Juarez and accepted the repayment moratorium.

Of the more than 10 million debts provided by Britain and the United States, most of them are provided by Britain, and nearly 10 million, 10 million pounds will be lost, which will bring down the British cabinet, so it is unacceptable to the British government for both economic and political considerations.

Britain did not recognize the Juarez regime, which led many countries not to recognize it, the Spaniards always insisted that Mexico was a Spanish territory, Germany did not want to oppose Britain, and the Russian tsaress also wanted to see the situation, whether her son still had a chance to come to Mexico to be king. France and Austria did not recognize it, mainly because the confiscation of church property in the Juárez reforms, the separation of church and state, and the expulsion of papal legates and clergy who disobeyed orders made it difficult for the two Catholic countries to recognize Mexico.

As a result, the Republic of Mexico was not recognized by the leading European countries.

Although the United States has also lost millions of pounds in debt, the Americans believe that Mexico is a republic more beneficial to the United States than a monarchy, and such a republic, which is not affected by European politics, may be able to get closer to the United States. So the United States gritted its teeth and acquiesced in Juarez's default.

Britain kept negotiating with the Juárez regime in the hope that they would be able to fulfill their debts, because at that time, whether they were lending to Carlos or Ferdinand II, they were loan agreements with the legitimate government of Mexico, which was recognized by Europe, and Juárez was not allowed to inherit these legal debts if he wanted to inherit the legitimate power of Mexico. Juárez did not recognize the legitimacy of Carlos and Ferdinand II at all, believing that Mexico was the Mexico of the Mexicans, not the Mexico of the Spanish magnates.

The world views of the two sides are completely different, and Britain believes that Mexico is completely pro-China, and under the pressure of various political and financial interest groups, the British government has decided to take some measures, and on the issue of Sicily, China has already put a head on it, and it can't beat Guan Zhang or Liu Bei, and small Mexico dares to rely on the loan of the British Empire, and Britain is the ancestor of playing hooligan.

So Britain decided to take a tough stance and sent warships to blockade the coast of Mexico, saying that it would continue to blockade Mexico unless it was willing to repay the loan.

The British blockade of Mexico triggered the second Mexican crisis.

Juarez does not budge an inch, there are only two traditional trading countries in Mexico, one is China and the other is the United States, the British blockade can only block the Caribbean side, Mexico's Pacific coast can continue to trade, and even through the ports of China's North American territory by land, such as Houston exports, the blockade is meaningless at all, except for the economic shrinkage of ports such as Veracruz in the south, it has no real impact on the whole of Mexico.

On the contrary, the United States is quite dissatisfied, because ports such as Veracruz are mainly aimed at exporting to the United States, and the British blockade here is equivalent to making Mexico closer to China's North American territory and forcing Mexico to the Chinese side. The United States tried to persuade Britain to lift the blockade, but Britain could not accept it.

It is not enough to say that Britain and the United States have broken because of the Mexican problem, but at least there has been a rift between the Anglo-American alliance.

Britain also lobbied the United States in turn, and Britain believed that even if Britain accepted Mexico's behavior of defaulting on its debts, it would not be possible for Juarez to stand on the side of Britain and the United States, and that Juarez would definitely be pro-China, just like the Carlos regime at that time, no matter how Britain and the United States co-opted, it would be impossible for Juarez to fall to Britain and the United States, and unless it could directly support a pro-British and American regime, Mexico was destined to fall to China.

The United States does not want to play the game of sending kings to other regions in Europe, but it is not opposed to the operation of Britain, after all, Juarez also has a large amount of American debt, and if it can be replaced by a European monarch who is willing to repay American debts, the United States can tolerate Mexico becoming a monarchy again.

As a result, the British government once again began to push for the convening of the Mexico Conference, and the British hoped to attract more countries to participate in the Mexican issue and help Britain share the pressure on China. Britain hoped to support Ferdinand II to regain his rule in Mexico, because Ferdinand II was not only recognized by European countries as King of Mexico, but also by China. Juarez's actions were a rebellion.

Britain called on European countries to jointly suppress Juarez's rebellion, this thankless task, no one has been willing to do all these years, this is not the era of the Crusaders, full of faith and desire, can fight for all kinds of inexplicable reasons.

Britain's call made no sense, China openly stated that Ferdinand II was incapable of ruling Mexico, and China could not accept that Britain wanted Mexico to send troops directly, which violated the Mexican agreement between China and Britain and the United States.

Mexico was still a game between China and Britain, and Britain had never been very willing to send troops directly to intervene in land countries unless they were allowed to occupy colonies, such as the wars in India and Africa, or the historical Opium Wars.

Fighting Mexico, Britain can't occupy this place, so he is more willing to let people fight a land war through the situation of naval and military assistance, but Ferdinand II is really not angry, and now even his own country, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, has been lost, even if he is given assistance, he is not able to organize an army to fight back.

So Britain wants to find another target, one that is free from China's control, and is willing to admit that it should be indebted, and has the ability to fight back to Mexico.

Such an object is not easy to find, and it must be a powerful family of large European powers, and the female tsar took the initiative to contact England, saying that Russia was willing to recognize British debts, and that Russia also had the ability to rule Mexico, hoping to get British support.

After a year of delay, the Mexican question returned to the starting point and became the prey of the European powers.

And this time, the actions of the Russians also caused a response from the Germans, who put forward the plan of Prince Leopold, the Romanovs could send the king, and the Hohenzollerns could do the same.

The matter was brought up by the British, who could not stand the Juárez regime, and it became no longer so difficult to accept that the royal family of a European power should rule Mexico. As for Russia or Germany, it doesn't matter. The naval strength of these two countries doomed them to be unable to completely control Mexico, and instead of directly treating Mexico as the territory of two countries, they just sent a royal family to be the king, just like the prince of the Kingdom of Bavaria was the king of Greece.

But between Russia and Germany, Britain favored the German royal family, because half of the Chinese royal blood in the female tsar's son was a risk that was too much to control.

Prince Leopold of the House of Hohenzollern is different, although he is a member of the Prussian royal family, he is not a direct line, but a close branch, to put it mildly, like the relationship between the Spanish Bourbon and the French Bourbon, which can be traced back to a common ancestor, and is unlikely to become a nation. Even if it were possible for the two countries to have a king because of the question of succession, a treaty could be passed that stipulated that the Leopold family would forever renounce the German succession to the throne.

After weighing, Britain began to dissolve directly with the Hohenzollerns, and asked the ruling Prince William, who himself was supportive of Prince Leopold's acquisition of the Mexican throne, and Germany was willing to help in this regard, but Prince William believed that he still needed to consult with his prime minister.

The prime minister is Bismarck, and last time Bismarck sent Prince William to be the king of Mexico on the grounds that it would cause contradictions between Britain and Germany.

But this time Bismarck really couldn't find a reasonable excuse, because Wilhelm clearly told Bismarck that this time the British came to the door in person, and Britain could not object, but would help, which made Bismarck unable to refute. Although he also argued, telling the king that in the long run, Germany's foreign expansion would inevitably cause British suppression, but this could no longer convince the king.

The king was resolute and insisted on supporting the Hohenzollerns to become kings in Mexico, and personally consulted Moltke and other military generals. Moltke said that with Germany's military strength, only 100,000 troops were needed to successfully suppress the Mexican army, and if it was difficult to deal with under the German political system, Polish forces could be used.

Prince Wilhelm's elder brother is the German Emperor Wilhelm I, but he has long been mentally ill, Prince Wilhelm has been the regent of Prussia, and at the same time the king of Poland, Poland and Prussia formed the United Kingdom, only when Wilhelm I died, Prince Wilhelm will become the only king of the United Kingdom, and inherit the title of Emperor of the German Empire. But at present, these complex power structures are not immediately unified because his neurotic brother is still alive. The only thing he can absolutely control is Poland.