The consuls of various countries in Nanking were very surprised that the Chinese government had unusually supported Russia in public.

Doesn't China understand the truth of long-distance friendship and close attack, and a series of measures taken by the Russians are aimed at expansion.

On the Austrian side, Austria was indeed in a desperate situation, Italy revolted, they sent more than 100,000 troops to suppress it, and there was a war with the Kingdom of Sardinia in Italy, both countries declared war, and Hungary at home not only formed its own government, but also formed its own army, and Bohemia also controlled its own police.

Internal and external troubles, internal and internal turmoil, Austria could not mobilize forces, at least not from Hungary and Bohemia, which were instead organizing their own armies, although both Hungary and Bohemia recognized the position of the Austrian emperor as their own monarch. But this situation is also too unreassuring, especially the nobles of the Duchy of Austria, who will never accept this.

Civil wars and foreign wars were fought at the same time, which has not been encountered in the history of the world.

There is a revolution going on in the surrounding areas, only Britain, the Netherlands and Russia are calm, who is not looking for Russia to borrow troops?

As for the return of part of the Russian territory, it is not a pity, because the peoples of those lands are the most violent, and either let them become independent or cede them to Russia in exchange for Russia sending troops to suppress their own rebellion, and anyone sitting in the seat of the Austrian emperor will choose the latter.

Russia easily took the lands that Austria had taken away, and then the Poles revolted in a veritable way, demanding an independent Poland, abolishing slavery, and so on.

The Russian government immediately informed Austria and Prussia that it supported Poland's demand for independence and sent 100,000 troops into Poland.

Poland will always revolt at the right time, and this right time is when the surrounding powers need them, which Zhou Lang has seen for a long time.

At this time, Poland, which revolted, was the Poland that became independent from Russia in the last war, and was controlled by Prussia, but Prussia had not had time to digest Poland, and as a result, the Poles revolted this time. However, Prussia still had reasons to intervene in Poland, because Poland was currently Prince Wilhelm, the younger brother of the King of Prussia, and the reason why William was chosen as the Kingdom of Poland was mainly because international politics at that time did not allow Prussia to directly annex Poland, especially France's strong opposition. Through the results of the parliamentary elections of the Poles, Prince Wilhelm of the House of Hohenzoro was invited to be King of Poland through the mediation of the British.

But then the King of Prussia has no children, and this William is the first in line to succeed to the Prussian throne, and once Prince Wilhelm inherits the Prussian throne, there will be no obstacle to peace between Poland and Prussia, or at least according to the European tradition, a united monarchy, like the United Kingdom of Great Britain. In order to win over the Poles, during William's reign as King of Poland, Prussia signed a treaty with Poland to return the part of the area previously divided by Prussia that was mainly inhabited by Poles, to the Kingdom of Poland, and Warsaw was also returned to Poland.

Poland has also been relatively obedient in recent years, the king is the Prussian royal family, once he inherits the Prussian throne, Poland is very likely to merge with Prussia, and form a United Kingdom with Prussia, similar to the British system, which is acceptable to the Polish nation. At the same time, in recent years, Poland joined the Prussian-dominated German Customs Union, and the economy of North Germany was very close, which was also considered to be in preparation for the merger.

But the Poles revolted again, proclaiming an independent Polish kingdom that had nothing to do with Prussia and was truly free Poland. This is pushed by some Polish nationalists, and they also ask for help from Russia, don't they know that Russia is more dangerous? They may or may not know, but they don't care, because they are a bunch of Polish "heroes" who receive a Russian ruble allowance.

A considerable number of these were Polish "elites" who had been in exile in Russia for a long time, and it was up to Russia to decide when they would start an uprising. Of course, this reckless uprising was of little use, they could neither really defeat the Prussian army nor get the support of the Poles, including the Polish revolutionaries, but they could give the Russians an excuse just as their countrymen in exile in Prussia gave Prussia an excuse.

Now that they had revolted, and had not even captured a decent city, they hastily declared that they had established a legitimate Polish government, and then appealed to the Russian Empire for help, and Russia accepted the invitation, so they sent troops, and that's it.

Prussia failed to annex Russian Poland, and now the Russians have declared that they will support the establishment of an independent Polish kingdom on Polish territory, including Prussian Poland.

Prussia immediately expressed strong opposition and denied the legitimacy of the Polish uprising. Despite the tense situation in Prussia, Prussia sent an additional 30,000 troops to Poland, plus the Prussian army that had been stationed in Poland with William, for a total of 50,000. At the same time, Prussia quickly compromised with the Polish revolutionaries and supported the abolition of Polish serfdom, and Austria also announced the abolition of serfdom in Austrian Poland. In fact, both the Austrian Empire and Prussia had only some remnants of serfdom, and it was not difficult to abolish them.

Now the problem is getting complicated.

On the one hand, the Russian army united with Austria to suppress the uprising in Austria, and on the other hand, Russia declared that it would support Poland's restoration.

Western countries quickly linked the strange behavior of the Chinese to the strange behavior of the Russians.

Russia dared to use troops westward on a large scale, and China expressed its support for them to keep the peace, and there must have been some agreement between them.

In particular, France and Austria are particularly concerned.

The first is France, which already has experience in dealing with uprisings. On the first day of the Paris uprising, the revolutionaries shouted slogans to bring down Guizot's house and stormed Guizot's house, the French king Louis Philippe announced the dismissal of Guizot, the revolutionaries were not satisfied, the second day the rebels and the government army exchanged fire, the workers launched a swing, and the king chose to give up power on the third day and fled to England. The major political groups in Paris established an 11-member provisional government, with two workers' representatives in order to meet the demands of the workers.

It took only three days for the French to emerge from the uprising and establish a new government, and there was no one.

But the chaotic workers were a great threat, and the Provisional Government immediately began to eliminate the workers' power, disbanding the national workshops in Paris, incorporating some of the workers into the army, and driving some of the workers out of Paris to work in other places. The workers revolted again, and then the government easily suppressed them.

It took only a month to go from co-opting the workers, to dividing and disintegrating the workers' forces, and then to suppressing the revolt of the remnants.

Then France established the government of the Second Republic, which had taken power throughout the country, and France was temporarily pacified.

France would like to know China's attitude, the purposes and reasons for China's support for Russia, and the possible implications for the new French government. Europe was too chaotic at this time, and the French government was very concerned about whether the intervention of the Russians would cause a major war and involve France.

The experienced French quickly established a new regime, but Austria, which was affected by the French Revolution, was in chaos, and Mr. Vienna, the capital of Austria, broke out in demonstrations against the Metternich government, chanting slogans such as "Freedom, Constitution", "Down with Metternich", and the revolutionaries in Vienna included all social classes, such as court people, liberal aristocrats, middle classes, and professionals, who all demanded democratic reforms, and a large number of people protested, erected barricades and fought against the government army, The demonstrators ordered the Emperor to immediately dismiss Prime Minister Metternich from his post.

The Emperor relented, and at the age of seventy-five, Metternich resigned and fled with his family to London, England, where the Emperor promised to "proclaim" the constitution and form a responsible cabinet. But the insurgents were not satisfied, and they did not agree to use the method of the emperor's grant, but to establish a constituent assembly, with representatives elected by the people to make the constitution. The Austrian Emperor and his royal family were forced to flee from Vienna to Innsbruck, and it took four months before agreeing to convene a Constituent Assembly.

The Bohemians also objected to the emperor giving them a constitution, the Young Czechs demanded a responsible cabinet and recognized the equal status of the Czech and German languages, and the Austrian emperor agreed to these demands under pressure, but refused to withdraw the army, as a result of which an uprising also broke out in Bohemia, and the revolutionaries fought against the Austrian army, but after only six days of fighting, they were quickly suppressed.

Hungary was a bit more troublesome, and the Hungarian revolutionaries were more like revolutions, opposing aristocratic privileges internally and imperial autocracy externally. demanded the abolition of the feudal courts and the right to force peasants to work at will. demanded the establishment of a parliament with the right to vote for merchants, traders, professionals, and the middle class; Equality before the law was demanded, juries were introduced, the entire Austrian Empire was required to establish a constitution and parliament based on the British model, the poll tax was abolished, the Hungarian government was elected, and they drafted the Hungarian code. The old Reichstag was forced to accept these proposals and set up a constitutional government in Vienna. Hungary's local parliament quickly passed a flurry of liberal bills.

The Hungarian demands were opposed by the Austrian upper echelons, who considered that accepting them would be tantamount to losing the Hungarian possessions.

At this time, the Austrian emperor had not yet returned to his palace, how could they not care about the actions of Russia.

At this time, Zhou Lang constantly ordered his inner ministers to increase their support for Russia. High-ranking Chinese officials and even the emperor himself expressed their support for Russia on different occasions.

It made Prussia and Britain nervous. Prussia would never allow Russia to annex Poland, especially a large Poland that included the Polish king's domain, where a large number of Prussians lived. But at this time, Prussia was in chaos, unable to mobilize, unable to block the invasion of the Russian army, and could only turn to Britain for help, hoping that Britain would put pressure on Russia.

The situation in the UK is better, but there are also some varying degrees of chaos at home. Mass demonstrations erupted in London, and the government appointed 25,000 wealthy county magistrates, who went to work with guns ready to hold file cabinets against the door and shoot the rebels and British revolutionaries. They have 25,000 people, and the number of demonstrators is far less. So there was no uprising in Britain.

But the British did not want to get involved in the war at this time, and maintaining domestic stability was the top priority.

If necessary, they could even satisfy some of Russia's demands, such as persuading Prussia to return Russian Poland to Russia, as Austria had done.

But what is the attitude of the Chinese? They seem to be very supportive of Russian expansion into Europe, but are they motivated by sinister intentions and only want to see chaos in Europe? Or is there some secret agreement between the two countries?

The British are also very aware of the reasons why China supports Russia, and the real purpose behind those reasons.