The meeting between Louis and Bismarck came to an end.

That night, the whole city of Prague was in chaos. The reason was that the younger brother of the Austrian Emperor, Archduke Karl Ludwig, was shot!

The reason for this is quite simple.

That night, Grand Duke Carl Ludwig, habitually led several guards out of the castle and into the streets of the neighboring city of Prague, and after drinking, he forgot about the fact that Prague had been captured by the Prussian army, and found in a hotel that the innkeeper had a beautiful daughter, who, stimulated by alcohol, forcibly stepped forward and molested him. The innkeeper stepped forward to stop him, but was injured and tied up, and saw that his daughter was about to be insulted, when a hotel guy secretly reported to the girl's fiancé.

The girl's fiancé was a member of the Czech National Party in Prague, and when he heard this, he was furious and hurriedly called several brothers in the city to rush into the hotel and shoot the violent Grand Duke Karl Ludwig and several guards directly with muskets, and the other guards escaped from the hotel and reported to the Austrian Foreign Minister Baron Carl Ludwig von Bruck.

When Baron Bruck heard the news, he was shocked, he did not expect that Archduke Ludwig would be so chaotic, and in the enemy's occupied area, he would be so reckless, and he would die because of a woman. However, at this time, the matter has come to this point, and he is thinking more about how to solve the matter.

Archduke Ludwig is the younger brother of the Austrian Emperor, no matter how violent and rude the Archduke Ludwig is, he is also a member of the noble Habsburg Dynasty, or he came to Prague to negotiate with Prussia with him Baron Brooke. But at this time, Brooke, who was in a hurry, suddenly thought of a glimmer of life, that is, he was going to use the shooting of Archduke Ludwig to turn it into a premeditated political event, not only to solve the predicament he was in, but also to get rid of the passive situation of Austria!

As a result, Brooke immediately sent his men to spread the news that the Austrian Empire's envoy, Archduke Ludwig, had been shot dead by the Prussian army, and that Austrian guards had testified, and that he, as the deputy envoy of the Austrian Empire, had asked the French Emperor Napoleon III and the British Foreign Secretary Levison-Gower for help, asking the two countries to uphold justice and give an explanation for the dead Archduke Ludwig. At the same time, he sent someone to report the news to Vienna urgently.

The French Emperor Louis and the British Foreign Secretary Granville George Leveson-Gower were not very happy with Prussia, and in the Prague peace talks, France and Britain did not reap any benefits, and they were already very dissatisfied with the content of the agreement negotiated yesterday.

Thus, with the support of France and Great Britain, Baron Brooke, the foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, who feared that he would be held accountable by the Austrian Emperor, immediately refused to sign the Prague Peace Treaty, which had already been properly negotiated, under the pretext of the despicable act of the Kingdom of Prussia ordering the army to shoot the Austrian Archduke, and in one fell swoop reversed all the contents of the agreement agreed yesterday, saying that it was to propose a new agreement.

At this time, Bismarck of the Kingdom of Prussia was naturally unwilling, but he himself did not want to continue the war. Until last night, everything turned out for the best, and all this situation was going in the direction he expected, and as soon as the formal agreement was signed today at the official ceremony, everything was perfectly resolved. But what I never expected was that an accident happened, the damned Austrian bull was actually shot dead while doing something bad, and this Prague city was controlled by the Prussian army at this time, and now, even if Bismarck knew that it was not his own mastermind, he couldn't explain it clearly. After all, the younger brother of the Austrian emperor, Archduke Ludwig, died in Prague.

Bismarck had a splitting headache. He didn't want to go through a lot of hard calculations, and when it was time to succeed, it would get worse because of a chance incident. He knew that Baron Brooke on the side of the Austrian Empire wanted to use this incident to reopen negotiations and make concessions for himself. Britain and France, on the other hand, have their own interests and want to take the opportunity to force themselves to make concessions. Therefore, Bismarck also intended to make Prussia take a slight step back, meet their demands, and appease the anger of the Austrian Empire.

However, at this time, Prince William of Prussia had another accident: Prince William was also shot, and although he was not killed, he was also seriously wounded.

Bismarck was taken aback. He understands the gravity of the matter. Prince William is the heart of the King of Prussia, and the heir of the entire kingdom, if he goes into trouble, the King of Prussia, who has always respected him and is willing to listen to his opinion, will definitely turn his face and will not spare him. And in this way, even if he wants to back down, he can't back down.

Thus, negotiations between the Prussian and Austrian sides officially broke down.

The failure of the peace talks between these two subjects directly involved the other Danish and Italian sides.

Fortunately, Denmark did not demand too much from Prussia, after all, they were a defeated country, and the support of its ally Britain was not so strong, so Denmark agreed to sign a formal treaty after symbolically re-proposing to keep the Faroe Islands and Iceland, but was rejected, and Prussia also knew that it would take a step back and only seize Jutland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland, and return the remaining slightly larger islands to Denmark.

On the Italian side, because after all, it was defeated. Originally, relying on the victory of its ally Prussia, the Veneto region was gained, but now because of the dispute between Prussia and the Austrian Empire, no territory was gained, but tens of thousands of troops were lost.

The French Emperor Louis and the Foreign Minister, Baron Haussmann, together with the British Foreign Secretary Granville George Levison-Gower, put renewed pressure on Bismarck to take a step back from the Kingdom of Prussia.

Bismarck directly took the attack on Prince Wilhelm as a block, and said righteously: "Your Majesty, and Mr. Osman and Mr. Levisen-Gower, I think all this is a conspiracy of the Austrian Empire!" They are unwilling to accept defeat, they are unwilling to negotiate peace, and they want to continue the war. Otherwise, the agreement has already been agreed, so why do you need to have another incident? Now that our Crown Prince William has also been attacked and seriously wounded, should this battle also be counted on the head of the Austrian Empire!

Or, sign this Prague Treaty directly; Or, let's fight again! ”

Baron Brooke chose neither to fight again with his army nor to sign the treaty directly, but to go directly back to Vienna and ask the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph to ask for a plea!

In desperation, the French Emperor Louis visited the seriously injured Prince William with the British Foreign Secretary Baron Haussmann and the Italian Prime Minister Urbano Lataczi.

The war between Prussia and Austria was once again rekindled with the departure of the people. Everything is out of order.