Chapter 1239: Dividing up Ottoman and Tsarist Russia

After two days of bickering, Napoleon III finally figured out the intentions of all the countries present.

At this time, he realized that it was not that his prestige was not enough, nor that the French Empire was not strong enough, but that the benefits given were not enough, which would make these European nobles quarrel.

After full coordination, these people who attended the meeting were more satisfied with the returns.

Eventually, the aristocrats, representing the major countries of the European continent, signed an agreement that changed the course of European development:

1. The participating countries, the French Empire, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Greece, and the Principality of Serbia, ceased internal strife, unanimously dealt with the Yellow Peril from the East, declared war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which seduced the Eastern Empire, and at the same time strictly guarded against the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army.

2. The Austrian Empire sent more than 150,000 troops to attack the Ottoman Empire and march into Tsarist Russia, and the Kingdom of Italy sent more than 50,000 troops to help the Kingdom of Greece recover Cyprus and other Greek-speaking regions. In return, the Austrian Empire took over the Podol Heights and its more southern territories, such as the Crimean Peninsula, but in return, the Black Sea under its control allowed all European countries to be freely navigable, and the Austrian Empire ceded two areas of the northern Veneto border to the Kingdom of Italy, relinquished its rule over Bohemia, and withdrew from the German Confederation, ceding all the affairs of the German Confederation.

3. Prussia sent 100,000 troops to march into the Polish province of Tsarist Russia and northern Lithuania to prevent the troops of the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire from moving north from the lower Volga River and the lower reaches of the Dnieper River. The rest of Poland could be temporarily occupied, but the local population must be allowed to move freely.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Prussia was not allowed to form an alliance with the Chinese Empire, nor was it allowed to send soldiers in service to guide and train the Chinese Imperial Army, and in return for Prussia's troops, the participating countries did not interfere in the affairs of the Kingdom of Prussia to reorganize the German Confederation in the north.

4. Several other countries were obliged to assist the Ottoman Principality of Serbia and the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in their independence, but, at the voluntary request of the people of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, the Austrian Empire was recognized as suzerainty and incorporated into the Austrian Empire on the basis of maintaining a high degree of autonomy. The Principality of Serbia became independent from the Ottoman Empire, and its borders with the Kingdom of Greece and Austria remained unchanged, and after becoming the Kingdom of Serbia, it should send more than 50,000 troops to attack the Ottoman Empire from south to east.

5. The Kingdom of Greece sent an army to attack the Ottoman Empire together with the armies of the Kingdom of Italy and Serbia, threatening Ottoman Constantinople and the Bosphorus.

6. The French Empire sent 80,000 troops to capture the Ottoman Empire's Tunisian Bey government, and at the same time sent the Mediterranean Fleet to blockade the Black Sea to deter the expeditionary forces of the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire, and to assist Austria and the Greek Kingdom in attacking the Ottoman army. At the same time, in order to ensure the stability of the European continent, the French Empire sent 100,000 soldiers to Württemberg, which is located between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, and Baden, southwest of the Kingdom of Bavaria, to prevent accidents between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.

At the same time, in return, Prussia formally recognized the Saarland and parts of Luxembourg, already occupied by the French Empire, after acquiring the area along the lower Neman River, which the French Empire legally owned, but allowed the German inhabitants of the region to move freely.

7. All expenses incurred by each country in sending troops shall be borne by each of them, and any seizures obtained after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire shall be in their own possession.

Of course, this agreement is a secret agreement, only known to the participants, and will not be made public unless someone in the participating countries breaks the promise or tears up the agreement.

In fact, this was not so much a sign to save Europe and help Britain and Tsarist Russia defend against the Yellow Peril from the East, but rather a meeting of these countries to take advantage of the fire. And the dirty division is not only Ottoman Turkey, but also Tsarist Russia, which was extremely powerful in the past but has recently declined rapidly due to a series of changes.

Needless to say, the three biggest beneficiaries are actually the three major European powers.

The French Empire not only officially obtained the Saar region of the Rhine Province, which has always been coveted, but also a small part of Luxembourg's territory, the most important thing is to officially intervene in Baden and Württemberg and other territories, and at the same time also include a small enclave in Bavaria, so that the Saarland region, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Duchy of Württemberg, Lorraine and Alsace are all connected into a whole, so that the territory of the French Empire is advanced more than 100 kilometers to the northeast, increasing the territory of nearly 20,000 square kilometers. It occupies nearly twenty-fifth of the land area of France.

And that's not all, the French Empire still has an excuse to attack Tunisia. In fact, at this time, Tunisia was ruled by Bey, who had been appointed by the Ottoman Empire for many years, and had formed the Hussein Dynasty, which had been almost independent from the Ottoman Empire, except that the suzerainty still claimed to be the Ottoman Empire. However, Napoleon III's long-coveted territory, which was across the Mediterranean Sea from mainland France, was not Napoleon III's fault, and the whole of France had an unrivaled desire for this African territory across the Mediterranean.

Thirty years ago, France used a diplomatic incident as a justification for war to occupy the Algerian coast, which was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, but in fact had long since become independent, and they exiled the Algerian governor Hussein and gradually infiltrated the southern interior. After all, it is much easier to occupy some places along the shores of the Mediterranean than to go far inland.

As for the Kingdom of Prussia, although it lost the Saar region of the Rhine Province, because of this place, they had already promised the French Empire, and after the last Prague Peace Conference, it had actually been occupied by the French army, and now it is just a name.