Chapter 74 074 Balkan powder keg

Lin Youde's very casual speech this time caused an impact that he did not expect.

Heibert's efficiency was very high, and at noon that day he distributed the printed number to the whole city of Potsdam, and the number outside the number was full of selected photographs, except for the shorthand of Lin Youde's speech.

All of a sudden, the whole of Potsdam was so enthusiastic that the soldiers of the National Volunteer Division spontaneously began to write letters to their families, telling their families in enthusiastic language that they would once again go to war for great ideals and justice – just as they had done in the civil war.

The common people of Potsdam also took the best pickles and meat from their cellars and sent them to the barracks, and even the moonshiner sent them to the barracks in horse-drawn wagons with large barrels of moonshine.

The railway workers completed the overhaul of the locomotives waiting to be overhauled at Potsdam station with astonishing speed, and the wagons for the marshalling trains were quickly refurbished.

By night, everyone thought that the army was about to go to the German-Austrian border, which made Lin Youde very troubled.

However, fortunately, the Russians were very cooperative, and sent the ambassador to protest on the same day, and Lin Youde decisively decided to ask the ambassador to "go to see the snow scene", and then chose the venue of the meeting in a snow-covered garden. Then Lin Youde stomped the Russians so angrily in the garden that he kept yelling, claiming that "Russia will show you the price of treachery" and that "as many German soldiers set foot in the Balkans, as many Russian soldiers set foot in Prussia".

Lin Youde had no choice but to "very embarrassed" assure the ambassador that his army had no plans to leave for the Balkans in the short term.

In fact, Lin Youde's army will definitely not be able to defeat the god queen now, even if he wants to go to the Balkans, he will have to wait for the Austro-Hungarian or Greek god queen to fight the crazy Tito before he will consider sending troops.

Not to mention that Lin Youde's original plan was to take over Austria after Austria-Hungary was exhausted and the social contradictions were completely intensified, and to send troops to Vienna.

After the Russian ambassador left, Lin Youde ordered the troops to count the number of various condolences sent by the common people, and then pay according to the market price, and then announced that Sanssouci Palace would observe a moment of silence for the innocent people who died in the Sarajevo massacre in the evening, and all walks of life were welcome to participate. After going back and forth like this, the matter was finally settled.

On the whole, Lin Youde gained a lot, not only creating momentum, emphasizing his justice to everyone, but also increasing the cohesion of the troops, increasing the support of the residents of Potsdam around Sanssouci Palace, and incidentally increasing the favorability of the scientists.

But Lin Youde still made up his mind that he must think twice before doing this kind of thing next time.

In the days that followed, newspapers throughout Europe reported on the massacre in Sarajevo, and the German masses were almost immediately stirred up, with the majority firmly believing that the innocent people who had been slaughtered were "mostly laborers like us" and "our class brothers". The enormous pressure of public opinion from the masses forced the German parliament to pass a bill on the third day after the news of the massacre was revealed, completely banning the export of any industrial products to Serbia.

There was also an uproar in the territory of Austria-Hungary, Sarajevo was the "pearl of the south" of Austria-Hungary, and the citizens of Austria-Hungary had always regarded the city as a symbol of Austro-Hungarian rule in the south, and now the city was treated so barbarously that the entire Austro-Hungarian people were very indignant - they forgot all kinds of dissatisfaction with the government, forgot that they were in the dilemma of starvation and fullness, forgot about high unemployment and forgot about everything else, Single-mindedly, the government demanded that the government quickly and resolutely wipe out that small country where most people did not know where the road was.

Especially after the Germans brought photographs of the massacres into the Austro-Hungarian lands, even the Hungarians, who were accustomed to working against the imperial government, were in favor of sending troops.

The reaction from France and the United Kingdom was much more muted.

The French are concerned about their domestic campaign, and the scandal of the current First Consul of France is the focus of attention throughout Paris, and they are more concerned about who the mysterious male protagonist of the scandal is than the massacres that took place on that side of the Mediterranean. But when the front page of the newspaper LibertΓ© published a huge photograph of the massacre, the nerves of the French were struck.

The newspaper was sold out that day, and more than 100,000 copies were temporarily printed, but the supply was still in short supply. Soon similar photographs completely dominated the pages of French newspapers, and people were driven by curiosity and human conscience to buy these newspapers and then burst into tears.

Many French cities decided to ring the bells of all churches at the same time to celebrate a grand mass for the dead, and soon after that, the call for severe punishment of the demons grew.

Christina, the first consul of France, who was plagued by scandals, immediately delivered an impassioned speech, saying that the French government would uphold the chivalry inherited from the great knight Roland and resolutely fight the devil to the end.

In London, the situation was relatively stable. The British were given detailed reports of the massacre at about the same time as Lin Youde – including, of course, photographs sent back by British spies. The English gentlemen, in their quiet traditions, spoke elegantly about massacres, counterbalancing Russian policies and "the Chinese's speeches" at the salon and bridge tables.

But when the French decided to destroy the "Serbian demons" by resolute means, the British could not sit still.

"There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests."

This sentence is in Lin Youde's original world, and many people think it is Winston? Churchill original, in fact, is not the case at all, back in Churchill's ancestor, John? In Churchill's time, British politicians began to live by this set of principles. And when Britain became an empire on which the sun never sets, this set of principles was vividly implemented by the British in diplomacy.

Regardless of the world, Britain began to restrain France immediately after the end of World War I in order to prevent France from gaining dominance of the European continent, and the tacit understanding between Britain and France disappeared with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Now that France was ready to intervene, Britain immediately began to fear that France would gain a foothold in the Balkans, and that the French fleet, which still maintained considerable strength, might in the future directly threaten British control of the Suez Canal, and thus the passage between Britain and India.

The British gentlemen then took action, and soon the Serbian envoys were respectfully invited out of their original residences and moved away from the Palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace, and then the British Foreign Office issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Serbs for their atrocities in Sarajevo, demanding that they immediately renounce their occupation of Bosnia, return to the territory of the Serbian State as determined in the Treaty of Versailles, and surrender their concubines to be imprisoned by Switzerland, a permanently neutral country.

These conditions were naturally rejected, so the British Mediterranean Fleet sent a detachment to take the Aegean Sea.

But just as Lin Youde had predicted, the British had no intention of intervening directly, they only instigated Greece to form a Balkan coalition.

In mid-March 1932, a coalition of the Southern Balkans, led by Greece and including Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Albania, was formed, but the coalition was only stationed on the Serbian border, and was not in a hurry to set foot on Serbian soil, although each of the participating countries hoped that they would gain some benefit from the war.

The Allied forces were waiting for the Austro-Hungarian army to move south in order to "flank" the Serbian army.

**

Sissi, Vienna? Feng? Conrad strode down the hallway leading to the Imperial Parliament chamber, the soles of her iron nails striking a series of sonorous footsteps in the hallway.

"Miss," the man dressed as a butler followed after Sissi, "Miss, you are so abrupt! ”

Sissi stopped abruptly and glared back at the butler.

"Too abrupt? Our people have been slaughtered, and more are falling into the clutches of terrible demons! I can't do anything out of the way now! ”

"The council didn't say that it wouldn't send troops, they just ......"

Sissi ignored the old butler and turned to continue her stride towards the hall where the meeting was taking place, her braided curls swaying back and forth with her steps, reflecting the dazzling light in the sunlight, and the sonorous sound of footsteps continued to echo in the long corridor.

She painted delicately and delicately depicted the splendor of the former Habsburgs.

Finally, Sisi came to the gate that adorned the Habsburg double-headed eagles.

As soon as the guard saw Sissi, he immediately raised his head and slammed the ground with the ancient spear in his hand.

Sissi didn't return the salute, and pushed the door directly, her movements so violent that the old doorshaft made a screeching sound. Sissi rushed into the chamber, and her sudden appearance brought the heated debate in the hall to an abrupt end.

The well-dressed gentlemen all looked at Sissi, and many seemed to guess her intentions, but they all pretended to know nothing and cast blank glances at Sissi. Only a handful of people whispered and exchanged opinions about the situation at hand.

"Gentlemen!" Sissi took two steps forward, each step was heavy, and the sound of loud footsteps echoed through the huge conference hall, "What are you waiting for?" The people of the empire are under threat! ”

As soon as Sissi's voice fell, someone said: "Miss Sissi, fighting a war costs money, and the imperial treasury can no longer take out the money to form an army. ”

"When the treasury runs out of money, don't you have anything else to do?" As soon as Sissi looked up, she pulled off the pure gold corsage on her military uniform, still on the floor in front of her, "Isn't this money?" Each of you throws down a few pieces of jewelry and auctions a few famous paintings, won't you be rich! And those castles! You have the money to keep them going, but you don't have the money to buy the national debt? ”

The nobles looked at each other, and no one answered.

Sissi bit her lip and glanced at everyone present with a gaze full of anger, and suddenly, she threw the marshal's scepter in her hand back, and violently pulled out the saber at her waist, and the blade with the magic rune attached to it immediately lit up with a cold light, making everyone in the council hall involuntarily shrink their necks.

"You bunch of selfish shit! Do we have to wait for the people to become extremely disillusioned with the Imperial Government and begin to organize their own armed defense before they wake up from a dream? ”

As soon as Sissi's words came out, there was immediately a discussion in the conference hall.

Sissi waited with one hand on her waist, but when she reached the end, no one stood up to express her position.

The girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

When she opened her eyes, her face was full of determination: "Listen, now pass a resolution to issue war bonds!" Everyone here must buy it! The amount of money I bought is calculated according to the title! If you don't buy it, it will be like this! ”

Sissi dropped her knife in her hand, and the chair placed beside her for the observers split in two.

There was silence in the hall.

At this time, the old man sitting in the speaker's seat pushed his glasses.

"Miss Sissi, you have violated the Imperial Constitution by doing this......"

"If I don't violate the Constitution, this Constitution will soon be wasted paper!" Then she scanned the hall again, "After the war is over, you can settle accounts with me as much as you want, now you must pass a resolution, issue a national debt, and send troops!" ”

(I haven't asked for a ticket for a long time, quietly ask for one)