On July 9, 1932, Vienna was enveloped in a long-lost atmosphere of jubilation.

The inhabitants of Vienna took to the streets to cheer the victory of Austria-Hungary in its first foreign war in a century. Crowds gradually converged on both sides of the triumphal route issued by the Imperial government, and the double-headed eagle banner of the Empire fluttered high over all the buildings.

Ten o'clock, Sissi? Feng? Conrad's newly decorated magic armor appeared in the public's field of vision, and the Austro-Hungarian craftsmen specially replaced Conrad's magic armor with a gorgeous ceremonial shell, with a more streamlined silhouette and an astonishing number of patterns, making Conrad look like a huge mobile flower basket.

And the crowd was indeed throwing a lot of flowers at her, and the petals that fell on the armor further enhanced its magnificence.

Behind Sissi is the knights of the war princesses marching in a neat line, and the armor of the knights has also been replaced, and they all look infinitely beautiful.

As the Magic Armor Group continued to advance along the streets, the mood of the people also rose further, and many people tried to follow the Divine Magic's Magic Armor, which caused quite a bit of confusion.

The attendants on the roof arranged by the royal family kept throwing colored paper, which made the whole atmosphere continue to rise.

But there are also people who are very dissatisfied with this jubilant scene.

Jacob closed the window facing the street, turned to the painter Tony and shook his head, "I don't know how much it will cost to spend this celebration alone." Look at the gorgeous armor and give them the money to replace the shell, I don't know how many families on the verge of starvation can be fed! ”

"Don't say that, man." Tony reached out and patted Jacob on the shoulder, "This is a victory worth celebrating, it can boost the morale of the people and increase the national pride, which is also good." ”

"But nothing has been solved in this war!" Jacob involuntarily raised his voice, "After the government of the German Republic won the civil war, it implemented reforms throughout the country, saving the entire German economy in one fell swoop and allowing the Germans to live a good life again. But what do we have to gain from this victory? The Serbs have neither gold nor food on their land, and even a little bit of labor! This war has no meaning other than saddling the imperial government with more debt! ”

Tony pursed his lips and didn't answer.

Jacob continued: "The increased debt will eventually be passed on to the people through taxes, but now the people are blinded by the victory, and they cannot see the poverty that awaits them in the future, and some people even have unrealistic expectations of the government because of this victory!" This has already happened, the Italians did not need the war of the Kingdom of Sardinia to become independent, but they were deceived by the beauty of the princess of Bagolia! Yes, that princess is also called Sissi! ”

Jacob paused, adjusting his breathing.

That's when Tony said, "Man, have faith in ourselves, we can use propaganda to make this clear to the people." Moreover, it will soon be autumn, and the farmland in the southern provinces will be almost destroyed because of the war, and it is almost certain that the harvest will fail, and when the price of food will skyrocket, and the famine will come again, we will have a chance. ”

Jacob sighed vigorously: "It can only be like this, at this time, let alone let the people see the status quo clearly, we only need to say a little bad word about the government, it will arouse the disgust of the people." Let's follow the trend in tomorrow's editorials and publish some articles that praise virtue. ”

Jacob shook his head again, and he passed his friend and climbed the stairs without saying a word.

Tony kept his eye on Jacob's back until it disappeared from view.

Tony shook his head as well, turned and walked into his room, pulling back the cloth from his easel, revealing the half-finished painting underneath.

The painting depicts a heroic Valkyrie holding a sword and stepping on the Serbian flag, the double-headed eagle coat of arms on her chest shining in the sun.

Tony stared at the canvas, thinking to himself that Jacob's sight of it would make him leap three feet.

In fact, Tony just wanted to do something to pay tribute to the prowess of that noble Miss Shinhime.

Tony looked at the half-finished painting for a while, and finally picked up the pen, dipped it in color, and randomly painted a large unsightly patch of color on the painting.

After destroying the painting, Jacob takes it down, twists it into a ball and throws it in the trash.

Tony knew that Jacob was right, and that the victory in the war had only delayed the rebirth of Austria, but Tony always felt that there was still some positive meaning in this war, but he couldn't say what the positive meaning was—let alone convince Jacob, even Tony himself was not convinced.

It's just a feeling, a feeling that comes from that part of Tony's personality as a painter.

Tony sat on the stool he used to paint, his hands down, staring at the ceiling in a daze, the cheers outside the room echoing in his ears.

**

The victory of Austria-Hungary also caused considerable international repercussions.

The British were satisfied, and the Russian advance to the south was once again contained, and the Royal Navy and the British Army advanced the defensive line of the Aegean League of Nations hundreds of kilometers into the interior of the Balkans without committing a single soldier. The Russians are one step further from the Mediterranean.

The French are very satisfied, Christina's tough attitude towards Serbia has ushered in her reputation, allowing her to successfully reverse the negative impact of the **** being disclosed, so that public opinion began to turn to criticize the indiscretion of the ****, even if her **** later rushed into the editorial office of "Le Figaro", shot the editor-in-chief and then committed suicide by swallowing a gun, she could not change the trend of public opinion again.

Now it seems that the Bonapartes' continued rule in France is a foreseek.

The Romanians were satisfied, and although they did not acquire the land they had coveted for so long, they pushed the border a considerable distance to the southwest.

The Greeks were also satisfied, for similar reasons as the Romanians.

Of the countries involved in this incident, only Russia was very dissatisfied.

**

Petrograd, Hermitage.

In the huge conference room, the important ministers of the Russian government were gathered, but the chairs at the top were empty.

The ministers whispered to each other, occasionally glancing apprehensively at the empty chairs. Of all the people, only the woman sitting on the left hand side of the empty chair next to it did not say a word, her eyes lowered stared at the smooth tabletop, and the right hand on the table was regularly tapping with her five fingers, as if she was in a fugue.

The woman looked to be in her twenties, but no one would judge Shinhime's age by her appearance - the only woman who could appear at a high-level government meeting of this rank was Shinhime.

In addition, the woman's military uniform also hints at her status as a god, but her military uniform is different from the normal military uniform, and the sleeve of her left hand is slightly wider at the junction of her blouse.

The woman's right eye is equipped with a mechanical device that resembles the multi-purpose glasses that magicians like to use, but the difference is that the woman's mechanical device does not have a human pupil under the lens.

The crystal, made by the magic process, is embedded in what was originally the eye socket, and the faint blue light emitted by the crystal can be seen through the lens of the mechanical device.

This strange-looking woman is named Josephine? Dzhugashvili, the current prime minister of Russia, known as Iron Ji - after hearing this nickname, she simply changed her name to Josephine? steel, as a response to those who mocked her. There is also a theory that the title Iron Queen was originally circulated by Josephine herself, who used the pseudonym of Steel to write about her views on the current situation in Russia when she was a little girl, but this claim has never been confirmed by conclusive evidence, and is merely an urban legend.

Until eight years ago, no one could have imagined that Josephine would become the prime minister of Russia, including Josephine herself.

The reformers found her, simply because of Vladimir? Ulyanov served as her teacher before being deposed to Siberia.

After the end of the war, the poor economic and social situation in Russia allowed the reformists to grow rapidly, while the old aristocracy was greatly weakened by the war-weariness of the army and the high war debt. But the old aristocracy still held the goddess, and the tsar, who was the chief representative of the old aristocracy, still wore the crown.

Although the reformers further strengthened their political position through economic reforms, they could not go any further. At this time, the leaders of the reformers realized that they had to win over a goddess and turn her into a face for the reformers, so that they could really control the political situation in Russia and prevent the old aristocracy from counterattacking.

Ulyanov, who was dying at the time, thought of his former student Josephine.

Josephine readily agreed to the teacher's request and joined the camp of the reformers, becoming the nominal leader of the camp.

But what happened next was jaw-dropping.

On the day Josephine attended the plenary session of the Russian Duma for the first time on behalf of the reformists, she unfurled the magic cannon in the Great Assembly Hall with a prosthetic leg in her left arm and shouted the slogan "You are the enemies of Russia", destroying the main leaders of the old aristocracy with one blow, and several of the reformist top echelons sitting nearby were also "unfortunately affected."

Immediately afterwards, two gods wearing magic armor appeared outside the venue, they were both Josephine's best friends, and they were also the two strongest in the new generation of gods after the war.

At this time, the Russian generals suddenly found that they did not have any decent troops in their hands to suppress these two gods, and they could only rescue all the Duma members who were detained after their spiritual power was naturally exhausted.

In this short period of time, Josephine proposed a series of more radical reform measures. These measures quickly gained support from the radical wing of the reformers, and the people turned to Josephine as Josephine proposed a more radical land reform program than before.

The old aristocracy was furious, gathering armies and preparing to fight back—just like on another plane.

But the war girls all refused to plunge the country into a civil war, and the girls did not care about the interests of the old nobles, and naturally did not intend to die for the old nobles. The coup came to an end when the Knights of the Guards in Petrograd declared that "as long as the life of the Tsar is not threatened, the forces will wait and see."

Immediately after Josephine's non-stop purge of those who opposed her, and at the same time began to formulate an economic development plan named the "Five-Year Plan". The position of steel in the Russian political situation was also completely stabilized.

Because of this, at this moment, she seems so alone in the room - in the whole room, no one is qualified to talk to her on an equal footing.

She is the de facto dictator of this room, and everything she says will be written into Russia's future program of action, whether the tsar is present or not.

When the hands of the table clock in the corner pointed to three o'clock in the afternoon, Josephine, who had been in a fugue state, suddenly stood up.

The whole room was silent all at once.

All eyes were on Josephine.

"It seems that Your Majesty will not be able to attend the Imperial Council today." Josephine scanned the room, the blue light in the mechanical eyes flashing across everyone's cheeks in turn, "Then, let me do your duty." Serbia was a shameful defeat that led to doubts about the ability of our Russians to shelter the Slavs, and the Cheka report showed that the Romanians were increasing their contacts with the British, and that our control over Romanian influence was bound to be weakened for some time to come. ”

As Josephine spoke, her eyes were fixed on Foreign Minister Samsonov, and the further she spoke, the worse Samsonov's face became, and at last, the old man, who was nearly seventy years old, stood up and argued loudly: "I have done my best! ”

Before the words landed, the old man's body was blown to pieces, and the face of the Minister of Railway Transport and the Minister of Industry sitting next to the old man was pale, and his lips trembled slightly.

Josephine's left arm was folded back into its arms, and her particularly widened left sleeve was not affected in the slightest by the shot.

"I said, don't interrupt me." The smile on Josephine's face, combined with the blue light flashing in her righteous eyes, looked extremely cold, "There is no need for waste in the Russian government, poor Samsonov is obviously too old to take on complicated and heavy diplomatic work. For the time being, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs will act in his deputy. ”

Josephine paused, then looked around the room again.

"This is the end of things in Serbia, there are already people responsible for this, and what the rest of us need is to learn the lessons of this time and then do better after that, understand?"

Everyone nodded in unison.

"I have always had clear rewards and punishments, and someone has to be responsible for things that go wrong, and I will be rewarded for my achievements. Moreover, I am merciful, if something goes wrong, only the top person needs to be held responsible, and all those who participate will be rewarded for the results, and I hope you will remember this. ”

After saying that, Josephine raised his chin and looked down at everyone proudly.

"Now, today's meeting has officially begun, who will report first?"