Chapter 239: True Purpose
After coming out of the conference room, Frederick III had not looked good.
"Your Excellency Napoleon, I don't understand why you provoke Prime Minister Gladstone. We could have kept the Transvaal colony, but you used the colonies of Africa as a threat, and now it's okay. The efforts of France and Germany have been in vain. Now the British are back in control of the Transvaal, and I am sure that it will not be long before they march on the gold mines for all sorts of reasons. ”
Frederick III had already learned the shamelessness of the British in the previous Near Eastern crisis, they would talk about the sky, but in fact they stabbed you in the back, and with their world-class strength, no one dared to offend London.
At this time, the Kaiser's anger can be imagined, and Napoleon went to stop, he turned his head to look at the other party with a smile, waved his hand, and asked the people behind him to retreat first.
"I'm just trying to defuse the conflict, and now that Germany and France have their best political interests in South Africa, the next step is to slowly negotiate with the British. They will increase their armed forces there, won't we? In the name of defending the gold mines, a military dictatorship was established in the Transvaal, under the joint care of France and Germany, and we would continue to increase our forces here to counter the very possibility of future intervention by the British. ”
Napoleon has long seen through the urine of these British, and the historical Prime Minister Gladstone also made major mistakes in handling foreign affairs because of his own backsliding, and the French set a trap for each other specifically for this point.
"Your Majesty, Frederick, now we are grasshoppers on the same line. It's just a slight edge against England for the time being, but there's no guarantee that they will be able to maintain their current advantage in the future, and you can see that they are preparing to fight back. Maybe it's a war to change the situation on the European continent, or maybe Gladstone gets carried away and lands in France......"
"Ridiculous."
Frederick III snorted, apparently disdainful of Napoleon's hypothesis.
"Without us, the Germans, they also want to form an anti-French coalition? Don't look at who contributed the most in those wars back then? Just the little strength of the British want to ****, dream about it! ”
From the Second Anti-French Coalition to the Seventh Anti-French Coalition, the main force against Napoleon was Germany, and as long as Frederick III was still on the side of France because of the gold mining problem, then the British would not be able to do it. The two countries acted as a barrier to the expansion of the British into the mainland.
Napoleon valued his allies very much, after all, Frederick III wanted to make a career ambitious, and his anxiety was completely understandable.
"Now we can think about the formation of a combined fleet."
Napoleon stood in front of Frederick III, he said calmly. "If the navies of our two countries fight alone with the British, they can only be pressed to the ground. After all, France and Germany are both land powers, so the quantity and quality of our fleets are not comparable to the sea power empire of Great Britain. So uniting against the British is the only way out! ”
Frederick III actually had this idea, because the grievances between Bismarck and the previous generation had not been realized, and now Napoleon not only took the initiative to raise the issue of the fleet, but also took the initiative to increase the proportion of Germany in the gold mine problem, which made him no longer care about the previous 20 million marks in compensation.
"On the issue of building ships, Germany has stepped up. There could also be a range of cooperation between France and Germany. ”
"Involve Great Britain in the arms race?"
Napoleon said, "Knowing that we are not ready to start a world war, it is not a good thing to expose our intentions too early, and it will only arouse the alarm of Prime Minister Gladstone." So we have to keep a low profile. ”
In fact, Napoleon was also wary of Frederick III, and he only hoped that Germany and Britain would be able to exhaust their naval strength, so that he would have a chance to dismember Great Britain.
The warfare of the future will not be limited to strong ships and artillery, but also bombers and fighter planes. The next ten years, twenty years, were a crucial moment in the development of France, and they had to be well prepared to deal with the British. Hitler's Sea Lion plan did not take Great Britain, and the French had to suppress the world hegemon first.
After admonishing Frederick III and bidding him farewell, Napoleon returned to the Tuileries Palace. At this time, the Transvaal had just signed a cease-fire agreement, but the French had an eye on it and did not sign a peace agreement.
This meant that the war that had been suspended for the time being could be started at any time, and when the French had enough strength, they would expand their territory step by step. Directly squeeze them out of the game of the capitalist empire.
It was a long plan, and Napoleon needed patience.
France does not yet have enough military strength, and when black technology surpasses other countries appears, that is the beginning of the real counterattack. Now Napoleon is constantly accumulating military power to prepare for future wars and conflicts.
Trochu stood in front of Napoleon, he was frightened and frightened. When he learned of Napoleon's overall plan, he realized that everything that was happening now was just preparing for the future.
While the whole world wanted the dangerous dynamic equilibrium to last, only Napoleon was trying to break it.
"Is war inevitable? Your Majesty Napoleon! ”
Trochu muttered to himself, "Isn't everything we do to try to avoid war?" Why did it end up like this? ”
"If France wants to rise, it has to step on the corpses of two countries. One is Germany and the other is Great Britain. This is a doomed end, but if we unite with Britain against Germany, we may not be able to succeed in fighting back. Therefore, the British must be dealt with first, and when the opposing army is no longer able to fight back, then turn around and fight back against Berlin. ”
All Napoleon's plans were to try to make the situation go in this direction.
"Frederick III has been caught, and perhaps even the British do not realize that they too will one day become enemies of the Alliance."
"An Anti-British Union."
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