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France did take advantage of the loopholes in the Paris Treaty.

It was only a rule that the troops were not allowed to be stationed, but the police force was an exception, and even Bismarck's attempt to provoke a dispute over the French presence of tens of thousands of troops in Alsace had now become a staggering embarrassment. Ambassador Russell, who was standing in front of him, thought he had not made it clear, and he repeated it again.

"The treaty stated in black and white that France could not station troops, but it did not say anything about the French police. Even if they stationed 100,000 policemen in Alsace and were armed with artillery, machine guns and other heavy weapons, according to the terms of the treaty, they could only be counted as police, not army. ”

"Do you have hundreds of thousands of police in Great Britain? What are these policemen who are not the army? ”

Bismarck was outraged by France's play on words, saying, "It's just a loophole in the treaty, and it can be revised." ”

"But yes."

Ambassador Russell replied lightly, "France took advantage of the loophole, but this can only be blamed on you, and the fact that you did not read carefully when the treaty was signed does not justify you for provoking a war." I'm sorry, but if you want to restart the Alsace negotiations for this reason, we don't agree. ”

Although Russell's voice is not loud, he is more convincing than Gochakov.

After all, it is the world's number one colonial empire, and Britain says no, who dares to refute it?

Bismarck was carried away by the anger of Alsace, who had lost his easy reach, and he threatened the other side, "What if Germany insists on opening negotiations?" Do you also want to hinder it? ”

Russell shook his head with great regret, and he thought it very inappropriate for Bismarck to say this now.

"Your Excellency Bismarck, I think you are confused. I have already spoken to that 'Napoleon' before, France did not deliberately provoke a war, but you, under the banner of opposing the infallibility of the Pope, even included Italy and other South German countries, did you want to provoke a war in Europe or protect German interests? ”

Russell's questioning fell on Bismarck's chest like a hammer, and he had been blinded by revenge against France, only to realize that his former neutral countries, and even his allies, had been pushed into the enemy's position by himself.

And the words of the British Foreign Secretary made his heart cold.

"Besides, Britain is here to maintain order and peace in Europe, not to encourage you to provoke war. In this irrational situation, we have to be on the side of Paris. ”

Although Paris did not appear in person, Russell's words had already blocked Bismarck with nothing to say. What's more, the Anglo-French alliance whose true rumors are unknown, judging from the current partiality, Britain is more likely to be on the side of the French.

When Bismarck turned his head to look at the Russians, he gave up anyway.

There's nothing more helpless than facing a poor and crazy ally. Britain and Russia have made it clear that the two sides are in a conflict, the British will stand on the opposite side ironcladly, and the Russians will shout not to fight, not to fight, while secretly stepping on Germany a few times.

In the end, Bismarck could not resist the pressure and relented, but he also put forward a condition, that is, France must send representatives to Berlin to negotiate and revise the Paris contract.

Seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, Russell hurriedly agreed to Berlin's request, and as long as the most difficult one was solved, Paris would gladly agree.

However, to the surprise of Britain and Russia, Napoleon's attitude was more resolute than Bismarck's.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister Bismarck proposes to revise the Paris Peace Treaty with the French side."

"It seems that the pressure from Britain and Russia was not in vain, and we avoided a war," he said with a smile. ”

When Foreign Minister Dekaz handed him the telegram, he just glanced at it and reached for the candle on the table.

The paper was ignited in an instant, and the flame flickered in front of Napoleon.

"Your Excellency!"

Before Dekaz could stop it, the telegram slowly turned to ashes in the light of the fire, and Napoleon threw the burning telegram on the ground, and only after the flames had swallowed up the last handwriting, did he say disdainfully, "I do not accept his suggestion." ”

"But ......"

Dekaz was about to say something, but Napoleon interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"Your Excellency Dekaz, your father was also the prime minister of the Louis dynasty, didn't he inherit the slightest political sense from the Duke of Kadzu?"

Napoleon sighed, and the Duke of Eli Dekaz saw the storm of revolution come again and submitted his resignation to the king at the time. However, Louis did not agree, and finally transferred to the ambassador to the United Kingdom, avoiding this political turmoil. Although he showed the toughness he deserved on diplomatic issues, he always felt that the other party's methods were not as flexible as his father's.

"Of course, we will not back down, and if we want to revise the Paris Peace Treaty, there is no door. Did Bismarck really think that he won France once last year, and that he would be able to sit on our heads and point fingers for the rest of his life? Agreeing to Germany is the right thing, and then he will make more demands to force us to agree to them all, and when the time comes, in order to end the dispute as soon as possible and further weaken France, Britain will immediately abandon its ally and turn to Berlin, so I will not agree to any of Bismarck's conditions. ”

"But to do so is to make it impossible for both sides to get off the table."

Dekaz did not understand where Napoleon got his courage and rejected a negotiation in which the four empires converged. His brazenness made Dekaz feel that there were still some unrevealed cards behind him.

"The French army has been put in order, and now it is perfectly capable of fighting a bitter all-out war. If Bismarck thinks he can beat me, come on! The rise of the empire lacked a stepping stone, starting with the feud in France! ”

Napoleon made the most of the deception he had learned from Marshal Ojalkov, and the Foreign Secretary only thought that he was taking a tough political attitude, and Napoleon also used many tricks to confuse his political opponents in practice. For example, he frequently visits the embassies of various European countries in Paris, and releases the wind to the German ambassador and counselor, France may have a big move recently, but he must get the support of other countries.

However, Napoleon replied only one sentence to Bismarck's proposal to revise the Treaty of Paris.

"Let him dream."

"Call back to the French ambassador in Berlin, all this is Bismarck's own single-handedly provoked dispute, and now he still wants to bargain from France? Don't even think about it! ”