It was 10 p.m. when I arrived at the Hofburg Palace from the outskirts, and the 60-year-old prime minister got out of the car while passing through a street.

At this point in time, if there was no banquet, everyone was asleep, so Alfonso did not meet the emperor in the first place.

The next day, Alfonso met with the French delegation over breakfast.

The other party obviously knew him, but because they couldn't swap seats at will during the meal, and they couldn't greet each other from a long distance, they could only look at each other in the air.

Alfonso sensed that the atmosphere around the two French delegates was somewhat delicate.

How to put it, although there is not much difference between speech and behavior and other people, it just gives people the feeling of being excluded from elementary school.

"Rudolph, what's wrong with those two guys?" Alfonso quietly lowered his voice and asked Rudolph, who was sitting next to him.

"Those two." Rudolph swallowed the sausage in his mouth before he replied nonchalantly: "They are French, or Bonaparte, so they are not very popular." ”

It was the Bonapartist who was invited.

Alfonso kept his knife and fork in his hand, silently pondering this newfound information.

Austria-Hungary was a monarchy, and it was not surprising that from the standpoint of the royal family, it certainly could not support a local republic.

But the attitude of the people around me is a little intriguing.

Napoleon had been married to a Habsburg princess, but in recent years Bonaparte and Habsburg had a holiday with Hohenzollern, and the relationship between the two royal families has improved slightly.

At least in some of the private newspapers.

Before Nasan's surrender, the Madrid Critic even claimed that the two countries were "civilized people who were attacked together".

In such a situation, most of the people who dined with him were Habsburg relatives or Hofburg court nobles.

Even if these people don't like the Bonapartist very much, they don't have a sense of rejection.

…… It seems that it was not the idea of one or two emperors or prime ministers to act against Prussia, and in the Austro-Hungarian palace, the main war faction probably occupied the majority.

Thinking about things in his heart, he still has to socialize with the strange nobles around him.

Alfonso was frustrated by this, and the communication between European nobles was indeed extremely cumbersome.

This is still because of his identity and age to omit most of them, otherwise it will be more troublesome.

It's just a matter of semi-forcing to make small talk with the people next to you, and you have to try to avoid a series of sensitive topics such as politics, religion, and the military, and you can only chat about gas, pets, and some insignificant things, which is really torturous.

The reason why Alfonso is confined to the royal palace of Madrid every day as an otaku is partly this troublesome etiquette.

When the one-and-a-half-hour-long breakfast was over, Alfonso was chewing on a delicious cheese sausage like chewing a compressed cookie without any taste.

And at this time it was still impossible to get down to business, and Emperor Franz had already sent someone to invite them to the upper house of the Hofburg Imperial Palace, where the emperor would give a proper reception.

……

It was already 3 p.m. when everything was done, and the peace talks were held in a conference room of less than 300 square meters.

At the table sat three from Spain, two from France, two from Italy, and the rest were all Austro-Hungarians.

There is no way, unconditional surrender is a surrender to Austria-Hungary after all, although Spain has helped a lot, and has the vital Rome and Sicily, but it can only win the qualification to attend, and it is impossible to count on how much voice there is.

At the outset of the meeting, Prime Minister Boist gave Austria-Hungary a disposition: "The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venesia will be rebuilt and restored to the territory it had at the Congress of Vienna."

In addition to this, we will form a new kingdom in Romagna, with Bologna, Ravenna, Parma and Cesena under its administration.

The two kingdoms were to be incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Venerable Emperor Franz Joseph was to also serve as their king. ”

After speaking, Boist scanned everyone present with a sharp gaze, and everyone was very faceless and did not raise any objections, including the two representatives of the royal family of Savoy.

Although the two of them looked pained, neither of them knew that it was impossible to discuss, so in the end they didn't say anything.

But when the matter of forming a kingdom was decided, someone suddenly asked: "Does this mean that the crown territory of the Habsburgs will be further expanded?" ”

It was the Prime Minister of Hungary, Count Andráş, who spoke for the sake of the talks to cut Italy, and the entire Council of Ministers basically came, and as a member of it, Andrásch was naturally included.

(The Council of Ministers is the common government of Austria and Hungary, including the Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Military Affairs, the Emperor, the Prime Ministers of the two regions, and a number of Grand Dukes)

Hearing this, Boist hesitated a little, he turned his head and glanced at the emperor on the main seat, and when he saw that the other party nodded slightly, he gave an affirmative answer:

"Yes, according to the geographical division of the Leta River, both the Kingdom of Romagna and the Kingdom of Lombardy Venesia will be assigned to Neletania and be subject to the jurisdiction of the Austrian government."

Andráhi nodded: "Then I have no doubt, but if it is divided in this way, compared to when Austria-Hungary was established, Neletania will have nearly 10 million more people and 14 million pounds more revenue."

In this case, it would be unreasonable to make Hungary bear another 30 per cent of the total fiscal expenditure, and I propose to renegotiate the proportion of the fiscal expenditure to be handed over to the central government. ”

Hearing this, all the Austrians present showed more or less unhappy looks, including the emperor himself.

Although it stands to reason that both the Hungarian crown and the imperial crown are his, and it makes no difference to him who produces more and who produces less, in fact Austria itself is far more convenient to use than Hungary.

Moreover, in order to stabilize the Hungarians when Austria-Hungary compromised, it was originally given preferential policies.

Although there is an economic gap between Inner and Outer Letania, it is not more than twice as large.

But now Hungary has to make inches, and no one is happy about it.

However, when the other party asked, Boist expected such a play, and directly used the rules he had set at the beginning to push back:

"The Central Fiscal Council is held every 10 years, and it has only been three years since the last meeting, and it is not yet time to meet."

As soon as Andráhi wanted to refute, he heard Boist continue: "Moreover, Italy has just been hit by war, and how much population and income still need to be further confirmed.

If you want to convene a fiscal council in advance, please write a detailed discussion and report later, and if it is reasonable, the Imperial Council will discuss it formally. ”

There was a hint of concession in Boyster's words, and Andráhi thought about it, it was indeed impossible to give a solution to such a major problem on the spot, so in order not to let outsiders see the joke, he wisely kept silent.

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