Chapter 91—Victoria's Secret Letter (Part II)
Possibility three:
Tom has no intention of exchanging Mexican power for a "false name", but is just looking for a reliable "thigh" to stabilize his position in Central America through the "false name of the title" and "ridiculous marriage".
This is also what Great Britain thinks is the most likely possibility after analyzing Tom's deeds.
The Second Mexican Empire has been nominally "attached" to Austria-Hungary, but has not actually joined Austria-Hungary, or paid taxes to Austria-Hungary or anything, and because of Dixie's conflict with the Yankees, it has not joined the United States as a new state.
In the eyes of Great Britain, this shows that Tom is actually looking for the right thighs.
The status and rights given by Austria-Hungary were too low, and more importantly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire lost the foreign war, and Prussia came from behind to dominate Germany.
At this time, Great Britain took advantage of the "marquis" given by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and then took advantage of the situation to attack Tom, taking advantage of the world economic crisis and the European famine, when the European powers had no spare power, to take the largest power in Central America - the heroine force.
Great Britain is now the most powerful force in the world, and Great Britain believes in how Tom will choose "thighs".
Of course, choose Great Britain, the thickest "thigh" in the world.
Unfortunately, both the feudal capitalists of Great Britain and the aristocracy of continental Europe made the mistake of thinking that Tom, who did not allow the Second Mexican Empire to join the United States, was pursuing a "European master" to protect himself.
These arrogant Europeans did not expect that Tom looked down on any European power, let alone any "fat thigh".
After considering the dispute over the political interests behind the letter from Queen Victoria, Tom wanted to laugh and laugh.
Laugh at these pretentious Europeans.
Whether it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Second French Empire, or the Kingdom of Great Britain and Prussia, they all tacitly agreed to one thing: Tom's Second Mexican Empire needed the protection of the European powers or the United States of America.
If Tom didn't have a "prescient vision" of the afterlife, he might really find a European "thigh".
But Tom knows that the decline of the Europeans is in the near future.
The Europeans are the world bosses? Is it the protagonist of the world? The king of the world?
Now it is, but it won't always be.
In about 30 years at most, the United States of America, a "child" country born in 1787 and now less than 100 years old, will be able to rely on its unique geographical advantages, abundant mineral resources, and unique and the most "enlightened" political system of this era to become a "giant" super-industrial body that surpasses the rest of the world combined.
Later, in the two world wars that occurred successively in the past few decades, he became the world's "talker" in one fell swoop with the help of his industrial strength of "contempt for the world".
This status has been throughout Tom's later memories, even when Tom was a junior in college, the United States of America was the only "superpower" in the world, the only "world policeman", even if it lost its terrifying absolute industrial volume dominance.
The "emperor" of the American Dixie people, the spiritual leader of the American rednecks, and the de facto rulers of Texas and Mexico, why should you "kings" who will "decline" sooner or later hug your thighs?
Tom pulled out his golden fake cigarette and took a few deep breaths of filtered air to calm down until his mood was completely restored.
Tom opened the "gift" that the representative of Great Britain had selected from dozens of documents.
This "gift" also deeply attracted Tom's attention, which was too suitable for Tom's current situation.
For the first time, Tom felt how it was to be presented with a proposal that he couldn't refuse.
This "gift" is just a simple cooperation agreement.
Tripartite agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Second Mexican Empire, the North German Confederation (Kingdom of Prussia).
From beginning to end, there was no mention of the other countries, especially the two nominal suzerains of the Second Mexican Empire, the Second French Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which were simply trilateral agreements.
At the same time, there is no mention of the marriage between the two ruling families, it is a simple exchange of interests, and Tom nods with a smile, which is Tom's favorite type of agreement.
The content of the agreement is very simple, and it is nothing more than a very ordinary agreement between countries such as trade, tariff agreements, and guarantees of mutual non-aggression.
What seems to be an ordinary agreement of equality between countries is a murderous one, implying the humiliation of Austria-Hungary and the Second French Empire and the temptation of Tom, who has just entered the political arena.
The former humiliation was to expose the "nominal" leadership of the two empires, but in fact to the Second Mexican Empire and Austria-Hungary. Nothing has changed in the actual relations between the Second French Empire.
Great Britain is "lifting the scars" to disgust the Second French Empire and Austria-Hungary, and to reduce the diplomatic power and domestic credibility of the other government.
It is easy to understand if Great Britain wants to test Tom, a capitalist who has become the "lord of a land", understands this kind of political "twists and turns".
Politics is so interesting, sometimes just putting the actual "thing" from the secret to the table, is a big "earthquake" that turns the world upside down!
Tom knew that the successful signing of this agreement between the three countries would be tantamount to a declaration that the Second Mexican Empire had absolute autonomy and could decide on all sovereign matters in the country.
This seemingly ordinary trilateral trade agreement had as much influence on the Second Mexican Empire as the Declaration of Independence signed by the United States a hundred years ago.
The Second Mexican Empire also officially transformed from a nominal "puppet state" of the Second French Empire into the second independent state in the Americas with absolute autonomy.
And Tom has long needed a "step" to make the Second Mexican Empire completely draw a perfect "end" with the Second French Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Tom's direct decision to break with the Second Mexican Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a far different political impact from the Triple Agreement, in which Tom "unwittingly" signed a trilateral treaty of friendship and trade to assert the sovereignty of the Second Mexican Empire.
The simplest difference is in terms of public opinion.
The former is an unceremonious tearing of the skin, and the credibility of the two governments in the eyes of the domestic people is unavoidably plummeting.
In the latter, the rulers of the Second French Empire and Austria-Hungary were able to "falsely promote" these "ugly things" in their propaganda, even if there was no difference in reality, and there were many wordgames to cover up the "ugly things" in propaganda.
If the "gifts" brought by the representative of Great Britain are only these, they are not worthy of the name of the European-stirring stick, and the representative of Great Britain has not appeared in the "finale".