Chapter 100: The Queen's Daughter
Tom thinks from the perspective of Great Britain.
First of all, the domestic situation of the Habsburgs and the Second French Empire, as well as the "cards" in their hands, were at a glance in the eyes of Great Britain, and Great Britain could guess in minutes what "false name" France and Habsburg could give Tom.
If it is high, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among domestic conservatives, and in the context of the economic crisis and the previous excessive sale of agricultural products, which led to famine in the country,
The conservatives were old feudal lords who controlled a lot of land and domestic agriculture, and the Habsburg and French governments did not dare to upset the domestic conservatives.
It's low, and it doesn't necessarily impress the real "emperor" of Mexico - Tom.
After several entanglements, the highest is nothing more than the position of marquis, and it is absolutely impossible to be a duke, you know, if the Grand Dukes of Hungary know that a Mesoamerican Spaniard has become a duke, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will have to dissolve the next day.
The royalists in France will also make a fuss because of this grand duke who appeared out of thin air, and the queen faction of France may be because of this civil strife.
The Empress faction was originally an alliance between the Napoleonic aristocracy and the old Bourbon aristocracy in order to strengthen the imperial power, and the sudden division of an archduke, even if it was an overseas grand duke with far more real power than the emperor, would cause violent turmoil among the conservatives.
After analyzing the European continent, let's look at Tom's side.
In the eyes of Great Britain, there may be a variety of individuals in this world, but it is much more difficult to analyze a single interest group.
Great Britain must consider Tom as a "man" from many sources as a "man" and how he will behave.
Possibility one:
If Tom is a "fool" who is in love with fame, or even in love with a woman who is a marquis and marries a down-and-out nobleman, he directly relinquishes part of the power in Mexico, and directly agrees to the Habsburg proposal.
Then, after Tom saw this autograph of Victoria, he would definitely pursue a higher nameβthe throne and his marriage to the Hanoverian dynasty.
Even if Tom admired the Habsburg royal family to the point of "throwing himself into the ground", rejected this "generous gift" written by Queen Victoria herself, and insisted on the low-ranking title from Habsburg alms, Great Britain buried a thorn deep in Tom's heart.
It's hard for Tom not to think about things like this:
"My Tom shed blood and paid for the Habsburgs, and the result was only a marquis, and the list of wives was only a few women born of a down-and-out nobleman."
"And Great Britain has nothing to do with me, and as soon as it comes up, it gives me the courtesy of marriage to the queen."
This kind of differential treatment will certainly become a "stinger" for Tom's growing dissatisfaction with the Habsburgs, an old family with no overseas power.
Possibility two:
Tom was hesitating to agree to the "marquis" of the Habsburgs and France.
Tom, who was hesitant to see the position of marquis, was certainly not so "loyal" to the Habsburg royal family, either absolutely loyal or disloyal.
did not agree to the Habsburg royal family of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the first time, in the eyes of Great Britain, it was Tom who was holding the "Mexican throne" to "wait for the price to sell".
This superstition written by Queen Victoria of the Hanover royal family will also have a high probability of making Tom take refuge in Great Britain.
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 always been nominally "attached" to Austria-Hungary, but has not actually joined Austria-Hungary, or paid taxes to Austria-Hungary or anything.
And because of the conflict between the Dixie and the Yankees, Tom did not declare that the Second Mexican Empire would join the United States as a new state.
In the eyes of Great Britain, all kinds of deeds show that Tom is actually looking for the right thigh.
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.
Great Britain believes that as long as it takes advantage of the situation to attack Tom after the "marquis position" given by Austria-Hungary,
He will definitely be able to take advantage of the world economic crisis and the Great Famine in Europe, and take advantage of the fact that the European powers have no spare power to take down 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".
In the eyes of Great Britain, Tom's best choice is, of course, to 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 took place in the past few decades, the United States of America became the world's "talker" in one fell swoop with the help of its industrial strength that "defied the world".
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 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?
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