“.” Franz was speechless for a while, it seems that the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass.

Franz looked at Taria, and saw that Taria's head was shaking like a rattle.

Franz had wanted to tell Friedrich that Talia was going to be the president of the Royal Women's Academy in Vienna and didn't want to think about such a thing for the time being.

But then I thought about it, wouldn't this be a target again, the kid on the other side obviously regarded himself as a competitor, if he helped Talia speak again, I was afraid that this kid's misunderstanding would be deeper.

It may be cruel, but Talia has to deal with it herself, and Franz doesn't have much energy to share it with her.

"As long as Miss Talia herself agrees, it is her freedom to go and stay after her term is over."

Franz kicks the ball back to Talia, who herself does not yearn for the marriage of the nobles, and even sneers at the nobles' view of love, she does not want to be anyone's lover.

She prefers to be the principal rather than be a noble lover, and Talia understands what Franz means, which is to give her the opportunity to choose for herself, and at the same time give both parties a cooling-off period to think.

Franz's approach is very sensible and thoughtful, and people can't find anything wrong, but Talia has a little disappointment in her heart.

Friedrich looked at Talia expectantly, and Talia smiled back with a very standard smile, but her eyes did not look at him.

Friedrich was not a man with a childish relationship, and he quickly entered the role, leading the conversation to the Turkish-Egyptian conflict.

"Franz, you say that the Egyptians are expanding their armaments and are ready to move? Why didn't the Empire's intelligence department notice it, I'm also a naval staff officer, but I don't have any news at all, could it be that Count Tular deliberately concealed it? ”

Franz shook his head.

The Treaty of Kütahya gave Egypt a large part of the Ottoman Empire, but Ali Pasha still had to pay a symbolic annual tax to the Ottoman Sultan, whom the Ottoman Sultan had always regarded as a disgrace and wanted to take revenge on Egypt.

In short, the Treaty of Kütahya was not a peace agreement, but an armistice, and the deadline was when one of the parties felt that the time was ripe. ”

Friedrich knew the contents of the Treaty of Kütahya, but it was signed at the urging of the five major European powers, so did Egypt and the Ottomans really have the audacity to challenge the European order?

"Does anyone really dare to break the order? Don't they know what the consequences are? ”

"But now Britain, France and Russia have their own ghosts, the French are now eye-to-eye with the Egyptians, the Egyptians' technology is given by the French, and France is also the biggest financier of the Egyptian Ali government.

The Russians were busy embezzling the Ottoman legacy, and as long as the Egyptians did not touch the Russians' bottom line, they wished that the Egyptians would continue to weaken the Ottoman Empire.

Britain was the only one who wanted to keep the Ottoman Empire intact in order to maximize its own interests, but in this way Britain was at odds with Russia, France, and Egypt.

Will we and Prussia really pay a huge price for the problems of the Near East?

Theoretically, the Egyptians had the opportunity to fish in troubled waters by taking advantage of the contradictions between European countries and the distribution of interests. ”

However, in history, the European powers did not give the Egyptians a chance to directly unite to sanction Egypt, so that Egypt completely withdrew from the historical stage of the struggle for hegemony.

"But Franz, you know, our Austrian Empire has almost no interests in Egypt and Western Asia, so why get involved in such a thing?" Friedrich asked.

"But the Austrian Empire is the maker and defender of order, and if the Austrian Empire retreats, then of course the face of the Empire will be gone, and even its original position will be deprived." Franz replied.

"But this is just your speculation, or wishful thinking, even if you are the future heir to the throne, if I send what you said to the Ministry of War, I'm afraid I will only be made fun of."

"As you say, all this is just a child's guess of mine, but I can give you some data, which are all documents of the Prime Minister's Office of Metternich."

Talia pulled out a box and started fighting, containing a thick stack of papers.

The Egyptian government has taken tough measures on the economy, controlling 95% of exports and 40% of imports, with cotton trade 256 times higher than before the last war, which alone can provide the Egyptian government with nearly a million pounds in revenue every year.

The Egyptians built their own arsenal in Cairo, using techniques that the French had eliminated, and could build four cannons and seven hundred rifles a month.

The total strength of the Egyptians was 210,000 and was trained by French instructors.

On the naval side, the two large shipyards have been able to increase the combat strength of the Egyptian Navy every year, and have purchased dozens of warships in France, which is far more powerful than it was back then.

And what shocked Friedrich the most was that there were actually nine first-class battleships under construction in the Alexander dockyard in Egypt.

There is an element of exaggeration, because most of the warships sold by the French to the Egyptians were scrapped ships and refits, and the shipbuilding skills of the Egyptians were not up to par, and the first-class battleships they built were equivalent to the level of third-class battleships in Europe.

Just reading the report, Friedrich's palms were covered with beads of sweat, after all, according to naval intelligence, the Egyptians' ships were mainly light gunboats and dhows.

What Friedrich didn't know was that the naval intelligence he saw had been compiled ten years earlier.

It may be that the contrast between the front and back is huge, at this time Friedrich's hands are a little trembling, and Franz is also thinking about whether he has changed Prime Minister Metternich's government report too much, after all, the real strength of the opponent is far beyond previous expectations.

At this moment, Friedrich burst out laughing and tapped the information in his hand.

"Interesting! If the Egyptian navy can be completely annihilated in their dockyards, then the navy of our Austrian Empire will surely become famous. ”

In just a few minutes, Friedrich not only decided to wipe out the Egyptian navy, but also formulated a set of tactics for this purpose, and even predicted the course and outcome of the battle.

"If the existing naval ships of the Austrian Empire are refitted, how soon will they be able to build up combat power?" Franz asked suddenly.

"One to three months, it's not difficult to modify, but the soldiers need to be familiar with the operation. The Imperial Austrian Navy has always been underfunded, and many departments of the navy are not manned in peacetime, but are only hired in time of war. Friedrich explained.

"And how long will it take to gather enough troops for an ocean-going operation?"

"Ocean-going warfare? Since its foundation, the Imperial Austrian Navy has not made a single real ocean-going voyage. ”

"What? Are you scared? ”

"Do you think such a clumsy agitation method will work for me?"

"And what do you mean?"

"Where is the enemy? Is it Mexico? ”

Mexican rebels, with the support of the United States, blockaded the ports of the Mexican government forces, and Mexico appealed to France for help, but was refused, and the vice president of Tasan Anna smuggled to Vienna in a small boat, where he appealed to the Austrian Empire and asked to see Archduke Franz Karl.

However, the Regency Council relentlessly delayed, and Count Korollav supported helping the Mexican government forces fight the rebels, while Metternich opposed meddling in Mexican affairs, after all, the Austrian Empire did not have enough troops and financial resources to fight for others.

"No, it's real La." Franz replied.

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