Paris, France.

A farmer from Pomerania frowned, feeling that he was increasingly unable to understand the world.

On the one hand, Archduke Karl, who had made brilliant achievements, and on the other hand, Austria, which was unwilling to send troops, all this was extremely unreasonable.

You must know that the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, and the Habsburgs should have a plan to put such an important figure as Archduke Karl in Switzerland.

But the reality is that Austria has not taken much of it, only the so-called ancestral land of Allgäu and a ruined Eagle Castle.

The canton of Aargau is not small in Switzerland, but it is at best a candy for the behemoth of the Austrian Empire.

Is it necessary to take such a big risk for the sake of a small candy? Apparently impossible!

As for the rumors that people are now speculating that there is a large amount of gold buried under the Eagle Castle, it is even more nonsense, after all, if it has been dug up by the Swiss for so many years, how can it be kept.

Moreover, before the Habsburg family became the Emperor of the HRE, it was just a small family with no name, and coupled with the high gold price in the past, it would be good to have a few hundred gold coins.

But Bismarck is Bismarck after all, and since he can't seek the root from the point of interest, he should start from the victim.

He soon discovered that it was more appropriate for the Prussians to be pressed against the throat or asshole of the French, but the latter was less civilized and could be compared to the throat.

Neuchâtel had nothing in the Swiss Confederation before, but now the Swiss Confederation is no longer there and is replaced by the German Confederation.

The threat of the two was naturally incomparable, and Prussia at this time was like an arrow from the German Confederation, reaching the narrow throat of the French.

What's worse is that the French occupied two Swiss cantons near Neuchâtel, and if the two sides went to war, Prussia would inevitably be drawn into the war as pawns.

Add to this the Rhine region in the north, and the French have little reason not to make a move on Prussia first. This is really a bad move, but the master is to bring the dead chess back to life.

Bismarck was exactly that kind of person, and he quickly found a flaw in it, that is, Prussia could use these two Prussian royal fiefdoms to win the support of France, and maybe it would work wonders against Austria.

This is the only way to escape the fate of becoming an outpost of the German Confederation, but it is not known whether there will be such a king who has such courage.

Bismarck couldn't help but sigh: "It's good to have a foolish emperor who doesn't care about things." ”

At this time, the waiter of the restaurant came over and said politely.

"It's a total of one franc and five sous."

Bismarck took out a franc and six sousels and handed them to the waiter.

"The rest is a tip for you, no need to look for it, thank you."

Note: 1 franc = 20 sous = 100 centimes

"Thank you, sir, you are such a nice man!"

The waiter went happily with the tip, but Bismarck felt a subtle change, for the Parisians were so proud that even if they were a waiter, coolies would look down on foreigners.

But it was unusual for the waiters at this fine dining restaurant to thank themselves for their tips, and with robberies and thefts often occurring near the hotel where they were staying, it seemed that the French were getting harder and harder to make money.

Bismarck took his hat and fastened it on his head to leave, when he saw two bearded men, one tall and one short, one blond and one black and brown, entering, and both could see at a glance the identity of the other as Germans.

After a brief moment of stunnedness, Bismarck broke the silence first, and he took off his hat.

"Hello compatriots. But it doesn't matter if you're here to see the world or try your luck. I hope you get out of here as soon as possible. ”

"Why?"

The tall blonde asked with some confusion.

"It's going to rain."

"We're here to wait for the rainbow after the rain!"

"In my experience over the years, there may not be a rainbow after the rain, and there may be a plague."

The handsome blonde guy scratched his head a little, as has been the case in Prussia in recent years, when it rains, the city is full of filth.

Then there was the flu and the plague, which caused the workers in his factory to work hard for a year and finally gave it all to the doctors, and some even lost their lives to save money, and he couldn't understand it until he met his lifelong friend.

"How do you know without looking?"

The black-haired man who was relatively short on the side said, of course, short is only relative to the two elders around him, in this era when the average height is less than 1.7 meters, 1.8 meters is still very tall, but the two next to him are 1.9 meters, and they are both from military backgrounds.

"That's just good luck. But if you want to see a bigger storm, I suggest you go to Vienna. ”

"Paris is the heart of Europe!"

"Now it is, but soon it won't. And the wind at the center of the storm is often not the strongest, but the side is. ”

"How?"

"Humanism originated in Italy, and Joseph II was the most radical of his time, but the real storm destroyed France. Now times have changed. ”

The two sides passed by, Bismarck returned to Prussia, while the two bearded men were ready to receive the most advanced ideas in Paris and witness the beginning of the storm together.

Spain.

The civil war was in full swing, and the two sides had no intention of backing down, and even typhoons, torrential rains, flash floods, and volcanic eruptions could not prevent the civil war from coming to an abrupt end.

The British economy collapsed because of the spoils of the Palmerston negotiations. Palmerston was not a mediocre man, and after two walks around the German Confederation, he came to the news that the intelligence services had not been able to find out for several years.

The price of grain in the German Confederation was much lower than in Britain, and through the special ties of the British crown, he could open up channels for smuggling.

So Palmerston decided to exchange all the expected banknotes in his hand for grain, and ship them to Hanover, and then from Hanover back to England, and then sell them after arriving in England, so that he could not only make a perfect difference, but also earn the difference.

This batch of grain was sold at a low price in the London market, and as a result, the grain merchants in London finally could not stand it.

Because the grain merchants kept the price of food high by borrowing money, and the grain from Austria and Ireland came regularly.

So they could deal with it in advance, and the loot that Palmerston brought back from the German Confederation was clearly not in their plans.

But in order to sell the stolen goods as quickly as possible, Palmerston kept the price of grain very low, which forced the grain merchants to eat the grain immediately, and the result was that the capital chain was broken.

At the same time, financiers who saw the bad situation withdrew their funds and demanded that the grain merchants pay off their arrears, which had no choice but to sell the grain.

As a result, food prices plummeted, more grain merchants went bankrupt, and then they grew in size, until eventually many grain merchants became insolvent, causing financiers to fail to recover their costs and go bankrupt.

Then the bigger banks and the bigger financiers demanded that the bankrupts pay their debts, and the bankrupts began to sell their bonds

(End of chapter)