Chapter 363: Participants

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" For this, Prince Karl can only express his gratitude, because Sigmaringen is the weakest, and there is no way to do it.

Of course, in addition to Germany, there is also Romania behind Sigmaringen, just to win over Romania, the German government also knows what to do, for Germany, Romania's geographical location is very important, is an important link between Germany and Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

"It's all for Hohenzollern!" Konstantin thanked Prince Karl and accepted it with peace of mind.

"This Berlin conference, we royal family members will not go, and choose one of the ministers with outstanding ability to go to Berlin to participate in this international conference." Ernst said to his father.

There are only a few members of the Heixingen royal family, naturally they can't run away wantonly, this is not only responsible for themselves, but also responsible for the country, even if Ernst visited Europe last time, he was actually not very willing.

If Friedrich grows up in the future, then Ernst can consider it, and what Ernst fears most now is his inheritance, which will die violently with the death of the Heshingen royal family.

Therefore, when it comes to the safety of the royal family, Ernst will not be sloppy, such as the Berlin Conference, when the time comes, it will definitely be necessary to take a boat first, and then transfer the train.

Moreover, there is still time for the meeting, which is very different from the last visit to Europe, and the current world transportation experience is too poor, Ernst does not want to toss and turn again.

Konstantin also thought so, the last time Ernst visited Europe, although there was a naval escort, in fact Konstantin was still terrified.

There are a lot of other nobles in Europe, a lot of relatives, of course, there are many of the Heixingen royal family, but Sigmaringen, which is closest to the Heixingen royal family, has already been out of the five suits, that is, everyone bears the name Hohenzollern.

All in all, the scarcity of the Heshingen royal family greatly restricted the activities of the Hexingen royal family, which is why Ernst has been working hard to expand the royal population.

"Well, this kind of international conference should also be the first time we have participated in East Africa, and we are participating as a powerful country, so the participants must not be sloppy, at least they must be familiar with the etiquette of the European aristocracy to avoid mistakes." Konstantin said.

Most officials in East Africa are certainly deficient in this regard, after all, aristocratic etiquette is not a compulsory course for East African officials.

After all, in this era, the center of civilization is Europe, and the cultural discourse in Europe is in the hands of the aristocracy.

"Let's let Si Te go! Thinking is young, after all, going to sea is a troublesome thing, young also means strong endurance, and the business ability of Thinking is also up to standard, the most important thing is that the relevant experience is relatively rich. ”

It is true that Swift has visited many countries, but those countries are long gone, those are the indigenous countries that dealt with East Africa in the past, except for those who fled to West Africa, and now there is not even a slag left.

Moreover, the chiefs who visit Africa are naturally different from going to Europe for meetings, and East Africa is naturally pretending to be whatever they want in front of the African natives, after all, the natives have no civilization, and East Africa is the dominant party, so there is no need to be polite to the natives.

This time to Berlin is different, East Africa will definitely take sides, at least to make a lot of exchange of interests.

The countries participating in this meeting are basically world powers recognized by the mainstream consciousness of European society, and only three countries are not in Europe, namely the Ottoman Empire, the United States and East Africa.

Other, what Norway, Denmark...... They are all counted among the world powers, which is indeed a bit unreasonable, such as Norway, in Ernst's impression, has always been a country with no sense of existence, except for some resources, nothing special.

As for the welfare of Norway in the previous life, it was more attractive, which is common to the Nordic countries, but it is based on the fact that it is backed by a large European market and has a small population.

In fact, Norway's icy environment would not have been able to increase its population if it had grown naturally.

In the 19th century, Norway had nothing, and it could not reach the word "strong country" in any index, and its only advantage may be "traditional European independent country".

Of course, the strength of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Tsarist Russia, Great Britain, and France is still worthy of respect.

As for the United States, it is too far away from East Africa, and the Ottoman Empire is the one that cut the flesh in the past, and the territory of North Africa in these years of the Ottoman Empire has been left to be self-governing by the local flag, and the autonomy of the flag is considered good, most of which are directly independent from the Ottoman Empire, or occupied by other powers.

The Ottoman Empire, which had a strong influence in North Africa, was certainly not pleasing at the Berlin Conference, which was intended to carve up the continent.

In fact, without the rise of East Africa in south-central Africa, the whole of Africa would have been a piece of fat on the Europeans' plate.

The most important point of the rise of East Africa is to make this Berlin Conference more worthy of the name, after all, there was not even a single African country in the previous life, and this time with the participation of East Africa, East Africa is also the master of half of Africa.

"Our attitude at this Berlin Conference is still mainly to support the German state, but I don't recommend expressing our attitude too clearly, and it is better to be consistent with Austria-Hungary in this matter, because both of us are actually only extraterritorial." Ernst said.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, like its predecessors, was not enthusiastic about its colonies, or rather weak-hearted, mainly because of its geographical disadvantage, and was disturbed by East Africa, and now the form of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is very different from that of its predecessors.

Take the last Russian-Turkish war as an example, the last Russian-Turkish war was an important reason for the rapid breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia in the previous life, after all, the Ottoman Empire was defeated too quickly in the previous life, and Tsarist Russia fought all the way to Constantinople, which caused panic in Austria-Hungary, for fear that Russia would monopolize the interests of the Balkan Peninsula.

And in this life, not to mention the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which annexed part of the territory of Italy, itself is more confident in its own strength, and the Russian-Turkish War was not very well fought by Tsarist Russia with the help of countries around the world, and finally it became a stalemate, so Austria-Hungary sat more firmly in Diaoyutai.

The rational Austro-Hungarian Empire naturally did not overreact to anger Tsarist Russia as it did in its previous life, leading to the disintegration of the Three Emperors Alliance.

Of course, the relationship between Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia is not very good, and in the Russo-Turkish War, Austria-Hungary still made some small moves, such as the Bosnia region being included in Austria-Hungary.

However, on the whole, the relationship between the two countries has been greatly eased compared to the previous life, and with the mediation of Germany, the alliance of the Three Emperors can still be maintained.

Of course, this also has something to do with Italy, in this life the unification of Italy has come to naught, and there will be one less "great power" in Europe, and Germany and Austria-Hungary will naturally not choose Italy as an ally like in previous lives.

This is a good thing for the two countries, after all, Italy's accession may often cause more harm than good, and in the previous life, before the start of the war, Italy directly jumped back, which was an important reason for the defeat of the Allies.

(End of chapter)