War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Paris France.

A farmer from Pomerania was frowning. He felt that he could not understand the world more and more.

On the one hand, there was Archduke Karl who had achieved brilliant results, and on the other hand, Austria was unwilling to send troops. All this was extremely unreasonable.

You must know that a lion fights a rabbit with all its strength. The Habsburg family must have a conspiracy to place such an important figure as Archduke Karl in Switzerland.

But the reality is that Austria did not take away many things, only the so-called ancestral land of Allgäu and an Eagle Castle that was in ruins.

Aargau is not a small country in Switzerland, but for the beast of the Austrian Empire, it can only be regarded as a candy at best.

Is it necessary to take such a big risk for a small candy? Obviously impossible!

As for the current rumors that there is a large amount of gold buried under the Eagle Fort, it is even more nonsense. After all, if it has been poached by the Swiss for so many years, how can it be kept?

Moreover, before the Habsburg family became prosperous and became the Emperor of the Shinra, it was just a small and unknown family. Coupled with the high price of gold in the past, it would be good to have a few hundred gold coins.

But Bismarck is Bismarck after all. Since we cannot seek the fundamentals from the perspective of interests, we should start from the victims.

He soon discovered a problem, that is, the Prussian had already pressed against the French's throat, or it would be more appropriate to say it was the asshole, but the latter was not very civilized, so it was better to use the throat as a comparison.

Neuchâtel was not a big deal in the Swiss Confederation before, but now the Swiss Confederation is no longer there, replaced by the German Confederation.

The threats from the two are naturally different. At this time, Prussia was like an arrow from the German Confederation, hitting the narrow throat of the French.

What's even more terrible is that the French have occupied two Swiss cantons near Neuchâtel. Once the two sides go to war, Prussia will definitely be involved in the war as a pawn.

Coupled with the Rhineland in the north, the French had almost no reason not to attack Prussia first. This is really a bad move, but the master is that he can survive the checkmate game.

Bismarck was this kind of person, and he quickly found a flaw in it, that is, Prussia could use these two Prussian royal territories to win the support of France, which might have a miraculous effect against Austria.

Only in this way can we escape the fate of becoming an outpost of the German Confederation, but I don't know if there will be such a king with such courage.

Bismarck couldn't help but sigh, "It would be nice to have a fool emperor who doesn't care about anything."

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

"The total is one franc and five sous."

Bismarck took out one franc and six sous and handed it to the waiter.

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

Note: One franc = twenty sous = one hundred centimes

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

The waiter left happily with the tip, but Bismarck felt a subtle change, because Parisians are very proud, and even a waiter or coolie will look down on foreigners.

But at this time, the waiter in this high-end restaurant actually thanked him for the tip, which was very unusual. Moreover, robberies and thefts often occurred near the hotel where he stayed. It seemed that it was becoming increasingly difficult for the French to earn money.

Bismarck picked up his hat and put it on his head and was about to leave. At this time, he saw two bearded men, one tall and one short, one blond and one black and brown, walking in. Both sides could tell at a glance that each other was German.

After both parties were briefly stunned, it was Bismarck who broke the silence first and took off his hat.

"Hello, compatriots. But whether you are here to see the world or to try your luck. I hope you leave here as soon as possible."

"Why?"

The tall blond handsome guy asked with some confusion.

"It's going to rain."

"We are just here to wait for the rainbow after the rain!"

"Based on my years of experience, there may not necessarily be a rainbow after the rain, but there may also be a plague."

The handsome blond boy scratched his head a little. In recent years, Prussia has been like this. When it rains, filth flows across the city.

Then came the widespread influenza and plague, which caused the workers in his factory to work hard for a year and finally gave them all to the doctor. Some people even lost their lives in order to save money. He could not understand all this until he met the man of his life. 's best friend.

"How would you know if you don't look?"

The relatively short black-haired man on the side said, of course, the shortness is only compared to the two tall men next to him. In this era when the average height per person is less than 1.7 meters, 1.8 meters is still very tall. Unfortunately, the two people next to him are tall. Mi Jiu's, and they are all soldiers.

"Then I can only wish you good luck. But if you want to see bigger storms, I suggest you go to Vienna."

"Paris is the center of Europe!"

"It is now, but soon it won't be. And the winds are often not strongest in the center of the storm, but on the side."

"How to say?"

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

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

Spain.

The civil war was in full swing, and both sides showed no intention of retreating. Even typhoons, heavy rains, flash floods, and volcanic eruptions could not stop the civil war, which suddenly came to an abrupt end.

The British economy collapsed, and the cause was actually the spoils brought back by Palmerston's negotiations. Palmerston was not a mediocre person. After two rounds of shopping in the German Confederation, he came up with information that the intelligence agencies had not been able to find out for several years.

The price of food in the German Confederation was much lower than that in Britain, and through the special relationship of the British royal family, he could open up smuggling channels.

So Palmerston decided to exchange all the expected money in his hands into grain, transport it to Hanover first, then transport it back to England from Hanover, and then sell it after arriving in England. Earn the difference.

This batch of grain was sold at a low price in the London market. As a result, London's grain merchants finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Because grain merchants maintain high grain prices by borrowing money, and grain from Austria and Ireland comes regularly.

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

However, in order to sell the stolen goods as quickly as possible, Palmerston kept the price of grain very low, which forced grain merchants to eat this batch of grain immediately. As a result, the capital chain was broken.

At the same time, financiers who saw the situation was not good have withdrawn their capital and asked grain merchants to pay off their debts. The latter had no choice but to sell grain.

The result was that grain prices plummeted, and more grain merchants went bankrupt, and then the scale became larger and larger. Finally, many grain merchants became insolvent, causing financiers to go bankrupt after being unable to recover their costs.

Then the bigger banks and the bigger financiers asked the bankrupt people to repay their debts, so the bankrupt people started selling their bonds.