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The last question still fell on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Like Emperor Franz's growing age and temper, Austro-Hungarian diplomacy became more and more scheming and old-fashioned.

Regarding Austro-Hungarian diplomacy, Emperor Franz always had a standard in his heart, that is, only after mutual recognition of the personal character of the monarchs of both sides, and by strengthening the intimate personal feelings between the two monarchs, is the anchor that fixes the boat of friendship between the two monarchs.

As for the only France without an emperor in Europe, Emperor Franz doesn't want to watch it.

Because of this old-fashioned personality like a knight, Emperor Franz attached more importance to the friendship between the two sides, but instead paid attention to the so-called exchange of interests in diplomacy.

Of course, this is just His Majesty’s personal diplomatic view. In the true diplomatic practice of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there will always be various interests-oriented deviations in Austro-Hungarian diplomacy.

Like the newly appointed Baron Heinrich Karl von Heimer, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in November this year, Emperor Franz also replaced his minister of the Austrian Empire (Note 1). He was the 14th Prime Minister of the eleventh Viscount Tafe and the German Edward Tafe again served as prime minister. This is also the 14th Prime Minister in just over thirty years since the Austrian Empire established the position of prime minister in 1848.

Yes, one of them is the Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire, and the other is the Prime Minister of the Austrian Empire. The two have no affiliation. According to the provisions of the dual monarchy of the Austrian Empire, the ministers of the Austrian Empire and the kingdom of Hungary, the chiefs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, War and Finance of the Austrian Empire were also directly appointed by Emperor Franz.

In the Berlin Prince's Palace, he discussed the diplomacy of Austro-Hungarian Empire with his father and Prime Minister Bismarck many times. Because Lord Bismarck kept cursing the Baron Heimer's stubbornness in the German-Australian covenant, Joey understood that the heir of Count Andrach was extremely disgusted by Lord Bismarck.

It was also through the emotions that the Prime Minister inadvertently revealed that Joey understood that Bismarck was particularly fond of Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Moscow, the Magyarite Sigmund Gravvn Kolospatak Karnoki.

In history, Baron Heimerle, who had been in the position of Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister for less than two years, Joey was not aware of his true diplomatic level, but he was extremely familiar with Viscount Xiangtafe of the Austrian Empire and the Foreign Minister of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Karnoki, and Joey was famous for his "unresponsible" rule style in Europe in the 19th century, and two famous leaders in the golden age of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Joey knew that these two were the most bizarre figures in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's history in less than a hundred years. They all thanked to the blessings of Austrian history in the history of the real middle school in his previous life.

The most famous deed of these two gentlemen staying in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is that Viscount Tafe, who was born in the German, hated the Germans very much, but loved the Slavs to death. Similarly, Karnokyi, a Catholic born in the Magyar, did not love Catholics, but loved the Orthodox people who were bullied by Catholics.

From the perspective of human emotions, loving something or a person can easily lead to the relationship between love and love the house and Ukraine. However, these two famous figures are just the opposite. As the leading figures of the Eslavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who actively opposed Russia, during their nearly twenty years of rule, they have been trying hard to question the correctness of the three emperors of Germany, Austria and Russia. Just like a patient with paranoia who suffers from paranoia, they always doubt that Russia has harbored ill intentions towards Austro-Hungary.

It would be fine if these two men just sat in the palace's State Department (architecture name - hofkanz1ei, the center of power in Austria-Hungary, the symbolic meaning is equivalent to Downing Street, Osai Pier, William Street) or cursed hysterically in Austria-Hungary newspapers, but these two gentlemen first paid and shot to help the Principality of Seville independence from the Ottoman Empire, and then encouraged the Grand Duke of Alexander of Bulgaria to expel the Russian army, and were all determined to cause trouble for Tsarist Russia. Then they were afraid that they would not have enough trouble and forced the Tisa family, who ruled the Kingdom of Hungary, to increase oppression of the Croats.

Of course, as the minister of the Hungarian Kingdom, Tisa Kalman, the actual steward of the Tisa family, was not a good-for-nothing lamp. When oppressing the Croats, he cleverly turned the sharp contradiction with the oppressed Croats to the Serbs, the darling of these two gentlemen, rather than the Magyar master who oppressed the Croats.

Finally, these two gentlemen dreamed of taking back Catholic Romania and occupying Bosnia by the way. As for Negoro, Macedonia, Epirus and Greece, the more the better.

In short, these two gentlemen will do whatever they spoil the Yugoslavs internally, and will cause trouble for Russia externally, and will not save the Germans. How can they cause trouble for the Ottomans?

If the powder keg that led to World War I was the Balkans, and the initiator of the powder keg that turned the Balkans was these two gentlemen.

Idiots are not scary, but the most terrifying thing is an extremely diligent idiot. Austro-Hungary has a pair, and it is hard to even die.

Judging from the consistent appearance time between Viscount Tafe and Baron Heimer and his previous life, Joey is sure that his wings traveled through time have only suffocated a battle so far. The imperial and Russian naval adventure that was not in his previous life has not scrambled the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In other words, if you follow your known history, in the next few years, Lord Bismarck in front of you will not be able to withstand the two Austro-Hungarians' nagging for many years, and eventually promote a new alliance of the Three Emperors, the German, Austrian and Italian alliances.

In Joey's eyes, this new Three Emperors alliance is actually worse than the old Three Emperors alliance of Germany, Austria and Russia. In the old Three Emperors alliance, Austria and Russia are actually fighting for the interests of the sphere of influence in the Balkans. So far, there has been no direct war or direct territorial disputes between Austria and Russia.

There is a big difference between Austrian and Italian countries. The unification of the Italian Kingdom was based on the decline of the Austrian Empire. Today, in 1879, the two countries were still entangled in the former Adriatic territory of the Venetian Republic.

The Italians insisted that as an inalienable part of the history of the Kingdom of Italy, Italy naturally had sovereignty over the territory of the Republic of Venice, including the territory of the Republic of Venice in the Adriatic Sea, that is, the sovereignty over the present Croatia.

The Italian people and officials have always been resentful and even held grudges about Austro-Hungary's invasion of its own territory, and there is no shortage of Italians who are prepared to hit the Austro-Hungarian Empire hard at critical moments, especially the most destructive anarchists in the working class.

After all, they believe that the working class around the world is a family, and does not need a country or nation. The celebrities who died on the assassination list of Italian anarchists include French President Mary François Sadi Cano, Spanish Antonio Canovas de Castillo and Italian King Umberto I.

Of course, in history, Princess Sissi, the wife of Emperor Franz, also died at the hands of these cowards.

Similarly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was obsessed with the newly lost Venice region, and was always wary of the territorial dispute between Austro-Italy and Italy's ambition to intervene in the Balkans.

Joey admired Prime Minister Bismarck's diplomatic ability to tie up such two countries, including blood debts in war, territorial disputes, and entanglements of interest, and such a contradictory country into a alliance.

But when he thought of this, Joey couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "A Austro-Hungarian Empire has already suppressed the German Empire and gasped. He brought another European pig, and it was an unfamiliar white-eyed pig. Lord Bismarck is afraid that the future path of the German Empire will be too easy!"

I look at the problem from the perspective of a later generation who has a clear understanding of history and knows the poor performance of Austro-Hungary and Italy in history. But if I look at this era from the perspective of Prime Minister Bismarck, Austro-Hungary is still one of the world's top five. Not only does it have a huge army, it also has a strong agricultural foundation and a relatively complete industrial system.

In its first two wars of unification, Italy, with its dazzling military performance, coupled with its population second only to Britain and France, and the second-largest birth rate in Europe, made European countries define Italy's status as one of the quasi-strongest who can compete with Austro-Hungary.

Of course, Italian fans of Bismarck are indispensable. They are currently the Speaker of the Italian Parliament and the leader of the left-wing party Froncisco Chrispi. This is a politician who advocates that France and Italy will eventually have a war in the Italian media all day long. He must use military force to break the spiritual shackles of the French confinement on the Italians in order to achieve the true liberation of the Italian nation.

A big fan who is so firm in anti-France is naturally a partner worthy of winning and cooperation between Prime Minister Bismarck.

In Europe in 1879, probably no one except Joey knew that these three Italian unification battles had completely consumed the pitiful light of the Italians' martial arts. After that, the Italian military power was like pasta. With a little water and heat, the noodles that looked extremely hard immediately became extremely soft.

But it must be admitted that although Italy's military capabilities were extremely incompetent after 1866, the Italians' political luck was thriving. In the Third Unification War in 1866, both six places and seas were lost to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the end of the war allowed Italy to gain Venice.

Not to mention Joey's previous life, Italy's "brightening" performance in the two world wars.

Therefore, pigs also have the luck of pigs, and they can't accept it.

No matter how Joey looked down on Italy, no matter what, the one who guided the giant ship of Germany is still Prime Minister Bismarck, and he cannot decide the route of this giant ship. The only thing he can do is to plan several possible routes on the chart.

After a while of contemplation, Joey suddenly said, "Sir, since the Vienna system collapsed in 48, in my impression, there is no new system in the whole of Europe that can maintain the balance of power among all countries, right?"

"Um?!"

Faced with Joey's jumping thinking, Crown Prince Frederick and Prime Minister Bismarck did not keep up with their thoughts for a while.

"Jojo, why are you interested in the Vienna system?" Crown Prince Frederick asked curiously, "This is defined by many people as a reactionary system."

"Father, no policy has ever been short of opponents. No matter how bad the Vienna system is, it is not without any advantages. At least the principle of balance of power in this system ensures peace in Europe, the principle of orthodox guarantees the legitimacy of the monarchy-ruling country, and the principle of compensation can be tried at least in the Balkans."

"Use it in the Balkans?" Prime Minister Bismarck frowned, "Jojo, what do you want to compensate Vienna?"

"Sir, I once said a concept that the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a national prison. The only thing to be thankful for is that the two wardens, Vienna and Budapest, have done well so far. At least the prisoners in the prison are serving their sentences seriously."

"But countries that have not been locked up in prison, like Serbia, Negoro, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, and Bosnia, Macedonia and Epirus, which are still in the hands of the Ottomans, each guy has a "big" Balkan plan in his heart, either want to monopolize the Balkans or be the overlords of the Balkans, treating us great powers and the Ottomans as non-existent as air, and to the peace in the Balkans, they are like a group of extrajudicialists ready to destroy the Balkan peace at any time."

"If, my suggestion is whether we can reshape the equilibrium principle of maintaining European peace by major powers in the Vienna system, rebuild a set of balanced diplomatic relations between Vienna and Moscow, and ensure peace in the Balkans, that is, can we arrest these Balkan criminals first..."

"So, Qiao Qiao, what do you mean, let the gendarmerie arrest these criminals and throw them into national prisons to serve their sentences?" Prime Minister Bismarck suddenly interfered.

"Gendarmerie?" Crown Prince Frederick looked at Lord Bismarck carefully and asked with no certainty, "Are they Russians? How can the Russians compensate the Austrians?"

"Father, sir, according to my simple understanding, complex religion and chaotic national relations are the root of all Balkan problems, so my solution is to simplify the complex problems."

"My simple understanding can be attributed to one sentence: God's believers returned to Austro-Hungary, Slavs were given to Tsar, and Allah's believers were given to Allah."

Without waiting for Crown Prince Frederick to speak with Prime Minister Bismarck, Joey quickly expressed his thoughts.

"Based on this idea, I want to talk about a principle, which is the principle of compensation. Simply put, it is to trade land for peace, and exchange land between Romania, Serbia, Negoro of the Gate, Bulgaria and Ottoman Turkey for peace in the Balkans."

"The specific approach is to require Romanian Catholics to migrate westward as a whole and exchange settlements with Slavs who live in Serbia and Bosnia and believe in Orthodox Church."

"Secondly, Bulgaria is encouraged to eat the Macedonian region. In exchange, Bulgaria will solve the settlement problem of the Slavs of Negoro in the land of Macedonia, and the land vacant from Negoro in the gate will belong to Croatia."

"To compensate the Greeks for losing the possible regret of annexation to the Macedonian region, the Epirus region will belong to Greece."

"In the end, all the believers of Allah on the Balkan land will be sent out of Europe, just like Spain expelled them back then, completely resolve the religious problems in the Balkans and cut off the hand that Ottoman Türkiye reached into Europe."

"Land for peace?!" Prime Minister Bismarck gently touched his beard with his hand, and began to think quietly in his heart, "This little guy proposed the overall immigration method for a region, which is interesting."

"Mass immigration is not uncommon in the history of Europe. It is usually the behavior of a single country or nation. Unexpectedly, the little guy has great courage and has to plan the two strong men and the entire Balkans."

"Let Bulgaria annex Macedonia and Greece eat Epirus, the interests are ahead. As long as someone protects them against the Ottoman, they will definitely support this plan. As for the asylum, there is no need to guess, the little guy will definitely say it is Russian."

"The protection of Greece and Bulgaria is undoubtedly an expansion of its interests in the Balkans, plus its feud with the Ottomans. With a little diplomatic mediation, the greedy Russians will definitely agree."

"As for Austro-Hungary, Prague has been coveting Serbia and Bosnia for a long time. Now, with Negoro, the price is enough. Regardless of whether Vienna is satisfied or not, it can at least satisfy Prague's appetite."

"I have to say that this is a feasible solution to the potential conflict between Austria and Russia."

"However, there are still several difficult problems. First, Romania is a country, and the king comes from the Sigmaringer root system of the Hohenzollern family. How can we solve the opposition from a country and the accusations of the Hohenzollern family?"

"Secondly, who belongs to this new land Austria or Hungary?"

"Third, how to convince the Ottoman, is it a war against the Ottoman or an exchange of interests? If it is a war, where is the node of the war controlled? If it is an exchange of interests, where is the interests, and how to exchange them?"

"Fourth, after the Slavs of Serbia moved to Romania, the Romanian-Bulgaria-Greece line will be the sphere of influence of the Slavs or Orthodox Church, which is no different from the direct rule of the three countries of Russia. In addition, the land of the Caucasus that the Russians have swallowed will not only be the Black Sea but also the inland sea of ​​Tsarist Russia, but will also step into the Mediterranean through Greece."

"The British would never accept this situation. So will Britain have another Russian-Turkey war or another Crimean war?"

"What should Germany do if this war breaks out and who should I choose?"

Thinking of this, Prime Minister Bismarck looked at Joey with deep eyes, leaving only one conclusion in his heart, "This little guy is afraid that the conflict between Britain and Russia is not deep enough."

After looking at the same silent crown prince, Lord Bismarck finally asked Joey, "Jojo, your thoughts have to be said, very interesting, but there are some extremely difficult problems behind the interesting."

"For example, Romania is a country recognized by the great powers after the Berlin Conference. Maybe there is a way to send Catholics out of the country, but what can I do to allow it to receive a large number of Yugoslavs with ease?" Prime Minister Bismarck asked with a flashing look.

"Let Tsarist Russia and Austro-Hungary dismember Romania, the Wallachia region belongs to Austro-Hungary, and Moldavia and Dobroka belong to Tsarist Russia, so that the leather boots of Russian soldiers are close to Bulgaria and Greece, to meet the strategic goals that the Russians have never achieved in the Ninth Russian-Turkish War." Joey replied without hesitation.

Looking at his father and the old prime minister who was frowning and could not see his joy or anger on his face, Joey blinked and said in a hurry, "There are many excuses for war, such as the sudden civil strife in Romania, religious conflicts, humanitarian disasters, and even for Russia, the need for a certain piece of land is the most perfect excuse."

The old prime minister waved his hand and was not interested in Joey's bad war excuses. He asked directly, "After Russia and Austro-Hungary sent troops to Romania, His Highness Carol will definitely come to Berlin for help. What should we do then?"

"Grand Duke Carol?!" Joey was stunned and suddenly remembered that the Romanian Duke whose full name was Carl Etel Frederick Zefirinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern Sigmaringen was his relatives from afar, and now the current Prince of Sigmaringen, Karl Anton, was an elder who liked him very much.

Joey was stunned for a long time, and his expression seemed to have eaten the hardest thing in the world. Finally, he couldn't help but curse in his heart, "What a fucking shit!"

Looking at Joey's depressed expression, Prime Minister Bismarck smiled and said to himself, "It is indeed a good choice to completely erase the nails that the Frenchman in Romania penetrated into the Balkans, but since Joey proposed this method, I am very happy to relax the problem of the Hohenzollern-Sigmarin family, that is, the internal problems of the Hohenzollern family."

Looking at his son's embarrassment, Crown Prince Frederick couldn't help but shake his head secretly, "It seems that the complaint of the court teacher who teaches the history of European aristocrats is correct. His youngest son is very talented in politics, science, literature and music. In the family history of European aristocrats, he has achieved mediocre results. Oh, it should be very bad."

"The grandmother of Grand Duke Carol was the niece of Queen Josephine, and his mother was the niece of Emperor Napoleon. Although the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen family was our distant relative, they belonged to the Swabian family and had always believed in Catholicism. Our family belonged to the Frankenian family, so it was better to say that they were closer to France than to Prussia."

"The great Duke Carol can be the great Duke of Romania, but it is actually the will of Emperor Napoleon III, and it has nothing to do with your grandfather and the prime minister." After the crown prince Frederick said that, he sighed.

"Jojo, you can't get 4 points in your family history and badge studies." At the end, Crown Prince Frederick shook his head and couldn't help reminding him.

"Hehehe..." Prime Minister Bismarck laughed without any kindness.

"What should we do if Romania is really to be solved, the remaining Romanians?" Crown Prince Frederick decided to help his son with a little help, bringing the topic to what Joey is good at.

"Father, are you referring to the Orthodox and Protestants after the migration of Catholics? Orthodox people are naturally responsible for the pastors of St. Petersburg. As for Protestants and Jews, my suggestion is to take them back to Germany."
To be continued...