...Ju Lushi proved that Napoleon III was wrong again. Because after a irritated look, Alexander II soon became calm again. After careful consideration, Alexander II finally decided not to go to this muddy water.

First of all, the lineup of the Allies is not easy to mess with. If you have to be a hero at this time, it may cause trouble. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government is powerful enough, right? But seeing his allies being ruined by Yingpu and other countries, he is not pretending to be deaf and dumb and silent. Alexander II is not stupid, so he would not have brought him, a beautiful local landscape that is currently in a booming period to the war for a piece of land that does not belong to him.

Of course, there is another more important thing, in order to "reward" Alexander II's extremely overall-minded action, the Bismarck government of Prussia gave Alexander II's Russia a huge procurement list.

The biggest one is food.

Due to the continued spread of war, crops in several continental warring countries were inadequate, and the prices of grain had already begun to soar. However, in Russia, Alexander II had been depressed by the domestic bumper grain harvest for several consecutive years.

Of course, Alexander II was definitely not worried that he would have too much surplus food. He would hold his stools in various warehouses and wait for insects to grow. What he was depressed was that he had so much food, but he could not become the hard currency he urgently needed.

According to the cooperation agreement between the Russian government and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, the Russian government has to take out a large amount of "surplus" food, fur and other agricultural and pastoral products every year to repay government loans provided to Russia by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government and the costs of various technology transfers.

What made Alexander II feel the most cowardly was that when he signed this repayment agreement with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, the "bastard ministers" he sent to participate in the negotiations did not consider the fatal factor that the price of agricultural and pastoral products would increase in the future. As the wheel of history was about to enter the 1970s, the prices of food and other items that could be used to pay accounts remained at the super low price of the late 1850s.

Alexander II was dissatisfied with this "extremely unfair" situation. For this reason, he has been very careful.

Although he cannot break the "unequal" cooperation agreement, he will use all kinds of tricks to hide the truth. While crying with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, he will take out some of the food that should have been to pay the debt, and secretly engage in "black market" free trade to make huge profits.

Although this kind of stealing method is on the table, Alexander II finally got some benefits and has a bigger **.

Especially when he saw the procurement list from the Bismarck government, his pair of eyes almost popped out of their eyes.

The Prussians were humble gentlemen after all. If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government could also follow the purchase price of the food given by the Prussians, Alexander II would live a happy life without any foreign debt at least ten years in advance.

Alexander II finally understood that fighting is by no means a good thing, and watching the region make money in war is the best and best way to do it.

Alexander II decided that no matter how much it was, it was the truth to make money.

So, Alexander II not only secretly ordered half of the "surplus grain" used to repay debts, and secretly sold the new weapons and equipment that he had finally obtained from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government to Prussia at an unimaginable sky-high price.

Because Bismarck made it clear in his handwritten letter to him that at any time, Prussia and all other Allied members will firmly protect Russia's own interests.

Finland became "independent" and Russia remained indifferent. Seeing that he had been busy for several years, the Prussian power was not only not curbed at all, but on the contrary, it was growing increasingly, and Emperor Napoleon III was crazy.

In order not to repeat the same mistakes as the Baltic Sea in the Mediterranean, at the suggestion of Napoleon III, the French and Italian teams among the Allies forcibly took over Greece after several negotiations with the Greek Kingdom government on the issue of peaceful entry.

Napoleon III's move suddenly stabbed a hornet's nest.

The wars that filled Europe have been burning for nearly two years. In the past two years, although it is very old, its power is still spanning the Ottoman Empire, and it was initially swaying from side to side and waiting. After all, the British and French were their benefactors, and it was not good to offend any of them casually.

However, gradually, His Majesty Abdulaziz, the Ottoman Empire, began to find something wrong.

Because, as the European situation became increasingly turbulent, Serbia, Montenegro, Wallachia, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria, the principalities belonging to his empires, had the despicable idea of ​​using this war to get rid of the empire and become independent. The backers these guys were naturally not others, but Napoleon III.

Therefore, the French-Italian coalition controls Greece, which prompted Abdulaziz to end his long-standing wait-and-see policy.

At this time, the British, who had already begun to expand their power in Iran as early as last year, came to Abdulaziz's door.

The British knew very well that Greece was also a part of the Ottoman Empire, which was once extremely large. It was only in 1829 that it finally broke away from the Ottoman Empire through war and declared independence.

The British also showed off their friendly spirit when helping the Ottoman Empire fight bloody battles in Crimea, and declared that as long as His Majesty Sultan Abdulaziz's Ottoman Empire was willing to become a member of the Allies, the Allies led by the British Empire will not only ensure that the principalities of the Danube will never break away from the rule of the Ottoman Empire, but also help the Ottoman Empire re-exercise sovereignty over Greece, and ultimately assist him His Majesty Sultan Abdulaziz and restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire.

Benefits are eternal.

Therefore, driven by interests, Abdulaziz led his empire to declare war on the allies led by France, and officially became a new member of the Allies.
Chapter completed!