Chapter 554 Farce
Paris, the French are holding a funeral for Napoleon III. The dense crowd outside is enough to prove the popularity of Napoleon III.
On this day, the French workers collectively have a holiday, and the capitalists can't do it without a holiday. The title of "Socialist Emperor" of Napoleon III is no joke, and it has more influence among the workers than anyone else.
Compared with the desolation of the original time and space, the people spontaneously organized mourning activities, it has to be said that this is an irony.
Although there are many people attending the funeral, there are very few important guests. The sequelae of the Bonaparte family's bad popularity are vividly reflected here.
The royal families in Europe seem to be very busy. Except for those who depend on the French for meals, the rest of the great nobles only send representatives to attend, and some even don't bother to send representatives.
Taking the Habsburg family as an example, Franz sent a collateral count to deal with it. Even if the two countries are allies, it still cannot change the mutual dislike of the royal families of the two countries.
The grievances and grievances here are just a muddled account that can't be sorted out for a while. Not only the Habsburg family, but most of the European nobles were not friendly to the Bonaparte family.
Nobles also hold grudges. Napoleon swept across the European continent back then, and I don’t know how many people’s jobs were smashed. How could this account be calculated?
If the Bonaparte family is not lost, it is estimated that everyone will feel better. Now the result is just the opposite. The Bonaparte family is still brilliant. Seeing this upstart, everyone is too jealous. How can they support them.
The original time and space of Napoleon IV died unexpectedly in South Africa, but there was a lot of noise. Many people speculated that the British royal family planned the murder.
The reason: When Napoleon IV encountered the Zulu warriors, Lieutenant Carey and his men were only 50 yards away from Eugene, but they retreated to the camp without a shot.
There must be an article behind this apparently abnormal behavior. It is difficult to say who planned it.
The Bonaparte family has too many enemies, and the people who are capable of planning such a low-level accident are at least three figures.
No way, the last direct heir died, the Bonaparte family not only lost the hope of restoration, but also lost the ability to trace the real murderer.
At the funeral, the atmosphere was a little weird. If someone pays attention, they will find that many people are gloating on their faces, and if the occasion is not right, I am afraid they will laugh.
Yes, some people come here just to see jokes. Napoleon III has just left and the Crown Prince Eugene, who is about to succeed him, is too young, and the French government is bound to have a fierce battle.
For example: Victor Emmanuel II, the former king of Sardinia, came to watch the fun. Napoleon III threw him out of power, he hated it for a long time, and now coming here is a mess.
He unabashedly put a smile on his face, completely ignoring Ou Ren's murderous gaze. Europe does not have the habit of killing kings, even if he is a former king, that is a king.
As a member of the remember interest group, no matter how angry Ou Ren was, he couldn't kill the monarch. It's still the funeral scene, so I can't do it anymore.
Perhaps in the opinion of many people, this approach is very unwise. It's so exciting to people, can't you do it on the surface, can't you take revenge in the dark?
However, Victor Emmanuel II had reasons to do it. Now the Sardinian Restoration Organization he leads has united with the Italian Revolutionary Party.
Now that the Italian independence movement is at a low ebb, as a public leader, Victor Emmanuel II must do something to cheer people up.
He took advantage of Napoleon III's funeral, and if he was able to sneak in, naturally someone cooperated, and there were many people who wanted to see the Bonaparte family make a fool of themselves.
After attending the funeral anyway, he left with the guests. If the French want to intercept it, it is even better. They can also hype up public opinion. Countries that want to see the French joke will not give up this opportunity.
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The farce at the funeral of Napoleon III, Franz didn't care, it was all a little problem. That is to say, taking a four-year-old child is too young to be stimulated. If it is replaced by an old fried dough stick, it will never be bothered.
They have destroyed other people's kingdoms and taken away their thrones, so why don't they allow people to have a little temper?
Didn't he just laugh at the side, and he didn't come out to make trouble and disturb the funeral order, so just treat these guys as air.
To settle accounts will take a long time to come, why rush for a while. As the emperor of France, is it not too easy to fight a few clowns who jump on the beam?
As long as their source of income is cut off, keeping these guys will soon cry. If they can't do the king-killing thing, then they will have to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt every day for the rest of their lives.
The life of the exiled monarch is not easy, and there are a large group of people to follow to eat, and it is absolutely impossible to have no money.
Franz had seen this before. Massimiliano had made such a failure, and there were hundreds of people who came to defect one after another.
If it wasn't for Franz's brother who often gave money to help, and the Empress Dowager Sophie also secretly subsidizing it, it would not be easy to keep the emperor's pomp and let so many people eat.
These people are shouting that they want to counterattack Mexico. If they really want to implement it, it is useless. But there is no way, it has to be kept.
Don't look at the incompetence of these people. Having these people and not having them are completely two concepts. Without these people to help raise the flag and whitewash, what would happen to the reputation?
Franzken pays to support a group of idealistic gunners, just to let these people go around to promote Massimiliano's reform measures, whether it is practical or not, whether it is in line with Mexico's national conditions, at least it looks good on the surface.
People who eat melons who don't know the truth can easily be led astray because they can't think of deep-seated problems.
Of course, the activities of these people in Austria are also restricted, they cannot go anywhere, and the articles they write are published selectively.
A large number of them were sent by Franz to France for further study, under the euphemistic name of learning the experience of the restoration of the Bonaparte dynasty.
At present, the effect is good. Massimiliano's Mexican Restoration Organization has been established, and it has also attracted many Mexican students to participate.
It was a relatively bad era. Watching the domestic warlords fight so well, these people finally realized that it was better to be an emperor.
Affected by public opinion, many people thought about it carefully and found that Maximilian I did nothing bad.
As the newspaper said, the local warlords in Mexico were too powerful to carry out the emperor's orders.
Because of their opposition to the emperor's reforms, the conservatives and the warlords rebelled together, and the revolutionary parties were fools.
Behind this, Franz sponsors 200,000 Aegis of Massimiliano every year. It can be said that public opinion is pulled back by money.
The pressure on Victor Emmanuel II will be much greater. One is just talking and not practicing, and the other is taking practical actions to restore the country, and it is not a grade in terms of expenses.
Although there are a lot of sponsors secretly sponsored, the amount is not large, and Victor Emmanuel II, who has a large group of subordinates, is short of money. If the money is not enough, then you must create a topic, mobilize everyone's patriotic enthusiasm, or use a big trick to fool the gold master to increase investment.
As long as the source of funds is cut off, the momentum of these recovery organizations will immediately drop by many grades. After all, people also have to eat.
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Intelligence Chief Teren: "Your Majesty, the Prussians have acted. In recent days, the Polish newspapers have been scolding the government and attributed the chaos in Poland to the absence of a king, and the high-level government is fighting for power and profits.
The foundation of the Dombrovsky government was unstable, and it relied on the support of public opinion to win the election.
However, Napoleon III has just died, and everyone is concerned about the future political trend of France, and will not care about Poland for a while.
If there is no accident, the Polish parliament will hold a new king election within a month at most. This time there are far fewer competitors, and the election of William I is almost certain. "
There are fewer competitors. It's not that the Prussians are doing it. It's just that many people are frightened by the chaos in Poland and don't want to go to the muddy waters.
Don't look at Dabobo's independence for a long time, and there are really many things that have come out. Internationally present themselves as great powers, as if they were already one of the great powers.
The self-proclaimed sixth most powerful country in Europe, second only to Britain, France, Austria, Russia and Russia, has not considered the feelings of Spain, the German Confederation and the Nordic Confederation at all. In terms of comprehensive national strength, these three countries are no worse than Poland.
Even the two inconspicuous small countries, the Netherlands and Portugal, may not be comparable to Poland in terms of comprehensive national strength. Don't look at their small and few people, but they have colonies and their economic strength exceeds that of Poland.
Even if this is the case, if it is a propaganda need, it is acceptable to exaggerate one's own strength appropriately. In the recent diplomatic ooze, Austria almost used force against Poland, which made many people understand.
The Kingdom of Poland looks good, and it is also a medium-sized country on the European continent. In theory, as long as it develops well, it is possible to join the club of great powers.
But the geographical location is really bad, sandwiched between the three countries of Prussia and Russia. The sudden conflict between Austria and Poland reminded many people of the old events of the Three Kingdoms dividing up Poland.
Bad location + love to die, it is clearly a huge pit. No one wants to be the king of a subjugated country. After weighing the pros and cons, many people choose to give up.
Franz picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Keep watching, don't act rashly. The dark son on the British side can be launched. When William I is elected as the king of Poland, he will launch it immediately.
Be careful not to expose us. Better to let the German Federal Empire take the initiative, they jumped out and competed with the French for the Rhineland.
We and the British received the news that the French wanted to buy the Rhineland. In order to prevent the French from continuing to expand, it was more reasonable to support the German Confederation to acquire the Rhineland. "
Austria has a lot of influence in the German Confederation. Many aristocrats and high-ranking government officials have secretly had contact with the Vienna government. It is not difficult to push them to come out. The problem is that it is difficult to keep it secret.
No one can guarantee that these people will not leak. Betting separately has always been a way for these people to survive. While maintaining contact with Austria, they also have no less dealings with other forces.
The front foot promised to keep it secret, and the back foot sold the secret. This kind of thing doesn't happen too much in the European continent.
In particular, this kind of thing that affects national decision-making cannot be done by one or two people. There are too many people to mobilize. If someone leaks secrets, it is difficult to find out who is a traitor.
The intelligence chief Tyron replied thoughtfully: "Yes, Your Majesty. We will first expose the secret dealings between the French and the Commonwealth, and then let the British push the German Confederation to compete."
It doesn't matter that the Berlin government is writing a false promise, as long as everyone thinks it's true.
In the face of international pressure, if the Prussians dared to stand firm, Franz would dare to join forces with European countries to intervene. From the beginning, he was ready to force the Berlin government to abandon the Rhineland.
In the 19th century, if a country wanted to be strong, it first had to have enough coal and iron. Without these things, heavy industry could not develop.
Original time and space Germany can send
The most important thing is that they have the coal and iron resources in the Rhineland region, and only then have the glory of the Ruhr industrial area.
In a short period of time, this part of the resource is missing, and the effect may not be obvious. With the further development of industrial technology, the sequelae will break out.
Even the annexation of the Kingdom of Poland would not make up for this loss of resources. Coal resources in Europe are mainly distributed in England, Central Rhineland, Ukraine, Silesia, and the Balkans.
Regrettably, the Donbas coalfields in Ukraine are still far away and out of reach of the Kingdom of Prussia. The Silesia region fell into the hands of Austria again, and after the Rhineland region was lost, the Kingdom of Prussia would sooner or later delay its industrial development because of the coal problem.