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Even if the materials are all ready, without the transportation capacity of tens of thousands of tons per day, it is impossible to meet the demand.

It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's every day, not every month, let alone every year.

Franz didn't know what happened to other countries. Anyway, Austria was not capable of transporting so much supplies, even half of them.

Perhaps all of Europe can join forces to solve this refugee crisis, but the chance of success is still no more than one-third.

Knowing that it is impossible to do it, he is either a hero or a fool, and Franz is neither, so he can only stand on the sidelines.

It can't be regarded as watching with cold eyes, at least he has donated money, although it is still a drop in the bucket, it is also hard work.

You can't control the outside affairs, but you can't ignore the refugees who are sent to your door.Prussia and Russia cannot go, and the refugees can only go to Austria.

This road is also difficult to follow. Prussia and Russia dare not let the Vienna government think that they are driving refugees to Austria, so they must be intercepted.

Regardless of the effect, the number of refugees on the Austrian border is increasing day by day. If the Vienna government had not prepared in advance, it would really be impossible.

Even if you are prepared, you can only barely manage the food.Maintaining order depends on the army, and almost every refugee camp has several criminals hanging out.

Happiness is all in comparison. After seeing the atrocities committed by Prussia, Austria's actions are not so unacceptable.

make trouble?

Didn't you see that all the people doing things are hanging outside?Now they are all illegal immigrants, the kind who have no human rights, and their deaths are all for nothing. If they violate any rules in the camp, they may become the chickens that scare monkeys.

Looking at the statistics table sent up, Franz was in a bad mood. He suspected that there was a problem in the world, and the number of refugees accepted by Austria had exceeded one million.

Franz asked suspiciously: "Prime Minister, is there a problem with this data? Why are there so many refugees?"

The more people there are, the more troublesome it is to set them up.The refugees who were able to run all the way to Austria were either close or young.

It's easy to take care of the family, but the young and strong who run the bill gang are hidden dangers.The military management of the refugee camp is to suppress these people and take the opportunity to make trouble. The tragedy that happened in Skwirzyna also aroused the vigilance of the Vienna government.

Felix replied affirmatively: "There is no problem, we have checked carefully three times, and every refugee camp is worthy of the name.

The number of people exceeded expectations, which has something to do with the atrocities committed by Prussia and Russia.Although they are also intercepting, there are still many soldiers who sympathize with the refugees secretly let them go.

We have lodged diplomatic protests with Prussia and Russia, and the latter situation should improve. "

Raising the butcher knife does not mean killing millions of people.In fact, most of these refugees were deported to the Prussian-Russian border area. Today you drive to my side, and tomorrow I will drive to your side. Anyway, no one wants it.

It was starvation that led to the mass deaths of refugees. No one has counted how many people died of starvation. Some say hundreds of thousands, others say more than 100 million, and some say two to three million.

The governments of all countries are pretending to be confused. Relief of refugees is hard work at this time, and it should be done well. If it is not done well, it will be criticized by international public opinion.

After pondering for a while, Franz shook his head: "I'm afraid the situation will get worse in the future, even if Russia and Russia are willing to cooperate, they may not be able to stop it.

Select a group of young adults among the refugees. If the situation exceeds our tolerance limit, we will close the border and let them intercept it by themselves.

In addition, the government must do a good job in epidemic prevention, prohibit refugees from leaving the camps, and prevent them from contacting local people.Those who visit relatives and friends must also go through a doctor's examination, and they can leave only after there is no problem. "

At the moment of life and death, people can always burst out their greatest potential.Unless the Prussian army can let go of their hands and feet and kill them, there will always be someone who can break through the blockade.

This is not something that Berlin and St. Petersburg can control. The tsarist government is better, at least able to control the army; Franz really can't praise the Berlin government's control over the army.

If the Russians are willing to pay a high price to buy the Junker nobles, it is still unknown whether the Berlin government will still exist.

With the influx of a large number of refugees, Austria will not be able to handle it.In order not to worsen the situation, I can only say sorry to the latecomers.

Decentralization exists only in theory.The language barrier cannot communicate normally, whether the body is healthy, whether it is carrying the plague is still unknown, if they are scattered blindly, one bad one will make the whole country restless.

The refugees in the front are real refugees, and the refugees in the back are all raised from the dead, and they still retain a bit of humanity, which is unknown.

Chapter 286 The Vienna Peace Conference and the Tiankeng

In a sense, the refugee crisis also promoted the process of the Prussian-Russian War.After replenishing the establishment, Moltke hastily launched a counterattack.

There is no way, if they don't fight now, they will be even less able to fight later.Originally, the refugees were expected to delay the actions of the Russians, but they did not expect this trouble to follow them all the way back.

The Russians did not launch an attack immediately. In addition to resting their troops, they were more restricted by logistics.Ivanov is the commander of the moderate faction, and if the logistics materials are not in place, he is determined not to make a decisive battle in advance.

No matter how the Berlin government mobilizes, the population has already determined the upper limit.After losing most of the country, the Kingdom of Prussia had a population of more than 1000 million people, and those who could carry guns went to the battlefield.

There is no way to compare with the Russians in this regard. The longer it takes, the better it will be for the Russians.

Of course, this is only military.Economically, the tsarist government couldn't stand it anymore. If it weren't for Ivanov's insistence, the Russian army would have launched an offensive long ago.

These inside stories are naturally not known by Mao Qi.Even if they knew, it was actually useless, they still had to fight.

The fact that the government has no money does not mean that it really cannot get money.At a critical moment, it is also possible to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall in an emergency.

The foundation of the Russian Empire is solid, as long as they are willing to pay the price, the war funds for several months can still be collected.

Moltke's efforts were not in vain. The Prussian army successively defeated the Russian Tenth Army that threatened Berlin, the Russian Third Army and the Sixth Army that drove the refugees, and severely damaged the Russian Eighth Army and the Sixth Army stationed in Poznan. Ninth Army.

If you don't look at the overall battlefield, no one can believe that the Prussian army with such a strong record is actually dying.

In just two months, Moltke caused more than 50 casualties to the Russians.As the price of victory, the Prussian army also paid nearly 30 casualties.

In the case of a limited gap in the combat effectiveness of soldiers, as the offensive side, it can play a 3:5 exchange ratio, which can be said to be impeccable tactically.

However, the tactical victory still cannot make up for the strategic loss.

The Russians were not passively beaten, and Ivanov placed the battlefield in East Prussia, where the Russian army had a more obvious advantage.As for the Russian army fighting Moltke, the only task is to hold back the main force of the Prussian army.

On March 1880, 3, after nearly 18 casualties, the Battle of East Prussia ended with the victory of the Russian army.

This is just the beginning. The painstakingly managed East Prussia region was lost, and the West Prussia region failed to stop the Russian soldiers. The flames of war continued to burn in the hinterland of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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In the Palace of Vienna, he put down the battle report in his hand and looked at the map of the Kingdom of Prussia. Franz knew that the Russo-Prussian War should be over.

The Kingdom of Prussia has been almost weakened, the Rhineland region was sold to the German Confederation, the Silesia region was sold to Austria, and the Prussian Saxony region was also sold.

Now the Poznan region has fallen into the hands of the Russians, East Prussia has been lost, most of West Prussia has been lost, Pomerania has become a battlefield, and the foundation of the Junker nobility has been severely damaged.

It no longer makes sense for Austria to continue this war.If the war is not stopped, the Russians will drink the Oder River, which is not what Franz wants to see.

"How is the internal situation in Russia and Russia?"

If you want to interfere, you must first figure out the respective situations of Russia and Russia.Franz has an intelligence organization and has obtained information early on, but it is not visible.

An intelligence organization that frequently appears in people's sights is not an intelligence organization, and it is more suitable to become a government department.

Franz has been downplaying the existence of the intelligence organization. Except for a few high-level government officials and nobles, the others have no idea that there is a secret intelligence organization in the hands of the emperor.

Even if they knew about it, not many people took it seriously. After all, this organization is too low-key, so low-key that people can forget it.

For so many years, apart from collecting intelligence, Franz has almost never used this secret organization, and the execution of tasks is also in charge of the intelligence organization that has been exposed and is under the government's flag.

Just like Jinyiwei, no matter how important it is or how much it contributes to the country, as long as it threatens its own interests, if it cannot be controlled by itself, the bureaucrats will find a way to bring it down.

Deliberately making things difficult and making trouble are nothing, the trouble is framing and smearing, and finally putting pressure on public opinion to force the emperor to give up.

History tells Franz that the emperor who compromised on this issue did not end well. Whether it is Zhu Yunwen or Zhu Youjian, they are all ready-made negative examples.

Public opinion kidnapping, moral attack, right, then I will hide the intelligence organization.In normal times, they don't show up at all, they just collect black information from domestic bureaucrats and interest groups.

These black materials are ammunition, and when they are needed, they can kill a large number of people when they are thrown out.

In contrast, the overseas intelligence business can only be regarded as a sideline business. It is no problem to collect some basic information. The real responsibility is the intelligence organization on the surface, and it is responsible to the emperor and the government at the same time.

It is not only for checks and balances, but also for practical needs.Secret service is also a high-risk industry, especially in espionage activities overseas, which often requires the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come forward to find people, and dealing with them is indispensable.

In addition, when conducting international diplomacy, intelligence is also needed for support.In order to cooperate with each other, the overseas intelligence organization branch is also subordinate to the embassy.

Foreign Minister Weisenberg replied: "The situation in the Kingdom of Prussia is very bad. Even if the refugees are expelled, the lives of ordinary people have been affected. Many people have to rely on wild radishes to satisfy their hunger.

According to news from the embassy, ​​the Berlin government has suppressed eight strikes and three revolutions this month alone. The Kingdom of Prussia is now like a powder keg.

The situation in the Russian Empire was slightly better. The victories on the battlefield concealed the crisis to a certain extent, but the domestic labor conflicts were very serious.

In the past year, more than 100 strikes broke out one after another, almost catching up with the French.

In the winter that just ended, more than 50 cities, including St. Petersburg, experienced shortages of supplies to varying degrees.

In order to save coal, the residents of St. Petersburg had to cook together with several families. In many areas, a large family crowded together in one room to keep each other warm. "

The Russian strike did not attract Franz's attention, mainly because the French freak was there, and his cognition had been refreshed.

Facts have proved that the French people love to strike has a historical heritage.Even though it is still the nineteenth century, the French people have fallen in love with this meaningful event.

Unlike the many challengers in later generations, France now ranks first in the world's strike list with three-digit strikes per year. For the time being, there is no existence that can match them.

Franz has been on the throne for so many years, and the sum of the strikes that broke out in Austria may not be able to catch up with the number of strikes that the French have in a year.

Of course, this is just a count of the number of large-scale strikes, and more than a thousand people must participate in it. No one knows how many small-scale strikes will happen every day.

It's right to think about it. Now France is a combination of France and Italy, and both have rich experience in strikes. It is normal to have more strikes.

The winter has passed, the demand for supplies among the people is declining, and the tsarist government has passed the most dangerous moment.

The Berlin government is different. The frequent uprisings of the revolutionary party are undoubtedly a manifestation of the extreme weakness in Prussia.

War is not a problem. Under the "theocracy" system, the Prussian people are not afraid of war. The prerequisite is that they must be fed first.

It is absolutely impossible to be hungry. It is not surprising that they expelled the refugees together with the enemy. Who would want to have another group to grab food if they can't eat enough?

Franz asked suspiciously: "Prussia is connected to us by the Oder River and the Elbe River. The domestic railway network is relatively complete, and both water and land can be used. There should be no shortage of food.

Hals, how much food has the Berlin government bought from us in recent months? "

After the sea route was cut off, Austria, Denmark, and the Federal Republic of Germany were left to trade with the Kingdom of Prussia.

There is no doubt that the Berlin government must go to Austria to import grain, and the other two do not have so much grain to sell to them.

农业大臣霍尔斯：“圣诞节过后，我们已经陆续向普鲁士王国出口了76.8万吨农产品，包括20万吨面粉、30万吨土豆、12万吨玉米、2万吨大豆、3万吨肉制品……”

Potatoes exported more than flour, which Franz knew was a harbinger of economic collapse in Prussia.Only when it is really unbearable, will it purchase cheaper potatoes on a large scale.

Franz sighed: "There are still people hoarding at this time, William I's control over the country is really not very good, they are not wronged this time.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should intervene in the mediation. The Kingdom of Prussia is almost unable to survive, and the Russians are almost exhausted. I believe they will not refuse our mediation.

Trying to hold this international conference in Vienna, now we need to let everyone see our efforts to maintain the territorial integrity of the German region. "

The result is not important, as long as everyone can see the efforts made by the Vienna government.

War is a high-risk activity. As the defeated party, the Berlin government will definitely pay a heavy price this time.

This is what Franz is happy to see. Without a sense of crisis, how can many states in the German region realize the importance of Austria?

The awesome Kingdom of Prussia just serves as a negative teaching material, awakening the crisis awareness of the Germans and making the idea of ​​great unification deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

This is doomed that the Vienna government will not deal with the aftermath of the Kingdom of Prussia, and will pay off its own debts. A harsh armistice treaty is indispensable.

Foreign Minister Weisenberg asked uncertainly: "Your Majesty, is it not good to abandon the British so early?"

The London government has been calling for mediation, tossing back and forth for several months, but there is no result.

If at this time, the Vienna government achieved its goal by taking action, it would be a very slap in the face.

This is not only a matter of face, but also involves international influence.It is conceivable that after the Vienna Peace Conference, the prestige of the British in Europe will fall to the bottom.

Franz shook his head: "Sooner or later, we will come to this step. If you don't take this opportunity to weaken the British, you don't know when you will have to wait for the next time.

Don't you think it's very interesting to make European countries feel that Britain is declining?

Napoleon IV, who has endured for so many years, should also shine with his own radiance. If this continues, he will probably drive himself crazy.

You must know that the London government is preparing to let Pude merge and establish North Germany to fight us.They all dare to do this step, so it's not too much for us to fight back a little! "

It's not that Franz underestimated Napoleon IV, the main reason is that the internal situation in France is really bad. Compared with Napoleon III, his control over the country is much weaker.

France has fallen behind in recent years, not only due to the objective lack of resources, but also directly related to the government's economic policy changes.

Sometimes the more you do, the more you go wrong.How about developing North Africa?It is of course good to add a resource production area and commodity sales market, but the problem is to develop it.

The government's policies seem to be very good, and many of them have learned from Austria's successful experience. The key is that the national conditions are different.

First of all, the executive power of the Paris government is insufficient. Napoleon IV does not have the prestige of making promises, and the French cabinet does not have efficient coordination capabilities.

This is the hole left by Napoleon III. Although it cleared the way for Napoleon IV to take power, the price paid was the escalation of internal political struggles.

Napoleon IV's prestige was insufficient. In order to control the power of the government, he had to play with the balance in the government. Infighting contained a large part of the energy of the French government.

The second is the issue of cultural traditions. Both the French and the Italians, influenced by marine civilization, are keen on business and have no love for farming.

Even if people are brought to the colony, they still have to stay in the city, and there are too few people who are willing to take root and cultivate wasteland.

Capitalists obviously lack interest in remote colonies. Even if they invest in colonies, they prefer mining, which is a profitable business.

Occasionally there are a few plantations, all of which are national treasures, and the number is too small.

People are impetuous, everyone likes to chase overnight riches, and don't want to struggle bit by bit, there is no market in France for getting rich through hard work.