Chapter 237

a symbol of the coexistence of Prussian-Austrian competition and cooperation, the "Gothenburg Peace Treaty" signed by Aopu and Denmark in 1864 to stop the Schleswig War, witnessed by various countries, can be described as the latest example of cooperation between Aopu and Austria.

But since it is called coexistence of cooperation and competition, there is only competition when there is cooperation.

The two countries infiltrated other countries step by step economically. Even the Kingdom of Bavaria, a country that once invested in the Austrian Empire, began to become a battlefield for the economic influence of Austria and Prussia.

Therefore, a large part of the country's vested interests is unwilling to continue to follow Austria.

This is why when Austria invaded Saxony, the Bavarian palace would gather other countries to form the West German Confederation.

Although the signing of the "Gothenburg Peace Treaty" briefly avoided the outbreak of the dispute between the two countries, it was a temporary solution.

This made both Austrian and Prussian enemies dissatisfied with this version of the government's operation.

So both countries are accumulating hatred.

Prussia believes that Austria is a compromise, and Austria believes that Prussia is an effort made by Prussia to ease the relationship between Austria and Prussia.

It is precisely because of this speculation that the conservative forces in their respective countries have begun to launch a counterattack against the moderate party, which has greatly deteriorated the relationship between the two countries.

On November 4, 1865, the Prussian ambassador proposed to the Austrian Empire an all-round certification of the border between the two countries in Schleswig and Holstein.

But the Austrian Empire refused, because Austria should enforce the current blurred borders.

One of the country's deputy foreign ministers believes that Austria's relationship with the United Kingdom has been affected by the fact that Austria has entered the British camp.

Prussia once again wanted to ease the relationship between Prussia and Austria, so it came to Vienna to ask to clarify the relationship and avoid misjudgment.

This made Vienna's high-level executives look complacent.

It's like grabbing a Prussian braid.

Therefore, the deputy minister of the arrangement made a list: ask the Prussian government to pay the Austrian Empire a huge amount of compensation in the Schleswig War and repair the Austrian Empire's losses in the war.

Austria could revert to its pre-1850 borders following the excessive southward expansion of the pre-Schleswig frontier during the previous Danish rule.

In the face of the arrogant attitude of the Austrian Empire and such unreasonable claims, the ambassador of Prussia naturally would not agree, and left angrily, his news was passed back to Berlin.

Berlin has accused Austria of shameless behavior, and claimed that even if the huge compensation was spent on military expenses to increase defense costs, it would not humiliately spend a penny to pray to Austria.

This statement of the Bismarck government made the entire kingdom of Prussia boil.

Everyone admired Bismarck's haircut and hated Austria to the extreme.

Negotiations for this public action by the Prussian ambassador failed, and the Prussian Peace faction put the blame on him. He should be punished for demanding that Prussian-Austrian relations be disrupted.

However, Prime Minister Bismarck refused the request and even gave him a promotion to the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs as a show of support.

This even made the conservative Junker aristocratic forces in Prussia support Bismarck to the highest point.

At this point, the hard-line forces in Prussia have finally overwhelmed the Lord Peace faction by a distance.

Therefore, at the parliamentary meeting of Prussia, the vice minister of Prussia who just returned, on behalf of the government, read out the changes in the evolution of Prussia and Austria over the years, pointing out that the Austrian Empire would choose to insult when there were many battles between the Austrian Empire and Prussia. Prussia to improve its position in the German Confederation is a provocation and extreme insult to Prussia, and the Austrian Empire must pay for its actions.

So after constant discussion in the Prussian parliament, Prussia was ready to make a strong response to this Austrian insult, and Prussia should be ready for war at any time, ready to fight for the honor of Prussia at any time.

Once the war machine is turned on, it is difficult to stop it.

So this time after Prussia's head-to-head decision-making parliament passed, on the border between the former Holstein (Public) and Schleswig (Austrian), Prussia began to actively launch multiple push strategies, which made Vienna start Frequently received a lot of information about the Schleswig crisis, but everyone, including Joseph I of Vienna, thought it was just the bluff of the Bismarck government.

Ignore this.

On November 10, 1865, the Prime Minister of Prussia, Bismarck, made a public itinerary. He visited St. Petersburg in the eastern Baltic Sea. He greeted Alexander II on behalf of William I. After talks with Prime Minister Gorchakov of the Russian Empire, the two countries made a public statement about each other. supported practice.

However, the alliance between the two countries, which made the Austrian Empire lift their minds and body, did not happen. I was just relieved, but Bismarck, who returned to Berlin, did not make Austria's worry unnecessary.

On November 14, 1865, Austria followed the Ottoman Empire and Britain on the Balkan Peninsula to advance to Romania occupied by Russia, and wanted to further repel the Russia Empire.

The Kingdom of Prussia suddenly launched an attack on Schleswig.

Austria only deployed 30,000 people in Schleswig. This figure is neither too much nor too little, but in order to prepare for the counterattack of a small country like Denmark, Vienna felt that 30,000 was enough. The army was less than 100,000 people.

Vienna did not believe that Prussia would attack them.

In just 3 days, Schleswig was won.

When Vienna reacted, Prussia had already sent more than 200,000 troops to the west of Austria. At this time, more than two-thirds of Austria's national forces have been deployed in the east to guard against the Russian Empire and the Romanian occupation area in the south to drive the Russian Empire away.

Only a third in the west and north are in critical condition.

The Austrian Empire condemned Prussia.

Britain even demanded that Prussia immediately withdraw from the army and return Schleswig to Austria. Britain said it would not recognize Prussia's status in Schleswig.

But what is surprising is that while UU Reading www.uukanshu.com was the one who signed the document, Christian IX said that it was an internal matter of the German Confederation, which had nothing to do with Denmark. Denmark's neutrality remains unaffected.

Sweden's position is the same.

The Russian Empire naturally hoped that Prussia would relieve him of the pressure on the Three Kingdoms.

So Alexander II himself stood up to express his support for Prussia.

Surprisingly, the Kingdom of Italy expressed its support for Prussia's reasonable approach, and said that Italy asked Austria to return Venice to Italy, and even Emmanuel II ordered the Italian military to send more than 100,000 people to the north of the Adriatic Gulf. Threatening the western part of the Austrian Empire.

"How could this be? How dare Prussia do this." Joseph I felt a cold sweat on his forehead.

The evolution of the situation made him never expect it to be like this.

"Italy got involved?"

Grand Duke Rainer Ferdinand also had a headache.