v3 Chapter 141： Greek upheaval

"Now it has the support of the French Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Sweden, and the United Kingdom has also obtained consent for the transaction because of the situation in Belgium, leaving Spain and Portugal and the Southern German Confederation led by Austria, and the Ottomans. The Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, Your Majesty, now we have received more than half of the support of the five major powers. There is no need to worry about the relationship between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Netherlands, but it is the Austrian side, because the current King Otto I of Greece is the prince of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but it is a bit difficult. do it"

"Franz Joseph I was a man of current affairs, he would know how to do it, and don't forget, the current situation of the Austrian Empire is also not good, they will not be bad people easily, because their friends have become more and more There are fewer and fewer enemies, and there are more and more enemies. Although the Netherlands is not big, if you offend the Kingdom of the Netherlands, he will suffer. If you don’t believe it, just wait and see.”

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Capital territorialism has existed in Greece for a long time. Every Greek is thinking of the dream of restoring the Byzantine Empire. There are 240 Greeks in the Ottomans, and Greeks in places such as Constantinople and Thessaloniki and Smyrna. The demand was particularly strong, and these places also became the center of activity for Greek merchants in the Ottoman Empire, and Crete was always ready for justice.

At the beginning, Otto I placed himself in these patriotic actions, which attracted the recognition and trust of the Greeks, and used this to publicize that he came to restore the original Byzantine Empire.

This has become a huge opportunity for him to win the hearts of the people.

In 1850, the Patriarch of Constantinople officially recognized the independence of the Greek Orthodox Church from the independent status of the Greek Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Tsarist Empire, which shares the same beliefs as Greece, gradually replaced Britain as the protector of Greece's interests.

In 1850, the Patriarch of Constantinople officially recognized the independent status of the Greek Orthodox Church. The Russian Empire, which shares Orthodox Christianity with Greece, gradually replaced Britain as the protector of Greek interests.

For the first time, Otto I had a disagreement with his Greek Aurora subjects. The Greeks stood on the side of Italy, who wanted to be independent, while Otto I stood on the side of his relative, Emperor Franz Joseph I of the Austrian Empire. Eventually, Italy was on the side of Napoleon in France. III with the unexpected support of victory.

Otto I was disappointed, and in the end he didn't get anything, and he also lost some of the people's hearts. He insinuated that he cared about the interests of his motherland and family. He was a king in Greece but not in Greece.

Greece began to be dissatisfied with him, and Otto I naturally had this change, so he tried to restore his prestige by attacking Ottoman Turkey, but because of the last lesson, he did not get the approval of the government and the people, because many people suspected his selfishness.

But even so, Otto and the Greek subjects were at peace, but it was because Otto I had no descendants, and his younger brother was unwilling to change from Catholicism to Orthodox, so the issue of succession began to be brought up to the country in 1855. The government's agenda, regardless of Otto I's attitude of supporting and disregarding this choice.

This angered a lot of people.

Under these operations of Otto I, nearly half of the Greeks had given up their confidence in him. After Otto I refused to allow new Greek politicians to be elected to Congress, to prevent people from Bavaria from occupying key positions in the government and being won by the Greeks, It annoyed the Greek elite even more.

Otto I also secretly opposed the Greek Prime Minister Vistantine Canasri, slandered him, and finally went to prison.

The strange thing is that these things have been stabbed out and published in major Greek newspapers. For a time, Otto I became a street rat in Greece, and everyone shouted and beat him.

Even for safety, he replaced the Greek guards, who were all surrounded by Bavarian guards.

An incident happened in September 1862, and the situation in Greece finally attracted more attention in Europe, because this time, there was a student who tried to assassinate the queen of Otto I. Although it was unsuccessful, the student leader was arrested by Greece. People are regarded as heroes.

With the arrest of the student leader, crowds of protests began to unfold on the streets of Greece at the end of October, which became a fuse and detonated the outbreak of the situation in Greece.

When William IV passed the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean and briefly visited the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul and the country's emperor Abdulaziz, after a successful transaction, the situation in Greece became more and more serious.

On November 12, there were many riots in Greece, and the Greek army became more and more undisciplined.

However, William IV visited Athens without fear on November 15. During this period, even after talking with Otto I, William IV visited the former Prime Minister Vistantine Cana in prison. Sri, and later expressed that William IV hoped that the situation in Greece would be eased, and urged Otto I to calm down the situation in Greece as soon as possible. Such a move made the Greeks feel good about William IV.

When William IV returned to Amsterdam on November 25th, there was a political crisis in Greece.

It turned out that in Lamia, an important city north of Athens, in the southeastern part of the Pindus Mountains, a small leader declared a rebellion in one of the small towns. A few days later, all parts of the country responded, and the troops of Athens also joined the ranks of the rebellion. There was the former Prime Minister Vistantine Canasri who was in prison. He quickly established a provisional government and announced the abolition of Otto I on the same day.

At this time, Otto I had already seen that the situation was not good. He had already fled northward from the Ionian Sea and the Otranto Strait, and had already fled back to the Kingdom of Bavaria.

This speed is simply too fast. European countries are like boiling oil with water, almost frying.

It’s been a long time since a king was overthrown in Europe. That’s okay. So, the major European royal families began to hold a consultation meeting about this, and all countries had doubts about European countries without a king. Right there, if a regime like that of the United States happens in Europe, it will be a disaster for the royal family, so in order to quickly turn Greece back into royal rule, all countries will complain that Otto I is unable to support him. At the same time as Adou, he has also unknowingly declined candidates from the Kingdom of Bavaria and Austria.

Europe is difficult to do at this time. The five major countries want to place their own princes and other candidates in Greece. That way, there will be one more ally. But Metternich was able to do this at the beginning, but now there are no such people in European countries.

So the five major countries naturally understood that it was impossible for them, so they all set their sights on other smaller countries. The Swedes were not good. Prince Oscar could have done it, but Karl XV did not agree, because he also had no descendants. Ding, Oscar's lineage is to inherit Sweden's forehead in the future. Based on the fourth brother, who is an artist, there is no distinction between countries, and he was also rejected.

Spain believes that the population is not prosperous, so don't think about it, especially Portugal.