Chapter 1542： Behind the compromise

Chapter 1542 Behind the compromise (1)

"Forget it, let's not consider this issue, let's persuade Fritz to let the Bavarian Army share the frontline pressure." The Kaiser decided not to consider this issue for the time being. He decided to start from the Austrian Emperor's side first, and at the same time to see what the Austrian Emperor wanted to achieve in this reform.

However, at this time, in the distant Bulgarian capital of Hagia Sophia, the prince was also thinking about the future in his study. The battle of the Eastern Front was about to end, and the decent end of the Western Front was not far away. It's time to consider the political situation within the future Allies.

Ruprecht would not feel dissatisfied and regretted because the Kaiser forcibly required the Bavarian Army not to participate in the internal conflicts in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, because before that, Ruprecht knew that the Kaiser would definitely not agree, and when necessary May take a radical approach.

Generally speaking, the Bavarian Army entered the Austro-Hungarian Empire to help the Austrian Emperor suppress Hungary, and then exchanged for Slovakia is a pretense to retreat! If the prince directly proposes the right of inheritance, the Kaiser will definitely oppose it, because the latter already has the idea of ​​suppressing Bavaria. At this time, together with the Austrian emperor, after proposing this pretense and then retreating, it is politically based. For the principle of compromise, the Kaiser must also make certain concessions.

This is actually a psychological game. Ruprecht knows the bottom line of the Kaiser very well, so he believes that as long as the Kaiser considers it, he will definitely not use radical methods. After all, the two sides will continue to cooperate. In this way, the prince will at least get The Czech Republic of the future!

Although Ruprecht's idea is to control the power of an empire and a kingdom at the same time, he intends to make Princess Mary the Queen Mary. However, he must also leave a way for himself, a way, and if his wife cannot wait for the throne, he must also guarantee the interests of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Therefore, he chose to completely pinch Bohemia and Moravia in his own hands.

The specific method, as the German emperor had expected, was to turn Bohemia-Moravia into a grand duchy, so as to ensure politically that the future Austrian emperor would not be able to intervene in the formation of leaders of the region.

As for the fact that the Bavarian Army does not directly participate in the political turmoil within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, will it have bad consequences? Need to ask? The lack of a thug who can really hold the ground at the critical moment will definitely have an impact, but this is also in the calculation of the prince.

Simply looking at the current situation, the social production in Austria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire is still stable, the morale of the army is also very high, and Austria's power accounts for about 70% of the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire! Therefore, stabilizing Austria is equivalent to stabilizing the entire Austro-Hungarian fundamentals. Even the civil strife in Hungary had a limited impact on the overall war situation of the Allies.

Of course, in the absence of sufficient strength, the Austrian emperor may not be able to make Hungary surrender for a long time, and Hungary may also fall into civil strife because of weakness. But here comes the question. Does this kind of civil strife help the prince?

Naturally! Ruprecht has always believed that if you want Hungarians to stay in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with peace of mind, then let them experience an unforgettable period of turmoil and chaos! Whenever they want to pick something up again, think about the unbearable past that they have experienced. Those turbulence, destruction and fear will make them give up!

It has to be said that during the First World War, Europe was a period when all kinds of nationalist thoughts overflowed. When the spiritual fanaticism reached a certain level, some irrational behaviors would occur! And the end result is that this kind of mental fanaticism spreads across the country like an infectious disease, and finally collapses an originally powerful country! Such as the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.

Within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the most important trend of thought that the prince had to deal with was nationalism. When the external pressure increases and the people’s living environment becomes worse, some of them will imagine whether they will have a better life if they are independent. They will think that they will not be affected by others after being independent. The oppression of the nation will naturally make life better, but is it actually like this? Obviously impossible.

Take the Austro-Hungarian Empire as an example, let alone the two worst. Austria and Hungary are each a big country with 300,000 square kilometers of land, and after independence, they have become so lost! What about other countries? Take Czechoslovakia, for example, this country was also troubled by ethnic issues after its independence, because the ethnicity of this new country is also impure! Have Czechs, Slovaks and Germans at the same time! At least three million Germans remained in the Czech Republic. This is also the origin of the Sudeten issue in later generations.

Even after the end of the Second World War and the Czechoslovak government forcibly expelled 2 million Germans, ethnic problems still existed. Otherwise, it would not happen that after the end of the Cold War, Czechoslovakia and Slovakia broke up peacefully.... Therefore, the final result is that the country is getting smaller and smaller, and its strength is getting weaker and weaker!

This is an inevitable result, because small countries cannot support industries that require sufficient national power to develop due to their power relations. For example, during World War I, relying on the huge market of the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire, Skoda was such an NB industrial group, and Krupp in Germany and Schneider in France have the same name and after World War I, relying on the old foundation before, Skoda was mixed well before World War II, but what about after World War II? Until now, besides the people knowing that Skoda is a brand of Volkswagen, is there still the name Skoda in the real high-end field?

Then look at other parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, such as Slovenia and Croatia. The result of the war was that the emperor above the heads of these two regions changed from the Austrian emperor to the Serbian king... what differences are there? Isn't he still the younger brother of others? After the rights of national autonomy that Croatia wanted, Serbia still refused to give it. Not only did it not, but there were also a lot of political killings. The so-called pan-Slavism did not have much market in these two regions. After all, that happened how many years ago, and each region has formed its own tradition and culture. And the Serbian government is far less lavish than the Austrian-Hungarian government... What use do you say after jumping for a long time?

Therefore, things like nationalism are more agitated. When it comes to ethnicity and racism, the United States also has it. Why haven't we seen the US government engage in self-determination for itself? In many cases, this is an excuse for the division of a country, just like the words of Madame Roland during the French Revolution: Freedom, how many sins the world has since ancient times, do it in your name?

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