Chapter 578

The Pude deal was completed, the Russian-Polish war came to an end, and an armistice was signed under the coordination of Britain, France, and Austria.

It was just an agreement on an armistice, but did not require the Russians to withdraw their troops, and the international community did not give a clear statement on the territorial issue between Russia and Poland.

The nail was buried, and the hatred between Russia and Poland deepened. Under the power of hatred, the Pubo Confluence went a step further.

The goal of the Berlin government was achieved. Although the Rhineland region was lost, the Prussian Kingdom had strategically reversed the unfavorable situation after annexing the Kingdom of Poland.

When the fist is closed, the force of the punch can be greater. For the Berlin government, the biggest problem now is not the Polish debt crisis, but resettlement.

Soon after Poland was restored, it had not had time to establish its credibility. Due to its geographical location, the newly-born Kingdom of Poland is under the military threat of the Russians and may collapse at any time, which is not favored by investors at all.

Against this background, it is not so easy for the Polish government to borrow foreign debts. Even the British and French who support them cannot throw their money into the water.

Therefore, most of the debts of the Polish government are internal, and the external part is mainly at the beginning of the resumption of the country. The political loans lent to them by European countries in order to combat the Russian talents are about more than 20 million pounds, of which one-third is still owed to Prussia.

Internal debt is difficult to figure out clearly. Affected by the financial crisis, the Polish government has devalued its currency many times and has survived the financial crisis by issuing additional currency.

The aftermath is that the domestic economy in Poland is in a mess. Compared with the tsarist government, the Polish business community has become the biggest victim.

This bad situation was a good thing for the Kingdom of Prussia and created an opportunity for them to annex Poland.

If it weren't for the poor economy of Poland, the capitalists would not have moved closer to the Kingdom of Prussia. Without the support of the business community, William I could not have been elected with high votes.

Since it is about to annex the Kingdom of Poland, the Berlin government is ready to clean up the mess.

In contrast, "immigration resettlement" is the real trouble. Not everyone is willing to leave their homeland, and for many ordinary people, being ruled by the German Confederation is not unacceptable.

The immigration work was resisted by the local people from the very beginning, or by the local capitalists. If everyone is gone, who will sacrifice their lives for them?

It's not just the capitalists who mess up, the middle class doesn't buy it either. Many people are bitter about the betrayal of the Rhineland by the Berlin government, thinking that it is abandoning them, and subconsciously rejecting this immigration.

The main reason behind these problems is placement. Capitalists can relocate factories, but they cannot relocate mines. The Berlin government simply cannot find an industrial base to replace the Rhineland.

The same is true for the middle class. If they move to another place, their network of contacts will be completely destroyed, and they need to start all over again. Most people's income and social status will be affected, and they will not even be able to maintain their current standard of living.

On the contrary, it is the workers and peasants who have made the most violent disturbances on the surface. They have the lowest requirements and can handle it as long as the government has the money.

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In the Vienna Palace, Franz is looking at the war report of the Near East War in worry. It's not that the front line failed, on the contrary, the front line played too well.

According to the previous plan, the Russians could not get through the Black Sea Strait, and finally ended the war with the mediation of European countries.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and the Ottoman Empire was more waste than Franz imagined. If he didn't hold on for half a year, he lost the land along the Black Sea Strait.

How to stop the war has become the biggest problem for the Vienna government at the moment. It is necessary to do a full set of dramas, and deliberately releasing water can not hide the eyes of politicians from all over the world.

According to the current situation, the Ottoman Empire is already precarious. With the hatred between the Habsburg Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire, what Franz should do at this time is to beat the underdog and take the opportunity to kill this old enemy.

In fact, the Vienna government is doing the same. In order to delay the time, Franz pushed out an imperial parliament that did not have much sense of existence.

In fact, this does not have much effect. Not only Austria and the Ottoman Empire have a grudge, but other states of the Shinra Empire also have grudges with the Ottoman Empire.

Now the empire is clamoring to kill the Ottoman Empire, and the voice of the anti-war faction can hardly be heard, which makes Franz very distressed.

With the current situation, the imperial parliament passed the troop increase bill almost 100%. Franz also could not force his subordinates to stand on the opposite side of the people and bear the infamy to become an anti-war faction.

When Austria did not send troops to the Asia Minor peninsula, the Ottoman Empire was beaten by the Russian army. If Austria also sent troops, Franz did not think that the weakened Ottoman Empire could last long.

Without this hapless bastard, who will I look for next time I divert my attention? How should the next strategy be carried out?

You must know that although the Ottoman Empire is declining, its size is not small at all. With the current situation, the partition of the Ottoman Empire between Austria and the Russian Empire will certainly be choked.

European countries will not agree, and there will inevitably be a few more people to share the spoils. This is very unfavorable for Austria, which wants to dominate the eastern Mediterranean.

Franz asked: "How long will the Russian army have to rest before they can attack again?"

War requires dead people. Don't look at the Russian army's incompetence on the battlefield. In fact, the losses are not small.

In just half a year, the tsarist government has replenished its troops four times, and now it is time to replenish it for the fifth time. The total number of casualties has reached 240,000, of which nearly a quarter were killed.

From the point of view of the tsarist government, these casualties were worth it. While replenishing their troops, the Russians also constantly replaced the front-line combat troops in the name of rest.

According to statistics from the coalition headquarters, 650,000 Russian soldiers have walked through the battlefield. The bullets destroyed by the recruit training alone exceeded 1,500 tons.

The Russians' reasoning was reasonable. The front-line troops suffered too many casualties and needed to be transferred back to rest.

The number of casualties was there, even knowing that the Tsarist government was taking the opportunity to train troops, Austria could not refuse.

In just half a year, the Russian army consumed more than 65 million Aegis supplies. If the tsarist government itself was replaced, it would definitely be reluctant to play like this.

This is only the cost of the Russian army, if you add the cost of the Austrian army, this figure will be increased by half.

Airship bombing, naval shelling, and ammunition consumption are also not low. Fortunately, the Austrian army in the Middle East is only besieging Jerusalem. If it continues all the way, the military expenditure will be even higher.

The consumption of weapons, ammunition, and strategic materials is not a big deal. The biggest single cost of war is actually the soldier's casualty pension.

Taking Austria as an example, the minimum pension for a soldier killed in action is 600 Aegis. The various preferential policies and welfare expenditures for the families of martyrs are at least 10 Aegis each year, and it is 300 Aegis in 30 years.

This is only the most basic data in theory. The Austrian army pension also needs to consider the position, military rank, length of service, and whether it has made military exploits. These are all additional money items.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the government to send whiteboard soldiers to the battlefield. This means that in actual wars, more pensions need to be paid.

On average, for every Austrian soldier killed, the Vienna government paid 1,200 Aegis pensions. If 10,000 soldiers were killed, that would be 12 million Aegis.

The cost of dying is high, and the cost of surviving the seriously wounded is actually even greater.

Among other things, the government must bear the follow-up medical expenses, and the government that has lost its labor force must also be responsible for solving the livelihood problem.

To ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, these expenses cannot be saved. In this regard, Franz is willing to spend his entire capital, and Austria has done the best follow-up pension work.

Fortunately, the tsarist government does not need to pay so many pensions, otherwise, Alexander II will definitely cry to death now, and the casualty pensions are greater than the consumption on the battlefield.

With the development of industrial technology, the cost of industrial materials is getting lower and lower, and the cost of human life is getting higher and higher. Countries in later generations attached great importance to the casualties of soldiers, but they were actually forced out by high pensions.

Army Minister Albrecht: "According to the previous practice, the Russian army will replace the troops with more than 10% casualties.

The tsarist government has more than 200,000 new recruits in Ukraine, and they can arrive at the front in a week at the earliest, and no more than half a month at the latest.

The time we promised to provide combat supplies is about to come, and the Russians will definitely be in a hurry. I think it will take no more than 20 days for the Russian army to attack again. "

The Vienna government initially promised to provide 150,000 Russian troops with combat supplies for half a year. Later, the two sides made an interest transaction. This limit was increased to 200,000 Russian troops, and the time was extended to the end of 1874.

The tsarist government has just beaten the Poles, and although they have achieved brilliant results, their wallets have been injured. In this context, the Russians naturally want to save as much money as possible.

Only by launching a war before the deadline can get more supplies from the Vienna government to prepare for the following war.

The Russian army has been doing this all the time, for example: falsely reporting battle losses and hiding strategic materials.

The Austrian officers on the front line had already reported it, but the Russians were still required to give their lives, and Franz did not pursue it further.

Hiding strategic materials is not as easy as it sounds, at least it can't be caught by the Austrian officers on the front line. It is easy to hide a small amount of materials, but if the amount is large, it is not easy to hide, and the accounts are not balanced.

Austria also sent officers to follow, and over-reporting of war damage must also pass inspections. If a problem is found, it will be held accountable.

The distribution of strategic materials by Austria is carried out according to the number of Russian troops, but people are dying on the battlefield every day, and the consumption will naturally be less when people die.

However, it was impossible for the quartermasters who distributed the materials to receive data feedback immediately. The materials received by the Russian troops on the frontline did not decrease, which resulted in some more materials.

It is mainly this part of the material that falsely reports war damage and hides materials. When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and as long as the accounts are kept clean, Austria will not pursue further investigations.

How much of this part of the material can finally fall into the hands of the tsarist government, and how much is privately divided up by the Russian officers, is not Franz's concern.

After pondering for a while, Franz made a decision: "Release the news and say that we are going to send 500,000 troops to destroy the Ottoman Empire."

European countries want to see a lot of unfortunate Ottoman Empire, but we absolutely do not want to see the Ottoman Empire perish.

Without the restraint of this big man, Austria can devote all its energy to the Central European region, and the defense pressure of many countries will increase.

At the London Conference, Britain and France were already mediating the Near East War. But this is not enough, the diplomatic pressure exerted by European countries is not enough to let the Vienna government let go.

Franz's move to destroy the Ottoman Empire now is to add fire and attract the attention of Britain and France, so that they can devote more energy to intervene in this war.

Make trouble for yourself, such a nonsense thing, live

Of course it happened, and it's funny to think about Franz.