Chapter 784 Serious Nonsense

Vienna Palace

Wesenberg, the foreign minister with a heavy heart, said worriedly: "Your Majesty, this is a diplomatic note from the Tsarist government.

The outbreak in the Asia Minor peninsula has been determined to be the plague caused by the Ottoman government, and the epidemic is now out of control. "

After the "plague" was directed at the former Ottoman government, the Russians immediately interrogated senior Ottoman officials who surrendered.

Under the heavy punishment, everything that should be recognized should not be recognized.

An angry Alexander III immediately issued an order to hunt down Abdul Hamid II. This diplomatic note was to inform his allies.

After carefully reading the note, Franz said slowly: "Call on the people of the whole country to eliminate rodents, and order relevant domestic enterprises to make all-out efforts to produce rodenticides.

First, collect a batch of rodenticide and send it to the defenders stationed in the Asia Minor peninsula, ordering the troops to reduce contact with the outside world. "

I have to be thankful that this is winter. The severe cold is not conducive to the breeding of viruses, and there are no mosquitoes and flies. If the plague breaks out in spring or summer, the lethality will increase several times.

Don't be in a hurry to find the bad luck of Ottoman's remnants. Those guys are all hiding, and it will be difficult to find them for a while. The top priority is epidemic prevention.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

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Prime Minister Felix asked: "Your Majesty, should the news of the plague be blocked?"

Franz shook his head: "It's not necessary, it's impossible to hide such a big thing, it's about a few days, just disclose it to the outside world!

The news from the Russians may not be complete. In order to reduce losses, the bureaucrats are likely to conceal previous losses.

Under the circumstance of strengthening epidemic prevention, we must also prepare for the worst, blocking the coastline of the Asia Minor Peninsula and the borders of the Middle East. "

After a pause, Franz added: "Pay attention to guiding public opinion, emphasizing the fact that the Ottoman Empire created the plague, and it can be appropriately cited to the Black Death.

Spread the word about our efforts to prevent the spread of the virus in the European world, and smear the British by the way. "

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With the order of Franz, the Vienna government has also started the propaganda machine while strengthening the epidemic prevention.

All kinds of appalling headlines have appeared on the front pages of European newspapers. The objective and more realistic ones include "Plague Makers - Ottoman Empire", "The Cancer of the Human World"...

There are pictures and the truth. Although some artistic processing has been carried out, the man-made plague has not wronged the Ottoman Empire.

The nonsense topics in the back are even richer. The Austrian Propaganda Department just made a head, and the rest are free for journalists.

"The Origin of the Black Death", "The Greatest Conspirator in History", "The True Murderer of the Black Death"...

Hundreds of years have passed since the Black Death, and no one knows how it came about, but this does not prevent everyone from putting the blame on the Ottoman Empire.

Combined with history, the rise of the Ottoman Empire and the "Black Death" are ingeniously linked.

For example, the case in "The Black Death Saved the Ottomans" is: In 1399, the Timurid Empire expedition to the Ottoman Empire had surrounded the Ottoman capital, and was forced to retreat because of the ravages of the Black Death.

Another example is "The Road to the Bloody Rise of the Ottomans". The article directly attributed the rise of the Ottoman Empire to: the spread of the Black Death, which caused great damage to European countries and lost their suppression of the Ottoman Empire.

Although the Ottoman Empire was also a victim of the Black Death, everyone directly changed the concept, ignoring the population gap between the two sides.

The Rheinland daily listed a set of data collected from somewhere: the Black Death ravaged the European world with 25 million deaths vs. Ottoman deaths of 210,000 people, with a ratio of 119:1.

To sum it up: Without the ravages of the Black Death, there would be no rise of the Ottoman Empire.

Finally came to the conclusion that the Black Death was an Ottoman conspiracy.

Not to mention ordinary people, even Franz, the initiator, believed that the Black Death was a conspiracy of the Ottoman Empire.

true and false? Hundreds of years have passed, and there is no way to check.

Combined with history, the Ottoman Empire rose after the Black Death and belonged to the beneficiaries. From a conspiracy theory perspective, they have a motive.

There are also real-life cases of creating plagues, coupled with the propaganda of European countries for many years, the original image of Ottoman is like this.

European society came to a conclusion in a short period of time. Except for Austria to guide public opinion, more importantly, no one defended the Ottoman Empire.

It is unclear what happened hundreds of years ago, but the facts that happened in front of us cannot be erased.

Jumping out to defend the Ottoman government at this time is easy to get burned. If you are detained as an Ottoman spy, it will be fatal.

Even experts and scholars who have always been irresponsible and like to be unconventional, do not dare to jump out and fight against public opinion at this time.

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In London, the angry Prime Minister Gladstone shredded the newspaper in his hand again, which was the nth newspaper he destroyed in the recent period.

It’s enough to smear the Ottoman Empire. As soon as the man-made plague happens, the Ottoman Empire that has perished can no longer be whitewashed.

Anyway, the country is dead, and it doesn't hurt to be labeled as a conspirator of the Black Death.

However, as time went on, public opinion gradually strayed. First, the Austrian Daily published "Britain's Disgraceful Role in the War in the Near East."

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It was introduced in detail that the British contributed money to the Ottoman Empire in the Near East War, accusing the British government of covering up the Ottoman "remainders" after the war.

This is not a problem in normal times, and there is a grand-sounding term "political asylum". It's a pity that the time is wrong now, and the "artificial plague" has happened.

It's not that the British people are international, but the "plague" is too lethal and highly contagious. Once it spreads, everyone may become a victim.

It is natural to hate the guy who made the "plague" and threatened everyone's life. Hearing that the British government is covering up these guys, the people are naturally angry.

This problem is not easy to solve. If people are handed over, where will the face of the London government be put?

It is even more impossible not to deal with it. The opposition parties will not miss this opportunity. Prime Minister Gladstone does not want to step down in disrepute.

Out of desperation, Gladstone had to order the arrest of several senior Ottoman officials who had already appeared, and hand them over to the judiciary to quell public anger.

However, this is just the beginning. Maybe there are too many conspiracies, the image is so ingrained that European media always like to associate them with conspiracy theories.

This has not just solved the problem of covering up the "Ottoman remnants", but there is another "British Conspiracy". To be precise, not one, but many.

Among the mainstream media in Europe, more than half of the newspapers have linked the British government to this "man-made plague incident".

"British Conspiracy" is only the sharpest style of writing. It speculates on the British government with the greatest malice, and boldly speculates that the British government and the Ottomans colluded to plan this "human plague" together.

The reason is: the British Isles are separated by a strait, which is conducive to blocking the spread of the plague; once the European continent reproduces the old story of the medieval "Black Death", Britain will become the hegemon of the European continent without a fight.

In return, the London government will support the Ottomans to restore their country. This is the only chance for the restoration of the Ottoman state, and the evil Sudanese government will not give up.

It's just speculation, and there's no real evidence.

The center of European public opinion is in the UK, France, and Austria. Everyone is trolling each other. There are too many similar things happening. It stands to reason that Gladstone should not be angry.

But the problem is that there are also people in China who are attacking, and extremist newspapers have publicly criticized: the London government's ability to execute is too poor, and it can't even do this little thing well, if...

The specific content behind is not important, the key is that such an open recognition of the collusion between the British government and the Ottomans does not need to consider the consequences?

There are still quite a few newspapers that add confusion. Don't ask why they wrote it, just ask: just bad money.

Whether it was planned by the international anti-British forces or the conspiracy of the domestic opposition parties, Gladstone has been unable to study this question.

There are people at home who believe this statement, not to mention internationally.

The core factor that led to all this is still: the London government and the Ottoman Empire did have collusion, but not the "artificial plague" that followed.

Half of it is true, and things just don't explain it.

If the "plague" is under control, it will be fine. If it evolves into the "Black Death" second, the Gladstone government will be finished.

No country can afford to anger the entire European world these days, and neither can Britain.