Not competing does not mean not participating in the competition. Even if you are not interested, you can join in the fun.

With Austria's current strength, no one can ignore it, and it is indispensable to have one.

Even if you don’t fight for the colony, you can get rewards. If you make concessions here, you can make up for the losses from other places.

Exchange of interests is the essence of international diplomacy. How is it possible that if you just want to take advantage of it and don’t want to pay the price?

All the benefits are taken by your family, how can you get along in other countries? You can’t afford to mess with me, but you can’t hide? You just won’t play with you.

It is not an era where one can dominate the world. No country can cover up the sky with one hand. If you don’t want to become a lonely person, it’s better to follow the rules of the game.

Once the rules of the game are broken, the most loss is the rulemaker. Because the rules themselves are set by the makers to protect their own interests, and no one can guarantee that they will definitely occupy a dominant position after reshuffle.

Unfortunately, Britain, France and Austria were both old empires, and they personally participated in and dominated the formulation of game rules. The current game rules themselves represent the interests of Austria.

After determining the major policy, Franz doesn't need to worry about the specific negotiation work. What you can get will only be known after the negotiation.

It is impossible for Franz to judge the strategic goals of each country. The so-called targeting in advance is completely nonsense.

Just like the diplomacy of the British, those who don’t know think that the British have formulated a series of plans, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out diplomatic work in accordance with the plans formulated in advance.

However, as far as Franz knows, British diplomacy has no so-called long-term diplomatic plan at all, and there is only one core to carry out diplomatic work - national interests.

The specific plans are formulated temporarily based on actual conditions. Detailed plans are formulated in advance and are not applicable to diplomacy.

International diplomacy is changing. Today is the enemy, and maybe tomorrow it will become a friend. Even the enemy cannot be sure of. How can we ensure that other countries will follow your plan?

Any successful diplomatic power will flexibly adjust its foreign policy plan around international interests, rather than follow the plan mechanically.

Franz was very accurate in this regard. Twenty years ago, Austria's most important foreign policy was the Russian-Austrian alliance, but now it has become the British, French and Austrian alliance.

Coordinating international relations and easing conflicts among major colonial empires also involves the distribution of remaining colonies, which is obviously not something that can be completed overnight, and this negotiation is destined to last for a long time.

In Jerusalem, European countries' meeting on mediating the Turkish-Polar conflict has begun. Before the meeting, the Ottomans and Persia had exchanged fire on the border many times.

It’s just that they are both concerned about each other and are as restrained as possible. The conflict was suppressed by the top leaders of the two countries.

In short, both sides won and Persia suffered a little loss. This result disappointed Franz very much. He was originally planning to support Persia to cause trouble for the British, but now he has to regretfully dispel this idea.

Even fighting against the Ottoman army with severe energy was unable to gain an overwhelming advantage, such pawns had no investment value.

It is better to support Afghanistan. Although this chess piece can only be used as a soldier, it is also a soldier who has crossed the river. Although it is small in size, its combat effectiveness is still reliable.

With the support of Russia and Austria, Afghanistan has also trained a new army in recent years. Unfortunately, Afghanistan is too poor and limited by financial resources, only three infantry divisions that are not satisfied with the organization are trained.

This is already the result of the Afghan government's military and military support and joining Austria. Otherwise, they would not be able to afford a modern infantry division.

In contrast, the situation in Persia is much better. Even if it has declined, its family background is not comparable to that of Afghanistan.

If the government has strong enough capabilities and trains more than 100,000 modern army, it is not difficult to do it. With so many troops here, it is enough to dispel the British's ambitions.

In general, feudal agricultural countries were not suitable for the thermal weapons era, and their meager fiscal revenue determined the upper limit of their strength.

The Jerusalem Conference was in trouble at the beginning, and everyone knew that there was no result here.

Whether it is the Ottomans or Persia, there are great powers behind it. As long as the boss behind the scenes is still arguing, they can only hold on.

Unfortunately, Britain, France and the Austrians are still arguing, so it is natural that the results will not come out on the negotiating table.

Persia asked the Ottoman Empire to compensate for the losses, and the Ottomans asked Persia to compensate for the pension. The atmosphere was very tense, and the representatives of the two countries were almost fighting directly.

Just as the Jerusalem Conference was deadlocked, the British also fulfilled their promises to the Ottoman Empire, and the first three million pounds of war loans were in place.

For Prime Minister Midhart, this is the first good news he has received since he took over the Ottoman Empire.

With this money, domestic rebellion can be suppressed and domestic order can be restored. Then social reforms can be carried out to make the Ottoman Empire rise again and revenge on Austria and Russia.

Well, this seems to be a bit too much. But idealists can understand that their ideas are always beyond their capabilities.

Al Shabaab official Mehadra whispered to report: Prime Minister, His Majesty has frequently summoned conservative religious leaders in recent days.

All the conversations were conducted secretly, but judging from the expressions of these people leaving, they should have had a great conversation.

After coming down, these people were extremely low-key, and even their daily interpersonal communication was reduced.

At the same time, they secretly sent more secret letters, including many military generals, who had contact with them. It was preliminary to judge that their conspiracy was directed at us.

Al Shabaab came to power through a coup, and they supported Abdul Hamid II.

However, the Sultan was not at peace. Before he succeeded to the throne, he supported the Ottoman Al Shabaab, otherwise it would not be his turn to succeed, but after he succeeded, the situation changed.

Abdul Hamid II was unwilling to be a puppet sultan. He was originally close to Al Shabaab, but driven by power, he naturally turned to the conservatives.

Now that the Ottoman Al Shabaab is in power, Abdul Hamid II still has some strength even though he has won over the conservatives.

However, with the resolution of the refugee crisis, the situation changed, and the conservatives pushed all the responsibility to the government, and the Ottoman Al Shabaab’s reputation plummeted.

This gave Abdul Hamid II the opportunity and made small moves, which often made the Al Shabaab government unable to step down.

This naturally aroused dissatisfaction among the Al Shabaab, and the relationship between the two sides became very stiff. As the leader of the Al Shabaab, Prime Minister Midhart naturally would not sit still and wait for death.

The Ottoman Empire is different from European countries. Every transfer of rights is accompanied by bloody killings. The current situation is that taking a step back is not a vast sky, but a vast abyss. It is not surprising that Midhat sent people to monitor the Sultan.

If it weren't for the purpose of avoiding domestic turmoil, perhaps Midhart had sent people to kill Abdul Hamid II and had all deposed a sultan, and he wouldn't mind doing it again.

Midhart said harshly: Notify the cabinet and ministers of various ministries to come here for a meeting tomorrow afternoon to discuss the issue of constitutional monarchy reform.

The inability to abolish Abdul Hamid II does not mean that Midharth cannot fight back. Constitutional monarchy reform is the best choice.

At present, most European countries have adopted constitutional monarchy. However, there are many types of constitutional monarchy. Some countries have many restrictions on monarchy rights, while others only have a name and there is no restrictions at all.

Of course, in general, the monarchs had real power in this era, and no one was so down and became an eraser seal. The monarch's power is still at its peak and he is the most powerful person in a country.

This does not prevent Midhart from using constitutional monarchy reform to undermine Abdul Hamid II, because constitutional monarchy itself does not have a unified standard.

For example: Austrian constitutional monarchy has real practical effect, which clearly stipulates the emperor's annuity, and the emperor cannot enjoy the extra treasury money.

In other aspects, there are almost no restrictions and even some strengthening. The so-called constitutional monarchy laws were drafted by Franz himself, and the emperor had the right to amend them at any time.

For example, in the British constitutional monarchy, more kings' rights were restricted, but overall the king was still the supreme leader and held the power of the country.

The most prominent one is the constitutional monarchy of the Russians, which does not even have specific legal provisions. God knows what to limit the rights of the Tsarist.

Many people in later generations believed that Tsarist Russia was a monarchy, not a constitutional monarchy, that is, the Tsarist government had almost no legal restrictions on Tsar's rights.

These are all small problems, just under the banner of constitutional monarchy. Although Midhart is an idealist, he is not so radical, and he does not arrogantly want to abolish the Sudan and go directly to the republic era.

Playing republic in a country with strong religious beliefs like the Ottoman Empire is very nonsense, and it may be all religious leaders who elected the people to power.

So under the banner of constitutional monarchy reform, it would be enough to turn Abdul Hamid II into an eraser seal, and it would be even more likely to be the balls.
Chapter completed!