Vienna Palace

The heavy-hearted Foreign Minister Weisenberg said worriedly: "Your Majesty, this is a diplomatic note sent by the Tsarist government.

The epidemic on the Asia Minor Peninsula has been confirmed to be a plague artificially created by the Ottoman government, and the epidemic has now gone out of control."

After the "plague" pointed the spearhead at the former Ottoman government, the Russians immediately interrogated the surrendered Ottoman senior officials.

Under the sanction of the great punishment, all the things that should be recognized and not should be recognized were admitted.

The angry Alexander III immediately issued a pursuit order against Abdul Hamid II, and this diplomatic note was to inform the allies.

After carefully reading the note, Franz said slowly: "Call the people across the country to destroy rats, and order relevant domestic enterprises to produce rat poison with all their strength.

First, we will raise a batch of rat poison and send it to the defenders stationed in the Asia Minor Peninsula, and order the troops to reduce contact with the outside world."

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

There is no hurry to find the bad luck of the Ottoman remnants. Those guys have been hiding and it will be difficult to find for a while. The most urgent thing is to prevent the epidemic.

"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: "No need, such a big thing cannot be hidden. It only takes a few days to disclose it directly to the outside world!

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

In order to strengthen epidemic prevention, we must also make the worst plans and block the coastline of the Asia Minor Peninsula and the border line of the Middle East."

After pausing, Franz added: "Please pay attention to guiding public opinion and emphasize the fact that the Ottoman Empire created plague, which can be appropriately directed to the Black Death.

In the European world, we are promoting our efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and touch the British by the way."

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With Franz's order, while the Vienna government strengthened epidemic prevention, the propaganda machine also started to move.

Various horrifying titles appeared on the front page headlines in European newspapers. Objective and more realistic ones include "The Plague Maker - The Ottoman Empire" and "The Cancer of the Human World"...

This is a picture and a truth. Although a certain amount of artistic processing was carried out, the Ottoman Empire was not wrongly accused by artificial plague.

The nonsense topics behind it became even more abundant. The Austrian Propaganda Department only started with one head, and the rest were all freely played by the press.

"The Origin of the Black Death", "The Biggest Conspirator in History", "The Real Criminal 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.

Combining history, the rise of the Ottoman Empire was cleverly linked to the "Black Death".

For example, the case in "The Black Death Saves the Ottoman" is: in 1399, the Timur Empire had already surrounded the Ottoman capital, and was forced to retreat because of the Black Death.

For example, in "The Bloody Ottoman Rise", the article directly attributes the rise of the Ottoman Empire to: the spread of the Black Death, which caused great damage to the vitality of European countries and lost the suppression of the Ottoman Empire.

Although the Ottoman Empire was also a victim of the Black Death, everyone changed their concepts and ignored the population gap between the two sides.

The Rhine Daily listed a set of data collected from somewhere: The Black Death stormed the death of Europe and the world 25 million people vs. The Ottomans died 210,000, with a ratio of up to 119:1.

To sum up, there would be no rise of the Ottoman Empire without the Black Death.

Finally, we came to the conclusion that the Black Death was a conspiracy of the Ottomans.

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

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

Based on history, the Ottoman Empire rose after the Black Death and was a beneficiary. From the perspective of conspiracy theory, they had a motive for committing the crime.

There are also real cases of creating plagues, and coupled with years of publicity from European countries, the original image of the Ottoman is like this.

European society gave a final conclusion in a short period of time. In addition to Austria guiding public opinion, more importantly, no one defended the Ottoman Empire.

I can’t figure out what happened hundreds of years ago, but the facts that happened in front of me cannot be erased.

At this time, it is easy to cause trouble for the Ottoman government. If you are labeled as an Ottoman spy, it will be deadly.

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

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

It would be fine to darken the Ottoman Empire, but once the artificial plague happened, the already destructive Ottoman Empire would no longer be whitewashed.

Anyway, if you have died in the country, it will be harmless if you put it on the label of a conspirator of the Black Death disease.

But as time went by, public opinion gradually deviated, first of which was the Austrian Daily's "The Unlucky Role of Britain in the Near East War."

It is detailed that the British contributed money and efforts to the Ottoman Empire during the Near East War, accusing the British government of covering up the "remnants" of the Ottomans after the war.

This is not a matter of normal times, and there is also a high-sounding saying "political refuge". Unfortunately, the time is wrong now, and the "artificial plague" incident happened.

It’s not that the British people are so internationally sensible, but mainly because the “plague” is too lethal and highly contagious. Once it spreads, everyone may become victims.

I naturally hate the guys who created the "plague" and threatened everyone's life safety. When I heard that the British government was covering up these guys, the people were naturally angry.

This problem is difficult to deal with. If people are handed over, where will the London government put their face?

It would be even worse if it was not handled. The opposition party would not miss this opportunity. Prime Minister Gladstone did not want to step down in disgrace.

Forced by helplessness, Gladstone had to order the arrest of several Ottoman senior officials who had already appeared and handed over to the judicial authorities to quell public anger.

However, this is just the beginning. Perhaps it is because of too many conspiracies and the image is deeply rooted, and European media always like to associate them with conspiracy theories.

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

Among the mainstream European media, more than half of the newspapers linked the British government to this "artificial plague incident".

"The Conspiracy of Britain" is just the sharpest writing style. It speculates the British government with the greatest malicious intention and boldly speculates that the British government colluded with the Ottomans to jointly plan this "human plague".

The reason is: the British Isles are separated by straits, which is conducive to blocking the spread of plague; once the old story of the "Black Death" in the Middle Ages reappears on the European continent, Britain will become the overlord of the European continent without any bloodshed.

In return, the London government will support the restoration of the Ottomans. This is the only opportunity for the restoration of the Ottomans, and the evil Sudanese government will naturally not give up.

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

The European public opinion center is in Britain, France and Austria. Everyone is in the dark, and there are too many similar things happening, so logically Gladstone is not angry.

But the problem is that some people are also in trouble in China. Extremist newspapers publicly criticized: The London government's ability to implement is too poor, and it is impossible to do such a small thing well, if...

The specific contents behind are not important. The key is that if you openly admit that the British government and the Ottomans collude, don’t you have to consider the consequences?

There are quite a few similar newspapers that cause trouble. Don’t ask why they write this way, but ask: It’s just a waste of money.

Gladstone no longer has to study whether it was planned by the international anti-British forces or the domestic conspiracy of the opposition party.

People in China believe this statement, let alone internationally.

The core factor that caused all this was: the London government did collude with the Ottoman Empire, but it did not include the subsequent "artificial plague".

Half of it is true, and things can't be explained clearly.

It would be fine if the "plague" was controlled, but if it evolved into the second place of the "Black Death", the Gladstone administration would be done.

These days, no country can bear the consequences of angering the entire European world, and so does Britain.
Chapter completed!