The next day, Franz received mixed news. Prime Minister Felix woke up last night, but the cause of his coma has not been found.

There is no way, the medical level in the 19th century was only so high. In the absence of instrument testing, doctors could only make judgments based on past experience.

If you are an ordinary person, only one doctor will receive you, so you will naturally not have so many worries. Just rely on God's blessing.

If you get the right one, you will prescribe the right medicine; if you get the wrong one, you will seek blessings for yourself.

Prime Minister Felix is ​​different. After he fell ill, the top Austrian doctors came.

Then, different conclusions were drawn. No professionals could agree on the same opinion, and others became even more confused.

Franz could not do anything about this situation. As a medical novices, he had no choice but to wait.

Before Prime Minister Felix's condition was confirmed, something happened internationally.

Affected by the demise of the Ottoman Empire, the British government began to accelerate the pace of its invasion of Persia.

On February 16, 1885, under the threat of the British, he obtained the telegram rights from British India through Perskelman, Tehran to Bushel.

It would be fine to force the laying of telegraph lines in Persia, but the key is that these installation costs must be paid by the Persian government.

The Persian Empire, which became a semi-colonial, was naturally a poor man. In order to pay for the expensive telegram construction costs, he naturally had to borrow money from the British.

Foreign Minister Wesenberg submitted a document to Franz and said: "Your Majesty, the British's eating habits are too ugly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs just received news that the British secretly signed a loan deduction lease agreement with the Persian government three days ago.

This agreement is all-encompassing, involving tariffs, minerals, railways, factories, water conservancy engineering and other fields.

Once the above content becomes reality, Persia will become a private place for the British, and we will basically throw away the commercial market in the Persian region."

After taking the document, Franz started to look through it, and the more he looked at his brows, the tighter he frowned.

The butterfly effect still failed to change the history of Persia becoming a British colony.

Agreements such as minerals, resources, factories have little impact on Austria, so let's not talk about it. According to the treaty, the British obtained the 25-year tariff rights of Persia for only 20,000 pounds.

No wonder Wesenberg said that the British were too much. This was not just too much. It was clearly about eating alone.

In the last British-Polish war, the British failed to meet strategic expectations due to the Russian intervention.

Persia also had a more relaxed international environment than in the same period of history. After the war, the forces of Britain, Russia and Austria all went deep into the Persian region and formed a new balance.

The Vienna government was not prepared to expand into the Persian region, and it did not invest much in the local area, and it was only part of the commercial interests. The main battles were between Britain and Russia.

Because of the Prussian-Russian War, the Russians were busy licking their wounds, reducing their resources in the Persian region, and the British took advantage of the situation to increase their investment in strength.

This all-inclusive lease agreement appears as the product of the breakdown of balance.

After watching it, Franz took a deep breath: "The British wanted to build the railway into the Caspian Sea, but I believe the Russians would not watch it?"

The British obtained control of the Persian railway, and the railway extended to the Caspian Sea, which also meant that the British's power had penetrated into the Caspian Sea, which seriously affected the interests of the Russians.

Wesenberg replied: "Of course! But the most annoying thing about the Tsarist government at the moment is probably not the railway.

The Russians controlled nearly 30% of the tobacco trade in Persia, and the British also acquired the Persian tobacco franchise for 15,000 pounds, which would directly reduce the fiscal revenue of the Tsarist government.

In addition, there are also relevant taxes. Persia is one of the few countries that import Russian industrial and commercial products. The British have obtained the tariff rights and can basically announce that Russian industrial and commercial products will withdraw from the Persian market."

Not to mention tobacco, Franz almost forgot. The huge profits in the tobacco industry have been revealed these days.

Persia is rich in tobacco leaves. Before oil was discovered, tobacco leaves were always the largest export commodity.

During the reform, Alexander II followed Austria's example and implemented a tobacco and alcohol monopoly. The Tsarist government imported a large amount of tobacco leaves from Persia every year.

After the processing is completed, part of it will be sold in the country and part will be sold back to the Persian Empire.

The Tsarist government can earn considerable income every year, accounting for 1 to 2 percentage points of the government's fiscal revenue.

In contrast, export of industrial and commercial products is nothing. After all, Russian industrial and commercial products are just like that, except for the fact that the things are relatively solid, they are useless in other aspects.

Even if such products can be sold, the sales volume cannot be high. However, there is better than no, no matter how small the export is, it will be exported, which means different to the Russians.

As the saying goes, "cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents." Franz can already imagine how the Tsarist government will react after knowing it.

After pondering for a while, Franz asked in confusion: "Do you know the reason why the British did this?"

The more I think about it, the more I think the British man’s operations are weird. It is good to eat alone, but the consequences must be considered.

Russia and Austria are not soft persimmons. If you are too impatient, you can overturn the table. No one can think of it.

The British government cannot not know this, but they did it anyway. It can’t be deliberately creating conflicts and luring Russia and Austria to attack Persia, right?

Foreign Minister Wesenberg explained: "It may be related to the Central Asian conflict. The British government has repeatedly protested to the Russians without any result, so the countermeasures have been taken.

As for the impact on us, it is mostly because the British government believes that we are inciting the Russians to provoke the Central Asian conflict and want to teach us a lesson."

After hearing this answer, Franz felt speechless.

What about trust between people?

A purely unrestrained disaster, even if he wants to encourage the Russians to cause trouble in Central Asia, he will not choose to take action now!

It is true that the Russians are warlike, but they are not stupid. Now they are at a critical moment of recovery, how can they provoke a war at this time?

The explanation is to cover up. Even though he knew he was wronged, Franz was unable to defend himself.

There is no need for evidence in international politics. As long as you think so, targeted actions can be taken.

"How is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ready to respond?" Franz asked

Foreign Minister Wesenberg: "British and Poland are just secret agreements, and there is still a distance between them and they are not worth our direct action to confront the British.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to first expose the secret agreement between Britain and Poland, encourage the Persians to rise up and oppose this traitorous treaty, and then join forces with the Russians to put pressure on Persia to force them to give up the secret agreement."

Austria cannot do anything to the British, and the Russians cannot do anything to the British, but this does not mean that the two countries cannot do anything to the Persian Empire.

Frankly speaking, Franz really couldn't understand the perverted operations of the Persian government. Is it "the ignorant is fearless" or the bureaucrats of the Persian government all have their heads.

The forces of Britain, Russia and Austria have all come in. Any one who wants to dominate this place will be boycotted by the other two.

With such a stable structure, the Persian government is not a problem at all as long as it does not make any trouble and takes advantage of the contradictions between the great powers to preserve sovereignty.

Such a good card was so bad that it was played. Now I am still stupid enough to sign a traitorous treaty with the British.

The threat of the British?

At worst, it’s just a war, but it’s not that it’s not that it’s not that it has never fought. With the support of Russia and Austria behind it, no matter how it is, it will never destroy the country.

If you are lucky, you can use this opportunity to train an elite force to rebirth the Persian Empire.

There is no doubt that the opportunity for revival has been missed perfectly. From the moment the treaty was signed, the Persian government was not far from being betrayed by everyone.

The people cannot tolerate such a traitorous government. Even if they do not rebel, the reputation of the Persian government among the people will fall to the bottom.

Affected by the subsequent secret agreement, the relationship between Persia and Russia and Austria will also drop to freezing point.

As for the British, just by looking at the content of the treaty, you know that this is to annex Persia. Normal people know that they are enemies.

Sure enough, an empire is corruption without reason. Putting aside the messy objective factors, just looking at the rulers, you will know that there is no stupidest, only stupider.

All kinds of ridiculous policies are not because of accidents, but because they are really only at this level.

Deep down in my heart, after severely despising the decadent Persian government, Franz made a decision: "Just follow the plan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!"

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Chapter completed!