Prime Minister Carl: "If you can't hold it back, you can only suppress it.

After so many years of the Russian-Austrian alliance, the Russians have already gained too much benefit. If they are not satisfied, there is no need to continue..."

It is only a matter of time before the conflict between Russia and Austria occurs. People's desires will never be filled. Austria cannot always satisfy the Russian desires.

Despite being prepared for a long time, Franz still didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Now the only one who takes action is the French, which is so troublesome; if the British also participate later, things will be even more difficult.

It is basically certain that as long as Britain, France and Ken put in a lot of money, it will be a matter of time before the Russians turn against each other, because Austria can no longer offer a price.

This is determined by geographical location. Austria blocked the Russians' way to move westward, and the Vienna government has no way to continue to make concessions on this issue.

Once the international situation changes drastically, the huge debt between Russia and Austria is also one of the factors that induce the two countries to turn against each other.

If you can't pay off your foreign debt, you will kill your creditors. There is a precedent in this kind of thing on the European continent. With the Russian moral integrity, Franz is not surprised that this kind of thing happened.

Foreign Minister Wesenberg shook his head and smiled: "Things are not that bad yet. There are three main reasons that hinder the Russians from turning against each other:

First, Britain and France have not paid enough attention to it, the bids given to the Russians are not high enough, and the bargaining chips for betrayal are not enough;

Second, Russia and Austria continued the friendship between three generations since the anti-French war, and from the people to the government, pro-Austrian faction had the advantage;

Third, the economic and trade exchanges between the two countries will face an opposition, and the new Russian national industry will suffer a devastating blow.

If these three problems cannot be solved, they will at most ease their relationship, and the Russian-Austrian alliance can still be continued.

Judging from the current situation, the French just wanted to alienate the Russian-Austrian alliance, and it was not yet at the point where they were pulling the Russians to go to war with us.

Even if Britain and France take action together, the Russians will not turn against each other for a while. I can say responsibly that the Russians do not want to meet us on the battlefield."

This explanation made many people feel relieved. It is almost impossible to solve three major problems at the same time.

Especially the last two items, Russia and Austria have a friendly relationship. This was determined by three generations of people and six monarchs together.

Politicians can change their positions at any time, but it is not possible to change their positions in a day or two.

The "pro-Austrian faction" group is not fooled, but is a real binding of interests.

Once Russia and Austria turn against each other, this group will become the biggest victim. On the contrary, there is also a pro-Russian faction in Austria, who are all vested interests in Russia and Austria.

When it comes to interests, it is definitely impossible to convince by verbal words. If the Tsarist government wants to turn around, it must first suppress the pro-Austrian faction in the country.

The problems in the industrial system are even more troublesome. Even with the help of Britain and France, it cannot be corrected in three to five years.

If Austria suddenly blocks the Russians, it will take less than half a year for most factories in Russia to shut down due to mechanical equipment problems.

Of course, many people do not realize this. After all, there is no precedent in this regard, and no one knows to control a country's industry. They can also start with the spare parts of mechanical equipment.

Franz is still satisfied with building a safety moat. With so many protections, it is much more reliable than the German Empire in original time and space.

From the current perspective, as long as Austria does not do anything that is angry with heaven and people, Britain, France and Russia will not be able to unite at all.

The French felt the threat from Austria and needed to win over the Russians to share the pressure, but the problem is that the British are feeling the pressure from the Russians now?

As for Austria, although it is a little stronger and more active, it has not violated their core interests after all.

In the minds of most British people, the French are Britain's biggest enemy, the Russians are the second-ranked enemy, Austria is at most four or five, and there are also the annoying Americans ahead.

This ranking has no substantial value and is mixed with too many national sentiments.

On the eve of the outbreak of the original space-time war, the biggest enemy in the minds of the British people was France, so there was a reason for John Bull to withdraw his allies' hindrance in the World War and dig pits and mines for his allies after the war.

After weighing the pros and cons, Franz said slowly: "Since there is no situation in a short period of time and it is still within the controllable range, then wait and take action.

The Ministry of Agriculture is ready first. Once the French farm plan has achieved results, it will promote new potassium fertilizers and directly remove the firewood from the pot."

Since Austria cannot make money in food production, no one should just want to make money.

There is still technical difficulty in producing synthetic ammonia in large quantities. It is not very technical difficulty to mine potassium ores buried in the ground.

Phosphorus fertilizer has appeared for a long time, and adding another potassium fertilizer is too much to guarantee. It is still easy to increase the current output by more than ten percentage points.

It is not realistic to promote it to the whole world, but it is still very promising to increase grain production in most parts of Europe within three to five years.

It is impossible to say that an agricultural crisis will break out, and it will even be unprecedentedly tragic.

The open-minded French people have always been at the forefront of world agriculture and are still very enthusiastic about promoting fertilizers.

France's local agricultural production increased by more than ten percentage points, and coupled with the contribution of colonial farms, domestic food is basically enough to eat. The Paris government cannot suppress its own agriculture, so let's have a market for the Russians?

The agricultural crisis broke out, international food prices collapsed, and the French breached the contract. I wonder if the Tsarist government could still bear this double blow. Franz had already observed a moment of silence for Alexander III in advance.

After being put on a fierce look, the Russians will definitely hold grudges. This is Austria's opportunity.

Whether it is interests or strategies, it is people who decide all of this. As long as they are people, they will inevitably be influenced by personal feelings and it is impossible to achieve 100% rationality.

It’s not bad to fool it for a while. How can you know if it’s okay if you don’t try it? If you succeed, you will make a fortune; if you fail, you will pretend that nothing has happened. Anyway, you are thick-skinned and fearless.

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With Franz's order, the Ministry of Agriculture became busy. It has been more than a day or two since the "potassium fertilizer" was discovered, but the relevant news was blocked by Franz.

Currently, only agricultural experts are studying in the experimental area and have not been used in agricultural production. Halls, the Minister of Agriculture, has only heard of his name.

After getting the report, Halls learned about the specific ingredients of this thing.

The demand for potassium fertilizer in agriculture is a huge amount, and it cannot be filled with a little wood ash. It’s impossible to find a mine now!

According to Franz's memory, it was a hot topic to know that wood ash is equivalent to a weakened version of potassium fertilizer, which benefited from the news that the burning of wheat straw was prohibited before crossing.

So this result allows scientists to study the ingredients in wood ash that are beneficial to agricultural production, and then compare and search in nature.

Franz doesn’t know what potassium ore looks like, let alone the specific distribution area.

But these are all small problems. The Austrian government has the habit of statistical resources. Any minerals found will be registered and recorded regardless of whether they are useful or not.

After knocking on the door of the Mining Bureau, Halls was uneasy. According to the data, Austria is actually a potassium-poor country.

"Chief Rogers, can't even find several large potassium mines in Austria?

Look at the information on this, it has not been updated for seven or eight years. Can't you get more..."

The senior official was a senior, but although he was not a direct leader, Rogers lost his temper when facing the endless talk of the Minister of Agriculture.

He explained patiently: "Mr. Minister, potassium ore is not an important resource, so the Mining Bureau naturally did not organize manual special detection.

These discoveries are accidental discoveries by the exploration team outside. The reserves above are just a preliminary estimate and do not represent the real reserves.

If the Ministry of Agriculture needs it, we can send someone to conduct detailed exploration and determine the final reserves."

This is also impossible. There are too many types of ore in nature. Even for unified ore, different characteristics may appear due to different contents.

Common ores can naturally be identified by prospecting teams. It is common for some niche mines to be misjudged. There are even thousands of mines in the archives that cannot determine the ore type, and they are directly marked with unknowns.

Of course, these thousands of unknown mines do not mean thousands of unknown ores.

There are only two reasons why the exploration team members do not recognize it, either it is an unpopular mine that is particularly rare but does not have useful value in a short period of time, or a mineral species that has not been discovered by humans.

For the Mining Bureau, sometimes too large a territory is also a burden. The number of large and small mines registered in Austria has long been hundreds of thousands.

Even if mines with economic value cannot be developed, it is normal for the mining bureau to not care about the "potassium mine" that has little value.

Halls nodded: "Then hurry up. Anyway, no matter what, you will find enough potassium ore for me in three years or something.

Don't make excuses, I don't believe in the huge Austrian Empire, there are not even a few potassium mines."

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Chapter completed!