The neighbors all started preparing for war, so the French government naturally had no choice. At this point, even if the war was not launched, the French government could only prepare for war.

Anyway, Napoleon IV did not believe in the so-called good-neighborly friendship. With the relationship between France and surrounding countries, once the strength is unbalanced, someone will come to you every minute.

In this era of the strong prey on the weak, weak is the biggest original sin, let alone everyone has a grudge?

Since ancient times, military expansion has been considered a prelude to the war. The actions of the French government once again intensified everyone's panic. For a time, the European continent was about to storm and wind filled the building.

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London

British Foreign Secretary George pointed to the European map on the wall and said: "The plan has been going well until now.

Although Austria did not incite troops to unify the German region, the French had already taken the bait.

Affected by the tension, the Paris government has begun to expand its military force greatly. It is impossible to turn back after taking this step.

The only trouble is that there are too many countries involved, the French government's diplomacy is too trash, and no ally is found, and even the Spanish cannot hold it back.

According to the current situation, if we do not help, Austria will have a great chance of forming an anti-French coalition after the outbreak of the war, and will lead Bi, Germany, Rui, and Western countries to siege the French."

Expanding the army and preparing for war is not a joke, especially when the situation is tense. Once the government expands its army, it sends a signal of war to the outside world.

Capitalists will increase investment in military-industry-related fields, and the original military-industry enterprises will also expand production capacity in the shortest time.

France has just experienced overcapacity and unemployment waves. Taking advantage of the war, the enterprises have been resurrected and workers have found jobs again.

If you want to stop, the capitalists will not agree at first. If you invest real money, you cannot see the return; the workers who have finally re-employed will not agree.

Driven by interests, it is a matter of time before war breaks out. What the French government can decide is who to fight and where to start.

Prime Minister Gladston nodded. The French had no allies, which was the basis for the alliance between Britain and France.

But thinking that this is the case now, it will cause all neighbors to be alert at the same time, which is a bit beyond their expectations.

"I remember that the Spanish government was supported by the French. Faspis relations have been very good in the past decade. They have no reason to turn to Austria, right?"

After the Spanish Revolution broke out, the Bourbon royal family went into exile to France. Napoleon III made a deal with the Bourbon dynasty, in exchange for the Bourbon dynasty not to cause trouble for him at the cost of supporting Alfonso 12.

After Alfonso Twelve came to power, relations between Faspis and Spain quickly heated up, and the outside world has always suspected that Faspis and Spain had a secret covenant.

With such a relationship, without a particularly large conflict of interest, the possibility of the two countries turning against each other is very small.

George explained: "Fasi-Si relations have indeed been friendly for a while, but the conflict between the two countries is even greater.

Especially after the death of Alfonso XII, Austrian grandfather Maria Christina was regent, and Spain's foreign policy had fundamental changes, from the original pro-French to pro-Austria.

The current Faspise relationship can only be maintained on the surface, and is far from reaching the ally relationship.

Just last week, Austria also provided the Spanish government with an interest-free loan of 20 million SHIELD. After obtaining the loan, the Spanish government immediately announced the expansion of five infantry divisions.

Not only Spain, but Austria has successively issued loans of varying amounts to Belgium, the German Federation and Switzerland in the past month.

In this regard, the French government responded very slowly. After the incident, they did not take the right measures to win over all countries. Instead, they sent people to warn and threaten them."

As good neighbors, the Faspis and the West have never fought many wars, and the Habsburg dynasty has also made outstanding contributions in this regard.

But that was a few hundred years ago, and there was no hatred. What the Spaniards still remembered was the anti-French war.

If the British defeated the myth of the Invincible Armada and pulled Spain from the position of maritime overlord, then Napoleon was the terminator of Spain's empire of the Sun-Downset.

More than a dozen countries including Mexico, Central America, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, tens of millions of square meters of land were independent due to the anti-French war.

It is absolutely impossible to say that the Spanish have no resentment, but France is strong and Spain is weak and there are many internal conflicts, so I have to endure it.

No matter how much we endure it, it would be better if we had this hatred in the Faspirits relationship. When Alfonso's 12th lifetime was alive, the relationship between the two sides was pretty good because of the grace of restoration.

After the Austrian female grandfather Maria Christina was regent, the voices of anti-French in China naturally rose.

Chancellor Akiji Childes: "From this perspective alone, the French government's approach is not wrong.

They have a bad relationship with their neighbors, and if they want to win over allies, they must pay higher costs.

Just promised benefits, everyone would not believe that they were not Austria's opponents by competing for financial resources.

Their only advantage is the great reputation of the French army. If they cannot win over these countries, they will shock them.

Anyway, they are all fence-between. As long as France remains strong enough, these guys will not dare to act rashly.

Besides, the French government is used to being strong. If it suddenly puts aside its stance and wins over various countries, it will cause bad ideas for everyone."

This is fair. It is really not France's strength to win over allies. To fight against Austria in this regard, it is difficult to have a substantial effect except for the hard work. It is not as effective as the deterrent force.

Gladstone frowned. The French were in a worse situation than expected in advance. The deterrence of force was indeed effective. But if France and Austria were stalemate on the battlefield, these countries would be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Franz's generousness to his allies is world-famous, especially when he is generous to others, there is absolutely nothing to say.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs must find ways to keep all countries neutral, otherwise the five countries join forces and the French have no chance of winning at all!"

The French have confidence that it has been propaganda for decades. The senior government officials have grown up by listening to this sentence, and subconsciously believe that the French army is invincible.

Those in the authorities are confused, while those onlookers are clear.

Gladston was not so confident in the combat effectiveness of the French army. In his impression, the French Army was indeed the best in the world, but the first one does not mean invincibility.

There are many ants that can kill the elephant. France is not sure of winning against Austria alone. If there are more opponents in, the battle will be impossible.

Britain must have both France and Austria suffered losses, not to let Austria take advantage of the situation, but now it has to fight.

Foreign Minister George shook his head: "This is difficult to do unless the French attack Austria from the Italian region, we have a way to keep countries neutral.

Otherwise, we can only keep Spain neutral and add at most one Switzerland.

They are neutral countries, and as long as the French do not take the initiative to seek trouble, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is confident of persuading the Swiss government to be neutral."

There is no way, because France and the German Federation were against each other. The French wanted to embezzle their territory, making it impossible for Biden and Germany to neutralize them.

Prime Minister Gladston nodded helplessly. Originally, the two countries were their younger brothers whom they supported, but now they have to give up for the benefit of the empire.

Thinking of this, Gladstone had a headache again. Both countries of Biden were part of the Gotha dynasty. It would be fine if the French were defeated. If the French won the war, the Gotha dynasty would suffer a great loss.

If he knew that this incident was planned by him, Queen Victoria would probably have the heart to kill him, and now Gladstone dares not go to the palace.
Chapter completed!