Chapter 227

The signing of the Prussian-Austrian Agreement, although it avoided war between Prussia and Austria due to the dispute between Schleswig and Holstein in a short period of time, caused the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Hanover within the German Confederation. , the Kingdom of Saxony and other major powers as well as Baden, Württemberg, Hesse-Gassel.

The dissatisfaction of Hesse-Darmsch and other members of the German Confederation.

And the Prussian supporters of Mehrenburg, Oldenburg and other states of North Germany, and even the three cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, surprisingly, they did not oppose the Prussian Holstein's rule continued to support Prussia's position in the north.

This is what caused Austria to enter a period of disorder in its relations with allies compared with Prussia. "

Viscount Palmerston looked at Queen Victoria worriedly.

"If it goes on like this, then Prussia will be a dominant force within the German Confederation, and the Austrian Empire will become a loner.

Viscount Palmerston said: "However, it feels a little unreliable?"

Queen Victoria nodded and sighed: "Naturally, apart from a few allies belonging to Prussia, more than 90% of this third-party force were originally Austrian allies within the German Confederation.

Now, with a small Schleswig, Austria has offended all these allies, and now it has become a bare commander."

The queen turned her eyes and expressed the concerns of Viscount Palmerston, "The Viscount is afraid that Prussia will take the opportunity to harvest Austria's influence within the German Confederation, win over countries, and completely complete the replacement of Austria in the German state. leadership?"

Viscount Palmerston paused, and said with surprising worry: "I'm afraid, Prussia will send troops by force"

The queen couldn't help but said indifferently: "How is it possible? You think too much, Prussia will take the opportunity to send troops to those Austrian allies?"

"No, I mean Prussia will send troops to Austria"

what!

The Queen stared at Viscount Palmerston's over 80-year-old face in disbelief.

The latter had no doubts about the composure of his own judgment.

Just when the Queen wanted to discuss with the Viscount Palmerston how to face this "hypothesis".

The head guard of the palace hurried into the Queen's office, but the telegram in his hand was trembling.

The two couldn't help but cast their eyes on it.

The chief guard and the sharp sword were beside them, "Your Majesty, it just came from North America. President Lincoln of North America ordered that because the United Kingdom sent troops to support the Confederacy, this violated the bottom line of the Northern Commonwealth and caused the dissatisfaction of the entire Northern Commonwealth, in order to retaliate. The United Kingdom, the North will take a series of retaliatory measures, and will detain and plunder British ships passing through the coastline of the Northern Commonwealth, and will not allow British ships to dock in all ports of the Northern Commonwealth with immediate effect."

Snapped!

The faces of Queen Victoria and the Viscount Palmerston changed dramatically.

"Lincoln actually ordered this? Wasn't she afraid of a powerful retaliation from the British Empire?"

After Queen Victoria was down for a while, her face was extremely gloomy and she said sarcastically.

Viscount Palmerston always felt that something was wrong, and his mind kept running, but he couldn't find the problem.

"In any case, the Lincoln government must be condemned first," Viscount Palmerston put aside his doubts and asked the Queen directly.

The latter endorsed this approach.

...

May 1, 1865.

The Commonwealth of America announced a near-coastal approach to Great Britain and completed legislation in Congress banning all British goods from entering and leaving the Commonwealth.

At the same time, in order to sanction the many provocative actions of the United Kingdom to help the South, the North also sanctioned all British companies that have economic transactions with the South.

Internally, federal legislation passed a ban on economic and military transactions with the British. Violators will face serious legal consequences.

On May 2, there were continuous demonstrations in the British Empire. Many people threatened to demand that the British government cut diplomatic relations with the Lincoln government in North America and declare war.

And entrepreneurs are worried, because the Commonwealth's industrial goods market is very important to the United Kingdom, accounting for almost 10% of the United Kingdom.

Now that the UK and the Lincoln government are falling out, Continental is hostile to the UK again, and their industry has developed again. Therefore, they are not very eager to buy British industrial products, so it is not good. , is likely to go bankrupt.

Even this amount is calculated in millions of pounds.

Naturally, these companies are not philanthropists, and there is no market, so naturally their factories need to be scaled down.

Therefore, in London, large enterprises have made layoff decisions, and the large enterprises that sell 10% of the industrial products to the North American Commonwealth have fired more than 480,000 employees in a short period of time.

This puts the British government under enormous pressure.

These 300,000 people, including the surrounding business operations and their families, have affected the daily lives of more than 2 million people.

Therefore, when the United Kingdom declared war on the Commonwealth of the North, nearly two million people also expressed their hope that the two countries would reconcile, reach an agreement, and restore life to the calm melody as soon as possible.

As a result, a lot of body language between the two parties began to appear on the streets of the United Kingdom. At the same time, in the major courts, there were also scenes of accusations and counter-accusations for this.

This made the cabinet of Viscount Palmerston very embarrassing.

The plight of Britain has left rulers around the world dumbfounded.

The United Kingdom, the most powerful country in the world, was split by the former colonies, and the United Kingdom of the United States of America in the north made the first move to cause such a large-scale chaos in the country. The first powerful country in your impression?

Even the Empress Dowager Ci of the Qing Empire in the Far East, who had just been under the curtain for a long time, as well as Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, and Li Hongzhang, watched all this in disbelief.

They don't seem to believe that the British Empire, which has disgraced the Qing Dynasty, is so fragile~www.mtlnovel.com~ Therefore, they have other thoughts. In particular, the idea of ​​​​friendship with the United States in North America, after all, can make the powerful United Kingdom do this, then in their opinion, the United States should not be weak.

At least in their opinion, it should not be weaker than the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is developing capital in the Qing Dynasty and is currently sieging the city. After all, I have never heard of the Netherlands doing this with the United Kingdom.

Doesn't this prove that the Mi Federation is stronger?

However, several of them in power in the Qing Dynasty just raised this idea, but they were stunned by the news that the British government declared war on the rice federation. They shook their heads and said: "The rice federation deserves to be a nation-building only. A country less than a hundred years old is still too young.

Or the Netherlands is in line with the golden mean, and it makes sense to make money in a low-key manner. "

On May 5, 1865, the cabinet government of Viscount Palmerston announced that the United Kingdom officially declared war on the United States government and would send warships to attack the sea trade of the United States.

At the same time, 30,000 troops will be sent to eastern Virginia to help the Confederate States there retake the capital, Richmond.