Vol 4 Chapter 135: Hungary's choice

In the Parliament Building in the Leopold District of Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a meeting concerning the future destiny of the Kingdom of Hungary is going on. Prime Minister Tisza sat tightly on the main seat, trying to calm himself down.
In this conference room, almost all the big capitalists, big nobles, high-level government and military representatives of the Kingdom of Hungary gathered.
There is no doubt that the only thing that can bring so many big people together can only be one thing, or three things-should the Kingdom of Hungary withdraw from the war? Should the Kingdom of Hungary be independent? What kind of system was established after the independence of the Kingdom of Hungary?
On these three issues, the positions of the nobility and the bourgeoisie are obviously different, which makes Prime Minister Tisza embarrassed. If everyone cannot reach an agreement, then the future prospects of the Kingdom of Hungary are not good. There will be a civil war!
In any case, at this point, evasion will not solve the problem, and Prime Minister Tisza decided to solve the easiest problem first.
Prime Minister Tisza sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "I invited everyone here today. I think everyone knows why. I have delayed time. Now I will start the first issue: Should the Kingdom of Hungary withdraw from this war? Please speak in an orderly manner!"
Count Corbett-Adolf took the lead and said: "We have paid too much for this war. From the beginning of the war to the present, there have been 2.36 million young men in the Kingdom of Hungary, who took up weapons and stepped onto the battlefield.
The number of deaths that have been counted is 424,300, and the number of injured is 1,964,100 (note: casualties can be accumulated), of which 262,000 are disabled for life. This is only the statistics. Our actual number of casualties command More, at least less than half of the 400,000 people in the Russian prisoner-of-war camp may survive now!
This is only the casualties of the army. Although we have not been able to calculate the number of civilian casualties, it is preliminary estimated that there are 700,000 to 800,000. The number of refugees in Budapest now exceeds 500,000. The normal order of the Kingdom of Hungary Has been disrupted!
In addition to casualties, we have now fallen to more than 40% of the land area. The economic loss is even more unpredictable. In my opinion, it will not be less than one billion pounds!
We paid so much, but what did we get?
Unfortunately, there is nothing!
Of course, if you insist on saying yes, it will be a pile of bad checks issued by the central government. Anyway, they can't be cashed. We don't need to think about it now!
Now that the war has progressed, everyone must understand that the Allies have lost, even if the Germans can finally come back, but we still will not be the winners!
If this war continues, the Kingdom of Hungary, which suffered heavy losses, may not even have its independent status after the war!
For the future of this country, I hope everyone can support the withdrawal of this war! "
Count Corbett-Adolf had just finished speaking, and there was thunderous applause in the venue. The issue of withdrawing from the war was not controversial. After all, the Kingdom of Hungary could not go on.
However, it is worth considering how to withdraw from this war. Should it turn to join the Allied Powers, or simply announce its withdrawal from the war and maintain neutrality?
These two different choices have completely different consequences.
If it joins the Allied Powers, then the Kingdom of Hungary will continue to war, and will turn against Austria, and everyone will lose their passion.
If you directly withdraw from the war without participating in the Allied Powers, even though it is a betrayal, there is still room for relaxation with Austria, and there will be no feud, but the Allied Powers are not so easy to explain. How can it be possible without paying the price? What?
Thinking of this question, Viscount Siegel suddenly said: "I have no objection to withdrawing from this war, but how should we withdraw from this war now? What conditions have been given by the Allies? Mr. Prime Minister, you and the Allies have already contacted. After that, I think we are all qualified to know what we really want!"
These are all expected. For the sake of confidentiality, although everyone knows that the government has negotiated with the Allied Powers, the specific conditions are still kept secret, and it is reasonable for them to want to know now.
Prime Minister Tisza replied calmly: "We have contacted Britain, France, Russia, and the four countries respectively, and the results are not bad!
Britain and France have made it clear that as long as we join the Allied Powers to declare war on the Allied Powers, we will not blame the past and provide us with a loan of 20 million pounds. At the same time, we can also obtain a corresponding loot according to the size of the contribution in the war.
If we just withdrew from the war and did not join the Allies, they would welcome it and would not hold us accountable for the war.
The Bulgarian government has also made a promise that as long as we join the Allied Powers, they will not hold us accountable for the war.
But they will not return our territory immediately after occupying it~EbookFREE.me~ If we do not join the Allied Powers and withdraw from this war, then we need to pay them a ransom for these territories.
If we join the Allies, they will make a decision based on our contribution on the battlefield, whether to exempt the ransom.
The contact with the Russians is not very smooth, but they have no right to decide now. Once we join the Allied Powers, everyone is allies, and the Allied Powers will not let them do anything to their allies! "
Obviously, the conditions of the Allies are not favorable, but they are enough to make them accountable to the people. The lessons of the Italians have taught them that if the asking price is too high, they will not honor it.
The conditions of the truce given by the Allied Powers were clearly forcing them to declare war on the Allied Powers, otherwise it would be difficult to withdraw from the war, but the more so, the more sincerity they are.
If, like John Bull dealing with the Italians, all conditions are agreed, and in the end it can't be fulfilled, it will have to turn their faces and deny them.
Oh, I don't know that John Bull played tricks, and he just made the Italians admit that the conditions they demanded were too high, which turned the Allies over and reversed some of their adverse diplomatic influences.
After John Bull announced the conditions for the truce demanded by the Italians, people all over the world now believe that the Italians are not greedy enough to ask for trouble.
Of course, the parties involved know that these conditions are all false, and even if the Italians are frantic, they have no guts to propose such conditions.
But the British announced it, and the Italian government recognized it, and no one continued to be troubled.
The conditions are as follows: 1. The French return all the territories ceded to France by the Italian government, including the Nice area;
2. After the war, the Italians acquired Croatia, Slovenia and the Adriatic Islands;
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