Vol 2 Chapter 26: French attitude

Everyone's face changed slightly. If any power other than Germany had the best relationship with Ottoman, it would be France first.
Without it, benefits!
In 1895, France's investment in the Ottoman Empire was second only to Russia, with a total investment of more than 2.5 billion francs, accounting for about 10% of France's total foreign investment.
In addition, France also holds 60% of the government bonds of the Ottoman Empire. Taken together, in essence, the total French investment in the Ottoman Empire has exceeded 3 billion francs!
For the sake of interests, the French government most hopes that the Ottoman Empire will maintain the status quo! After all, as soon as the war broke out, the interests of the French in Ottoman would be affected.
Unfortunately, in addition to France, Germany may be an enemy of the Sudanese government in order to attract the Turks and support them secretly!
Can France unite for Turks and Germans? Impossible of course! Unless the French government is crazy, it will choose to stand with the Germans.
And it is impossible for the Germans to provide substantial help to the Turks.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the "Three Nations Alliance" fought endlessly in the Balkans and the Turks, and the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the focus of contradiction between the two countries. The Italians followed the Turkish Libya and Morocco. Abandon Austria and Hungary and Italy!
British people, just look at their plan to divide the Ottoman, you know the position. Especially at the juncture of the English-British war, the British still have to worry about the Sudanese government, and take advantage of the fire to regain Egypt!
Needless to say, the attitude of the Russians. Looking back at the history of the Russian-Turkish war, everyone will find that small wars have continued. The average war has been less than once in 19 years. From a time perspective, a new round of Russian-Turkish war should come again. !!
Both sides have been fighting for more than two hundred years. The hatred is deep like the sea. If you want to relax the relationship, dream it!
The Russians refused the British plan to divide, mainly because they feared that the British would be uneasy, such as sabotaging Russia's Far East strategy, or taking the opportunity to enter the Aegean Sea.
Who ca n’t call the Black Sea Strait, so closed? You can lock up the maritime traffic line leading to the Mediterranean at any one of the main roads!
And even if Britain keeps its promise, it will not be of much use to the Russian Empire. The great powers would not let the Russian navy stand in the Mediterranean, and by then there would be more enemies. With the current strength of the Russian Navy, it is impossible to challenge the maritime hegemony system established by Britain!
Anyway, the risks are too great and the returns are not enough!
But in terms of weakening the Ottoman Empire, the positions of Britain, Russia, Italy, and Austria are the same! The Russians worry that the Ottoman Empire will rise again and threaten themselves again!
It can be said that the current international situation is worse for the Ottoman Empire than the First Balkan War!
If Bulgaria is going to challenge Ottoman now, the powers will not mind supporting it!
This is not the same as the "Greek-Turkish" war of 1897. At that time, the major powers had reached a preliminary compromise. The Armenian issue had been weakened. The contradictions between the Turks and other countries had been temporarily eased.
Suddenly the attitudes of the powers changed, and they hoped that the Balkans would maintain stability without supporting the Greeks. Even so, the attitude of the powers in the negotiations still favors the Greeks.
But now it's all different! Due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, Bulgaria, which had been around, now embraces the thighs of the Russians; Serbia has been abandoned and may be annexed by Austria-Hungary at any time.
The situation in the Balkans has changed, and the conflict between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in history has become less intense.
In history, the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied the advantage in the Balkans. The Russians worried that the expansion of Austro-Hungary in the Balkans would threaten the security of the Black Sea Strait, and all opposed to the annexation of Austro-Hungary to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Also, Serbia and Montenegro also stood up in support of the Russians and opposed the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, and the Bulgarian government's attitude was still erratic.
At this time, the Germans were busy fighting with the British for South Africa and did not want to be involved in the dispute in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary without German support was forced to make concessions.
The Russians do not plan to expand in the Balkans in order to implement the Far East strategy. In 1897, the two countries reached a compromise on the Balkan issue!
Everything is different now, although the Germans and the British are more acute because of the "British War" contradiction, and have no energy to participate in the disputes in the Balkans.
However, due to Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the Russian Empire's operation in Serbia has not been successful, and the second Bulgarian war broke out. Serbia has been completely controlled by Austria and Hungary and has no ability to come out and contradict the boss; and Bulgaria hugged it again. The thighs of the Russians are blocked by Bulgaria. The threat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Black Sea Strait has not yet been reflected!
的 The contradiction between the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is far less acute than in the same period in history. Although the two sides have not yet reached an agreement on dividing the Balkans, there is no conflict of core interests between the two sides at present ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The strategic focus of the Russians is now in the Far East, and the expansion of the Balkans is mainly to support Bulgaria.
At the same time, the Balkan partition plan of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Ferdinand's Balkan strategy are basically the same in the short term!
At this point, it is natural to conceal savvy politicians. In the second Pasir War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did nothing to ignore the war, and ate the biggest cake, which is undoubtedly the best example!
In the eyes of some people, Bulgaria is likely to have reached an agreement with the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the Balkan issue!
This is also recognized by President François Philip Fauhr, and he can be sure that the Russians will support Bulgaria's actions!
Putting King Danteburg in the hands of the Turks can't be more secure than controlling in your own hands!
As for Bulgaria, forget it! In his eyes the Bulgarian Army is still making up, the Navy? What kind of creature is that?
Anyway, a Bulgaria without a navy has to resort to the Russians to master the Black Sea Strait. In essence, the King of Constantinople is still in the hands of the Russians!
"It seems that the Turks are going to be unlucky again! But this has nothing to do with us, as long as we can keep our interests!" François Philippe Fauhr thought and said
The Foreign Minister said with a smile: "If we don't plan to step in, Bulgarian loans will be handed over to the capitalists themselves. I believe they will have a satisfactory harvest this time!"
Everyone looked at each other and smiled. Not only the capitalists would have a satisfactory harvest, but everyone sitting there would also have a satisfactory harvest. After all, international loans require the government to come forward, otherwise the capitalists would not be able to collect debts from a country!
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