Fox of France

This cooperation between France and Austria has surprised many countries. From a general point of view, on the European continent, the greatest threat to French hegemony is Austria. According to this view, France should try to take advantage of Austria's natural weakness as a multi-ethnic country and support Austria's civil strife. It is best to let Austria disintegrate. In this way, France's advantages in Europe will be unshakable.

However, the French chose to support the Austrian government in this incident, which seemed to have given up the opportunity to dismember Austria. This disappointed many paper politicians. Some British newspapers even expressed with gratitude and contempt that Napoleon Po Nabal was attracted by the small interests in front of him, and let go of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It can be seen that although he is indeed worthy of the reputation of "Imperator" on the battlefield, he is too naive politically.

Of course, the French media would never attack their leaders in this way, but their rebuttals can only be made from the perspective of virtue. French newspapers have expressed that this just proves that France is a great peace-loving country and a pillar force for maintaining world peace, not an aggressive bad thing like Britain.

When it comes to this question, generally speaking, the level of "Science and Pravda" is still the highest. "Science und Pravda" does not deny that the French government should work hard to safeguard French interests. But it points out that France's interests go beyond the visible. For France, something invisible and intangible is more precious. That is the spirit of the French Republic.

"What is the spirit of France? It is the insistence on the spirit of 'democracy', 'freedom' and 'fraternity'. It is also under the inspiration of this spirit that the French people united together and established the great French Republic. This spirit is the foundation of the founding of France, the banner and bond that unites the French people. For France, there is no greater interest than maintaining this spirit. Of course, some people who are full of such reasons are just A guy with vulgar interests is incomprehensible.

It is true that Austria is not a progressive country that meets this standard, and is much more reactionary than the Northern Italian Republic and the Rhine Union. From our point of view, it still retains too many feudal and backward things. But what was it that stood on the opposite side of Austria in this case?

We must not think that those who want to oppose a reactionary and backward thing must be an advanced and progressive force. In many cases, it may be a more reactionary and backward force. What were the demands of the Hungarian nobles who launched the rebellion? It's not about democracy or freedom, but about "maintaining tradition"! To put it more clearly, it is to maintain their privileges as nobles, riding on the heads of the people to dominate the people; it is to maintain the privilege of being able to do whatever they want in their own territory, and even bathe themselves with the blood of virgins! (This is an allusion to the legend of the predecessor of the Bathory family, Elizabeth Bathory. It is said that in order to maintain her beauty, she killed hundreds of virgins and bathed in their blood. The game "Darkness The little boss in God of Destruction 2, the countess in the Forgotten Tower is based on her)

Therefore, the behavior of the Hungarian nobles is an out-and-out rebellion. It is not only a threat to the interests of the broad masses of the Hungarian people, but also a threat to the interests of the broad masses of the people of Austria, and it is also a threat to all freedom-loving people in the world. A threat to interests is a threat to the creed on which France was founded. Therefore, we support the Austrian emperor to quell this rebellion. The ultimate and main purpose is to maintain our faith-this is the most cherished wealth of France. "

This article in "Science et Pravda" is really not entirely high-profile, because "democracy, liberty, and fraternity" are indeed one of France's most cherished wealth. In a conversation with his two younger brothers, Joseph once divided the power of the country into two parts. Part of it is the hard power of the country, including economic capacity, industrial level and military strength. The other type is what he calls soft power, that is, the influence of French culture, art and even ideology on other countries.

"Mr. Mentheus said: 'If all the people in the world who are interested in politics hope to be officials in your country, all the farmers want to farm in your country, and all businessmen want to be in your market. People who do business in the country, people who travel want to walk on the road of your country, and those people who have been harmed by their king hope to come to you to complain about their king: if you think about it, who else can be with you? What do you contend?'

When we were fighting the Austrians in Italy, the Italian people were on our side and provided us with various kinds of help. This is an important reason why we were able to win like a storm. And in Belgium, the Belgian people originally welcomed us with bread and beer. If it weren't for the misbehavior of those idiots, we should have defeated them in 1993. Why, we got such a welcome from these foreigners? This is what our slogans, our flags, and our soft power come into play. We should cherish our soft power and not destroy it just because of a little bit of petty profit. This will help us continue to cultivate more and more troops in other countries who are willing to give us military power in the event of a war. lead the way. Well, Lucien, that's the core mission of your job. "

Therefore, France's actions are indeed in line with the "progress" personality. A country can also be established by human beings, and a successful human design can bring many invisible and long-term benefits. Of course, the human design is also very fragile, even if it is a country’s human design, if you don’t pay attention, there will be a king who understands, plus a person who likes to talk nonsense such as "We lie, we cheat, we steal, this is our continuous improvement." "Glory" and other truthful aides, the country's character design will also collapse. The result is often picking up sesame seeds and shaking watermelons, which makes the opponent want to give them a one-ton medal.

However, maintaining the personality is not the whole reason why the French sided with the Austrians this time. This time the French have a more realistic and darker reason for doing so.

First of all, based on the research of the three brothers, they believe that on the European continent, in the long run, the only people who may pose a threat to France's status are the Germans. Generally speaking, the German nation has a large population and a good level of education. If they are not in a state of division, if they are really integrated into one country, so that a Germany appears in the world, then Germany will definitely become France. status challenger.

Today Germany is divided into three parts, the Rhine Union, Prussia and Austria. Both the Rhineland Confederation and Prussia were Protestant, while Austria was Catholic. So although the Rhineland Alliance is now an ally of France, whether they will come together with Prussia in the future, or even create a Germany, is a problem that France needs to worry about. Of course, under the current situation, France can completely Rely on your own hard power to stop all this. But doing so will cause the French people to collapse. Therefore, in order to maintain the division of Germany, France does not want to weaken Austria excessively.

In addition, there are many internal contradictions in Austria. In order to maintain the empire and compete with North Germany, the Habsburg family has to rely more and more on France. Then, they will become the spokespersons of France's interests, or, to put it more clearly, It can also be called "comprador".

The combination of these is the reason for France to take such actions. As for the tricks of the Austrian national debt, fundamentally speaking, it is nothing more than beating rabbits.