Struggle in Russia - v3 Chapter 849 sad foot towel

Count Orlov was very dissatisfied with the double standards of Britain, France and Austria. Think about it, they are extremely harsh to Russia, even if Russia is willing to promise in the contract to give up its expansion in the Black Sea and the Balkans, they are unwilling. For example, the British people keep saying that Russia's commitment is worthless, and it must be a real elimination of military forces. Existence counts.

However, when it was Turkey's turn to solve the ethnic and religious issues, these people were extremely generous. The Turks were reluctant to sign a treaty, and they just released a so-called edict in the form of an advertisement to fulfill their promise.

If Count Orlov agreed to such a big double standard, Alexander II would never forgive him after returning to St. Petersburg.

Therefore, his attitude is extremely tough. If the reform of Turkey is not discussed at the peace conference and the protection of Orthodox Christians cannot be fully implemented, then he will never sign the treaty.

As a result, the French, who want to end the war as soon as possible, naturally exerted great diplomatic pressure on Turkey, and even threatened Turkey that France might reach an armistice agreement with Russia unilaterally, and even did not rule out a unilateral withdrawal from Crimea.

The Turks suddenly felt a lot of pressure. The reason is very simple. In this Crimean War, the British seemed to be shouting and killing Russia as if they were going to cut Russia into eight pieces, but in fact the British army was not the main force on the battlefield.

The real main force is the French. If the French withdraw, the British army alone may not be able to help the Russian army. Therefore, the attitude of France is very important to Turkey. If you don't want things to be twists and turns, it is best to serve the French gentlemen.

So after a series of wrangling between France and Turkey, the Turks had to make concessions. Of course, France also gave certain promises, which resulted in a compromise solution:

Turkey will sign an international declaration with Western countries, emphasizing the importance of maintaining the rights of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and in accordance with the request of the Russians on behalf of Greece, that is, restoring the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Nativity in Jerusalem.

The latter one is actually of crucial significance to Russia or to the dead Nicholas I, because the fuse of this war was the dispute between Orthodox Christians and Catholics over the dominance of these two churches.

The promise of France and Turkey to restore the status quo at least gives the Russians an account of their face, and at least they can propaganda internally that we are not forced to sign an alliance under the city after defeat, but have won legitimate rights and interests for the Orthodox brothers through reasonable resistance.

In fact, on the day when the peace agreement was announced to everyone, as expected, Alexander II publicly declared that he thanked God for achieving "the original core goal of the war...Russians! Your efforts and sacrifices were not in vain!"

Of course, this kind of thing is coaxing ghosts. As long as you have normal intelligence, you will know that this is just a fig leaf. In fact, Russia almost didn't even have this fig leaf, and was almost executed in front of the whole of Europe!

The reason is this, although France is in favor of tolerant treatment of Russia to achieve peace as soon as possible, and does not recommend to push Russia too hastily on the Balkan issue, but the French are also full of bad water, they mean that the Balkan issue is worth it, but On other issues, you can't just paddle the water, and you must take it seriously.

This so-called other problem is the Polish problem. Count Wallawski proposed to give Poland independence from Russia at a diplomatic meeting within the Allies.

Some people may wonder, how could the French be so enthusiastic about helping Poland win independence?

The water here is deeper, or the origin here is deeper.

First of all, we have to start with Count Alexander Wallevsky, who is actually Napoleon's illegitimate son. And his mother is the famous Countess Wallevsky. In fact, you can tell from the name that this Countess is of Slavic blood.

In fact, she is Polish, so Count Wallewski also has Polish blood. If you think about him being Napoleon's son, mother, and Polish, he must have contributed to Poland more or less.

At the same time, what Napoleon III, Count Wallewski's cousin, wanted most was to break the political map of Europe in 1815 and create a new one according to his wishes. So liberating Poland was the easiest and most effective idea.

At the same time, Prince Czartoryski of Poland was also active, demanding the reconstruction of the Polish Conference Kingdom. The prince's request is actually in line with the "Vienna Peace", but, you know, Russia directly overturned these terms.

Now that Russia is in trouble, Napoleon III and Count Wallevsky feel that they can take advantage of this to get a grip on the Russians.

But after the peace talks began, Napoleon III and Wallewski had contact with representatives of other countries and found that other countries were not interested in the Polish issue at all, and they did not want to help Europe wipe their feet~www.novelbuddy.com~ In this way, Napoleon The III and Count Wallewski could only wait and propose new conditions, including maintaining the status of the Polish language and protecting Poland from being thoroughly Russianized.

Speaking of which, it was actually the British who jumped the most on the Polish issue before. Before the war and the peace talks, the British had been inciting Polish exiles to create public opinion.

However, when it came to the peace talks, even Palmerston, who advocated being tough on Russia, was not interested in speaking up for Poland. He even bluntly advised Clarendon not to make a fuss about the Polish issue. He even helped Russia find a good one. excuse:

"If Poland can become independent from Russia, it will be good for Poland and Europe. But whether it is good for Poles or Europeans, the current situation of the Kingdom of Poland does meet certain conditions stipulated in the Vienna Treaty. The difference is also not commensurate with the effort we have to expend to achieve this. But Russia will say that Poland rebelled in the past, it was the Poles who first did not abide by the Treaty of Vienna, and then Russia had to send troops to conquer Poland, so Russia was relying on Military conquest, not Poland occupied by the Treaty of Vienna, and thus no obligation to abide by the terms of the treaty. The Russians will also say that making demands on Poland is interfering in Russia’s internal affairs…”

Well, let’s silently observe three minutes of silence for the Poles, jumping up and down for a long time, but in the blink of an eye, the British sold them cleanly. Russia exerted more pressure, not to mention that as France and Russia had more and more private contacts, both countries found it particularly beneficial to form a certain degree of friendship, so that Napoleon III was even less likely to be in Poland. Gossip on the issue...