On the last day of January 1870, the British Foreign Minister suddenly summoned the ambassadors of Prussia and France to London. During the meeting, the British Foreign Minister expressed his deep concerns about the situation and was willing to conduct diplomatic adjustments to avoid the occurrence of war.

What surprised the French even more was that the person in charge of the mediation team this time was the British Crown Prince Edward!

The fact that the Crown Prince could personally come forward for diplomatic adjustments was simply a super standard treatment. As soon as the news came out, the entire European political arena suddenly in an uproar.

The originally pessimistic critics changed their tone, and they unanimously believed that this was Britain's greatest effort to European peace! Once Britain devoted itself to tripartite negotiations, the situation would naturally ease and war could certainly be avoided.

The French ambassador immediately telegraphed the news to the Palace of Versailles. After hearing this, Napoleon III was so excited that he drank three glasses of strong wine. Of course, the French emperor was not afraid of war. For him, war was as simple as eating a sandwich.

Even the Emperor of the Francis was a man who loved wars, which could be seen from the wars he provoked after he ascended the throne.

What Napoleon III really hated was the British mainland checks and balances policy. In the eyes of Napoleon III, it was easy to defeat the small Prussia, but the British policy of supporting the third and challenging the second made him disgusted and disgusted.

It can be foreseen that if there was a fierce war between Prussia and France, the comprehensive national strength of the two countries would retreat greatly, and Britain could sit and enjoy the success, watching the second place get farther and farther away from him.

After all, Britain just doesn't want to give France a chance to tie its strength. They want to control the world forever, and they want to leave the second place behind forever.

In order not to let the British conspiracy succeed, Napoleon III did not want to launch this war.

But I never expected that Britain had changed its national policy and sent the crown prince to mediate. Could it be that all the arrogant British bulls had changed their nature? The French Emperor couldn't figure it out.

If you can't figure it out, you have to think that you can't be confused about governing a country. All the French intelligence agencies have been mobilized, and Paris politicians connect with each other and fiercely analyze the situation in front of you.

Did the coordination team led by Crown Prince Edward send a pie? Or a trap? If you don’t understand this problem, then the happiness of the Franciscan emperor will not last for a few days.

After investing a large amount of intelligence funds, almost all French intelligence agencies dispatched to spy on this secret. Unexpectedly, the final breakthrough of intelligence was obtained from the Netherlands!

As we all know, the first stock exchange in human history was established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the era when the Netherlands dominated the sea, Amsterdam's stock exchange was indeed the financial center of Europe.

Of course, his light has been taken away by the Financial City of London, England, but the old and old heroes are still there. This earliest stock exchange for mankind still has extremely terrifying connections!

They are closely related to the City of London, England, and they can find out the latest insider information about London's financial markets.

The genius French intelligence officials actually thought of finding a breakthrough from here unexpectedly!

The financial veterans in Amsterdam actually sent a shocking news to France. It turned out that since last year, Prussia had been negotiating with the Financial City in an attempt to raise war bonds.

People all know that war requires money, and the country also requires money to invest in large projects, but what should I do if I don’t have money? If I don’t have money, I can only borrow it. There is actually no big difference between a country and a small family.

The Tsar wanted to abolish the serf system and he wanted to build the Siberian Railway, so he could only borrow money from the whole world, especially the Financial City of London. Even if the bond interest rate was high, they had to grit their teeth and borrow it.

This is called national bonds. Of course, wars can also be borrowed. For example, the war between Prussia and Denmark, as well as the war with Austria, all secretly raised a lot of high-interest funds from the City of London.

The underwriting of this kind of war bond is very, very complicated and secret, which is related to diplomacy between countries, checks and balances between financial groups, national strategies of each country, and other factors.

If this underwriting is to be successful, in addition to all the above conditions, it is more important to give enough interest to investors. These merchants must carefully calculate your repayment ability.

Merchants want to calculate how high the possibility of your victory in the war is. If your government collapses because of the war, then your ability to accept these national debts will be questioned. Not to mention the interest, it is hard to say whether you can pay the principal in Prussia at that time.

The bigwigs inside the Dutch Stock Exchange gave Napoleon III a shocking news. Last year, Prussia had secretly talked with the Bank of England and the Financial City of London to discuss the acceptance business of war bonds.

Prussia is initially preparing to issue a 70 million pound war bond in the City of London, raising 70 million is enough for Prussia to carry out a moderately intense war. This money is Prussia's war funds against France.

Everything was carried out in top secrets, and France had no idea that such a business was being negotiated!

But today, France finally knew that the business was not only being negotiated, but just half a month ago, the City of London changed its attitude. They made a pessimistic judgment about Prussia and eventually rejected the business.

Those financial oligarchs seem to be very optimistic about the war between Prussia and France. They believe that Prussia has no possibility of victory in this war, and even a draw is difficult.

Since it is bound to lose, why do you still have to do this loss-making business? That is a 70 million pound war bond! Although the British royal family has handed some small words behind the scenes, businessmen are businessmen. They have their own independent thinking and their business will never be controlled by the royal family.

After all, I still refuse. There is no chance for £70 million, and £50 million is impossible. In the end, I didn’t even borrow the minimum limit of £30 million.

France finally figured out what was going on. It turned out that Britain was not changing. The coordination team he is now working on is trying his best to avoid war because he has predicted that Prussia is simply unable to engage in such a war!

They found that Prussia's current national strength was not enough to support this war unless it could raise a lot of financing from the Financial City.

Compared with current strength, once a war breaks out, Prussia will not only be difficult to win, but it will not even have much chance of drawing.

This will not play a role in checking and balancing on the European continent. This war will not weaken France's national strength at all. Instead, it will give France an excuse, an excuse to eat big fat meat!

Such an ending is naturally not what the British want. Since the war cannot achieve the goal of dragging down France, we can only change our strategy and try our best to stop the war.
Chapter completed!