"Your Majesty, what are you thinking?" Jie Ge closed the book and looked at Emperor Hua with a smile.

Emperor Hua smiled slightly and patted Prince Jie's little hand, "Nothing, are you tired of watching it?"

"Well, I found that I don't like reading political books very much. It's better for me to read more novels." Jie Ge smiled.

"Do whatever you like." Emperor Hua loved to rub Gege's little hands, looking at the sea outside the cabin, and was about to arrive at the Kingdom of Spain. This is the last country with the strongest German and Austrian division. If there is no progress in diplomacy in Spain, Emperor Hua will be in Berlin. Before dating with Emperor Germany and Bismarck, his diplomatic position will be very unfavorable.

Emperor Hua still had more than 50% confidence in Bismarck's support for China's diplomacy.

Just look at the speed of Britain's territory expansion in India after the 18th Seventh War and then look at the losses of Britain after the United States' independence, and you will find that the important reason why Britain rarely interferes in the European political situation in the 19th century was that Britain had transformed from a European power to a world-class colonial empire.

It has an extremely rich colony in South Asia that can be compared with half of Europe, so the main matter it considers has long shifted from Europe to a huge area on the long line from the Mediterranean to India.

Britain did underestimate the impact of German reunification to a certain extent, but this underestimation is not without reason, because Britain focused on more important things at that time.

Moreover, even after Germany was reunified, Bismarck knew very well that Germany could not challenge British power.

Therefore, the British thought that the balance of potential energy in Europe was in balance.

But the British underestimated the terrible effect of democratization of foreign policy and the desire of global colonies to fight for national independence.

In fact, if the Emperor of China was asked to evaluate it, the collapse of the British Empire did not begin with a war in the colonies, but with a war in the colonies.

The British war between the indigenous Boers in the South African colonies and the British Empire. In this war, the Boers War was supported by Germany, just as the American War of Independence was supported by France.

But Germany had limited support at that time, unlike France who gave money, soldiers and commanders.

During the Boer War, the Boer invented guerrilla tactics, which was very similar to the situation in the United States during the Vietnam War.

In order to suppress the Boer War, Britain implemented the strategy of clearing the fields in the local area, established concentration camps, and killed a large number of Boer people, similar to Japan and Germany during World War II.

After learning about the existence of the concentration camp, British woman Hobhouse sent the truth to the domestic media, causing great turmoil in European public opinion, and countries accused the UK of anti-humanitarian behavior.

At that time, Europeans' attitude towards Britain was much more bloody than Europeans' attitude towards the United States today.

After the Boer War, Britain established the South African Federation, which is the predecessor of today's South Africa.

Compared to a gradually rising and powerful Prussia, Germany, which is about to move towards unification under the general trend, Britain is more afraid of the re-emerging France and Russia, which is involved in Europe.

Emperor Hua rationally analyzed the international situation at that time: After a series of reforms, Russia, as one of the major European powers, was the most feared opponent of Britain, France and Austria, and its overall strength was not inferior to that of France and Pu'ao. At this time, the problems of Tsarist Russia's own internal social structure did not appear so serious. The crazy expansion and competition for colonies in Central Asia and the Far East made it difficult for several powerful countries to ignore its existence.

Even though only European plots are left by China, Tsarist Russia is still very strong. Moreover, once the fighting nation recovers, it is terrible to have counterattack ability.

France was severely damaged after the Napoleonic Wars, and lagged far behind Britain in terms of economic, colonial scale and industrial output value, but it was still a force on the continent that should not be underestimated.

France never forgot the glory of the Napoleon Empire, and has always pursued the European empire to reproduce this universality. In 48, Napoleon III became the president of the Second Republic, became emperor in 52, and at the same time, it was looking for active foreign policy and possibility of expansion (Vietnam, Opium War). In 53, it formed an alliance with Britain to join the Crim War to curb Russia's expansion.

France may not have enough confidence, but its ambition to become a big country again is still quite obvious.

Of course, this is seen by Britain, a century-old enemy. In fact, Britain has never relaxed its suppression of France since the Hundred Years War. Britain is extremely afraid that an overly powerful force will appear on the European territory. This is also the reason why Britain tries every means to maintain the balance of continental power.

Throughout history, France is the country with the most likely country to become this power in every era.

In the mid-19th century, Britain and France formed a number of alliances, which did not mean that they were not wary of each other. It was just that Russia's problems were more imminent than France at this time, and while fighting Russia, Britain needed a strong assistant.

Britain has never relaxed its surveillance and suppression of France, believing that France will always be his potential opponent. What’s ridiculous is that no one could have thought that Napoleon III had no backbone and actually surrendered with 1.5 million French troops.

The Austrian Empire and the Napoleonic War also greatly damaged its vitality. The demise of the Holy Roman Empire made Austria's influence in Germany worse than before, which Metternich and others tried their best but could not recover.

In essence, Austria is still a feudal country. Although its own conditions are good, the army has the power to fight, and the colonial and maritime power is too pitiful compared to other powerful people. This decline empire must find a way to restore its decline. Therefore, Austria is still relatively active in participating in European affairs. It hopes to enhance its prestige and influence in Europe in order to establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire later.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire is not that powerful and cannot be ignored.

The German Empire and the call for German national unity reached its climax in the middle and late 19th century. There was Prussia in the north and the confederates in the south, and all countries saw this.

Prussia is a hard bone, and there is no benefit in fighting in Britain.

The naval power and colonies lag far behind Britain and pose no threat. Moreover, Britain needed a country that could contain France in the heart of Europe. Poor was an ally of Britain in the Napoleonic Wars. Britain had almost no reason to go to war against this country and Germany.

However, Emperor Hua did not think it was entirely because of the British's "stupid brain". Because except for Emperor Hua, who was reborn and traveling through time, who knew that Germany would develop so quickly?
Chapter completed!