"The Ottoman Empire has declined, and its territory has become its burden. Muhammad Ali, a civilized man in a barbaric world, under his leadership, Egypt can replace Ottoman as..."

Thiers, the representative of France, was the first to speak. Someone once commented on Thiers that "his political activities are the chronicle of French political disasters" and "a dwarf monster trying to wield Napoleon's sword".

Suppressing the workers' uprising in Lyon, advocating foreign wars, opposing British intervention in continental Europe, and **** suppression of the Paris Commune, you can be regarded as a spiritual Roman.

Palmerston habitually interrupted other people's speeches, and he never felt that there was anything wrong with it. The strong national power of Britain was his reliance.

"To be what, to be a colony of France? The Egyptians don't want to do business with us, they only want to talk to you French."

In fact, apart from Britain and France, the participating powers had very limited trade with Ottomans, especially Prussia, who exported the most military talents to Ottomans.

The border security between Austria and Ottoman is comparable to war-torn Afghanistan. The trade between the two sides mainly comes from the sea, and Austria has long been an importing country. As for the trade volume, it is only a few tenths of that of Britain and France.

Russia's trade is also hard to describe, so no one cares about trade with the Ottoman Empire except Britain and France. Of course, no one stands up against Palmerston, because it is meaningless, and there is a possibility of being bitten by this lunatic .

"What a joke! Don't you Brits believe in freedom of trade? With whom does Egypt do business, do you still need the consent of the UK? You Brits stretch their hands too far!" Thiers also retorted. Britain's policy of interference in continental Europe was disgusted.

"Mr. Thiers, please shut up! We in the UK believe in free trade, and what we do is to maintain free trade. The Egyptian government cannot restrict the export of Egyptian businessmen, let alone the entry of British businessmen!" Palmerston said .

"Free trade? Then why do you Brits not allow our wine to be sold in London, Portsmouth, Birmingham...why do you impose heavy taxes on Russian logs?"

At that time, Russia's exports were mainly agricultural products, most of which were sold to the United Kingdom, and the logs were severely taxed by the British.

This immediately aroused the sympathy of Russian Foreign Minister Nesselov. He is a diplomat with military background, and his thoughts are not as meticulous as those present.

"Yes! Mr. Palmerston, would you, England, reduce your tariffs? They are too high."

In fact, Austrian glass products were also sanctioned by the United Kingdom, and Metternich naturally would not let this opportunity pass.

"Yes, there are also glass products from our country."

The Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lord Sewell, was also scratching his head thinking about what he should say, and finally came up with a sentence.

"And our Prussian agricultural products."

Palmerston was a qualified diplomat, seeing that things were going against him, he immediately changed his mind.

"We will consider the opinions of various countries. But shouldn't we discuss how to protect the interests of European countries in Ottoman?"

"How about we continue to talk about free trade, I..."

Just as Thiers was about to pursue the victory, he was interrupted again, this time by Nesselov.

"We in Russia hope that you can respect Russia's interests. If the Egyptians attack the Dardanelles, our Russia is willing to send 150,000 troops to help the Ottoman Empire through this crisis."

At this moment, Nesselov immediately became the focus of the audience. Russia sent 150,000 troops to the south, which made everyone present feel that Russia was planning to continue encroaching on Ottoman's territory.

This was obviously not in everyone's interest, and Palmerston immediately objected.

"No, Russian troops must not enter Anatolia!"

"Yes! The Russian army cannot go south, this is a civil war in the Ottoman Empire!"

Thiers also opposed the Russian army going south against Egypt. Although the Egyptians performed well in the Ottoman battles, they were not qualified to fight the real powers. Moreover, there is no country in the world that can deal with Mao Xiong and Britain at the same time.

Historically, it was precisely because of the strong opposition from Britain and France, coupled with Pu'ao's support for Britain and France, that Mao Xiong was prevented from going south.

But at this time, Puao did not express his position, and the Russians did not mean to back down.

Palmerston said immediately.

"Shouldn't we maintain the status quo in the Near East? Mr. Metternich, don't you also support the rule of the Ottoman Sultan?"

"Yes, we support the Ottoman Sultan to continue to rule Ottoman, but why should we prevent the Russians from going south?"

Of course Metternich knew the purpose of Russia going south, but what did that have to do with Austria. At this time, Austria is eager for the three countries of Britain, France and Russia to become one pot of porridge, so that Austria can take the opportunity to make a fortune in silence.

The opinion of Prussia was not important to the nations, so Lord Sewell was ignored.

There are conflicts between Britain, France, and Russia. Austria hopes to reap the benefits of fishermen and waits for other powers to win over itself. Prussia is powerless to the Near East and can only play soy sauce. UU Reading www. uukanshu.com

The result of the meeting, of course, was no result.

Britain, France and Russia all hope to pull Austria, which is in a neutral position, to their side.

It was Palmerston who first found Metternich, and he seemed very confident.

Palmerston believed that as long as he explained the current situation in the Near East to Metternich, the latter would immediately join the British side.

The strength of Egypt means the strength of France, and the strength of France is obviously not in the interests of Austria.

Because France will compete with Austria for the leadership of Italy and Germany.

The Russians going south will inevitably strengthen their control over the Ottoman Empire, and Austria will have great difficulties if it wants to move eastward, and Russia will also prevent Austria from annexing Germany to the north, because the Tsar does not want to see a strong Austria.

Historically, Metternich has followed this line of thought and has always been Palmerston's younger brother, but in the end he discovered that Britain was also an obstacle to Austria.

At this time, Austria already had the power to protect itself, coupled with Franz's analysis and the pitifully weak fleet sent by the British, Metternich felt that Britain needed an ally to come to him.

Palmerston, who came empty-handed, appeared insincere, which made Metternich feel slighted.

"Lord Palmerston, your analysis is very wonderful, but our Austrian Empire is not afraid of war. Any country that dares to violate our interests will be met with a strong and powerful counterattack by our army.

You said that there are no permanent friends in this world, only eternal interests, and we will only stand on the side that is in line with the interests of the Austrian Empire. "

Metternich was doing Tai Chi, but Palmerston obviously didn't want to take it up. Like a spoiled child who didn't get the candy right away, he left with a harsh word.

"Short-sighted! You'll regret it!"