Osman, Istanbul.

The Grand Salakirio Palace, also known as the "Gate of the Cannon", is indeed magnificent. It's just that Ottoman's national strength has made Metternich feel no fear at all.

Europeans used to regard the Ottoman Empire as the "whip of God", and because of the brutality of the successive sultans, every ambassador who came here would first leave a will.

There is a mural titled "God's Plague" in the Graz Cathedral in Austria, which vividly illustrates that for the people under the Habsburg rule at that time, the Ottoman attack was a catastrophe like the Black Death and the locust crossing.

It's just that this ancient empire that captured Constantinople and besieged Vienna twice, at this time, when his defenders saw Metternich, their eyes were full of fear.

Although the Ottomans often used nicknames to humiliate the Europeans, a deep fear was rooted in the hearts of the Ottomans due to the appearance of the Russians. Even the officials in charge of receiving Metternich couldn't help shaking their arms .

This fear directly comes from the Austrian fleet moored in the port. In order to show Metternich, Austria drove all the huge battleships that had exceeded their service life.

The pier was already crowded with good people. This was a huge fleet they had never seen before. Apart from those giant ships with sails, there were also many strange ships without sails.

At this time, the Ottoman navy only had some light gunboats left for appearances, and they did not dare to stop the Austrian fleet at all.

Metternich should be regarded as the highest-ranking Western official who visited Istanbul.

Metternich's visit to the Grand Sarakirio Palace surprised Mejid a little.

The previous five-nation meeting did not reach an agreement, but only drafted a proposal and handed it to the Ottoman government, asking them to stop peace talks with Egypt.

McGidd felt that Britain had been forced to take action, and his goal had been achieved, so there was no need to continue talking with the Egyptians.

So the Egyptian envoy, who was halfway to the road, hurried back again.

Mejid is a person addicted to pleasure. He felt that the external crisis had been resolved, so he began to have fun in the flower hall with his concubines.

He felt very upset when he was disturbed. The young sultan seemed to intend to let the Austrian envoy hang out first to kill his vigor.

The Grand Vizier newly appointed by Maged was Mustafa Lester. He used to be a diplomat. Of course he knew what level Metternich was, so he hurriedly reminded him.

"Great Sultan, Metternich is Chancellor of Austria."

"So what?" McGidd said with some disdain, in his heart he had a kind of blind confidence in Britain's strength.

"This Prime Minister Metternich, known as the Prime Minister of Europe, has established a structure to maintain peace for decades. Moreover, he has not left Austria for a long time. You need to meet such a powerful figure, Sudan."

"What a disappointment. Let him come in the afternoon. I'll take a nap first."

When Mustafa Rest saw the sultan's attitude, it was really difficult for him to connect the arrogant and pleasure-loving young man with the monarch who was determined to reform a few days ago.

In fact, it is true that Majid wants to reform, and it is also true that he is indulging in pleasure.

In his bones, he felt that the Ottoman Empire, with generations of Ming emperors, was far ahead of the West, but it was because the people were so stupid that they fell behind the West.

Especially after Huating Yuzhao, those Westerners praised him, which made him look down on those stupid Westerners. It's really ridiculous that I just tricked those Westerners around with a little trick.

Although McGidd felt that the British had sent troops to sit back and relax, but Mustafa Lester knew very well that the so-called five-nation proposal was simply a piece of waste paper.

The interests of the great powers differed greatly, and no agreement was reached. The British were planning to hold another five-nation meeting in London, but France did not receive the invitation, and the Prime Minister of Austria actually appeared in Istanbul. In addition, the Russian envoy repeatedly reiterated that Russia's exclusive right to the straits.

Mustafa Lester was worried about the prospect of the London Conference. In fact, his worry was correct. Palmerston tried to put aside the French and get the four countries of Prussia, Austria, and Russia to sanction Egypt first.

After all, it is not easy for Russia to send troops to the Sinai Peninsula, and the newly appointed Sudan has an obvious pro-British attitude. It is only a matter of time before Ottoman is induced to tear up the agreement with Russia.

The most important thing is that Russia will not compete with Britain for business, but the French are different. They have industrial capacity and trade volume second only to Britain.

Moreover, Egypt's interests are highly tied to France, even if Britain wants to instigate rebellion, it will be impossible to start.

Historically, Palmerston was dissatisfied with the results of the Vienna Conference, and held a five-nation conference in London. This time, he left France aside, annulled the agreement reached at the previous Vienna Conference, directly threatened Egypt with force, and even led Russia , Austrian fleet to deter Egypt. Afterwards, Egypt had to accept "peace", and Britain won a big victory.

But this time the five-nation agreement was not reached at all, and the French did not receive the invitation. And the Russians are brooding over Britain's opposition to their hegemony in the Straits, UU Reading www. After reaching an agreement with Austria, uukanshu.com is not going to sell the face of the British.

Out of self-interest considerations, Austria did not choose to be Palmerston's younger brother, but intended to fight for its own interests, and there was no reason to accept Palmerston's order to participate in any London conference, let alone send a fleet to replace the British fight.

No multinational fleet appeared, only a solitary British fleet. In history, it was precisely because of the emergence of multinational fleets that Ali gave up his crazy plan, because he could not be an enemy of the entire Western world.

But at this time, a British fleet with only eight warships dared to bombard Beirut. Ali immediately sent his powerful fleet with 28 battleships.

He believed not a single British ship could leave the shores of Beirut, flanked by shore artillery and a powerful fleet.

Attacking the British fleet was just a bad idea in Muhammad Ali's mind. What he hoped most was to be able to negotiate peace with Ottoman.

At first, when the death of Mahmud II spread to Egypt, Muhammad Ali was ecstatic and shouted "God has eyes".

Because in his heart, the Ottoman Empire has been retreating steadily since the beginning of the war. The navy built with a lot of money has mutinied, and the new army with high hopes has been dispersed. Now even the Sultan himself is dead, and Ottoman seems to have no choice but to surrender.

However, the expected collapse did not happen, nor did a large number of Ottomans surrender in response to Ali's call for the "Great Arab Empire".

Afterwards, the newly-appointed Sultan made even more foolish tricks, unexpectedly mentioning any reforms at this time. But the development of the matter once again surprised Ali. The Ottoman civilians joined the army enthusiastically, and even Britain and Russia, which had been standing still, began to act.

This made Ali have to put all his eggs in one basket. He knew very well that if these great powers did not hurt them, they would not listen to him.