The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 618 About Albania
The British did not live comfortably in Albania. The puppet they supported, Doseni Mustafa, raised the banner of anti-British after receiving the promised weapons and aid.

The British army's strength of only 3000 troops was really difficult to cope with the situation at this time. Of course, the British were not idiots, and quickly found the source of the turmoil from their weapons.

After all, the rebels have a lot of Austrian weapons in their hands, and anyone who is not a fool can tell who is doing the tricks.

The British government immediately protested to the Austrian side, and at the same time put forward its own views to the Ottoman government.

But on the surface, this letter is still a personal letter, which was told by a teacher to the students.

(Canning had once been McGidd's titular teacher, which made the former feel very honorable.)
"Given the current situation in Albania, I have reason to suspect that the turmoil in your country is planned by the Austrians.

In order to prevent further loss of your country's interests, I suggest that your government take back control of northern Albania.

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Immediately after this private letter was made public, there was an uproar, especially some small businessmen, small officials, and soldiers of the new army in the Ottoman Empire, as well as the student party, all demanded to go to war with the Austrian Empire and go to Vienna to pull down their foolish emperor. .

As for why this kind of confidential letter was made public, as long as you are not stupid, you can guess.

At the same time, the British also bribed several senior officials of the Ottoman Empire to help them contribute to the flames. These people have inextricably linked with the British and naturally they will not disappoint their masters.

However, this caused panic in Mejid and the new Grand Vizierkuga, because they knew exactly what the Ottoman Empire was like.

It’s good that the Austrians didn’t fight over, but those “troublemakers” still want to fight over. You must know that the former is an ally of Russia. According to the alliance agreement, if Austria is attacked, Russia will send troops to join the war within three months.

However, Mejid felt that the Russians would not wait for three months. They would immediately cooperate with the Austrians to attack along the Danube. By then, Albania might not be the only one that would be lost.

Moreover, Mejid is very satisfied with the current situation in northern Albania, and does not think it is an invasion at all. After all, the Austrians will pay management fees in advance, and even Ottomans can send officials and troops.

Of course, Mejid is not that stupid. He would really send troops into the mountains in northern Albania. After all, the local bandits are rampant, and it is not impossible to loot the army.

But he still has the guts to send some officials to pay for nothing.

In fact, these officials were all sent to Vienna by the Austrian side to entertain them with delicious food and drinks. Naturally, they would not report some information that was unfavorable to Austria to Magid.

As for conspiring to plan turmoil, it is nonsense, after all, Albania has been in turmoil for hundreds of years.

In fact, Mejid understood that the British wanted to use his hand to put pressure on the Austrians, but the most fundamental problem was that the Ottoman Empire did not have this ability at this time.

Moreover, it would not be of any benefit to the Ottoman Empire to push the Austrian Empire out of Albania. On the contrary, it would offend the former severely, and the tearing up of the agreement would be too detrimental to the latter, a weak country.

In this way, it is tantamount to tying the ships of the Ottoman Empire and the British. Once the latter feels that the former has not lost its use value, it is possible to pick up skin and eat meat at any time, or even feed it to other beasts.

In addition, the attitude of the Russians is also an important reason for Mejid's hesitation. If the former also tore up the agreement and chose to side with the United Kingdom, it would be easy to drive the Austrians out of Albania.

On the contrary, it is very difficult for the British alone, and if Russia joins the battle in accordance with the covenant, the Ottoman Empire will suffer catastrophe.

After all, no matter how powerful the British are, it cannot face two land powers at the same time.

However, the domestic national sentiment also needs to be taken care of, and McGide does not want to end up with Louis XVI.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire adopted the tactic of procrastinating words. Mejid hoped to wait until the situation became clearer before making a decision. He did not want to be cannon fodder for the British to explore the way.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire only issued a statement that it was about to intervene in the investigation, which made the British very unhappy.

In fact, from the perspective of the latter, the former can completely ask the Austrians to withdraw from the Ottoman territory, and if the other party rejects the British, they can intervene.

It's just that the former dare not let a weak country take the initiative to tear up the agreement reached between the great powers bordering it.

"Stupid cowards! No wonder the Ottoman Empire has fallen to where it is today!"

Canning stamped his feet in Whitehall, but it didn't help that it was the toughest decision McGidd could make.

Robert Peel sighed, "I'm afraid I don't know when it is after such a delay."

At this time Canning had a new idea.

"Master Prime Minister, maybe we can treat him with his own way."

Robert Peel: "Mr. Canning, are you saying..."

"We can also, like the Austrians, transport our British weapons to the mountains in northern Albania, and let those Austrians have a taste of what we have experienced in Afghanistan."

This immediately caused discomfort to a cabinet member who happened to be back from British India after all.

This resolution still caused some people's dissatisfaction, so is it worth the waste of money and people?Will the Austrian Navy challenge the Royal Navy's maritime supremacy?

For now, the conflict between Austria and the United Kingdom is far from irreconcilable. Compared with the former, France and Russia are obviously more threatening to the latter.

In today's difficult diplomatic situation, why spare no effort to suppress an existence that may not threaten Britain at all?
This inevitably makes people speculate that the Viscount Stratford is avenging his personal revenge, which is more disturbing than Palmerston's involvement of Britain in the Far East War before.

(Viscount Stratford refers to Stratford Canning.)
You must know that after that war, Britain did not get what Palmerston promised in return.At this time, the Viscount Stratford was pushing the British Empire into another abyss.

There are many people in the Tory Party who are dissatisfied with Canning, but Robert Peel has given full play to his characteristics as an excellent leader at this time-employing people without doubt, resisting the crowd and adopting the former's proposal.

So a large number of British weapons were shipped to Albania, and then they discovered a problem.Although there are many roads into the mountains, there is no way for these weapons to enter the Austrian ruled area.

Austria's control over the mountains in northern Albania is far stronger than the British imagined, and the complexity of the mountains in northern Albania is far beyond their imagination.

In the end, most of these weapons flowed back to the British-occupied southern part of Albania, and the Austrians also made it public that the British were sending weapons to the rebels.

Of course, McGidd is not stupid, and his approach is to continue the investigation.

(End of this chapter)