The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 417

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: 0.873s Scan: 0.062sAfter entering 1927, the impact of the economic crisis began to expand further.

In addition to the high unemployment rates and turbulent domestic situations caused by the economic crisis in several traditional powers in the world, some small countries have also begun to be affected.

Before World War I, there were five major powers in Europe, namely: the world hegemon, the sun never sets, the traditional power Gaul, the rising star Germany and Italy, the European gendarme bear, and the Central European hegemon Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Add a North American eagle sauce, and the national strength of these six countries can be called the world’s six major powers at the time. Italy and the foot basin are slightly weaker!

After World War I, a large number of kingdoms in Europe perished one after another, the Second Empire became history, and the new Hans had no emperor.

The Tsar of the bear was shot to death, the Russian Empire collapsed, and the red bear rose rapidly.

The worst was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even if other countries changed dynasties, they could at least keep their core lands.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a multi-ethnic country, and it was also a strange dual system country, so it quickly split into multiple countries after its demise.

After World War I, on the basis of the original Austro-Hungarian Empire, as many as 11 countries were split!

In addition, Poland, Romania, and Italy also obtained part of the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Although Hans and Odili fought many wars for the dominance of Germany and Italy, one of the two countries advocated the establishment of a small Germany and the other advocated the establishment of a large Germany. In the end, in the Austro-Prussian War, Odili was defeated, and Hans set aside Odili to establish a small Germany.

Odili had no choice but to establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

However, after the two sides established their own countries, the relationship between the two countries has always been very good. After all, they are brothers of the same language and race. Brothers fighting is something that no one wants to see, so reconciliation is everyone’s common wish.

How much Hans values the Austro-Hungarian Empire can be seen from the fact that they turned against the bear.

The Russians have always wanted to get involved in the Balkan Peninsula and unite their Slavic brothers, but the Balkan Peninsula is the sphere of influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They dare not and are unwilling to let the Russians reach out, so the two countries have huge contradictions on the issue of the Balkan Peninsula.

At that time, the three countries were all in the Three Emperors’ Alliance. As the initiator of the Three Emperors’ Alliance, Hans had very good relations with the Russians and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

However, in the face of this almost irreconcilable contradiction, Hans resolutely chose to abandon the Russians and stand with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Only then did he pull the Italians, who were obviously one level weaker in strength, to form the Allies.

However, the Allies lost everything in World War I, the Second Empire collapsed, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated, and the friendship between the two countries completely ceased to exist. After all, the countries were gone.

Nine years later, when Hans reorganized the old mountains and rivers and began to gradually recover and grow, those little brothers who had originally split from the Austro-Hungarian Empire but did not have a good life seemed to recall this friendship again and began to pin their hopes on the big brother beside them!

In January 192, after New Year’s Day, Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy led a delegation to Berlin to visit Hans

“The regent of Hungary is a bit interesting. His military rank claims to be a navy, but Hungary has neither a navy nor a coastline. This admiral is probably on par with the Seven Warlords of the Sea!”

Mainz’s words caused everyone to laugh. Menggu’s Seven Warlords of the Sea is a joke, and it was a joke made by Mainz himself.

After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Menggu once had the idea of separating from the Celestial Empire. They formed their own regime and army, including a navy.

But the interesting thing is that Menggu has no coastline at all, so their navy is naturally just a decoration. This navy has only seven soldiers and is nicknamed the Seven Warlords of the Sea by Mainz.

Because it is located in an inland area, this navy is an army that cannot be defeated by the navy of other countries. It is as powerful as the Seven Warlords of the Sea, so there is such a joke.

The situation of Hungary is similar to that of Menggu.

When Hungary was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a coastline, so naturally it also had a navy, and Hall Admiral Ti was originally the commander of the fleet of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with the rank of admiral.

As a result, after the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he rushed to Hungary with his army, and then after a series of operations, he became the actual leader of Hungary!

He didn’t dare to call himself king, but he was unwilling to give up the power in his hands, so he put a hat of regent on his head and became the local emperor of Hungary with peace of mind.

Speaking of which, Hungary and Hans did not border each other, but after Hans merged with Odili, they became neighbors of Hungary.

Compared with Jake, who occupied many of Hans’ lands, Hungary had no territorial disputes with Hans, and they themselves had a large amount of land occupied by Jake, so Hungary had no resistance to Hans, but like Hans, they did not like Jake, so they were very close to Hans.

Hungary has a very good geographical location. They are located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain. There are more than 50,000 square kilometers of plains in the country’s total 90,000 square kilometers of land. The Danube River runs through it, making their land very fertile and water resources extremely abundant.

Therefore, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary has always been an important granary of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Their country’s economy mainly relies on agriculture, and the industry is not very developed. The Austro-Hungarian Empire’s industry is mainly concentrated in Odili and Czech Republic in the north, and Hungary basically has no industry.

To put it bluntly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been sucking Hungary’s blood, plundering their agricultural resources, and dumping products to them, but it has not supported their industry. As a result, the Hungarians have long been dissatisfied with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a dual empire. After the defeat in World War I, they took advantage of this. A chance to be independent!

However, even if they were independent, their status as a defeated country did not change at all. After the end of World War I, the signing of the Treaty of Trianon caused Hungary to lose 72% of its land, of which Transylvania, an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, was completely annexed by Romani. Moreover, the Romani army also broke into the capital of Hungary and carried out a thorough robbery of their capital, almost looting the entire city!

After this incident, the national strength of Hungary was greatly weakened, and the Romani people became completely fat. If they had not been severely punished by the German army led by Mainz when invading Odili and forced to pay a compensation of 100 million pounds, the Romani people who were getting more and more aggressive might have attacked Hungary and annexed them!

So in this sense, Mainz’s promotion of the merger of Odili and Hans not only made Hans himself gain huge benefits, but also indirectly helped and protected Hungary, the younger brother. From then on, Hungary began to move closer to Hans!

During the economic crisis, Hans was seriously affected. In order to reduce the loss of property, countries around the world began to use high tariffs to protect their own industries. All countries raised tariffs. Hans itself was originally a huge market with a population of 80 million. After World War I, it has been a dumping ground for goods from various countries. Therefore, after the tariffs of various countries were raised, a large number of products flowed into Hans.

This had a great impact on Hans’ own industry, so Mainz did not hesitate. They imposed tariffs on goods from various countries according to the standards of various countries, greatly increasing the tariff level of Hans. All of a sudden, after foreign products entered Hans and were subject to high tariffs, their prices suddenly rose sharply. Compared with Hans’ own products, their quality did not have a particularly big advantage, but their price disadvantage was revealed!

So, without any surprise, products from various countries lost the market of Hans, and Hans, a huge market with a population of 80 million, became Hans’ own market.

Hungary, which makes a living by exporting agricultural products, cannot sell its own agricultural products because of Hans’ high tariff policy. Their population is only 6 million, but the annual grain output is as high as more than 12 million tons. Almost every person can get 2 tons of grain, which is more than 5 times the normal demand!

Obviously, Hungary cannot eat so much grain alone. If they don’t export it, the grain will rot in the fields!

Therefore, with a large backlog of grain in the country and unable to sell it abroad, Admiral Horthy had to run to Hans to plead, hoping that Hans would show some leniency, take care of his younger brother, and give them a way out…_