"Your esteed Majesty! Although there are certain differences between the French Empire and the Russian Empire on so issues, I believe that as long as both sides adhere to the idea of peace, misunderstandings will eventually be resolved!"
The Russian envoy, sensing the scent of war, hurriedly persuaded Jero Bonaparte to abandon the idea he had yet to express.
Jero Bonaparte rely glanced at the Russian envoy and calmly replied, "The Russian Empire’s actions in the Danube Duchy have seriously threatened the peace and stability of the Near East region, so the Russian Empire must withdraw from Moldova and Wallachia!!"
"Withdraw?" The Russian envoy raised his voice, responding indignantly to Jero Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, no one, no country has the right to order the Russian Imperial Army to withdraw from those lands!"
For a pure Slav nationalist, liberating the Slav nations constrained by the Ottoman Empire has beco one of the established national policies of the Russian Empire. Even His Majesty the Tsar, the supre ruler of the Russian Empire, cannot openly deny this sacred and noble cause, so how could a re Russian envoy dare to publicly deny it.
"Mr. Ambassador, I called you here today not to discuss with you; the Russian Empire must withdraw from the Danube Duchy! If the Russian Empire continues to cling to the Danube Duchy and refuses to leave, then the French Empire will consider the Russian Empire the main culprit for disrupting the peace of the Near East region! The French Empire will use all ans at its disposal to maintain the peace and stability of the Near East region." Jero Bonaparte issued an ultimatum to the Russian envoy with a tough attitude towards the Russian Empire.
Since Jero Bonaparte threatened openly with war, it also ant there was virtually no room for negotiation between the French Empire and the Russian Empire. The Russian envoy naturally didn’t need to forcefully say insincere words to please the French Empire.
"Hmph!" The Russian envoy snorted coldly, replying to Jero Bonaparte with a mocking tone, "France seizes Algeria from Turkey, and Britain almost annually annexes one principality after another in India; none of these affect the balance of power. Why is it that when we, the Russian Empire, temporarily occupy Moldova and Wallachia, it disrupts the power balance.
The French Empire has stationed troops in Ro for several years, yet Europe turns a blind eye to you. But when the Russian Empire rely considers liberating Constantinople, you arrogantly claim we are disrupting Europe’s peace.
... Britain declared war on the Qingguo people rely because they offended them, and you had no response! Yet when the Russian Empire rely has a friction with a neighboring country, permission from all of Europe is required. To support a pathetic lie, Britain threatens Greece and burns their fleet, and you still turn a blind eye and claim it was a legitimate action. But when the Russian Empire demands a treaty to protect the legal rights of Christians, you treat it as an expansion of influence in the Near East, sacrificing the balance of power.
In you, I see no civilization or virtue. We can gain nothing but blind hatred and malice from you.
Even so, you are still not satisfied, still scheming to limit us, as if we were born carrying sin."
The Russian envoy recounted one by one the various double-standard cases conducted by the Kingdom of Britain and the French Empire over nearly two decades.
"Mr. Ambassador, which of the Russian Empire’s wars was not aid at expanding territory? Simply based on the lands annexed by the Russian Empire in recent years, you have annexed far more land than France! Yet you are still not satisfied, still scheming to continue annexing land!" Jero Bonaparte retaliated against the Russian envoy with sharp words: "Yes! We did annex Algeria, but France also suffered the fate of the Bourbon Dynasty’s collapse and your suppression and blockade of France. We helped Pope Pius IX return to Ro, but we didn’t painstakingly attempt to establish a unified Italian state.
And you? You demand the Ottoman Empire sign a treaty to protect Christians all to completely control the Ottoman Empire! You occupy Constantinople just to turn it into Russian Empire’s territory!
The French Empire hasn’t sched to turn Ro into a city under its jurisdiction. You’ve been restricted in your expansion, so I want to ask you, how did a Moscow Duchy beco the vast Russian Empire it is now? Where is the Polish Federation, the Crian Khanate, the Caucasus Region Khanate now? They couldn’t have voluntarily handed over their lands. When you use brutal ans to expand recklessly, you should have thought that one day you would beco the main culprit for disrupting Europe’s peace."
Jero Bonaparte rcilessly pointed out the greedy nature of the Russian Empire, from the establishnt of the Moscow Duchy to the present, successive Tsars have done everything they could to exploit their Slavic subjects to fulfill their expansionist desires.
The Russian Empire transford from a remote corner into the limping giant now spanning the Eurasian continent.
If it weren’t for the advanced productivity brought by the Industrial Revolution temporarily offsetting the Russian Empire’s population advantage, with its sow-like reproductive capability, it wouldn’t be long before it could overwhelm Europe with its vast population advantage.
The Napoleonic Wars could be said to be the last glory of Tsarist Russia, when smoothbore muskets were decisive factors in range, accuracy, and loading, and tactics composed of bayonet charges and soldierly zeal essentially determined the victory in a war.
If at that ti the Russian Imperial Army were equipped with a commander similar to Suvorov, the whole army would have been invincible.
Unfortunately, the ti of the Napoleonic Wars has passed, and the powerful and convenient artillery and highly accurate rifles have changed the original rules of warfare.
War has moved to another stage—the stage of total war, which for Tsarist Russia, with an industrial base basically at zero, is undoubtedly a dinsional reduction blow.
However, besides Jero Bonaparte, no one else fully realized that the mode of warfare was advancing towards a bloodier direction, and the gap between the French Imperial Army and the Russian Imperial Army was far greater than they themselves imagined.
Therefore, Jero Bonaparte from the beginning was not afraid to go to war with the Russian Empire. What he feared was the French Empire falling into diplomatic isolation once again.
Now, the diplomatic isolation troubling the French Empire no longer exists. The French Empire has acquired Cyprus and Syria from the Ottoman Empire as a return (though Rifat believes that the Ottoman Empire has not lost these two regions, but in Jero Bonaparte’s eyes, they are already in the bag of the French Empire, just waiting for the right ti to seize them without hesitation.), it is ti to confront the Russian Empire.
"Your Majesty, everything you say is just sophistry based on French principles!" After a long silence, the Russian envoy once again responded to Jero Bonaparte: "The Russian Empire will never abandon our Christian brothers in the Danube Duchy and the Balkans, who are still awaiting our liberation! If you really are determined to drag France into a war with the Russian Empire, then we have no choice but to fight. The Russian Empire is never afraid of war, we just don’t want to see the French Empire and the Russian Empire, these two civilized nations, slaughter each other for a barbaric country!"
"It’s not for you and to judge what is civilized or barbaric! I only see the Russian Empire invading a country under an absurd pretext!" Jero Bonaparte righteously denounced the Russian Empire’s aggression against the Ottoman Empire, having already forgotten the clumsy and shaless performance in the Shatorri Region a month ago.
"Your Majesty! Since you insist on demanding war, then I have nothing more to say!" The Russian envoy gave a slight bow to Jero Bonaparte to express his respect for France: "Then please allow to take my leave!"
Jero Bonaparte smiled and extended his hand, and after the Russian envoy bowed once more to Jero Bonaparte, he left the Tuileries Palace.
After the Russian envoy left, Jero Bonaparte spoke again to De Luy beside him: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should imdiately and accurately deliver the conditions set by France to St. Petersburg, and let our ambassador to Russia withdraw from Russia as soon as the ssage is delivered! War is about to begin!"
De Luy took action imdiately upon receiving Jero Bonaparte’s orders.
On the other hand, the Russian envoy leaving the Tuileries Palace returned to the Russian embassy residence like a walking corpse.
The military officer and secretary in charge of the embassy, upon seeing the Russian envoy’s expression, imdiately felt that sothing significant might happen. They hurriedly approached the Russian envoy to inquire what had transpired!
"Let’s go!" The Russian envoy weakly said, a statent that sounded perplexing to the military officer and secretary.
"Your Excellency, what do you an by this?" the secretary cautiously inquired of the envoy before him.
"I said go! Didn’t you hear clearly?" the frustrated Russian envoy raised his voice.
"Your Excellency, where are we going? Are we returning to the Russian Empire, or...?" the secretary asked once more.
"The French Empire has issued a warning to the Russian Empire, war is about to begin!"
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