My Italian Chapter 184

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Germany still attaches great importance to the amendment proposed by Italy. Especially after Kahlo proposed for the second time, the German government was ready to negotiate.

On the third day of William's accession to the throne, the two sides were officially entering a state of negotiation.

The place of negotiation is now a conference room in the Prime Minister's Office, and the monarchs of the two countries are nominally leading the negotiations. But the actual negotiation is left to someone else.

The German side sent a negotiating delegation headed by Prime Minister Bismarck, while the Italian side was a team headed by Foreign Minister Jemini Bacona.

After everyone was seated, Bismarck, the host, spoke first. "The three-nation alliance treaty is indeed about to expire. I was busy before and almost forgot about it, but since your country has mentioned it, let's discuss the renewal of the contract today."

Prime Minister Bismarck set the tone as soon as he spoke, and in the face of the German Prime Minister's words, Bakona, the foreign minister, did not struggle too much with this, even if the German side had the upper hand.

"Prime Minister Bismarck is right, this time we are discussing the alliance between the two countries in the future."

Having said that, Bakona goes straight to the point.

"In the past five years, it has proved that you, together with AustriHungary and the alliance of the three countries, have made a great contribution to stabilizing the situation in Europe. In view of this, my country believes that it can be used for some undisclosed effects. The treaty is revised, and the outer circle can be appropriately deepened for treaties that are in the interests of our two countries.”

After saying this, Bakona took a document from his assistant and handed it to Prime Minister Bismarck across the table.

"This is a draft of our country's appropriate amendments to several articles in the treaty. If you have any dissatisfaction, we can discuss it in person."

After receiving the draft handed over by the Italian side, Bismarck began to read it seriously. In this draft, the Italians also carefully adopted a top-down comparison model, so that the revisions were compared with the previous clauses.

And it was with the upper and lower contrast mode that Bismarck quickly discovered the difference. Of course, some changes may only be small changes, but among them, Bismarck found a very big change.

That was Article 4 of the treaty, the original version of which was; when a great power other than the signatory of this treaty threatens the national security of one of the contracting parties and that contracting party is forced to go to war with it, the other contracting parties are obliged to remain neutral towards the allies and reserve The right to fight in due course.

Now Italy has changed it into, when a major country that is not a signatory of this treaty threatens the national security of one of the contracting parties, and when the contracting party goes to war with it, other contracting parties are obliged to maintain assistance to the allies, which may not be limited to diplomatic and public opinion, etc., Wells reserves the right to engage in combat when appropriate.

The whole article lacks coercion and neutrality, and adds help such as diplomatic and public opinion, but its meaning immediately becomes completely different.

This will also mean that, no matter who the three parties are waging the war, the other two countries need to help each other in diplomacy and public opinion.

As a political old fox, Bismarck immediately smelled a different flavor from the revised treaty. "You should be trying to start a war with the outside world, right?"

The iron-blooded Prime Minister, who is like a human being, immediately pointed out the intentions of the Italians.

"No, you're blaming me wrong. Regarding the revision of this article, we are all equal, not what Your Excellency thinks."

In the face of Bismarck's intention to point out Italy, Bakona, the foreign minister, immediately denied it. Everyone is playing diplomacy, and as long as there is no evidence, no one will admit it. Even if there is evidence, it can be denied from various aspects. For example, the evidence is forged and other excuses. You can't be embarrassed when you play diplomacy.

Although Bacona denied it, but who is Bismarck, how could he believe it because of the other party's denial. Now he can be sure that the Italians are preparing for the war, but it is not known who the target is at present, but there are not many worthy of Italy's shot, I believe it will always be exposed.

"If that's the case, then my country thinks it's best to change the treaty back to the original one, because that's the best option for both of you and us."

Bismarck's words immediately left the Italian delegation speechless, because they did not expect that the prime minister was completely unwilling to accept the Italian draft, and did not even give the opportunity to negotiate.

At this time, Carlo, who was observing the negotiation, couldn't sit still, and saw him stand up and say. "Where there are differences, we can skip it first, and we can start negotiations on terms that both parties are willing to accept."

Carlo's sudden interjection made the Italian delegation breathe a sigh of relief. They were taken away by the German Prime Minister for a while, so they were stunned. With Carlo's reminder, they reacted, and they could start from a simple start.

After Prime Minister Bismarck heard Carlo's words, he frowned and then loosened.

The next negotiation went on quickly. There were too many terms that the two parties were willing to accept. It can be said that except for Article 4, which was changed by Italy, everything else was easy to negotiate.

Of course, no matter how easy it is to talk about it, it needs to be discussed one by one. After a daytime negotiation (break for lunch and replenish energy), other terms have basically been negotiated, and it only needs the following people to negotiate on the details to complete.

When the negotiations were about to touch on Italy's revised Article IV, Carlo stood up again. "I think this alliance treaty is not good enough."

Facing Carlo who stood up to speak again, Bismarck didn't know what mood he was in. He said to the young Italian monarch. "Since King Carlo has new ideas, why don't you sit down and talk."

Obviously, Bismarck was expressing his dissatisfaction with Carlo's meddling in the negotiations.

But there is a good saying, Carlo said without hesitation. "Since Prime Minister Bismarck has invited me, it's a good time to sit down and talk."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the face of the Jagged Prime Minister and sat directly across from him, and Bakona, who was originally sitting in this position, could only squeeze his assistant away.

Ignoring the expressions of the German delegation and the somewhat surprised eyes of Wilhelm II, Carlo spoke his thoughts directly.

"In fact, our three countries each have their own advantages. Our country's warship design and manufacture are very good, while your country and AustriHungary are weaker. My idea is that we Italy can use our own advantages to design and manufacture warships. Experience and help your country and AustriHungary to improve their strength in this area.”

Carlo's words made Bismarck's face even more unsightly, but apart from him, several people in the German delegation showed joy on their faces. In particular, Kaiser Wilhelm, who was still surprised just now, was even more delighted. "For warship technology, our country's needs are not urgent. If your country really wants to exchange technology, then come up with your country's technology in electricity."

Prime Minister Bismarck did not eat this set, instead he asked for Italian power technology.

In response to Bismarck's request, the expressions of the Italian delegation became very exciting, because this is the only civilian technology that Italy can produce.

"There is no problem with this. As long as your country likes it, our country can come up with a full set of technology and production indicators."

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