Chương 566: Chapter 139, The British Plan

Austrian Embassy, a staff member around thirty years old reported: "Envoy Excellency, this is the latest intelligence we have gathered.

It's noteworthy that while the Marquis of McLennan was visiting, the Permanent Under-Secretary from the UK Foreign Office, Crowe, also entered the French Embassy at the same time.

The two held a secret meeting, and no one knows the specifics of their conversation. Our initial judgment is that their discussion should be related to the Near Eastern War; there's a fifty percent chance it involved the issue of German unification."

Coaxing Austria to check France, while also leveraging France to check Austria, using the tripartite alliance of England, France, and Austria to maintain stability on the European Continent and solidify their position as the world's supreme power—that is British diplomacy.