In Milan's royal palace, the Wittelsbach Family was holding its final discussion: whether to relinquish the Greek throne.
The matter was actually easy to resolve. Unlike Otto I of the original timeline, who had been driven from power, Otto I had died a natural death this time. Many among the upper ranks of the Greek government had been brought over from Bavaria by Otto I himself.
With Austria's support, these people still held great power. The Wittelsbach Family's foundations in Greece remained intact, and the heir they dispatched could stabilize the situation in the shortest possible time.
This was also why Franz leaned toward supporting the Wittelsbach Family. If they replaced them with a foreign king, even gaining control over Greece would be difficult.
Otto I might not have been a successful king, but neither was he a worthless fool. Greece had suffered defeat in the Near East War, yet the king himself had emerged victorious.
Borrowing the blades of Britain, France, and the Ottoman, Otto I had successfully purged his political enemies. Even now, Greece's radical groups had yet to recover their strength.
The few nobles and capitalists were all clever people. Shouting slogans was one thing, but anyone who truly believed they could "rebuild Rome" had to be an idiot.
In the original timeline, it was only after a series of harsh beatings from society that Greece's strategic ambitions steadily shrank, degenerating from "rebuild Rome" to "Greater Greece."
Even "Greater Greece" was not small in the slightest. In terms of territory, it would have been roughly seven or eight times Greece's current size, perhaps even larger.
George I proposed "building a Greater Greek state with Constantinople as its capital and Athens as its economic center," yet even that drew criticism from Greek patriots.
Looking at the map, this