Facts proved that efficiency was forced out of people. At ordinary international conferences, it often took ten days or half a month without a single consensus being reached.
The Continental Economic Summit was different. With the revolutionary tide rolling on without end, the governments of every country were panicking. If they kept dragging things out, no one knew how far the situation might deteriorate.
The terrifying scars left by the Revolution of 1848 still echoed in the hearts of the rulers to this day. Though the revolution had ultimately been extinguished, its impact had been far-reaching.
In a sense, Europe's current situation had been forged by the Revolution of 1848.
Had the revolutionary tide not swept away the Orleans Dynasty, there would have been no Greater French Empire under Bonaparte; had the revolution not provided an opportunity for reform, the House of Habsburg would not have revived so quickly; had the revolution not spurred nationalism into wild growth, the Holy Roman Empire would not have unified so easily...
After a string of coincidences, the international situation reaching this point had become inevitable.
Revolution meant reshuffling the distribution of interests, and naturally, those with vested interests were unwilling to start over. Whether a reshuffle was good or bad for a country, no one could know before it was finished; but for the ruling class, it was absolutely a disaster.
To prevent the situation from worsening further, the representatives of every country attended the conference with utmost sincerity. In just three short days, the nations reached an agreement on jointly "saving the market."
On September 1, 1894, the Continental Alliance Economic Commission issued a market-rescue announcement. The eighteen nations of the Continental Alliance would jointly contribute 1.2 billion Divine Shields to revive the European economy.
Under the plan, the funding required for