While the British Government was carrying out internal reforms and the Vienna Government was busy with domestic development, international conflicts did not cease because of it.
By the principle that preventing the enemy from doing what they wanted was itself a victory, the two big bosses once again entered mutual-sabotage mode.
But pits were not so easily dug. In the field of setting traps, London and Vienna were both grandmaster-level players; ordinary pits simply could not bury anyone.
Because of the reforms, the British Government was currently embroiled in fierce internal strife, but that did not mean the Vienna Government could actually do anything.
Britain and the Holy Roman Empire had been locked in confrontation for so many years that both countries had long since unified their thinking, stamping the other with the label of "enemy."
By now, there was no longer any pro-British faction within Vienna, nor any pro-Austrian faction in the British Government. Whatever traditional friendship there had been had long been worn away in repeated clashes of interest.
If the Vienna Government rashly meddled in it, the threat of an external enemy might even force the British Government's internal factions to reach a compromise ahead of schedule.
But doing nothing and letting such a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity go to waste left Friedrich unwilling to accept it.
After all, the Vienna Government might not currently be making a move against the British, but the British Government's little schemes against the Holy Roman Empire had never stopped.
"The Holy Roman Empire threat theory," "the anti-dumping theory," "the freedom and security theory"... a whole series of internationally popular topics had all been concocted by the British.
Rumors and gossip were a matter of "three men make a tiger"—once enough people repeated them, there was no washing them clean.
Frankly speaking, Friedrich