Chapter 1096
Unable to achieve his objective, Lloyd George could only sigh. The world was changing too fast; even the French Government was no longer so easy to fool.
Unlike the pro-British Bonaparte Dynasty, the restored Bourbon Dynasty had not the slightest connection with the British Government. To avoid suspicion, the Carlos Government had even deliberately kept its distance from the British.
The facts were right before them. No matter how great the benefits Lloyd George promised, they could not conceal the enormous risks of joining a war against the Holy Roman Empire.
France was now badly weakened. The wealth accumulated by its colonial empire over several centuries had been drained dry, leaving it with no capital whatsoever to confront the Holy Roman Empire.
The nation could not withstand more turmoil, and the king even less so. Though the Bourbon Dynasty was legitimate, powerful outsiders had repeatedly forced their way in during the intervening years, and its foundations of rule were nowhere near as secure as they appeared from the outside.
If not for the previous governments' reckless meddling, along with the devastation wrought by the Russians, which had made the people of Paris turn pale at the very mention of "revolution"—
Then, given France's current economic condition, the Carlos Government would likely have been driven from power long ago.
One had to admit that a brutal beating from society made people mature more easily. After a string of defeats, France's adolescent edgelords had nearly vanished.
Without these mainstay cannon fodder, even the revolutionaries had fallen silent. There was no helping it—this was precisely when the public loathed revolution most, and the foundations for rebellion simply did not exist.
No one was stupid. The Anti-French Alliance's troops were still stationed in France. Rebelling at such a time meant not merely