The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1547 Are you ready?
North America at this time is more like a shopping mall. Everyone is pursuing maximum profit, and for this purpose, etiquette, morals, and rules can all be abandoned.

No matter how despicable, obscene, or cruel the tricks are, as long as they are successful, they will be praised and there will even be people who help whitewash them.

If it can still escape sanctions, it will be classified as American wisdom.

The so-called competition is most of the time not so-called competition, but more like a life-and-death fight on the battlefield.

Franz's last words were:
"Teacher, you said that rules are made by people."

Metternich put down the letter in his hand. He seemed to finally understand Franz's intention of sending him to North America.

Metternich finally made up his mind to go to Mexico City again.

Mexico City, Presidential Palace.

As soon as Colonel Jimmy walked into the gate, he heard cheers from the cockfighting arena and he couldn't help frowning.

Tasan Anna is an avid cockfighting fan. He owns hundreds of fighting cocks and spends a lot of money on it every year.

This was meaningless to Colonel Jimmy. He arrived at the door of the cockfighting arena and saw Tasan Anna's secretary coming in, reeking of alcohol.

"Colonel Jimmy, the President is attending to official business."

"Go away!"

Colonel Jimmy pushed the drunken secretary aside and walked straight through the archway. In the center of the courtyard was a huge circular building that imitated the ancient Roman Colosseum.

In the cockfighting arena, officers with open collars and ladies with even wider collars were roaring and screaming, and the smell of tequila and blood stimulated their nostrils.

"I bet 10,000 pesos, Deathclaw wins!"

Tasan Anna was sitting in the highest luxury box and yelling. He was obviously drunk and could only stay up with the help of his two lovers.

The host on the stage also shouted hard.

"Mr. President, place your bets on Death Claws for 10,000 pesos! Everyone, place your bets now!"

Jimmy had no interest in the mess. He quickly came to the highest box and knocked on the door.

"Mr. President, it's me. Jimmy. I have something very important that I need your instructions on."

Because the cockfighting arena was very noisy, Jimmy had to repeat it over and over again.

Finally, the door of the box opened. The person who opened the door was Diego, a trusted attendant of Tasan Anna. However, Tasan Anna himself did not even turn his head and continued to watch the situation on the field intently.

"Mr President"

Jimmy started to speak when Tasan Anna raised his hand and interrupted him.

"The winner will soon be decided."

At this moment, the tense situation suddenly took a turn for the worse. The black rooster's sharp claws suddenly grabbed the neck of the other gray fighting cock.

No matter how the gray fighting cock struggled and wailed, the black fighting cock refused to let go. With a roar, blood gushed out of the gray fighting cock's chest.

"The winner is decided! The winner is Deathclaw!"

The host on the stage uttered an excited Spanish refrain.

In the box.

"Go ahead."

"Mr. President, California has sent another team."

Tasan Anna said impatiently before Jimmy finished speaking.

"Don't worry about them. They will leave in a few days." Jimmy said after hesitating.

"It is old Metternich himself."

Tasan Anna sobered up immediately.

"What's that old guy doing here?"

"It must be about the contract renewal."

As soon as Diego finished speaking, he was glared at by Tasan Anna.

"Do you think I don't know?"

Seeing Diego lower his head, he spoke slowly.

"Isn't he afraid of death?"

This time no one answered.

"Give him good food and drink. If he wants to see me, tell him I'm sick."

"But what if he wants to visit you?"

As soon as Diego finished speaking, Tasan Anna replied angrily.

"Tell him it's leprosy! Yellow fever! A disease that can't be seen by humans!"

"I understand, I understand."

Tasan Anna was a little angry. In order to deal with Metternich, he had to restrain himself. At this time, Tasan Anna did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
On the other side, Metternich's team had arrived in Mexico City by rail. He did not choose to enter the Austrian embassy, ​​but instead stayed in the state guesthouse opened by the Mexican government.

In fact, Metternich knew that the previous assassination was definitely related to Tasan Anna, but he did not feel fear, but rather some disdain.

After all, as one of the most hated diplomats in Europe, he had received many threats, not just death threats.

Moreover, it would not be of any benefit to Tasan Anna if Metternich died in Mexico City or on the way to Mexico City.

On the contrary, if Metternich really died on Tassan Anna's territory, or on any inch of Mexican land, the Mexican government would have to make an explanation that would satisfy the Austrian Empire.

The emphasis was on a reply that satisfied the Austrian Empire, not on any reasonable explanation.

Otherwise, no matter how reasonable the Mexicans' reasons were, the Austrian Empire could regard it as a provocation and demand compensation from Mexico or even directly initiate a war.

Gavrilo Princip was almost canonized in Yugoslavia and the East because he assassinated Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand and his wife Princess Sofia in Sarajevo, which triggered the First World War. He was even listed on the list of the 100 most influential people in human history, alongside Jesus, Newton, Confucius, and Sakyamuni.

The story that people in the West are familiar with is that the Serbian government was very tough in refusing to make a public apology, and refused to hand over the murderer who was under the age of 20 (sentenced to 20 years in prison) in accordance with the Serbian Constitution, and was regarded as a model of defending the law, and only expressed "regret" through informal channels.

The Serbian government pretended to appease its enemies while preparing for war, and ultimately won the First World War by defeating the strong with the weak.

But in fact, the Serbian government did not plan this way before getting the support of the Russians. They would not only cede land and pay compensation, but also hand over the culprit.

If things continue to develop in this way, Gavrilo Princip will be a complete sinner to the country and the nation.

In fact, there is a little story to prove this speculation. In 1977, the Yugoslav government decided to cast a pair of footprints with cement on the stone slab where Princip stood to assassinate the crown prince, and embedded a white marble slab about one square meter in size into the wall next to it.

Inscribed on the stone slab in black in both Serbian and English is the following: June 1914, 6 Gavrilo Princip changed the world here.

The Yugoslav government therefore renamed the bridge "Princip Bridge".

However, just fifteen years later, with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, monuments and memorials to Princip were demolished, his heroic deeds were removed from textbooks, and "Princip Bridge" was changed to "Ferdinand Bridge."

In 1995, the US President's Special Representative for the Balkans, Holbrooke, publicly called him a terrorist.

Was Tasan Anna really ready to kill Metternich?