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Princess Victoria to marry Prussian Frederick III

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Princess Victoria of Great Britain is set to marry Prussian royalty Prince Frederick. The Home Office announced that they were happy for the couple and were sure that this union would not produce a physically disabled gentleman with imperial ambitions that would help create a war that would plunge Europe into chaos and despair twice.

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Karl Anton Joachim Zephyrinus Friedrich Meinrad Fürst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen sporting a very German Moustache takes of as Prime Minister of Prussia replacing Otto Theodor von Manteuffel.

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ITALIAN DIPLOMACY WORKS TO DEFUSE TENSIONS

Following Austrian attempts at fabricating a Casus Belli against the small and fledgling European nation of Piedmont-Sardinia, tensions escalated in Northern Italy.

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The immediate response from the P-S government to Austrian provocation was for the Prime Minister to agitate for independence in Lombardy and Venice and called for all true-blooded Italians to join the cause of liberty and unification.

Following such statements, the Austrian government decided to send a second army to guard Venice, which in response has provoked troop movements in other major European nations.

In order to ensure that reason prevails among all actors involved, Italy has dispatched diplomats to Austria, Prussia and France in order to explain its position and to call for calm. The King of P-S, Vittorio Victorio Emmanuel II, has travelled to Vienna in order to assure the Austrians that P-S has no interest in stirring up troubles in their lands and that Cavour had a stern talking to in order to discourage him from making similar statements in the future. We do not yet know how the meeting went, but we are certain that he was well received with his gifts of finest Italian luxury products.

It is this reporters hope that the Italian nationalists in Lombardy and Venice will not take up the PM's words and attempt to rise up in arms against their benevolent Austrian masters in the future.

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"Sardinia-what?"
"I think it's somewhere in Southern America."

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Italian Agent provocateurs in Lombardy causing unrest, Sardinia Piedmont remains silent.

The Prussian governement has reason to believe after reports came in that agents have been send by the governement of Sardinia-Piedmont into Lombardy to rally the people to take up arms against the legitimate Austrian rule. Attemps have been made by the leaders of Austria to have Sardinia-Piedmont clarify their reason behind it and as they've remained silent it's clear that they're out to cause a conflict which would lead to war between these two Nations.

We'd hope that Sardinia-Piedmont will seize these acts of provocation and opens up a diplomatic dialogue with the Austrians so peace can be safeguarded in Europe.

I has come to mine and the Emperors attention, that an increased nationalistic agitation spreading trough Lombardie may be either directly caused by Sardinia-Piedmont, or indirectly influencing nationalists with their dangerous ideas of unification.
Whatever the reason, it is clear that Sardinia-Piedmont is the main culprit and we cannot allow state sponsored agitation to tear the Empire apart or in anyway hamper the continuing rise in prosperity.
As the Empire has risen above the dark past of the middle ages, we will give diplomacy a chance. The Emperor will receive His Excelency king Vittorio Emanuel II to discuss the issue and I will receive the honored delegation from Prussia, no doubt to show they stand with us.
The beast of nationalism has spawned the Bonapartist menace a generation ago, we cannot allow another large scale European war. But we will not hesitate to stomp out the ember before it becomes a fire. Even if it means going to war.
Gott erhalte unser Kaiser

Ausenminister Karl Ferdinand von Buol


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Emperor Comments on Austrian-Italian Crisis

The Emperor Napoléon gave a speech in front of the Parliament today regarding tensions between the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and the Austrian Empire. In his speech, the Emperor urged both parties to seek a peaceful solution to the dispute before it triggers an unnecessary war. Delegations have been dispatched to Vienna and Turin to make the French government's position on this matter clear. The Emperor added, however, that though France is overwhelmingly in support of a peaceful solution, the people of France could not stand idly by should the sovereignty of their Italian brothers be threatened by "unprovoked Habsburg aggression".

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:haha: Brilliant

While this post may come to bite me in the behind in the long run, with all the strikes and riots you guys are experiencing, you need one additional lesson on how to manage your economies.

The previous lesson focused on how to make as much private capital as possible from your economies. Well guess what, people in the 19th century liked poverty and misery as much as anyone today (ie. not at all), so you need something sweet to keep them happy.

In additional to policies you have available in your F1 (government), F4 (economy) and F6 (social) screens that can help you reduce militancy and increase contentment, your citizens also have needs for specific products.

In the F6 screen, you can see how much each class of your society wants to buy from a specific product group (food, common and luxury goods). However, it is not enough to satisfy their quantitative needs, you also need to satisfy their qualitative needs, meaning that you need to have different types of goods from each category (for common goods, this would be textile, coffee, tea, wine, etc...).

Lastly, nothing brings up happiness on the national market as much as luxury goods. So while it makes good economic sense to sell these high value products on the world market, it makes better political and social sense to make the necessary amount available to your national market. You can decide how much of a product you make available by (left-/right-)clicking on the product icons in the F4 screen and the game will automatically tell you how much of a specific product you will sell.

To summarize: build luxury goods factories, build silk farms (France and Austria) or try to buy the necessary products on the international market.

Remember, working and functional economies benefit everyone!

Don't know who your informants are for Prussia but I would suggest you have them shot for providing false intel on the stability of Prussia. I'm not having any strikes or riots.

Think at most a long while ago 1 province had a months of riots and strikes which I managed after first sending in MP units, adjusting the internal market to provide more goods, providing more types of goods on the internal market by trade and the build of a few extra luxury goods factories.

So far all content levels are well above the 50 in the census.

This is what puzzles me.
Every luxury on the trade screen is demanded less than I offer them.
Let's say I set my luxury production to give 120 crates (?) for the intenral market, but the people buy only 80, and they're still unhappy :doh: