Following Emperor Franz Joseph's establishment of Austria's diplomatic red line at Mei Quan Palace, the entire Austrian Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and military began their operations.
On the diplomatic front, the team led by Count Baur and adviser Metternich successively presented formal documents to the French Empire and the Russian Empire through their respective diplomatic envoys.
In the document submitted to the French Empire, Austria protested against France for drawing the Kingdom of Sardinia into the war, claiming that this move by France would cause chaos throughout the Apennine Peninsula, thereby affecting peace in Southern Europe. (In reality, there was another informal document, personally written by Prince Metternich and handed over to his servant, who then forwarded it to Richard Metternich. The content of this document could be said to directly overturn the formal document submitted by Austria to France.)
