After listening to Yakoterina Klimova's words, Emperor Hua's eyes suddenly lit up, and Princess Katrina Kafu and Zeng Jize were also thoughtful.President Meng has already woken up, "Oh, Yakoterina Klimova, you have been in Central Asia Province for the past few years, and you have not done it in vain, I took you on a visit, and it was right" Yakoterina Klimova smiled slightly: "Your Majesty has won the award, I just have a little immature experience." ”The Kingdom of Germany, that is, one of the three crowns of the Holy Roman Empire, the territory of the German Crown, whether Austria is Germany or not is definitely Austria is the eastern border of Bavaria, which became the Duchy of Austria independently, but whether it is a border area or a principality, it is one of the four principalities of old Germany.So also by this standard to see whether Prussia is Germany or not, the Duchy of Prussia is obviously not, East and West Prussia are both the Kingdom of Poland, even if it later gained independence, it can only be said that this Duchy is a free state without a feudal monarch, it has not gone through any legal procedures to join the Kingdom of Germany.The Brandenburg part of Prussia is counted.But the Brandenburg border was established by the Slavs Prybislav, and Albert the Great inherited the Brandenburg territory of Prybislav, so in fact the two most important components of the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia and Brandenburg, one is not the territory of the Kingdom of Germany at all, and the other is a somewhat far-fetched territory of the Kingdom of Germany, as for the Kingdom of Prussia in the 18th century, How could one kingdom belong to another, and the king of Prussia became a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire only because he was also the Count of Brandenburg, and not because Prussia was a state of Germany.So why did Austria not join the German Empire in 1871 and Prussia instead, it's simple, because Austria was defeated in the dynastic war.So why didn't Germany march into Vienna and then seize Austria, because Prussia didn't want to.This reluctance was not based on boon or mercy, but the Prussians could never afford to take such a risk.After the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia annexed the small German states that it had been desperate to annex since the conclusion of the treaty in 1815, between its eastern and western territories, and organized the remaining states into the North German Confederation, which was expanded to include the four southern German states in 1870.Therefore, the original constitution or the constitution of the German Confederation basically changed the name of the constitution of the North German Confederation, and the large states of South Germany were also included in the confederation system, and the head of the confederation was still the chairman of the confederation concurrently served by the king of Prussia, but at this time Bismarck asked the king of Bavaria to write a letter urging Wilhelm of Hohenzollern to become emperor, so he issued the emperor's proclamation, so that the chairman of the confederation became the emperor, and the confederation became the empire.But there was little real loss of power in the four South German states, and when the King of Württemberg threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Prussia to the point of almost causing a constitutional crisis in the Reich, the Berlin court had little to do, and this was the legacy of the 1871 constitution.But the reason why the Prussian court left such a hidden danger is simple, because they did not want to annex the southern German states.After 1871, until the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, the German Empire was a pure Greater Prussia, with the army, diplomacy, and government in Prussian hands, with a population of nearly 30 Catholics, but only 10 among the generals of the army.The German Emperor's Declaration of 1871 was the only concession to the Prussian court's demands for national unity, and there will never be any more concessions.Bismarck was a Prussian aristocrat who wanted to take advantage of the national unity movement, but would not really make concessions to it.Prussia must also be Prussia, the Reich was only an instrument of Prussia, it had to be in the hands of Prussia, the Chancellor of the Reich was concurrently the Chancellor of Prussia, and the Reich did not even have its own Minister of Foreign Affairs, only the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The diplomacy of the Reich had to be in the hands of the Prussian Chancellor.And if Greater Germany were established in 1871, the four Austrian states of South Germany would join the empire, and Austria would not even be enough to become a state, because the Habsburg monarch had already abandoned Austria.Then the Catholic population within the Reich would have grown disastrously and become a force to be ignored, and in fact even the Catholic Center Party of the Little German Reich would have become a headache for the Reich, if Austria and Vienna were joined by a large number of liberal intellectuals and illusionary nationalists.The Prussian nobles can still keep the greater Prussia, the more in-depth understanding of this period of European history, the more the Hua Huang finds it fun, the Hua Huang believes that the Hua State at the end of the nineteenth century, as long as it gets rid of the broken ship of the Qing court, even if it swims forward, it can keep up with the footsteps of the great powers, not to mention, the Hua Guo under the leadership of the Hua Huang is no longer the strength of swimming, at least it is a huge dragon ship, Hua Huang just wants to gradually transform this dragon ship into a steel battleship, plus mechanical kinetic energy Why Prussia won the dominance of German unificationThe Greater German Plan was abandoned, because the Habsburg Empire of Austria at that time did not only occupy Austria, but also the present-day Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia, including parts of Italy, Poland, and Romania.In addition to the title of the Austrian emperor, the Austrian emperor was originally the Archduke of Austria, in 1805 in response to Napoleon's claim to be emperor, Austria was also called the empire, and a year later the Holy Roman Empire was forcibly dissolved by Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor became the basis for the Habsburgs to continue the title of emperor, as well as the titles of King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, and later King of Croatia and Slovenia.It was impossible for the Habsburgs to give up these possessions to join the nascent German Empire, and the Hungarians, etc., could not have joined the German nation-state with Austria.If Austria had been dissolved in the political crisis that had occurred after the defeat of Prussia, and Hungary and other territories had become independent, it would have been possible for Austria to join the German Empire on its own.The reality was that Austria finally achieved a compromise with Hungary, and maintained the unity of the empire by transforming the original Austrian Empire into an Austro-Hungarian dual empire, but at the same time, it also changed the country from a German-dominated country to a pluralistic state, thus cutting off the possibility of joining the German Empire.The HRE is an alliance of large and small vassal states.Historically, Germany was a large area.There were two countries on this land that had the best hope of unifying the HRE, one was Prussia of the Hohenzollerns and the other was Austria of the Habsburgs.Then regarding unification, there were two schemes in history, one was the Little Germany plan, that is, the unification of North Germany by Prussia, and the later German Empire was basically established on this basis; The other is the so-called Greater German plan, that is, Austria should also be included, but the problem is obvious, if the two powers merge, then who is the boss.That's going to be hard.Metternich, a famous Austrian foreign minister in history, a staunch supporter of the anti-French alliance, and Metternich, who was also known as the two foreign ministers of Europe along with France's Talleyrand, was also a staunch opponent of the merger.Since the 13th century, the power of the HRE emperor has been very weak.The real power was held by the heads of the various "kingdoms", "principalities", "parishes".16181648, the Thirty Years' War.The end was the defeat of the Catholic League, Austria further lost its voice in the German region, and it can be said that the HRE had essentially fallen in 1806 and the emperor officially stepped down, while Prussia rose.Prussia came from behind, not German orthodoxy.16481866, with the rise of Prussia, it began to seek leadership in the German region.German nationalism".But Austria was not reconciled, and the Austro-Prussian war fought and did not bow its head.Bismarck said that if he didn't fight, he would fight for a total of 7 weeks, and the reunification was almost over, mainly in Bavaria in South Germany, and so on, so let's engage in internal affairs, and this problem will be solved later.Even after the Austro-Prussian War, Austria remained a behemoth, and it was impossible for Prussia to annex Austria outright.After the reunification of Germany, for the sake of the balance of the European continent, it was also necessary to unite Austria against Russia and France.It is so difficult for a little big Europe, a little big Germany, to want to reunify, in fact, at this time, there is still no macro concept in the mind of the emperor to go to Europe to do things.At present, in the heart of the Chinese emperor, Europe is just his competitor, not only the Chinese emperor, but also the entire Chinese official class, basically thinking like this.Until now, Huaguo is still a problem with self-preservation, so Zeng Jize can't understand Huahuang's ambition many times, and feels that Huahuang is sometimes arrogant.However, Li Hongzhang felt more and more that Hua Guo was already the hegemon of Asia, and within the scope of Asia, not to say self-preservation, but should have more right to speak, during Hua Huang's visit to Europe, he did not give Li Hongzhang any clear instructions, did not give specific instructions to Li Hongzhang in Japan, or should he be softer, and Comrade Li Hongzhang is getting harder and harder, Li Hongzhang is indeed a good political hand, although the diplomatic attitude adopted is hard, but the British and French in Japan have been very well co-opted by Li Hongzhang.
Even the British government has issued a strong time limit order, ordering all Chinese troops and civilians to withdraw from Japan by June 1.However, the British army and the French army in Japan did not increase, and according to the report sent by Li Hongzhang to the Chinese Emperor, Li Hongzhang believed that the Chinese Emperor did not need to worry.t1706231537: