William set out for Warsaw in November with Christine, Duke of Locks and other entourage, and William deliberately advanced his trip for a while, and William was going to take this opportunity to go to East Prussia to investigate.
But Christine Nicole, who was with him, did not have the consciousness of a Prussian princess, and she was like a crazy girl along the way, and she had to visit everywhere she went.
In East Prussia, the Teutonic Legion was the Duchy of Prussia at the time, and later a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Teutonic Knights ruled Prussia in the name of the Pope.
The Order's rivalry with the Kingdom of Poland led to wars between the two sides, including the Thirteen Years' War, when the Teutonic Knights were defeated again and forced to cede West Prussia, including Danzig and Marienburg, in the Second Peace of Toruń.
These regions were known as royal Prussia.
The Teutonic Order retained the remnants of Prussia, but was forced to swear allegiance to the Polish king, becoming a vassal state of Poland, called the Duchy of Prussia.
The Order lost what was left of its territory, which was secularized by Albert Hohenzollern, the patriarch of the House of Hohenzollern and the head of the Order.
Albert appointed himself the first Duke of Prussia and became a vassal to Poland.
His family is in extinction.
The Duchy of Prussia became the Duchy of Brandenburg-Prussia under the rule of the Elector of Brandenburg.
Frederick the Great's father, Elector Frederick III, appointed himself King Frederick I of Prussia and established the Kingdom of Prussia ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty After the second partition of Poland, the Polish royal family, Warmia of Prussia merged with the Duchy of Prussia, and the Duchy of Prussia became East Prussia.
The population of the place is Prussian, Polish and Lithuanian.
The number of Poles and Lithuanians was reduced by the militaristic policy pursued by the Prussian king.
The Polish population is mostly concentrated in the south, while the Lithuanian population is concentrated in the northeast.
Later, after the end of World War II, some Germans attempted to return to East Prussia after the war, but all of them were expelled by the Soviet army, and many were sent to the Soviet Union to work as hard laborers.
The names of all German-style places were changed to Russian or Polish, and the northern part of East Prussia was incorporated into the Soviet Union.
The province was renamed Kaliningrad, and the name of the province was Kaliningrad Province, where Soviet troops expelled all Germans and allowed Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians to move there.
Poland was forced to cede large swaths of eastern territory to the Soviet Union, and the Poles were deported to the Polish-occupied southern part of East Prussia, the province of Warmia-Mazur, either as a territory or as a state, and Prussia, which had been noisy for a long time, was completely abolished.
Such an area was very difficult to govern, and from the reign of Frederick the Great, because of the impact of the Seven Years' War, East Prussia had been ravaged by Russia and did not achieve much development.
After the end of the Austro-Prussian War, relations between the two sides began to deteriorate, and many people living in the region began to move in view of the increasingly dire situation.
William took advantage of the opportunity to go to Warsaw to make a detour to East Prussia, he felt that it was necessary to come to Prussia to appease the people, the current situation in Prussia and Austria and Russia was not optimistic, perhaps a careless war would be inevitable, and for Prussia, the East Prussian region has always been the weakness of the entire defensive circle.
East Prussia has always been at the forefront of all major wars.
In East Prussia, Wilhelm met with representatives of the great East Prussian nobility and said to all the nobles present: "The successive monarchs of the Kingdom of Prussia have all regarded East Prussia as their strongest backing, and the people and nobles of Prussia in the Middle East have played an important role that cannot be ignored in the successive wars of the Prussian Kingdom, and as the most brilliant pearl in the crown of the Kingdom of Prussia, the people of East Prussia should unite around the ruling class with the officials of the Kingdom as the core and make due contributions to the development of the entire Kingdom of Prussia."
William met with the officials stationed in East Prussia, the oldest of whom was the Marquis Morakot, who had also been a veteran of Frederick's victory in the Seven Years' War, but after the war he was seriously wounded in his left eye and withdrew from the Prussian army.
But in East Prussia the Marquis of Morakot had great prestige, because it was the Marquis of Morakot who reasserted his dominion over the region of East Prussia on behalf of the Kingdom of Prussia at the end of the Seven Years' War, and this term lasted for ten years.
The Marquis of Morakot, who is now nearly 90 years old, insisted on coming to meet William with the support of his juniors, despite his physical inconvenience.
Looking at the old marquis, although William had sighed many times, he still couldn't help but feel sad.
Veterans never die, but fade away, and William remembered a famous quote from MacArthur, a famous American general.
Many nobles in the hall, including the officials of the kingdom stationed in East Prussia, stood respectfully behind the Marquis of Morakot, but to William's shock, the first thing the old marquis did when he met William was to throw off the juniors who supported him, regardless of the many nobles around him, and gave William a big salute.
William hurriedly stepped forward to support the Marquis of Morakot, thanks to the excellent physical fitness of the traverser, William did not spend much effort.
"Your Excellency the Marquis of Morakot, what are you doing, how can I bear it," William said warmly "Your Majesty, when the first king died, because his body was really useless, he didn't have time to see the first king for the last time, and he was ashamed of the first king," Morakot said tremblingly "Marquis Morakot, I think the spirit of the first king in the sky will be very relieved to hear your words, you sit down first, sit down and let's talk" William helped Morakot to sit down on the chair he had just gestured for the attendant to bring up.
"Your Majesty, the minister is ashamed, seeing His Majesty's performance in recent years, the minister deeply feels that there are successors to the kingdom, and the previous king's country has no one to trust," Morakot praised "Your Excellency the Marquis has won the award, all this is what William should do," William said modestly "But Your Majesty, I heard that you are going to carry out military reform recently, and of course I am not against your military reform.
It's just that I think that many nobles were born and died for the Kingdom of Prussia for many years, shouldn't they be properly given some privileges" As William smiled, Morakot said a question that William did not expect "Your Majesty, there are five gunshot wounds and three stab wounds on the minister's body alone, and for the sake of the Kingdom of Prussia, the minister's left eye is gone.
In order to continue to serve the kingdom, I sent my children and grandchildren into the army, but now my grandson said to me that they had to retake the exam to remain in the army, and that there had never been such a precedent in Prussia for hundreds of years, Your Majesty," Morakot said, becoming more and more excited.
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