Marshal Dessau's reply greatly alarmed Holstein, who did not expect the Prussians to be so faceless, and the Duke of Holstein's face was cloudy after seeing Dessau's reply.
"Your Excellency the Duke, the Prussians are completely despising us Holstein, and they think that we must make the Prussians realize their mistakes and change them."
"That's it!"
Hearing the noise below, the Duke of Holstein was agitated, although the Danish army was now about to arrive in Holstein, but the Duke did not think that he could withstand the Prussian attack, even with Danish reinforcements.
After all, in Schwerin, nearly 20,000 allied troops were defeated by the Prussians, and now even with the arrival of Danish reinforcements, Holstein's strength is only 10,000.
But looking down the steps, the crowd of Holstein officials was surging, and the Duke didn't know what to do.
"Your Excellency, Duke, I think we should reject the unreasonable demands of the Prussians, Holstein needs to guarantee his position, and he must make the Prussians realize that we Holstein are not soft persimmons!"
An old figure stood up, and it was the head of the Holstein government, Rivag, as the head of government, Rivag's voice in Holstein was much heavier than that of the Duke, after all, Rivag had been in Holstein's power since the duke's grandfather, and he was outright pro-Danish.
As soon as Riwag made a statement, the Holstein officials below began to change the direction of the wind, and some officials even shouted the slogan of a decisive battle between Holstein and Prussia to the end, which made cold sweat begin to form on the duke's forehead.
Then, in the absence of the duke's position, the Holstein hierarchy reached an agreement, and they decided to reject the unreasonable demands of the Prussians and fight Prussia to the death.
In this regard, the duke, who sat at the top, had no way but to express his dissatisfaction on his face.
On October 10, 1788, the Holstein government rejected Prussia's conditions and request for entry, which they explicitly informed Dessau.
The Prussians' desire for a peaceful passage through Holstein was a complete delusion.
Dessau was furious when he received the notification from the Holstein, and he coldly removed his gloves and threw them on the head of the Holstein government emissary: "Tell your pigs' heads, and the Prussian army will tell how terrible it will be for their enemies to provoke Prussia!"
On October 13, 1788, the Prussian army concentrated nearly 20,000 troops into Holstein.
Unlike the Mecklenburg government.
The Holsteins did not concentrate their armies in their capitals, and each nobleman defended his territory with the troops he could muster.
And the war showed the Holsteins how unreliable their methods were, and that it was impossible for those dozens or hundreds of enemy troops to stop the Prussian army.
Not only that, but after capturing the recalcitrant castles and estates of the nobles, the Prussian army would tell the enemy what it was like to live and not to die.
On October 19, 1788, as the Prussian army approached the capital of Holstein, the Duke of Holstein staged a coup d'état with his armed forces.
He will arrest all the top levels of the government headed by Rivag.
After the arrival of the Prussian army, the Duke of Holstein decisively surrendered the city and presented a pro-Danish faction led by Rivag to Marshal Dessau.
Dessau praised the Duke of Holstein's actions, but because the Prussian army suffered certain losses due to Holstein's resistance in the early stage, Dessau decided to confiscate the family property of Rivag and other pro-Danish factions as compensation to Prussia.
On October 21, 1788, the whole of Holstein ceased resistance, and it took more than two months for Prussia to finally clear the resistance from Prussia to Jutland, and now only Denmark stood in front of Prussia.
In order not to make Schleswig and Holstein think something they shouldn't have, Dessau issued a war mobilization order to the two dukes.
Although the heads of the two countries were not willing to hand over the troops they had worked so hard to raise, it was too late for Schleswig and Holstein to regret it.
On October 23, 1788, Schleswig and Holstein sent a message that shocked the whole of Europe.
The two countries were to organize an army with a total number of more than 8,000 men to participate in the Prussian war against Denmark.
On the same day, the Danish reinforcements of 6,000 were about to arrive in Holstein, but on the border of Holstein, the Danish reinforcements received news that Holstein and Schleswig had declared war on Denmark.
So the six thousand Danish troops shrank back.
October 28, 1788.
Dessau and other Prussian generals, as well as the two dukes of Schleswig and Holstein, came to the Danish border, and Dessau looked back at the 30,000 allied troops behind him, and he was in high spirits.
"Your Royal Highnesses, I don't think my king will forget your support for the righteous deeds of the civilized world."
"Don't dare, don't dare" "Your Excellency Marshal, you're really polite" In the face of Dessau's kind words, the two dukes were polite in unison.
Then Dessau waved his arm, and 30,000 allied troops crossed the border between Holstein and Denmark, and the war against Denmark officially broke out.
"Your Majesty, the British fleet has blocked the entire Kattegat Strait, but some merchants who have been cut off from the sea route keep protesting to the government........."
"Ignore their protests and tell the British fleet that no one, not even our Prussian-flagged ships, can pass through the Kattegat Strait!"
At this moment in Sanssouci Palace, William was discussing with Locks with a solemn expression.
Beginning in September 1788, the British Royal Navy, at the invitation of the Prussian government, began to blockade the entire Kattegat Strait, and ships flying any flag were not allowed to pass, which of course also caused serious injuries to Prussia, Sweden, Russia and other Baltic coastal countries.
Some people in Sweden and Russia had protested to Prussia and Britain on this issue before, but the British did not bird them, because the British had come to help the Prussians, and all the responsibility was borne by the Prussians.
And when Sweden, Russia, and some Prussian businessmen secretly tested William's attitude through connections, William told everyone through his firmness that lifting the blockade of the Kattegat Strait was unrealistic.
Merchants have no borders, as long as there are enough interests, businessmen can sell anything, especially those multinational businessmen who have a big business, they can't say that they are disgusted by the businessman William's heart, but they definitely have no good feelings.
As long as these merchants had interests, Prussia was simply a floating cloud to them, so in order to prevent some people from helping Denmark under the banner of Prussia, William made an order to block the Kattegat Strait and not pass through it regardless of the flag.
In fact, Locks was also entrusted by others, and those merchants fed Locks' stomach, so Locks would help these people ask, but in the face of William's firmness, Locks didn't say much.
Locks knew that he was sixty or seventy years old, and that he had little to do at the moment, and that he might be called to God by the Lord at some point, and that it was impossible for him to fight William on this issue in order for the family to continue to inherit the glory.
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After seeing Locks shut his mouth, Wilhelm also closed his eyes, the news of Mecklenburg had reached his ears, and he was not surprised by the pacification of Mecklenburg, after all, the Prussian army was there, and after Dessau asked for reinforcements, the 2nd Division stationed in Brandenburg also moved over.
For this war against Denmark, William did not care about the loss of troops, in his opinion, as long as the troops could be trained, then half of the goal of the war would be achieved.
In addition to the war against Denmark, William's greatest concern at the moment is the successive national political reforms in the country, it is no secret that William intends to end serfdom in Prussia, and in Brandenburg, some areas have begun to eliminate serf owners, Wilhelm is pinning his hopes on the Brandenburg area as a pilot to test the impact of the abolition of serfdom.
According to Hans's recent intelligence, there is no big opposition to the abolition of serfdom around the Brandenburg area, except for some large landowners and nobles, of course, Wilhelm does not care much about the views of these landlords and nobles, but Wilhelm in order to stabilize the domestic regime, so Wilhelm also made certain compromises on land and commerce, such as the Prussian National Bank that Wilhelm is planning to establish.
At the moment there was no state-owned bank in the whole of Prussia, and Wilhelm knew that this situation had to change, because banks were the foundation of the financial industry, and the financial industry was also one of the foundations of the state.
Of course, William also knew that it was impossible to complete the regulation of Prussian finance with his own knowledge, after all, although he had witnessed it now, how much could the ** silk in his previous life understand this?
As a superior person, William's most important thing is to be good at using people, and now William has one of the best people in his hands, that is, Meyer, the current Meyer can be called a character in the entire Holy Roman Empire, of course, he is still just a dog in front of William.