For the wave of democracy in France, William can be said to be insightful, the European continent of the same era, France can be said to be the first enlightenment country, a large number of enlightenment thinkers such as: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, etc. are French.
These Enlightenment thinkers opened a window of thought for the entire French people, and with the development of the times, the bourgeoisie developed extremely rapidly, so that it can be said that the whole society was in an era of transition from feudalism to capitalism.
In fact, not only France, but all of Europe, the whims of Enlightenment thinkers filled the whole of Europe with an unusual smell.
On the basis of the achievements of the natural sciences and philosophy of the seventeenth century, the Enlightenment scholars believed that just as Newton discovered the law of gravitation, people can also discover the laws of nature, human beings, and society by the power of reason, and seek worldly happiness; They attack the old ideas of the conservative status quo with the ideas of reason, religious tolerance and progress, and oppose all dogmas and systems that imprison ideas and suppress freedom; The most progressive thinkers advocated religious atheism, philosophical materialism, political democracy, and economic laissez-faire.
Enlightenment thought involved various fields such as religion, philosophy, ethics, economics, political science, history, and aesthetics.
But France was the center of the Enlightenment, and the Encyclopedists represented by Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot were recognized by the entire French society.
Of course, the development of a new class will inevitably affect the interests of the old powers, and the struggle of the new French bourgeoisie against feudal rule and ecclesiastical privileges in the ideological field is also rapidly unfolding.
These emerging bourgeoisie opposed obscurantism, **ism and religious superstition.
They want to be able to break old stereotypes and spread new ideas.
New ideas.
In this way, these contradictions between capitalism and feudalism began to deepen.
The combination of a large number of people and intellectuals with enlightened politicians and radicals has had a devastating impact on French society.
There were also a group of people in Prussia who admired the Enlightenment, but the conservative forces in Prussia were too strong, and Wilhelm was not ready to start a vigorous reform of the entire Prussian society now, and too radical reforms would bring the whole Prussia to a crash.
So in the early stage, William only tried to emancipate the serfs, strengthen patriotic education, etc., and now in the compulsory education in Prussia, William has added a necessary course, that is, ideological and moral courses, which is brainwashing to put it simply.
Pass this course.
Wilhelm wished to instill in all the people of Prussia that their happy life was the result of the bloody struggle of the entire Prussian nation, which was one of the finest races in the world.
Every Prussian was born a warrior, a fighter who fought tirelessly for the great Motherland of Prussia.
Of course, there is also the most important one, that is, in Prussia, everyone has the first duty to obey the orders of the king.
"One Nation, One Nation, One Leader, One Voice" was compulsorily added to the curriculum by William.
The Prussia that William hoped to build was a militaristic state like the Third Reich in later generations, and history has proved that if a nation and a country want to quickly move towards the road of strength and rejuvenation, then he has only one choice, and that is militarism.
In all social systems.
Militarism is a shortcut to making a country strong in the shortest possible time.
Things developed in line with William's wishes, and under the impetus of Prussian spies, the whole of Paris began to talk about the ideas of the Enlightenment, and even in the upper echelons of Paris, many nobles joined in, and these nobles were young and ambitious.
They wanted to seek their own benefit by restricting the power of the church and the king.
It was at this time that Louis XVI announced the convening of the Estates-General, which gave an opportunity and a platform to careerists and people who admired freedom.
Louis XVI's proposal for a tax increase was mercilessly shot, and William was not surprised by this, if it passed.
William would have been surprised.
Like France, Prussia had suffered a serious financial crisis a few years earlier.
But William did not use the tax increase as a way to hurt others and hurt himself.
William would rather tighten his belt and grit his teeth to get through the difficult time, rather than move the idea of raising taxes, because taxes are not so easy to increase, and raising taxes means that the people's hearts are being lost, and no one wants to live in a country with a lot of taxes.
Having received the latest information about France, Wilhelm gave instructions on the present situation, and he ordered that from now on all Prussian troops should be taught patriotic education in war, and the most important thing of this education was to make all Prussian soldiers understand what they were fighting for and for whom.
At the same time, William demanded that the government once again increase its investment in the French espionage system, and William demanded that the French Prussian intelligence agencies do their best to penetrate the interior of the French forces and steal first-hand information.
On the first day of July, Wilhelm inspected the Prussian National Bank, located in the heart of Brandenburg.
At the National Bank, Meyer reported to William.
Since the establishment of the National Bank, a total of more than 80,000 emancipated serfs and more than 20,000 freemen have applied for low-interest loans from the National Bank, and the total amount of loans from these serfs is nearly 10 million silver marks.
Most of the money from the National Bank was used by Meyer to build a large number of factories near Brandenburg, some of which produced military uniforms and uniforms, some produced weapons and ammunition, and most of them produced a wide variety of daily necessities.
Wilhelm inspected with great interest a factory not far east of Brandenburg, which produced military uniforms and quilts, and where hundreds of workers were working on looms.
William looked with interest at the loom in front of him, which was later called the leader of the first industrial revolution - the Jenny loom.
It is undeniable that the textile machine had a huge impact on the textile industry as a whole, and many craftsmen lost their jobs as a result, but because of the freak of the Prussian National Bank, those craftsmen were absorbed into the industries run by the National Bank.
Or, now Prussia is not an exaggeration to describe it as a partially planned economy.