"Your Majesty, since Frederick VI has abdicated and he has recommended to the whole world that you be the king of Denmark, it is better for you to be crowned as soon as possible."
Locks sat opposite William and looked at William with a quiet face and said, hearing his words, William smiled slightly "My Excellency Prime Minister, where do you say I am going to be crowned King of Denmark?"
As soon as William's question came up, Locks' face changed, he pondered for a while, and then said: "Where this is crowned depends on what your majesty thinks" "Hehe, Locks, people say that Kaunitz of Austria is an old fox, and I don't think you're bad compared to him."
"Your Majesty is really exalting me too much, how can I compare with His Excellency Kaunitz, His Excellency Kaunitz is much smarter than His Excellency" When it comes to Kaunitz, Rocks's tone is not without sighs, he and Kaunitz should be regarded as contemporaries, although Kaunitz's reputation is more famous in the world than Rocks, but Rocks did not feel surprised, because Kaunitz's ability is recognized in Europe.
If it weren't for Austria, a country where the situation was more complicated than Prussia's, perhaps Kaunitz would have been able to achieve even more, and it seems that Kaunitz was the first steward of the Habsburgs, and he was very honored.
But this glory is not something that ordinary people can bear, the relationship between the Habsburg family domains, the situation of the princes in the entire Holy Roman Empire, these are all things that need to be cared about by Kaunitz, who is now seventy-eight years old, can really be said to have died with all his might!
And with the joint efforts of Joseph II and Kautz in recent years.
The power of Austria as a whole can be said to be thriving, and this situation greatly changed Wilhelm's influence on Joseph II.
And as if inspired by Prussia, Joseph II donated the vast inheritance he had inherited from his father to the state, thus making the empire's finances even balanced.
At the beginning of the year, he decreed that peasants who were called up to work must be paid wages rather than compulsory labor, a policy strongly opposed by the aristocracy.
Moreover, Joseph II also actively fought against the Catholic Church, depriving the bishop of his right over the world, and restricting the bishop's communication with the pope.
He dissolved 700 monasteries that did not practice education or medicine, and forced 36,000 monks to leave the monasteries.
Pope Pius VI came to Vienna in March 1785 for this purpose.
Joseph refused to budge, so the Pope stopped calling him "the son of the Church."
In 1786, Joseph II promulgated the Civil Code in Austria, establishing religious equality before the law and allowing freedom of the press, but imposing strict censorship and establishing a permanent police organization.
In 1787, Joseph II abolished the death penalty.
However, it was also because Joseph II forced his subjects to adopt a new way of life.
As a result, in places with strong traditional influences, such as the Austrian Netherlands and Hungary, there was unanimous resistance from all strata.
In 1788, in order to improve the literacy of all citizens, Joseph II declared that primary education was free and compulsory for all boys and girls, and he also provided scholarships to poor students with geniuses, and allowed the establishment of a small number of schools for Jews and people of other religions.
After the establishment of the educational system, he tried his best to recruit the best scholars and scientists for the University of Vienna.
Joseph II's transformation seemed to William to be incredible, but perhaps this was the real Joseph II.
Perhaps William's butterfly did not have as much impact on history as he thought, at least Joseph II went off track and returned to his original path.
However, Joseph II's reforms were certainly supported by the democrats, but in areas with strong conservative atmospheres, Joseph II's actions caused his popularity to decline rather than increase, after all, not every king was like William.
Over a period of six years.
Wilhelm completed a partial adjustment of Prussia after six years of hard work.
William dismantled the stubborn conservative forces into pieces, so it seems that William's dissolution of serfdom seems to have fallen behind in the whole of Europe, but William can proudly claim that when he completely emancipates the serfs, there will be no more opposition.
After all, in Prussia, the strength of the conservative forces was obvious to all.
Of course, William is not completely eliminating the conservative forces, these conservative forces are still of great use to William, if a country is all radical forces, it will not work, so the conservative forces and radical forces are like water and fire, as a monarch, what is needed is to combine strength and softness in it, so that the two parties can use it for their own use, rather than blindly suppressing one of them.
In terms of domestic construction, Wilhelm not only used the funds of the Prussian National Bank to build large and small factories, but also used these factories to carry out the industrial revolution in Prussia.
At the same time, on the political front, William weakened the privileges of the nobility and strengthened the supremacy of the monarch.
In terms of religion, because Protestantism does not emphasize clerical authority like Catholicism, William did not make a big move, but only fine-tuned some small aspects.
Of course, in the most important aspect of the military, William was naturally firmly in his own hands, William used a large number of military academy graduates as junior officers, and at the same time William insisted that each regiment set up a counselor, and what this counselor needed to do was to publicize the merits of the Prussian royal family throughout the army and emphasize the simplicity of the Prussian army and their mission.
It was during these six years that Wilhelm forced the first census in Prussia, which used more than 20,000 enumerators and more than 6 million marks of money, but Wilhelm thought it was all worth it.
This census revealed to Wilhelm that the whole of Prussia, with the exception of Denmark, which had been given as a whole, had a population of 8,835,627, of which of course a third were the population of Prussia's newly occupied parts of Poland, Saxony, and part of Bohemia.
Although there has not yet been a census of the newly occupied Danish areas of Prussia, Wilhelm believes that if Denmark is added, the population of the whole of Prussia will definitely reach nearly 10 million, or even exceed 10 million.
Moreover, the proportion of teenagers in these populations is quite high, which also relieves William that only sufficient young adults can provide Prussia with a large number of high-quality soldiers, and with these soldiers, William has confidence in his heart. .................................
"Your Majesty, what are you thinking?"
Seeing that William was stunned for a long time after saying a word, Locks finally couldn't help it, and his words also made William end his fugue state.
"I'm sorry, Locks, I was thinking about something and I was a little distracted, by the way, where did we just go?"
Locks had to say something to warn the suddenly confused king "Your Majesty, we just said where to crown the King of Denmark if the crown of the King of Denmark should be crowned" "Well, then, if I am crowned King of Denmark, I should go to Copenhagen myself."
Locks thought for a while and nodded, in fact, in his heart, he also hoped that William could be crowned in Copenhagen, after all, William was crowned the king of Denmark, and if he was crowned outside Denmark, it would inevitably make all Danes feel disagreeable, but in Copenhagen, he had no such concerns.
But there is also a problem in this way, that is, it will make some unknown Danes mistakenly think that they have a lot of autonomy, which will bring some trouble to the future rule, if crowned in Brandenburg, it will completely make all Danes see the situation clearly, tell them that Denmark has been occupied by Prussia, and let them die of undeserved ambitions.
But since William said that he would go to Copenhagen to be crowned, then the matter has already been decided "Your Majesty, when will you leave for Copenhagen?"
"How long does it take to get from here to Copenhagen?"
Hearing Locks' question, William didn't answer immediately but asked about the distance, and when he heard William's question, Locks thought about it in his mind "It will take more than a month to go back and forth."
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"Since this is the case, you can arrange it, and we will go to Copenhagen the day after tomorrow!"
William also thought about it in his heart for a moment and gave an answer.
The key reason why William was in such a hurry was that no one knew how far the situation in France would go, and William had to make sure that he was sitting in Brandenburg with the Danish crown already in place to deal with the fire that would burn the whole of Europe if he was not careful.
Counting the dates, if he went to Copenhagen for the coronation, Wilhelm could have rushed back to Brandenburg in mid-August, so that he could barely catch up, and if the time of the Great Revolution had been brought forward, many of Wilhelm's arrangements would have been nullified.
Seeing William and Locks, who were laughing and laughing not far away, a gorgeously dressed girl sighed.
This young girl is the sister of Frederick VI, of course, Lilisa is not Frederick VI's own sister, and her relationship with Frederick VI is that of a cousin.
Since Lilisa entered the palace, William has been kind to her and does not treat Lilisa as a servant or a hostage, of course, perhaps Lilisa's beauty is the most important factor in William's kindness to her.
Sixteen-year-old Lilisa is the best age in a woman's life, her delicate facial features are embedded in the small face like jade, and her slightly curly blonde hair makes Lilisa very petite and cute.
A sigh not only did not destroy this beauty, but made Lilisa more soft and moving.
At the first sight of Lilisa, William fell in love with this lovely girl, but William still needs to observe for a while before he can go further, otherwise, it is not fun to have someone else's eyeliner next to him.