"The policy of freedom of religious belief has been fully implemented, and the level of legalization and standardization of the management of religious affairs has been further enhanced.
We have conscientiously implemented the policy on overseas Chinese affairs, protected the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese and their relatives in accordance with the law, and further brought into play the unique advantages of overseas Chinese affairs resources.
A new situation has been opened up in national defense and army building.
Major achievements have been made in the military reform with Prussian characteristics, the modernization and regularization of the armed forces have been coordinated and comprehensively strengthened, preparations for military struggles have been continuously deepened, the ability to fulfill the historical mission in the new era has been significantly enhanced, and a series of urgent, difficult, dangerous and heavy tasks have been brilliantly accomplished.
Compared with the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, Prussia's territory expanded by 1.6 times, opened up 100,000 square kilometers of colonies on the North American continent, and nearly 50,000 immigrants took root on the North American continent to contribute to the construction of the Prussian state.
The accession of Denmark and part of Poland has made Prussia one of the largest countries in the world, and we are willing to assume the responsibilities of a great power, and we will treat the new regions equally, and the government will do its best to serve the people of all nationalities................................."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..............."
Warm applause rang out in the palace, and William, who was sitting at the top, was very satisfied with Locks, at least in the praise of virtue, Locks did a good job.
Locks smiled and saluted, then turned his face to William's side.
"The leadership of His Majesty the King is the root of our Prussian strength!
Long live His Majesty the King!
” A shout surprised William, but when he saw that all the nobles were surrendering to him under the leadership of Locks, William's face became more and more joyful.
"Ahem...."
When everyone had finished saluting, there was some noise in the palace, in this situation.
Locks covered his lips and coughed twice, and when the palace was quiet, Locks said loudly: "On such an important occasion, I ask you to welcome His Majesty the King with warm applause to give us a speech!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa............."
There was another deafening applause, and William rose from the tiger skin throne and took two steps forward "Prime Minister Locks has just said very well, our government has indeed achieved some things with the help of our Prussian people, and I will not say much about this, but there are two main things I want to say here.
One is that I would like to thank all of you here for your support to the royal family and the government over the past decade, and on behalf of the Prussian royal family, I would like to thank you for your efforts!
” As he spoke, William bent down towards everyone in the palace.
And see William's movements.
All the nobles who had been seated stood up, and as William saluted them, they exchanged salutes for William.
Just kidding, didn't you see that the king's boss stood up and saluted, at this time, except for fools, who would dare to sit in his seat and accept the salute of His Majesty the king.
"Sit down, everybody, and secondly, I would like to say, although in the past we in Prussia have made progress and some gains.
But we should see that our Prussians have not reached the point of arrogance, and the world is facing earth-shaking changes.
In such an era, it can be said that we are lucky, and it can be said that we are unlucky.
Unfortunately, all of us can not let go of our vigilance, we must always pay attention to the enemy around us with a vigilant attitude, and we are fortunate that this era is the best opportunity for the development of Prussia, Prussia wants to really rise in this world, there is still a lot to do, but our efforts today will be exchanged for the new life of Prussia tomorrow!
A mighty Prussia has risen to the center of Europe, and an even more brilliant future awaits us all!
” The words landed, and the applause in the palace became even louder.
When everyone saw Wilhelm's resolute and resolute face, they suddenly remembered that the Prussian ruler seemed to be less than twenty years old, and that it was this young man who had already achieved many benefits for Prussia in the first ten years of his reign.
If there were another ten or twenty years, how strong would Prussia have become?
Being young means limitless possibilities, and Wilhelm showed everyone the possibility of Prussia's true strength. .......................................
After William's opening remarks, the royal attendants walked to the nobles, and they distributed documents to the nobles.
These documents detailed the arrangements for the meeting of the nobility, including a new round of Prussian military expansion, the draft of the national economic stimulus, the further expansion of the Prussian National Bank, and the deepening of the results of the reform of serfdom.
These bills were to be voted on by the nobles, and the council of the nobles was to be held for five days, and it was said that Wilhelm was going to make the council of nobles the practice in Prussia.
Perhaps in the future, meetings of this format will be held every few years.
When the nobles took this document from the hands of the royal attendants, the big nobles were fine, and some of the smaller nobles couldn't help but feel excited in their hearts.
Prussia had never said since its founding that a bill would be brought to these nobles for their vote, and it was inevitable that these nobles would be a little excited when they suddenly came into contact with the core of Prussia.
In fact, this kind of excitement is what William wants most, the most important thing in every country is his elite, of course, this is not to say that the civilian class is not important, on the contrary, the common people are also important.
However, because of the problems of education and vision, the people at the bottom often do not see as far as the nobles, and the human, material, and financial resources mastered by the elite grassroots in the country are not comparable to the civilian grassroots.
And in this era, William in other countries was not clear, but in Prussia, the reputation of the nobility was relatively good.
The traditional and old-fashioned education gave the aristocracy a great guarantee of quality, although there were many scum like Huiander among the nobles, but after all, the country had just been liberated from serfdom.
Most of the people at the bottom are serfs who have just been emancipated, and although these serfs have been liberated, the serfs still dare not resist in a short period of time for their previous masters, after all, time is limited.
Many serfs have not yet been able to adapt to the change of their own identity, and it is inevitable that they will be in awe of their former serf owners.
The elites of this era are these nobles, whose superior background has broadened their horizons, and this era has also made great efforts to cultivate nobles.
In Prussia, the descendants of the nobles were often registered in the archives of the military department as soon as they were male, and when the noble male reached the teenage years, he was faced with the choice of joining the army to serve the royal family.
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The other option is to leave the family with a sum of money.
Basically, as long as it is normal, people will choose the first one.
There's no denying it.
The army is a place to train people, the officers don't care whether you are a nobleman or not, once you make a mistake, you can still make a mistake, in such an environment, the little nobles have been treated strictly, which also makes their original exaggerated, arrogant and other bad qualities retreat.
The national character of Prussia had already determined the development of these aristocracy, and in a militaristic state, in the event of war, the aristocracy had the responsibility to join the army.
In all wars, the Prussian aristocracy had the highest casualty rate in all of Europe.
It was their own dedication that gave the nobility an excellent reputation in Prussia.
In the morning of the same day.
The Council of Nobles voted on the draft of the national economic stimulus, which was approved by the nobles with 80 per cent of the vote, which was planned to be allocated by the government in conjunction with the Prussian National Bank for the next five years of up to 14 million silver coins for the construction of infrastructure in Prussia, which would play a role in stimulating the development of various industries in Prussia.
With the exception of a very conservative aristocracy, most of the aristocracy had no objection to the draft, because they saw in it the hope of increasing family assets.
Fourteen million silver coins are used for infrastructure construction, so such a large amount of money will drive the consumption of materials and labor related to infrastructure construction, which is undoubtedly a great good thing for the nobles who own related industries.
On the afternoon of December 10, 1789.
The Council of the Prussian Nobles quarreled over the expansion of the Prussian National Bank.
When William established the Prussian National Bank, in order to ensure the control of the royal family, William decided that the royal family must guarantee a controlling stake of 51%.
The other 49 percent, with the exception of the government's 20 percent, were subscribed by the Prussian aristocracy.
Today, the Prussian National Bank has developed into a Prussian financial giant, with the full support of the royal family and the government, and the Prussian National Bank monopolizes 60% of Prussian industrial production, which is an extremely terrifying figure.
At the beginning, whether it was for William's sycophants or for the annual dividends, anyway, the first batch of aristocrats who financed the Prussian National Bank had already made money, how could a national bank with a monopoly not make money?
And now, in order for everyone to be able to better feel the fruits of Prussia's reform and development.
For example, the Prussian government's original 20 percent stake would have become 10 percent if the Prussian government had not invested more.
The news of the expansion of the Prussian state shocked all the nobles, some nobles who had not bought equity before sharpened their knives, and some nobles who had already tasted the sweetness were greedy to look at the distribution plan in their hands and eager to make another profit.
The plan is very clear, in order to ensure the absolute control of the royal family in the Prussian National Bank, and in order to ensure the share in the hands of the government, the equity that was subscribed by the nobles this time is 14.5% of the equity of the entire national bank.
The royal family and the government will each take out a sum of money to inject into the Prussian National Bank for the development of banking business, of course, this money is exactly the same as the subscription price of the equity in the hands of the nobles, 10,000 silver coins per 10,000th share.
For this 14.5% stake, the whole palace was full of quarrels, even if Locks wanted to suppress it, he didn't suppress it, and then he turned his eyes to William, but for this situation, William was also powerless, and he couldn't personally designate the equity to a nobleman.
If he really did this, wouldn't it hurt the hearts of other nobles.
By the evening, the proposal to expand the size of the Prussian National Bank had not been voted on, and the nobles were at odds with each other in their own interests.
And some of the small nobles have also changed their previous weaknesses, they are in a group to compete with the big nobles, and they can't feel superior for a while.
After two days of bickering, the Prussian National Bank still did not reach a satisfactory result for all parties, but a new round of military expansion was adopted.
This time, Prussia planned to complete the establishment of three divisions by next year, that is, in the middle of 1790, and by the end of 1790, it would have combat effectiveness, and after a new round of military expansion, Prussia's standing army strength would reach 200,000, and it would suddenly enter the ranks of powerful countries with world influence.
Expansion of three divisions.
The nobles had no objections.
On the government's side, Locks also took the lead in expressing his support uncharacteristically, and in this case, the bill passed very smoothly.
On December 15, 1789, the Council of the Nobles officially came to an end, through which Wilhelm obtained his favorite answers in all aspects, and this meeting also strengthened the sense of national identity of the aristocratic grassroots towards Prussia, and truly gave them a taste of being a master. ..........................
Prussia is bustling with activity, and Russia is not far behind.
Kutuzov stepped up his pace, and his messenger traveled back and forth between Lithuania and the Black Sea region in three days, while the Russian troops in Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and other regions also completed their mobilization, and a large number of temporarily conscripted militias took over the city defense work that was originally undertaken by the Russian army, and the Russian soldiers were all concentrated in the barracks in various places.
Although Kutuzov did it skillfully and made great efforts to cover it up, the paper did not contain the fire after all, and the news of the Polish governor Kutuzov's unusual movement soon spread to St.
Petersburg.
When Paul got the news, he instantly became furious, and he picked up the Tsar's scepter at hand and pounded the table to pieces.
The tsar's fury soon affected the atmosphere throughout St.
Petersburg.
Rumyantsev was urgently summoned to the palace by Paul, and the generals of the Janissaries in the St.
Petersburg region were called to the palace by fast horses.
"My generals, there are now in Poland where there are people plotting to overthrow my rule.
I need your advice on it!
” Paul held back his anger and looked at the six generals in the room and whispered, hearing Paul's words, the six generals lowered their heads except Rumyantsev.
Seeing the behavior of several generals around him, Rumyantsev's face was very unpleasant.
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It is undeniable that Rumyantsev has an absolutely poor sense of Potemkin, and it is okay to say that he hates it deeply, but this does not mean that Rumyantsev does not agree with the generals under Potemkin.
As a favorite of Empress Catherine II, Potemkin was in power, but he knew how to train his generals.
Through the Russian-Turkish War and the Russian-Swedish War, a large number of Russian generals grew up, and most of these generals threw themselves under Potemkin's command in order to better realize their revenge.
But Paul did not admit this, and all the generals who were reused by Potemkin were kicked out of his side, and even some generals were arrested or even executed on charges of treason.
As a direct force of Catherine II, there is no doubt that in the Praetorian Guard, the power of the Empress's faction is extremely strong, after Paul quietly staged a coup d'état, he took advantage of the opportunity of the Janissary Guard's Queen's faction generals to capture these generals in one fell swoop, and then launched a purge in the Praetorian Guard.
Although a few months had allowed Paul to complete his layout in the Praetorian Guard, the generals who had been in power during the time of Catherine II were all replaced, and many of these generals were capable and courageous.
Then, in order to fill the vacancy of generals, Paul promoted the generals who were once close to him one by one, and even an officer who was only a major before suddenly became a major general, achieving a rocket-like leap.
But this leap was not justified, and Paul's promotion of generals was based on whether he had ever been close to the Potemkin faction rather than on his personal ability, which Rumyantsev felt dangerous.
Just like the other five generals in the room, they were all promoted by Paul by surprise, but they fell off the chain at such a critical time, which made the old marshal question their ability very much.
"Your Majesty, now that Marshal Suvorov has left St.
Petersburg with 40,000 Janissaries, I don't think it's time to punish the Polish governor-general, we have discussed this issue before, I think Your Majesty you should remember!"
Seeing that everyone did not speak, as the oldest and highest-ranking person in Jiangling, Rumyantsev had to stand up.
Hearing Rumyantsev's words, Paul's brow furrowed "That's right, my Excellency Marshal, but we didn't expect Kutuzov to have the idea of opposing me, look at what he did in Poland, temporarily conscripting the army, giving orders for the army's combat readiness, and even distributing weapons and equipment, which is an extremely abnormal situation!
In addition, it is said that Kutuzov is also in collusion with the Black Sea side, my marshal, you should think of the consequences of their collusion!
” Paul's words shocked Rumyantsev, he didn't expect Kutuzov to have done such a step, knowing that he had not seen the exact information, so he was so shocked.
"Your Majesty, has Kutuzov really started to call up the army?"
"Of course it's true, he actually raised 20,000 troops in Poland!
He's looking for death!
” Paul I couldn't help but roar in anger.
To be continued.
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