After Kaunitz finished speaking, he looked at Leopold, and there was no joy on Leopold's face, and the future master of Austria had a face full of struggle.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, is there no second way?
I'm willing to pay even a bigger price!
” "Your Majesty, I need to remind you that you have not yet been crowned, and without those nobles, your coronation will become nondescript, and the majesty of the family that the Habsburg ancestors have built up for hundreds of years will be destroyed!"
"But, I, but, but there has never been a desecrated body of His Majesty the Emperor in the history of the Empire, do you want to make my brother, the hero of the Habsburgs, the laughing stock of the whole Empire!"
Obviously, if there is a second way now, even if it is more costly, Leopold is acceptable.
Kaunitz was right, but if a few fools really took it seriously, would they really let these people touch the body of Joseph II?
So what did Leopold become, the disgrace of the family?
The scum of the empire?
When that time came, what kind of face did Leopold have to meet the ancestors of the Habsburgs!
"Your Majesty, I understand, but now no one understands that in order to prove your innocence and the prestige of the Habsburgs, you must make a choice, and this is my advice to you as an old minister who has assisted four generations of kings!"
Seeing that Leopold had raised his head and closed his eyes, after a while, two tears slipped down Leopold's cheeks, and seeing Leopold's tears, Kaunitz sighed.
"Well, Your Excellency Prime Minister, do as you say.
But pass on my orders, order all the intelligence officers in the empire to track down Maximilian's whereabouts for me immediately, and after finding them, I will allow them to react on the spot, and even kill Maximilian will get the title of count of the empire!
” At this moment Leopold already hated Maximilian for causing all this, no.
Or in fact, as early as after Maximilian questioned Leopold at the Habsburg House Council, Leopold no longer regarded Maximilian as his younger brother II as his mortal enemy!
No one has ever had family affection in front of power!
Immediately after obtaining Leopold's permission, Kaunitz received the nobles who had arrived from the various Habsburg domains.
It has to be said that Austria is indeed a strange country, as the lord of Austria, the Habsburgs have many territories, but these territories have their own political systems.
Even Austria was one of the largest and oldest territories of the Habsburgs.
I have to say that the customs in Europe are really strange, every monarch will have many titles, and just like William, he even has a count, each title represents a territory or the inheritance of a territory.
If it were the Chinese, it is estimated that they would have unified many of their territories to form a large empire, but in Europe this set will not work.
Since the division of the Roman Empire.
Countless aristocratic domains sprang up throughout Europe, and this situation was even more serious in the Middle Ages, when the annexation and division of aristocratic domains were more common, but it was never said that the monarch of any country could rule all the realms of that country.
In the Middle Ages, there was a famous saying in Europe: "The lord of the lord is not my lord, and the vassal of a vassal is not my vassal!"
” This is actually the truest portrayal of the relationship between monarchs and subjects in Europe, take the Holy Roman Empire as an example.
The emperor of the empire can transfer the princes within the empire, but if the emperor directly bypasses the princes and transfers the generals subordinate to the princes, then the general can completely refuse the emperor's orders without fear of any punishment, because he has no obligation to serve the emperor, and it is the princes within the empire who serve the emperor.
Even now, if the head of the Habsburgs were to send troops to the various territories of the family in the name of the emperor or the head of the Habsburgs, in the case of Hungary, the Hungarian army would completely refuse to command him, because the commander did not give orders in the name of the Hungarian king.
And these many titles are one of the products of this system, according to convention.
If the monarch did not have these titles, he would not be able to give orders to the domains of these titles, although this situation has changed in the present era, because the feudal system in the Middle World has begun to collapse, but there are still stubborn conservative forces in some places.
Take Hungary, for example, until it was a sound kingdom.
Hungary has its own political system, it has its own government and its own prime minister, even if Austria and Hungary formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire in later generations, it is still two sets of teams to administer their respective jurisdictions, which can be said to be one of the main reasons for the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in later generations.
In the whole European continent, the Habsburgs occupy more than a fifth of them, but the reason why the Habsburgs have never been able to dominate Europe and dominate the world is because of these separate territories, for which the Habsburg rulers have wanted to change but none of them have succeeded. ..........................................
It had been a week since Blankov marched on the outskirts of Moscow, and although Brankoff's army had not engaged the Moscow defenders on a large scale during that week, a large number of reconnaissance cavalry had been scattered from the rebel barracks, and these cavalry were spread over a twenty-mile area around Moscow, especially the roads to the north and northwest of Moscow, which were the most important for the rebels.
Although he didn't know what Blankov wanted to do, Rumyantsev was not ready to sit in the city obediently, and took advantage of the rest time of Brankoff's army, Rumyantsev spent great energy to persuade the major noble families in Moscow to send guards to help defend Moscow.
Under Rumyantsev's request and the persuasion of Duke Gandalf on the side, although he was still unwilling, most of the nobles finally agreed to transfer part of the family's armed forces to serve under Rumyantsev, and what Rumyantsev needed to pay for this was that most of the spoils obtained in the war were divided among the major nobles, and after the war, Rumyantsev had to report to the tsar to reward the Moscow nobles for their performance in the war and some material rewards.
Rumyantsev agreed to these conditions almost without any bargaining, but when the nobles smiled triumphantly, the old marshal secretly sneered in his heart.
In fact, these nobles in Moscow have long been over, although these nobles are close to Paul on some issues, but no monarch wants to have a political force in his country that is too large to grasp himself, although because of the advance of the rebels made Paul let go of some ideas, but this does not mean that Paul will completely forget these ideas, at least in Rumyantsev's opinion, Paul is definitely a terrifying genius.
Paul had an excellent memory, and anyone who introduced him to him, no matter how long it took for Paul to recognize him, just like the guards in St.
Petersburg, which originally had 40,000 guards, and more than 10,000 of them Paul could accurately say his name and number.
Not only that, but Paul's ideas in some political affairs are also surprising, some of which are frightening but have to admit that the idea can indeed have a certain effect on certain things, such as the aristocratic law that Paul once thought about.
Although the Russian Empire is not like the Holy Roman Empire, there are many princes, but the number of nobles in the Russian Empire is definitely not less than that of the Holy Roman Empire, in the era of Catherine II, her countless lovers were all canonized as nobles, not only that, but even the families of those lovers also emerged many people with noble titles, so that the Russian Empire's noble titles were a little overspread.
Accustomed to the aristocracy's stewardship and fickleness, Paul decided to control the number of nobles in the Russian Empire, and he prepared to issue a decree in the Russian Empire: without the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers, it was forbidden for those of noble birth in the army to change jobs, and it was forbidden for non-nobles to acquire noble status, and the title of nobility could only be hereditary, not canonized.
You must know that the best way to obtain a noble title is to join the army, in any country military nobles are the vast majority of the proportion, of course, not every nobleman is suitable for survival in the army, basically all the children of nobles with extraordinary backgrounds often mix a seniority in the army and then transfer to politics,.
If Paul's idea turned out to be true, then the entire Russian Empire's nobility was tied to Paul's carriage, because there were no special circumstances, whether they wanted to inherit the title or the non-heirs of the noble families wanted to obtain the title, they had to go to the army to mix, so that as long as Paul did not let go, these noble children would always stay in the army.
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Although the prohibition of non-noble children from obtaining titles seems to cut off the hope of the children of the poor family, it is also a means to effectively control the number of nobles in the empire, after all, even ordinary people, once they rise to the status of nobles, the vast majority of them will transform into damned nobles in the eyes of ordinary people.
Paul's idea was discussed only with Rumyantsev, and the old marshal commented on it: stunningly brilliant but out of place.
But it is undeniable that Paul was a genius, he had his own ideas, his own political ideas, and no one could make him give up.
So these nobles in Moscow will be dealt with sooner or later, looking at the dying man, do you still have the mood to bargain!