Simmond resolutely left the room, not noticing the gloomy face of the Duke of Orleans, who was standing behind him. ...............................................
It was not a few days before the Elector's Council, and in the capitals of the major princes of the Empire, you could see the hurried convoys on the roads, most of which belonged to the diplomats of the various powers.
As the most important elector within the empire, Prussia was naturally the focus of attention of all forces, at least these days, Locks has dealt with no less than a dozen waves of emissaries from all sides.
Among them, the envoy of the Elector of Bavaria met with Locks mainly to emphasize the friendly relations between Bavaria and Prussia, and the Elector of Bavaria, Etans, was also willing to listen to the opinion of the Prussian king at this electoral meeting.
The other Elector's emissaries were not as easy to deal with as the Bavarians, and they each tried their best to win Locks's support, but how could a shrewd man like Locks easily give promises in an unclear situation.
Although Wilhelm had already set a policy of supporting Leopold, it was obviously inappropriate to make it clear from the beginning if he wanted to get the maximum benefit for Prussia, and even if Prussia wanted to support the Austrians, it was necessary to make the Austrians understand that Prussia was not so easy to win over.
Compared with the Austrian envoy, Maximilian's personal representative Richard was much calmer, and when he met with Locks, he conveyed Maximilian's condition, that is, if Prussia supported Maximilian to ascend to the throne of Holy Roman Emperor, then Maximilian could officially issue an edict to annex Saxony to Prussia as Emperor after successfully ascending the throne, so that Prussia could legally and reasonably completely annex Saxony.
At the same time, Maximilian would support Prussia's territorial claims to the princes of the Main Valley.
To be honest, Maximilian's conditions are really very exciting, at least if Locks already knew what William had in mind, then for the sake of Prussia, Locks would not really want to advise William.
You know, although Wilhelm also wanted the Austrians to commit to supporting Prussia in taking the Main region.
But in Locks's view, it was not enough to support Leopold on the throne, because the Austrians also had huge interests in the Main River valley, and they could not sit idly by and watch Prussia take the Main.
The reason why it took a lot of effort for Locks was because of the Austrian Netherlands.
One of the routes from the Austrian Netherlands to Vienna is the Main River Basin.
And once the Main River fell into Prussian hands, the passage from Austria Netherlands to Vienna would inevitably be cut off by the Prussians.
Although the current Austrian Netherlands is not stable, Austrian rule in the region has been repeatedly challenged, and it is in this context that the maintenance of stability in the Austrian Netherlands is also an important task of the Habsburg royal family, so that the Main River valley is quite important.
And as an important fiefdom of the Habsburgs.
Leopold would not sit idly by and watch the Austrian Netherlands fall into crisis.
Locks then made contact with the Austrian envoys, who were slightly less favorable than the favorable terms offered by Maximilian.
If William supported Leopold's ascension to the Holy Roman Empire, then Austria was willing to formally hand over Bohemia, and Leopold would be crowned Crown Prince of the Empire after his accession to the throne!
It looks as if Austria took out a whole Bohemia as a bargaining chip, and it seems to have cost a lot, yes, but let's not forget, long after the end of the Austro-Prussian War.
Bohemia had already been occupied by the Prussians, and later during the Austro-Prussian peace negotiations, Bohemia still belonged to the Habsburgs in name, which was one of the reasons why Leopold was eligible to participate in the Imperial Electoral Council in the name of the Elector of Bohemia.
But nominal to nominal, the fact is that Bohemia has been ruled by Prussia for many years, and even if the Austrians are unwilling to formally hand over Bohemia, it is not a problem in Prussia's view, after all, the whole of Bohemia has been sealed by Prussia.
As for the second condition, it is even more painful, canonizing William as the crown prince.
This seems to be a very tempting condition, because once William becomes the crown prince, then it means that he is only one step away from the imperial throne.
But things are never absolute, just like Joseph II, he also canonized Leopold as the crown prince before, but now, isn't it about the Elector Council of the Empire to compete for it!
Moreover, the emperor can canonize a crown prince with a decree.
In the same way, the emperor can also depose the crown prince by decree, so these things are not so absolute.
During the discussion, Locks also tentatively mentioned the Main River valley, much to Locks' disappointment.
As soon as he heard him mention the Main, the Austrian envoy's face changed dramatically, and he immediately looked at Locks with a wary look, as if he were a thief who was concerned about all his family's possessions.
In addition, the two religious electors, Elector Mainz and Elector Trier, also sent their own envoys to inquire about some movements from Locks, and the treacherous Locks naturally would not let them take advantage of it.
In addition to these Electors within the Empire, other minor princes within the Empire and from the surrounding countries of the Holy Roman Empire had emissaries operating in Brandenburg and Potsdam, and their task was simply to find out the movements of the Prussians, who now played a decisive role.
Locks was busy, and William wasn't idle.
The Royal Weapons Research Institute is under construction, and William is always paying attention to the progress of the three new divisions, and Mehard's navy also did not make William worry, thinking about the high maintenance costs of the navy every year, William's head will be dizzy.
Stability maintenance in Denmark, Prussia Poland, and Holstein is also the focus of Prussia.
However, these are not too big things compared to the affairs of France and Russia, and William's eyes have never left the French and Russians.
In May, Rumyantsev's news of the reinforcements spread throughout Moscow, and when he learned that he still had reinforcements, the whole city of Moscow seemed to have taken a reassurance, and the soldiers' resistance became more intense, after all, no one wanted to suffer defeat on the eve of the arrival of reinforcements.
The news of Moscow soon reached Blankov's ears, and Blankov was obviously surprised to hear this news, because he had analyzed the situation of the entire empire before attacking Moscow, and in his opinion, St.
Petersburg was absolutely incapable of sending reinforcements to Moscow, after all, Kutuzov's men were still threatening St.
Petersburg in the west.
Blankov didn't know about Kutuzov's defeat in Riga, and if Blankov knew, then he would never have thought so.
Because the battle of Riga was really lost, Kutuzov did not inform Blankov of his situation, and Blankov's envoy stationed in Riga was tragically sent to the sky by the artillery of the Ushakov Navy during the battle of Riga, so Blankov really didn't know anything about the recent situation in Riga.
Without Kutuzov's side, Paul I had much more room for manoeuvre, and after the news of Ushakov's victory, Paul I was in a better mood than ever.
After excitedly canonizing Ushakov as the Grand Duke of the Reich, Paul I hurriedly ordered 50,000 of the 40,000 guards in St.
Petersburg and the 30,000 newly recruited soldiers to be transferred into the First Corps of the Reich, and the commander of the corps was the Count Berniff, a close minister of Paul I.
At the same time, more than 20,000 troops who were rushing from Petrozavodsk to Moscow were also incorporated into the First Corps, and the name of this Romanov dynasty was the Third Army of the First Corps of the Reich.
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In Paul's mind, rushing to Moscow with 70,000 fresh troops would definitely lift the siege of Moscow, and whether he could defeat Brankoff's rebels or even completely annihilate them depends on Rumyantsev's ability.
However, in order not to disturb Brankoff's rebels, Paul did not immediately celebrate when the news of Ushakov's victory came, but issued an edict the news of Ushakov's successful surprise attack on Riga to all the provinces of the empire except Moscow.
In his edict, Paul declared that Kutuzov was an unforgivable traitor, and that his ambition to overthrow the imperial regime was well known, and that not only that, Kutuzov had colluded with the empire in a vain attempt to betray the empire to the enemy!
Under such circumstances, although Paul I still deeply remembered Kutuzov's great contributions to the empire, in front of the interests of the empire, His Majesty the Tsar had to tear up!
Paul I's edict was issued in the form of a secret edict, and he did not wish to announce Ushakov's victory now, because the results of Ushakov's victory were now waiting for the whole of St.
Petersburg, and there were many of these ambitious elements who had colluded with Blankov.
But Paul also had to stabilize the place, and once the regions learned that Ushakov had inflicted heavy damage on Kutuzov and that Kutuzov would not be in trouble, the princes of the empire would inevitably regain their reverence for the empire, after all, an imperial family that still had huge strength and sufficient background was not something that any cat or dog would dare to provoke casually.
Therefore, it is best to send secret orders to the governors of the regions, and then these governors will announce the news to the nobles, although this is not an effective secrecy, but it is still possible to delay for some time.