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Chapter 465: Meeting


In mid-September 1790, Wilhelm and his party arrived in Hanover.

For William's arrival, the British held a very grand welcome ceremony.

At the ceremony, Augustus, as the representative of Great Britain, also gave an impromptu speech, of course, the content of which was nothing more than a series of scenes, mainly a review of the deep friendship between Great Britain and Prussia.

In the evening of the same day, the British also held a grand party to welcome William's arrival.

If the most profound thing about the normal party, then it is undoubtedly the three daughters of Karina behind William, although he is afraid of Prussia's influence in the world, William does not let any girl stand on his side, but a big man followed by three beautiful girls into the hall will always be amazing.

And Augustus expressed his jealousy of William when he hugged William.

The scene of the party was undoubtedly grand, not only Augustus brought a large number of nobles and officials from the British mainland, but also the local celebrities of Hannover joined the party with all their might.

It stands to reason that the entry of the Electors of Hanover into Britain is a great thing for both the Electors of Hanover and all the people of Hanover.

However, the result is that the formation of the United Kingdom by Hanover and Great Britain is not as satisfactory as the outside world thinks.

When George I landed in England, he was faced with a complete mess, and the British Electors were skeptical about the ability of the Electors of Hanover to govern the country, and the British constitutional monarchy was a headache for George I.

So George I, in the event of a fruitless struggle with the English aristocracy, transported a large amount of gold from England to Hanover.

This was clearly a stab at the hornet's nest, and George I did not speak English.

Most of the British ministers did not speak German, and the language barrier made the British even more dissatisfied with the Hanoverian monarch.

The situation did not improve until the accession to the throne of George II, who was undoubtedly a wise monarch.

On the one hand, he personally led the army to land during the War of the Austrian Succession, which made the British feel better about it.

Contrary to his father's policy of turning away from the English mainland, George II spent a great deal of effort to reform England, and then the great victory of England in the Seven Years' War brought George II's prestige to the peak.

At the same time, it also made all the British people sincerely submit to the rule of the Hanoverian dynasty.

But it was during the reign of George II, although George II even landed on the European continent to fight in order to preserve the Hanover territory during the War of the Austrian Succession.

But it did not win the hearts and minds of the subjects of Hanover.

Because Britain had different attitudes between the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, and the British mainland had a strong navy to protect it, Hanover was isolated on the European continent, surrounded by strong neighbors.

This makes Hannover one of the key points of contention for each team in previous wars.

This made Hanover very angry.

They believed that the struggle between Britain and the nations of Europe should not involve Hanover.

But Hanover is, after all, the domain of the British crown, and how can countries turn a blind eye, which leads to Hanover often becoming the side that lies down in the middle of the war.

However, this discontent did not worsen, and with the protection of the British navy, Hanoverian merchants gained a great deal of interest in both the North Sea and the Mediterranean, which helped to regain the hearts and minds of the Hanoverian dynasty to some extent.

Under Augustus's introduction, William treated every nobleman and merchant who came to meet him very kindly.

This made William win everyone's favor.

After dinner, at the invitation of Augustus.

Wilhelm moved to the living room, which was separated by a wall from the hall, and the court of the Hannover royal palace had been rearranged to look like a theater.

William and Karina walked to a box not far from the ball, saying that the box was actually just a simple partition between a wooden board and a curtain, of course, in order to show their status, these wooden planks were combined quite tastefully.

Once William was seated, the repertoire on the stage began, and Augustus invited William to see Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, one of the most famous English dramatists and poets of the Renaissance era.

After a while, the lights were extinguished.

As the play progressed, the actors successfully brought the audience into the world of the play, and the right position allowed William to see any subtle performance of the actors on stage.

For Hamlet's masterpiece, I believe not many people in China have seen it, but this does not prevent Hamlet from becoming famous in the East, especially when the sentence that there are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people is hung on the wall of the classroom, Hamlet is completely popular, and William in his previous life once took a look at Baidu on the Internet because of curiosity.

As the curtain was slowly raised, everyone present stood up and gave the most enthusiastic applause to the cast on stage.

Standing up this time, William felt that something was wrong, only to see that the three girls of Karina sitting next to him had obvious tears on their faces, and they kept wiping the tears from the corners of their eyes with a handkerchief.

"I said, don't cry, someone is coming soon, wipe it off!"

Unexpectedly, William's kind persuasion caused the eyes of the three daughters, and Du Li said mercilessly: "You have no conscience, Hamlet is so pitiful, aren't you sad!"

Hearing Du Li's words, a wry smile appeared on William's face.

To be honest, for the three daughters of Du Li, William's heart has a trace of guilt in addition to love, after all, the three daughters have been with him for many years, but in the end he can't give them a name, although the three daughters understand William and don't have that thing to say, but after all, seeing the three girls pay for themselves without seeking fame, as long as they are people, they will feel a little guilty.

Just as William said, just a moment later, Augustus arrived at the door of William's box with a group of people "Your Majesty, please come with me, there are some things I want to discuss with you!"

Augustus is eight years older than William, but this does not prevent Augustus from using honorifics in William's words, after all, William is the king, and although Augustus is the crown prince of the world's largest power, he is still only a crown prince after all.

With the growth of Prussia's strength, Prussia is no longer the regional country with a population of more than one million and an army of nearly 100,000, and the expansion in recent years, especially the area taken by William after his accession to the throne, has made Prussia one of the few great powers on the European continent, and the fanaticism of the whole people of the Kingdom of Prussia for war is enough to make all countries fearful.

William replied: "Please wait for me with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince" After speaking, William took out a hand towel from his pocket and wiped it on Karina's face beside him, after wiping, William watched the three girls take out their makeup boxes to make up, and he had to say helplessly: "I'll go out first, I'll let Buel wait outside the door, and you can follow him when the time comes."

Seeing the third girl nodding, William walked out of the box.

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At the door, in addition to Augustus, the British crown prince, there is also British Prime Minister William Jr.

Pitt, a member of the British House of Commons, is also a good friend of Augustus.

James.

Fox, the latter two are the pillars of the British government, of course, there is a story that has to be told between Pitt Jr. and Fox, although the two belong to the British Whig Party, but in the future Fox is Pitt Jr.'

s biggest political opponent.

For the two behind Augustus, although William met for the first time, as a politician with great influence in Britain, the portraits of these two have long been presented on William's desk.

Born in England in 1759, Pitt Jr.'

s career is a legend, and the fact that he can become prime minister at the age of twenty-four in a constitutional monarchy is a legend in itself, and that during his tenure he introduced fiscal and tax reforms, lowering tariffs, adding new taxes, and improving the government's finances.

He also carried out administrative reforms of the government and reduced government spending.

Now little Pete is only thirty-one years old, which is the age of energy and hard work.

And Fox is ten years older than Pete Jr., forty-one years old this year.

Fox has a very talked-about thing, that is, he was already in the British House of Commons at the age of nineteen, and after twenty-one years of hard work, Fox not only has a high reputation in the House of Commons, but is also the only strongman in the Whig Party who can compete with Pitt Jr.

William left Buel to wait outside the box door, and he himself led Foreign Secretary Elstner and Augustus to a more secluded room.

Once everyone was seated, Augustus gestured with his gaze, and Fawkes stood up.

The forty-one-year-old Fox was arguably the second-to-last of the five people in the room, and the oldest was undoubtedly the Prussian Foreign Minister Elstner, who was forty-five years old.

"First of all, on behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, I would like to welcome His Majesty Wilhelm to Hanover, and secondly, I would like to ask for your understanding that this invitation to His Majesty Wilhelm is a bit hasty!"

As he spoke, Fawkes gestured to William, who waved generously to show that he didn't care.

"I think all of you know that for some reason the relationship between England and France is at an impasse, and that's really regrettable........................"