On the third day after Wilhelm promised Anna, Wilhelm issued an edict appointing Eric as crown prince of Prussia in the presence of a full house of Prussian princes and ministers.
In a way, this edict did not particularly surprise the ministers, since from the moment of Eric's birth, there had been no cessation of calls for the appointment of Eric as crown prince in Brandenburg.
But what everyone didn't expect was that William would announce the edict at such a moment.
In addition to this edict, Wilhelm also decided to promote Daphilia, who had made a meritorious contribution to Bavaria, to the rank of marshal, and canonized Daphilia as the count of the kingdom.
William's canonization of Dafilia seemed quite meaningful to some people, especially Henry, who glanced at Locks intentionally or unintentionally after William's order.
For a magnate of Prince Henry's level, it was no secret that Locks, Dessau and others ambushed Anna.
For the chiefs of the General Staff and the Military Department, Dessau, Ferdinand Jr., and Dafilia were all suitable candidates, and Dessau was definitely going to be in charge of one of the departments.
But now, William deliberately promoted Dafilia's military rank, but did not mention Dessau, who was the hero of the victory in the Austro-Prussian War, which is really impossible for others to arouse reverie.
Originally, among the three, Dessau had the oldest qualifications, and in terms of military merits, Dessau naturally deserved the first place.
In this case, no matter how Dafilia and Ferdinand Jr. competed.
Dessau is definitely going to occupy a place, but now it seems that Dessau is hanging.
Among the three.
Henry is actually the most optimistic about Dessau, not only because of the Dessau family's great contributions to Prussia for generations, but also because Dessau's own talent is also very valued by Henry, so Henry originally planned to recommend Dessau to take over his position after his retirement in recent years.
But now, because of Locks's actions, Dessau has fallen into an extremely passive situation, which makes Henry have some dissatisfaction with Locks.
After the announcement of the order for these two days, a grand feast began in the Prussian palace. ...................................
With Sweden and Russia at war in the East.
Austria and Bavaria have become Prussia's defeated subordinates, and it can be said that except for France on the Western Front, Prussia can no longer find an opponent of equal strength in the periphery.
But William's heart did not relax.
On 3 September, William personally went to the port of Kiel, the home port of the Prussian fleet, to inspect the construction of the navy.
With a succession of victories on land, William's focus gradually shifted to the navy, as he inspected the Russian port of Kiel.
William made a point of instruction to the officers of the Admiralty.
The Prussian Navy will develop by a large margin within five years, and the main ships of the Royal Navy will grow from the current 30 or so to 70 ships, and only such a scale can safeguard Prussia's interests on the sea!
William was not particularly anxious to defeat France, although the Bourbon rule in France was much more stable at this time than in the original history, after all, in the original history, in 1793, the Bourbon dynasty had been completely destroyed.
But now the coalition forces have attacked the city of Paris, even if they can't break through Paris.
The coalition forces still had the ability to occupy northern France.
France, on the other hand, despite Louis XVI's presence in Paris, did not have to worry about being overrun by the coalition forces in a short period of time.
But in the south, the rule of the Bourbons had reached a precarious point.
Because of the national righteousness called by Louis XVI, many democrats temporarily stopped resisting the Bourbons, but when the coalition army broke through Paris or Paris resolved the crisis of the coalition army, then the French would definitely have immediate internal turmoil.
This is not only seen by William, but by most people.
At present, the Bourbon dynasty has only more than 10,000 troops in the south of France, and these more than 10,000 people need to be guarded against in the southern region, which has a population of several million and has strong revolutionary ideas, although there are still more than 20,000 Spanish troops stationed in the south, but these Spaniards play a negative role.
You must know that during the period of stationing in the south of France, these Spanish people did not do less evil, and the Bourbon dynasty also made concessions to the greatest extent in order to keep this Spanish army, so that it was more unfortunate that the innocent French people were unlucky.
And the revolutionaries did not give up this perfect opportunity, and they spread their ideas among the masses in great profess, and the Bourbons could no longer be as forcefully repressive as they had before, fearing that it would easily backfire if they were forced too quickly.
It can be said that whether the battle of Paris is won or lost, I am afraid that the Bourbons' rule over France will come to an end!
In William's heart, he has another huge imperial dream, he wants to build a great empire across Europe, Asia and Africa!
At present, Prussia has only just taken the first step, and in Wilhelm's vision, after this war, Prussia will spend a few years to recuperate and develop its strength.
When the time came, Prussia immediately conquered all the disobedient princes in the Holy Roman Empire, and then after unifying the empire, it would march east to defeat Russia, and then Russia would return to the west to attack France.
This is William's goal, an ambitious one!
As for Britain, William did not think that the British had the strength to resist Prussia on land, and the only thing he had to worry about was the British navy, and it was because of this concern that William decided to vigorously develop the navy from now on, a naval force that could at least ensure that Prussia could compete with Britain in Europe, even if it was not comparable to the total number of British navies.
But the British Royal Navy is so large that not to mention its navy stationed in the world's major colonies, the British home fleet alone has nearly a hundred main fleets, and this number is three times that of the Prussians!
If you count all the main warships of the British Navy, then this number will even exceed the 150 mark.
You must know that the strength of these 30 or so capital warships of Prussia was only after the annexation of the Danish Navy, and before the annexation of Denmark, Prussia's main warships were only an odd number.
At present, among the Danish shipyards, there are eight capital warships under construction, one first-class ship, three second-class ships, and four fourth-class ships, and these eight warships have also swallowed up ninety percent of the Prussian Navy's military spending this year.
If it weren't for the British's gratuitous technical assistance and interest-free loans, I am afraid that four of the eight capital ships would not have been able to start construction due to financial and technical reasons.
At present, Prussia has only one first-class ship, and this first-class ship was built during the Danish period, and Prussia picked up a bargain, and even then the ship is six years old.
The first-class ship lying in the shipyard would not be equipped with the navy until 1795, which meant that William's dream of a strong navy would take at least another ten years.
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However, although Prussia only has more than 30 main warships, it can still squeeze into the top five in the European naval rankings, and in front of Prussia there is only the British Navy and the Spanish Navy, which has received many French main warships, and the once prominent French Navy and the Russian Navy are currently on par with Prussia, and even with the passage of time, I am afraid that the French and Russian navies will eventually fall behind the Prussian Navy.
However, the Prussian Navy is developing, and the British, who are based on the navy, will not stand still, you must know that the British have long proposed naval supremacy with one enemy and two enemies, and the first here undoubtedly refers to the British Navy to ensure the world's first, and the second refers to the British Royal Navy to have a combination that can compete with the world's second and third navies.
The British were in a much better financial position than Prussia, and the British were not the same as the Prussians, which meant that Britain spent more than five times as much on the navy as Prussia every year.
Under these circumstances, it was undoubtedly very difficult to surpass the British, but fortunately, William was not arrogant enough to think that he could do anything as a traverser, and that he could make his navy invincible!
What William needed was a strong naval force, a naval force that could break through the defense line of the British home fleet in a short period of time and reach the British mainland!
The reason for this requirement is actually very simple, William's conception is that he will defeat Britain by relying on the army, as long as the army can land in large numbers on the British Isles and can maintain the supply line of supplies, this is enough.
Of course, it is not easy to do this, at least the British Home Fleet is an obstacle that cannot be overcome.
It is not impossible to turn the other cheeks with the British, don't look at the fact that the two sides are still close allies at the moment, but who can say for sure what will happen in a few years, as Prussia opened up a large number of colonies in North America and occupied the absolute hegemony of Central Europe, it is difficult to guarantee that after the two sides lose the unified enemy, in order to curb the development of Prussia, the British will not attack the Prussians.
And there are too many such examples in history, such as France and Germany in the original history.
The victory in the war had made Prussia's territory nearly half larger than it had been before the war, and how to effectively govern these regions was a headache for Wilhelm.
Fortunately, most of these areas that had been occupied by Prussia were Germanic peoples, and under the spread of the ideas of the Great Germanic people promoted by William, coupled with the fact that the Prussian army did not commit any crimes, at least the majority of the people accepted the fact that the Prussians ruled!