After William's words were finished, Locks immediately understood.
Locks was also very dissatisfied with Sunigo, after all, it stands to reason that such a Duke of Hesse, who is closely related to William, should be closer to the Prussians than to the British in every way.
In March 1794, Wilhelm fulfilled his promise to upgrade Austria from a principality to a kingdom in the name of the king of the Romans, and the king of the new kingdom of Austria was Karl.
In the Imperial Diet in Frankfurt, when Wilhelm's edict was officially promulgated, Karl's heart was suddenly relieved.
In order to be able to upgrade Austria to a kingdom and make himself the king of Austria in the right place, Karl made up his mind to come to Frankfurt at great risk.
After all, after Wilhelm officially arrived in Frankfurt from Brandenburg, Frankfurt and the surrounding areas can be said to be a large Prussian army, and the main Prussian army of more than 50,000 people is no joke.
Karl did suspect that the Prussians had lured him to Frankfurt under the pretext of making Austria a kingdom, and how Karl could escape the Prussians' control when the heavy army was gathered.
And once the Prussians control Karl in their hands, then in the face of Austria that lost Karl, Prussia will undoubtedly take it even more, don't forget, Karl is now the last hope of the Habsburgs.
And after Karl ventured to Frankfurt, the Prussian government had already sent someone to teach him about the coronation ceremony, and Karl's duty was to be the first to salute Wilhelm!
This request made Carl feel embarrassed, but his arms couldn't reach his thighs, let alone them.
Now that Karl had come to Frankfurt, he was putting his own safety in the hands of the Prussians, and at this time, if he disobeyed the Prussians, he would not be able to get along with himself.
Therefore, despite his shame, Karl honestly followed the Prussian script.
At the same time as the pacification of Austria.
William did not forget the other states, and in the face of a strong enemy such as England from outside, at least there should be no major changes within the Holy Roman Empire, so as to be in the interests of Prussia.
As for Hesse, who has always been against Prussia, it can be said that Hesse is the only one who did not benefit from the Prussians this time.
And just after Wilhelm officially issued the coronation edict to Karl, in the royal palace in Frankfurt.
William also summoned his brother-in-law.
And the reason why William summoned Karl was naturally not just to congratulate Karl, but mainly because William hoped to borrow from Austria!
From Frankfurt to Rome in Italy, there is a mountain range in the middle of the way, which is the world-famous Alps.
There are only a few ways to get from Prussia to Northern Italy.
Either from Switzerland, after hundreds of years of Swiss development, although it is not very easy to walk, but it can still be walked.
Either that or a detour from France, but obviously it was very unrealistic for William to take a detour from France.
Then there is only one last way left, and that is from Austria.
In fact, the best way to get to Northern Italy is to go from Austria, after all, except for Slovenia, which belongs to Austria, the terrain is relatively gentle.
The rest, whether from France or Switzerland, is steep and not suitable for large armies.
If the Alps were so easy to climb, then the names Hannibal and Napoleon would not be known throughout Europe for crossing the Alps.
The easiest way to get to Northern Italy from Austria's Slovenia region was the easiest way to go, but it raised the question of whether the Austrians were willing to give way.
You know, although Wilhelm had just made Austria a kingdom and Karl the first Austrian king in Austrian history, this did not mean that the Austrians were grateful to the Prussians and were willing to lend the road to the Prussians.
"Carl.
Congratulations, you have become the first Austrian king of the Habsburgs!
” William sat on his throne and said to Karl, and a smile appeared on his face.
Seeing the smile on William's face, Karl's heart was immediately full of vigilance.
It was not a custom for successive emperors of the Holy Roman Empire to visit Rome, but it was already a law.
In this situation, although William has been crowned in Frankfurt, William's trip to Rome cannot be avoided no matter what.
Karl, who was born in Habsburg, knew very well that if he wanted to travel from Frankfurt to Rome, the fastest way to get to Rome was undoubtedly from Slovenia.
It was this understanding that Karl immediately began to worry about the gains and losses in his mind when he heard the news that William was going to Rome in Frankfurt.
"All thanks to Your Majesty's grace!"
Karl smiled and said to William, who was sitting at the top.
And just after the two finished speaking, the room suddenly fell silent, after all, for this kind of thing, William is really not good to speak in person, and Carl is naturally willing to be a deaf person when William does not say it clearly.
After a while, William felt that he could not bear it any longer, so he only heard William say: "King of Austria, I have called you to come, in addition to expressing my blessings to you, there is one more thing that needs your help!"
"Oh, I wonder if His Majesty the Almighty Emperor needs my help?"
Seeing the stupidity on Carl's face, William secretly cursed the little fox in his heart.
Both of them are smart people, if Carl doesn't know what William wants to say, then William is the first to not believe it, after all, such a big thing, as long as you have a little brain, you can understand it if you think about it.
"I'm going to Rome next month, so I'll need to pass through your country, and I hope your country will open the way!"
In the end, William chose the most straightforward words to confess.
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And after William finished speaking, Karl was silent for a while, and after a while Karl said: "Your Majesty's thoughts, I understand.
However, the Slovenian region is still very chaotic at the moment, and if His Majesty goes to Rome in a short time, it will inevitably suffer some bad effects, so it seems to me that His Majesty should be able to postpone it for a while.
It's not too late to wait until Slovenia is cleared!
” Karl's mouth snorted.
Seeing that Carl was actually ready to use procrastination tricks with him, the corners of William's mouth also showed a sneer "Your Majesty, my trip to Rome is naturally escorted by a large army, and besides, Austria is part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Naturally, nominally under my rule!
At the moment, under my rule, Slovenia is still in chaos, which is undoubtedly discrediting the empire!
So, if Austria is not enough, then I can help you clear Slovenia by the way!
” William's words seem a bit aggressive, and to be honest.
That's what Carl fears the most!
The false Tao is a very famous allusion in Chinese history, and people who don't know can face the wall.
In the West, the absence of such a term does not mean that there are no such examples.
And in it, Karl, who was on the weak side, naturally had to be more defensive.
"Don't worry about it, but this matter is really important, please ask Your Majesty to give me a while.
Let me counsel with my subordinates!
” "Hehe, so be it, Karl, you and I are in-laws, how could I harm you, besides, if I harmed you, then I would have supported Alexander a long time ago, how can you be the king of Austria today?
I'll give you three days, and if you don't give me an answer when the three days are up.
Do you think you'll be able to return to Vienna in peace?
” Hearing the threat in William's words, Carl gasped.
As Wilhelm said, Karl had taken a great risk in coming to Frankfurt, except because there were 50,000 Prussian troops in the Frankfurt area.
Another rule is that the princes of the empire who come to the pilgrimage like Karl must not carry more than 500 retinues per person.
At first, all the princes were very worried about this rule of the Prussians, but with the assurances of the Prussians, the princes finally arrived with their guards.
Even with the addition of some people who secretly protected Karl, Karl's forces in Frankfurt were less than a thousand, while the Prussian side had an army of 50,000!
Carl left the palace in despair, and William looked at the back of Carl as he turned to leave, his eyes were also full of coldness.
After two days of deliberation, Karl finally agreed to the Prussians' request for a passage.
Karl allowed the Prussians to borrow Frankfurt to Vienna and from Vienna to Venice, all of which were included in Austrian territory.
Karl's consent was also unavoidable, he could see that the Prussians had no intention of targeting him at the moment, but if he stood on the opposite side of the Prussians at this time, then Wilhelm would not mind making him the first target after he ascended the throne.
As soon as Karl agreed, Wilhelm summoned the Prussian government officials and the Prussian generals to discuss the march into Rome.
The march into Rome was not a simple matter, after all, Rome was the seat of the Catholic pope, and William could be said to be the first Holy Roman Emperor in history to enter Rome with a Protestant faith, and no one knew what kind of attitude the Roman pope would take towards William.
And for William, he was Protestant.
If he marched into Rome and received the blessing and coronation of the Pope, then it can be seen that William accepted the Catholic conversion, and whether this would cause an uproar in Prussia.
The question of religion has always been one of the most important issues in a country, especially for the West, where millions of people have died because of religion in history!
However, marching into Rome and accepting the blessing and coronation of the Pope was the unanimous opinion of the Prussian leadership, after all, although William believed in Protestantism, it has to be said that the largest number of religious believers in the world is still Catholicism.
Moreover, although Prussia believed in Protestantism, Prussia's religious policy was not harsh.
Eventually, the Prussian hierarchy believed that Wilhelm's trip to Rome could be modified by propaganda, such as narrowing religious sensitivities and magnifying the German national question.
End of March 1794 Bagration's Russian army, which numbered less than 15,000 men, finally appeared under the city of St.
Petersburg.
And from the moment he retreated to the Russian border, it meant that Latvia and Estonia, which had been regained at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties, were once again handed over to the enemy.
And this time it was not Kutuzov who occupied these areas, but the Swedes.
No sooner had Bagration returned to St.
Petersburg than he was received by Penin, the current de facto controller of the Russian Imperial Government.
Originally, after Alexander came to power, because the post of Speaker of the Imperial Duma caused considerable waves around this position.
Even the forces that supported Alexander's ascension to the throne at the beginning earned it inextricably.
And in the end, it was Alexander who made the decision, that is, Penning to assume the post of speaker of the Imperial Duma and head of government.
At that time, Penning's ascension to the throne was only a product of the compromise of all parties, but who would have thought that it was this person who benefited from the compromise of all parties and ascended to the throne.
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Within a few months of Alexander's departure from St.
Petersburg, he took control of the situation in St.
Petersburg.
"General Bagration, I remember that the government should have given you an order before, so you can explain to me why you, who originally had more than 20,000 troops, now have less than 15,000 people left, and the army is very short of supplies.
I remember that the government gave you permission to collect supplies along the way!
” Penning received Bagration in his residence, and the current ruler of the central government of the Russian Empire had a very ugly face when he saw Bagration.
The defeat of Rumyantsev's army filled the whole of St.
Petersburg with a sense of crisis, which reached its peak after learning that Brankoff was preparing to attack St.
Petersburg in the coming year.
Everyone knows that the pinning down of Rumyantsev's army was lost.
At present, there are no armed forces in Blankov's vicinity that can pose a threat to him, which means that the 50,000 rebels entrenched in Moscow and nearby areas can fully mobilize most of their forces north.
On the other hand, the army of the Russian Imperial Government at the moment, excluding Alexander and more than 10,000 troops stationed in Tipoko, north of Moscow, was left with 5,000 guards of St.
Petersburg and Bagration's army.
Now, Bagration's army is only 15,000 men, which means that even with the addition of the entire army of St.
Petersburg, there are only 20,000 people, and even with the addition of more than 10,000 troops led by Alexander, it is not necessarily the opponent of the rebels.
"Your Excellency, I have to say a word here.
To be able to return to St.
Petersburg at this cost is already God bless us Russia!
Don't forget, it's winter, and I don't know what the government thinks, to ask us to withdraw to St.
Petersburg in such a hurry, do you forget that there are 60,000 Swedish troops on the opposite side of us!
And also.
Your Excellency, I beg to agree with your efforts to collect supplies along the way!
All the people living in the areas along the retreat route of our army are the subjects of our Russian Empire, and it is already a very cruel act for the Empire to abandon them again, and if our army loots in the name of collecting supplies, then this winter, these poor people will not have to live!
” After Penning's words, Bagration did not give in, but frowned and glanced at Penning before retorting.
For the person Penning, Bagration actually has a stomach of opinions in his heart, don't forget that Bagration is loyal to Paul I, and this Penning is said to be the biggest murderer of Paul I!
It's just that Bagration suffers from the fact that he has no evidence in his own hands, otherwise, there is no need for Penning to talk to Bagration with this attitude, and he can't say that just after seeing Penning, Bagration will cut off Penning's head with the knife on his waist!
Hearing Bagration's remarks and rebuttals to himself, Panning's neck could be said to be bruised "Bagration, you are really lawless, look what kind of attitude you have!
Is the government's order a piece of waste paper in your eyes?
Do you know that St.
Petersburg can no longer afford to recruit troops, and in this case, do you want to watch the rebels capture St.
Petersburg and overthrow the Romanov dynasty!
” Penning's voice revealed fierceness, but for Penning's performance, Bagration was even more disdainful in his heart "Your Excellency Penning, I hope you understand your identity, although you are the speaker of the Duma, you have no right to give me military orders directly, unless you have an edict issued by His Majesty the Emperor, and I will do my best to be loyal to the Romanovs to annihilate the rebels, not just pay lip service to some people!"
With that, Bagration didn't pay any attention to Penning at all, but turned around and left Penning's room directly.
Bagration's attitude made Penning, who had enjoyed the feeling of being a master for more than half a year, instantly feel as if he had been poured a basin of cold water from head to end under the eyes of all people.
At this moment, Penning was eager to kill Bagration and then hurry up, but reason told Penning that he couldn't do this, and even if he did, he might not be satisfied, after all, Bagration's 15,000 troops were in St.
Petersburg, and as long as a few thousand of them were determined to go with Bagration, then Penning would have to walk around without food.