Long Yan just ended the war recently.
What Liu Zheng has been considering since then is the problem of excess soldiers. This issue has been mentioned before. The vassal kings took advantage of the war and the extra recruitment quotas have now become overwhelming.
Isn't this a threat to Liu Zheng?
These are also a threat to Longyan's stability.
So how to reasonably remove these threats?
Europe.
Only Europe.
Liu Zheng smiled slightly.
The day after he received Frederick's letter.
He was in Parliament, proposing a plan to enter Europe.
This plan is mainly divided into military march and commercial march. The commercial advance is mainly through the control of the Suez Canal to sell more Longyan products to Europe. The military advance was to carve up Poland and Lithuania through an alliance with Prussia.
In the history of Liu Zheng's previous life, the first partition of Poland was led by Russia.
The main reason is that Tsarist Russia is too powerful and its desire for expansion has broken the balance of power in Eastern Europe. Participating were Russia, Prussia, powerful Austria, and the declining Ottoman Empire.
But this world is different.
Tsarist Russia did not continue to grow stronger, but suffered a big setback on Long Yan's side. This tilted the distribution of power in Eastern Europe. Different from the history that Liu Zheng knew before, Tsarist Russia did not continue to grow stronger. The Ottomans also won the fifth Russo-Turkish War and recently captured the Black Sea Port.
Suddenly, the situation in Eastern Europe was chaotic and the balance of power shifted.
This was great news for the Habsburg dynasty.
The Habsburg dynasty, this famous dynasty, still needs to be introduced. This is the most powerful royal family in European history and has the widest domain of rule. It once ruled the Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Grand Duchy of Austria, the Austrian Empire, etc...
The House of Habsburg, also known as the House of Austria, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Habsburg dynasty, was unprecedentedly powerful.
Before the rise of Russia, the Habsburg family must have controlled the voice of the entire Eastern Europe. But as Russia grew more powerful and barbaric, their power began to be threatened.
so.
Now when Tsarist Russia was defeated, the Habsburg family was the happiest, and also expanded accordingly. Tsarist Russia has been defeated, and the situation in Eastern Europe will return to their hands again.
However.
Frederick the Great of the Hohenzollern dynasty was obviously reluctant.
They did not want to see the Habsburg family continue to be powerful in Eastern Europe, and they wanted more say.
Therefore, Frederick the Great, who had begun to make peace with the Ottoman Empire's past, launched a friendly alliance with Hamid. As soon as this news came out, the Habsburg royal family was obviously unable to sit still.
You know, Austria hated this Frederick to the core.
Why?
Because this guy Frederick is definitely a genius. After he just became the king of Prussia, Prussia's military strength was already the fourth in Europe. But he still felt it was not enough, so he poured most of the country's income into the army to update and reform the army. He also invented a tactic, the slash tactic. Later, this tactic exerted strong combat effectiveness and was imitated by various European countries.
Therefore, after this guy carried out reforms for a period of time, in order to try out the effects of the reforms, he desperately needed an opponent to practice his skills with, so this opponent turned to Austria.
Who told that at this time, the king of Austria had just come to power, or was he a woman?
It was in this battle that Prussia defeated Austria and allowed Prussia to seize the wealthy Silesia. This is also the famous War of Austrian Succession.
but.
What country is Austria?
Are the Habsburgs so easy to mess with? The biggest reason why Austria ceded Silesia to Prussia so easily was because Maria Theresa, the first female archduchess in Austrian history, was opposed by the princes when she came to power. Thus the War of the Austrian Succession broke out. During this gap, Prussia came over, and Theresa could only cede the land in exchange for Prussia's recognition of her throne.
Speaking of Teresa, this is another legendary figure.
Born into the Habsburg family since childhood, he was born into a noble family with a silver spoon in his mouth. Her father, Charles VI, originally wanted to have a male heir, but instead gave birth to three daughters in succession...
At this time, Charles VI was already 39 years old and had no more children.
Teresa is the eldest daughter. She has been good at singing and dancing since she was a child, is good at riding, and is proficient in many languages. She looks like a strong woman.
But she almost married Peter II of Tsarist Russia, but something went wrong because Menshikov controlled absolute power in Tsarist Russia at this time, and he wanted to marry his daughter to Peter II. This also allowed Theresa to regain her freedom and to be with her cousin, the Duke of Lorraine, without hesitation.
In this way, Teresa, who was only 23 years old, inherited the throne of Charles VI and became the first queen of the Holy Roman Empire. At that time, Austria was definitely in dire straits, the treasury was empty, the plague was rampant, and the people were in despair.
It was at this time that people felt that Theresa was vulnerable to bullying, and Prussia was naturally one of them.
When Frederick II launched the war in horror, Austria was definitely in danger.
But it was Teresa who, in this desperate situation, began to show her intelligence. She started at home and received a lot of internal support. She obtained the support of 50,000 elite troops from the Hungarian nobles, a huge loan from Britain, and an alliance from Russia. And through forbearance, he temporarily recognized Prussia's right to rule Silesia in exchange for his legal heir status.
After she used various methods to strengthen Austria and drive out the French and Bavarian armies. With the death of Charles VII, the puppet king supported by Prussia, Austria finally began to restore peace.
In the following years, Teresa's talent was once again put into play.
She began to rectify the corruption and chaos within Austria and consolidate the monarchy. Finally, a few years later, she used various diplomatic means to form an alliance with France and Tsarist Russia to encircle Prussia.
But at this time, Tsarist Russia suddenly became decadent. This was definitely a mixture of joy and worry for Teresa.
