Berlin, City Palace.
This is a very magnificent looking palace located in the center of Berlin...it is also a palace with good "growth potential"!
This "growth potential" was the conclusion Zhuge Weijiu and Zhuge Youde came to after observing Feng Shui at the Berlin City Palace when they traveled across Europe together. The first owner of the City Palace also chose this land to build his home. The Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick II "Irontooth" (nicknamed), apparently had someone take a look at Feng Shui. A "treasure land" with great potential for growth was chosen to build a family home.
Therefore, in the more than 300 years since this house was built, it has continued to "grow", from a rich man's compound to a royal palace.
The border princely state of Brandenburg has also continued to grow, from a princely state to a principality, from a principality to a royal palace... and there will be further room for growth in the future!
As for the owner of the house, he has also been bullish all the way, rising from a border prince to the king of the European powers!
And...it will rise again in the future!
This judgment of "rising again" was not made by ordinary people, but by Zhuge Weidao's father, Marshal of the Ming Dynasty Navy, and Zhuge Youde, the Marquis of Wuxiang, who calculated it for Frederick William III.
At that time, the army of Friedrich William III had just been defeated in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt. The Prussian army had completely collapsed and was about to give up even as it could not hold Berlin.
At this time, Zhuge Weidao and Zhuge Youde, who were inspecting military affairs in Europe, visited and saw that Frederick William III was on the verge of a mental breakdown. So Zhuge Weidao and his father watched the Feng Shui of the City Palace. Finally, he made the prediction that "Prussia's market will be bullish"!
At that time, Friedrich William III didn't pay much attention to this "prophecy". He thought it was the Chinese Navy Vice Admiral (Zhuge Youde was still a Lieutenant General at the time) who was comforting him.
Zhuge Youde and Zhuge Weijiu, who were traveling in Europe at that time, liked to read people's faces and feng shui, and made many various predictions... People at that time didn't believe it very much, so they just regarded them as predictions. A joke.
But as time went by, most of the predictions made by Zhuge Weijiu and Zhuge Youde finally came true one by one!
And the remaining prophecies that have not been fulfilled are not inaccurate, but the time has not yet come.
For example, the prediction about the "growth" of the Berlin City Palace... Now that the City Palace is a royal palace, will it become a "royal palace" next?
Friedrich William III had been looking forward to this prophecy coming true!
However, for more than ten years after the fall of Emperor Napoleon, Frederick William III never saw the possibility of Prussia's further rise.
Although Prussia's industry has been growing at a high speed, it has already surpassed Austria and reached a level that can compete with France.
Moreover, Prussia's army construction has also made rapid progress under the promotion of Blücher and Clausewitz. It not only established the general staff system, but also improved the officer training and military mobilization system - this Prussian military mobilization system is not The "Strengthening" system alone is a mobilization system that can transform the entire national economy, industrial production, and social organizations from peace to wartime in a very short period of time.
In other words, although Prussia's war potential cannot be compared with France, Rakshasa, or even Austria. But she can turn this potential into combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time. This is all-around fast versus slow!
But although this military mobilization system looks awesome, it has no place... In the past ten years, the situation in Europe has been too stable, and it seems that it will never be disrupted.
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And with Prussia's national strength, no matter how hard it tried, it seemed impossible to break the balance of power in Europe - breaking the balance of power could not be achieved by bringing over Austria, which was strong on the outside and weak on the inside, and beat it up. Because the unification of Germany itself will seriously undermine the balance of power in Europe, powers outside Germany will definitely intervene jointly.
How could Prussia withstand the joint intervention of Britain, Rakshasa, and France?
Therefore, Prussia's efforts of more than ten years seemed to be in vain... It was not until the birth of the Second French Republic that Frederick William III saw a glimmer of hope.
The sudden London Revolution on March 17, 1833 and the ensuing British Civil War allowed Frederick William III and his confidants to see the dawn of German unification!
"Friedrich Wilhelm, Wilhelm Friedrich, Carl Philip, have you seen the dawn of German unification and rise?"
In an office in the City Palace where a pile of broken maps of the German Confederation hung, it was the elderly Friedrich who asked two burly men who looked very similar and an old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. William III, the current king of Prussia.
The two big, middle-aged men who looked somewhat similar were the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and the second son, Prince Wilhelm Friedrich.
The old man was General Clausewitz, the Chief of General Staff of the Prussian General Staff.
This Clausewitz did not reach this level in the original timeline. He didn't even live until 1833, when he contracted cholera while serving as a military commander in another field and died.
However, in this timeline, he was appreciated by the two "Zhuge" who were able to calculate and calculate, and escaped the fate of being captured by Napoleon's army. I also got more opportunities to practice and be promoted.
After the Napoleonic Wars, he was invited back to Ming Dynasty as a military expert and worked as a professor at the Army University for several years. After returning to the country, he was re-employed by the King of Prussia and was even entrusted with the important position of Chief of General Staff. Now it is natural to provide good advice to the Kingdom of Prussia.
"Your Majesty the King!" Clausewitz frowned and said thoughtfully, "Currently, the main attention of France and Rakshasa is focused on Britain... If a decisive battle between Prussia and Austria occurs within the German Confederation, they will definitely No time to care.
And we in Prussia can complete mobilization faster than Austria, and can also form more troops... Relying on the railways throughout the Kingdom of Prussia, our army will definitely be able to defeat Austria quickly!
But now the question is, do we want to annex Austria after defeating it? "
Friedrich Wilhelm III looks at his two sons.
“Father,” said Prince Wilhelm, “a unified Germany cannot exist without Austria!
Moreover, the UK will not be able to effectively interfere in matters on the European continent for a long time to come. And the Rakshasa's goal is definitely to capture the Balkans and Constantinople... If we can defeat and annex Austria, the Rakshasa will be able to move freely in the Balkans. So the Tsar will not object to our annexation of Austria! "
"William, there is France!" the Prussian crown prince reminded, "Napoleon II will definitely intervene... In the past few years, he has been waiting for the opportunity to prove that he is a real Napoleon."
"No, he is not! He is just a speculator." Prince William said in a firm tone: "If he dares to speculate in the German Civil War... then we will defeat him!
I believe our 1 million Prussian army can do this!
Father, Friedrich, this is a God-given opportunity for the German nation to unify... If we miss it, there will no longer be a unified and powerful German Empire in the future! "
What did Frederick William III suddenly think of when he heard his son say this? An old face finally showed a confident smile.
The King of Prussia said: "We will not miss the opportunity...because there will definitely be a powerful German Empire in the future. And this empire can only be built by us Prussians with iron and blood!"
And we will definitely succeed, and the Berlin City Palace will become the royal palace of the German Empire in the future!
So now...the General Staff is preparing a plan to defeat the Austrian Empire in one fell swoop! "
"Yes, Your Majesty the King!"
