Daming 1805

After Goethe finished speaking, the scholars at the scene all looked at William III.

German scholars expect His Majesty the King to give an impactful answer.

Some people expect William III to make a public statement, saying that he will rebuild the new Roman Empire with Prussia or Germany as the center and starting point.

Establish a new Roman Empire dominated by Germans, just like the Qin State in the history of China.

Schopenhauer's initial questioning and Goethe's comparison of Ming and China actually steered the topic of the scene to this side.

As for the short-lived Qin State, the scholars at the scene believed that they should be able to avoid the past because they had learned from the past.

Even, in the opinion of many scholars, the Qin Dynasty was gone, and the Han Dynasty was immediately connected.

Even if Prussia is gone and Hohenzollern is gone, there can be other states and other royal families to inherit the unified Germany.

Of course, such thoughts cannot be expressed, especially not in front of the King of Hohenzollern.

In fact, the current domestic situation in Prussia is not good.

After the end of the World War, Prussia got Zhu Jingyuan and assigned Nigeria, and entered a stage of rapid development that lasted for ten years.

This decade is known as the golden decade.

Because it only lasted ten years.

In the past two or three years, Prussia's domestic market has also fallen into a continuous downturn due to similar reasons to Lucia, England and other countries.

The internal situation in Prussia gradually became tense, and the contradictions between various classes began to become sharper.

Of course, Prussia is much better now than the historical Weimar Germany before World War II.

Today's Prussia has a completely unified central court, without huge foreign debts and indemnities, and has also developed oil fields and iron mines in Mexico.

It has its own basically complete industrial system.

Moreover, due to its geographical location, Prussia has a relatively strong sense of crisis, and most of them are not as volatile as the British.

Most Prussians today can hold on.

But we must also find a way to get rid of this situation, otherwise the development of Prussia will come to a standstill.

Prussian or German scholars are worried about this problem.

William III had a fairly clear understanding of all this.

In William III's view, Goethe's answer was to throw back the cauldron of "Germany's future".

This is indeed something you should consider.

What's more, William III actually had an answer in his heart, at least a more reliable and feasible answer.

But because it is feasible, it cannot be said publicly now.

Although most of the people on my ship are Germans, they are even basically people from the "Kingdom of Prussia".

But they may not all really support their "Kingdom of Prussia".

Some people just think that the Austrian royal family is the orthodox German. After all, the other party has occupied the position of the Holy Roman Emperor for a long time.

The orthodox "King of Germany" is elected by the electors, and is the emperor of Shenluo.

The Prussian kingdom of the Hohenzollern royal family belonged to outsiders.

Some extreme German scholars and nationalists are very concerned about the name and origin of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In their view, the Hohenzollern royal family of Prussia unified Germany, and the final name of the country is likely to continue to be called the Kingdom of Prussia.

This is equivalent to the British royal family of Hanover unifying Germany, but the final country name is England!

A further exaggerated metaphor is that the Hanoverian was crowned as the emperor of Tianzhu, and then called Britain the Tianzhu Empire, not the British Empire.

Hohenzollern has two identities, the Elector of Brandenburg within the Holy Roman Empire, and the "King of Prussia" outside the HRE.

Brandenburg is equivalent to Hanover and is the elector of Shinra.

The King of Prussia and the King of England are both kings outside the Shenluo and German systems, and neither are kings within the German system.

Even Hanover's title of King of England is more "normal" than that of Prussia.

The King of Prussia is rather strange, it is a king limited to Prussia.

The official title of the general Western king is "the king from a certain place", and the Prussian king is "the king located in Prussia".

In German, in is used, not the common von (Fon), which is the difference between in and of in English.

The German nobles are all "surnamed Feng", but the king is not "surnamed Feng"!
How can this work!
In the Middle Ages, the general Taixi king would be called His Majesty the King everywhere.

When the French king arrives in the UK, he will also be respected at the king level, at least the etiquette level will not be blatantly lowered.

Like the king of England, the chairs must have armrests.

But the king of Prussia, strictly speaking, must be in Prussia to receive the courtesy of the king.

When within the range of Shinra, only the title of the Elector of Brandenburg can be used, and other Shinra monarchs can also call him His Excellency the Marquis, not His Majesty the King.

If it is really strict and true, when he meets the King of England, the British can only give him the courtesy of a marquis, and the chair he sits in is lower than that of the king.

Hannover in England happened to have a grudge against Hohenzollern, and George IV might really be able to make such an arrangement.

Because according to the tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, there can only be one Bohemian king in the territory of Shenluo.

The Hohenzollern family is the elector, and if they want to use the title of king to improve their status, they can only go outside Shinra to find it.

The territory of the Hohenzollern family outside of Shinra is Prussia.

If Prussia was originally a kingdom, just use "the king from Prussia" directly.

The point is that the "Principality of Prussia" was still a vassal of the King of Poland at that time, and the King of Poland was the Elector of Saxony of Shinra.

The king of Poland in Saxony, the king of England and Scotland in Hanover, these two guys who are both electors, actually have the title of king.

It should also be an important reason why Hohenzollern wanted the entire title of king.

In this messy network of relationships, Hohenzollern discussed with Emperor Shenluo and came up with the title of "King of Prussia".

To be king behind closed doors, not to clash with the king of Poland, nor with the king of Germany.

Although the King of Poland is gone now, the Elector of Saxony is gone, and the German territory of Hanover has also been destroyed by Prussia.

But according to the statement from Shenzhou, the Kingdom of Prussia has a bad name and bad words.

Even the Kingdom of Brandenburg sounds better than the Kingdom of Prussia.

As for the Kingdom of Germany, it is still unavailable for the time being.

Prussia has not yet unified all of Germany, the key is that Austria has not been eliminated.

The Habsburg family, which has occupied the titles of King of Germany and Emperor Shenra for a long time, is still actually ruling part of the land and people of Germany.

In fact, Zhu Jingyuan didn't know these messy relationships at all, so he thought that it would be normal for Prussia to unify Germany and continue to be called the Kingdom of Prussia.

In fact, in the actual reality of the moment, it is indeed normal.

William III himself knew very well that as long as Prussia unified Germany by force, no one would be able to question Prussia's national title.

This is the experience from China.

Even now, in terms of actual international diplomacy, the king of Prussia himself is a normal king.

Because Daming recognized it.

The current world rules were formulated by Daming.

According to the tradition in the history of China, when the king of Han became emperor, the country was called Han, and when Duke Tang became emperor, the country was called Tang.

The European medieval set has long been meaningless.

But there are some old pedants and extremists who just think that the King of Prussia is not good, and they should be replaced by the King of Germany.

However, before actually defeating Austria and annexing Austria's German region, it was even more improper and unsound to directly change its name to the King of Germany.

So the actual purpose of these people is to go to Austria as soon as possible.

Even if it is to give a specific time!
Of course William III wanted to attack Austria, and he had even formulated a large number of very detailed combat plans.

Some of them even have high feasibility.

But it is precisely because we are indeed prepared that we cannot speak publicly to this group of scholars now, and we cannot publicly disclose the actual planning details.

Otherwise, if the enemy is prepared, all previous efforts may be wasted.

William III hesitated for a while, and then gave a very vague but equally correct answer:
"The aim of Prussia has always been the unification of the whole of Germany.

"After that, we can consider how to restore the glory of the Holy Roman Empire, and even rebuild Rome.

“It is not practical to discuss the definition of a future that is too far in the future at this stage.”

Prussia did not worry about empty hostilities with Austria, nor did it worry that Austria would be angry because of its own speech.

If we say that in the era of traditional dynasties, there is still the possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.

But in today's era, the relationship between the two parties is already close to that of old enemies.

So William III can openly say that he wants to destroy Austria.

This is a well-known thing.

Even, William III often talked about this on purpose, but he just didn't give any specific plans or take actual actions.

Over time, it was as if nothing had been said.

It can even reduce Austria's vigilance and treat William III's remarks as pure mouthpieces.

But at the same time, the nationalists in Prussia felt the same way.

Especially young people who are somewhat angry.

Now that they heard William III's words, they felt that the king was blowing his mind again.

Immediately, many people wanted to ask back questions, questioned, and asked the king to give the preparation time and when to start going to Austria.

But William III obviously did not intend to dwell on this issue.

After finishing that passage, the scholars who looked at some excited tendencies directly took the initiative to repeat it loudly:
"The goal of Prussia at this stage is to unify Germany, and there is no point in discussing other issues now!"

This sentence gives people the feeling that the focus is on things after the unification of Germany, on the issue of the Holy Roman Empire and even Rome.

Then there was a feeling of looking around and talking about him.

Then William III turned around and left the scene regardless of how the people at the scene felt.

Then there was chaos again.

Some people are more tactful and restrained, complaining to people they know well that the king's attitude is not tough enough.

But there are also some people who are more impulsive and direct, shouting directly in the crowd:

"Hohenzollern is dodging questions!"

"We have talked about the unification of Germany for so many years, but the royal family and the court have never taken any practical actions!"

"War integration is the only thing Prussia can do. If Austria cannot be defeated on the battlefield, what qualifications does Prussia have to lead Germany?"

"Prussia was never a German country!"

Then these yelling people were recorded by the special guards left by William III.

William III did not want to directly deal with these people, but to record these situations as elements of political review of these people.

Continue to observe whether these people who want to be opinion leaders are really on the side of Prussia.

If the other party really has a big opinion on Prussia and Hohenzollern, then they will not want to gain any status in Prussia in the future.

Compared with the radical King of Prussia, the situation on the side of Prussia's old rival Austria is more complicated.

Austria itself is a suture monster. It is a collection of lands once ruled by the Habsburg family, and the relationship between the ethnic groups in the territory is intricate.

The people on board now also come from the whole of Austria, and they take care of people of all ethnic groups.

The emperor of Austria tried to "keep a bowl of water level".

But other ethnic groups and elites in Austria don't seem to appreciate it very much.

It seems that the more the Emperor of Austria took care of the other groups, the more quarrelsome the people of these groups became.

However, in fact, the root cause of the Austrian emperor's attempt to achieve equality is obviously that it is difficult for him to truly control the situation in Austria as a whole.

The fact that the Stitch Monster itself has a lot of problems is the reason, and the result is that the Emperor of Austria did not get a response even though he tried hard to balance the various races.

The Austrian emperor didn't really want to treat all ethnic groups equally.

For reasons similar to those of other countries, after more than ten years of rapid development, Austria quickly fell into a state of stagnation and decline.

The inherent contradictions of the Stitched Monster Empire quickly became acute.

Each ethnic group believes that it is the cause of other ethnic groups that makes the situation in the empire difficult and their own lives difficult.

Then there were all kinds of conflicts and disputes.

In this case, in order to maintain the existence of the empire, the Austrian emperor played the banner of equality of all ethnic groups and states.

If possible, the Austrian emperor certainly hopes to be the supreme monarch, rather than put down his posture to appease the nationalists of various ethnic groups.

On this trip to Ming Dynasty, the Austrian emperor gathered the opinion leaders of various ethnic groups together and directly gave these people a platform for direct debate.

Therefore, there are people accusing each other everywhere on the ship every day. If they were not worried about their identities, if it were not for the emperor's guards to maintain order, many battles among scholars might have broken out.

After the Austrian emperor realized this, he simply stopped dealing with the new generation of scholars.

He spent most of his time in his cabin, with the nobles and bureaucrats of the empire, considering and discussing the future of Austria.

The main focus of the Austrian emperor was on the Prussians and Lucians on the opposite side.

The situation in all countries in Thailand and the West is not good now, and war is an effective way to divert domestic troubles and problems.

Relatively speaking, Austria, which has the most complicated internal situation, and the Austrian emperor who is struggling to maintain the existing rule, of course also wants to launch a foreign war.

But after discussing and analyzing, they found that no matter which country Austria targeted, there was a feeling of powerlessness.

What's more, the countries around Austria are not obviously weak.

Needless to say, Prussia and Lucia, even Ottomans and Sardinia, are objects that Austria cannot defeat.

Because the various ethnic groups in Austria were severely divided, the size of the people that the emperor could directly mobilize was too small.

Even if soldiers are recruited by force, it is difficult to guarantee the loyalty of young soldiers with nationalist tendencies.

Even the loyalty of the Germans in Austria is very problematic, because many of them have a heart for Prussia.

Because they feel that Prussia is a country dominated by Germans, not a suture monster like Austria.

My own life has become difficult, it must be dragged down by the garbage of other ethnic groups.

As long as it can be incorporated into Prussia, everything will be fine.

At that time, a completely unified Germany will definitely be able to explode with great strength.

At that time, in turn conquer other ethnic countries in Austria and turn those places into German colonies.

Therefore, although the Austrian emperor wanted war, he could only try to protect himself now.

Pay close attention to the movements of Prussia and Lucia, for fear that Prussia and Lucia will suddenly jointly attack Austria.

Going to Daming personally this time, I also have the idea of ​​wanting to get protection and promise from Daming.

After all, Ming is the leader of the League of Nations.