Eastern Europe is the thing about Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe is the wonderful thing about Eastern Europe.
Britain and France are somewhat beyond our reach.
Liu Zheng continued to laugh and said: "Furthermore, colleagues, what Long Yan wants this time is not an equally matched partner!"
"But a master who likes to cause trouble!"
"This person must be Frederick II!"
These words were so decisive that everyone's eyes lit up, and they began to look at each other and talk among themselves.
Yes.
If they cooperate with Britain or France, the process may go smoothly. However, this will not achieve their strategic purpose. What they want is a puppet, an existence that can be abandoned at any time after they succeed.
Prussia has such characteristics.
Because Prussia's territory is all plains and lacks strategic depth. The surrounding powers have been eyeing it, which increased the need for Prussia to establish a standing army. Taking the Thirty Years' War as an example, Prussia's Berlin population increased from 10,000 to 10,000.
Four, the number dropped sharply to about 6,000. Hundreds of villages were razed to the ground, and wolves roamed everywhere.
Prussia often became a battlefield for major powers to compete for hegemony. Therefore, the harsh geopolitical environment forced Prussia to establish a strong standing army.
Therefore, during the Prussian election, Frederick I built an army loyal to him and defeated Sweden, the European hegemon at the time. As a result, Prussia became famous and the whole of Europe was shocked.
From then on, Prussia proved their existence with one war after another.
He has also been preventing others from eroding this country.
so.
In the eyes of others, Frederick was a mad dog.
But in Liu Zheng's opinion, he is a wise king.
He prevented his own country from being cannibalized and was just biting others like crazy.
At that time, the density of soldiers in Prussia was very high. There was one soldier for every 32 people. It can be said that all the people were soldiers. In the words of a European politician, "Other Western countries have an army, but the Prussian army
But there is a country.”
People who don't do it for themselves will be punished by heaven and earth.
What he did was absolutely right.
He likes people with this kind of personality.
Therefore, under his suggestion, Long Yan's parliament approved the first alliance with Prussia.
But Liu Zheng never expected it.
The extent of Frederick's madness completely exceeded his imagination.
Liu Zheng plans to take this matter step by step.
Because he wants the feudal kings of Longyan to send troops, he believes that as long as he agrees with them about dividing the cake, they will not refuse. No one will refuse to encroach on a place like Europe.
but.
Liu Zheng has not yet started his actions.
After Frederick II received Liu Zheng's letter agreeing to the alliance, he couldn't help it anymore.
then.
The Seven Years' War broke out like this.
When Liu Zheng got the news, his whole body went numb.