18th century total war

Chapter 203 Britain's Ambition
In early 1795, the London government.

Prime Minister Peter of the United Kingdom smiled and handed the document he had just obtained to his foreign minister.

"Everything is moving in favor of Great Britain in France.

The civil war in France intensified. Li Wei, a rural nobleman, was not encircled and wiped out in Toulouse by Robespierre's National Salvation Revolutionary Army as we expected. The fighting power displayed by the Black Dragon Corps once again shocked the whole of France.

Before and after this civil war, millions of French boys put down their hoes and took up their muskets and set foot on the battlefield, and this number is still rising.

According to such a strategy, within a few years, France will not have many young men who will cultivate the land, produce in factories, and join the army to defend the French mainland.

At that time, we can completely dismember this Western European power that swelled up in the Louis XIV era!
The Bretons, who have been oppressed by the French for tens of hundreds of years, can independently restore their principality, and southeastern France can also cede several provinces to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Several provinces in the east of France, I believe Prussia and other powerful states of the Holy Roman Empire are very interested, even if it is an enclave for them.

Belgium can also achieve independence in the true sense, and we, Great Britain, will be the closest ally of the new Belgium!
Spain……

Well, the Kingdom of Spain is indeed a little weaker. I never thought that the Kingdom of Spain, which was invincible in the Age of Discovery, would be so vulnerable in front of Li Wei's Black Dragon Army.

If the military observers from the army hadn't given me the exact information, I would have thought that Carlos IV had transferred his colonial troops in the American continent back to the mainland to fight against Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion.

Those earth-shattering failures were enough to become the laughing stock of the whole of Europe.

However, Spain's geopolitics dictate that the Kingdom of Spain is a very important ally until we completely dismember France.

Perhaps, after France falls, Spain can be our next target.

Presumably, the Kingdom of Portugal must be full of covetousness for the land of its neighbors.

If Aragon of the Kingdom of Catalonia were not determined to follow Li Wei to the end, supporting the independence of the Kingdom of Catalonia would actually be a good strategic plan.

By the way, how is the civil war in the Kingdom of Spain going now? "

"My lord, the army of the Kingdom of Spain has an absolute advantage strategically, and has now completely recovered the entire province of Madrid.

However, there was no large-scale battle between the Spanish army and the Catalan army. King Aragon of the Kingdom of Catalonia unswervingly implemented the scorched earth strategy and gave the Spaniards a piece of land without many young men. A group of hungry old and weak women and children were left behind.

Now Carlos IV is having a headache about how to feed so many people.

This also greatly delayed the Spanish Army's offensive. Carlos IV and the powerful nobles in Spain are trying to find ways to mobilize food to restore the vitality of the Madrid area.

Aragon's move was really ruthless. Now the whole of Spain, except the Catalans, call Aragon a 'man-eating devil', and his reputation is close to that of Aragon's master, Levi. "

"My foreign minister, haven't you made any progress in persuading Aragorn?
It is impossible for Li Wei to provide any support to the Kingdom of Catalonia now, whether it is manpower or material resources.

Aragon, a king of commoner origin, is not willing to become an ally of Great Britain?

What Levi can give him, we in Great Britain will only give more! "

"I'm very sorry, Prime Minister.

Not only Aragon, but even the powerful cabinet of the Kingdom of Catalonia is unwavering in following Li Wei's policy.

I suspect that they were probably 'cursed' by Levi. "

"Bullshit spells!
Do you believe what those priests say?

If Li Weizhen has such a powerful spell, why doesn't he just become a god?
I prefer to believe the explanations of those psychology professors in the Academy of Sciences.

Li Wei is probably a master of hypnotism. Through hypnosis, he planted psychological hints on those who had come into contact with him, so that these people would have an instinctive sense of obedience to his words.

However, psychological hints should not be permanent. No matter how powerful the hypnosis is, there must be a flaw. It's a pity that we haven't found Li Wei's hypnosis flaw.

Forget it, the Kingdom of Catalonia is unwilling to join the Anti-French Alliance, so let them be suppressed by the Kingdom of Spain. In this way, we can also make Carlos IV more dependent on the Anti-French Alliance. "

"Master Prime Minister, Carlos IV's military assistance to us..."

"Carlos IV fought the civil war against the rebellion, why should we ask Great Britain to pay for it?

Carlos IV rejected the treaty we proposed, and wanted to ask for money from us with the support of the anti-French alliance, only a fool would agree! "

"My lord, if Carlos IV is defeated by the Kingdom of Catalonia, or the civil war continues to drag on, after the end of the French Civil War, I am afraid that the Kingdom of Spain will not be able to resist the restored unified France... …”

"This is not a big problem. Whether the French revolutionary government or Li Wei wins, if they really invade Spain, they will face fierce resistance from the Spanish people.

At that time, we can pay a small price, drag the main force of France to Spain, and then cooperate with the main force of the anti-French alliance to attack France, take Paris, and put the king of the Bourbon family back on the throne!
Even if the Kingdom of Catalonia has not joined the anti-French alliance, it is impossible to completely throw itself into the embrace of France.

Even if the King of Aragon and his cabinet were hypnotized by Livi, the Catalan people would not agree to be annexed by France.

Letting the Kingdom of Catalonia continue to be independent will do more good than harm to Great Britain.

The more divided the continental continental powers are, the weaker and fewer the colonial enemies our Great Britain will face!

After the fall of France, Spain fell into division again, Austria of the Holy Roman Empire had to face the challenge of Prussia, and there was only one Eastern European barbarian Tsarist Russia left in the entire European continent.

With Tsarist Russia's backwardness, it is impossible to enter Central Europe. Driven by the power of the industrial revolution, the gap between us and the Tsarist Russian Empire will only become wider and wider.

Sooner or later, the currency of our Great Britain will become the real world currency, and Europe is the center of the world. If we become the hegemon of Europe, we will be the hegemon of the world! "

(End of this chapter)