18th century total war

Chapter 295 It was a sunny summer

The disagreement between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Spain caused the armistice agreement to be debated for several months. This time allowed the French Empire to complete the construction of the newly acquired land puppet local government. Before the armistice agreement was signed, all occupied Central European territories He Bangguo merged into the Rhineland League.

Moreover, those large and medium-sized states were forcibly split into city free states by the French Empire. In order to strengthen his control over the Rhine League, Livy has been restricting the emergence of large states in the Rhine League. The original sacred states were broken into pieces. The powerful Bavaria under the Roman Empire has long ceased to exist...

The split of the Rhineland League by the French Empire has always been adhering to the principle of one city, one state, but the main cities here are only large and medium-sized cities. After all, those small cities are not much better than wealthier towns. An autonomous state is really a waste of political resources.

You must know that the lords of every city-state of the Rhine Alliance need to accept Li Wei's administrative enlightenment.

If there are too many states to be split, even one administrative quota for each state will be a huge burden for Li Wei.

With the gradual expansion of the territory, Li Wei obviously felt that there was a shortage of administrative places, especially the expansion of the Central European territory, because these lands tended to be more autonomous, and their productivity was still at the upper-middle level in Europe, so Li Wei has been investing in A lot of administrative enlightenment places.

As for the Kingdom of Italy, it seems to be a unified country, but in fact, including the cabinet government and local military and political leaders, everything has been administratively enlightened.

The Li Wei government's infiltration of the vassal states has always continued, and today, those high-level vassal states' "training" in Paris has even become a must-have program.

This made these vassal states stand unswervingly on the side of the French Empire in the third anti-French war. They sold iron and steel to support the army and helped the French army maintain its retreat. They fought fiercely with the small groups of anti-French allied forces that came in, and suffered no losses at all. No lighter than the French army.

In fact, the vassal state has long been filled with grievances due to the loss of this war and the oppression of the French Empire. However, the central government and local leaders of the vassal state have been enlightened by Li Wei's administration, so they have not erupted. Large-scale civil unrest.

Today, Li Wei, who has annexed half of Central Europe, clearly feels that the number of places for administrative enlightenment has become insufficient, which is one of the reasons why Li Wei wants to cease the war.

Next, Li Wei hopes to obtain the city of Vienna through political means, because in the total war system, Vienna is also a designated capital. As long as the French Empire occupies and actually controls it, Li Wei can have a second Paris!

It's just that doing so will inevitably dissatisfy the entire Austrian Republic, and even with the cooperation of the top leader, Erin, it will be difficult to control it.

At the very least, once the French Empire puts forward territorial claims on Vienna and its surrounding areas, the Austrian Republic will no longer stand on the side of the French Empire. easy.

After all, there is still an anti-French alliance in front of us. The Austrian Republic will not be too afraid of the French Empire, and the French Empire will not be able to mobilize the main force to intimidate and lure the Austrian Republic.

The French Empire digested the fruits of victory within several months of negotiations, while the Austrian Republic's Alleyne government was consolidating its power. With the dawn of peace, Alleyne no longer needed to recruit all its forces for war.

After signing a peaceful and friendly armistice treaty with the Kingdom of Hungary, Allen plunged into gathering his own power.

Allen's goal is simple, to concentrate all the power of the Austrian Republic on the President.

Allen first used the majority support he temporarily obtained in the Republic Assembly to pass a number of bills that are conducive to the centralization of power by the president, whether it is peacetime or wartime!
Under Elaine's centralized reform, the Austrian Republic became less and less like the British regime that it originally wanted to emulate. Instead, it was gradually transitioning towards a centralized autocratic monarchy.

Fortunately, Austria is a conservative and traditional country. The grassroots people in Austria do not have a clear concept of whether to obey the individual or the country. Their thinking is still at the stage of the divine right of the king.

If the monarch is not favored by God, he will definitely be defeated by outsiders, such as Franz I, the first and last emperor of the Austrian Empire who has died of illness.

Today, Allen has won a huge victory, and the Austrians are not too clear about the difference between the president and the emperor. They only know that the president seems unable to pass on the position to his heirs. The monarch can inherit, and the president can only be elected...

As for the level of power between the president and the emperor, the Austrians really have no idea.

Alleyn took advantage of this misunderstanding of the Austrians and completely equated his presidential power with the power of the monarch. After the reform was completed, and before the Munich Armistice Conference ended, Alleyn changed his presidential power to President for life!

Only one step away from the emperor!
If Alleyn is ambitious enough, he will naturally continue to work towards ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor. However, all of this is done to cooperate with the object of his allegiance - His Majesty Levi.

There is not much difference between the power of the emperor and the life-long president of the current Austrian Republic, so Aileen naturally won't do anything unnecessary.

The most important thing is that once Alleyn ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, the revolutionaries in the Austrian Republic will be completely chilled. Isn't their pursuit of revolution just to overthrow the monarchy?
Allen stopped at the life-long president, and retained the power of the next president to be elected by the parliament, which can be regarded as a compromise with the revolutionary leaders in the parliament of the Austrian Republic.

Let the Austrian Republic avoid civil strife upon its birth.

With Alleyn concentrating power in the Republic of Austria, the Anti-French Alliance will naturally not be idle in the war of words over the past few months.

The Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire are still working hard to train recruits and transport them to the front line, preparing to withstand the next wave of French Empire's offensive when the armistice treaty is not established.

Yes, the current Anti-French Alliance no longer expects to counterattack. As long as they can maintain their local territory and curb the expansion of the French Empire, they will be very happy...

As for the British, they were extremely busy. Half of the fleet responsible for blocking the French colonies was deployed, and the local red shirts began to board the ships in batches and transport them to the Indian subcontinent.

Although the British Red Shirt Army has only tens of thousands of people, as long as half of these tens of thousands of people are transported to the Indian subcontinent, plus the army of the British Indian colonial government itself, it is enough to crush the Maratha alliance...

Today's Indian subcontinent does not have a unified country, except that the southern part of the Indian subcontinent was gradually annexed by European colonists, and later was swallowed up by the British. The feudal dynasties in the vast central India felt the crisis of extinction. In the early 18th century, a loose military alliance began to be formed, known as the Maratha League.

The establishment of the Maratha Alliance did not pose much threat to the European colonists (it was true that they could not defeat the European white men), but instead dealt a fatal blow to the decaying Mughal dynasty in the north. Made by the Tower Alliance.

It's just that when the Maratha Alliance was going north, it was beaten up by the Afghans, and its vitality was severely injured, and the alliance almost collapsed.

At this time, the European colonies in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent were taken over by the British government one by one. The original colonial method of the company system was taken over by the British government and directly under the command of the London government.

This has increased the combat effectiveness of the British Indian colonies a lot, and they can steadily receive reinforcements from the British mainland.

At this time, the main enemy Britain faced in the Indian subcontinent was the Maratha Alliance, but this alliance was about to collapse. The British used political and diplomatic methods to buy and divide the Indian feudal dynasty in the Maratha Alliance, while sending troops to attack neighboring Indian states.

Using the method of long distance and close attack, it continues to devour the land of the Indian subcontinent.

Now with the addition of tens of thousands of elite red shirts from the British mainland, the British unification of the Indian subcontinent has become a certainty.

It is nothing more than how long it will take after the British occupy the Indian subcontinent to complete the resource integration of the colonial government and the large-scale training of the cannon fodder servants.

The delay of the Munich peace conference has gradually become a heavy military burden for the anti-French alliance countries on the European continent.

Without peace talks for one day, the anti-French allies such as the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire had to spend huge amounts of money on military training and expansion to prepare for war.

Gradually, the anti-French alliance headed by the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire gradually became impatient with the wrangling of the Kingdom of Spain government and no longer supported the Madrid government.

Without the support of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, the London government saw that the situation could not be done, and no longer participated in it. European peace is also good for the London government that is now fully invading the Indian subcontinent. At least there is no need to continue blood transfusion for the Russian Empire up!
And as the amount of international loans grew, the London government could not help but wonder whether St. Petersburg could afford the war loan.

After all, the credibility of the St. Petersburg government ranks low on the European continent.

The Kingdom of Spain soon discovered that even the Kingdom of Portugal no longer supported their proposal to retain the current government, and the Kingdom of Spain soon became unable to withstand the threat of the French Empire alone.

However, the Madrid government that came to power through a coup was not a soft persimmon. They only agreed to the restoration of Carlos IV, and did not return all the power of the country to Carlos IV, and established the Spanish Noble Council outside the Madrid cabinet government. checks and balances the king's power.

Before that, the Kingdom of Spain was an absolute monarchy!

Regarding the proposal of the Madrid cabinet government, the Li Wei government agreed after a brief thought.

This kind of compromise will actually deepen Carlos IV's dissatisfaction. In the near future, there will inevitably be a political struggle between the king and the noble council in Madrid. It would be great if it could consume some of Spain's national strength.

The French Empire insisted on restoring Carlos IV to power. On the one hand, it demonstrated Livy's attitude towards his allies.

No matter what Carlos IV did, he stood unswervingly on the side of the French Empire before he stepped down in the Madrid coup. Based on this alone, as long as Carlos IV did not go to the guillotine, the Li Wei government had to support Carlos IV. World.

On the other hand, because the current Madrid government is very hostile to the French Empire, the Livy government is worried about allowing such a hostile government to control the Kingdom of Spain for a long time, so it is natural to put Carlos IV back on the throne.

After the issue of the Kingdom of Spain was resolved, the Munich Peace Conference quickly reached a series of armistice terms.

In a sunny summer in 1800, with the successful conclusion of the Munich peace negotiations, the third anti-French war was completely ended, and the third anti-French alliance naturally ceased to exist.

The effect of this armistice is far greater than the previous two anti-French wars, because even the British have lifted the state of war with the French Empire!
The media of various countries even boasted about the arrival of the dawn of peace in Europe!

Even the French Empire was no exception.

There is no way, not only in the anti-French allies due to the huge casualties of the war, there is a large area of ​​war-weary and anti-war sentiment, but the French Empire is also full of disgust for war.

Especially in the vassal states of the French Empire, Manid, the director of the General Directorate of Military Intelligence, told Livy more than once to beware of the revolutionary party organizations in the vassal states of the Netherlands and Belgium. In the recent period, due to the disgust of the civilians against war, the revolutionary organizations of these two countries have Time develops very rapidly.

After all, the local governance of the vassal state is not like that of the French Empire. The leaders of important departments in each city are bureaucrats inspired by Livy's administration, and it is difficult to cause chaos if public dissatisfaction boils.

The promotion of peace by various countries is actually a kind of appeasement to the people's emotions.

After all, the example of the revolution that broke out in the Austrian Empire and indirectly led to its collapse is too sensational. Not to mention the Kingdom of Prussia, even the top leaders of the Russian Empire have become vigilant against the revolution.

This has caused the activities of the Davari Mutual Aid Association in the Russian Empire to become low-key in recent times.

Unlike Central Europe, the serf system in the Russian Empire was too deep-rooted, and the chances of launching a revolutionary uprising were too low. Even if the cities were controlled, the vast villages and towns were firmly controlled by traditional aristocratic forces.

At that time, the revolutionary army will have an isolated city in the sky, how can it fight against the Russian imperial government forces that control the army and villages and towns?
What's more, even mastering the uprising in the city is not so easy.

On the other hand, for the powerful countries in Central Europe, basically as long as they control the cities, the villages and towns will obey, because the power of the nobles in the Central European countries in the countryside is far less than that of the Russian Empire.

To put it bluntly, Central European countries have gradually broken away from their original feudal systems.

After the Munich Peace Conference, Levi, who was far away in Paris, finally got the long-lost total war system reward notification sound.

(End of this chapter)