18th century total war

Chapter 366 Li Wei's Mental Illness

"What progress has been made in the diplomatic work of the Far Eastern Empire?"

Li Wei, who sat high on the pure gold throne, asked lazily.

It's not that Li Wei is indifferent to his work as an emperor, but that he has just struggled out of the powder pile of ten beautiful Slavic virgins, so naturally he can't have too much energy...

If it weren't for the fact that the layout of the Far East played a significant role in the next strategy, Li Wei would not have come to this cabinet meeting at all!
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the court of the Far Eastern Empire is even more stupid than we imagined, they don't even know the difference between the Europa Federation Empire and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.

And also treat us as invaders like the Britons, trying to force them to sign more unequal treaties..."

Levi yawned and replied listlessly: "Well, that treaty is indeed not equal."

Li Wei's truth made the cabinet ministers speechless in an instant, and such words would be said casually by the tyrant Li Wei...

After all, the Europa Federation Empire has always been a righteous and liberator in world affairs.

The terms they brought to the Far East Empire were to free the Far East Empire from the shackles of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, not for the international interests of the treaty...

Perhaps feeling the awkward atmosphere in the hall, Li Wei glanced at the foreign minister standing there who didn't know how to answer, waved his hand and said, "If the Far Eastern Empire disagrees, then don't agree.

It is too far away from us, and we don't have the time and energy to deploy military power to the Far East before we solve the Britons.

For the Manchu court of the Far Eastern Empire, they would not look at us seriously unless we put bayonets on their necks.

I want to know now, where is the plan to advance the euro as a world currency? "

In the more than two years since the establishment of the Europa Federation Empire, the Li Wei government has not only completed political and military reforms, but also crucial economic reforms, the most dazzling of which is naturally the emergence of the Euro system!
The euro has now become the only legal currency of the Europa Federation Empire, and metal currency is no longer minted, and all cheap paper currency is used, guaranteed by the gold standard and national reputation.

Originally, Levi wanted to directly imitate the shameless governments of the 21st century and use national reputation as a guarantee for currency issuance. In this way, he could use the currency leverage to easily plunder the people's wealth...

Um, of course it cannot be called plundering on the official level, it is legal!
However, Livy's professional cabinet promptly stopped Livy's whims.

In other words, a good economic policy in the 21st century would undoubtedly be a disaster in the early 19th century.

Fortunately, although Li Wei's cultural level is relatively low, at least he can listen to his advice and has not completely abandoned the gold standard system that is popular in this era.

The euro's confidence in relying on the gold standard system naturally comes from the colonial gold mines in South America.

Although the Spanish state and the Portuguese state on the Iberian Peninsula were turned into ruins in the fifth anti-French war, the destruction of these two countries brought unimaginable consequences to Levi's European Federation Empire after the war. Benefits - the vast colonies of South America!

In the Fifth Anti-French War, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland was obviously the defeated party, but it did not pay much substantial price, neither cede land nor pay compensation, because both sides made a step forward.

The United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland no longer maintains a maritime blockade and recognizes the legitimate colonial rights of the states under the control of the Europa Commonwealth Empire.

The European Union Empire no longer imposes a trade blockade policy on the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland on the mainland.

Both sides can be regarded as what they need.

The London government can continue to trade normally on the European continent, while the Levy government can easily acquire the overseas colonies of European countries.

As for the national independence uprising that had just emerged in the South American colonies during the Fifth Anti-French War, it was easily crushed after a division of the Imperial Guards landed, and the casualties of the Imperial Guards were only in double digits. That's all.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the nationalist ideology in the South American colonies has just germinated, and the number of national independence troops is too small.

Not long after the fifth anti-French war had just ended, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, which had suffered a financial deficit due to a large amount of war bonds turned into waste paper due to the defeat, naturally had no ability to intervene in the counter-insurgency war in South America.

The Europa Federation Empire has completely inherited the original European colonial rule, and the political status of those colonies is even lower than that of a vassal state like the Kingdom of Russia, and they are places of raw resource supply.

It is also the inheritance of the large gold mines in South America from Spain and Portugal that gave the Europa Federation the confidence to establish a unified gold standard monetary policy.

After unifying the currency of the Europa continent, Li Wei's eyes naturally aimed at the hegemony of the world currency.

In the two years after the war, although there was no hot war between the two sides of the European continent, the economic and monetary war has never stopped.

Facts have proved that it is very difficult to snatch the hegemony of the world currency from the old world empire...

Even countries like the United States prefer to recognize the pound rather than the euro.

Levi has an extraordinary obsession with distributing euros with his own bust printed on them to every corner of the world. Even the cabinet ministers have repeatedly proposed that currency wars are unnecessary, as long as the euros are distributed in continental Europe, West Asia, and Central Asia. It is enough for the Europa Federation Empire to complete the self-sufficient international supply model by crowding out the British pound in North Africa, South America and other places.

However, for Levi, the euro cannot dominate the world, giving him one more reason to occupy the British Isles...

Now, except for the ignorant Far East, almost all countries in the world know that world hegemony has entered a bipolar mode.

Although in Europe, the Europa Federation Empire has an incomparable advantage, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland has never considered the possibility of a landing war from the beginning to the end, and has been strengthening its defenses.

But in the eyes of countries in other corners of the world, the deterrent power of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland is much higher than that of the Europa Federation Empire, which does not have many sailing battleships.

Even the court of the Far Eastern Empire scoffed at the fact that the Europa Federation Empire could defeat the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, thinking that it was just a bragging rhetoric of the Europa Federation Empire.

After all, the fighting power of the British Army was experienced by the Manchu and Qing courts of the Far Eastern Empire. It was really a one-to-ten record!

Although there is a generational difference in weapons and equipment, there is also an insurmountable gap in the morale of the two sides.

In fact, most of the Qing army's defeats in battles against the British army were caused by the British bayonet charge, rather than musket volleys and artillery bombardments...

It can only be said that the army under the feudal system has natural shortcomings in the face of the modern military system.

Even if only the second-rate or even third-rate troops of Britain were sent to the Far East, they could often suffer nearly [-]% of the casualties in the battle against the Qing army.

On the other hand, the Qing army, even the most capable troops in the green battalion, generally fell apart after suffering [-] to [-]% casualties.

As for the soldiers of the Eight Banners, the Manchu Qing court did not dare to send them to the front line, for fear that the cover of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners would be exposed by the British army!
Before, the Manchu and Qing courts tentatively transferred the most capable Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry in the Mongolian region to the front line, and then found that even these Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, which had already crushed the Eight Banners in fact, were also defeated by the British army. After being hanged and beaten, I completely confessed...

The Mongolian Eight Banners can maintain their combat effectiveness because they live on the poor Mongolian prairie.

Relatively speaking, the decline in combat effectiveness of the Mengba Banner is relatively small.

Even so, the fighting power of the Mongolian Eight Banners is far inferior to that of Genghis Khan. This is not a human problem, but a system problem.

The strongest thing about the Mongols in the Genghis Khan era was not their weapons and tactics, but their fighting spirit that they actively learned!
Looking at the Mongols' ability to conquer the world, apart from riding and shooting, which one didn't they learn from their opponents?

In the battle of the Mongols, cavalry and archery have never been the way to determine the outcome. On the contrary, the heavy cavalry charge learned in East Asia has become the backbone of the Mongolian cavalry decisive battle.

However, the Mongolian Eight Banners of the Far Eastern Empire are nothing but Mongolian cavalry who are eating their own money. Their combat effectiveness is no different from those of the nomads in Central Asia who were beaten by the Russians. Naturally, they cannot resist the attack of the British army.

If you can't beat it, you will seek military reform. This is the current Far Eastern Empire. The voice of the Westernization Movement has appeared in the imperial court, and the arms trade with the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland has become stronger and stronger.

Even the business was managed by the Europa Federation Empire, and the envoys of the Europa Federation Empire entered the court of the Manchu Qing Empire through the introduction of businessmen.

Of course, the envoys of the Europa Federation were able to enter because the senior officials of the Manchu Qing Empire failed to distinguish the difference between the envoys of the Europa Federation and the British envoys. After learning that the Europa Federation was hostile to the United Kingdom , the envoy of the Europa Federation Empire was immediately thrown into limbo by the Manchu Qing Empire.

The Manchu Empire, already feared by the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, did not want to get into trouble.

At least in their eyes, colluding with the enemies of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland is a big trouble.

The imperial court of the Manchu Qing Empire was not a fool either. Enemies separated by thousands of miles could not be effectively united. The so-called law that the enemy’s enemy is an ally does not apply here.

Because the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Empire knew very well that once they formed an alliance with the Europa Federation Empire and a war broke out with the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, the "friendly troops" of the Europa Federation Empire would not be able to break through thousands of miles to come to help, and the Manchu Qing Empire would inevitably Unilaterally 'beaten' by the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.

This is the root cause of the Manchu Empire's reluctance to participate in 'European affairs'.

After the lazy Livy ended the cabinet meeting, the Vienna government, as the central capital, began to convey war preparations layer by layer.

The Europa Federation Empire, which has been at peace for two years, has once again entered a state of war readiness!
The time span of economic warfare is too long, Li Wei is unwilling to wait, and the most effective way to become the world's hegemon is naturally through war.

Anyway, this is not the era of nuclear deterrence. No matter how brutal the war is, the two warring parties cannot return to the Stone Age with one move.

Economic warfare and political warfare in the 21st century are, to put it bluntly, the result of nuclear deterrence. No one in the nuclear powers wants to fight a war that ends in mutual destruction, so they can only limit the development and rise of their opponents through other relatively inefficient methods.

But in the 19th century when Li Wei lived, war was the most efficient means of destroying the enemy, not one of them!

Today's Europa Federal Empire has four capitals.

The western capital is Paris, the central capital is Vienna, and the eastern capital is Moscow and North Dublin.

All are capital cities designated by the Total War system.

This naming method is naturally Li Wei's constant reminder to himself that there is only one London away from escalating to an all-out war!

The goal of the Europa Federation Empire is actually Li Wei's ambition.

Because the technology and strength of the Europa Federation Empire lies here, if it develops peacefully, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, which has been in the same place for decades, will inevitably be left behind by the Europa Federation Empire.

Taking the speed of the iron-clad ships launching into the sea, it only takes more than ten years for the Europa Federation Empire to fully surpass the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland in its only naval weakness by virtue of its national strength and population advantages!

It's a pity that Li Wei didn't want to wait any longer. Although excessive indulgence made Li Wei live a fairy-like life every day, it also caused great harm to his body.

Even Li Wei developed a psychological "sex addiction" due to the long-term abuse of young girls.

Of course, the psychiatrist who diagnosed Li Wei with this disease, the whole family evaporated out of thin air...

How could His Majesty, the sacred and noble Emperor of the European Federation Empire, have such a shameful mental illness!

It's impossible!

However, Li Wei himself understands why he is so obsessed with beauty...

This kind of mental illness is like a drug. Combined with Li Wei's strong male hormones, Li Wei can't stop, and he can't quit at all, just like taking drugs.

Trying fresh and different beautiful ketone bodies every day has become Levi's most important entertainment item.

Therefore, Li Wei knew that he must not wait for more than ten years until the strength of the Europa Federation Empire can crush the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, because at that time, he may only be able to lie in bed and give orders...

With the medical level of this era, Li Wei felt that it was impossible for him to live long!

Therefore, Li Wei wants to gain world hegemony in the shortest possible time, unlock the next level of authority for all-out war, and prolong his life.

As for getting rid of his sexual addiction fundamentally, Li Wei never thought about it. It's like an addict who can't get rid of drugs. Now Li Wei can't get rid of a fresh and beautiful virgin.

(End of this chapter)