Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

Tina's originally boring college life became a little more interesting because of August's arrival. During class, they were keen to discuss history and politics.

They will talk about the Prussian general Blücher who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo during the Napoleonic Wars. In this war, the anti-French alliance defeated the arrogant Napoleon, and firearms and arrays played a huge role.

The two people who enjoyed this endlessly also gradually entered the second semester. The two have been good friends for a long time, and they both seemed to have a deep understanding of each other.

Tina also learned a lot from her discussion with August. In addition to a lot of political knowledge other than military affairs, she also learned some superficial knowledge from August.

August told her many things that she had never noticed before but now had to think about.

In other words, economy, culture, ethnicity, etc. Tina didn't know how August knew so much. She told the current situation of Prussia.

Prussia is a very feudal country. Junkers, landowners, and aristocrats hold real power. If they want to maintain their own interests, they will definitely suppress emerging capitalist forces to prevent them from surpassing themselves.

This is also the reason why Prussia's industrialization is so slow. Britain and France have begun to expand their colonies outwards, while Prussia is still experiencing internal strife and suppressing domestic progressive forces.

All this outlines a dark and chaotic society. August subtly pointed all the finger at one class, the Junker aristocracy.

Tina is a Junker noble, but her current thinking is very immature. She is not very discerning about what August said, especially the topics about nation and country. It is still too early for her, August Ste was going to take this opportunity to instill an idea in her.

The Junker aristocracy is the cancer of Prussia. We must find a way to completely eradicate them, completely remove all bad feudal habits, and make way for capitalism.

The idea that Tina had been instilled in her since childhood was that Prussia was founded by the Junkers, and they had the supreme glory. She did think so at first, but later she discovered that the so-called Junker aristocrats were not as arrogant as their elders had boasted. .

They are greedy and cowardly, and do not hesitate to harm the interests of the country in order to safeguard their vested interests. Then all this points Tina in one direction, which is a deviant path, a path chosen by August.

Unfortunately, the first semester is over. Tina and her father agreed to go home after the first semester at the University of Berlin, but August hated going home.

She kept writing letters to her family, hoping to come home later, but her father's reply to her letters was always rejection, which was impossible. August could not help but become tired of this stubborn old guy.

August was doing well in Berlin, where she discovered her creativity and seemed to have a good literary talent.

In a newspaper called "Rheinische Zeitung", she serialized a long novel called "The Rise of the Devil", which became popular throughout Prussia for a while.

This book tells the story of an ordinary man who suffered domestic violence from his father in childhood and wanted to be a great artist. After his dream was shattered, he embarked on a path to power.

This kind of novel with some science fiction elements was not particularly popular at this time. In a relatively informative newspaper like the Rheinische Zeitung, the more popular topics were obviously political and academic topics.

Of course, August's novels were able to carve out a way among these big guys, and it was not just luck. August's understanding of mustaches was pretty good, and both his successes and failures were valued by August. In my eyes, I wrote his story just because it was easy to write and catered to the public's taste.

People like stories about grassroots counterattacks. In August's novels, the protagonist named Adolf is very attractive. His motivations and charisma can capture the hearts of readers, and he His character is also very distinct, he is a political madman who has lost all humanity.

It is obvious that August has not finished the serialization. Now he only writes that Adolf was arrested after the beer hall riot, but his passionate speech in the court reduced the crime that should have been the death penalty to only nine months in prison.

We stopped here, and the follow-up August is still trying to restore the historical Adolf as much as possible. It is very real and in line with the appetite of the Germans, so it sells very well.

And so far, it has not touched the interests of the ruling class, that is, the Junkers, so the Rheinische Zeitung has not been closed down for this reason.

But in fact, the Rheinische Zeitung has a criminal record. It has been blocked once, so now the editors are very careful to review the content, and those that cannot pass the review will never be released. This is not good.

But this happy life is about to end. Unfortunately, after all, in this semester, August will definitely not be able to stop his family from taking him away forcibly, but getting to know the iron-blooded prime minister is indeed a big event.

In August 1859, August went to the newsstand and bought a newspaper as usual. The content on it surprised her. Friedrich III passed away...

With just a few lines of words, August was a little stunned. The reason was a mercenary battle.

Due to changes in the historical line, on this planet, since 1840, Europe has been filled with a wave of bourgeois uprisings. From the bourgeois uprisings in Spain and Italy to the peasant uprisings in Poland, chickens are flying everywhere in Europe. The dog jumped.

After the death of King William IV of England, he had no heirs, so the throne passed to his niece, the famous Queen Victoria.

The time of this era seems to be delayed a lot. Victoria, who succeeded to the throne in 1837 in the history of the earth, did not succeed to the throne until 1850 in this world. At this time, Victoria was only eighteen years old, more than ten years later than the history of the earth.

Victoria was also the co-queen of Britain and Hanover, and was also a participating country in the German Confederation. In order to suppress the uprising, Victoria delegated power to the middle class and gave the Hanover Parliament considerable rights, allowing them to achieve basic autonomy.

But the happiness of the middle class does not mean that the aristocracy is happy. The expansion of the Hanoverian bourgeoisie has threatened the power of the aristocracy. The Hanoverian aristocracy revolted. They hired the Swiss army and the British hired Prussia as their opponent.

Of course the result was that Prussia won, but unexpectedly, his father, Frederick III, actually died in this war.

This seems to have been a while. The war broke out in April. The Swiss army was definitely no match for Prussia. August also knew something about it, but August did not expect it to turn out like this.

And his eldest brother, Walrich, took over the throne, but after all, his ability is not very strong, he can only be regarded as reluctant. And since the eldest brother has no heirs, the heir to the throne is naturally given to Walrich's younger brother, the second brother William.

These two are both sleeping dragons and phoenixes. Externally, I am obedient and aggressive about the inheritance. The relationship between the eldest brother and the second brother becomes tense immediately, because they both have the right to inherit the throne. Now the second brother only needs to kill the eldest brother, and he can become The new king of Prussia.

But this doesn't seem to be a good thing. William is usually a playboy, and his wife is even more of a loser. She is proficient in eating, drinking and having fun. It would be better to find a pit to bury the ball in their leadership.

Britain was okay, not too chaotic, but a lot of energy was spent on expanding overseas colonies, and its participation in European competition was very low. Prussia was in chaos, so who was the happiest?

Napoleon III in the Palace of Versailles, France, knew of the chaos in Prussia. Of course, he was very happy that Prussia was the crossroads of Europe. If it disrupted the North German Confederation with it as its core, it would trigger a chain reaction. The European continent would be in chaos, and it would be difficult for Britain to dominate the European continent. Maintaining influence, as shown by the inability to end personally in the Hanover Uprising, what else can be said about Europe's land hegemon, it must be France.

France has the navy second only to Britain and the strongest army in Europe. Now the economy has returned to normal under the leadership of Napoleon III, and it is getting richer. By improving relations with Britain, it has also gained most of the colonies in Africa.

This is undoubtedly a good opportunity. If you just need to wait a little longer, maybe you can sweep across Europe like Napoleon and become the well-deserved emperor of Europe.