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

August was a little shocked when he received Moltke's military report. Just equipped with new weapons, he was able to achieve such great gains on the battlefield. If the subsequent military reforms can be completed, maybe the Prussian army Its combat effectiveness can really make it the largest army in the world after France in the next four to five years.

The current problem in Prussia is the shrinking agriculture. Although the new agricultural bill has been introduced, the objective problem is the decline of the Juncker landlord class. August’s policy is to weaken this Junker landlord group, and Tina’s policy It is to completely squeeze out the old aristocrats from the political arena. In fact, there is no conflict between the two.

Just looking at the interest groups of both parties, these two people are really torturing each other. Although they are weakening each other's interest groups, and both of them are dissatisfied with the other's interest groups, August will not allow anyone to do so anyway. Taking action against Tina, just like Tina would not allow others to weaken August's power.

After incorporating agriculture into scientific research projects, the Prussian Academy of Sciences has begun recruiting chemists to find breakthroughs in agricultural production machinery, chemicals, and even grain seeds, and to find ways to reduce costs and increase harvests. Only then can agriculture be restored. crisis.

But now the big landowners have begun to farm again. Although the price of food has risen by about [-]%, we can only suffer the people first, and wait until the country is rich. Good times will come soon.

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Previously, August handed over a large area of ​​arable land to the Ministry of Agriculture and asked them to find ways to increase production. As a result, the results were not great after a year, but the bills were generated almost every month. First of all, the technology of the scientific researchers was He failed to pass, and he engaged in confusing behavior for many years, and achieved nothing except torturing the Finance Department.

The strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education that has been advocated before has finally been injected with a steady stream of funds as a source of power. After making money from industrialization in the past two years, a large amount of money has poured into the Ministry of Education. With the money in the science and education department, many education policies have been put on the agenda. , No matter how hard it is, we can’t hurt our children, and no matter how poor we are, we can’t afford education.

Next, under Humboldt's promotion, the treatment of educational and scientific researchers has also been significantly improved. At present, all colleges are public schools funded by the state, and the tuition fees are relatively affordable. Although I would like to wave my hand, there is no need to pay tuition. , but the money is tight, and the country has to go through a long period of investment first. Only when the talents have grown up, entered society and started to shine, can the country earn back the money invested in scientific research.

So there is no need to rush, and we have to continue to ask the Finance Department to dig out more money from their pants. It is easy if they can't. The number of street lights on the streets of Berlin has also increased recently, so you should find a good one and hang it yourself.

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Tina bought a newspaper from the "Berlin Gazette" stall at work today. She originally wanted to see the response to the latest policy, but she saw an incident. The new law on common things between Denmark and Schleswig was serious. It damaged the rights and interests of the Germans in the Schleswig area and triggered a series of social problems.

Schleswig and Holstein were once the sphere of influence of the Holy Roman Empire, and most of the people living there were Germans. However, due to the immigration of the Danes, there were many people in Schleswig. The Danes, the Kingdom of Denmark has wanted to incorporate Schleswig into its territory for hundreds of years, so it has oppressed the Germans in these areas, hoping to force the Germans to leave Schleswig through policy changes.

The Treaty of Ribe in 1460 stipulated that Schleswig and Holstein would never be separated. If Denmark annexed Schleswig, Holstein would also be annexed.

This was very bad news for the German nationalists in Schleswig and Holstein, who could not tolerate the Danes ruling over them.

And now the German nationalists in Holstein have begun to shout to Prussia and Austria, hoping that these two bosses in the German region can help them. The best thing is to declare war directly on Denmark, and then Schleswig and Holstein Stein is directly annexed to Prussia or Austria in the form of a referendum.

But it is obvious that Prussia, which is dominated by Germans, is more attractive to German nationalism in these two small principalities than Austria, which has a complex ethnic composition. They long for a unified and powerful German empire.

Even if we put aside the dissatisfaction of these two principalities with Denmark, they have eight immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers. The national issue between the Danes and the Germans, the religious issue between Catholics and Protestants, and the class issue between the Junkers and the capitalists. This is all a mess. The crazy gadgets have already brought society into disarray.

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Tina immediately returned to the Congress and went to August to explain the matter, "This is a good opportunity to intervene in Schleswig and Holstein. We have to get the Germans in this area before Austria." support."

August also had some concerns after understanding the ins and outs of the incident. "This is of course a good opportunity, but the question is how to intervene. If war is directly declared on Denmark, it will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction from Britain and France, and Tsarist Russia will also stand." On the opposite side of Prussia, it is clear that Prussia now does not have the ability to intervene directly in the situation in Northern Europe."

After all, most of Europe was singled out. Germany tried twice and sent them away. Of course, Tina also knew that it would explode if she played like this. With Prussia's strength, it would be difficult to kill Denmark. Let's not talk about it, and rashly started a war in such a close place. , the damage to the economy is huge. The war against the Ming Dynasty is far away from the mainland, and it will not affect the lives of the Prussians. If it is a war with Denmark, they are in front of their homes. Everyone has to be on tenterhooks. How can there be anything else? Focus on infrastructure construction, not to mention that Denmark's navy is actually not weak. If you want to fight, Prussia has to rely on all foreign trade. Now Prussia relies on foreign trade to support its huge industrial machinery. If this country collapses, then oh no. , fast forward to the East and West German model.

So why did Prussia's war with Denmark arouse the dissatisfaction of several other major powers? Are they the righteous international police? Of course it's not that they just want to use Denmark to exert their influence in the German region.

The first is France. During the First French Empire, Napoleon easily pushed Denmark. Denmark was also very willing to be the emperor's dog. Later, the emperor was defeated and Denmark finally became independent. However, the French did not give up completely. Here, Napoleon III has been looking forward to finding an opportunity to reach out to Denmark.

Tsarist Russia is far away from the center of Europe. It also hopes to have a springboard in Central Europe. Britain and Denmark still have historical issues. If Austria wants to curb Prussia's development momentum, it also needs the bad land of Denmark, and it can even get involved in Holstein in the future. Because of this, he and Schleswig sought new outlets for themselves in the North Sea.

If Prussia really wants to take action, it must obtain the silence of these countries in diplomacy. Britain can talk, but what about France? It longs for Prussia and Austria to finish playing with each other, so how can it be willing to talk to Prussia about all this?

Therefore, a more moderate approach should be chosen to buy time for Prussia to complete military reforms.