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PS2: History!

"And in this 'white expanse of really clean' land, Germany was divided into 314 states and 1,475 knightly estates. There were 1,789 independent regimes in that devastated land, and although they still shared the title of 'German Holy Roman Empire', the center of the empire had long since ceased to exist, and the whole of Germany was reduced to a racetrack for the great powers. ”

This series of figures had already taken Min Xianyi by surprise, and she could not imagine that 1,789 regimes could stand side by side in such a small piece of land. The most terrible thing is that there is no subordination, all independent of each other, which is really the sadness of a country.

"In this case, what do living people rely on to survive?" Survival is the foundation of human beings, and Min Xianyi's question goes straight to the point!

"Don't worry, that's what I'm going to say next. In order to make a living, the Germans had to sell themselves to foreign powers, become foreign mercenaries, and fight for them on the soil of their homeland. In Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, there was not a single war in which the Germans were not fought against the Germans, and the interests of the German nation seemed worthless at this moment. On August 6, 1806, under the coercion of the French Emperor Napoleon, the Austrian Emperor Franz II renounced the title of Holy Roman Emperor, and the Holy Roman Empire officially ended!

"How do you feel now?"

"Miserable, pitiful. Min Xianyi commented on the situation in two words.

Zhang Xiufeng just smiled and continued: "When there was no longer even a nominal state in that land, people remembered Schiller's exclamation: Germany? Where is it? I can't find that place. Schiller's friend Goethe, on the other hand, simply said that there is no city, not even a place, which makes us firmly point out: This is Germany!"

"The tragic fate and the sad reality stimulated every patriot who loved this country dearly! A tragic reality was laid out before the Germans: Where is Germany? Light comes from darkness! Darkness gives birth to light! The French hero Napoleon destroyed Germany, deeply stung Germany, and at the same time swept away Germany's decay, helping 'Germany, which did not even have the strength to push away the rotten corpses of the backward system,' to start a new life!

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiufeng asked Min Xianyi: "Do you know who took this step first?"

Min Xianyi shook her head, her knowledge of German history was limited to Bismarck's unification of Germany and the Nazis...... And this is a two-edged sword! How many people are fans of Germany! How many people think that there are only Nazis in Germany!

Without answering Min Xianyi, Zhang Xiufeng continued: "The first to take this step is a small eastern state that is regarded as wild, backward, and weak: Prussia! In that case, I will tell you about Prussia again! How about it? Would you like to hear it?" Zhang Xiufeng has seen a kind of person: He only considers himself the history of his own country, and how can you compare the thousands of years of history of my Heavenly Empire? There are especially many such people in South Korea: I am the first in the world in the Republic of Korea, and no one can compare with it!

You can be proud of your long history, but the end of boasting is, "Hey...... My Great Qing ...... Dead ......"

"Yes, Mr. Zhang, you can continue. I was very interested and curious about the history of this people. "Shared interests always lead to less communication between people, and that's perhaps a good sign.

"The tragic reality of Germany after the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars was that the country was ruined! The whole country was reduced to ruins, production ceased, industry was backward, commerce was withered, and the peasants were forced to become mercenaries without food. Kill one's own countrymen numbly in exchange for rations, or be killed by one's own countrymen to end the suffering! In such a tragic situation, only half a century after the end of the Battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon's empire fell, the new German Empire was rapidly united more than 600 years after the division of the German nation-state!"

"And it was Prussia that did this, and Prussia was born from a small, wild and impoverished eastern region 'mark' (mark: refers to a small frontier state). A place that has been contemptuously called 'the sandstone cans of the Holy Roman Empire'. The core of the Prussian state was Brandenburg and Prussia, which became a border colony of the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th century. At this time, Prussia, located on the Baltic coast, had not even achieved full independence, and maintained suzerainty relations with Poland. ”

"The two states developed in parallel for centuries until 1618, when the Electors of Brandenburg of the Hohenzollern succeeded to the throne of Prussia, and the two parallel states finally came together and gradually became a unified state. The Hohenzollern family is the top family and royal lineage in Germany, the family was originally called the Sauron, and at the end of the 12th century, the family was given the name 'Hohen' (noble). ”

In 1417, the German king officially bestowed Brandenburg and the Elector title to Frederick I of the House of Hohenzollern (some say that Frederick I bought it). Thus began the rule of the Hohenzollern family over Brandenburg. They made Brandenburg their place of residence, carefully managing and expanding their rule. At the time of the Reformation, the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg and Prussia converted to Protestantism, which deepened the affinity between the two places!"

"Although geographically these two small states are not not connected, the first cornerstone of the future Kingdom of Prussia has been laid down, and then they will begin to join forces and embark on the road to unification. In 1640, Frederick Wilhelm succeeded to the throne as Elector, and it was this great monarch who put Prussia on the path to becoming a great power. Because of this, he was called the 'Great Elector' by later generations!"

The more Min Xianyi listened, the more fascinated he became, and Zhang Xiufeng was naturally happy to see this situation, so he spoke even harder! He suddenly said that he should thank An Zhaoxi and found him such a friend who could make history.

"Although when he first ascended the throne, he was confronted with the ruins of the Thirty Wars, the nobility at home, the Junkers (knights without fiefdoms, and later the Prussian nobility and landlords in general), separatism and foreign powers weakened the new king's voice, but the Thirty Years' War taught the new king two lessons......"