The meeting lasted for a day, and when the generals and officials returned to the ground late at night, they were all excited and sleepless.

"General Staff Duan, why don't we go to the General Staff Headquarters to conduct a sand table deduction, I'm so excited. I can't rest this time, so it's better to work all night to refresh. Xiao Mingfeng knew that although he was the executive deputy commander-in-chief, there were not many opportunities for Boss Wu to personally lead the army, unless he fought the defense of Jinan. He felt that the first batch of European battles must be himself, and after watching several classic battles in the European war released by Wu Boss, he felt that he needed to plan first, otherwise he wouldn't want to do anything else in the past two days.

"Xiao Xiao, how old is General Staff Duan, you are embarrassed to let Duan Lao stay up late with you, and you want to deduce that you will go back to the bed and deduce with your daughter-in-law." Everyone haha, the soldiers are vulgar and accustomed to it, don't look at the ones who come back from abroad or graduate from the military academy, and grow up with the rough billets in the army, and the swear words come casually. Wu Luzhen's age is the same as Xiao Mingfeng, and everyone is used to fighting all day long when the two of them don't have the end of the chickens and dogs.

"Xiao Wu, you kid still uses the agitation method with the old man, so it's a little tender." Duan Qirui is a person, Wu Luzhen is clearly making fun of Xiao Mingfeng, but in fact, he is also itching in his heart. However, this trick is not easy to use in front of Lao Duan. "Well, the old man is in a good mood today, accompany a few of you juniors to play two hands, I think when I studied in Germany, I had listened to the lessons of Moltke and Marshal Schlieffen, and at that time I also deduced the German-French war with my German classmates, I didn't expect that I would be able to witness this great war in my lifetime, and your generation of young people is really lucky."

A few guys with generals on their shoulders gathered around Lao Duan and went straight to the staff headquarters in front of and behind several cars, and the civilian officials also met in groups to discuss the next fortune plan, and tonight was destined to be a sleepless night. Europe on the other side of the world is still busy, unaware that there is already a group of elites in the sleeping Far East plotting how to get a big slice of the rich Europe that has been looted for generations.

The land of China is unified, but after Li Yuanlong took office in Nanjing, he found that it was even more difficult to be the big boss of the Nanjing government than he imagined. Li Yuanlong, who was encouraged to maintain, soon had to stop drawing blood from Hubei to supplement the state, because the brothers in the nest did not reap the benefits and dedicate themselves, and once the rebels left, they could not even keep the nest. In the southern provinces, Lu Rongting went into the wilderness, but Guangxi was even more chaotic, and the Wehrmacht stopped advancing after receiving Liuzhou and Guilin, seeing that most of Guangxi was annexed by various small warlords and no longer moved, it is said that it was because the Nanjing government withheld military salaries, and the Wehrmacht was powerless. God is pitiful, when did the Nanjing government pay the national defense army, and the Nanjing government, which has to be used as pants in poor land, can't even afford to support its own guard regiment, and can still take care of Guangxi? As a result, the warlord melee between the two Guangzhous and the two lakes plus Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan continued, and the Nanjing government completely became a cover, and as for the revolutionary party, it was all stinky, and Wang Zhaoming went abroad to investigate, leaving only one Liao Lizhong to barely maintain, Xie Zhi, Zou Lu, and Zhang Binglin made up a group and split from the revolutionary party to form the Democratic Development Party. It's a pity that Qiaofu's bones are not cold, the revolutionary party has already scored three points, and Liao Lizhong almost vomited three liters of blood when he went to worship and died in Qiao Ling. The north is much quieter, and the joint parliament and the parliament do not recognize each other, but it is impossible to stand up to the fact that the north and Jiangsu and Zhejiang both recognize the joint parliament, and the strength of the Xinhua Party in the parliament is also second to none, and as for Rong Zongjing, who was elected as the leader of the Xinhua Party's * congressional group, he suppressed the revolutionary party and the civic party silently. In such a situation where the north is thriving and the south is full of chicken feathers, the sixth year of the republic has come to the middle of the year, and distant Europe has broken the former tranquility.

There is no love without a reason in the world, and there is no hatred without a reason, and most of the hatred in the world is caused by greed. And the easiest thing to arouse the emperor's greed is land. In the first year of the Republic, the Austro-Hungarian Empire expanded southward, formally annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Balkans. The annexation of these two territories by Austria-Hungary was the result of the betrayal of Russia, which claimed to be the protector of the Balkans. To be honest, in the Russo-Turkish War in the mid-19th century, Russia promised Austria-Hungary to annex the two places in exchange for the neutrality of Austria-Hungary. However, at that time, Austria-Hungary was only in escrow, and the two places were still nominally part of Turkey. We all know that the credibility of the Russians can be expressed in absolute terms, so in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Austria-Hungary finally struck first.

Originally, it is a universal truth that big fish eat small fish, but many things in the world are just a layer of window paper, and it is difficult to clean up once it is pierced. The most aggressive little fish in the Balkans, Serbia strongly disagrees with this and resolutely opposes it. Although the aggressive Serbs do not have the wise leadership of Jin Sanye, they do not lack the courage to challenge authority, and they do not accommodate the bullying of any big country. The king and queen of Serbia, who were a little more sensible, had courted the Habsburgs, but in 1903 a group of military officers staged a coup d'état, shot the king and his wife, stripped the corpse naked, and threw it out of the window of the Belgrade royal palace! Then a new king who was friendly to Russia was raised. Even with their own king, the untamable nature of the Serbs can be seen.

Serbia has always regarded Bosnia, which borders it, as its brother, and of course its brotherly land should also be its own, and the dream of the Serbs is to include Bosnia in the Orthodox Christian, Slavic Greater Serbia. The later one-meter-six-three iron man did this, but the integration and division of the former Yugoslavia became extremely simple and cruel, and it is not surprising that there was a bit of ethnic massacres and the like. Therefore, the open annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary seriously hurt the national pride of the Serbs, and the anti-Austrian sentiment of the people was high, and the Serbs, who were happy to be hedgehogs, simply regarded Austria-Hungary as a target.

At this juncture, Austria-Hungary arranged a military exercise in Bosnia, near the Serbian border. So if you don't die, you won't die, at this time Serbia is already full of hydrogen, do you have to go up and borrow a fire, don't burn your little skin and no hair worthy of the audience? Of course, these viewers are not good birds, especially the German bearded Wilhelm, who is a little hooligan who intends to take the opportunity to stir up trouble, and when Austria-Hungary and Serbia start fighting, they can't wait to kick the ass of the Gallic rooster, and then Niu Niu and Xiong Er of course have to pull the bias, after a fat beating, the brothers will tear their clothes and pull their hair, of course, this is a later story.

Archduke Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, took his daughter-in-law Sophie to Bosnia to review the exercises and visit Sarajevo. On the one hand, Archduke Ferdinand wanted to show off his military strength, to make the Bosnian people realize the strength of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and on the other hand, he wanted to show off his daughter-in-law.

Archduke Ferdinand was the great-nephew of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz, and the Empress of the Emperor Franz was the famous Sisi Princess, and the Emperor and Empress had an only son, Archduke Rudolf. But this prince is a lover, shot and killed his 17-year-old lover, and then committed suicide. You said that foreign crown princes are more romantic, you become a crown prince, you will be the emperor of the empire in the future, it doesn't matter who the queen is, but the lover is not chosen by yourself, but you want to play Romeo and Juliet because of broken love? As soon as the crown prince died, his nephew, Archduke Ferdinand, became the first in line to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Of course, there is also the Duke of Windsor's love for the country and the love of beauties, this throne seems to be just a position in the eyes of Europeans, if you like to do it, you can do it, if you don't like to do it, anyway, some are brothers, but it is not good and there are sisters to help, and the queen is not uncommon. Moreover, the European royal family is a big family, and the blood relationship is close, and it is okay for the royal family of other countries to inherit without an heir, of course, this is unthinkable for the Chinese royal family. God is pitiful to see that if the princes of the next generation of Li Zhi are all dead, let Li Xueyan (Princess Wencheng), who is close to Tibet, and the descendants of the funeral cadres inherit the throne of the Tang Dynasty, if it is completely acceptable according to the habits of European royal families, but it is estimated that Li Zhi will not accept this heir even if he burns Chang'an City, and if he does not burn his son Li Shimin, he will have to jump out of the mausoleum and burn it.

Archduke Ferdinand brought his daughter-in-law because it was only here that his daughter-in-law could be treated with the respect she deserved. In the Habsburg capital, Vienna, no one respected Sophie, the future empress. When the Grand Duke wanted to marry Sophie, the emperor strongly objected because she had no royal blood.

Sophie was born in a declining Czech aristocratic family, although she was not a common man, but because her family was poor, the aristocratic scene could no longer last, and Sophie worked as a maid in the house of an Austrian Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess especially wanted to marry her daughter to Ferdinand as the crown princess and become the queen in the future. However, Ferdinand didn't take a fancy to the Grand Duke's daughter, but fell in love with her maid at first sight (it can be seen how important it is to choose a good foil, and it is recommended that girls who like to take selfies can take photos with the simpler girls in their class, which is more effective than beauty software). Ferdinand often visited the Grand Duchess, but not to pursue the Grand Duchess's daughter, but to pursue the 30-year-old lady-in-waiting. In this way, the Grand Duchess dismissed Sophie in a fit of anger (forgetting to disfigure). However, Ferdinand still pursued Sophie. staged a realistic version of the love story of the prince and Cinderella.

This matter was finally known to the old emperor. Ferdinand was resolute and engaged in a battle of wills with his uncle, which lasted for two years, until finally the old emperor got tired of this and agreed to marry Ferdinand and Sophie. But there was an agreement between them that Sophie's descendants could not be the heirs to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Archduke Ferdinand was forced to attend a secret Habsburg cabinet meeting and solemnly swore in the presence of the Emperor, the Austrian Archbishop, the Hungarian Archbishop, all the ministers of the government, and all the Habsburg Grand Dukes that neither he nor Sophie's descendants nor their descendants would inherit the throne.

In fact, it was not only the Habsburgs who did this, but the European royals at that time were absolutely not allowed to intermarry with people who did not have royal blood, but only between the royal families of various countries.

Although it is not as shocking as the Kim family endogamy system invented by the Silla people, this kind of small-scale intermarriage will inevitably cause genetic defects, but fortunately, the current European royal family has intermarried with commoners in large numbers, otherwise they can only go to the welfare center for mentally handicapped children to find the royal heir in a few hundred years. Having said that, the author has been wondering how the Republic of Korea has been applying for intangible cultural heritage all day long, and treating these imported items such as zongzi and skipping rope as its own treasures. It's a pity.