Section 533 On the eve of German reunification
After a brilliant victory over Austria, the Prussian nation was thoroughly aroused, and the Prussians had always been a second-rate people in Europe compared to the Austrians and the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns were only a second-rate family in Europe, at least after Frederick the Great.
And the victory over Austria suddenly made the Prussians feel once again, standing on the top of Europe.
This kind of national sentiment has not only infected ordinary people, but even politicians are not exempt from vulgarity.
So it became much easier for Bismarck to do things.
He reconvened the parliament at this time, and the members were basically the same members, and he reintroduced the budget at this time, and the budget was basically the same budget, which had in fact been implemented, but the three-year military service system that had not been approved, but this time it was almost unanimously approved. It can be said that Bismarck, who had bypassed the budget implemented by the parliament before, was posthumously recognized by the parliament.
Bismarck successfully subjugated the parliament and did what the king did not do, so that his prestige had risen to the top of Europe, and he became a politician on the level of Schwarzenberg and Metternich.
The strong prestige allowed him to cover the light of the monarch upwards and the authority of the parliament downwards, and in China, he was called the master of merit, and he was not far from death.
But in Germany, he has become a symbol that no one can move, but at the moment his position is not so secure, he has not yet reached the peak, he has only just stepped into the beginning of glory, and he is far from reaching the top of glory, just like Metternich, who had just brought about the marriage between the Habsburgs and Napoleon, but had not yet established the Vienna system at the Congress of Vienna, the history called the Metternich era had not yet arrived, and the Bismarck system and the Bismarck era had not yet arrived.
Bismarck still needed to take the final step towards a unified Germany.
For him, it was still a two-step process of domestic and foreign affairs, and in domestic affairs, he successfully passed the parliamentary budget, and saw Moltke's success in Poland, and now Moltke was appointed chief of the Prussian General Staff, and he was going to establish the system of the General Staff in Prussia.
The victory over Austria had cleared the way for Bismarck in domestic affairs, but diplomatic troubles had only just begun.
Prussia is too strong, this is everyone's most intuitive understanding, defeating Austria is nothing, European countries you sing and I appear, who has not been a winner, who has not lost the underpants? The point is that Prussia's victory this time was so easy that it gave people an irresistible feeling, as if Napoleon had come out of nowhere, and no matter how hard you tried, the victory belonged to him.
Prussia was so strong that even Britain began to be jealous, but Britain had no intention of restricting it, because Britain needed Prussia to fight France, and rationally believed that France was still stronger than Prussia. France itself had not yet felt that Prussia had grown to the point of invincibility, but it could not accept the annexation of Prussia to Poland, and any form of annexation was unacceptable. The same is true of Russia, which cannot accept the annexation of Prussia to Poland, even if the former Poland and Prussia have been acting side by side because of the rule of the same family, but as long as Prussia does not annex Poland, these are two countries. As in France and Spain, both under Bourbon rule, joint action is inevitable for a while, but in the long run, conflict may even erupt.
With the same feelings, let France and Russia start to come in, which could make the Prussian succession war turn into a Franco-Russian alliance against Prussia. Bismarck began to have a headache, and if the arrogant France invaded Prussia and provoked the anger of the entire German nation, the defeat of France would be the last milk for the German nation to get out of its infancy. If France and Russia join forces, the German nation will probably die in infancy.
In view of France and Russia, Bismarck stepped up the collection of intelligence, all kinds of intelligence, from the recent news of the two countries, to the personalities of political leaders, and even some lace news, he wanted to know that German reunification had reached the last step, and this last step must be the most patient and down-to-earth.
Bismarck found that just after the Austro-Prussian war, the king of the Urals, the grandson of the Chinese emperor, Zhou Chun, entered Moscow in a low-key manner, and has not left until now.
Bismarck concluded that Zhou Chun's arrival in Moscow must have something to do with the Austro-Prussian War, and that he must have gone to Moscow to help his wife and Tsar cope with the complicated situation.
Bismarck even decided that if the Austro-Prussian war had not ended in a few weeks, the combined forces of Russia and the Urals would have entered the battlefield, and it was difficult to say what the troops were pointing at, perhaps Austria, perhaps Prussia.
Bismarck's guess is not far from ten.
Zhou Chun did not come to Moscow at the invitation of his wife, he came on his own initiative, according to his words, called "my wife is not me, I can only be a wife", after the female tsar ascended the throne, she has been staying in Moscow, and Zhou Chun as the king sits in the Urals.
The two have not seen each other since, although there is constant correspondence and mutual complaints, but it is inevitable that the relationship will gradually become cold, especially this kind of political marriage, which is not easy to sublimate love.
After Zhou Chun arrived in Moscow, what political schemes, even the female Tsar Olga would guess, let alone others.
The Urals army played a great role in Russia in these two years.
After the end of the war with the Ottomans, the biggest problem facing the female tsar was not the financial pressure on the verge of collapse, nor the political pressure of the opposition, but the more than a million troops that could not reassure her.
As is customary, in the end, the Russian army won the battle, and Konstantin was qualified to lead the army into Moscow, enjoy the cheers of the people of the capital, be reviewed by the tsar, and be promoted to the rank of knight.
However, the female tsar ordered the front-line troops to be demobilized one by one, and sent the officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs who arranged the demobilization work directly to the front, asking them to demobilize the soldiers back to their places in an orderly manner.
At that time, the situation was tense, and if Konstantin was dissatisfied, more than a million veterans of the Russian army who had experienced a bloody battle would rush to Moscow, and the consequences would be unimaginable. A million Urals troops were deployed around Moscow, and the Urals were urgently mobilized, and all the troops were ready to send a million new soldiers into Russia.
Konstantin did not choose confrontation, and under the supervision of Yermolov and other prestigious veteran generals, the Russian army completed the demobilization.
After that, the female tsar did not unload the mill and kill the donkey against the officers and generals who had made meritorious contributions, but began to reward these people, and those who should be rewarded with knighthoods were higher than in the past, Yermolov and Gorchakov were already grand dukes, or translated as princes, and they were already the highest titles, and Konstantin was the younger brother of the tsar, the legal first heir to the throne. A large number of officers who had made meritorious contributions to the war were awarded knighthoods, more than 500 barons and more than 100 counts, and now the titles were worthless, because there was no corresponding land and serfs to reward them.
The approach of the female tsar was to give money directly, to a large amount of money, to build them mansions, to expropriate a piece of land on the outskirts of Moscow, and to hire Dutch designers to design an entire meritorious residential area and build a powerful town similar to Westminster, England. But for some unknown purpose, the female tsar gave the town a female name, Sophia.
In addition to giving them mansions, the female tsar also arranged various high-ranking positions for them, assigning them seats in the House of Nobles and official positions in government agencies, arranging all the top military nobles but also isolating them from military power.
Then for the military arrangements of Russia, the female tsar used a large number of officers without traditional aristocratic backgrounds and civilian backgrounds, most of these officers were the children of the urban bourgeoisie and the rural rich peasants, because only such people had the opportunity to receive education and became more likely to become officers. The reward for these women tsarins was much more meager, but they were still kept in the army, and their ranks and positions were promoted. Those at the bottom who did not receive a formal military education were sent to the Moscow Military Academy for education.
With these civilian officers as the backbone, the female tsar reorganized the Russian army and re-recruited half a million active troops, only a third of whom were veterans of the battle, but all the junior officers had combat experience. All veterans are discharged into the reserve for a period of five years.
The Urals gradually withdrew from Russia, but in the end the Tsaress left behind 300,000 Urals, all of them Russians, who were dressed in Russian uniforms and organized as the Guards.
Obviously, the female tsar still can't be the new Russian army, and she won't naively hand over her safety to a group of officers who don't trust her very much, that's not atmosphere, that's stupidity.
The female tsar did not care that her husband left a country and came to Moscow, because he knew whether there was a king in the Urals or not, what should be done or what should be, which was completely different from Russia, and the female tsar did not dare to guarantee that what would happen to her back foot when she left Moscow on the front foot, or even out of the Kremlin.
From the bottom of her heart, she was a little envious of the sound bureaucracy and bureaucratic culture of China or Prussia, everything went according to plan, and it was not a problem to leave anyone.
The young husband and wife were glued together again, and the Tsaress was happy to do so, because she needed to give birth to an heir for Zhou Chun as soon as possible, so that although she was no longer in the Ural Kingdom, her position where she could still be secure.
"What a pity!"
The husband is still the same temperament, he has no shape, and he has made the Kremlin a miasma, and he doesn't know how to restrain it at all.
"What's such a pity?"
The Tsaress was puzzled by her husband's unprovoked exclamation.
The life of the two is like this, they can expose each other in bed, but they will never be honest with each other, life is full of speculation, this is the life of the king and the queen, the daily life of the king to the king.