If it had been a different man, the Prussian GIs would have pounced on him, but Prince Wilhelm and Bismarck kept calling the king vehemently objecting to the Luxembourg revolution for vague religious reasons. What made the Prussian king hesitate even more was that the Archduke of Luxembourg's policy of dealing with the rebellion and subduing the Hessian mercenaries was too shocking. Originally, the world's largest philanthropist, everyone thought that he was a harmless good person, but he turned into a generation of heroes, most of the 500 soldiers accepted the humane destruction relatively calmly, leaving hundreds of suicide notes and last words, this unprecedented thing in history shows the terrible tension between the movements of the Grand Duke, this aura is honest, all the famous generals in the world are unsurpassed, and the whole world is deeply rejected. The Grand Duke of Hesse thought that the execution of 500 soldiers would arouse public outrage all over the world, but unexpectedly, the BBC and some newspapers picked up some real last words and found out that the execution of the rebels by the Grand Duke's military law was completely legal, and even those death row prisoners could only blame themselves for being greedy for life and fearing death for a big mistake. There are not many people who echo the so-called "justice" and "fairness" of the Grand Duke of Hesse, this is war, it is military law, it is not the death of the rebels, maybe it is the soldiers loyal to the Grand Duke who are in trouble, although the Grand Duke is selfless, you can't ask him not to even implement the established military law, right?

After the bodies of the death row prisoners were transported back to the homeland of Hesse, everyone found that the soldiers did not know what poison they had been killed, and they still had happy smiles on their faces, as if they had gone to heaven.

The Prussian king did not dare to give the order for an immediate all-out attack on Luxembourg. Weird things are always suspicious.

The Prussian soldiers who were blockaded had not yet received the order to break through the siege, and they were well fed and did not act rashly.

In this way, the world was facing each other, and the global situation changed dramatically - a large-scale rebellion broke out in India under the British East India Company.

Under the leadership of Governor Dalhousie, India pursued a radical policy of Westernization, with large-scale construction of railways disrupting the existing traffic order in India, the promotion of Christianity marginalizing India's native religion, and the establishment of a judicial system that extinguished the authority of the original traditional princely states, which the locals were quite unhappy about. These are all measures to modernize India, and Christianity, while still a religion, has become much more enlightened than the local religion. The last thing the East India Company should have done was to be too harsh on the Indian soldiers employed by the company.

Due to the disparity in the number of people, in order to consolidate its colonial rule and ensure the benefits of trade, the East India Company had to start relying on the locals to rule the locals, and established a mercenary system that hired local "native soldiers", called the Sipa Yi Regiment, with most of the soldiers being "native soldiers" and the officers being specially established schools to train the British. By 1857, the three British colonies of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta each had their own troops, and the total number of "native soldiers" far exceeded that of the regular British army, with a total of 200,000 Sipas compared to 40,000 British soldiers.

The East India Company's treatment of the Sipa soldiers was quite unfair, their wages were low, and they had to pay for their own journeys and luggage when they participated in expeditions (such as to Afghanistan or Burma to help the British with colonial expansion). In particular, in 1856 he went on an expedition to Burma to participate in the Anglo-Burmese War, and according to Indian tradition, if he went to Burma, he would lose his caste and be expelled from his community. Many of the soldiers were very unhappy with this. After the battle, the East India Company began to revoke some of the original rights of mercenaries, reduce their salaries, and stipulate that they could not be promoted beyond sergeants. In contrast, the British soldiers lived in comfortable houses, while the Indian soldiers lived in rudimentary tents.

The immediate trigger for the outbreak of the uprising was rumors about bullet lubricating oil: in early 1857 it began to circulate among mercenaries that the East India Company had applied ludice mixed with lard and butter to the carton packaging of rifles (rifles). Because Hinduism regarded cattle as gods and beef, while Islam regarded pigs as filth, and because soldiers had to bite through the paper of rifle bullets with their teeth before reloading, soldiers of both faiths refused to use these bullets. The East India Company claimed that this was a rumor and had replaced it with a new bullet with wax lubricant. But Indian soldiers still suspected that the lubricating oil was not clean and refused to bite off the lubricant-coated bullet casings used in the new guns.

On March 29, a soldier of the 34th Regiment, Mangalpandey, attacked his British sergeant and killed another sergeant major, and subsequently shot himself in an attempted suicide, but was sentenced to death and hanged on April 8. The decision of the East India Company to cancel this 34 regiment as a collective punishment exacerbated the contradictions and caused discontent among the soldiers of other regiments.

On May 9, 1857, 85 Indian soldiers of the 3rd Hussar Regiment were imprisoned by the British for refusing to use bullets, and sentenced them to 10 years of hard labor. This punishment infuriated their partners, and on 10 May the 11th and 20th Hussar Regiments of the Bengal Force in Meerut first rioted, freed the soldiers of the 3rd Hussar Regiment and attacked the European-populated areas. They killed the British officers, killed the Europeans and Indigenous Christians they saw, and burned down houses. There were 2,083 British soldiers and 12 field guns in Mithra, and more than 2,500 Indian native soldiers. The local British officers, perhaps feeling that they could control the situation, did not inform the British defenders elsewhere, and the British army's command errors and slow movement allowed the rebel army to march victoriously on the capital Delhi.

On 11 May, when the rebel army reached Delhi, local Indians joined the anti-British movement, attacking the Red Fort and killing five British. Supported by the rebels, the ruler who had long existed in name only, Muhammad, the last emperor of the Mughal Empire who lived in the Red Fort? Bahadur? Sand? Zafar also announced that he would accept the election of the rebel army and nominally lead the anti-British situation.

The Sipas continued to attack the British and Christians in various places. The uprising quickly spread to two-thirds of India's territory.

The situation in India has finally deteriorated. At this time, the Indian governor who presided over the situation was no longer Dalhousie, but Viscount Canning, who had taken over more than a year earlier, had just taken over and was not yet experienced in handling affairs, which gave the Sipa soldiers an opportunity.

Two major military and political events in the world took place at the same time, one was the confrontation between the small people of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the European power Prussia, and the other was the rebellion of the Indian native soldiers. Both are related to Downing, because he has unknowingly become the largest shareholder of the East India Company, and his Hessian mercenaries stationed in Singapore are the first to reinforce the East India Company, the blue ship Fan Zhongyan is just anchored in the port of Singapore, with the speed of 20 knots of the Great Eastern class, within three days with 2,300 Downing's private regiment from Singapore to the Indian subcontinent, these 2,300 soldiers are led by loyal veterans who have followed Downing to Zhenjiang for military training, the military appearance is neat, and the combat effectiveness is strong. Among them, there are 300 Chinese soldiers who were brought for military training, and under the leadership of veterans, their combat effectiveness is also quite good. Recently, the Archduke of Windsor has a strong reputation for purging the rebellion, and these mercenaries dare not slack off at all, and they are quite brave in battle.

Prussia had all the more reason to wait and see what the Grand Duke's fighting forces were, and the result was ......

The metal fixed ammunition of the hunters against the "bite through the paper bullet shell" of the native soldiers, and these native soldiers are completely in accordance with the drills of the old-fashioned musket formation, in front of the Tang army neatly arranged, become a live target, the head of the hunters at the beginning of the soldiers to remove the magazine partition, even if the number of the soldiers is exactly the same as the Tang army, the fierce firepower and range of the hunters are several times that of the native soldiers, as soon as the battle is engaged, the Indian native soldiers immediately collapsed, although they usually received strict array training by the British Army, but the speed of death is too fast, no one can stand it.

After the Hessian Chasseurs won their first battle, the Indian natives gathered tens of thousands of troops to fight the terrifying Grand Duke Chasseurs. With the first success, the chasers were even more confident, and they were not afraid to face the rebels who were several times their size, and they had mastered the skill of quickly pressing ten rounds into the FN-1855 rifle with a magazine, because the opponent's front-loading gun could not find cover to shoot, and the rear-loading rifle easily found cover, or crawling, squatting, and the advantage of range, in the toughest confrontation, the Grand Duke's chasers once again showed their might, and the British generals who watched the battle watched their trained qualified Indian soldiers being slaughtered by the Grand Duke, and they were all dumbfounded, and imagine that if the Indian soldiers were replaced by themselves, I am afraid that it would not be much better.

The largest battle hunting regiment crushed tens of thousands of Indian native soldiers in a short period of time and at a very small cost, and the powerful army that the Grand Duke had been hiding shocked the entire British Imperial Army.

In the days that followed, the Grand Ducal Chasseur swept across the Indian subcontinent like a bitter cold wind, crushing the resistance it encountered. The 40,000 British troops became the younger brother of the Grand Duke, who was only responsible for holding strategic points or logistics, and the work of attacking the city and fighting tough battles was handed over to the devastating Grand Duke Chasseurs.

Since the outbreak of the rebellion, the shares of the East India Company have plummeted. Even though the Grand Duke's hunters quickly salvaged the situation, the unforeseen future pushed the East India Company's market value to the brink of bankruptcy. The shareholders, led by the triumvirate of Rothschild, the Scottish bankers, and the Grand Duke of Windsor, began to discuss the future of the East India Company.

The Big Three were going to find a place to get together, but Downing never agreed or gave a reason, and Lionel and the bankers were puzzled, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the Grand Duke of Windsor. In fact...... It's very simple, because of the killing world, Tang Ning's mental illness has been committed again, and he is getting stricter and stricter these days, and he is lying in bed with a fever, and his bride princess is using a cold towel frozen in the penguin refrigerator to cool him down, and he looks weak, occasionally snorting twice, and he does not have the demeanor of the Governor of Luxembourg who is the mighty Governor of Luxembourg at all, and he doesn't even have the strength to read the telegram from the Governor of Straits Settlements, his chief adviser on Indian policy, waiting for Sissi to read it to him.

Sissi: "Honey, why don't you use painkillers?" In her eyes, Downing can conjure up countless painkillers, and her mother has been using all kinds of painkillers provided by Downing to deal with migraines and other problems.

Downing: "Patience is getting better soon......"

April has passed, their wedding must have failed, Downing had to apologize to the bride, "the situation is rotten, not suitable for marriage", he also explained, originally he wanted to have a wedding in London, but Dumas, the big villain, said "Aren't you the Grand Duke of Luxembourg?" Why not go to Luxembourg for a wedding? You see, the British don't give you the title of Duke of London anymore, why are you still in London? ”

The Grand Duke's self-esteem was stimulated, and the Satsuma mercenaries were on their way to Europe, so he impulsively wanted to take over Luxembourg by force, and now he was looking for regret medicine all over the world, and his good reputation was now a warlord and a hero, alas, and the failure to make the wedding disappoint Sissi became one of the things he regretted the most. (http：／／）。

Tang Ning snorted: "Oh, this Alexandre Dumas, after waiting for a while, I will definitely settle accounts with him......"

Sissi: "What's the use of settling accounts with him?" It's too late to say anything...... Can Luxembourg do without? You fought with Prussia...... Scared ...... me."

Can Prussia, a large country with a population of 20 million, not be afraid? Although she was hostile to the "stronger" France before, it was only a political dispute, and she did not do anything, and the naïve Sissi was not afraid at all at that time, but now that she was legally married to Downing, the dusty little wife suddenly became afraid of her husband's great cause, and she did not know what use Luxembourg had besides the title of Grand Duke.

"Okay, I don't want it......" Downing seemed to be more afraid of his wife than Darwin, and since his wife had this request, he actually agreed.

Tang Ning's brain burned badly, hugged his wife, and said, "I don't want anything but Sissi......"

Pity...... The wish was good, and the brothers who followed the Grand Duke did not agree, and Sissi herself remembered the telegram she had just received and read it: "The telegram from Reuters, Rothschild proposed the dissolution of the East India Company, and the affairs of India were completely handed over to the direct jurisdiction of the British government. ”