Chapter 1016: The Coming Curtain Call
In the forty-fourth year of the Holy Dao, in 1762, the Great War of the Universe had entered its fourth year, but the curtain of this battlefield had only really opened.
In the same year, Britain, Prussia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the Cyris camp (the seventeen countries of Cyrisplus Asia) were united by the Lisbon Treaty, and France, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Russia, and Ottoman Turkey were united by the Turin Agreement. Despite the great difference in sincerity and engagement within the two camps, the Earth was finally truly divided into two blocs, and the war expanded further.
It is a battle for freedom, where advanced industrial and commercial capital is eager to break the religious and aristocratic shackles of the old world, new nations need to forge their own national souls, and ancient peoples that have risen back from the ashes need to stretch their ambitions.
"The popes, kings, and archdukes can no longer dominate the world with their crowns", "The soul of Prussia is poured into shape in the smoke and blood and fire", "The Anglo-Chinese kings are universal, and the destiny of heaven is decided in one battle", said the intellectuals of Britain, Prussia, and Anglo-Chinese about the war.
For them, this is a criminal war, whether it is France, which fell into hell soon after the war, or Russia, Ottoman Turkey and other countries that fell into a century-old nightmare after the war, the source of the disaster comes from this war. For countries like Poland and Persia, the First World War was the abyss.
Unlike the history of another plane, because of the Anglo-Chinese intervention, the smoke of the European War was no longer limited to the borders of Prussia, Silesia and Poland, and the theme was no longer simply the rise of Prussia. The First Polish Republic was divided by this war, and the two camps were attached to the "Allied Powers" and the "Entente Powers" respectively, and the bloodiness of fighting each other was far greater than the military operations between the camps. Poland also fell victim to the final war between the two factions, dying thirty years before the other.
Because of the Anglo-Chinese intervention, Britain and France, which had lost India, fought more fiercely for colonies in the Americas, and the war went from the east coast to the banks of the Mississippi River. The full use of the Indians by the French. It also forced Britain to face up to the "United States" supported by Britain and China.
Also because of the loss of India, the wars between Britain and France and Spain in the Caribbean were far more intense than in the other plane. Together with the colonies acquired from the Dutch, Britain not only drove the French out of North America, but also greatly expanded its colonies in the Caribbean, South America, and Africa.
It was not only France and Spain that suffered significant losses in their colonial interests. The Netherlands has suffered even more, and despite being in the Allied camp, it is too weak to have a vested interest in this global upheaval.
The reason why the Netherlands participated in the alliance was to protect the interests of Asia, especially the Java colony and the Anglo-Chinese trade route. The Netherlands had long been mentally prepared for the fact that South America and the African colonies were used as bargaining chips by Britain and Anglo-Chinese. Compared with Portugal, which held the Anglo-Chinese thighs and held the original colonies of Africa and America. The Netherlands were arguably the biggest losers on the winning side.
The Central Asian theater was another focal point of the war, with Russia, Ottoman Turkey, and Persia joining forces to fight against the Anglo-Chinese tide of westward expansion. Like the Netherlands, Persia fell victim to many contradictions, and the post-war century was confined to many contradictions. There were battles for the throne of the aristocracy, religious conflicts, and interest groups supported by Anglo-Chinese, Russian, and Ottoman Turkey.
In this global upheaval, the old and the new are alternate. A large number of emerging countries have also emerged. There are not only countries that have risen from the aftermath of the war, such as the Commonwealth of America, which was formed by the independence of the thirteen states in North America, but also countries that have been built out of thin air by major powers. Examples include the United Arab Emirates of America and the Kingdom of Afghanistan. And the ancient countries of the old world have also been controlled by the powerful and forced to integrate into the global situation. …,