413 The covetousness of the anti-Han League

At the beginning of 1676, when the whole of Western Europe was trembling under the bayonets of the Taiping army, the Ottoman Turkish Empire launched a large-scale campaign in Central Europe with the strength of the whole country, injecting a boost into the already extinct anti-Han alliance.

Although the Ottoman Empire paid a huge price for this, it succeeded in breaking the 'European order' established by Hong Tiancheng on a large scale for the first time, and plunged the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rule in Central Europe into a series of collapses.

This gave hope to the French guerrillas, who were struggling to resist and scattered, and the aristocratic groups of the Kingdom of Spain and Portugal, who were constantly running away.

The most direct manifestation of this is that when the Ottoman Turkish Empire was mired in the chaos of Central Europe, the representatives of the heads of state of the four countries, led by the merged Kingdom of England and the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain, held a politically significant meeting in London.

Representatives of the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of England, the French aristocracy and the Bourbon royal family who had fled to the overseas colonies and the British Isles re-consolidated the terms of the anti-Han alliance in London and carried out a new round of distribution of obligations.

However, although there are still four countries left in the anti-Han alliance, in fact, only Spain and England really have the final say, Portugal is small and weak, and only participates in the conference as a foil, and the Kingdom of Portugal has always been close to the British Isles due to the interests of overseas colonies, and is a veritable British 'little brother'.

As for the Kingdom of France, it lost most of the rights of the former anti-Han allies, and was even divided into two political groups at the conference.

One is a political group led by the French aristocracy that fled to the British Isles and was supported by the British, which included a large number of French bourgeoisie with a lot of wealth, and the members of the nobility were mostly liberal aristocrats, most of whom were nobles and capitalists who had been persecuted by Louis XIV and exiled.

During the reign of Louis XIV, they only brought their wealth to speed up the process of the industrial revolution in the British Isles, but now that Louis XIV and the entire Bourbon royal family have lost their territory, leaving only a few overseas colonies to survive, these self-proclaimed liberal French political groups are naturally qualified to come to the table.

In particular, they were strongly supported by the British royal family and the bourgeois parliament!

The British hoped that in the future, when French rule was restored, they would be able to prop up these French liberals with similar political leanings to themselves, rather than the Bourbons, whom they accused of being mediocre.

As for the declining Bourbon dynasty, it is natural that it has become the object of support from the Spanish Habsburgs, not only because the royal family members of the Bourbon dynasty have some blood ties with the Spanish Habsburgs, but also because the Spanish kingdom uses to fight against the increasingly large English kingdom.

The Habsburg Dynasty, which was once the boss, was unwilling to let a group of Anglobarians ride on its head, and was once defeated by King Louis XIV of France, which was inferior in skill, but the Kingdom of England took advantage of the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the superior geographical location to take over the authority of the anti-Han alliance, what is it?

Not only did the Spanish Habsburgs look down on the British Isles as their boss, but the vast majority of the traditional nobles who were driven out by the Taiping Army were dissatisfied with the barbarian aristocracy of the British Isles, especially where they compromised with the bourgeoisie!

The Kingdom of England was the first and so far the only country on the continent to compromise with the bourgeoisie, and the Kingdom of England naturally disgusted the traditional aristocratic group of Europeans by allowing a group of merchants, capitalists, and bankers without aristocratic traditions to sit in the sacred place where national strategy was determined.

If it weren't for the fact that the entire European continent has been almost swept away by the Taiping Army, and everyone has to unite to survive, these traditional European aristocratic groups will even support the traditional British royal family members to restore and completely abolish the so-called mud-legged House of Commons!

Soon after the Glorious Revolution of Cromwell, England underwent a seismic royal restoration, and it was the support from the European continent that made the restoration of the restoration in the early stages.

However, it was only after the defeat of the bourgeoisie that the British Isles was in a small war as the first industrial revolution deepened, and finally the exhausted two sides compromised and established the world's first practical bourgeois constitutional monarchy.

It's a pity that because the British Army has become the main force of the bourgeois revolution, it has repeatedly overturned the troops loyal to the British royal family, and the British royal family, which has to compromise with the bourgeoisie with a grudge, even if it accepts the sharing of rights by the bourgeoisie, the British Army will no longer be able to enjoy the two prefixes of 'royal'!

Of course, the rise of the Taiping Army Hong Tiancheng did not allow the British Isles to experience this analgetic period, and the current great enemy, the merger of the British Isles has become a matter of course, not to mention the compromise between the bourgeoisie and the traditional British forces?

As for the diehards in Europe, they were overturned by the Taiping army, and they simply did not have the energy and manpower to stop everything that happened in the British Isles.

Since then, the British Isles have become a mecca for Protestants and the bourgeoisie, and the unpopular Protestants and bourgeois wealthy people from all over the continent have flocked to the British Isles to contribute to the development of the English Kingdom.

The Taiping army beat the whole of Europe into smoke, but it promoted the prosperity of the British Isles, with the British Channel as a moat, the English Kingdom can use most of its strength to accumulate strength and train a modern new army.

It was precisely because the strength of the British Isles was not greatly damaged that the anti-Han alliance, which had almost exhausted its elite troops, was stirred into a mud in Central Europe by the crescent cultists, and the anti-Han alliance still had the strength to re-condense, and even coveted the Taiping army on the French mainland, which was mired in war!

This is also the reason why the liberal political forces of France and the conservative Bourbon forces were able to maintain a place in the anti-Han alliance, even if the Kingdom of England had some hostility to the Bourbons, they had to accept them, who called the Catholic Bourbons have a large number of people in France itself?

In the event of a counterattack on France itself, the Bourbons would take the lead, much more than the appeal of the rich liberal French bourgeoisie!

However, just when the anti-Han alliance wanted to use the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Spain as a starting point to attack the Taiping army in France itself, the Taiping army took the first step.