Andrei paused for a moment and continued to analyze: "Carl X Gustav, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Sweden, has always held a grudge against King Jan Kazimierz Vasa of Poland-Lithuania for wanting to marry his sister and thus peacefully annex the Kingdom of Sweden. ”

"Wait, Andrei, as far as I know, although King Jan Kazimierz Vasa wanted to marry the sister of Karl X Gustav, the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania has never revealed the intention of annexing the Kingdom of Sweden, and even the lowly freemen know that the strength of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania cannot shake the Kingdom of Sweden at all, and the war ten years ago has made the magnates of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania realize this."

Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich smugly interrupted Andrei's statement, playing with what little 'common sense' he had.

"Your Majesty, you have overlooked a crucial factor, although the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania does not have the strength to annex the Kingdom of Sweden, it does not prevent the arrogant King Jan Kazimierz Vasa from having this idea, of course, the most important thing about Karl X Gustav of the Kingdom of Sweden hating King Jan Kazimierz Vasa is because Karl X Gustav, the current head of the ruling family of the Kingdom of Sweden, is a veritable sister!

Rumor ......"

"Ahem, well, I know Andrei, you go on to other things, not to mention the private life of Carl X Gustav, the Swedes themselves are a bunch of barbarians, and it is understandable that they do not obey the religion." Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich interrupted Andrei's 'grapevine' with two dry coughs.

At this time, Andrei happened to talk about how Carl X Gustav made his own sister bigger, and then had to make a 'painful' decision for the sake of family honor, which led to Carl X Gustav's own sister having an abortion, and ran away from home in a fit of rage, becoming another 'traveling princess' on the European continent who was guarded by many bodyguards......

Naturally, although Her Royal Highness the princess of the Kingdom of Sweden advertised that she had run away from home, in fact Karl X Gustav felt ashamed of her own sister, so he acquiesced in her actions, and privately sent someone to provide her with protection and money for her sister to squander and enjoy life......

What Andrei didn't say was that after this incident, the sister uncle Carl X Gustav moved his target to his youngest sister Cristina, who was also the marriage proposal of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa of Poland and the daughter of the Gustav family.

In fact, Carl X Gustav is not the male of the Gustav family, but Christina's eldest cousin, so although Carl X Gustav holds most of the rights of the Kingdom of Sweden, he has not been able to ascend the throne and be crowned as the Swedish throne because his background does not conform to tradition.

This gave the careerist King Jan Kazimierz Vasa a hint of political fantasy, as long as he married Christina, the first heir in line to the throne of the Gustav family, he had the right to inherit the throne of the Swedish kingdom de jure!

However, the magnates of the Kingdom of Sweden were unwilling to accept either a Karl of collateral origin or the rule of the Poles, and the position of king remained vacant......

It is also the European countries that have a popular feudal system to play like this!

Because the king is only the great noble lord with the most power, even if there is no king, the land within the country is managed by feudal lords at different levels, and there will be no signs of chaos.

Unlike the Eastern states, which relied on bureaucracy to govern their localities, European countries relied almost exclusively on noble lords to govern their localities, and the noble lords enjoyed land and were responsible for war, which did not change until the Napoleonic era.

King Jan Kazimiir Vasa's marriage proposal was to the cousin of a person in power, and it is conceivable that King Jan Kazimiir Vasa's political marriage was a wrong step from the start......

This also caused the diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to be very tense, which were caused by sisterhood and ambition.

After stopping to narrate the glorious history of Uncle Meikong, Andrei cleared his throat and began to analyze it again in a serious manner.

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Sweden will only be the one who will fall to the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, unless King Jan Kazimierz Vasa renounces his marriage proposal to Princess Christina, but even so, the Kingdom of Sweden may prefer to see the mighty Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom greatly consumed in the civil war, so that they can send troops to take Livonia into their own hands!

Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Sweden, under the reforms of Gustav II, has a strong military and a well-known heart of tigers and wolves, and will become the biggest enemy of our Great Russian Empire's external expansion in the coming period.

With the bottomless elites of the Kingdom of Sweden, they will do anything for the land, including uniting the Poles! ”

Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich couldn't help but take a deep breath when he heard this, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was most worried about the union of the two great powers in Eastern Europe - the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania and Sweden.

The basic national strength of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is still clear, with the strength of the Russian Empire, in the face of the siege of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, there is no chance of winning at all!

After seeing the expression of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Andrei comforted softly: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the biggest goal of the Kingdom of Sweden is to cut the flesh of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the land of the Poles is too large and bloated, and there is the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom inside, Karl He is a shrewd man who knows how to choose an opponent, I estimate that the Kingdom of Sweden will act accordingly after the decisive battle between the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

After fighting with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the strength of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom will definitely plummet, and at that time, whether the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom wins or not, it will be a fish on the table of the Russian Empire and the Swedish Kingdom.

We can start with the territory of the middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper, so that we can stagger with Livonia and even Lithuania, which are coveted by the Kingdom of Sweden, at the beginning, and when the Poles are out, we can compete with the Kingdom of Sweden. ”

Andrei gestured confidently to the map.

"Andre, how should we deal with the emerging force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich looked away from the map and asked seemingly casually.

Thanks to the lonely old man who hopes to meet again after 8 and 90, and the river crab of the ancient god will each reward 100 starting coins