"Duke Stanisław, I'm glad that there are people as smart as you here in Poland, and our cooperation has saved the Polish people unnecessary suffering and made Poland a more pure country, isn't it?"

Hong Tiancheng happily touched the glass with the Duke of Stanisław, the current patriarch of the Koniecpolski family and the head of the Polish surrender faction, and talked eloquently.

By this time, Hong Tiancheng was already sitting in the Polish Imperial Palace in the capital of Krakow, the coveted capital, and the Sym Parliament had been permanently closed.

Hong Tiancheng does not need an aristocratic democratic political system with low administrative efficiency, there is no so-called democratic legal cloak in this era, let alone human rights, Hong Tiancheng wants a puppet regime that can efficiently fulfill his will, and naturally let the newly baked Kingdom of Poland rectify it according to his own wishes.

And Hong Tiancheng's direct meeting with Duke Stanisław was the negotiation that finalized the future Kingdom of Poland.

As a symbol of the Kingdom of Poland, the capital of Krakow will be stationed in a regiment of the main elite of the Taiping Army, and in Hong Tiancheng's plan, at least one entire elite infantry division of the Taiping Army will be stationed in the Kingdom of Poland.

This is also the reason why the Kingdom of Poland is called a protectorate.

"Your Majesty, the great Taiping Heavenly King, it is my honor to be able to enjoy this victory with you, and I am willing to exchange the sincerity of the entire Polish nation for your friendship."

Duke Stanisław pandered, obviously, he was very accurate in his positioning, although the Taiping army captured the capital of Krakow and many other Polish cities, the Duke of Stanisław sent people to cooperate with the outside world, but the strength of the Taiping army is also obvious.

Duke Stanisław was originally only one of the many great nobles of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and his military strength was not high-class, and his rebellion could only be regarded as a trouble at most for the Polish army facing the disaster of national destruction.

The main battle faction of the Polish king and the council of Sem was not killed by the rebels led by Duke Stanisław, but by the Taiping army on the frontal battlefield!

It was precisely because the former Polish king and the nobles of the main battle faction of the Sem Parliament died in droves on the front line that those wall-riding factions of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom made up their minds to defect to the surrender faction led by the Duke of Stanisław, and in the final siege of the capital of Kraków, they persuaded most of them to surrender in Kaesongh, and signed the humiliating Treaty of Krakow with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

It can be said that in this treaty, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania has completely lost its glory as an independent sovereign state, and has been reduced to the situation of a third-rate small country on the European continent, and the war reparations borne alone will have to be repaid for a full 20 years under the current economic conditions of Poland itself!

Moreover, the military expenses of the garrison of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom need to be borne additionally.

Most importantly, during the war, the armies of the Kingdom of Poland were to obey the orders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom unconditionally, and were almost reduced to the treatment of a client state.

It can be said that the only benefit of this Taiping War against Poland is probably the Polish capitulation aristocratic group led by Duke Stanisław, because the Taiping army lacks interest in directly ruling Poland itself, and the land of the Polish nobles who lost the military strength of the fiefdom and the main battle faction in the war has become a feast for the capitulation nobles led by the Duke of Stanisław.

Duke Stanisław is from an ordinary aristocratic general to the next candidate for the king of Poland, and then as long as Hong Tiancheng nods, Duke Stanisław can ascend to the Polish throne without hindrance.

The family of the Duke of Stanisław will also be officially listed as a Polish royal family.

As for the price that the Polish people will have to pay in the future for making this achievement, it is not a problem at all for the Duke of Stanisław, anyway, it is the entire Kingdom of Poland that pays the bill to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not the Duke of Stanisław himself!

Not only that, but as an example of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's 'loyal friends', Hong Tiancheng granted the traditional fiefdoms of the Duke of Stanisław (not counting the lands annexed later) to be exempt from all indemnity contributions.

The reparations after the defeat of the Kingdom of Poland were apportioned according to the regions, since the finances of the Kingdom of Poland had long since collapsed......

Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not collect precious metal currency, but only physical materials, and the Taiping army had already grabbed enough precious metal currency......

It was the receipt of indemnities in kind that led to the need for the Kingdom of Poland to pay for 20 years!

Poland itself has rich plain farms, and Hong Tiancheng basically used Poland as a big granary for the Taiping army.

It's still the kind that doesn't need to send someone to directly manage and act as a hands-off shopkeeper.

After the situation stabilized, Duke Stanisław would use his family's private army as the backbone to absorb the local Polish militia to reorganize the Polish standing army, and at Hong Tiancheng's request, the noble private army would be greatly reduced and banned, even those who surrendered to the Polish aristocracy would only retain the right to a few guards.

The Polish standing army will be of great use to Hong Tiancheng in the future, and he does not want the Polish regular army to remain in the same chaotic state as before.

Of course, this military reform basically announced the demise of the ancient and powerful army of the Polish hussars, without the aristocratic knight training, the Polish hussars will lose the supply of soldiers, after all, the Polish hussars have too high requirements for the quality of cavalry, and only the children and knights of the nobility who have been trained in combat skills since childhood can serve as Polish hussars.

Coupled with the fact that the Polish hussars were lost in the war between the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this establishment would eventually be permanently abolished in the nascent Kingdom of Poland, and of course, there were two important reasons why the Duke of Stanisław was reluctant to reorganize the Polish hussars:

First, the Polish hussars were too expensive.

Second, the Polish hussars were almost repeatedly defeated in battles with the Taiping army, and they had long lost their original glory, so naturally there was no need to continue to spend a lot of money on establishment.

Duke Stanisław is not a pedantic person, the large-scale use of muskets and the fragility of soldiers' lives on the battlefield made Duke Stanisław realize that the future war is no longer a place for a few elite to gallop, but a competition of manpower and logistics resources, simply put, whoever has more guns will be able to gain an advantage in the war!

In the 17th century, the artillery power was still relatively backward, and the use of infantry was excavated by the Taiping army in advance, so it created an illusion for the commanders of the entire European continent that the infantry would become the only main force on the battlefield in the future!

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