Hong Tiancheng's desire to be the king of Sweden is not just a matter of talking, and it is not a joke to teach Estonia and Latvia that they are part of the territory of the Russian Empire.

With Hong Tiancheng's response, the elite grenadier division of the Third Taiping Army moved to the southern border of the Kingdom of Latvia, and as soon as Hong Tiancheng gave an order, he would launch an offensive!

On the eastern border between the Kingdom of Latvia and the Kingdom of Estonia, there are a large number of new troops of the Russian Empire and the Moscow Praetorian Guard, whose number has been expanded to 30,000!

Attacking the Kingdom of Latvia and the Kingdom of Estonia, the Taiping Army was only an auxiliary, and the main attacker was the Russian Empire, which was also a means for Hong Tiancheng to increase the prestige of the thousand-faced pseudo-tsar.

Of course, the most critical reason is that Latvia and Estonia already have the prototype of a nation-state, and they have almost set off the banner of national independence struggle, and it is not difficult to defeat two small countries, but it is extremely difficult to govern them......

The soldiers of the Taiping Army died on the frontal battlefield Hong Tiancheng thought that it was worth the money, and died in the guerrilla security war, Hong Tiancheng was not happy, not to mention, the public security war may not have results after ten years!

The current basic plate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established by slaughtering the locals one by one, and the Christian Brotherhood came out of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Hong Tiancheng didn't want to try the ocean of people's war again......

Therefore, Hong Tiancheng was trying to establish a circle of vassal states with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as the core, and he claimed that the Kingdom of Sweden was also the king of Sweden, rather than annexing it to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Annexation to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom meant converting to religion, learning Chinese and abandoning the traditions of their own people, which would cause a great sense of rebellion in the conquered areas.

In continental Europe, annexation and concurrent are two completely different concepts.

Under the mediation of Hong Tiancheng on the surface, but in fact under the secret order, the two military allies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Grand Chief of Surrey of the Cossack United Emirate and the Puppet Tsar of a Thousand Faces, held peaceful and friendly consultations on the issue of the southern territory of the Russian Empire, and the Cossack cavalry of the United Cossack Emirate with a large number of people willing to follow Surrey. The Cossacks of the Great Chieftain of Asman left their homeland and went to the sparsely populated Cossack United Emirate to survive and multiply, providing new recruits for the Cossack Emirate.

The rest of the Cossacks, under the newly established ruling order of the Russian Empire, continued to defend the oppressive exploitation of the Russian tsar, which was completing the centralization.

Of course, even the Cossacks who went to the United Cossack Emirates had to bear high taxes, and as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom flourished, the prestige of the Grand Chief of Surrey, who had allied with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and advocated firmly following in the footsteps of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, also grew, because it was this great leader with 'foresight' who allowed the Cossacks to have their own sovereign state, and embraced the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has now become the overlord of Eastern Europe.

Of course, with the secret support of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Grand Chieftain of Surrey also began a drastic correction of the centralized system, and the leaders of the Cossack tribes no longer held the position of chieftains with great power in the new Cossack United Emirate, and the powerful Cossack leaders were pulled into the Senate of the Cossack United Emirate, losing the leadership of the military power and the loyalty of the people, and becoming an executive councilor with noble honors.

The Cossack leaders who were not strong were simply deprived of the power to kill and seize the livelihood of their subordinates, and those who honestly obeyed the reorganization orders could still serve as a grassroots officer, and the dishonest ones were all pulled out by Sari and chopped up and fed to the crocodiles......

The approach of the Cossacks was still quite barbaric......

Since the heads of the Russian Empire and the United Cossack Emirates were 'their own people' produced by the system of total war, Hong Tiancheng has always been committed to achieving an absolute personal dictatorship in his own country, which was nothing in the 17th century, and the aristocratic lords have always been high dictators in their own domains, and Hong Tiancheng's approach is only to expand this system to one country.

For example, under the rule of the cold-blooded politician Richelieu for decades, the Kingdom of France has now grown into a centralized state, and the rights of the local nobility have been greatly weakened under the system of inspectors established during the Richelieu period, which is one of the reasons why the Kingdom of France can quickly grow into a Western European power in the 17th century.

With the rapid development of military technology after the Renaissance, more and more monarchs realized the importance of centralized power, and even the Habsburgs, the owners of the vast Holy Roman Empire, did everything possible to integrate this behemoth and try to dominate all of Europe.

It's a pity that the Habsburg family, which has just ended more than ten years of war, broke the efforts of the Habsburg dynasty, and the current Habsburg family of the Holy Roman Empire is powerful, but the Holy Roman Empire is still the same bird as before, neither sacred nor 'empire'!

The perfect rapprochement between the Cossack United Emirate and the Russian Empire disappointed the Crimean Khanate, which had effectively become a client state of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but never gave up its pride as a Mongol-Tatar state.

The Crimean Khanate is also regarded as the last remaining Khanate with a certain Mongolian ancestry in the Eurasian border region.

If you look at it openly, you will find that the expansion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has reached a bottleneck, with Estonia, Latvia and the Russian Empire to the north, and the Russian Empire to the east.

To the west is the Baltic Sea, as well as an enclave of the Electoral State of Prussia and a piece of Livonian land abandoned by the Christian Brotherhood.

To the south was the German vassal states of the Holy Roman Empire separated by a barrier of the Kingdom of Poland, and to the southeast it was bordered directly by the client states of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and in addition to the Crimean Khanate, Transylvania and Moldova were two vassal states loyal to the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

It can be said that apart from the two inconspicuous small states in the north and the Kingdom of Sweden, which is struggling to resist, only two behemoths are left on the verge of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is why Hong Tiancheng tried to deal with the relatively weak Kingdom of Sweden and the two small states of Latvia and Estonia first.

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