As the eyes of the Spanish Empire shifted, the news of the War of the Spanish Succession also spread to the North American continent, and the Special Operations Office that Zhao Dutian split from Jinyiwei also showed their first results!

The news of the War of the Spanish Succession was completely presented on Zhao Dutian's desk!

The Special Operations Office is a foreign intelligence and espionage agency set up by Zhao Dutian, and this department has its own special operations team, that is, armed personnel who carry out assassinations, kidnappings, inciting civil riots and other discordant tasks, these special operations teams are completely trained to the standards of soldiers of the Han Guards, and even have the ability to conduct small-scale encounters!

It's just that these elite soldiers are too difficult to train, and if they recruit soldiers directly, the price is too expensive, so the number of special operations teams is very small limited by Zhao Dutian. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For the time being, I can only make some small movements, I don't dare to show my head, and if I lose once, the special task force can cancel the establishment......

Thanks to the fact that there are many Indians in the cities of the white colonists, and the awareness of espionage prevention in this era is very weak, so Zhao Dutian can get a lot of delayed European news!

The delay is mainly due to the long time it takes to cross the ocean......

The Special Operations Service is referred to as the Special Operations Service (well, it's actually a secret service...... The information presented to Zhao Dutian is very well summarized.

Well, forget about the course of the war, it's all over anyway, and the Europeans fight the war is nothing more than just a few tactics, there is nothing to study.

Zhao Dutian's main thing to look at is how the national strength of countries after the war was!

The Dutch Republic (United Provinces of the Netherlands) spent a lot of national strength in the War of the Spanish Succession, and after the signing of the Peace of Utrecht, the gains outweighed the losses; Although the main purpose of the alliance in waging war was to prevent the Spanish Netherlands from falling into French hands and free them from French invasion, the Dutch suffered huge losses in transportation and commerce, and its powerful navy was constantly reduced and declined after the war due to insufficient military spending.

After the three Anglo-Dutch wars and the War of the Spanish Succession, this maritime power was overburdened economically (the heaviest tax country in Europe), its national power declined significantly, and gradually retreated from the competition between European powers. More importantly, patriotism was severely weakened, and the semi-centralized inter-provincial government was abolished during the war. The Netherlands entered the second period of no head. The Netherlands preferred to lose the glory of the "coachman of the sea" rather than compete with Britain and France for commercial monopoly and maritime supremacy, and was soon no longer included in the list of the leading European powers.

Yes, the Netherlands didn't wait for Lao Tzu to make a move, and it was already out, let's take a look at the UK!

Britain became the third winner of the war. Using the war, Britain struck at France's maritime military power, completely dealt a blow to Spain's colonial power, and also indirectly weakened another potential commercial competitor, the Netherlands (allied with Britain during the war), Britain had dominated the sea and commerce, and thus embarked on the road of maritime colonial power, the key result was to obtain the Spanish colonial empire's thirty-year monopoly on the black slave trade, and the occupation of the Spanish seaports Gibraltar and Minorca, so that the British navy could reach into the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas in the Americas, Gain the right to control the sea and trade with each other. It can be said that at sea the British achieved an advantage.

France must also expel James Francis Edward Stuart, the old pretender to the throne wanted by the British government (with whom his father James II fled to France after being overthrown by the British Parliament during the Glorious Revolution), and recognize the succession to the English throne by George I of Hanover, the heir to the heirless Queen Anne of the Stuart dynasty (daughter of James II). France also renounced its claim to the British colony of Hudson's Bay in northern Canada, ceding Arcady and Newfoundland (famous fishing grounds) to Britain in eastern Canada.

This may be the beginning of the rise of Britain on which the sun never sets, I wonder what France will be like?

Zhao Dutian turned to the next page!

The Spanish throne was eventually succeeded by Philip V of the Bourbon dynasty of France, and France became the first winner of the Spanish throne, but the Peace of Utrecht after the war stipulated that France and Spain would never be united. France was defeated in the war, and King Louis XIV's plan to unite France, Spain, and the Netherlands (the Netherlands and the Spanish Netherlands) was destroyed.

At the same time, the French economy has been crushed by cold natural disasters and soaring war costs, and the mass death of starving people has caused a social collapse, and the French population may fall from about 21 million to less than 19 million; When the "Peace of Utrecht" was announced, the French were seriously disappointed with the results, so that Louis XIV's original great "Sun King" image and super high morale were lost in his later years, and the people no longer compared the king to the sun, and the title of "Louis the Great" disappeared from the French speech and memory.

Militarily, the French navy was almost completely wiped out, the seas had been overwhelmed by the British, and the army was equally broken, and it could no longer dominate Europe as it had 30 years ago; Although France remained largely the number one power in Europe (as the other powers were exhausted), it was only a "broken" number one power for at least a decade, meaning that Louis XIV's hegemony had not completely collapsed.

Zhao Dutian was overjoyed when he saw it, he didn't expect that the winner in this war would be weakened so much!

However, the next piece of information made Zhao Dutian feel a sense of crisis!

The Austrian monarch was also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (including Austria and the German states) and ruled over the German states (including Prussia). The War of the Spanish Succession saved the Holy Roman Empire after the Thirty Years' War, which had already been torn apart and on the verge of extinction, and made the German states of the empire less independent.

Frederick III, Elector of the Electorate of Brandenburg, Germany's most important state, succeeded Frederick I of Prussia by supporting the military campaigns of the Holy Roman Empire, from Emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire.

Frederick I, even Zhao Dutian, a historical novice, has heard of Frederick the Great's name, it seems that the history of this parallel space is really not much different from his previous life!

Prussia!

Judging from his current situation, meddling in European affairs can only be thought of in a dream, so to speak, Prussia did not want to prevent the unification war in the near future, and the German Empire after the unification ......

Forget it, let's read the information first......