Chapter 640: Gunshots in Sarajevo

According to the theory of entanglement, history never repeats itself, but it is always strikingly similar.

This is determined by the natural rate.

It was as if a few days later, when Yehrana Xingzhen saw Zhu Fugui's "Edict of the Emperor Ming Declaring War on the Twenty Kingdoms" from the "Daming Times", her mouth grew in surprise.

"Where did he Zhu Fugui get the guts? Declaring war on so many countries, is he crazy? ”

In the end, Xingzhen still didn't say it.

Because she was surprised to find that the "Pseudo-Qing State" ranked fifth on the "Edict of Declaration of War".

Compared with the question of Zhu Fugui's bear heart and leopard gall, Xingzhen wanted to say to him more: "Don't come here!" ”

The young woman Xingzhen never thought that Zhu Fugui's edict had copied the future old witch Xingzhen.

Similarly, Zhu Fugui never thought that the gunshot in Sarajevo would ring out after all.

Only this time, the bullet did not hit the wife of the Crown Prince Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Ten years of Dewu, Xiyuan June 28, 1872.

This is a day that will surely be included in the history textbooks of all countries.

This day was the beginning of another mega-war involving the whole world since Khorezm's killing of the Mongol envoys triggered World War I.

No one will remember anymore that June 28, 1872 marks the 486th anniversary of the conquest of Serbia by the Ottoman Turks.

But if you turn back the clock a week, no one will realize it.

In order to commemorate the Ottoman Turkish Empire's domination of the Balkans, the "caliph" Abdul invited his old friends, His Majesty Zhu Fugui and His Majesty William, to Sarajevo, the capital of the Serbian province of Bosnia (that is, Poland in Bosnia and Herzegovina), for a special visit.

Zhu Fugui naturally wouldn't go so far to participate in this kind of bullshit ceremony.

After politely refusing, Qian Chen, the Ming ambassador to Istanbul, was sent to participate on his behalf.

William was also unable to attend the event.

As the head of a Christian state and a potential heir to the Roman throne, William had to consider his own reputation in Christendom.

After much deliberation, William I politely declined the invitation, citing ill health.

However, Abdul's hospitality was difficult to resist, and he invited several times in succession.

Because of the special geographical relationship of the Balkan Peninsula, the forces of Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia have been eyeing each other in recent years.

Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia and other separatist forces have emerged one after another.

To demonstrate his determination to maintain Ottoman rule in the region, Abdul must enlist a heavyweight ally to endorse him.

Eventually, Wilhelm I reluctantly sent his eldest son, Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm Nicholas Carr, and his wife, Princess Victoria Adelaide Marie Louise, to visit on his behalf.

Then......

Bang!

An angry Serbian youth threw seven bullets of national liberation into the chest of the Ottoman accomplices, the Frerets.

Two people were killed on the spot!

According to the telegram sent back by Ambassador Qian Chen, who had gone through hardships and dangers, the Serbs who committed the murder at that time shouted "Long live the Kingdom of Serbia!" "Long live Mikhailo Obrenovich III! slogan.

Mikhailo Obrenović III, Grand Duke of Serbia, was assassinated four years earlier.

As a Catholic shield for centuries, Serbia has been a defense for Western Europeans against Arab and Ottoman invasions.

But all they received was backstabbing again and again.

486 years ago, Serbia was finally annexed by the rising Ottoman Empire.

However, as a member of the Desert Tritheism, the Serbs are also very inassimilate.

In addition, the Ottomans were not part of the Chinese Empire, and they did not have the heart to manage it seriously, and in the end, after nearly 500 years of rule, they were still like fire and water, and they continued to resist.

It was not until 1830 that the Ottomans had to recognize the existence of the Principality of Serbia in the Hatt-i Sharif Charter.

In the charter, the Ottoman government allowed the Belgrade region a high degree of autonomy and the retention of the army, but it remained de jure part of the Ottoman Empire and had no independent diplomatic rights.

But it is clear that this concession will not satisfy the Serbs.

In the following decades, the Principality of Serbia was trying to expand its territory.

Grand Duke Mikhailo Obrenovich III was even more radical.

He pursued a policy of Greater Serbia, which sought to establish a Greater Serbian dynasty and on this basis to unify the southern Slavic regions and establish a Balkan alliance that included Serbia, Menegreo, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria.

To this end, he began secret contacts with Russia from the 40s, and later with a secret alliance with the Austrian Empire.

Such an act, of course, caused vigilance and anger among the Ottoman authorities.

Finally, on June 10, 1868, Mihailo was assassinated by gunmen.

And now, Mihailo's followers have shot the crown prince of the Ottoman ally of the Germans, which can be regarded as reincarnation in the dark......

The rest of the story is simple.

Wilhelm I, who had lost his son in old age, declared war on Austria after confirming that the gunmen had been trained by the Austro-Hungarian military.

Perhaps in addition to avenging his son, the temptation to unify the HRE may also be the reason why William can't hold back and send troops.

Within Germany, there has been a lot of debate for years about Little Germany versus Greater Germany.

In the end, it was the ideological trend from the Ming Dynasty that allowed the Great German faction to occupy the absolute peak.

After all, it is difficult for Germany, which is flooded with all kinds of clear goods, not to be affected by the ideology of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the authorities worked hard to review the literary and artistic works of the Ming Dynasty, and outside of the Yellow Crane series, many of the main themes and movies of the Ming Dynasty were regarded as banned, but the atmosphere of learning from the Ming Dynasty was already strong from the bottom up.

Perhaps, in the minds of many Eurocentric diehards, the Ming Dynasty is already a yellow-skinned heresy, but it is not denied that there is still merit in aristocratism.

For example, the concept of Zhuxia.

The great ambition of the Ming Dynasty to unify Zhuxia and establish a civilized state in Zhuxia obviously stimulated the German politicians.

Encompassing the whole German nation-state, and even all of Germania, the all-Aryan state was on the rise.

The whole Aryan may be a bit of a fool's dream, but the whole of Germany does not seem far away.

Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and barely counting the Netherlands, Denmark......

Of these stinky fish and shrimp, only Austria is a challenge.

Moreover, there were not a few people in Austria who recognized Greater Germany and were willing to join Germany.

Therefore, half for revenge, half for ambition, Germany went to war against Austria.

Wilhelm I ascended to the Imperial Palace in Berlin, used a loudspeaker, and announced in a nakedly speech to the whole people: "For hundreds of years, the days of the German nation being scattered must come to an end, and the Germans are far better than the Slavs, the French, and the British, but they are losing the dividends of the global colonial era because of internal friction."

Today, I declare war on the decaying Habsburgs, not to avenge my eldest son, but to put an end to the internal strife of Germany, to build a powerful empire that can project its influence around the world, and to restore the glory of the Holy Spirit!

For the sake of the nation, for the sake of living space, for the sake of fairness and justice, let us fight bloodily! Sigherr! ”

Almost at the same time, Victoria took off her beak mask and coughed while giving a public address to the entire nation on the radio.

Because of her similar personalities, she has always had a good relationship with her eldest daughter, who has always acted as her spy within Germany.

This time they were all killed by the Serbs.

But as if it was not her own daughter who was killed, Victoria praised the Serbian gunman as a "freedom fighter" in her speech.

He also declared that Germany's attack on Austria was an intolerable act of aggression and would be met with a head-on attack by the Entente.

This HRE civil war quickly spread to all major European countries and spread to the whole world.