544. Chapter 544: The Westphalian System
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As one of the main participants in this negotiation, William was the first to obtain the details of the draft treaty.
After seeing these contents, William began to sigh like this.
The terms of plunder and aggression are no different from those written by all victorious powers. This clause fully shows the ugly face of the victorious Breton alliance with the Protestant Union.
It was as if William had predicted before, or rather judged before. The other party didn't want to show mercy to his subordinates at all, and he didn't think that it was so bad, so uncivilized, and so wrong. Or something like that.
These guys make it clear that there is only one point, that is, interests, benefits. Benefits and benefits. That's what they want, and there's nothing else but that. In this case, William sighed except for sighing.
Because, very sadly, he is not capable of stopping this.
The Visigothic kingdom, which had a low eye, finally rejected the decision to join forces with William and form an alliance against Britton.
He insisted on being the leader of this alliance, and insisted on the entire alliance to obey his orders. And look at what he has done to the Visigothic Kingdom, which once almost won the hegemony of the human world, you will know that if this alliance is really in his hands, then he will definitely ruin all of this. Needless to say, there is no doubt about it. He's such an unbelievable loser.
So, instead of forming an alliance with such a laggard-pig teammate, it's better to go it alone.
Of course, to say so, at the Westphalian Conference, on the negotiations. Without the Visigoths putting pressure on Britton, all of William's actions would have failed.
"So, it's terrible, it's terrible. William thought to himself.
Although nominally a war was waged for religious reasons. But in fact, the war has been fought on this side, and religious reasons have been relegated to the second line, which is not too important a factor.
This is also fully reflected in the following treaties. Apparently as a victorious nation, the Bretons only explained freedom of belief in general terms of religion, that is, they did not ban the faith of the traditionalists of the Holy See, and made the Protestant faith the official legal faith of the human world.
This made the Holy See somewhat relieved. At the same time, it also makes this titular "religious war" leave people with a feeling that makes people want to laugh.
Compared to the unimportant freedom of belief clauses, the next clause is the most important -
Despite William's very hard work, in the end, the Ostrogothic Empire was in name only—the best deal Wilhelm could have gotten for without completely outlawing it.
In the end, due to various considerations, Queen Briton still did not accept the Ostrogothic emperor throne sent by William. Even William claimed to be willing to be her vassal.
In this way, the Ostrogothic Empire entered another period of great interregnation. There is not an emperor, there is not an electoral mechanism. This empire, though it exists, is only "theoretical", nothing more than an empty shell. It has actually lost any meaning.
William was very helpless about this, but there was nothing he could do.
An alliance against Briton could not be formed, and the best that could be achieved by the strength of the Russian-Gothic family would be self-preservation. Even in the end, he couldn't even get his hands on the piece of land he wanted the most, that is, the Carpathian Kingdom. The same was true of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which had been expected to expand.
In this treaty, William and his Russian-Gothic empire were also listed as victorious powers. But other than that, there is almost no benefit at all.
The only positive thing is that they admit that William is in charge of the North Central Region. That is, the occupation of those small imperial states was legitimate. At the same time, the recognition of the Russo-Gothic Empire was declared legitimate. But at the same time, in return, they demanded that the empire withdraw from the territory of the Ostrogothic Empire.
The reason for this was their decision to dissolve the entire Ostrogothic Empire. It was as if William had speculated before this.
They elected a member of the House of Windsor and elected him king of the Kingdom of Bohemia. At the same time, a man who was very close to the Britons and at the same time had little strength, a member of the House of Habsburg, was selected from within the empire, and then elected him king of Austria.
In addition to gaining access to the newly formed kingdom of Austria in southern Great Moravia, they would also support King Charles of the Habsburgs, who was also king of the Carpathian kingdom. He even supported his territorial claim to part of the southern Lombard kingdom.
With these territories, the Habsburgs were able to leap to become the most important and powerful family and leader of the kingdom of the human world. With two crowns, you can even fight for the Lombard crown. With three kingdoms, he can be regarded as a Swabian family that is one size smaller.
In this way, within the original empire, they have a strong, but at the same time, weak, unstable and controllable ally.
In addition to this, they completely annexed Lotternia, giving the crown to their king. At the same time, Franconia and Bern were combined to form a new state, a federalistic state of aristocracy, governed by a total of thirty counts. The highest administrative body is the Noble Council of the Federation. Because the vast majority of these countries were in the Rhine Valley, eventually, the name of this federation was given the name of the Rhine Confederation.
Of course, this chaotic, very unstable political situation, with a large number of Brituns appointed as advisers, and even directly as administrators, is a puppet state of the Britons.
Then there was the Duchy of Jutland, which was also a victorious country, but it also did not expand its territory at all. The reasons have been stated before. Better than nothing, the Bretons promised them aid - but at the same time, they had to accept Breton advisors, loans, and all sorts of concessions, open markets, resources, and so on.
In this way, the Grand Duchy of Jutland, although nominally the victorious power, was in fact reduced to a puppet state of the Britons.
In this way, the Britons completely divided and dismembered the once great empire. The orderly empire, originally ruled by the electors and kings, was completely reduced to their territory and vassals.
Frisia and Lotyrnia were completely annexed. The Confederation of the Rhine and the Grand Duchy of Jutland became puppets, while the Kingdom of Bohemia was a staunch ally of the Unified Dynasty, and the Austrian-Carpathian Kingdom in the south was a semi-ally, a half-puppet, a country that was subject to a lot of control and restrictions.
There were only two states in the empire that could remain independent, one of which was William's Russian-Gothic Empire, and the other was the Kingdom of Lombardy, which William did his best to preserve no matter what the people were.
In matters relating to the Lombard Kingdom, William was very tough, and in the end he even threatened with war, which guaranteed the country's basic independence.
The reason why William did this was also afraid. If he can't keep even one ally in the end, then the meeting will be a complete failure.
After all, his original strength was not as good as Britton, and if he was not tougher, then most of the small states of Lombard would also become puppets and vassals of Britton. I don't have an ally within the human world to help.
The Russian-Gothic Empire would fall into unprecedented isolation. This would ruin the entire empire.
Except, of course, William's Libao. The insistence of the small Lombard states themselves is also one of the important reasons. In addition to this, there is the gap between the small states of Lombardy and the rest of the human world.
The Alps, surrounded by the sea, give the Lombards a sense of security. That's why they dare to say no to the people of Briton.
However, even this could not change the fact that the Westphalian negotiations were a failure for William.
The same cannot change the fact that the Bretons are the biggest winners in this negotiation.
It's like what Lady Mary said before. They are infinitely close to victory, turning the Ostrogothic Empire into an empty shell. Their plan to split the human race, to divide the Gothic nation, and then achieve the power of the Britons to surpass all human peoples, so as to obtain the goal and plan of dominating the human world, is infinitely close to success.
Now they are full of ambition. Begin to really plan a grand plan to rule all of humanity, and to rule the whole world.
This time it was negotiated in Westphalia, and the agreement signed became known as the Westphalian Agreement.
Led by the Britons. These include Briton, the Russian-Gothic Empire, the Visigothic Kingdom, the Austrian-Carpathian Kingdom, the Kingdom of Asturias, the Rhine Confederation, the Lombard Union and the Kingdom of Bohemia, and the Grand Duchy of Jutland.
A total of eight countries signed the agreement. Of course, the Holy See, one of the main belligerents, at least theoretically, did not recognize this agreement and did not send representatives to the conference. But their denial, and their non-attendance, will not shake or undermine the agreement and the system.
At least in the near future, the entire human world will run according to the ideas of the Normandy family and the Bretons they control. This is the Westphalian system, and the extremely unfair order that exists under the Westphalian system.