In the opinion of Frederick Wilhelm IV, it was a war between Prussia or the German Confederation and Denmark.

But in fact, Britain, Russia, and Sweden have all expressed strong dissatisfaction with this, and even France intends to intervene.

The British did not want the Prussians to rush out of the Baltic, and the Russians themselves had ambitions for Schleswig, a port that the Russians coveted.

At the same time, Denmark also controls the throat of the Baltic Sea, and Britain and Russia will not give up this place, whether it is out of their own strategic needs or the consideration of world hegemony.

Russia, in particular, has a deep connection with it, and even the Tsar himself had titles from Schleswig-Holstein and Oldenburg.

This theoretically gave Russia the possibility of acquiring the region, and the Tsar naturally did not want the powerful German Confederation or Prussia to acquire it.

By contrast, it is more in Russia's interest for Denmark, a weak suzerain, to rule a region riddled with contradictions.

Sweden, on the other hand, could not tolerate Prussia or Germany encroaching on Danish soil, either from a strategic offensive or strategic defensive point of view.

Denmark was the only possible direction of Sweden's expansion at this time, and at the same time, it was certainly not in Sweden's interest for a great power to occupy the Jutland Peninsula.

Although Denmark coveted Norway, its national power was weakened, especially after the destruction of its navy by the British, it did not recover for decades, and its fiscal deficit was so severe that it had to sell its colonies to survive the crisis.

The Kattegat Strait, the Sunder Strait, the Great Belt Strait, the Little Belt Strait, Denmark controlled all the Baltic Sea waterways.

If these important waterways change hands, the Kingdom of Sweden's own maritime economy and security will be at great risk.

So Sweden was also one of the most active countries, instead of protesting or sending notes, they directly sent volunteers and warships to help the Danes fight, and even the nationalist sentiment in Sweden was alleviated.

Sweden was also affected by nationalism at this time, but the Vikings were still more ferocious.

Two Swedish nationalist leaders in Stockholm also wanted to emulate the French in holding a banquet, and when the gendarmes learned of it, they immediately surrounded the manor where the banquet was held.

The Swedish government did not give the other side a chance to surrender, and the army was ordered to completely eliminate the target, as a result of which all 37 people on the estate, including the servants, were killed.

Similar incidents followed, but the government's stance remained tough, but the effect was immediate, with Sweden being much less nationalist than the rest of Europe.

However, this does not mean that Sweden is immune to nationalism, and in fact those who have used more subtle means to infiltrate the Swedish government are beginning to infiltrate.

This was difficult to eliminate, but fortunately at this time, the First Schleswig War broke out, and the Swedish government immediately organized volunteers to fight in the war, and linked it to the fate of the entire Swedish nation.

The vast majority of nationalists abandoned the struggle in Sweden and went to the front line against Prussia.

The Russian ambassador to Prussia objected at the time, and when the news reached St. Petersburg (which was open in the spring), the tsar was so angry that he almost smashed the table.

In the mind of Nicholas I, Schleswig was already a Russian fiefdom, and he immediately gathered his "advisers".

In fact, the Russian civil servants and generals were very much like the personal advisers of Nicholas I, they could not decide what to do with the Tsar's monopoly alone, but the situation still had to go a little way.

"It is wishful thinking that the Prussians should want to get their hands on Schleswig!"

The new Prime Minister Vasily Lewav said with a little flattery.

It's hard to be a civil official in Russia, and it's even harder to be a prime minister! Not only is the power pitifully small, but the status is also very low, not only in front of the Tsar, but also in front of those military attachés.

Former Prime Minister Illarione was sent by Nicholas I to Siberia because of a trivial matter, and his life and death are still uncertain.

Vasily Lewav had decided to give up his civil dignity to curry favor with the emperor, but he did not think that Nicholas I looked down on those who had no backbone.

"Do you think Prussia is incapable of taking Schleswig?"

Nicholas I said coldly, Vasily Lewav was a little overwhelmed, he did not know what he had done wrong.

"No, I just wanted to say"

"Then you think the Danes can hold on?"

"I didn't"

"So what do you want to say?!"

Nicholas I suddenly screamed so frightened that the former fell to the ground, and the general next to him let out a mocking laugh.

Vasily Lewav was angry, but he didn't know what to do, because dignity was not more important than life.

However, from the way the Tsar looked at him, Vasily Lewav knew that if he didn't do something now, he would die.

At this moment, someone pulled Vasily Lewav, a young man, who patted the dust on the body of the somewhat depressed prime minister.

"The Danes may not be able to hold it, but the British, the Swedes, not even the French and Austrians will want the Prussians to take Schleswig."

Nicholas I looked at the young man in front of him with great admiration.

"Very well, André is right, it's not just that we don't want Prussia to take Schleswig. You continue. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. We just need to take our position, and the British and Swedes will solve the problem for us.

And what we have to deal with now are the Poles and Chechens in our country, who are like two cancers eroding our national strength. ”

In fact, Franz caused the Russians more trouble on a whim than he had imagined, and the Chechens, cut off from supply, were much stronger than they thought.

Moreover, because Franz's early funding led to much greater losses for the Russians, the historical part of the Tsar's threat to the French Provisional Government to send troops was not staged.

Nicholas I's brow eased slightly, he was thinking about it. In fact, he was considering whether to send troops to Schleswig, because the Russians were too stretched at this time.

Not only Chechnya, but also Poland has also erupted in a series of small uprisings. The new Polish governor-general Vinbertrovski was a romantic poet-general, but his methods were anything but gentle.

By this time the Polish Restorationists had evolved after the crushing defeat in Galicia, and they began to seek cooperation with the workers and serfs.

These Polish regents had come to realize that those few nobles and capitalists alone could not defeat the powerful Russian, Prussian, and Austrian powers.

So they changed some of their tactics and began to look for foreigners who were sympathetic to the Poles.

At the same time, they also learned to draw a pie for the workers and peasants, for example, after the establishment of the Polish Confederation, there would be no more oppression, no more overtime, no more unpaid wages