"They have principles?"

In front of that sarcastic smile, I was so angry that I was about to refute him with one mouth, but the next second, I found that I was powerless to refute.

The army of the empire is principled?

No, it's not so much that the army of the Reich is principled, but that the army of the Reich is brainwashed very successfully!

Just like hundreds of years later, Hitler the mustachioed did to the Germans, covering the eyes of the army and the people with hatred, glory, and a bright future, so that their ears would only hear the voice of one, and then give everything for the whispers of the devil. In other words, it is precisely because of the demonic whispers that the army has been brainwashed that there will be those soldiers who will follow me in Versailles at the end of their lives!

But even Hitler may be better than the man in front of him. No matter how bad Hitler was, at least Hitler might have regarded himself as part of the Germanic group that he had brainwashed, unlike this Caesar, who looked down on those affected by him.

Yes, I'm not angry that the army was brainwashed, but I'm angry that the man who brainwashed the army actually treated those soldiers like worthless ants!

"Nikis, my son, you still have a long way to go, and when you get to the position I have, you will find that you must agree with some of my views. In fact, this was true not only of the army, but also of the people, even of the nobles. ”

The Caesar had his back to me, his finger drawing a large circle on the edge of the map, and suddenly said, "Don't you think there's something missing on this map?"

That map shows Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. I glanced at it and didn't answer.

"There is no New World and no East on this map!"

"The Sun King of France and his armies began to fight in the north and south from the end of the last century. Two wars of the Low Countries were fought in five years, and the War for the Castilian Throne lasted almost a decade. This time the Polish War of Crowns was shorter, but it was not so much a new battlefield. It is more than a step in the struggle for hegemony between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs, and after so many steps, France has fought for more than 30 years. During these years, France had acquired all these territories from the German Low Countries, from the Ibyan Peninsula, from the Apennines, from the German territories!" he pointed his finger across the territory occupied by France, "and every time France put the machine called war into operation, a large number of tens of millions of francs were burned to fuel the operation, but these conquered lands added up. Each piece was the size of my finger. The effort and the return are not proportional at all!"

"Europa is too small, and the potential of this land is approaching its limit after so many years of exploitation. ”

Caesar's cries echoed through the hall.

He was right. Now the situation in Europe is like an industry with too many business competitors and the market is close to saturation. In industries with high market saturation, not only are profits low, but development costs will also increase significantly. It can also be difficult to manage. Face the competition. No matter how hard we spend to squeeze our opponents, the rewards we get can only be described in an idiom compared with our efforts, and we can't make ends meet.

Think of those empires in history.

Napoleon's First Empire, which ended on the banks of the Rhine, fell apart in less than a decade, and then fell apart during the First World War. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, and the Ottomans joined hands to get into the fire.

Outcome?

The German Empire was dissolved and the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell. The two United Nations were split in two and reduced to a third-rate small state, and the Ottoman Empire became a sick man that everyone could bully. In World War II, the blitzkrieg invented by the mustache achieved results that even Napoleon could not achieve, and the German army burned the war all over Europe, and the unification of Europe even saw the end for a time, and later, Germany was defeated in the dilemma of multi-front warfare

"Russia, Sweden, and Austria united to divide Poland, and the territory gained by the three countries in this war was more than five times greater than the territory acquired by France in thirty years of conquest. But there is only one Poland, and there will be no second chance of such a rare opportunity! The model of the ancient Roman period in which a large army pressed in, defeated the enemy's main army, and then gained wealth by occupying the enemy's territory no longer applies. The empire had been avoiding fighting on multiple fronts, and now that we had dealt with the Muslims, we finally had time to fulfill the long-cherished wish of Justinian the Great, but time had passed so long that the inhabitants of the old land no longer recognized themselves as Romans, so it was very difficult for us to fulfill the wishes of the Roman emperors! ”

I scoffed: "Then what is the point of this war now! Now, to re-encompass the Mediterranean into our empire, we must fight against the Italian city-states on the Apennine Peninsula, against the French who came after us, against Aragon and Castile on the Ilibby Peninsula! The Austrians will never allow the rise of Rome, a super-empire, and the Russians will not sit idly by! As we enlarge our territory, we will increase our enemies by one! At the end of the day, I'm afraid we're going to fight all of Europa with the strength of a Rome, not just their armies, but their people, and in that case, how many Roman families will we're going to break up? Suppose we defeat all the Western European countries and take the whole Mediterranean under our control again, but in doing so, we've shed all our blood for it, what if the Muslims are recuperating from our war with the European nations and then rise to prominence? At that time, the empire was a crumbling edifice, no matter how big it was. All those who are willing to die for her are almost dead, who will stop the Muslims again?

"Meaningful, of course!"

"Ha Lu Ha In fact, I'm also confused, for more than ten years, I've been thinking about the way out of the empire during this time of letting the empire recuperate. Sooner or later, the French will become mortal enemies, and once they defeat the Habsburgs completely, it will not be the situation we want to see, and the Russians are rising, and once the struggle with Sweden is over, they will have to go south sooner or later, after there are no more strong enemies in the east. The English are crowding our wool market, the French are constantly taking our share of perfume away from us by the influence of the Sun King! Since the Europeans in the west have themselves the shipping routes with the East, and we are often caught up in the war against the Muslims, they no longer depend on us to import spices! Our revenues have been declining every year, and in the last few decades, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English, The French are carving out their colonies all over the world, and we can only watch them do it, so when someone proposes to be content with the status quo and content with the peace that the Muslims have won, I throw him out of the United Front Work Department as soon as possible. To continue to maintain the original policy, to take advantage of the weakness of the Muslims, to continue to use troops against the south, to occupy their territory? Yes, this can continue to strike at the strength of the Muslims, but this is no longer appropriate, it is not at all in the best interests of our empire, in the past our greatest enemy was in the east, but now our enemies are the rising countries of Western Europe! Continuing to fight the Muslims will only consume our strength and slow down our development, which will make the guys in the west slowly leave us behind! I thought about looking overseas, like Portugal, to expand, to seize colonies, but we had no roots overseas at all. I've thought about expanding the empire in my lifetime, whether it's going north to attack Russia or carving up the Habsburgs with France, so that we can build an empire that is bigger than it was in the past, but I don't know what you're going to do when I'm at the top of my life?

"Sons, our empire is lagging behind in this era!" (to be continued......)