Chapter 2753 Swan Song (1)

There is such a folktale circulating in parts of Austria that once belonged to Poland and are now under Habsburg rule.

There was a girl who was about to get married to her fiancé, but he had to leave temporarily because of the war.

She reluctantly sent him away, thinking that first she would make the dress they wore when they got married, and when it was done, he would be back soon. So she imagined that he would put on the dress she made and hold a wedding with her.

Looking like a girl, while dreaming about the wonderful life ahead, she made one groom's dress after another, waiting for her sweetheart to come back and marry her.

But after a long time, there was no news from him. It was not until other young men who went to war with their fiancé came back that the girl became truly uneasy and miserable.

One night she was tortured by longing and woke up, so she knelt on the ground and prayed, no matter which god it was, please bring her lover back to her, she was even willing to give her life for it.

Then there was a strange noise outside the girl's window. She looked over and saw a pale figure knocking on the window. It was her fiancé.

The girl was overjoyed, opened the window and hugged him. The man told her that she no longer needed to feel sad, then grabbed her hand and took her to their new home.

At this time, the girl was still immersed in joy, thinking that she was going home with her lover to get married.

"Honey, are you feeling scared?" her fiancé asked as they came to a wilderness.

"With you by my side, what do I have to fear?" the girl said happily.

"Then why are you carrying this?" The fiancé pointed to the girl's waist, where there was a string of rosary beads, which was given to her by the girl's grandmother.

"Throw it away so we can hurry up," the man said.

The girl was puzzled, but with only the joy of reunion in her heart, she threw the rosary away without much hesitation.

Then she found that she and her sweetheart were flying, and soon they came to a river.

"My dear, do you think God still has mercy on me?" the man asked.

"Of course, my dear," the girl said.

"Then why are you still carrying this?" The fiancé picked up the cross necklace around the girl's neck, pulled it off and threw it into the river.

At this time, the girl discovered that her fiancé was abnormal, but soon they came to a cemetery.

"Look, this is our new home." The man said, pointing to a tombstone in the cemetery.

At this time, she completely understood that her lover had died long ago, and what came back was just a ghost.

The girl took advantage of the man not paying attention and escaped into the prayer room in the cemetery. Unexpectedly, there was a corpse in the house. The man controlled the corpse to sit up outside the door.

She suddenly woke up and saw the corpse's withered hands about to grab the girl, and the girl immediately began to pray.

She repeated the verses over and over again, chanting from the dark night until the sun rose. When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone into the house, the evil spirits dispersed, and the cemetery returned to tranquility. But after that night, the girl's hair changed.

Get snow white.

When she opened the door, she found that all the people buried in this cemetery were war dead. There were not even names on the tombstones, so the girl could not determine which one was her sweetheart, so she gave the dress she made for the groom to that tombstone. All the tombstones in the garden are covered.

Many soldiers would write letters home during their breaks, some to relatives and some to lovers. When Bessiere lost his horse on the battlefield, he did not choose to retreat, although he had very good reasons.

He was just a captain at the time. Napoleon went to Koblenz this time to prepare to move the tomb of General Gravier. The general also had a lover before his death. She was a royalist noble. But even though General Gravier was the brigade commander, He was unable to save her from the guillotine, and even he and Kleber were spared arrest and execution because of Burbot's intervention.

This Pierre Boulbot has many similarities with Pierre Prior, the diplomat who went to Lisbon. They both served on the Committee of Public Safety and both went to the Vendée, but Boulbot was captured by the rebels. It was Gravier and Kleber who rescued him. As a favor to them, Burbot protected the two of them. After the Jacobins lost power, in June 1795, he Speer went to the guillotine.

Prior was nicknamed the Weeper of the Marne. His special court executed 2,900 Vendée rebels. However, because he "worked" in Brittany and other provinces all year round and rarely returned to Paris for activities, he did not Not affected.

Before the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, Brittany was an area prone to rebellions. Beodote was even sent to suppress the rebellion. It was going well until an informant letter was placed on Napoleon's desk.

Because Beodotte's wife, her sister was the wife of Joseph Bonaparte, it took the persuasion of several people to get rid of the suspicion, but he was transferred back early.

Cambaceres once recommended Prior to be the judge of the newly recovered Southwestern Court of Appeals. Napoleon felt that Prior was not suitable, and Cambaceres immediately quarreled with him in public.

"You have appointed Melan," Cambaceres said.

"There is a big difference between the two people!" Napoleon said. "Melan is a member of the Directory. His ambition has been eliminated. He knows himself very well, but the man you recommended to me is still ambitious. He thinks he has everything. I have the ability to replace you and sit in your current position, or even my position. If this position is given to him, he will make three provinces restless."

After the quarrel, he said to Cambaceres, "If I die, put me in bed for eight days to make them believe that I am still alive, and then you can use this time to make arrangements."

Georgiana also heard Bonaparte say this to her. At that time, she thought it was funny that a young man could say such words in the same tone as if he was explaining his funeral.

He was not angry, but lay down on the sun-drenched lawn of the Tuileries Palace, resting his head on her legs and closing his eyes.

The Battle of Marengo also took place in June, when summer should have entered at the foot of the Alps, and the grasslands should be full of wild flowers. Although they are not as beautiful as roses, they can make people feel peaceful.

At least in her opinion, it is a much better place than "where corpses litter the land and survivors stand up, looking for the anointed one".

In the era of Frederick the Great's father, the Sun King and France were the subjects of European rulers' imitation. Especially as the first king of Brandenburg, Frederick's royal family carried out a large-scale construction project and introduced complicated etiquette into the palace.

Frederick the Great had hated this since he was a child. After he came to the throne, he immediately abolished the palace institution established by his father. Prussia is also one of the few countries that has never had a luxurious coronation ceremony.

Since the reform of Charlemagne in the eighth century, Europe has adopted the feudal feudal system. That is, the country does not set up a standing army like the ancient Roman era. When the king needs to go to war, the lords provide the king with the troops or taxes needed.

Lords are responsible.

The German word adel means hereditary land. When East Prussia encountered plague and famine, thousands of farmers died, farms and villages were reduced to ruins, and economic and social activities in some areas were almost completely paralyzed.

To restore social order, someone first needed someone. Frederick the Great led some settlers from other provinces of Hohenzollern to open farms and introduced a large number of immigrants. A system of "fief distribution" was implemented.

In Russia, every son can inherit the title of his father. That is to say, after the death of a duke, every son of his will become a duke. The other sons will not get anything because of the primogeniture system.

For example, the old Duke Paulkonsky in "War and Peace". When he was still alive, his son Andrei was also Duke Paulkonsky. If Andrei had brothers, they were also Paulkonsky.

Duke Key.

British custom is that land is linked to title, and the surnames of many nobles are simply place names. High-level German nobles once enjoyed the status of monarchs in history, either as electors or kings, but there is only one king in a country, their son

Of course, brothers and sisters cannot be the same as Russian nobles.

For example, Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister, gave his earl title to his two sons, but his marquis title was given to his eldest son. All male members of the earl family have earl titles, but only the eldest son can inherit the ancestral land. His younger brothers are earls without land.

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These landless knights were also a source of soldiers in the Middle Ages. Some would receive the Order of the Knights of Jerusalem and go to Malta to serve as hospital knights. Or they might serve kings, emperors, etc. When the territory expanded, they would generally be rewarded based on their merits. Landless knights would

land.

At this time, a document called an edict is involved. The emperor's edict is valid throughout the empire, and the king's canonization is only valid in his own territory. For example, the elector of Brandenburg can canonize someone as a knight, but

This person's knighthood is only valid in Brandenburg. The Habsburg family is also the king of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. The nobles they canonize can be Austrian, Bohemian and Hungarian nobles, or they can be imperial

Nobles. This type of nobles is called "Edict Nobles". If it is not stated in the edict, they also have no land.

In short, the transfer and sale of feudal land is very troublesome. After the land is inherited by the descendants, if you find a better way to make money and make profits grow faster, it will not be as easy as buying and selling private land. In addition, the feudal nobles also have to bear the obligations on the land.

For example, collecting taxes, military service, solving judicial issues for the people, etc., Frederick the Great's "back cover distribution" eliminates all troubles. The newly reclaimed land is "completely private" and is not subject to any feudal obligations and cumbersome regulations.

Procedure restrictions.

But it was very difficult to implement it. Rather than not fulfilling their obligations, the nobles were more willing to be exempted from taxes. Some even felt that Frederick William was eroding their privileges by doing so. These people went to Vienna together and obtained the Habsburg family.

support.

The same policy took another shape when it annexed Poland. This time Prussia received a lot of benefits from the "Subordinate Agreement", but the difference was that it was Austria that was divided, even though it was the land of the bishops and princes.

Prussia had nothing to do with Napoleon's assassination, but legend has it that the assassin fled to Hamburg, a free city that was about to enter the Basel Treaty and was under some degree of Prussian protection.

Szczecin is Polish and its German name is Stettin. It is a large city in the food network established by Frederick the Great, except for Berlin and Weber. It is also the place where Queen Catherine was born.

"How does a guide know so much?" Georgiana said with a smile.

"I'm just telling what I heard." De Seville said. "The general said that a guide not only needs to be brave in battle, but also needs to be observant of every detail."

"Then how did he observe me?" she asked.

"You must have come from far away."

She was extremely confused.

De Seville smiled and refused to explain to her, as if he had told a joke that no one could understand.
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