Chapter 1408: Intimidating Gogol

Things were a bit urgent now. Li Cong didn't care about the relationship he had just established with Gogol, and immediately asked what was going on. However, the answer he got made Li Cong very disappointed. Gogol didn't get anything.

Regarding the news about the redwood trees, he looked confused. At this time, Li Cong also felt that he was a little impulsive. This guy was actually a cadre in the training stage. At this time, he still couldn't know too much. Faced with this

The guy is not completely trusted. Moreover, this guy has just messed up something, which is to let Li Ming from Africa go, and also compensated the entire Foreign Legion. Such a thing can be said that this guy will spend his whole life in Europa.

But it was this stain that made him cooperate with Li Cong, but what Li Cong needed was a useful guy, not an ally who didn't know anything.

"Mr. Gogol, frankly speaking, I am very disappointed with what you have done. You know, every penny I paid was hoping to get a specific return, but look at what I got. I

I paid 500 elite soldiers and tens of billions of euros in cash, but what did I get? I only hope that such a thing will happen once. Next time, I may consider some related matters related to our previous cooperation. "Yes.

You have to put a little pressure on these people, otherwise they won't know who they are working for.

Gogol still wanted to explain a few words to Li Cong, but now Li Cong didn't give him a chance at all. He felt the crisis. After returning to Africa, he can say that his power is developing rapidly, and he met someone who likes money.

Just give money, and when you encounter those who are unwilling to take advantage of them, you can directly use the people Li Cong gave you to kill them. You can even ask the people in the energy group to cooperate a little bit in exchange for your own achievements, but I don't know why the above is targeting me.

The results were not very appreciated. He had been wondering what the above meant. Maybe he didn't know the answer himself, but Karelina helped him find the answer at this time.

"Sir, in fact, Mr. Gogol is not only a member of the Habsburg family, he also has another identity as a descendant of Bismarck, the iron-blooded German prime minister. No one knows where Bismarck's only niece is. We

The Investigation Department also just learned the news. Mr. Gogol’s aunt is this lady. He has so many secrets. We also have news that Mr. Gogol’s uncle is innocent. Maybe Mr. Gogol is him.

He is the sole heir of his uncle. We don’t know what he inherited from Bismarck.” Another bombshell. How many secrets does Gogol have that he has not told himself? Li Cong felt that this man was a bit

The feeling of being out of control. After he told everything about himself, Li Cong still felt a little unsure, so he asked the investigation department to continue the investigation. Now it seems that his original decision was right.

Otto von Bismarck, born on April 1, 1815, died on July 30, 1898, Prussian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, was an outstanding statesman and diplomat in modern German history, known as

As the "Iron-Blooded Prime Minister". Otto von Bismarck was a pivotal figure in the modern history of Germany. As the most famous politician and diplomat of the Prussian-German Juncker bourgeoisie, he was responsible for the top-down unification of Germany (excluding Austria).

). In a certain period of time, the influence of this old guy will definitely exceed that of the Habsburg dynasty, and his descendants will definitely inherit a large amount of various assets.

Bismarck was born on April 1, 1815, in the Schönhausen Manor of Altmark, Brandenburg, Prussia, into a large Junker aristocratic family. Junker is the transliteration of German junker. It originally refers to an aristocratic son without the title of knight.

Later, it generally refers to the Prussian nobles and big landowners. It originated in the 16th century and basically disappeared after the Second World War. In German literature, Junkers are divided into different types such as combat Junkers, court Junkers, parliamentary Junkers and country Junkers.

.The one who really played a big role in German history was the rural Junkers. Bismarck was born into a rural Juncker. According to Li Cong’s understanding, this guy was a big landowner. The Junker landlord class was extreme in politics.

Conservatism advocates monarchy, advocating force, and favors protectionism in agriculture. Its representative is O. von Bismarck. In 1871, Prussia unified Germany "from above", marking the final form of Juncker bourgeois rule. In the Imperial Congress

The German Conservative Party and the Peasants' Alliance outside the parliament both represented Juncker's interests, and most of the officers in the army were from Junkers, thus giving the entire German Empire a Juncker brand. During the Weimar Republic, Juncker was hostile to the republic and supported the republic.

a.Hitler came to power

Bismarck received a good education as a child and studied law, history and foreign languages ​​at the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin. During his college years, he fought 27 duels with his classmates. After graduation, he served in the military. Bismarck was physically strong and had a rough personality. In order to pursue

The goal can be achieved by any means, and he has a realistic attitude. After 1839, he returned to his territory, ran the manor economy, adopted new farming methods, improved agricultural tools, crop rotation, and produced commodities. In 1847, Bismarck became a member of the Prussian Parliament;

From 1851 to 1858, he was appointed as the representative of Prussia to the German Federation. In 1859, he was appointed minister to Russia. In 1861, he was appointed minister to France. In 1862, he was appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia. He vigorously promoted the "iron-blood policy" and advocated the adoption of

During the war, Prussia unified Germany. He successively launched wars against Denmark, Austria and France, gradually realizing the unification of Germany. In 1871, Bismarck became the prime minister of the newly established German Empire and was named a duke. In the following 20 years, he

Power spread across the country. Internally, he strengthened the power of Prussia and the imperial government, promoted the alliance and economic gains between Junkers and the bourgeoisie, and suppressed the labor movement. Externally, he adopted a realist attitude, strived for hegemony in Europe, and actively expanded overseas. He himself became a 19th-century

A popular figure on the European political stage in the second half of the period. In 1890, he was ordered by the new Emperor William II to resign and returned to the manor. He died in 1898.

Bismarck was one of the most outstanding politicians of the 19th century. During his tenure as Prime Minister of Prussia, he unified Germany through a series of successful wars and became the first Chancellor of the German Empire.

Initially, as a conservative democrat, Bismarck suppressed the socialist movement in the 1880s. He passed legislation to establish the world's earliest workers' pension, health insurance and social insurance systems.

With the death of the Prussian King in 1861, the Regent Wilhelm I came to the throne. The new king often clashed with the increasingly liberal Prussian Reichstag. The conflict escalated in 1862, when the Reichstag rejected a budget calling for the reorganization of the army. The king's ministers did not

There was no way to persuade members of Congress to pass the bill, but the king was unwilling to compromise. William I even threatened to abdicate. At the same time, he also believed that Bismarck could resolve the crisis. However, William I did not want to appoint a leader who demanded complete decentralization of foreign affairs.

People. In September 1862, the House of Commons overwhelmingly rejected the budget, and the king recalled Bismarck at Ron's suggestion. On September 23, Bismarck was appointed Prime Minister of Prussia and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs. In his first speech to the Prussian Parliament

, he declared loudly: "What Germany (note: this refers to Germany) pays attention to is not Prussian liberalism, but power. Prussia must accumulate its own strength and wait for favorable opportunities. We have missed such opportunities several times. Contemporary

Major issues cannot be solved by discussion and majority vote. Sometimes they are inevitable.

It must be resolved through a struggle, a struggle of iron and blood." Bismarck's "iron and blood" was his program and creed for unifying Germany, and his nickname of "Iron-Blooded Chancellor" also came from this. Bismarck

It was precisely by relying on this kind of violence, boldly and cunningly taking advantage of international disputes and favorable opportunities, that Germany was decisively unified through the "top-down" road. This is the origin of the iron-blooded chancellor. From then on, Bismarck can be said to have been the unification of Germany.

Entered the upper echelons of Prussian politics.

Bismarck, who became prime minister, firmly told the parliament in his first speech in the House of Commons on September 26, "The major problems of our time cannot be solved by discussion and majority vote. Sometimes they are inevitable."

It must be resolved through a struggle, a struggle of iron and blood." From then on, Bismarck was nicknamed the "Iron-Blooded Prime Minister". Then the king said to Bismarck: "I know the outcome very well, they will be in front of my window at the Opera Square.

Cut off your head, and then cut off my head later." Bismarck responded: "Since you are going to die sooner or later, why die in an undignified way? ...Whether you die on the gallows or on the battlefield, it doesn't matter.

There is no difference... We must fight to the end!" From then on, a very special and strong relationship formed between the King and his Prime Minister.

After Bismarck became prime minister, he failed to resolve the conflict with parliament. For this reason, he tried to divert the attention of parliamentarians with the great cause of German unification and win the support of the working class to counteract the bourgeois liberals. Soon, he

Then began planning for three unification wars.

Bismarck knew very well that he and William I could not completely lead the whole of Prussia, so he chose to lead the whole of Prussia through war. The first step was to provoke a war against Denmark in early 1864. He took control of Schleswig-Holland, which belongs to Denmark.

The two principalities of Erstein (most of whose inhabitants were Germans) were merged into Germany.

As Germany's northern neighbor, Denmark often interfered in German affairs, so Bismarck was the first to deal with Denmark. In 1861, the Danish king wanted to take over Schleswig and Holstein on the border of Denmark, and Bismarck immediately responded with

This created disputes. He first ensured that if Prudential went to war, other powers would not interfere, and allied with Austria to jointly attack Denmark, and finally forced Denmark to abandon these two states.

In the Treaty of Vienna signed on October 30, 1864, Denmark stipulated that Denmark should give up the two territories. On August 14, 1865, Prussia and Austria reached the Treaty of Gastein, which included Schleswig.

It came under the rule of Prussia, and Holstein belonged to Austria.

But this was actually a deliberate conspiracy by Bismarck, because the Holstein that Austria gained was not only small in area, but also surrounded by Prussia. In this way, Austria could easily conflict with Prussia, so this was a way to push Austria into war with Prussia.

of fuse.

The second step was to provoke the Austro-Prussian War against Austria in 1866. In the Battle of Sadowa on July 3, 1866, Prussia won a decisive victory. According to the Treaty of Prague in August 1866, Austria withdrew from the German Confederation and was annexed by Prussia.

With the help of Holstein and several German federal princes who had sided with Austria in the war, they unified northern and central Germany and established the North German Federation under the leadership of Prussia.

After the Prussian-Danish War, Bismarck decided to expel Austria from the German Confederation in order to facilitate the future unification of Germany. Therefore, he set out to isolate Austria. First, Bismarck agreed to assist Russia in canceling the "Black Sea Neutrality Clause." He also met with French Emperor Napoleon III and expressed

Prussia did not object to ceding Luxembourg and the Rhineland to France to ensure that France remained neutral in the Prussian-Austrian War. Britain continued to implement a policy of glorious isolation at that time, so it would remain neutral in the event of a conflict between Prussia and Austria. Finally, he

On April 8, 1866, an offensive and defensive alliance treaty was signed with Italy, stipulating that if Prussia went to war with Austria within 3 months, Italy must declare war on Austria at the same time. Only when Austria returns Venice to Italy can it negotiate with Austria.

and.

Finally, because the Austrian emperor was dissatisfied with the terms of the Treaty of Gastein, he demanded that Prussia's richest industrial area, Silesia, be exchanged for Holstein. Bismarck therefore used this excuse to accuse Austria of breaking the treaty. As a result, in May 1866

In August, William I ordered nationwide mobilization and declared war on Austria in June of the same year. Italy also declared war on Austria at the same time in accordance with the Treaty of the Offensive and Defensive Alliance.

Soon, Prussia conquered the small pro-Austrian states in North Germany, and on July 3, 1866, it fought with 291,000 troops against 238,000 Austrian troops in Sadowa, the Battle of Sadowa, in which the Austrian army was defeated.

At this time, Bismarck decided to make peace with Austria instead of pursuing victory, because he understood that the elimination of Austria was not his primary goal, but the most important thing was to unify Germany. Therefore, he signed the Treaty of Prague on August 23 of that year.

Give Austria extremely tolerant peace terms in order to maintain good relations with Austria.

After the Austro-Prussian War, the only obstacle to German reunification was France, which controlled the southern German states from behind.

On July 19, 1870, at the instigation of Bismarck, France declared war on Germany. Napoleon III boasted that this was just a "military walk to Berlin." But what he encountered was no longer the Prussia of the past, but a more powerful country.

and resolutely opposed the divided German nation. On September 2, 1870, the German army won a decisive victory over France at the Battle of Sedan and captured Napoleon III alive. At this point, the obstacles to the unification of South Germany had been removed, and the task of Germany's national war had been

Completed. Bismarck marched his troops straight into Paris. On January 18, 1871, he declared the unification of Germany at the Palace of Versailles and established the German Empire. Bismarck also served as the Prime Minister of the German Empire. Before that, he was only the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia.

There is still a big gap in the empire. Li Cong admired everything about Bismarck. The descendants of such a person are worthy of cooperation, but he must be absolutely careful, otherwise he may get burned.

After Bismarck unified Germany, he implemented policies that served the interests of the big bourgeoisie and aristocratic landowners and promoted the development of the German economy. But his "iron and blood" did not stop because of this. In 1871, he participated in the suppression of the Paris Commune. At home,

, in order to step up the suppression of the German labor movement, he promulgated the so-called "Decree for Suppressing the Social Democratic Party's Attempts to Endanger Social Security" in 1878. He organized military groups externally and tried his best to consolidate Germany's hegemony on the European continent. At the same time, in Africa, Asia and

Plundering colonies in the Pacific and competing with Britain for world hegemony.

However, the principle that flowers last a hundred days also exists. On March 9, 1888, William I passed away, and his son Frederick William succeeded to the throne and was called Frederick III. However, he died of illness 99 days after he took the throne. As a result, his son Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne at the age of 29. This young and energetic young emperor was unwilling to be controlled by Bismarck, so he and Bismarck had differences on many issues. At that time, Bismarck was already 73 years old and even in power. It lasted for 26 years. As a result, in a series of power struggles, Bismarck gradually understood the principle of losing weight and was frustrated. On March 18, 1890, Bismarck submitted his resignation to Wilhelm II and officially stepped down.

Things happened at this time, and there will be no records in formal history. After Bismarck left power, most of the German Junker nobles expressed their welcome, because if Bismarck continued to be in power, they would not be able to do so. There is no future for development, but Bismarck has been in business for decades, how could he not have his own trump card? After Bismarck stepped down, the frustrated Bismarck also left a lot of "good news" to the new German emperor. "Fruit", such as the deterioration of relations with Russia, etc. Moreover, a mysterious team disappeared after Bismarck's death. They were Bismarck's army. Although so many years have passed, Li Cong has reason to believe that this army has no foundation at all. It did not disappear. It may have secretly joined Europa like the Portuguese military, but it still accepted Gogol's rule.

Bismarck is an important figure in the modern history of Germany. As the most famous politician and diplomat of the Prussian-German Junker bourgeoisie, he was a representative figure in the unification of Germany "from top to bottom". His life was the transformation of Germany from feudalism to feudalism. *An important historical period when society transitioned to capitalism and then to the capitalist powers. Although Bismarck himself withdrew from the stage of history, his "iron-blooded" policy deeply affected the subsequent history of Germany. Later, Hitler's sweep of Europe was definitely followed by This old guy is related. From this moment on, Li has been thinking, if Gogol is like this, will his partner kick him out of Europe?

Just when Li Cong was thinking about this problem, Danny had already figured out the trouble between Turkey and Great Russia. The two countries had just signed a new contract. Due to the recent economic crisis, Turkey was heavily in domestic debt. As long as it was If it can block the Turkish Strait, then Great Russia will pay Turkey 3 billion U.S. dollars every day. No matter how many days it blocks it, the first batch of 50 billion U.S. dollars has already arrived. In the face of money, it can be said that no one can resist this. Tempting, so what if it is a previous feud? If the Turkish government does not have this money, its civil servants may not be able to pay their salaries next month, and all the costs caused by this matter will be huge. Russia spends money.

Is Great Russia so rich? This is impossible. He was originally the weakest among the four major powers. Now he actually spent 50 billion US dollars to top up his wealth. This made Li Cong laugh out loud. Here comes the news. What I just robbed you is not very complete. In fact, the money was used to strengthen the Pacific Fleet this year, but the fleet no longer exists at this time. What are you still doing with this money? Tens of billions. A small amount of U.S. dollars is a lot, but if you want to use it for big things, it won't be of much use. The ultimate goal of Great Russia this time is not to have any benefits. It is purely to make the energy group look bad. If they couldn't find out this Li Cong was not worried about the news. Now that he knew the purpose of Great Russia, Li Cong really started to worry about himself. Great Russia was just for revenge, and their fleet plus Europa's fleet were going to attack the entire Mediterranean. It is a bit difficult to destroy all the fleets in the fleet, but it is not difficult at all for them to unite to destroy their own fleet. If the Americans withdraw at this time, the consequences will be simply unimaginable.

The Skull and Bones Society has always had a good relationship with the Sequoia Trees, and there is no big hatred against Europa. If the Americans are willing to give up Sicily, Europa may be able to settle their differences with the Americans, but on their own side

It was different. Even if he gave up Corsica, Europa would not give up on him. Who asked him to worry about too many things? At this time, Li Cong thought of a poisonous plan in his mind, just like back then.

Just like the Pearl Harbor incident, we must pull the Americans on our chariot.

The huge black smoke screen over Pearl Harbor symbolized Japan's tactical victory and American tragedy, but the death and destruction did not end. "Whether we are in the harbor or not, each of us will always remember this moment." December 1941.

8th,

The President of the United States delivered his historic speech in Congress, and then Congress passed the declaration of war on Japan and the United Kingdom declared war on Japan. On the 9th, China, which had been fighting Japan for 10 years, officially declared war on Japan. Then, France, Australia, Canada and other countries

Declared war on Japan. On the 11th, the arrogant Germany first declared war on the United States. The United States fully devoted itself to World War II and turned its powerful national machinery into a wartime track. World War II also entered a new stage. The Pearl Harbor incident that year in Vietnam was

More and more declassified documents have revealed that this was actually intentional by the Americans. This time Li Cong also needed to let the Americans "intentionally" do it again, but the protagonist of the matter was no longer the Americans, but himself. The price was

Americans' 1st Division.

As the ace unit of the U.S. Army, the First Red Division definitely has high strategic value. If they are really defeated, it is estimated that the Americans will not look good even if they want to push it out, and Li Cong's efforts will definitely not be good.
To be continued...