If Prussia's support cannot be persuaded, the Habsburg family will lose the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. This is simply unacceptable to Joseph II. He does not want to face the Habsburg family in heaven.
The accusations of martyrs of all ages.
Of course, Austria does not have to get the support of Prussia. Habsburg can use the army to defend its own throne, but this is not a good idea for Joseph II at all. Although the Austrian throne succession war was because of Trey
Queen Elizabeth's perseverance made it through, but this war still knocked the Habsburg family off its altar.
The Habsburgs, who once dominated Europe, lost their power to dominate the world, and it was obvious that Joseph II was not willing to let the Habsburgs, who had finally regained some strength, return to power after his death because of the throne of the Holy Roman Empire.
was hit hard.
Although Joseph II did not clearly designate his successor, everyone knew that the one who would inherit the throne after Joseph II was undoubtedly Archduke Leopold, and Joseph II was also very satisfied with his younger brother.
As the second daughter in the family, although Maria Anna was not the most favored child in the family, her cheerful personality still won her the favor of her family, especially Joseph II, because Anna was somewhat similar to his eldest daughter who died young.
The emperor still took great care of his niece.
But what Joseph II didn't know was that his niece, Anna, who had high hopes for him, was sitting alone in the room and angry. When Anna learned that Joseph II would take her to Frankfurt, the girl was very happy. After all, as a
The princess of the Habsburg dynasty had very strict control over Anna at home. But not long after, Anna learned from her best friend that her uncle, the emperor, had taken her to meet the Prussian devil.
, Anna's heart was full of reluctance.
Although he was a promising king of Prussia and was only nineteen years old, William had a large number of fans across the European continent, but obviously these fans definitely did not include Anna. Anna would never forget when the Prussian army came to Vienna.
The fear and panic on the faces of everyone in the city.
Especially when Anna learned that she had become the fiancée of the young King of Prussia, Anna's heart was filled with extreme rejection of this marriage. As the jewel of the Habsburg royal family, Anna had the capital to stand out from the crowd, but
The superior environment also allowed Anna to develop the bad habit of arrogance.
In Anna's view, Prussia in the north is simply a representative of barbarians. It is said that men in Prussia basically only take a bath once a year. When she learned this rumor from her best friend, Anna saw her best friend looking at her.
There was sadness in her eyes. How could Anna, who had always been proud and arrogant, accept this!
For this matter, Anna approached her father no less than three times, but Archduke Leopold did not give Anna a satisfactory answer. In Leopold's words, Anna was already an adult. Then she had to work for the Habsburgs.
Contribute your own strength to the prosperity of the dynasty!
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Today is when Joseph II and his party set off for Frankfurt. Anna was sitting in her carriage. Her eyes were full of sadness, but after a while, Anna's face became firm. She had already decided, even if Joseph
II agreed to betroth himself to the Prussian king, and he would use actions to defend his rights.
The two monarchs of Prussia and Austria both set off for Frankfurt, and Frankfurt at this moment can be said to be in a storm.
After William and Joseph II agreed to go to Frankfurt, the whole city began to be shrouded in dark clouds, and countless people with unknown purposes poured into the city. Although the influx of these people caused an unprecedented boom in Frankfurt's market.
The prosperity phenomenon, but the mayor of Frankfurt is happy but feels a crisis at the same time.
William and Joseph II are both monarchs who stand at the top of Europe. Behind both of them is a huge empire. Every word and deed of such a monarch can affect the situation of the entire Europe. If for some reasons, these monarchs
If the two of you are dissatisfied with Frankfurt... As the Lord Mayor was thinking about it, cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.
Not only is the market in Frankfurt no longer peaceful. Even the nobles in the city are uneasy about the arrival of the two monarchs. Yes, they are uneasy!
Although Frankfurt is the seat of the Holy Roman Empire Parliament, the last time Joseph II came to Frankfurt was when he was crowned emperor, and now this is the second time the emperor has come. As for the King of Prussia, he has never been here before.
Frankfurt.
In this way, the work of welcoming the two monarchs was enough to give all the nobles in the city a headache, and more importantly, these nobles knew that the two monarchs came with a large number of guards, and these guards could even
Destroy the entire Frankfurt!
If the two men failed to reach an agreement and had a fight in Frankfurt, wouldn't all the nobles in the city become fish in the pond?
While everyone in the city was still thinking wildly, early diplomats from Prussia and Austria had arrived in Frankfurt. In the Imperial Parliament, diplomats from both sides began to bicker over the etiquette of the arrival of their respective monarchs.
The Austrian side believed that the King of Prussia should arrive in Frankfurt before the arrival of the emperor, and then personally lead all the representatives of the Imperial Parliament to welcome the emperor at the city gate of Frankfurt.
However, Prussia believed that Austria's request was completely unreasonable. Although Joseph II was the nominal emperor of the empire, William was also the elector of the empire, and the elector did not need to assume such a low profile when facing the emperor.
Prussia believed that William's carriage could arrive in Frankfurt before the emperor, but the Imperial Parliament must also go to the city gate to greet William's arrival. Then William greeted Joseph II not at the city gate but at his residence.
Or at the gate of the Imperial Parliament.
Not only the meeting place, but also the salute used by the two sides began to compete.
Austria believed that when Joseph II came, Frankfurt must fire the highest courtesy of a twenty-one-gun salute, while Prussia fired a second-level nineteen-gun salute.
(The gun salute originated in Europe. From the 17th to the 19th century, it was the "Age of Discovery" in Europe. Naval powers represented by Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom competed for colonies and maritime hegemony, and their fleets were almost everywhere.
All over the world's oceans. When our warships encounter friendly or neutral warships at sea, or when entering the ports of the above-mentioned countries, they use naval guns to fire blank cannons with only propellant but no projectiles to show friendship or no hostility.
And use this to salute the other party. Of course, the other party will also fire cannons in return.
Since the etiquette of gun salute originated from the navy, the early artillery was a front-loaded smoothbore cannon without fixed ammunition. Loading ammunition once was not only laborious, but also took a long time (this is why the gun salute can be a symbol of friendship).
(reason), so it is generally based on the standard of firing one round of the entire ship's artillery. Moreover, the tonnage of early naval battleships is generally small, and the number of cannons loaded is limited. The largest warship at that time, the early battleships, had only two cannons at most.
Eleven guns, so the highest specification for a salute is generally twenty-one guns.)
Prussia strongly protested against this. In the Prussian view, although Joseph II did have the qualifications to fire a twenty-one-gun salute as the nominal emperor of the empire, Prussia, as one of the European powers that was as powerful as Austria,
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