"Comprehensively implement the policy on freedom of religious belief, legalize and standardize the management of religious affairs and further improve the level of legalization and standardization of religious affairs. Conscientiously implement the overseas Chinese affairs policy, protect the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese in accordance with the law, and further develop the unique advantages of overseas Chinese affairs resources.
National defense and military construction have created a new situation. Major achievements have been made in the military reform with Prussian characteristics. The modernization and regularization of the military have been coordinated and comprehensively strengthened. Preparations for military struggles have been continuously deepened. The ability to perform historical missions in the new era has been significantly enhanced. A series of urgent, difficult and dangerous tasks have been successfully completed. Heavy duty.
Compared with when His Majesty came to the throne, Prussia's territory expanded 1.6 times, and a colony of 100,000 square kilometers was opened in the North American continent. Nearly 50,000 immigrants took root in the North American continent and contributed to the construction of the Prussian state.
The addition of Denmark and some Polish regions has made Prussia one of the world's great powers. Prussia is willing to shoulder the responsibilities of a great country. We will treat the newly added regions equally, and the government will do its best to serve the people of all ethnic groups. .............................”
"Whoa whoa whoa..."
Warm applause rang out in the palace, and William, who was sitting at the top, was very satisfied with Rocks. At least Rocks did a good job in praising his virtues.
After Locks finished speaking, he saluted everyone with a smile, and then he turned his face to William.
"His Majesty the King's leadership is the source of our Prussia's strength! Long live His Majesty the King!"
The shout surprised William, but when he saw all the nobles surrendering to him under the leadership of Locks, the joy on William's face became even more intense.
"Ahem..."
After everyone finished their salutes, the palace became a little noisy. Under such circumstances, Rocks covered his lips and coughed twice. When the palace became quiet, Rocks said loudly:
"At such a momentous occasion, please welcome His Majesty the King with warm applause to give us a speech!"
"Whoa whoa whoa..."
There was another deafening applause. William stood up from the tiger skin throne and took two steps forward.
"Prime Minister Rocks just said it very well. In the past, our government did achieve some results with the help of our Prussian people. I won't say more about this. There are two main things I want to say here.
One is that I would like to thank everyone here for your support to the royal family and the government in the past ten years. On behalf of the Prussian royal family, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your efforts!"
As he spoke, William bent down to everyone in the palace. Seeing William's actions, all the nobles who were sitting in the seats stood up. While William saluted them, they also changed their salutes to William. . Are you kidding? Didn’t you see that the king and the boss all stood up and saluted? At this time, except for fools, who dares to sit down and accept the salute of His Majesty the King calmly?
"Everyone, sit down. The second thing I want to say is that although we in Prussia have made progress and some achievements in the past, what we have to see is that we in Prussia are not arrogant. The world is changing. Facing earth-shaking changes. In such an era, it can be said to be our luck or our misfortune. Unfortunately, all of us cannot let go of our vigilance and must always be vigilant and pay attention to the enemies around us, and Fortunately for us, this era is the best opportunity for the development of Prussia. If Prussia wants to truly rise in this world, it still needs to do a lot, but our efforts today will be exchanged for the new life of Prussia tomorrow! A powerful Prussia already stands in the center of Europe, and an even more glorious future awaits us all!"
After the words fell, the applause in the palace became louder. When everyone saw William's firm and resolute face, they suddenly remembered that the Prussian leader seemed to be less than twenty years old, and it was this young man who
In the first ten years of his rule, Prussia has achieved many benefits. If there are another ten or twenty years, how strong will Prussia become by then? Youth means unlimited possibilities, and William will let everyone
I saw the possibility of Prussia becoming truly powerful.
After William's opening remarks, the royal attendants came to the nobles one after another, and they distributed documents one by one to the nobles.
These documents describe in detail the arrangements for this aristocratic meeting, including Prussia's new round of military expansion, the national economic stimulus draft, the further expansion of the Prussian National Bank, deepening the results of serfdom reform, etc.
These bills require the nobles to vote, and this meeting of nobles will be held for five full days. In addition, it is said that William is planning to make the meeting of nobles a Prussian practice. Perhaps this form of meeting will be held every few years in the future.
When the nobles took the document from the hands of the royal attendants, the big nobles were fine, but some of the small nobles couldn't help but feel excited. Since the founding of Prussia, there has never been any talk of bringing the bill to these nobles.
Let them vote. These nobles will inevitably be a little excited when they suddenly come into contact with the core of Prussia.
In fact, this kind of excitement is what William wants most. The most important thing in every country is its elite. Of course, this does not mean that the civilian class is not important. On the contrary, civilians are also very important. But because of issues of education and vision,
The people at the bottom often don't see as far as the nobles, and the manpower, material resources, and financial resources controlled by the elite in the country are not comparable to those of the common people.
In this era, William did not know about other countries, but in Prussia, the reputation of the nobility was relatively good. The traditional and old-fashioned education gave a great guarantee to the quality of the nobility, although there were many scum like Hui Ander among the nobility.
, but after all, this country had just been liberated from serfdom.
Most of the people at the bottom were newly liberated serfs. Although these serfs were liberated, they still did not dare to resist their former masters in a short period of time. After all, time was limited. Many serfs could not adapt to the change in their status.
It is inevitable to have awe for his former serf owners.
The elites of this era were these nobles. Their superior background broadened their horizons, and this era also put a lot of effort into cultivating nobles.
In Prussia, as long as the descendants of those aristocrats are male, they are often recorded in the files of the military department as soon as they are born. When the aristocratic male reaches ten years old, he is faced with a choice. One is to join the army as a soldier.
Serving the royal family. The other option is to leave the family with a sum of money. Basically, any normal person will choose the first option.
It is undeniable that the army is a very training place. The officers do not care whether you are a noble or not. Once you make a mistake, you will be punished. In such an environment, the small nobles received strict treatment, which also made
Their original bad qualities such as exaggeration, arrogance and extravagance have faded away.
The national characteristics of Prussia have determined the development of these nobles. In a militaristic country, once faced with a war, the nobles have the responsibility to join the army.
In previous wars, the casualty rate of Prussian nobles has always been the highest in Europe. Only their own dedication will give the nobles an excellent reputation in Prussia.
That morning, the meeting of nobles voted on the national economic stimulus draft. The nobles approved the draft with 80% approval. The draft is planned to be carried out by the government and the Prussian National Bank in the next five years in Prussia.
An allocation of up to 14 million silver coins was used for infrastructure construction in Prussia, which will play a role in promoting the development of various industries in Prussia.
Except for some extremely conservative nobles, most nobles have no objections to this draft, because they see the hope of increasing family assets in this draft. Fourteen million silver coins are used for infrastructure construction, so such a
The investment of large sums of money will drive the consumption of materials and labor related to infrastructure construction, which is undoubtedly a great good thing for the nobles who own related industries.
On the afternoon of December 10, 1789, a meeting of the Prussian nobles started a quarrel over the expansion of the Prussian National Bank. When William established the Prussian National Bank, in order to ensure the control of the royal family, William decided that the royal family must ensure 100% control.
Fifty-one percent of the controlling stake. The other 49%, except for the government's 20%, were subscribed by the Prussian nobles. Today, the Prussian State Bank has developed into a Prussian financial institution.
A giant in the world, with the full support of the royal family and the government, the Prussian State Bank monopolized 60% of Prussia's industrial production. This statistic is extremely terrifying.
Whether it was to flatter William or to subscribe for annual dividends, the first batch of nobles who financed the Prussian National Bank had already made a lot of money. How could a national bank with a monopoly nature not do so?
earn?
Now, in order for everyone to better experience the results of Prussia's reform and development, William decided to release the shares of the Prussian National Bank, and the ratio of release is one to one. For example, the shares originally held by the Prussian government
It is 20%. After the release, if the Prussian government does not invest additional money, its equity will become 10%.
The news of the expansion of the Prussian country shocked all the nobles. Some nobles who had not bought equity before were sharpening their knives, while some nobles who had already tasted the benefits were greedily looking at the distribution plan in their hands, eager to make another fortune.
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The plan is very clear. In order to ensure the royal family's absolute control of the Prussian National Bank, and in order to ensure the government's share, the equity that was sold out and subscribed by the nobles this time is 14% of the entire National Bank's equity.
Point five.
The royal family and the government did not get the shares for free. The royal family and the government will each inject a sum of money into the Prussian National Bank for the development of banking business. Of course, this money is exactly the same as the subscription price of the equity in the hands of the nobles.
, ten thousand silver coins for every ten thousandth of a share.
For the 14.5% of the shares, there were quarrels everywhere in the palace. Locks couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to. Then he turned his attention to William. But in this case, William
There is nothing he can do. He cannot personally assign the equity to a certain noble. If he really does this, wouldn't it break the hearts of other nobles?
By evening, the bill to expand the size of the Prussian National Bank had not been voted on. The major nobles were very reluctant to give in to their own interests. Some small nobles also changed from their previous weakness. They formed a group to unite with the big nobles.
They competed, but for a while they couldn't tell who was superior.
After two days of quarreling, there was still no satisfactory result to all parties regarding the Prussian National Bank, but a new round of military expansion plan was passed.
This time Prussia plans to complete the establishment of three divisions by next year, that is, in the middle of 1790, and have combat effectiveness by the end of 1790. After a new round of military expansion, Prussia's standing army will reach 200,000.
Zi has entered the ranks of powerful countries with world influence.
The nobles had no objections to the expansion of the three divisions. As for the government, Rocks was the first to express his support, uncharacteristically. Under such circumstances, the bill was passed smoothly.
On December 15, 1789, the meeting of nobles officially came to an end. Through this meeting, William obtained his favorite answers in all aspects, and this meeting also strengthened the sense of national identity of the grassroots nobles towards Prussia.
It truly allowed them to experience the feeling of being the master.
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Prussia was very lively, and Russia was not far behind. Kutuzov stepped up his pace, and his messengers traveled back and forth between Lithuania and the Black Sea region every three days, while the Russian troops in Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and other regions also completed
After mobilization, a large number of temporarily recruited militiamen took over the city defense work originally performed by the Russian army, and all Russian soldiers were concentrated in military camps in various places.
Although Kutuzov did it more skillfully and made great efforts to cover it up, the paper failed to cover up the fire after all, and the news that the Polish Governor Kutuzov had made any changes quickly reached St. Petersburg.
After receiving the news, Paul became furious instantly. He picked up the tsar's scepter at hand and beat the table until it was smashed to pieces.
The Tsar's fury soon affected the atmosphere of the entire St. Petersburg. Rumyantsev was urgently summoned to the palace by Paul, and the generals of the Praetorian Guard in the St. Petersburg area were also called to the palace on horseback.
"My generals, there are some people in Poland plotting to overthrow my rule. I need you to give me some advice!"
Paul held back his anger and looked at the six generals in the room and spoke softly. Upon hearing Paul's words, the six generals lowered their heads except for Rumyantsev.
Seeing the behavior of the generals around him, Rumyantsev looked very unhappy.
It is undeniable that Rumyantsev has a very poor sense of Potemkin, and it is okay to say that he hates Potemkin deeply, but this does not mean that Rumyantsev does not agree with the generals under Potemkin's command.
As a favorite of Empress Catherine II, Potemkin was good at power, but he knew how to train his own generals. Through the Russo-Turkish War and the Russo-Swedish War, a large number of Russian generals grew up, and these generals were in order to become more powerful.
Most of those who achieved their revenge went to Potemkin's command.
But Paul did not recognize this. He kicked out all the generals who were reused by Potemkin. Some generals were even arrested or even executed on charges of treason.
As the direct force of Catherine II, there is no doubt that the Queen's faction is extremely powerful in the Guards. After Paul quietly launched a coup, he took advantage of the fact that the Queen's faction generals in the Guards were leaderless.
These generals were captured in one fell swoop when they had the opportunity, and then a purge was launched among the Imperial Guards.
Although a few months have allowed Paul to complete his layout in the Praetorian Guard, all the generals in power during the era of Catherine II have been changed. There are many capable and courageous generals among these generals.
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Then, in order to fill the vacancies of generals, Paul promoted the generals who had been close to him one by one. Even an officer who had only been a major before suddenly became a major general, achieving a rocket-like leap. But this leap was not reasonable. Paul promoted generals.
What was looked at was whether he had ever been close to the Potemkin faction rather than personal abilities, which made Rumyantsev feel very dangerous.
Just like the other five generals in the room, they were all promoted by Paul in a surprise attack, but they fell off the chain at such a critical moment, which made the old commander question their abilities.
"Your Majesty, Marshal Suvorov has now led 40,000 Guardsmen to leave St. Petersburg. I think now is not the time to punish the Polish Governor. We have discussed this issue before, and I think your Majesty you should still remember it!"
Seeing that everyone was silent, as the oldest and highest-ranking person in Jiangling, Rumyantsev had no choice but to stand up.
After hearing Rumyantsev's words, Paul frowned.
"That's right, my Lord Marshal, but we didn't expect that Kutuzov would actually have the idea to oppose me. Look what he did in Poland. He temporarily recruited troops, issued orders for military preparations, and even distributed
This is an extremely abnormal situation! In addition, it is said that Kutuzov has colluded with the Black Sea side. My marshal, you should have thought of the consequences if they collude!"
Paul's words shocked Rumyantsev. He did not expect that Kutuzov had actually gone to such a step. He had not seen the exact information, so he was so shocked.
"Your Majesty, has Kutuzov really begun to recruit troops?"
"Of course it's true. He actually recruited 20,000 troops in Poland! He is looking for death!"
Paul I couldn't help but roared angrily. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)