It has been less than half a year since William decided to carry out reforms. During this short half year, some Prussian troops, including those who followed William to fight in Austria, have begun to send reports to their superiors to recommend soldiers who will take the exams at the Brandenburg Military Academy.
What William was most worried about when he decided to reform was that those with vested interests would instigate the soldiers to resist this policy. However, God blessed that it did not cause too much trouble among the soldiers. On the contrary, because all soldiers were given a step to move up, this
The policy was welcomed by most ordinary soldiers.
However, the opposition is still strong. A quarter of the Prussian army has not submitted their recommended quotas. These armies are influenced by many conservative forces. It can be clearly said that these people are waiting to see the situation of reform.
Thinking of this, William thought of the Marquis Morak of East Prussia. Although the Marquis did not explicitly oppose the reform plan later, William felt the old Marquis's dissatisfaction and resistance to the reform in his speech.
You must know that although Prussia can now be regarded as a powerful country in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, it plays a decisive role, but Prussia is still a serfdom country, and the strength of a serfdom country is relatively limited.
How can you expect those serfs who were forced to go to the battlefield by the nobles to exert much fighting power?
But as the saying goes, food must be eaten bite by bite, and the road must be walked step by step. Rome was not built in a day. Only by reforming the army and allowing the country's armed forces to operate completely according to one's own will can the future be prosperous.
The impact of state reform on the entire country will be minimized.
Of course, there are also opinions in later generations that political reform should be carried out first and then military reform. However, it is very dangerous to carry out political reform at the moment. Military reform may be supported by some nobles, but once it is said to be political reform, then the entire aristocratic class
Everyone will object.
Because in later Prussia, in October 1807, Stein, then Prime Minister of Prussia, signed the October Edict, abolishing serfdom. Taking this as an opportunity, Prussia's military reform also began. Prussian military reformers abolished serfdom.
The hierarchical system in the Prussian army was changed, and the promotion and demotion of officers were determined by the military merit system. Those Junkers who had received no merit and salary and those old and incompetent officers were purged from the Prussian army.
But at present, political reform is too dangerous. William is only ten years old this year. Military reform is proposed based on his prestige in leading Prussia to victory in the Austro-Prussian War. Military nobles will oppose it, but it does not represent all
All the nobles will oppose it. The reform of the army has opened the door to everyone to the military power formerly controlled by those military nobles.
The abolition of serfdom is currently not only offending the aristocracy, but also a considerable number of capitalists. Serfs are allocated a piece of land from their masters. In exchange, they must cultivate the lord's land for free, perform various labor services, and turn in
Most of the products of labor. The basic feature of serfdom is that serfs are bound to the land and have to depend on their owners. The serf owners take advantage of this personal dependence relationship to carry out extra-economic forced exploitation of their serfs.
However, the current serfdom economy is the basis of the Prussian system. Now that commercialized agriculture and factory handicrafts have begun to develop, serfdom has provided low-cost labor resources and played a certain role in the development of Prussia's commodity economy and factory handicrafts.
Therefore, in terms of abolition of serfdom, William did not show as much hatred for serfdom as the previous travelers. He must choose the most advantageous path at present. If it is said that the cost of civilization regression is to exchange for Prussia's
European hegemony, William will definitely agree.
Killing people and setting fires with gold belts, repairing bridges and repairing roads without corpses are not empty talk. Since we have embarked on the road of striving for hegemony, we must keep going.
As far as William knew, his previous bill to reform the army did not gain the support of the majority of people in the cabinet, and in the end Lockes used his prime ministerial privileges to force it through.
When William thought of military reform, he thought of the expeditionary troops he sent to North America. According to the letter from Count Bruneck brought by the British navy, William learned that because the southern US military was severely damaged under the city of Savannah, the northern US military had to be mobilized.
A group of troops, nominally American but actually French, came to support the South.
The Washington Department, which was originally active in the northern part of North America, gradually calmed down because of the Continental Congress's resolution to allocate northern US military forces to strengthen the southern US military forces. Bruneck boldly predicted that in the near future, the southern US military will definitely make a comeback again.
In the past, facing this kind of pressure, Bruneke had little chance of winning with the little strength he had left.
In the Battle of Savannah, although the Prussian and British troops won the victory, the result was not as easy as Bruneck imagined. The Prussian army paid a heavy price. After the battle, according to Bruneck's statistics,
More than 2,000 Prussian soldiers were killed in the Battle of Savannah, and nearly 300 soldiers were seriously injured. This means that the first troop sent by Prussia to North America had lost more than half of its strength.
William thought about the distance in his mind and made a careful calculation. The second batch of troops is expected to arrive in North America next month, that is, January 1781. God bless this batch of troops can be replenished before the southern army takes action.
Under Bruneker.
At the same time, William also thought about when to send the third batch of troops to North America. He decided to send the last and largest batch of 10,000 troops to North America in April next year. William had high hopes for this army.
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If all goes well and Bruneck can eliminate the remnants of the local American troops in the south, then the North American War of Independence will have to fight for at least another two or three years. These two or three years are extremely precious, not only because of the help of the Prussians
Britain resumed its rule in North America.
It's because North America is like a wound on Britain and France. The Prussians helped the British and gave them hope of winning the war. At the same time, since the French had helped the North American colonies to this
For the sake of it, wouldn’t it be a pity to fall short?
So what William has to do is to make both Britain and France think that they can win in North America as long as they work harder, so that they can shed blood in North America. Moreover, Prussia needs a stable international environment, and the French only need a day to end.
In the war with Britain for hegemony in the world, he would never have the power to interfere with Prussia's actions.
Of course, the key task of this plan is Bruneck. Although William had already given Bruneck instructions before his trip, William still has a lot of confidence in whether Bruneck can successfully complete such a major task.
anxiety.
With a soft sound outside the door, William woke up from his thoughts. He quickly raised his head and looked at the door. The moment he raised his head, William vaguely saw a person walking towards him.
With a crashing sound, William felt that his head was heavy and he could not lift it up. Moreover, all parts of his body seemed to be out of control. After hearing a cry of surprise, William fell into darkness.
"Your Highness Louise, His Majesty William is only temporarily comatose. After our inspection, there is no problem with your Majesty's body. However, one thing I want to remind you is that your Majesty is really lacking in rest." came the message in William's ears.
After a series of intermittent warnings, William tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't lift them at all.
William felt his hand being held in a daze, and then Louise's whimpering sounded in his ears. This poor woman did not receive much favor when her husband was alive, and looked at her after her husband died.
My son gradually lost weight due to too many worldly affairs and became depressed.
Hearing the sobs, although William could not open his eyes, he told himself in his heart that he must not make his mother sad again.
Although his body was asleep, William's consciousness was still awake. Taking this opportunity, William recalled all the things he had experienced since his reincarnation, and the people and things he had experienced came to his mind.
Think about Parets' life, think about the lovely Du Li and Karl, and then think back to when you return to Sanssouci Palace. Every step of a person's life is a process of growing up. The carefreeness of childhood is just an old age.
Although William is only ten years old, every step he has taken in the past ten years is an aftertaste of life. Only by constantly summarizing the past can we move further and further ahead.
After William fell into coma, His Majesty the King's physical condition became a taboo in the entire Sanssouci Palace. No matter how gossiping people dared to say a word at this time, the royal family's affairs were bigger than the sky. William, the later emperor of the German Empire,
The Second Emperor once said: The monarch is the supreme law.
But no matter how much it was concealed, the news of William's sudden coma reached the ears of some people who paid attention to William in a relatively short period of time.
Some people are worried, and some people are ecstatic.
But those who were ecstatic were destined to be disappointed. After William woke up the next day, he summoned some nobles in the hall of Sanssouci Palace. William's words and deeds made the nobles feel relieved about his body.
Come down, because after summoning the nobles, William personally took the nobles to the racecourse behind Sanssouci Palace to race horses.
William himself rode on the horse. His horse was a large adult horse. His skillful riding skills and still sharp eyes let everyone know that the king's body was not as bad as imagined.