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Chapter 105 The Death of the White Eagle (two chapters in one)

Selim was watching the Polish battle report with relish.

I have to say that Kosciuszko's thinking is actually correct. According to the ideal state, Poland can indeed repel the opponent this time.

It's just that ideals are ideals, and reality is reality. The Polish army really doesn't have the ability to implement it, and the Polish Sejm is indeed difficult to keep secret, and the Polish nobles really can't move it.

But at least Emperor Sai got what he wanted.

Heavy cavalry is still useful in this era.

The cavalry of the new army can fully devote their energy to forming such a force.

Thinking of the new army, Selim began to think about whether Haji Pasha's term of office was too long.

After all, such a large army was practiced in the opponent's hands all year round. Although Haji Pasha had always been loyal, and Selim had arranged for Hussein to contain the opponent, he was still a little worried.

Sudan rubbed the space between his eyebrows. According to this idea, in fact, Yusuf Pasha can be replaced by Haji Pasha after his retirement. However, who should be in charge of Egypt?
This place is too fat, and it is the New Deal development zone set up by Selim. If there is any crooked intention in the place, it does have the strength to separate the regime.

It seems that it is okay to let Ishak out, but if the leader of this faction is released, it is likely to cause a power imbalance for a period of time.

However, Selim can use Haji Pasha as Grand Vizier, which can also effectively suppress the major factions, after all, the opponent's prestige is enough.

While Sudan was busy with political affairs, several major events abroad also came to an end.

The war in Poland has become clear.

The Prussians had penetrated the defenses of northwestern Poland, but the Poles could not spare a single force to support them.

Kosciuszko lacked time. Although he had suppressed Franz, he needed more time to let this force play its role.

As for the Russian army, it was really pushed all the way.

After Poniatowski commanded the Polish army to retreat from the Bug River defense line, the two sides broke out again in the Battle of Kazimien, where the Lithuanian ambush was attempted, and the Battle of Brest, where the defense of Warsaw's periphery failed and retreated. Battle of Suf.

The latter was the last battle of the entire war, and Poniatowski defeated the Cossack corps that attacked the rear of the Polish army.

Just when the Polish soldiers were about to retreat to the Vistula River to build a defense line, they received shocking news. The king joined the Tagovica Alliance and ordered the Polish army to lay down their weapons. The war was over.

Stanislaw II announced his joining the Tagovica Union and ordered all Polish troops to lay down their arms. This order to stop resistance caused an uproar in the army.

Because although it is retreating, the main force of the Polish army has not suffered a fatal blow, its morale is high, and its supplies are sufficient, so it can still continue to fight.

Many people, including the two major commanders Joseph Poniatowski and Kościschuko, opposed the surrender, and the two even unanimously conceived a coup d'état to hold the king hostage and continue the war of resistance.

But after much more painful thinking, Josef Poniatowski dropped the idea and they accepted August's backup.

In the ensuing battle, Poniatowski was disheartened and wanted to commit suicide several times, but he still had a mission.

Kościuszko was the hardest hit, for he had not lost a single battle since the war began.

August Kazimierzski had already negotiated with the pair, and in a worst-case scenario, they left a way for Poland.

After receiving the king's news, the two sent a small force to stay behind, and then rushed towards the border between the Ottoman Empire and Poland with the army and a lot of treasure.

Since the king is unable to protect Poland, they must at least leave seeds for Poland.

August was unwilling to blame Kamil Czapotoryski and Ensen Makhovsky, who undoubtedly behaved much better than the traitor.

With Poland already hopeless, not everyone is willing to make this choice like him.

After the victory in the war, Catherine II ordered Sejm MPs to go to Grodno to hold a new parliament to confirm the demands of the Russian Empire.The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth will dissolve on its own, and the major parts of the Commonwealth will choose to join Prussia, Austria and Russia.

Jakob Sivers became the new Russian ambassador to Poland, with the task of manipulating parliament into implementing the treaty dissolving the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

What happened next seemed to be a repeat of history. Sivers continued to use tried-and-tested tricks, encircling the army, seducing property and power, intimidating and intimidating, those who resisted were warned, arrested or even beaten, and of course the most classic old Russian methods —Exile to Siberia.

Lawmakers are still making a last-ditch, desperate effort.They used all procedures to delay the meeting, with the result that the Russians arrested seven more members and sent them into exile.

Meetings continued to be delayed, and an exasperated Sivers threatened all MPs that delaying parliament would be considered a provocation to the tsar.

Even so, some people still came forward, and this may be the last roar of this former Eastern European lion.

"They want to exile us to Siberia!" said one influential patriot.

"Let them come, threats will not scare us."

He added to Stanislaw II present: "Your Majesty, if you must, please lead us to Siberia!
Let us leave this menacing place and go to that desolate wasteland!At least our virtues will confuse those who try to destroy our spirits. "

At this time, all the congressmen were filled with grief and indignation, crying bitterly: "Let's go to Siberia!"

Opposite these loyal Polish MPs is the Tagowica Union.

They played a pitiful and hateful role. The original idea of ​​these great nobles was to use the Russians alone to destroy the new laws that interfered with their own interests. They naively thought that the Russians would help them selflessly and that Catherine the Great would respect Poland. Unity and territorial integrity, business as usual after the war.

However, the irony of history soon fell upon them.

The Prussian army's high-profile occupation of the northwest territory was nothing like Catherine II's promise of just helping.

The Tagovica Alliance was furious. They accused Prussia of crimes to Catherine II, eager to get help from their masters.

Catherine II finally shed her disguise of Polish protector and said bluntly: "If you are going to resist the Prussians, you must face the Russian army."

Just as the so-called profit makes the mind faint, the Tagovica Alliance thinks it has used the Russians, but they have been a pawn of Catherine II from the beginning to the end, and they are played by her between applause.

They tried their best to curry favor with the Russians and betrayed their motherland frantically. In the end, they got nothing. Instead, they were forever nailed to the pillar of shame in history and became the object of the Polish nation's eternal curse.

In this way, the Tagovica Alliance was not a man on both sides. Its leader, Cesny Potocki, fled to Vienna, and most of the remaining traitors surrendered to Tsarist Russia.

Stanislaw II knew that the partition of Poland was a foregone conclusion, and the resistance of the parliamentarians was meaningless.In the end, the parliament compromised and passed the "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Dissolution Act" with a vote of 61 to 23.

But when the Act on the Self-Determination of the Regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was introduced, these MPs couldn't take it anymore, and they stood up and tried to leave the parliament.

Sivers ordered the Russian army to directly surround the parliament hall, and used gleaming bayonets to push back the members who tried to leave, forcing them to continue the meeting.

The Russian commander in full armor broke into the parliament, brutally threatened and abused the members of parliament, and ordered them to approve the bill.

The speaker asked three times whether he agreed to pass the bill, and the MPs responded silently.

Sivers pulled out all the stops, and he loudly read Catherine the Great's instructions, sternly ordering the councilors to ratify the treaty.

The council hall was dead silent.

In desperation, Sivers declared that the parliamentarians had acquiesced to the bill, and the "Act on the Self-Determination of the Regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" was forcibly passed, with the following provisions.

"Russia occupies most of eastern Poland and at the same time receives Lithuania and Ukraine west of the Dnieper.

Prussia gets Warsaw and most of western Poland.

Austria received the region of Western Galicia (including Krakow). "

普鲁士最终拥有联邦人口的 23%与14万平方千米的领土，奥地利拥有32%的人口与13万平方千米的领土，俄罗斯拥有45%的人口与43万平方千米的领土。

This is a bloody feast of three black eagles against white eagles, they eat each other up, but Stanislaw II covers the seeds of the Poles, he's not that bad, it's just that it's over and there's no way back .

In desperation, the disheartened Polish king asked Catherine II to abdicate, who agreed.

He specially held a banquet and invited high-ranking officials from Prussia, Austria and Russia. During the banquet, several high-ranking officials, such as Franz of Austria, Potemkin of Russia, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Sternberg was in the center of the dance floor with the king.

At this moment, the bomb detonated, and because Friedrich was closer to the king, he met God on the spot, while Franz and Potemkin recovered their lives.

The MPs published a letter of protest written by the king, condemning atrocities in Austria, Russia, and Prussia.Moreover, his weary expression of his despair at his own inability to save the country, and his earnest expectations for future generations, is Poland's final elegy.

"I, the King of Poland, am old, and many calamities have weakened my body and worn me out.

We, every member of Parliament, could not even risk our lives to free our country from the cage of our oppressors.

We hereby declare that this task will be entrusted to our descendants, in the belief that in some happier age to come they may find a way to free this nation from oppression and slavery.

Unfortunately, this approach and method is not in the hands of our generation, and we are left to our fate. "

Because the commander was injured, the armies of the three countries did not pursue the fleeing Polish army for a while, which allowed them to reach the Ottoman Empire safely.

The king who has been trying to reform Poland but has never been successful left the best funeral for himself. He took away his enemies, called his people, and left seeds for Poland. This is enough, no ?
It was already late at night when Selim received the news of the death of the Polish king. He did not speak, but silently thought about the reason why Poland fell to this point.

At this time, the social structure of Poland is no different from that of hundreds of years ago. The aristocratic giants are rich and powerful.

A large number of proletarian aristocrats are idle, the power of the bourgeoisie is weak, the small and medium aristocrats have a sense of urgency but do not constitute a powerful force, and the serf class, which accounts for 70% of the country's population, is in a state of "deaf and blind" at the political level. They have been occupied and squeezed by the big aristocracy For hundreds of years, this group has almost fallen into a state of complete numbness.

Under the control of the great aristocracy, they don't care about changes in national policies, they don't care about changes in the international situation, and they turn a deaf ear to the struggle between reformers and conservatives.

The heavy daily hard labor constitutes the absolute protagonist in their lives.Even if there is a war, they have to continue to work. The big nobles are afraid that once they are armed, the serfs will break out in a revolution or uprising.

Therefore, it was actually the small and medium aristocrats who served as the main force of the army during the war. They had received a good education since they were young, paid close attention to the current situation of the country's crisis, and possessed abundant patriotic enthusiasm and willingness to reform.

So after the war broke out, they prepared their own weapons and joined the army enthusiastically.In addition, the citizens of big cities also constitute an important force to resist the Russian army, but their number is limited, and they alone are far from enough.

In the face of the encirclement and suppression of half of Europe, France can inspire the whole class to fight together and fight against the outside world. Therefore, France has won. If Poland cannot do this, failure is inevitable.

This leads to another major malady in late Poland—the serf issue.

At the end of the 18th century, serfdom became a typical example of a backward system. As early as the 15th century, Western European countries completely abandoned the serfdom system through reforms triggered by a developed market economy and multiple uprisings.

The serf system became one of the biggest cancers in the deteriorating Polish system. Such a large number of classes were locked in the fields by the big landlords, unable to further develop their productivity.

It can be said responsibly that the fate of Polish serfs has changed in the middle and late period of the reign of Stanislaw II.

He and his staff noticed the destructiveness of the serfdom system, but they could not abolish this ancient system that had existed for hundreds of years.

Therefore, they attempted to moderately change many ills including serfdom, which was in line with Poland's national conditions.

But others will not give you so much time, and you are at the junction of the three great powers, and you lack the power to protect yourself, so what do you expect to do.

The law of the jungle has always been the truth of the world.

This is also the reason why Selim wants to reform. After all, in another time and space, how is the fate of the Ottoman Empire better than that of Poland?
　Thanks to the p club players ecstasy, Guomowei, Feifeichi, Tianwenhao, Lime Cotton Candy, the passing big guy and all the book friends for their monthly tickets. I am very busy today, so I sent them out late.

　　It is recommended to have a second serving with "Poland Will Not Perish"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)