sultan's crescent

Chapter 61 Major Events
Judging from the information Selim received, while France was busy fighting internally, the continental European countries were also not idle. In other words, for them, this was an excellent opportunity.

After all, from a geopolitical point of view, the general contradiction in the European continent is actually quite clear when the British are not in the game.

That is, the contradiction between Austria and France (the struggle for European hegemony for hundreds of years), the contradiction between Austria and Prussia (about the unification of Germany), and the contradiction between Turkey and Russia (Russia wants to go south).

In addition, there are three points in Poland (the contradiction between Russia and Russia), Sweden is beaten (the contradiction between Russia and Switzerland), and the Balkan dispute (the contradiction between Austria and Turkey).

Selim's deduction at this time is to temporarily remove the part representing France from the game of Europe.

It can be seen that at this time, a vacuum area appeared in the whole of Western Europe in a short period of time.

The result of France's loss of foreign deterrence during this period was that it not only briefly liberated Britain's attention, allowing him to extend his tentacles further afield, but also marked that the pressure on Austria and Prussia had been eased.

Due to the hasty end of the last Russo-Turkish war, Polish King Stanislaw II failed to win the opportunity to conclude a military alliance with Prussia.

Of course, it is useless to conclude a military alliance. In history, Catherine II went to war against Poland, and Frederick William II immediately came over, just to grab the talk, for fear that the old man would be alone. I'm done.

Judging from the current situation, the pressure on France's national defense from Austria and Russia is much lower, and they are fully capable of starting a second partition.

In addition, Catherine II, who has always felt a great loss of dignity because of the Russo-Turkish War, even though the Russian army successfully pushed back the Swedish King Gustav III after the Russo-Turkish War.

But none of Ekaterina's bold words came true. The Sudan had a vague advantage in the confrontation, and King Gustav III of Sweden did not apologize to her.

A piece of "Verel Peace Treaty" announced the end of the war between the two countries.

This made Ekaterina, who claimed to be on par with Peter I, very annoyed. At this time, if she didn't look for Poland to gain some prestige, who would she look for.

The three hit it off, and the time to carve up Poland has come.

On February 1790, [-], Prussia, Austria, and Russia formed a coalition to attack Poland.

The three countries used Poland as an excuse to spread the French Revolution, and armed intervention in Poland's internal affairs.

But Poland’s response was no response. As for why, here I have to mention that Poland is comparable to the electoral monarchy of the early Holy Roman Empire.

In fact, Poland was originally a country with a family, but the last king of the Jagiellonian dynasty, Sigismund II, had no heirs.

Considering the risk of extinction in his family, Zigmunt immediately began to marry and look for mistresses.

He managed to secure the support of the Sejm (parliament) so that all his male descendants could become kings of Poland and grand dukes of Lithuania.

But when Sigismund II died, he still had no male heirs.

Sigismund II, who was wise all his life and wandered between Catholic and Protestant disputes, contributed to the union of Lublin (Poland and Lithuania merged into a federation), and finally created a monarchy election system for this country that he thought was more beneficial to the federation.

In Selim's view, the last consideration of Sigismund II, who made this system, was not the future of the Federation at all.

Compared with the future of the Federation, he is more wary of a certain lower body fort.

He was afraid that the other party would once again take away the power of a kingdom because of his marriage.

However, after Sigismund II, the country was not so much a constitutional monarchy as an aristocratic republic.

In October 1763, after the death of the then Polish King August III, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began negotiations to elect a king.

On September 1764, 32, when the new king election conference was held, with the support of powerful Russia, the ambitious [-]-year-old Stanislaw was elected as the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (King Frederick the Great of Prussia also supported the election, in exchange for diplomatic aid from Tsarina Catherine II).

As for why Stanislaw won the support of Catherine II, Selim can only say that Ye Er is indeed a romantic person.

On November 1764, 11, Stanislaw held a formal coronation ceremony in Warsaw.

By the grace of God and the will of the people, after taking an oath to the Constitution, Stanislaw finally became King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Rutnia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volini Princes of Russia, Podoria, Podrazia, Livonia, Smolensk, Sevoria and Chernihiv.

In order to change the declining situation of Poland since Jan Sobieski, Stanislaw started economic reforms and trained a group of outstanding civil servants.

However, as a king supported by a foreign monarch, Stanislaw's power was deformed from the beginning.

In 1770, Catholic zealots, the Council of the Union of Barr declared Stanislaw to be overthrown.

In 1771, Stanislaw was briefly imprisoned and taken to the outskirts of Warsaw after being kidnapped by members of the Union.

Desperate, he de facto consented to the suppression of the Bar Union by Russian troops between 1768 and 1772.

In the name of protecting their sects, Russia, Prussia, and Austria took the opportunity to carve up Poland for the first time.Although he protested against the first partition of Russia, Prussia, and Austria (in 1772), he was unable to influence the matter and was ruthlessly opposed by the Polish elite.

As for why these Polish idiots can still fight among themselves at this point, Selim doesn't quite understand what these bastards think.

He only knows one thing, in the current situation, the armies of the three countries are going straight to Warsaw, and it is hard to say whether Poland can last until the third partition.

The sultan is considering how the changing situation in Poland will affect the empire.

Ishak Pasha had already walked in.

"Your Majesty, there are two matters that need to be resolved by you personally.

One is the Sipahi cavalry side. They think that the plan given by the empire cannot meet their needs. Many Sipahi cavalry have gathered at the gate of the government to petition. "

"Petition? For what? What have they got to petition?"

Selim asked in surprise. In history, Mahmud II gave the opponent a chance to join the new army because he used the power of the Sipahi cavalry to strangle the Guards.

But Selim took his life to hang around the door of hell once, what the hell, this can also be rubbed.

Sultan replied angrily.

"I'll deal with this matter later, what's the second matter? Tell me, Ishak."

Ishak Pasha smiled and said, "Your Majesty, yes, your marriage."

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