Chapter 61 Big Event

According to the intelligence Selim obtained, while France was busy fighting internally, the European countries were not idle either, or for them, this was a great opportunity.

After all, from a geopolitical perspective, if Britain was not taken down, the general contradictions on the European continent were actually quite clear.

That is, the Austrian-French contradiction (hundreds of years of struggle for hegemony on the European continent), the Austro-Prussian contradiction (on the issue of German unification), and the Turkish-Russian contradiction (Russia wants to go south).

In addition, there are the three-way division of Poland (the contradiction between Prussia, Austria and Russia), Sweden being beaten (Russian-Swedish contradiction), and the Balkan dispute (Austrian-Turkish contradiction).

What Selim had to do at this time was to temporarily pull the link representing France away from the European chess game.

It can be seen that a vacuum zone appeared in the entire Western Europe for a short period of time at this time.

The result of France's loss of external deterrence during this period was that it not only temporarily liberated Britain's attention, allowing it to extend its tentacles further, but also marked that the pressure on Austria and Prussia was relieved.

Due to the hasty end of the last Russo-Turkish War, King Stanislaw II of Poland failed to get the opportunity to conclude a military alliance with Prussia.

Of course, there is no use in concluding a military alliance. In history, as soon as Catherine II declared war on Poland, Frederick William II immediately came over to grab the hot bite, fearing that the old Russians would finish it all by themselves.

Judging from the current situation, the defense pressure of Austria and Prussia on France has been much less, and they are fully capable of starting a second partition. Wingdings: ♦︎♦︎⬧︎♦︎◆︎⌧︎♦︎♦︎□︎❍︎

In addition, Catherine II, who has always felt a great loss of dignity because of the Russo-Turkish War, although the Russian army successfully forced the Swedish King Gustav III to retreat after the end of the Russo-Turkish War.

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

The Treaty of Verel announced the end of the war between the two countries.

This made Catherine, who claimed to be on par with Peter I, very annoyed. Who else could she find to gain some prestige if not Poland at this time?

The three countries hit it off, and the time to divide Poland had come.

On February 15, 1790, Prussia, Austria, and Russia formed a coalition and attacked Poland separately.

The three countries used the excuse that Poland spread the French Revolution and armed intervention in Poland's internal affairs.

And Poland's response was no response. As for why, we have to mention here that Poland's monarchical election system is comparable to the early Holy Roman Empire.

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

Considering the risk of his own family being extinct, Sigismund immediately began to marry and look for mistresses.

He managed to gain the support of the Sejm (parliament), so that all his male descendants could succeed to the throne as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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

Sigismund II, who was wise throughout his life, wandered between the disputes between Catholics and Protestants, and promoted the Union of Lublin (the merger of Poland and Lithuania into a federation), finally created a monarch election system for the country that he believed was more beneficial to the federation.

In Selim's view, Sigismund II, who made this system, did not consider the future of the federation at all.

Compared with the future of the federation, he was more wary of a lower body castle.

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

However, after Sigismund II, the country was more of an aristocratic republic than a constitutional monarchy.

In October 1763, after the death of Augustus III, the then King of Poland, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began negotiations on the election of a king.

On September 7, 1764, when the new king election meeting was held, with the support of powerful Russia, the ambitious, 32-year-old Stanislaw was elected King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Prussian King Frederick the Great also supported this election in exchange for diplomatic assistance from the female tsarina Catherine II).

As for why Stanislaw got the support of Catherine II, Selim could only say that Catherine II was indeed a romantic man.

On November 25, 1764, Stanislaw held a formal coronation ceremony in Warsaw.

With the grace of God and the will of the people, after swearing an oath to the constitution, Stanislaw finally became the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernigov.

In order to change the situation of Poland's decline since Jan Sobieski, Stanislaw began economic reforms and trained a group of excellent civil servants.

However, as a king supported by a foreign monarch, Stanislaw's power was deformed from the beginning. He was not a monarch with great talent and strategy, and his ambitions were difficult to achieve.

In 1770, the Catholic fanatics-the Bar Confederation Committee announced that Stanislaw was overthrown.

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

With no other options, he actually agreed to the Russian army's suppression of the Bar Confederation between 1768 and 1772.

Russia, Prussia and Austria took the opportunity to divide Poland for the first time in the name of protecting their respective religious sects. Although he protested against the first partition of Russia, Prussia and Austria (in 1772), he could not influence it and was ruthlessly opposed by the Polish dignitaries.

As for why these Polish idiots could still fight among themselves at this point, Selim did not quite understand what they were thinking.

He only knew that at this moment, the armies of the three countries were heading straight for Warsaw, and it was hard to say whether Poland could hold out until the third partition.

The Sultan was considering what impact the changes in the situation in Poland would have on the empire.

Ishak Pasha had already walked in.

"Your Majesty, there are two things you need to solve in person.

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

"Petition? What petition? What can they petition for?"

Selim asked in surprise. In history, Mahmud II used the power of the Sipahi cavalry to strangle the Guards, so he gave them the opportunity to join the new army.

But Selim himself was on the verge of death, so how can he get this?

The Sultan replied unhappily.

"I will deal with this matter later. What is the second thing? Tell me, Ishak."

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

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