Chapter 2753 Song of the Swan (1)

There is such a folktale in the part of Austria that was once part of Poland and is now part of Habsburg rule.

There was a young girl who was about to marry her fiancé, but he had to leave temporarily because of the war.

She reluctantly sent him away, thinking that first she would make the dresses they wore when they got married, and when they were done, he would almost be back. So while she was imagining how he would put on the clothes she made and hold a wedding with herself, she was also imagining the beautiful life ahead. She made one groom's dress after another, waiting for her sweetheart to come back and marry her.

But after a long time, there was no news from him. It was not until the other young men who went to war with her fiancé came back that the girl became really disturbed and distressed.

One night she woke up tortured by longing, so she knelt on the ground and prayed, no matter which god, please bring her lover back to her side, she was even willing to sacrifice her life for this.

Then there was a strange noise outside the girl's window, she looked over and saw a pale figure knocking on the window, it was her fiancé.

The girl was overjoyed and opened the window to hug him. The man told her that she didn't need to feel sad from now on, then took her by the hand and took her to their new home.

At this time, the girl was still immersed in joy, thinking that she was going home with her lover to get married.

"Honey, are you scared?" her fiancé asked as they came out into the wilderness.

"With you by my side, what am I afraid of?" the girl said happily.

"Then what are you doing with this?" The fiancé pointed to the girl's waist, where there was a string of rosary beads, which was given to her by the girl's grandmother.

"Throw it away so we can hurry up," the man said.

The girl was puzzled, but as she only had the joy of reunion in her heart, she threw away the rosary without much hesitation.

Then she found herself and her sweetheart flying, and before long they came to a river.

"Honey, do you think God still has mercy on me?" the man asked.

"Of course, dear," said the girl.

"Then why are you still wearing this?" The fiance picked up the cross necklace around the girl's neck, tore it off and threw it into the river.

At this time, the girl discovered that her fiancé was abnormal, but soon they came to a cemetery.

"Look, this is our new home." The man pointed to a tombstone in the cemetery.

At this time, she fully understood that her lover had already died, and what came back was just a ghost.

Taking advantage of the man's inattention, the girl fled into the prayer room in the cemetery, but she didn't expect that there was a corpse in the room, and the man manipulated the corpse to sit up outside the door.

She suddenly came to her senses and saw that the corpse's withered hands were about to grab the girl, and the girl immediately began to pray.

She repeated the scriptures over and over again, chanting from the night until the sun rose. When the first ray of sunlight shone into the house in the morning, the evil spirits receded and the cemetery returned to tranquility. But since that night, the girl's hair has changed It's snow white.

When she opened the door, she found that all the war dead were buried in this cemetery, and there were no names on the tombstones, so the girl could not be sure which one was her sweetheart, so she gave the dress made for the groom to the cemetery All the tombstones in it are put on.

There are many soldiers who will write home letters during their breaks, some to relatives, and some to lovers. When Bessiere lost his horse on the battlefield, he did not choose to retreat, although he had very good reasons.

He was just a captain at the time. Napoleon went to Koblenz this time to move the tomb of General Gravier. This general also had a lover before his death. Nor could he save her from the guillotine, and even himself and Kleber were spared arrest and execution only because of Bulbert's intervention.

This Pierre Bourbert has many similarities with Pierre Plier, a diplomat who went to Lisbon. They both served in the Public Safety Committee and both went to the Vendée, but Bourbert was captured by the rebels. Stopped, it was Gravier and Kleber who rescued him. It can be regarded as a favor to them, Bulbert protected the two of them, and after the Jacobins lost power, in June 1795, he went to the guillotine in front of Robespierre.

Plier was nicknamed the Weeper of the Marne, and his special court executed 2,900 Vendée rebels, but because he "worked" in Brittany and other provinces all the year round and rarely returned to Paris for activities, he did not Not affected.

Before the Amiens Treaty was signed, Brittany was an area with frequent rebellions. Beodotte was even sent to suppress the rebellion. It went well until a whistleblower letter was placed on Napoleon's desk.

Because of Beodotte's wife, her sister is the wife of Joseph Bonaparte, and several people persuaded Beodotte to get rid of the suspicion, but he was transferred back in advance.

Combaceres once recommended Prier to be the judge of the newly recovered Southwest Court of Appeal. Napoleon felt that Prier was not suitable, and Combaceres immediately quarreled with him in public.

"You appointed Merlin," said Cambacérez.

"There's a big difference between the two!" Napoleon said, "Meilan is a member of the Directorate. His ambition has faded away. He knows himself very well, but the man you recommended to me is still ambitious. He thinks he has full potential." The ability to replace you, sit in your current position, or even my position, if this position is given to him, he will make the three provinces feel uneasy."

After the quarrel, he said to Cambaceres, "If I die, put me in bed for eight days, let them believe that I am still alive, and then you use this time to make arrangements."

Georgiana had also heard Bonaparte tell her this, and she thought it amused at the time that a young man should say such things in a tone of confession.

He was not angry, but lay down on the sunny lawn of the Tuileries Palace, resting his head on her lap, and closed his eyes.

The Battle of Marengo also took place in June. At this time, it should have entered summer at the foot of the Alps, and the grasslands should be full of wild flowers. Although they are not as delicate and beautiful as roses, they can make people feel peaceful.

At least in her opinion, it is much better than "the dead are scattered, the survivors stand up and look for the anointed".

In the time of Frederick the Great's father, the Sun King and France were the models for European rulers to emulate. Especially as the first king of Brandenburg, the royal family of Frederick made a lot of construction and introduced complicated etiquette to the court.

Frederick the Great hated this since he was a child, and immediately abolished the court institutions established by his father after he ascended the throne. Prussia is also one of the few countries that has never had a lavish coronation ceremony.

Since the reform of Charlemagne in the eighth century, Europe has adopted the feudal fiefdom system, that is, the country does not set up a standing army like in ancient Rome. When the king needs to fight, the lords provide the troops or taxes needed by the king, and the reasons in the territory The lords are in charge.

The word adel in German means hereditary land. When East Prussia encountered plague and famine, thousands of farmers died, farms and villages became ruins, and economic and social activities in some areas were almost completely paralyzed.

To restart the social order, people first needed people. Frederick the Great led some settlers from other provinces of Hohenzollern to empty farms, and introduced a large number of immigrants. A system of "fief distribution" was implemented.

In Russia, every son of the father's title can inherit. That is to say, after the death of a duke, every son of him is a duke, and the other sons will not have anything because of the primogeniture system.

For example, the old Duke Bolkonsky in "War and Peace", when he was still alive, his son Andrei was also Duke Bolkonsky, if Andrei had brothers, they were also Bolkonsky Duke Key.

The British custom is that the land is linked to the title, and the surnames of many nobles are simply place names. The high-ranking nobles in Germany have enjoyed the status of monarchs in history. They were either electors or lords, but there is only one king in a country. Of course, their sons and brothers cannot be the same as Russian nobles.

For example, Iron Prime Minister Bismarck, his earl title was given to his two sons, but his marquis title was given to the eldest son. All male members of the earl family have the earl title, but only the eldest son can inherit the ancestral land, and the younger brothers are earls without land .

These landless knights were also a source of soldiers in the Middle Ages. Some of them would take the Order of Jerusalem and go to Malta as hospital knights. Or serve the lord, the emperor, etc., and when the territory expands, they will generally be rewarded for their merits, and the landless knight will have land.

At this time, a document called edict is involved. The emperor's edict is valid throughout the entire empire, and the canonization of the monarch is only valid in his own territory. For example, the Elector of Brandenburg can confer someone a knight, but this person's knight status is only valid in Brandenburg. The Habsburg family is also the king of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. The nobles they conferred Can be Austrian, Bohemian and Hungarian nobles, or Imperial nobles. This kind of nobles are called "edict nobles". If it is not stated in the edict, they will also have no land.

In short, the transfer and sale of feudal land is very troublesome. After the land is inherited by descendants, if you find a better way to make money and make profits grow faster, it is by no means as easy as buying and selling private land. In addition, the feudal nobles also had to undertake obligations on the land, such as collecting taxes, military service, and solving judicial problems for the people, etc. Frederick the Great’s “back distribution” saved all troubles, and the newly reclaimed land was “completely private” , not subject to any feudal obligations and red tape restrictions.

But it is very difficult to implement. The nobles are more willing to be tax-free than not to fulfill their obligations. Some people even think that Frederick William is eroding their privileges. These people went to Vienna together and obtained the Habsburg family’s support.

The same governance, it was another way when Poland was annexed. This time Prussia got a lot of benefits in the "Subordination Agreement", the difference is that it was Austria that was partitioned, even though it was the land of the bishops and princes.

Prussia had nothing to do with Napoleon's assassination, but legend has it that the assassin fled to Hamburg, a free city that was about to enter the Basel Accords and was somewhat under Prussian protection.

Szczecin is Polish, and its German name is Stettin. It is a large city in the food network formulated by Frederick the Great, except Berlin and Weiboer. It is also the place where Queen Catherine was born.

"A soldier who knows so much?" Georgiana said with a smile.

"I'm just telling what I've heard," said de Seville. "The general said that leading soldiers requires not only combat prowess, but also observation."

"Then how did he observe me?" she pressed.

"You must have come from afar."

She was very confused.

De Céville smiled and didn't explain to her, like he was telling a joke that no one could understand.