The Crescent of the Sultan

Judging from the intelligence obtained by Selim, while France was busy fighting among itself, the European countries were not idle either. In other words, for them, this was an excellent opportunity.

After all, from a geopolitical perspective, the general contradictions in Europe are actually quite clear as long as the British are not involved.

That is, the Austrian-French contradiction (hundred-year struggle for European hegemony), the Austro-Prussian contradiction (about the unification of Germany), and the Turkish-Russian contradiction (Russia wants to go south).

In addition, there are the three-pointed Poland (the conflict between Prussia, Austria and Russia), the beating of Sweden (the conflict between Russia and Sweden), and the Balkan dispute (the conflict between Austria and Turkey).

What Selim wants to do at this time is to temporarily remove the link representing France from the European chessboard.

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

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

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

Of course, there is no use in concluding a military alliance. Historically, when Catherine II went to war with Poland, Frederick William II immediately joined in, just to grab a bite, for fear of being alone. It's done.

Judging from the current situation, Austria and Prussia have much less pressure on France's national defense, and they are fully capable of starting the second carve-up. 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 back King Gustaf III of Sweden after the Russo-Turkish War.

However, none of Catherine's bold words came true. Sudan had a vague advantage in the confrontation, and King Gustaf III of Sweden did not apologize to her.

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

This made Ekaterina, who claimed to be comparable to Peter I, very angry. If not Poland, who would do it at this time?

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

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

The three countries used Poland to spread the French Revolution and intervened in Poland's internal affairs.

Poland's response was no response. As for why, it must be mentioned here that Poland has a monarch electoral system comparable to the early Holy Roman Empire.

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

Considering that his family was at risk of extermination, Sigismund immediately began to marry and find a mistress.

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

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

Sigismund II, who lived a wise life, wandered between the disputes between Catholicism and Protestantism, and contributed to the Union of Lublin (the merger of Poland and Lithuania into a federation). Finally, Sigismund II created for this country an electoral monarchy system that he believed was more conducive to the federation.

In Selim's view, the last consideration of Zygmunt II, who created this system, was not the future of the federation at all.

Rather than the future of the Federation, he was more wary of a certain lower body fortress.

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

However, after Sigismund II, the country became an aristocratic republic rather than a constitutional monarchy.

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

On September 7, 1764, when the new king election conference 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 project election in exchange for diplomatic aid from Tsarina Catherine II).

As for why Stanislaw received the support of Catherine II, Selim could only say that Ye II was indeed romantic.

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

By the grace of God and the will of the people, Stanislaw finally became King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Rutnia, Prussia, Mazovia, Samogitia, Kiev, and Volini The princes of Asia, Podolia, Podrazia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernihiv.

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

However, as a king supported by foreign monarchs, Stanislaw's power was deformed from the beginning. He was not a monarch with great talents and great ambitions, but it was difficult to realize his ambitions.

In 1770, the Catholic fanatics - the Bar League Council announced that Stanislaw had been overthrown.

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

Desperate, he actually agreed to the Russian army's suppression of the Bal alliance from 1768 to 1772.

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

As for why this bunch of Polish idiots are still fighting among themselves at this point, Selim doesn't quite understand what these guys think.

He only knows one thing. As it stands now, with the armies of the three countries heading straight for Warsaw, it is hard to say whether Poland can survive until the third partition.

The Sultan is considering what impact the changing situation in Poland will have on the empire.

Ishak Pasha had already entered.

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

One is the Sipaxi cavalry. They believe that the plan provided by the empire cannot meet their needs. Many Sipaxi cavalry have gathered in front of the government to petition. "

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

Selim asked in surprise. Historically, Mahmud II used the power of the Sipaxi cavalry to strangle the Guards, so he gave the other party a chance to join the new army.

But Selim risked his own life to hang around the gate of hell for a while. Hey, this can be done.

Sultan replied angrily.

"I'll deal with this matter later. What's the second thing? Tell me, Ishaq."

Ishak Pasha smiled and said: "Your Majesty, it is your marriage."

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