"I'm glad to see you here, Ambassador of Korea." Brandenburg-Prussian Grand Duke, the elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederi III, held Han Xi's right hand and said with a smile.

Frederichiii (Frederichiii) had just succeeded to the throne for five years. As the second son of the old king Frederic William, he was no longer young at this time, but his spirit looked very good and had a high spirited momentum, just like the country he controlled.

Han Xi still has a very good impression of Frederick III. After all, he gave him a large infrastructure gift package as soon as he came up, which made him Han suddenly come into the eyes of some leaders because of his outstanding work. Therefore, even though this grand man born in Koenigsburg was a little short, underdeveloped, and very vain in his personality, likes to show off, is extravagant, and wastes money, this still cannot stop Han Xi from giving him a full of praise.

A while ago, Han Xi inquired and analyzed it from multiple sources, and found out the reason why Frederick III made a big project as soon as he came to power: he wanted to upgrade his title from duke to king, especially after the Hanover family was upgraded to the electoral emperor last year and had the hope of inheriting the throne of England, this sentiment reached a climax.

Assisting Frederi III, Westphalian Eberhard von Donkelmann. He was the teacher of Crown Prince Frederi since 1663. He served as Privy Councillor in 1674. He was just appointed as the chief minister of the Privy Council this year and was chairman of the Privy Council. He was powerless for a while. To be fair, Donkelmann was still very capable and ambitious, trying to make Brandenburg Prussia a powerful power in Germany and even the entire continent. This person opposed the grand duke's extravagance and strongly advocated a simple lifestyle. For this reason, he accused the private gardens and castles entrusted to the East Coast people and other projects that were "no good for the country". However, he did not have much opinion on the expansion of the two major cities of Berlin and Potsdam, which showed that he was a pragmatic person.

Han Xi had dealt with the chief minister and had a high evaluation of him because when other countries made requests to the East Coast, they usually required the agency rights of weapons, ammunition, food, medicine or commodities. However, this lord asked the East Coast to help build the Halle University (focusing on engineering and technology) and the Berlin Academy of Arts and Sciences (focusing on art and social sciences) that he was preparing to change the "uncivilized state" of Prussia. Donkelman's request surprised Han Xi. However, he had no right to make a decision on this matter. After reporting to the plenipotentiary envoy Cai Zhenguo, Cai was speechless, so he returned to the local foreign affairs masters and asked them to study and decide on their own.

Donkelman was a little dissatisfied with Han Xi's perfunctory and once threatened to cancel several infrastructure contracts granted to the East Coast people. Han Xi warned the Chief Minister very seriously that these contracts were personally confirmed and granted by His Excellency the Grand Duke. If the Prussians wanted to take them back, it might lead to serious consequences. Donkelman was not an unreasonable person. After carefully weighing the pros and cons, he wisely gave up this dangerous idea.

Han Xi also saw through this incident that Donkelman was too abusing power and acted very arrogantly, and sometimes he didn't even give him a pride. At this time, he seemed to have seen the shadow of powerful ministers from all dynasties in Chinese history, so he was not very optimistic about the future of this person. Donkelman often satirized and scolded his colleagues in the court, vigorously cracked down on the arrogance of the Junker nobles in the local area, and took away a lot of political and economic power from them, which aroused their great dissatisfaction. Such a person was probably not the father and son of the Hohenzollern family who threw it out to help them do dirty work.

Today, Frederick III invited Han Xi to the newly completed boulevard. The surface reason was that he admired the engineering and technical level of the East Coast, but in fact, the drunkard's intention was not to drink, and he wanted to convince the people of the East Coast to support him as the King of Prussia. Han Xi was actually speechless about this. Is it useless to find someone from the New World to support you as a king? You should go to Vienna!

At this time, the two strolled on the avenue full of Bodhi trees, looking at the pretty good scenery on both sides of the road, and talking about the current situation in the continent. As the electorate of Shenluo, Frederick III was undoubtedly firmly standing on the side of Germany. In fact, the Prussians' position was very suspicious, because they were famous for their fickleness in the continent, and this time it was just that the French bid was not in place. He told Han Xi that he had sent four regiments of infantry (about 5,000 people) to fight for the Austrian king. He was very proud of the heroic battle of the Prussian boys in his words.

Han Xi nodded and smiled silently. He politely ignored the embarrassing story of the Prussian army being beaten by the French army in the Cologne area, and echoed the bravery of the Prussian army and the Junker nobles. As he spoke, when Frederick III brought the topic to the status of the Principality of Prussia, he immediately smiled in his heart, your fox tail was finally revealed.

Frederick III complained about the sudden emergence of the Hanover family as the German Elector. At the same time, he also sarcastically said that the August conversion of the Catholicism of the Saxony Elector Weiting family, who had been in a state of great shame, was that he had fallen into madness in order to become the King of Poland and had actually converted to heresy.

Han Xi nodded with a smile, but he still heard a strong sense of sourness from the words of Frederick III. Yes, the old opponents who have been with the title of kings for many years have to be the title of kings, but he is still just a duke, how unhappy. Moreover, even his duke, many princes in the Holy Roman Empire, looked down on them, believing that they were in the northeastern border of the empire, uncivilized and uncivilized, resulting in the Duke of Brandenburg-Prussia being elected emperors, but their status is still not much higher.

At the end, Frederick III finally spoke his heart, asking the East Coast people to help clear the relationship between the Netherlands - without a doubt, the United Provinces had a huge influence in the German region - and let them help influence some of the princes within the Shinro and support themselves in crowning themselves as kings.

Of course, Frederick III knew that this was not enough. If you deal with the people below, you would also have to deal with the upper class! Therefore, he had decided that no matter what Vienna would do in the future, he would firmly stand on the side of the Habsburg family and fight for their interests, in order to hope that the German emperor would agree to him that Frederick III would be the King of Prussia.

Speaking of this, I basically understand it. Frederick III put forward his own purpose or request. Now it depends on how the East Coast people offer a price. After all, no one is so naive that he thinks he can not pay any price. The Dutch also needs to consume political resources or human resources. Although the East Coast people can let the Dutch do this through exchange of interests, why? Why do you do this for the sake of you Prussians?

But Han Xi also felt that this was a rare opportunity. The news coming from Madrid is now confusing. The physical condition of Spain's King Carlos II is no longer a secret. Even if he can escape the clutches of the disease this time, his future will be very unoptimistic, and he might die within a few years.

It’s actually nothing to die alone, but the trouble is that the Spanish neighbors are secretly ulterior motives and want to divide this country with huge territory. In the end, millions of people may have to be buried with Carlos. The East Coast people are certainly unwilling to have turmoil in Spain, but many things are not transferred by human will, so they must be prepared for many things. In the future, once the various countries share the spoils unevenly - this is almost an inevitable thing - lead to a big fight, how can the East Coast people protect their own interests?

Cai Zhenguo, the plenipotentiary of the East Coast Republic of China to Europe, talked about this issue a while ago, believing that only by retaining the force of armed intervention can we retain influence. The so-called armed intervention here can be both their own and of course borrowed from others. Brandenburg-Prussia in front of him seems to be a good object. This country has betrayed this and that for decades, without any moral integrity, and has been constantly serving as thugs for various forces. If the East Coast people can obtain a promise from their king, that is, they are willing to send troops to interfere in the Spanish situation for the interests of the East Coast, and help him move and successfully ascend the throne and become king.

The more Han Xi thought about it, the more he felt that this strategy was feasible. The Prussian army, the Northern Italian army, and perhaps Portugal could also produce thousands of people, plus a mixed group of troops on the east coast, which was very objective. Maybe he could try to interfere with the situation in Spain, which was crucial to safeguarding the interests of the East Coast Republic.

However, although he thought of this, he cautiously did not mention it in person. He neither refused the request nor agreed, but said that he needed to go back and ask for instructions. Frederick III understood it and happily stated that he would wait for the good news of the East Coast people - here is an additional sentence: In history, in order to be a king, this king sent 8,000 officers and soldiers to serve as cannon fodder for the Austrians, and eventually suffered all casualties, which made him a blood-stained crown, which shows his persistence in the title of king.

After visiting the boulevard, a famous landscape called Berlin in the future, Frederi III invited Han Xi to visit his private manor. Han Xi happily agreed and boarded the Grand Duke's carriage to go with him. This was not only a trip, but also a diplomatic attitude, indicating the close relationship between the East and the Prussia countries. Han Xi thought that after returning, it should be carefully considered and then wrote a formal report to Cai Zhenguo. In the absence of effective infiltration into Austria (there may be conflicts due to Northern Italy in the future), vigorously cultivating Brandenburg-Prussia, a powerful country, seems to be the focus, and Li Qing, a lifelong adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also mentioned this matter.

"It's time to give some benefits!" Han Xi thought: "It's possible to use it when interfering in the situation in Spain."
Chapter completed!