In order to organize the upcoming war, Napoleon took his queen Mary Louise and left Paris on May 9, 1812. The spectacular and gorgeous royal carriages were escorted by the Royal Guards in front and behind.

Napoleon would convene an imperial meeting in Dresden, the capital of the Saxony Kingdom, convened all the kings and monarchs of other kingdoms under their empire, and told them the most ambitious battle plan to date - conquering Russia. Of course, as France's most reliable and loyal ally, the monarch of the Duchy of Warsaw was also invited.

Desai received a notice asking to arrive in Dresden before May to welcome the emperor of Paris. However, he did not leave Krakow calmly until April 26. Due to his wife's request, Princess Maria also went with him.

A few days later, Desai and his party came to Wroclaw, the capital of Silesia. In addition to inspecting the army, handling government affairs, and appeaseing the people, Desai believed that the most important thing was to verify with his own eyes the first open furnace steel in the suburbs of Wroclaw.

Thanks to Desai's long-term high attention to the steel industry, a large number of funds and technicians have given priority allocation. In addition, the high-grade iron ore resources in Wroclaw, a large number of smelting factories, many skilled workers living in Silesia, and the Waubujik in the southeast contain the best high-quality anthracite in Poland, as well as well as well as well as well-connected land water transportation networks and abundant water conservancy resources, the emerging Imperial Steel Plant was quickly built in just eight months.

On the afternoon of May 1, when 1,000 kilograms of fiery red steel flowed out quickly from the flame furnace in a heat storage chamber, the crowd at the scene burst into cheers, and Desai stood quietly, letting the hot sweat flow from his forehead.

Engineers believe that this is the first time in human history that cheap steel has been produced on a large scale and extremely efficient basis;

Officials believe that the scale of mass production of steel will inevitably increase Silesia's employment rate and prosper the local economy;

The officers believed that high-quality steel could make more numerous, longer ranges and more powerful weapons;

Desai looks higher and farther away because the steel industry is the backbone of the industry that supports the strength of the country in the 19th century. As one of the monarch's commendations, Desai then announced that he would set May 1st of each year as Silesia Steel Day.

Oil is the "blood of industry", while steel is known as the "grain of industry".

It has been widely used in all areas of social production and life, and is an indispensable strategic basic industrial product. In later generations, almost all industrial processes in industrialized countries began with the large-scale steelmaking and textile industry. Therefore, without steel, there would be no other industrial products, no railway bridges, and no guns, cannons, vehicles and ships. In the national economy, the steel industry, like the mother of all industries, directly determines the industrialization foundation of the entire country.

Before January, the Baltic Fleet was gradually completed. It currently has 12 battleships of all levels, 44 patrol ships, and a huge fleet of nearly 100 (armed) supply ships, which is enough to form an overwhelming advantage over the Russian Navy. In particular, several steam warships (transportation ships) were incorporated into the combat sequence, which greatly improved the Baltic Fleet's combat and support capabilities all-weather;

A week ago, the day Desai set out from Krakow, the 120,000 troops of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was loyal to Desai, were also reorganized. These included a 50,000 Baltic Navy Corps (the 12,000 Baltic Navy fleet was also among them). If nothing unexpected happens, they will be the first Polish legion to go to Russia with the Grand Duke of Desai;

The 30,000-man Silesian Legion, commander of the former Second Army General Malusevsky, was stationed in Silesia, defending against Austria on the southern foot of the Sudet Mountains, and Prussia on the west side of the Oder River;

The 40,000 Visva Legion separated from the Silesian Legion was commanded by General Mokronovsky, the former commander of the First Army. He was stationed in the south of Poland, mainly defending Austria in the south and Russia in the southeast.

With the 120,000 troops loyal to the Grand Duke of Desai, including the 130,000 soldiers that the Warsaw Parliament has recruited, the entire Warsaw Principal had already had a huge army of 250,000 around April 1812. For the Duchy of Warsaw, which has a population of only 6.3 million (the population data after the annexation of Silesia), the 25:1 recruitment ratio is close to the critical point of causing social unrest.

Even under the patriotic flags of various names, the people's complaints about the large-scale recruitment of the Warsaw Parliament. Because this is not just a simple act of recruitment, but also the soldiers' various equipment, military pay, casualties, and pensions, etc. must be borne by the people. As for the wealthy nobles and serf owners, the responsibilities they have to bear are disproportionate to the wealth they have.

However, the resistance of the Polish people was no longer there in the Danze Corridor, Silesia, and Little Poland. To a large extent, Desai won a huge treasure, hard currency worth more than 1 billion francs, composed of gold, silver and diamonds, which made him no longer take into account the huge pressure on the national finances of the future long-term wars.

Not only that, Desai also ordered various tax reduction and exemption policies to be carried out in three directly under the jurisdiction of the Principality of Warsaw to attract industrial and commercial masters, liberal aristocrats, handicraft workers, and even openly take in fleeing serfs in the central and northern regions of the Principality of Warsaw.

The army of sea and land enriches wealth, and with various industrial economies led by the steel industry, Desai is confident that he can compete with Tsar Alexander. Of course, there are two necessary prerequisites for the decisive battle with Russia:

First, we have to wait until 500,000 Russian soldiers (including 200,000 regular troops and 300,000 militias) and 500,000 Napoleon's army consumed each other on the Eastern European plains;

Second, implement the basic national policy of resolutely pacifying the country before fighting foreign countries. "Recover" Warsaw and Greater Polish areas, destroy Warsaw's noble parliament, unify the Principality of Warsaw, and integrate all the resources of Poland and Catalonia.

The first one is almost a foregone conclusion. According to the historical results of previous lives, when the army of 500,000 Napoleon was buried in the Russian ice and snow wasteland, the Russians also lost at least 300,000 troops and two million people.

If we cooperate with the food crisis in Ukraine and other places, Desai roughly estimates that Russia's population will lose between 5 million and 8 million. For the huge Russia with more than 40 million people, although it will not be as bad as it will damage its muscles and energy, severe famine will also cause Russia to lose its ability to continue fighting against foreign countries in a short period of time, that is, before 1814.

The final plan to destroy the Warsaw Parliament and eliminate domestic political enemies must also be waited until Napoleon occupied Smolensk and decided to march towards Moscow. Any clear-headed politician knew that without the existence of Napoleon and hundreds of thousands of French troops, the Grand Duke of Warsaw might have already set off a large-scale civil war with the slogan of "liberation of serfdom" as the slogan.

Although the military operation could not be carried out, before that, Desai had instructed his right-hand man to secretly prepare for the liquidation of the noble parliament, including the formulation of a list of great purges, etc. Major Adam Koror, who made a crime and made meritorious service, and Captain Simon Koletsky, the main person in charge of the operation team, will cooperate with him.

On May 5, after a full week of stay in Silesia, Grand Duke Desai and Princess Maria set off to leave Wroclaw, and followed the escort of the Royal Guards and the Guard Division along the way, heading west and towards Dresden.

After crossing the Oder River and entering the Kingdom of Saxony, Maria suddenly asked her husband: "After you complete the reunification of Poland, will you cross the Oder River and continue to expand westward?"

Desai was stunned at the moment and quickly understood the meaning of his wife's words. So he asked without answering a question and said, "You are worried that I will annex Prussia. If I guess correctly, it should be a problem caused by your father, right?"

Maria nodded quite frankly without any excuses.

The Duchy of Sha continued to weaken the strength of the military power Prussia, which made the Saxony Kingdom happy. However, after Desai's military operations in the Danze Corridor and Silesia, it also caused concerns among the Saxony royal family. After all, everyone belonged to the same German nation, and no one hoped that an ancient Duchy of Electors would disappear again.

Desai smiled and said, "For the next 20 years, I will only be interested in East Prussia east of the Oder River, which is a security consideration for the national strategy. As for the west of the Oder River, which will always belong to the various vassal states of Germany, you can tell His Majesty August that this is Andrew Desai's solemn promise without any false elements."

In the discourse, Desai deliberately set up a trap. To the west of the Oder River belongs only to the various vassal states of Germany, not the unified German nation. In the subtext, in the future, whether Prussia, Austria, or Saxony, who is prepared to unify Germany, then Desai's promise will no longer exist, because a unified and powerful German empire is not allowed to be born around Poland.

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On May 10, the day after Napoleon left Paris, Desai and his wife came to Dresden. Maria was eager to see her long-lost parents, so she rushed straight to the palace, but Desai stayed in the diplomatic inn because he wanted to meet an unexpected visitor.

In the embassy in Dresden, Marshal Mura, the king of Naples, had completely exposed his ambitions to his previous political enemies without any concealment. He said directly, "I want to be the king of Italy, a real king, not a small governor under Napoleon, a tool used by the emperor to convey his will, a flashy puppet;

Just like you who are ambitious, you want to unify the entire Duchy of Warsaw and be the hereditary king of Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth, instead of continuing to accept the monarch of the Duchy of Warsaw that Napoleon was freely dominated by!"

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Chapter completed!