Chapter 968: The Birth of the European Union 1

The battle between Dahua and the Mughal Empire has always been closely watched by European countries.

On the surface, this war has nothing to do with them.

But in fact, this war also determines their fate.

If the huge Mughal Empire can't hold back Dahua, then sooner or later Dahua's next chariot will be pushed to Europe.

Therefore, they have been looking forward to the victory of the Mughal Empire.

After looking forward to it, the Mughal Empire finally disappointed them.

The huge Mughal Empire also fell into the torrent of steel from Dahua.

At the end of the tenth year of Yongxing (1657), major European powers sent representatives to hold an alliance meeting in London to discuss the alliance movement and jointly deal with the threat from Dahua.

The countries participating in the meeting were Great Britain, France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, the First Polish Republic, and Tsarist Russia.

"Everyone, it's time to wake up. If there is any idiot in this room who thinks that Dahua will be satisfied and stop the conquest after taking India, please leave now. This meeting does not need that kind of idiot."

Williams, representing England and Scotland, said.

In the past three years of Dahua's rapid development, the world has actually undergone drastic changes.

On the island of Great Britain, England and Scotland each gave up their independent status and reached an agreement to merge.

At the same time, they annexed Ireland by force.

England, which has already started the industrial revolution and has achieved certain results, is as difficult as Dahua's attacking the Mughal Empire when attacking Ireland, and the annexation process is very smooth.

At the same time, they also restored the monarchy ahead of schedule.

In the original history, after Charles I was guillotined, England fell into Cromwell's military dictatorship.

It was not until 1660 that Charles II restored the Stuart dynasty and completed the restoration, but soon the Glorious Revolution broke out and completely established the constitutional monarchy.

But now, because of Wu Changqing's influence, their course has been completely changed.

Charles I was still sent to the guillotine. At that time, Wu Changqing's influence had not yet spread to Great Britain.

But then Western European countries saw the strength of Dahua.

More importantly, what Dahua practiced was the imperial system.

When those elites began to think about why Dahua is strong, some people thought about it in terms of technology, while others thought about it in terms of political system.

Then, someone will naturally conclude that because Dahua implements the imperial system, Dahua is very powerful, such a nonsense causal relationship.

Human cognition of the world relies on causality, so a causal relationship is often imposed on two things.

For example, because someone studied hard, his grades are good.

This causal relationship is very simple and intuitive, easy to understand.

However, as the world becomes more and more complex, simple causality alone cannot explain some phenomena.

For example, why someone won the first prize, the reason is very complicated, involving talent, hard work, background, relationship, political game...

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand and prefer a simple statement.

Ever since, his family's ancestral grave has good geomantic omen, so he will be more marketable if he wins the first prize.

There are many and complex reasons why Dahua is strong.

Ordinary people in Great Britain also like simple statements, so the statement that Dahua is powerful because of the imperial system is very popular.

Of course there are sensible people in Great Britain, but these sensible people are pretending to be confused at this time.

Because Cromwell's military dictatorship was worse than the previous monarchy, the people needed a reason to overthrow him.

And the reason that "Dahua is an imperial system, so Dahua is very powerful" just meets the needs of the people of England.

Most people hope that their country is strong, so that they can live a better life.

When the vast majority of people have this kind of appeal, Cromwell's military dictatorship can no longer be played. In the fifth year of Yongxing, when Cromwell tried to dissolve the parliament, the people broke out in resistance.

Cromwell's men also betrayed him, welcomed back Charles II, and restored the monarchy.

After Charles II returned to England, he began to comprehensively learn from Dahua's reform measures in order to please the people and domestic capitalists.

Coincidentally, Dahua's model has really eased the conflicts between the monarch, capitalists, and common people to a certain extent.

Therefore, Charles II, who copied everything, did a pretty good job, at least better than his father, and better than Cromwell.

Therefore, Charles II received more praise than curse for the time being.

At this time, Great Britain not only merged with Scotland and Ireland, but also established thirteen states in North America, and was already expanding to the Midwest.

This speed is much faster than in the original history.

"We must stop the meaningless infighting and form an alliance immediately to deal with the threat posed by Dahua."

Spain's representative Pardo said.

Among the delegates at the meeting, the most urgent for an alliance was Spain.

No way, who made France too strong.

France has been actively expanding these years and has annexed the Netherlands, Belgium, and Bavaria.

Overseas, also occupied Mexico, Texas and Central America

some islands.

In the past two years, France has been preparing to try to invade Spain and Italy.

"I agree that we must be united to deal with the threats from Dahua, Tsarist Russia, and Daxi."

Alex, the representative of the First Polish Republic, strongly agrees that among the current big countries in Western Europe, Spain and Poland are more difficult.

Spain faces threats from France, while Poland faces threats from Sweden, Tsarist Russia, and Atlantis.

Because of the fear of Tsarist Russia, Poland moved its capital directly from Krakow to Warsaw, just to stay away from Mao Xiong.

At this time, Sweden, which occupies the entire Northern Europe, is also quite powerful, often trying to expand to Western and Central Europe.

And just a few years ago, an opponent as fierce as Tsarist Russia came to Europe from the east and occupied Ukraine, Romania and other Central European regions.

That is Li Dingguo's Daxi Army, and now they have officially established a country, and the name of the country is still Daxi.

Occupying places such as Ukraine and Romania exhausted all the war potential of the Atlantis Army.

After all, they are outsiders, a minority, and it is much more difficult to maintain their rule than the aboriginal nobles in Western Europe.

Their armies are all scattered in various places, deterring those restless elements, and they cannot spare their troops to continue to expand.

Also, they have no good targets for invasion.

To the north is the huge Tsarist Russia, to the south is the Ottoman Empire, and to the west is the Holy Roman Empire. They don't want to go to the east, lest they have to border on Dahua.

Among the many countries participating in the meeting, the First Polish Republic was the weakest one, and they were always worried that other people participating in the meeting would propose to carve up Poland first.

This is not unfounded worry, they were divided up several times in the original history.