Germanic Empire: please call me William III

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Fast forward to 1714, and the situation became more tense.
This is especially true in the Balkans, known as powder kegs.
After winning two consecutive Balkan wars, the Kingdom of Selvia has been crowned as one of the smaller states in the Balkans. Not only that, but they also actively encouraged the Slavic provinces under the Austro-Hungarian Empire to break away from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and form a Slavic state with the Kingdom of Selvia.
In fact, the Kingdom of Selvia itself had only recently emerged from the colonial rule of the Ottoman Empire. However, with the support of the Tsarist Empire, they had begun to rise.
The Slavs living in the Balkans are actually a people, as are the Slavs living on the plains of Eastern Europe. However, after the former migrated to the Balkan Peninsula, they were accustomed to living in the mountains and forests.
Originally, the entire Balkan Peninsula was a colony of the Ottoman Empire. However, in successive wars with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire lost more than it won. Especially after the defeat in the Tenth War, it was forced to cede the Balkan Peninsula. It was at this time that the kingdom of Selvia gained its independence.
You know, they had been colonized by the Ottomans for nearly five centuries.
The country of Selvia, though small, has a population of just over three million, less than four million. However, their ambitions are not small. Or rather, they want to recreate the glory of their heyday.
During the Selvia Empire, they occupied the entire Balkan Peninsula. Unfortunately, it was later destroyed by the Ottomans.
If the kingdom of Selvia is to be strong, it must have a sufficient population. A very large part of the people living in the Balkans were under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the other part established the kingdom of Borgialia.
Therefore, after the Kingdom of Selvia defeated the Kingdom of Borgialia in the Second Balkan War and gained a large amount of land and population, it also began to target the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
They began to actively provoke the Slavs under Austro-Hungarian rule to rebel against Austro-Hungarian rule and break away from Austria-Hungary.
If their ambitions succeed, they can become a powerful nation of fifteen million people. Although it is far from being able to compare with those top powers, it is at least a first-class country.
Especially with the full support of the Tsarist Empire, they became the hegemons of the Balkan Peninsula and even the entire Mediterranean region, and they were just around the corner!
And the Austro-Hungarian Empire was naturally very dissatisfied with the behavior of the Selvia Kingdom.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire also had great ambitions for the Balkans.
When the Ottoman Empire took control of the Balkans, austria-Hungary was at the forefront of the fight against the Ottoman Empire throughout Europe last night.
Resisting the Ottoman attack until the Ottoman Empire fell, the Austro-Hungarian Empire naturally could not wait to expand into the Balkan Peninsula.
However, the Tsarist Empire supported the rise of the Selvia Kingdom and wanted to stop the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which naturally made the Austro-Hungarian Empire greatly dissatisfied.
Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire was full of internal contradictions, its willingness to expand abroad was still very strong. Although The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I was older. However, Archduke Ferdinand, as Crown Prince, has been pushing the Austro-Hungarian Empire to expand into the Balkans.
Especially after the defeat of the Tsarist Empire by the Eastern Empire, it gave hope to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The battered Russian Empire could no longer afford to take care of the Balkans. Moreover, the subsequent Tsarist Empire had begun to reform the army. However, until the army reform was completed, it was obvious that the Russian Empire could not use troops on a large scale.
In addition, the Germanic Empire, a staunch ally of Austria-Hungary, has been supporting austria-Hungary. This naturally made the top brass of the Austro-Hungarian Empire already have a sense of complacency in Selvia.
In addition, the sun never sets and the Gauls are also supporting the kingdom of Selvia. Naturally, they wished they could support a country in the Balkans to contain the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Although the strength of the kingdom of Selvia is obviously insufficient, it is better than nothing.
Even the sun never sets and the Gauls guarantee the security of Selvia. Under such circumstances, the kingdom of Selvia was naturally even more arrogant. Even, there was no fear of austria-Hungary at all.
Of course, the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has exceeded fifty million. In all of Europe, it was second only to the Russian Empire and the Germanic Empire. Moreover, it is also very strong in terms of industrial strength, and in Europe, it is second only to the Germanic Empire, the Empire of the Sun And the State of Gaul, which can be regarded as the fifth in Europe and the sixth in the world.
From the industrial output of the previous year, that is, in 1713, the lighthouse state accounted for 35.8% of the world, the Germanic Empire accounted for 15.7%, the Sunless Empire accounted for 13.6%, the Russian Empire accounted for 8.2%, the Gaul Empire accounted for 6.1%, the Austro-Hungarian Empire accounted for 4.4%, the Caesar Kingdom 2.4%, and the Eastern Empire accounted for 2.0%.
In contrast, Selvia is simply insignificant.
If austria-hungary were to deal with the kingdom of Selvia, they would not be rivals at all, only crushed.
However, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was concerned about the Tsarist Empire, the Empire of the Rising Sun and the Gaul Empire, which stood behind Selvia. Otherwise, they would have crushed the kingdom of Selvia long ago.
But even so, by 1714, austria-Hungary could not tolerate Selvia.
Or rather, Austro-Hungarian ambitions to expand into the Balkans could no longer be contained. They can’t wait to do something about the kingdom of Selvia.
Before that, however, they needed the full support of the Germanic Empire.
Otherwise, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would never have had the courage to attack first.
In May 1714, The Chief of the General Staff of the Germanic Empire, General Moltke The Younger, met with The Austro-Hungarian Chief of The General Staff, Baron Herzendorf. Discuss plans to wage war against the Kingdom of Selvia.
It was also a warm-up for the meeting between the Germanic Emperor Auguste and Archduke Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary.
With the international situation increasingly tense and even war on the verge of breaking out, it is also very necessary for the emperors and crown princes of the two countries to meet to discuss a series of plans for the next war between the two countries!