Chapter 1884: Big Cake on the Eastern Front One
The meeting was held as scheduled in the palace of the Wittelsbach family outside Munich. This time, almost all major states and political forces in the empire sent core personnel to participate. On the first day of the meeting, the first task Ruprecht arranged for the meeting was successfully completed. Whether it was the Kaiser or the parliamentarians, they all guaranteed that the status of all states was sacred and inviolable, and they lost power in the turmoil The kingdom will be restored after the war. After discussing this topic, we entered the next topic, which is also a matter of concern to all states-the division of new territories on the Eastern Front!
"So far, the imperial army has made extremely brilliant achievements on the Eastern Front. We even surpassed Napoleon the Great in history! Although Napoleon entered Moscow, he did not firmly control the area he occupied. After performing what appeared to be a show of ceremony, his army was forced to endure the pursuit and harassment of the Russians in the snow and ice."
"But we are different! The soldiers of the empire won a wider world for the empire with the long sword in their hands." With Ruprecht's words, the huge curtain on the wall was pulled open, and a huge Eastern Front A map appeared in front of everyone's eyes. From this map, everyone could clearly see the current overall situation on the Eastern Front. And, the spoils that everyone can get!
"Note that this red line, and the cities on it, extend uniformly from north to south, from St. Petersburg, Veliky Luki, Smolensk, Orel, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgodonsk regions to the Caspian seashore, and The Transcaucasus region, all areas west of this line will become the territory of the German Empire and its allies!"
Of course, it is impossible for such a vast area to belong to the German Empire, and most of the Ukraine and Austrian Poland belong to the nascent Austrian Empire. In later generations, eastern Ukraine and the lower Volga region will form a new Ukrainian vassal state.
And what are the territories that Germany can obtain? It can be summed up like this, including two-thirds of Russian Poland (80,000 square kilometers), the three Baltic states of later generations (total area of 174,000 square kilometers), the entire Belarus region of later generations (207,400 square kilometers), and northwestern Ukraine of later generations Some areas (about 100,000 square kilometers). Part of Russia in later generations, the area of this area is about 200,000 square kilometers. And the three countries of the Transcaucasus and parts of the Caucasus of later generations! The total area is about 200,000 square kilometers, and these new territories add up to a total of more than 900,000 square kilometers! And these areas are the areas that the empire can divide!
In fact, before the official meeting, most of the powerful principalities have already taken their own cakes. The Kingdom of Württemberg finally chose to take away a territory of 24,000 square kilometers from the Polish region, and Saxony also chose the Polish region, with an area of 7,500 square kilometers. The more than 30,000 square kilometers were divided from the control areas of Prussia and Bavaria, of which Prussia allocated 20,000 square kilometers, and Bavaria allocated the rest. The Grand Duchy of Baden took away the area between the later Lithuania and Belarus, about 30,000 square kilometers. The two Grand Duchesses of Mecklenburg took Riga and the surrounding area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Its territory is a little to the north. As for the other grand duchies, most of them got some scraps. But that's enough for their size.
As for why Prussia has to give more territory to other states? The reason is simple, who made it obvious that there is internal fighting in Prussia? Whether it is the Kaiser or the parliamentary faction, they all ask Bavaria, so naturally they will not be too fussy about this matter, and it needs to be explained that because of the incident of the Polish Rebels, the expectations of the Prussian high-level officials for this place have been greatly reduced. , that being the case,
They might as well dump it to others as a favor.
It is the two giants of Prussia and Bavaria who are really involved in cutting the cake! The division of territory between the two parties is also very simple. On the Eastern Front, almost whoever is in control now owns it. In the Polish area, Prussia took the remaining 20,000 square kilometers, but at the same time, as compensation, Prussia Owning Warsaw, the largest city in Russian Poland, can be regarded as the fulfillment of the wishes of the Prussian kings. And Bavaria took the southern region, about 30,000 square kilometers.
In the Baltic Sea coast area, except for those allocated to other states, the remaining nearly 160,000 square kilometers of land belonged to Prussia. The 100,000 square kilometers of land that belonged to Ukraine in later generations completely belonged to Bavaria, because it was shot down by the Bavarian Army, and there was no reason to give it to Prussia. As for how to divide the Belarus of later generations and the Russian region under the control of the German army?
It is very simple and rude, with Minsk and the latitude passing through Minsk as the boundary, everything in the north belongs to Prussia, and everything in the south belongs to Bavaria... As compensation, Warsaw was taken in Prussia, Kiev was taken by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and then Minsk and later Smolensk were taken by Bavaria. Prussia got about 140,000 square kilometers of land, and Bavaria got about the same.
So until now, in addition to the Caucasus, Prussia's newly added territory is 320,000 square kilometers. The new population is about 22 million. The newly added territory of Bavaria is about 270,000 square kilometers. The new population also has more than 15 million.
If Prussia does not split, then Prussia's territory will jump to about 680,000 square kilometers, while Bavaria's total area is about 350,000 square kilometers, about half of Prussia. Of course, if you count the areas that the Wittelsbach family or Crown Prince Ruprecht can control, then there are many more. The Czech Republic in later generations and the current Bohemia-Moravia area are directly controlled by the princes. After the collapse of the Hungarian Empire, the Moravia region was also temporarily under the control of the Crown Prince, so an additional 150,000 square kilometers of area could be added. In this way, among the entire Western European countries, Bavaria actually controlled the same area as France quite! And the industry is not weaker than that of France, and the total population is larger than that of France, which is properly at the level of a world-class power!
The places that are easy to carve up have been allocated, because there is no dispute in these places. Except that Prussia was forced to give up a lot of territory due to its weakening, the Bavarian control area remained almost the same. However, in addition to these places, there is another place waiting to be allocated, and that is Transcaucasus!
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