"With Li Wei's profit-oriented approach and his unscrupulous way of doing things, he is likely to reach a strategic alliance with the Ottoman Empire.

By then, the Tsar of the Russian Empire will become the most loyal ally of Great Britain!”

The foreign minister beside him said with a smile.

"Perhaps Paul I of the Russian Empire wanted to use this method to pull Austria and Prussia into the water and form a new anti-French alliance.

After all, Paul I was very disgusted with the expansion of the French Empire and the humble identity of Li Wei, Li Wei."

Prime Minister Peter spoke meaningfully.

The success of Britain's diplomatic work this time is closely related to Paul I's cooperation. You should know that many nobles and generals in the Russian Empire opposed the plan to expand the army by two million because it was simply unrealistic!

It is already quite satisfying that the Russian Empire can support one million troops!

The Russian Empire did not have enough military sources, but did not have enough money!

To this end, Paul I also enacted the Robbery Act, which stopped paying military salaries to ordinary Russian serfs and allowed them to obtain 100% of all the Robbery during the war as personal belongings.

This law is nothing to the soldiers of the Russian Empire. After all, they have never seen military pay. The so-called military pay has always been on paper data and is the additional income of the noble officers.

Therefore, this bill to reduce military expenditure was immediately opposed by a large number of traditional military aristocrats!

Paul I was depriving them of their jobs!

No one would like to think that they have too much money, even if this bill only deprives soldiers of their military pay and does not touch the officers' military pay!

However, Paul I was the only son of Empress Caterina. His childhood experience made Paul I timid, suspicious, but stubborn. This was not the first time he had sang against the traditional nobles of the Russian Empire.

Paul I was always keen on strengthening the autocratic system and centralized system. He was very disgusted with the corruption of the aristocratic bureaucrats and asked the aristocratic bureaucrats to restrain themselves with the medieval chivalrous spirit!

This caused Paul I's supporters to leave one after another, but Paul I still adhered to his political philosophy, used the Tsar's privilege to arbitrarily fired noble ministers who opposed him and implemented his own policies!

Therefore, with the support of the British, Paul I successfully implemented the Robbery Act, saving a lot of military expenditure.

This undoubtedly made Paul I's opponents in the Russian Empire even stronger.

What Paul I didn't know was that his opponents had begun to plan his assassination.

Of course, his power remained supreme in the Russian Empire before Paul I's death.

This is Russia!

"Paul I was a very good monarch, and in the eyes of artists, he was a true wise ruler.

It’s a pity that Paul I, who was full of idealism, did not understand that no matter how high the power was, it needed the support of the cornerstone. It was certainly a good thing for Paul I to continue to be so willful for the Russian Empire, but for him personally, it might be a disaster."

Prime Minister Peter suddenly sighed.

The London government cannot see the crisis of Paul I in the Russian Empire.

In fact, even Paul I knew that many nobles were secretly opposing him!

However, even if you know this kind of thing, if you really want to investigate it, it will inevitably be difficult.

After all, it is the person who investigates the case, not the machine!

The infighting in the palace among the top leaders of the Russian Empire is not a big secret in the upper class of continental society.

"Paul I's behavior is understandable. After all, his bloodline did not come from Peter III, but was born to Katerina and her lover. This has always been a taboo for Paul I. He wanted to do some glorious deeds in the Russian Empire that could be recorded in history to wash away the pollution caused by his bloodline, and he would naturally be more extreme.

At least, Paul I's existence was still very beneficial to Great Britain in the war against Levi."

“So, let’s cheer for the arrival of the third anti-French alliance!

I wish this was the last anti-French alliance!”

In the autumn of 1799, the French Empire, which was ready for war, called on the Rhine Alliance, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Federation of Swiss collectively to make territorial claims to the Austrian Empire!

After being rejected by the Austrian Empire without any accident, it officially declared war on the Austrian Empire.

Subsequently, the second London Conference was held, establishing the establishment of the third anti-French alliance!

In just one week, all Central European countries, including the Kingdom of Prussia, joined the third anti-French alliance.

The Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Sweden and other countries in Eastern Europe have also joined the anti-French alliance one after another.

In addition, there are small Mediterranean countries.

For example, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Knights of Malta...

The Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal also stood firmly on the opposite side of the French Empire!

All countries in the continent that believed in God joined the third anti-French alliance and declared war on the French Empire and its vassals!

Among them, the Spanish Kingdom was the happiest. Originally, they were only supported by the British and Portuguese, and they were waiting for the French Empire to invade and build border defense fortifications with all their might. Unexpectedly, the French Empire's invasion did not come, and the Levi government declared war on Austria, a powerful Central and European power!

The Madrid government of the Kingdom of Spain couldn't help but wonder if Li Wei of the French Empire was so stupid. He didn't have to fight against this continent, but he insisted on pushing himself to the opposite side of the entire continent!

The territorial demands put forward by the French Empire against the Austrian Empire are rogue in the eyes of other countries, and naturally they are not a normal reason for declaring war...

All continental countries were pulled into the third anti-French alliance, and the London government's diplomatic work was of great importance.

They widely publicized the French threat theory, with the main reasons of defending the monarchy, curbing the spread of French revolutionary ideas, and resisting France's unlimited expansion, and even the Swedish kingdom, which was far away, was convinced!

Of course, Li Wei had already been mentally prepared. When the entire continental country declared war on him, he was in a state of no trouble. He just let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ottoman Empire open the alliance treaty between the two sides.

The Ottoman Empire finally found a great power ally in the continent, so naturally it would not violate the secret agreement signed by both sides. After the French Empire opened its alliance treaty, the Ottoman Empire immediately declared war on the Russian Empire!

The Ottoman Empire has always wanted to take back the lost territory in the last Russian-Turkish war during the Catherine period.

Now that the French Empire is a powerful ally, we will naturally not give up the opportunity to attack the Russian Empire.

As for the news of the two million military expansion, the senior leaders of the Ottoman Empire who knew very well were just a joke.

Nowadays, the regular troops of the Russian Empire are less than 500,000!

And the vacancies are serious, and it is purely a dream to reach 2 million, unless the army is equipped with wooden sticks as weapons...

In fact, in the eyes of Paul I, the plan to expand the army of 2 million was just a guise of dragging Prussia and Austria into the water. He was very satisfied with his plan to build a regular army of millions.

As expected, the French Empire took the initiative to declare war, which completely annoyed the Austrian Empire. The Prussian Kingdom, which was in harmony with the principle of losing its lips and losing its teeth, soon stood on the same front as the Austrian Empire.

The two powerful powers in the German region formed an alliance, so other countries naturally did not want to be annexed by the French Empire and turned to the arms of the anti-French alliance.

However, in the secret agreement between the French Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire still needed to declare war on the Austrian Empire, but the Ottoman Empire did not fulfill the treaty!

This is not just because the diplomats of the Austrian Empire had secretly contacted the Ottoman Empire.

There are also concerns that the Ottoman Empire did not want to see the French Empire expanding infinitely and unify the continent.

The Ottoman Empire formed an alliance with the French Empire just to deal with the Russian Empire, not to make the French Empire a continental overlord.

The now declining Ottoman Empire could not even defeat the fragmented continent, let alone the unified continent?

The Ottoman Empire's Sultan knew very well that the day of continental unification was the time when the Ottoman Empire fell!

Naturally, as the main force on the front line of anti-French, the Ottoman Empire naturally did not want Austria to collapse quickly. Even if it wanted to attack the Austrian Empire on both sides, it would have to wait until the Ottoman Empire defeated the Russian Empire.

The Ottoman Empire did not want to border the French Empire, which had a strong desire to expand.

After the third anti-French alliance was established, both sides reacted quickly.

The First Army led by Carl, together with the Jungle Field Army led by Resarith, the Prussian Foreign Legion, the Italian Foreign Legion, and the Sardinian Foreign Legion, were temporarily merged into the Eastern Army, and the troops were divided into three groups to attack Central and Europe.

The defense of the Piedmont region, which was in charge of the Sardinian Legion, was handed over to a division of the Second Army, while the defense of the Italian Peninsula was resolved by the Italian Kingdom's own army.

Nowadays, in addition to the Italian kingdom who was enlightened by the administratively, the dominant leader of the Italian kingdom also has Pius VI who entered the Vatican.

The continental religious world at this time was very funny. There were two popes on the head of the religious people, namely Pius VI and Pius VII.

Pius VI was a religious leader within the sphere of influence of Levi's regime, while Pius VI was recognized as orthodox by Catholics in various European countries at this time.

Although the army of the Kingdom of Italy is relatively bad, it is still possible to deal with Italian guerrillas with militia combat power.

Yes, like the Piedmont region, the guerrillas in the Italian region have never been completely wiped out. Even if all the guerrillas were driven into remote mountainous areas and jungles, these guerrillas with deep blood hatred from the French Empire cannot be wiped out and will occasionally rob materials.

After the founding of the Kingdom of Italy, these guerrillas were the main opponents of the Italian army.

Most of the troops of the Kingdom of Italy were adapted from the original state army after the Italian region surrendered, eliminating the steps of training for recruits.

It’s just that Levi doesn’t have enough glory to brainwash them.

As a vassal state of the French Empire, the capital of the Italian kingdom, the original Papal state has disappeared, and Livi has not divided a separate Vatican.

However, Pope Pius VI in the Vatican retained most of the military power, and the Kingdom of Italy was more like the Two Kings system, with the Italian king and Pius VI jointly managing the country.

The military power controlled by the Italian king was the Italian army, while the military power controlled by Pius VI was the armed believers.

It can also be called a disciple.

The number of armed believers originally controlled by Pius VI was similar to that of the Italian Kingdom Army, and the combat effectiveness of the accomplices who rely on faith to unite armed forces is still possible.

But since the French Empire continued to introduce religious reforms that violated the traditional wishes of the people, the number of armed believers has dropped rapidly.

Because the accomplices can only be considered paramilitary armed forces, Pius VI was not very binding on them. With the implementation of religious reform measures in the French Empire, the number of religious people supporting Pius VI was decreasing day by day!

Now, the armed believers controlled by Pius VI can only act as the Pope's guard...

The first battle was not Li Wei's army and the anti-French alliance's army, but the battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire.

Then, there was the bad news that the Ottoman Empire was annihilated 12,000 people!

Of course, this is just bad news on the official side. For Levi, the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire went to war in full swing, and whether it won or lost was good news, which means that the Ottoman Empire could hold back most of the Russian Empire's military power.
To be continued...