June 1675, Cologne.

This wealthy city in the Rhineland has now become the center of Christian Europe. People from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Rakshasa, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, etc.

The leaders of the regions that had not yet fallen under the iron heel of the Ottoman Empire either rushed to Cologne in person or sent important representatives to Cologne.

These people gathered together to witness and personally participate in the revival of the Roman Empire!

What is to be revived now is not the German Rome, nor the Holy Rome, but the Roman Empire under the light of the Sun King, a diversified governance style with Ming as its teacher, including centralization, feudalism, and monarchs.

There is also a republic, a hodgepodge of Catholic and Protestant Rome.

As for how big this Rome is, what territories it includes, how much centralization is involved, how much feudal it is, how much it is monarchical, how much it is aristocratic, how much Catholic and Protestant it is, it all depends on each.

We discussed this carefully in Cologne.

And until all parties come up with a plan that satisfies the Sun King, Louis XIV will not put on a purple robe, put on a laurel leaf crown, and become emperor for the people of Europe.

Now it is no longer Louis XIV who wants to be emperor, but the European nobles and people who believe in Christianity are begging Louis to be their emperor. The job of the emperor is so hard and dangerous, and generally does not allow retirement, and has to be exhausted.

How could Louis be willing to die if there were no satisfactory conditions?

And no one is willing to do this job!

If someone is willing to stand up and shoulder the heavy burden, Louis XIV will also be happy to see it happen.

No, when Maria Anna, Queen Mother of Spain and sister of the late Saint Leopold, arrived in Cologne, Louis XIV even tried to persuade her to come in!

"Mariana, why don't you become the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire? The merger of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire is also possible. I fully support it!"

After saying this, Louis XIV glanced at the hall where he and Maria Anna met.

The Elector of Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm, was the first to speak: "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, I also support you as the Queen. As long as you agree, Brandenburg's vote will belong to you!"

The Grand Duke of Saxony, John George II, and the Elector of the Palatinate, Karl I Ludwig, also came together.

"Your Majesty the Queen Mother, Saxony also supports you!"

"The Palatinate also supports Her Majesty the Queen Mother! Please lead us to repel the brutal Ottoman Empire and regain the lost territory!"

Maria Anna glared at the Elector of the Palatinate. When her brother Leopold I was fighting a bloody battle with the Tianfang Cultists in front of the Gerburg Fortress, where were you, the Elector of Brandenburg, and the Grand Duke of Saxony? You three treacherous people.

The Protestants have clearly betrayed God and sold their country to Louis XIV, and now they come to ridicule me, the miserable Queen Mother of Spain. You are going to hell like this!

No matter what Maria Anna was thinking in her heart, she could not speak nonsense because she was a very weak regent and queen mother, with little money and few soldiers. The worst thing was that her son was a fool and could not leave any descendants.

Therefore, the crown of Spain will inevitably fall on Louis XIV and his descendants... As for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, it was originally elected. Now the throne of Bohemia is vacant, and the remaining six electors unanimously support it.

Louis, so the obstacle to his ascension to the throne no longer existed.

Most of the Habsburg dynasty's territories in the Holy Roman Empire were occupied by the Ottomans. Even if Carlos nominally inherited those lands, there was no way to regain them...

Since there is no way to recover it, there is no point.

For Maria Anna, her purpose in coming to Cologne was not to gain, but to avoid losing, at least not to lose Spain.

"The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire cannot be a woman," Maria Anna said, "and my son Carlos obviously does not have the ability to lead the empire. Moreover, Carlos and I just want to govern the existing territories. We are unwilling and unable to

Ability to serve the people of Austria, the Czech Republic, Crown Hungary and other places.”

Louis XIV nodded and said: "Then Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary will be the three provinces of the future Roman Empire!"

After these days of bargaining, the basic governance model of the Roman Empire has been finalized, which is the provinces directly under the emperor plus the vassal states of the princes.

Among them, the emperor has absolute monarchy power in the provinces directly under him, and the provincial representatives in the provincial councils and senate only have the right to propose, not to decide!

In various forms of vassal states, the monarch and the vassal state's parliament share the power of governance, and the rights and obligations of the vassal state are determined based on the agreement signed by the vassal state and the emperor.

Moreover, a vassal state can be converted into a province or become independent from the empire!

The condition for turning a vassal state into a province is to become the direct territory of the emperor. For example, after the death of Carlos II and the emperor inheriting the territory of the King of Spain, all the territories will be converted into provinces.

The conditions for a vassal state to become independent from the empire will be determined when the vassal state joins the empire. The situation of each vassal state is different, and the conditions for separation will of course be different.

In addition to vassal states, there are also "Roman allies" that exist between independent states and vassal states. They are nominal vassals, and sometimes they are de facto alliances. And nominal alliances are sometimes de facto sects.

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"The Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of New Spain can exist as allies of Rome." Pope Clement X said with a sad face, "But His Majesty Carlos's territory in Italy must be a vassal of Rome! This

One point, do you have any objection?"

"No objection!" Maria Anna said coldly.

The Roman Empire!

There is no Germany, no holiness, not even "West", just the bare Roman Empire! How can there be no Italy?

The Pope sighed, his expression a little painful. The thing that pained him was of course not that Carlos II's territory in Italy became Louis' vassal, but that his Roman Papal State also ceased to exist!

How could the Roman Empire be without Rome?

This doesn’t make sense!

Moreover, Louis XIV had already graciously agreed that if Clement X was as brave as Saint Leopold, Louis XIV would be very willing to continue to be a cheerleader in Cologne.

Now you are a pope who has no talent and dare not become emperor to fight against Tianfang believers. If you still want to hold Rome and refuse to hand it over to Louis, who has talent, can this be justified?

Jesus wouldn’t even agree!

Moreover, Louis XIV inherited the legal system of the Roman Empire, not the legal system of the Holy Roman Empire!

Therefore, he does not recognize Pepin’s donation of soil. As for Constantine’s donation of soil, it is obviously a forgery. The Pope himself admitted that it was a forgery! Otherwise, he would have the obligation to surround the Austrian people to protect them from the ravages of the enemies of the Tianfang Sect.

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Vienna, Hofburg Palace.

The great conqueror Mohammed IV was strolling through the palace that originally belonged to the Habsburg family. His chubby, round face showed no trace of the joy of a winner.

Because he knew that the victory in Djerburg was purely a fluke and that the losses of the Ottoman Empire were also very huge! Of course, it was not the loss of personnel that was huge, but the loss of rifled guns!

A rifled gun is inherently less durable than a smoothbore gun because its rifling can be easily ground flat, turning it into a smoothbore gun.

The Ottoman Empire itself did not have a particularly developed military industry and was unable to mass-produce rifled guns. The Christians, however, have now picked up cork rifled bullets and will soon imitate them and equip a large number of rifled guns!

By then, the end of the Ottoman Empire will have come!
Chapter completed!