stonecrandall Chapter 344
Chapter 344
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: 0.096s Scan: 0.085sStanding on the high platform of Brandenburg Square, feeling the enthusiastic cheers of the people, Mainz took a deep breath.
He raised his right hand and pressed it down slightly. Hundreds of thousands of people stopped in unison as if they were a unified whole. The huge square suddenly became silent and quiet, as quiet as if no one existed at all!
Foreign guests and journalists from various countries who participated in the inauguration ceremony were secretly shocked. They were extremely shocked by the discipline of the Hans people and the prestige of Mainz in the hearts of the people!
These are 300,000 people, not 300,000 machines. To make 300,000 people quiet down in an instant, such a thing is something they dare not even think about, let alone do!
However, the Hans people did it!
Mainz glanced at the heads of the 300,000 people at the scene, and he felt the expectant eyes of the people.
“Today is a sacred day for me and our country.
I know that my compatriots are looking forward to my promises when I took office as president, and I am looking forward to more surprises for you.
But unfortunately, the speech I am about to deliver may disappoint a large part of you.
Although the current economic situation looks good, the country has gotten rid of the chaos after the war and is gradually getting back on track.
However, great dangers still loom over the Republic, and we cannot relax for a moment!
Now is the best time to speak the truth frankly and bravely, and tell the whole truth.
We don’t have to be timid, we should face the current situation of our country frankly and calmly.
This country has been facing various challenges since its founding 225 years ago.
At first, it was the powerful Borland in the East. Our ancestors were defeated by the Borland Winged Hussars many times, and even enslaved by the Borland, and lost the status of an independent country!
But two hundred years ago, under the leadership of the great Frederick the Great, we began to rise!
Thanks to his genius military talent, we defeated the arrogant Polish people and completely freed ourselves from their hands. From then on, a new chapter in our history was opened, and our strength was recognized by the whole world!”
When Mainz mentioned the history of the German ancestors who had worked hard to create this great country from scratch, all the Germans present straightened their chests with pride!
Hans’ initial starting point was very low. They were descendants of the Teutonic Knights, one of the three major knightly orders after the Crusades.
In the first two hundred years, the Teutonic Knights were relatively weak and could not compete with the Polish people who were at their peak at the time.
Therefore, the early Teutonic Knights were forced to surrender to the Polish people and were downgraded to a duchy, one of the vassal states of the Polish people.
However, Prussia subsequently worked hard to govern the country, and under the leadership of Frederick II, seized the opportunity to get rid of the control of the Polish people, and joined forces with the Bears to divide up Poland.
Since then, they began to grow rapidly and gradually became a powerful country on the European continent!
The Hans people feel extremely proud when they think of how weak they were in the past and how powerful they are now.
“However, our fate is full of ups and downs. Just when our ancestors got rid of the slavery of the Borland people, they encountered the Gauls who swept across Europe and were invincible!”
The Hans people had just finished being proud, and when they heard the Mainz people, they couldn’t help but hold their breath and concentrate, their hearts were tightened.
The Gauls once left a great impression on Hans. Hans was pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly by the Gauls for a long time, and he had no power to fight back.
Even after the establishment of Prussia, under the leadership of Frederick II, their strength has made great progress.
However, when facing the Gauls, the overlord of Europe, the young Prussia is still no match!
“The Gauls, the traditional overlords of Europe, under the leadership of their unpredictable military genius Napoleon, swept away almost all enemies in Europe, and we have also suffered many devastating defeats at the hands of the Gauls!”
Everyone present, whether they were Hans, foreign guests, or journalists from various countries, were moved and shocked after hearing Mainz’s evaluation of Napoleon.
In their cognition, the Gauls, under the leadership of Napoleon, had defeated Prussia many times and had the possibility of destroying Prussia several times. If Napoleon had not taken into account the feelings of the Tsar and did not kill Prussia, the country of Prussia might have been destroyed!
Such a humiliating history is an unbearable past for every German and Italian, and it is also an excuse for the Gauls to often laugh at the Hans.
Before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, facing such ridicule, every Prussian could not raise his head and face this ridicule openly.
But Mainz did not shy away from this. He openly praised their legendary emperor, Napoleon, in front of everyone present, and even in front of the Gallic journalists!
This kind of frankness and this kind of magnanimity made many people have a good impression of the young President Hans on the podium.
“It seems that Mainz is not an arrogant and ignorant man as the rumors say. He at least knows how powerful Napoleon is!”
In the VIP seats, several foreign guests heard Mainz’s words and secretly discussed in private.
Although more than a hundred years have passed since Napoleon’s era, the appearance of Napoleon and the influence he brought to the whole of Europe have not disappeared even after more than a hundred years. In the Napoleonic era, the Gauls were invincible, and there was almost no one in Europe who could compete with them head-on. Facing the anti-French alliance composed of European countries, Napoleon was able to defeat the enemy’s siege again and again.
If he had not made a fatal strategic mistake and traveled thousands of miles to Eastern Europe to attack the Russian bear, there would be a question mark as to whether the anti-French alliance would eventually succeed!
Napoleon is definitely a military genius. This has long been a consensus in Europe. Whether it is the Gauls who are proud of having such an emperor, or the people of other European countries who were once Napoleon’s opponents, they all have the same opinion of Napoleon!
Mainz glanced at the crowd and took in the reactions of all parties in the audience
“Although Napoleon was powerful, he was not invincible. In the fourteen-year war, we learned lessons from the initial failures and even routs, summed up our experience, and gradually grew up. Finally, under the leadership of General Blücher, we fought with them until the last moment, and finally entered the Iron Tower City to avenge our previous shame!”
Hearing this, the Hans finally raised their heads and felt proud!
Yes, so what if the Gauls have a god of war who never causes trouble?
We also have our own heroes!
General Blücher can be said to be the most powerful cavalry commander in the world at that time. If it weren’t for the Silesian Army Group led by him, it would not be so easy for the coalition forces to defeat the Gauls!
“If the two victories in 1814 and 1815 were not enough, then 55 years later, in the battle of 1870, we relied on our own strength to completely defeat the Gauls, once again proving the great strength of Germany and Italy, making the whole world amazed by us. From then on, the world had one more powerful country, and Europe had a new overlord!”
These words brought tears to the eyes of the elderly Hans people!
These old people still remember that after the Franco-Prussian War, Hans proved his strength in front of the whole world, proving that even without the help of others, they could still defeat the much more powerful Gaul with their own strength!
And it was with this war that Hans took the crown from the Gauls for the first time and put it on his head personally. From then on, Germany had its own emperor, and Europe had a new overlord!
Recalling the exciting and beautiful time more than 50 years ago, the memories of the old people began to be evoked, and the young people couldn’t help but feel proud of their ancestors and fathers!
When the Gauls heard this, their faces finally became ugly.
The Franco-Prussian War was a very proud and worthy thing for the Hans people, but for the Gauls, it was a shameful defeat, a shameful past that made them unable to raise their heads!
So, the Gauls, who had just changed their attitude towards Mainz a little, hated Mainz again at this time!
PS: After trying for a long time, I can’t write a speech like the head of state. I’m not in a good state…_