Because of this, Xiao Yunyang was very satisfied with the surrender of the Habsburg family. This was not the first time he accepted the surrender. The previous Roman general Brutu was a living role model.

Although the military power has been handed over, he has been appointed as the provincial governor of the Dalmatia Province!

This is the first white provincial governor of the Han Empire. He has been portrayed by Xiao Yunyang as a model for surrendering to the Han Empire.

It was because of this that the Habsburg family decided to throw themselves into Xiao Yunyang's arms.

Since you can't defeat the Han Empire, just join them!

At this time, Habsburg had not yet become the ambition of the imperial family. Their biggest goal was to ensure the family's glory, wealth and inheritance.

The provincial governor of the Han Empire was already the pinnacle of local governors.

Going further up, you will be in the central government and serve as a ministerial chief.

It is impossible for Xiao Yunyang to open up to white people at that level.

Although the Han people have only 5,000 households, they are more than enough to be officials.

Although the provincial governor of the Han Empire had no military power, he and the central government jointly controlled ordinary military households to maintain local public order.

That is, the local police force.

The power is quite great.

Even though many of the provincial governors have overlapped with the central jurisdiction and still have to accept various supervision, the central government has such a large stall that the affairs of local provincial governors have the final say on weekdays.

As long as the matter of principle is not touched, the provincial governor is the day for the local province!

This is much more entitled than when an Austrian king who needs to deal with various aristocratic territories.

With the secret refuge of the Habsburg family, Xiao Yunyang naturally could not choose the first target of invasion as the Kingdom of Austria.

Although the Habsburg family is an Austrian royal family, they are far from being able to cover up the sky in Austria.

Even if the Habsburg family was the leader, as long as the strength of the Holy Roman Empire was not damaged, a large group of noble coalition forces from the Holy Roman Empire would form a group of Austrian nobles and Xiao Yunyang in the Austrian Kingdom.

By then, the Habsburg family's surrender was just an increase in cannon fodder troops, and its role was nothing.

Of course, this important royal secret son Xiao Yunyang would not be wasted such a thing.

The first-hand invasion of the Holy Roman Empire must not be able to use the Austrian Kingdom as a war zone, invade the Holy Roman Empire from other directions, and then attract the main force of the noble coalition of the Holy Roman Empire.

Without the intervention of the noble coalition of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg royal family as traitors, the Han Empire only needed to send a partial division to easily capture the entire Austria with the cooperation of the Habsburg family army.

Therefore, Xiao Yunyang chose the target of invasion as an important state in the Italian alliance - the Republic of Venice.

As long as it occupied the northern part of the Italian Alliance, the Han Empire could border other major states of the Holy Roman Empire, and then attract the main force of the noble coalition of the Holy Roman Empire.

The system of the Holy Roman Empire was a great empire with some kingdoms and free cities, and there were many independent states under the kingdom.

In addition to the Free City, the imperial emperors were elected by the electorate kings, while the royal families of each kingdom were elected by the great nobles in the kingdom.

The status of free markets is quite special. Free markets are actually small independent states. They maintain relatively independent political status, which is actually a buffer zone and trade zone between the various kingdoms.

The entire Holy Roman Empire has thousands of noble territories and free city of states!

There are much more than the French Kingdom, the land where the fiefs were made.

Relatively speaking, the Italian alliance is relatively concentrated in politics. Although there are many states, there are no country among the states.

Moreover, the Italian League had the Pope, the boss, who deeply controlled many states of the Italian League through politics and religion, forming a political whole.

In terms of cohesion, the Italian alliance is stronger.

In addition, the Pope, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Holy Roman Empire maintained very good political relations. Catholicism has blossomed everywhere in these countries, and the spiritual world of the people has long been controlled by God.

If the Han Empire did not launch an invasion war, the fiefing system of these countries would sooner or later be completely controlled by the Catholic Church.

After all, the Catholic faith is spreading from the bottom to the aristocratic class, and many great nobles and even kings have become believers of the Catholicism.

Only the Han Empire is the forbidden area of ​​Catholicism!

The Han Empire only allowed one belief to engage in a cult of personality for Xiao Yunyang!

All religious places in the Han Empire must praise Xiao Yunyang's great achievements, deify the emperor of the Han Empire, and even respect the emperor of the Han Empire as the emperor.

That is, the son of heaven!

Otherwise, it would be seized by the government of the Han Empire.

This made Catholicism, which vigorously developed religion in Europa, had extremely bad relations with the Han Empire.

The missionaries who died at the hands of the Han Empire had already broken through the triple digits and steadily moved towards the four-digit mark.

In the past ten years of the Han Empire, Xiao Yunyang, who was fully prepared and relied on the recruitment system and senior military households to reorganize two field legions, officially declared war on the Republic of Venice.

The reason is that a cattle from the Han Empire ran into the territory of the Republic of Venice. After the farmers of the Republic of Venice were caught, they actually sold them to Venetian merchants and made them into steaks!

All of this was turned into steak without the consent of the Han Empire. It was an insult to the national prestige of the Han Empire...

Well, cattle are a very important means of production in this era. They can be cultivated and used for milking. Eating is just a choice at the end...

Of course, this was only in the Han Empire, because only the Han Empire promoted advanced ox plowing technology.

Among the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of France and the Italian alliance, the backward horse farming technology is still being used!

This may be the reason why the Venetian merchants made the cattle from the Han Empire into steak...

Then, because of the incident where a beef turned into a steak, Xiao Yunyang personally led a large army into the territory of the Republic of Venice.

In just five days, even after breaking thirteen villages (villages), the Republic of Venice was panicked everywhere, and the rich fled overnight. The government of the Republic of Venice asked for help from the Italian League political center in Rome, and issued an order for military mobilization.

And he opened up the treasury and began to recruit mercenaries from Venice.
Chapter completed!