Military Boots Crush Europe

Only the written word can bring peace, and only peace can bring prosperity.

This was the consensus of most people in the world.

But as the waves of the Napoleonic Wars swept across the land,

the Prussians gathered around Wilhelm Ludwig Karl held to a different belief.

How could agreements written in ink conceal the ambitions of the mighty? False prosperity would also face its end one day.

Amid the worldwide struggle for supremacy,

only bayonets could preserve peace, and only military boots could bring true prosperity.

So, with Napoleon preparing to launch his expedition to Egypt, Ludwig, who had witnessed Prussia's future in the pages of books, could no longer sit idly by.

He was going to act. Even if he had to stake everything on Ottoman succession law, he would turn the tide of fate!

Even if it meant defying the will of God, he would reverse Prussia's destiny.

And so, on that cloud-shrouded night, the lights in Charlottenburg Palace, where the King of Prussia resided, flickered without cease.

At dawn, escorted by the young reformist faction, including the Guards, Wilhelm Ludwig von Prussia carried his brother's severed head through the palace gates and approached his father's sickbed.

He gazed at his father, who had reached the end of his life. His eyes bloodshot, he summoned all his strength and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, I have made my decision. Today, there can be only one Crown Prince!"

In 1798, surrounded by a host of reformists, the Kingdom of Prussia welcomed a new king unlike any in any other timeline. He brought hope to all of Prussia.