Frederick the Great discussion post 15

[cahn]

...I have nothing clever to say here, just really pleased this is still going :)
rheinsberg

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Re: ~Ch 14-15

[mildred_of_midgard]

I did like the hilarious bit where he organized a wedding and was really annoyed that the groom would be late so decreed the brother of the bride would step in for the festivities.

Yeah, that was the best. I was totally going to point you to that if you didn't find it on your own! I also loved Heinrich's "Well, if it had been *me*, the groom would never have found me a virgin" line. Burn!

Also, I am so sympathetic, because if I were Heinrich, people would be hearing about this until I died. I should have won the Greek prize

Also liked the line about how FW2 was all "dunno about going up against Austria and France BOTH?? too hard" and how Heinrich was the only one who remembered about going up against Austria and France and Russian, lol. Not that that was a good idea, exactly...

Hahaha, yeah. Heinrich of all people knows you don't want to repeat that. Even Fritz didn't want a repeat!

Heinrich: But if you *need* to repeat it, I'm right here!

So I am not sure I parsed this correctly (and may have run into this gracious/ungracious translation error mildred notes) but, is it right that FW3 listened to him about domestic stuff but not about foreign policy at all?

With the caveat that this was my first time reading up on this subject and I was doing it in a language in which I'm very shaky, that's how I remember it. Heinrich told FW3 he needed to uncover and uproot corruption, and figure out what money was needed for what and where one could get it from, and he designed a whole system for the structure of the government (aka "the one where the monarch *doesn't* do everything personally from 3 am until 9 pm") and FW3 listened to at least some of it. But foreign policy not so much.

Re: ~Ch 14-15

[cahn]

Heinrich: But if you *need* to repeat it, I'm right here!

LOL!