For the German nation, January 18, 1871, was a memorable day, and of course the French regarded it as a day of shame. Wilhelm I was officially called emperor at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, France, and the name of the country was Germany, which was the German Emperor I, the descendants of the second and third generations, and even the thousands of generations (Qin: Cross the stage).
Perhaps for the average person, this glory and status can be fluttering, but Wilhelm I has some losses, and his lifelong pursuit is only to become a qualified Prussian king, and to be an emperor is not what he wants, but Germany is finally unified.
Soon after, the Constitution of the German Empire was officially introduced, and Bismarck was transformed into the first Prime Minister of the Empire. It took God seven days to create man, seven years for German unification, three dynastic wars, and Bismarck played a key role in exchanging iron and blood for the future of Germany.
Since then, Bismarck has become a world-renowned figure, and french critical realist writers once said after seeing Bismarck's demeanor: "He is like a witty giant talking to a small number of guests."
Bismarck himself was very careful to grasp the scale, and the attack on the enemy could also be done in moderation, and he would slap a sweet date, which would have a Stockholm effect, and the people who were sold would return Bismarck's money. But for France, Bismarck was old and fierce, and perhaps felt that Germany and France would no longer have friendship under any circumstances, and sooner or later there would be war, so he tried his best to weaken France, which made the beams of the two countries completely knotted. And this foreign policy of thinking of suddenly putting France in the toilet also affected the later Wilhelm II, causing a major mistake in German national policy and directly leading to the collapse of the German Empire.
Bismarck was a man who was good at hiding himself, and although he firmly supported the establishment of a country by force and achieved the great cause of reunification by foreign wars, this did not mean that Bismarck was a militant, of course, from his bravery and fierceness, he did not look like a peaceful person. As a far-sighted politician, he knew that war was a continuation of politics, that fighting a war was not an end, serving politics was the end, and that victory by war could not last long, so when unification was accomplished through war, the means of war were abandoned by Bismarck, and he began to adopt a moderate approach to governing the country and handling foreign affairs. The most urgent task at the moment is to consolidate the achievements of reunification, and it is not yet time for foreign expansion, and aggressiveness will only cause a backlash from other countries, first maintaining a peaceful international environment friendly to Germany's development, just as it was before the war of reunification.