unsure why we still deny sweden , baltic culture
#(1681) The Great Reduction of Charles XI
event = {
id = 3243
random = no
country = SWE
name = "EVENTNAME3243" #The Great Reduction
desc = "EVENTHIST3243"
#-#The Swedish Kings of the 16th and 17th centuries alternated between acceptance and dislike of the nobility. In Gustav Vasa's time there was little difference between a rich farmer and a nobleman, but the situation changed towards the end of his life. Erik XIV kept the nobles on a short leash whereas his brother John wanted to expand their privileges. The third brother, who was to become Charles IX, hated the nobility with an almost revolutionary fervor and surrounded himself with men of the lower classes, toying with ideas that were unheard of in his time. Under Gustavus Adolphus and Axel Oxenstierna the pendulum swung the other way and the nobles gained both land and power. This tendency took an abrupt end with Charles XI, who after the humiliating defeat of Sweden in 1679 commenced a policy of wide scale reductions of the lands and powers of the nobility and abolished the special privileges of the Baltic lords.
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1681 }
offset = 360
deathdate = { day = 29 month = december year = 1681 }
action_a = {
name = "ACTIONNAME3243A" #Time of reckoning for the lords
command = { type = stability value = -3 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = ARISTOCRACY value = -2 }
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = 1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -2 value = 3 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = 2 }
#No more special privileges for the Baltic nobles
command = { type = domestic which = SERFDOM value = -1 }
#command = { type = add_countryculture which = baltic } removed as in Paradox beta.
}
action_b = {
name = "ACTIONNAME3243B" #Bargain with the lords
command = { type = stability value = 3 }
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 48 value = 4 }
command = { type = treasury value = 1000 }
command = { type = INF which = -2 value = 5000 }
command = { type = CAV which = -2 value = 10000 }
command = { type = artillery which = -2 value = 30 }
command = { type = domestic which = ARISTOCRACY value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = -1 }
}
}
The king had seen bitter resentment from the Scanian peasants during the Scanian War and was particularly tough on that province. The guerrilla Snapphane-movement, in northern Scania, had attacked his soldiers and stolen his money. They had also enjoyed a strong support in local villages. Charles remained sceptical about the Scanian inhabitants, throughout his life. He did not allow soldiers from Scania in his regiment: the 1,200 solders that were to be stationed in Scania had to be recruited from more northern provinces. He also advocated rough treatment of the inhabitants, and the first Governor-General of Scania, his trusted aid Johan Gyllenstierna (governor-general 1679-1680) was notably fierce in his treatment of the locals; it became more lenient with Rutger von Ascheberg (governor-general 1680-1693) [33][34]
The assimilation was not as strongly implemented on the German dominions of (Swedish Pomerania, the Archdiocese of Bremen and Verden) and the Balticum (Estonia and Livonia). In Germany, he found himself being opposed by the estates there, and he was also bound by the law of the German emperor and the peace treaty. In Balticum, the power structure was completely different, with a German-descending nobility that used serfs, something that Charles strongly resented and wanted to abolish but was unable to.
Balticum - geographic term used in several languages, including Scandinavian and German, which usually denotes the territory corresponding to modern Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In some contexts, the term Balticum includes the historically or culturally German-dominated lands, or provinces, of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Latgale (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia), as well as sometimes East Prussia,
the way I understood it, he did not implement swedish culture into the german areas, but accepted ( and they accepted him) the historic system.
my changes in red
note........change baltic culture to BALTICUM culture ( window dressing)