Each province should give you tens of thousands of pounds (I've got 40,000 for Nice at best!) as well as a tech or two.

Get army techs if you can, industry techs second. Don't take a tech just 'because you can'. Taking a naval tech simply slows down your own, more important research. We can't afford to think overly of the long run right now, not before we've mopped up a few minors. Now, use the money you've got from selling provinces to France to prepare for war. Five divisions with guard brigades should be enough, but five reserve divisions are a nice thing to have, too. Expenses be damned, that's what we've sold land to France for! Line up along the border, declare war, and avanti! You'll be in a war with everyone on the peninsula save Two Sicilies (as well as possibly some alliance-breaking cowards). Waste no time, put the closest enemy states under the iron boot before others arrive at the scene. Don't bargain with anyone, annex outright! Put farmer and labourer POPs from the newly annexed lands into uniform to replenish divisions that have suffered casualties, and keep the steamroller going. Unless another power intervenes (unlikely, but check the independence guarantees on your enemies just in case), you should have annexed everything north of Rome in a year or two. The Papal States are too large to be annexed in one bit, so that'll take two wars. So, now we've conquered Rome and everything north thereof. #Sardinia piedmont europa universalis 5 PatchĮxcept for the land Austria sits on which rightfully belongs to us, but we'll bother about that later.

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