The bribery played a role. The next day, Hirofumi Ito and Shigeru Moriyama still received a reply from the palace official.

"Your Majesty will approve it, and in three days, arrange an hour for sir." The German emperor's attendant official told Hirofumi Ito.

"Okay, thank you." Hirofumi Ito and Shigeru Moriyama quickly stood up and bowed. Although they felt uncomfortable about waiting for another three days, it was good to have the opportunity to meet the German Emperor.

Without national strength, there will be no international status. This is a truth that everyone knows.

"When the German Emperor is so difficult, will Bismarck have to wait for so long?" Shigeru Moriyama asked Hirobu Ito on the way back.

"It shouldn't be. If I was not wrong, Bismarck knew that we had met the emperor and would arrange for us to meet soon, but Bismarck would not talk to us about any specific content and would never give us a clear answer." Ito Hirobuki's eyes flashed.

Shigeru Moriyama worried: "What you mean is that the German Emperor will be the only German diplomatic attitude we can win over on issues of Japan and China?"

"Yes, if I'm not wrong." Hirofumi Ito sighed softly.

William I joined the army in the anti-Napoleon War when he was a teenager. He brutally suppressed the constitutional protection movement in middle age and was known as the Butcher's Shotball Prince.

After inheriting the Prussian throne, the military system was reformed, Germany was unified after three dynasty wars, and the German Empire was established.

William I was the second son of King Frederick William III of Prussia, and his mother was Queen Louis.

As she did not expect to ascend the throne, Prince William did not receive much royal education.

This is very similar to Zhu Youjian, the Emperor Chongzhen in the history of China. However, he had better luck and had a better time in life, but Zhu Youjian took over a mess.

William I received traditional Prussian military training when he was a teenager and joined the army at the age of 10. In February 1814, he joined the army with the rank of captain and participated in the anti-Napoleonic War. In Bar-Sur-Obe near Frankfurt, the Prussian army fought fiercely with the French Napoleon army.

William performed well in the fight, and his superiors reported that he was a brave soldier in his service.

After 1815, he also became a charming diplomat.

In 1825, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and served as commander of the Prussian Guards.

In 1840, William's father died, and his brother Friedrich William IV succeeded him as King of Prussia.

William IV was seriously ill and asked William to handle government affairs and was named Prince of Prussia.

In 1848, the European Revolution broke out in 1848.

Under the influence of the French February Revolution, a revolution occurred in Vienna on March 13, and the people ousted Austrian Prime Minister Metternich. At an unprecedented high revolutionary sentiment in the people, William was appointed as the military governor of the Rhine-Westphalia and the special military plenipotentiary representative.

He delivered an incitement speech in the Berlin Guards barracks, instigating the army to continuously kill people on March 14, 15 and 16.

On March 18, the Berlin Revolution broke out, and demonstrators gathered in front of the palace and demanded that the government withdraw the troops in the city.

The king and ministers panicked. Prince William ordered the army to shoot the uprising masses.

The workers, citizens and college students of Berlin built barricades and fought for a 14-hour battle. They defeated 14,000 soldiers overnight, forcing their commander to withdraw their troops from Berlin early the next morning.

The king had to surrender to the people. William was afraid of the angry masses and was forced to disguise himself and flee to London for refuge.

But the proletariat at that time was not yet mature, and the leadership of the revolution fell into the hands of the bourgeoisie.

The leading bourgeois figures in the Rhine region, Comphausen, Hansemann, and several bourgeois aristocrats formed a new cabinet.

On June 8, 1848, the Commpohausen Cabinet recalled Prince William, who was driven away by the people, to Berlin, and fabricated that he had completed his "diplomatic mission" in Britain.

The bourgeoisie represented by Comphausen believes that allowing the heirs of the throne to form a constitutional monarchy can safeguard their own interests, and they are willing to act as a "shield to cover this dynasty."

Prince William, who was recalled, acted as the head of the anti-revolutionary force. When he met the officers' corps in Koblenz, he said, "I only trust these officers." A constituency in Posen elected William into parliament. William verbally expressed his support for the new policy, but in fact, he hoped to overturn the new system as soon as possible.

On March 28, 1849, the Frankfurt Parliament passed the imperial constitution and elected Prussian King Frederick William IV as the German emperor.

King Pu refused to accept the crown from parliament and refused to accept the draft imperial constitution.

In May 1849, an uprising broke out in Baden, Palatinate, Dresden and other regions in the South German region, known in history as the "movement to safeguard the imperial constitution."

William led an army to suppress. The military court sentenced 28 revolutionaries to death, including those like Trutschler and elementary school teacher Hofre, who had not participated in the battle at all. William's atrocities aroused the indignation of the masses and gave him the nickname "Prince of Shotball", which spread among the residents of South Germany.

In 1857, William IV, who had no children, suffered a stroke, was paralyzed in his body, and was mentally ill and unable to handle state affairs. In October 1858, Prince William became the regent. On October 7 of the following year, William took power.

In order to strengthen Prussia's military strength, financial support from the bourgeoisie is needed.

To this end, William pretended to be a liberal attitude, and he disbanded Mantoyfer's cabinet and appointed a cabinet headed by the bourgeois aristocrat Oswald Schwelin.

The bourgeoisie believes that this period is a "new era" for the liberal bourgeoisie.

In 1858, in the parliamentary elections held after William began the regent, liberals became majority in the House of Representatives.

In 1860, William began military reform. The Prussian government asked the state parliament to agree to allocate 10 million tarrells, increasing the usual force from 140,000 to 217,000, extending the active service period, and abolishing the National Reserve.

William appointed General Albrecht von Ron, Secretary of the Army, to carry out the work. On February 10, Ron proposed a reform plan to parliament, changing the term of service of the standing army from two years to three years, and the number of recruits per year increased from 40,000 to 63,000.

William also strengthened military training, equipped the army with advanced weapons, and appointed young and strong officers.

William's adjutant, Moltke, was appointed as the Chief of General Staff at this time.

The bourgeoisie feared that this reform would weaken the bourgeoisie's influence in the army, and a military deeply influenced by Juncker could become a tool to oppose the bourgeoisie and oppose the state parliament.

So they opposed William's reform and refused to pay huge sums of money every year.

On January 2, 1861, William IV died of illness, and Prince Regent William succeeded to the throne as king, known as William I.

When he ascended the throne, he issued a declaration to safeguard the eternal rights of the king.

In the 1861 parliamentary elections, the Progressive Party, representing the interests of the liberal bourgeoisie, won the majority of seats and proposed that the government's regular expenditures be supervised by the parliament, and the funds must be strictly controlled within the scope of parliament's approval.

The struggle surrounding the issue of military reform involves the issue of constitutional rights. The essence of this "constitutional dispute" in Prussia is whether to implement kingship or parliamentary rule.

William I insisted on implementing military reform despite the opposition of the liberal bourgeoisie.

He paid the military without the approval of the parliament. On March 11, 1861, he ordered the dissolution of the House of Representatives and the establishment of a new cabinet composed of feudal bureaucrats. The fierce attacks of the parliament put the court into chaos.

William I was helpless and even announced at the cabinet meeting that he would rather give up the throne than insist on military reform.

He recalled the prince to Berlin. The prince and the cabinet ministers did not agree to the king's abdication, for fear of causing a revolution.

At this time, Army Secretary Ron made suggestions and recalled Ambassador to Paris Otto von Bismarck back to China.

On September 22, William I and Bismarck met for more than two hours at the Pebelsbell Palace.

William asked: "Are you willing to be a minister and carry out military reform?"

Bismarck replied: "Yes".

William asked again: "Are you ready to implement a plan to expand the army against the majority of the Congress and its decision?"

Bismarck expressed his willingness.

On September 23, William I decided to appoint Bismarck as prime minister.

Bismarck simply ignored the bourgeois majority in parliament's opinion on rejecting government funding, and ignored their accusations of "unconstitutionality". He simply left the parliament and paid funds without authorization to carry out military reforms.

When William was worried that the people would rise up to revolution, Bismarck said: "At this point, Your Majesty has only one way, which is war. Your Majesty cannot be subjugated! If you want to die, you have dignity like Charles I, and you must not be as cowardly as Louis XVI."

William I obeyed Bismarck.

According to the Prussian Constitution, the Prime Minister only needs to obey the king and does not need to pay attention to the parliament.

Although Bismarck said that his working relationship with William was a minister who was loyal to his superiors, Bismarck actually held the real power to manage internal affairs and diplomacy.

He disagreed with William several times, and Bismarck threatened to resign, so William had to agree with Bismarck's approach.

After Bismarck came to power, he achieved German unification through three dynasty wars.

In 1863, Bismarck formulated a program to unify Germany, preparing to form an alliance with Russia and France, exclude Austria from the German Confederacy, and unify Germany with Prussia.

In 1864, Prussia launched a war against Denmark and occupied the two principalities of Holstein and Schleswig.

On June 16, 1866, another war against Austria was launched. At that time, not only Austria was opposed to Prussia, but also Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Baden, Vuldenburg, Hesse and other states.

In Prussia itself, the conflict between the king and the parliament has not been resolved. Some of the noble landlords did not understand why Bismarck provoked the war.

William I was also worried about breaking with Austria at first and was not keen on going to war with Austria.

But Bismarck tried hard to convince the king and pushed the king into the war. On September 3, the Pu'O army met in Sadova. It was a decisive battle. The Pu's army won the battle.

William I and his generals around him were intoxicated by the victory and wanted to march into Vienna.

Bismarck advised William that now only Austria needs to withdraw from the German Confederacy, abandon Holstein, and agree to establish a new North German alliance with Prussia. If Austria accepts these conditions, it should immediately order the army to "turn left and backward".

William I was stubborn and threatened that if he could not ascend the land and population that was in line with Prussian customs, he would abdicate.

Bismarck warned King Pradesh that if the Pradesh army penetrated into the border of Austria, it would be exactly what Napoleon III was thinking. Bismarck was most worried about in the Pradesh war with France. He also used his resignation to threaten William and asked the king to find another prime minister.

The king finally accommodated Bismarck. On July 26, 1866, Puo signed the Armistice Agreement for Nicholsburg and officially signed the Prague Treaty on August 23. In August 1866, 24 states and three free cities in North Germany concluded an alliance treaty and established the North Germany League, William I as chairman of the alliance and Bismarck as prime minister, thus establishing Prussia's overlord status in Germany.

In 1868, a bourgeois revolution broke out in Spain, expelling Queen Isabel II.

Bismarck managed to buy the Spanish Provisional Government, proposing that the hanging Spanish throne be inherited by Prince Leopold Hohenzollern, the cousin of the Prussian king.

William I didn't know about this at first. He wrote to Bismarck and said, "The attachment seems to be a bolt from the blue to me. Another Hohenzollern family is a member of the throne, and a candidate for the Spanish throne."

Although William succumbed to Bismarck, he was very uneasy.

On July 9, French Ambassador to Berlin Benede went to Emes, the place where King Pradesh was recuperated, to meet King Pradesh, demanding that Leopold be stopped from inheriting the Spanish throne.

William said he would try to persuade Leopold to give up the Spanish throne.

On July 13, the French ambassador was ordered to ask King Pur again, asking him to make a written guarantee that Tylepold would not be allowed to inherit the Spanish throne at any time in the future. King Pur believed that such guarantee could not be made.

On July 14, when William left Ames to go to Koblenz, he also met Benedict at the station, saying that "he has nothing to say except what has been expressed to the ambassador, but negotiations will continue in Berlin."

Before William I left Ames, he ordered his entourage to follow, and Foreign Minister Counselor Abbeken notified Bismarck of the matter by telegram.
To be continued...