The autumn of Charlottemberg Palace is undoubtedly the most beautiful. {3w. The sky is blue without any flaws, and it seems to be a whole gem. The garden beneath the gem is dyed yellow by a faint oil color, revealing a fascinating Xiao Su. The autumn is solemn, but Prince Henry, or rather Prince Albert William Heinrich, was full of joy.

Originally, according to the itinerary, he should have returned to Germany in July, but because of the death of Emperor Meiji of Japan, he had to go to Japan to attend the funeral before returning home. In the past few months, many unpleasant things happened between Britain, Japan and China: the four-country bank group was disbanded due to the withdrawal of the United States and Germany, Britain, Japan, France and Russia jointly notified China, accusing it of expanding its arms and destroying peace in the Far East. Japan once again issued treasury bonds in the British and French securities markets. Paris and London planned to issue a total of 80 million pounds of bonds. The United States, with the efforts of pro-British politicians, the cooperation between Bethlehem Steel and China was almost cancelled...

Various frictions have made the Beijing government's foreign policy extremely adjust in just a few months. After attending the funeral, Yang Rui's personal representative rushed to Qingdao to meet the prince. This time, Yang Jingcheng's attitude was very different from the previous few months. Although he did not clearly agree to form an alliance with Germany, the meaning of being close is already obvious. You should know that his promise in Beijing was actually worthless. The four-year rest and four-year European war between China and Japan had already ended. Although the promise was worthless, it could at least express China's position. This conversation, through Heinrich's repeated thinking, it understood that there was only one premise for the Chinese to form an alliance with Germany, that is, the United States did not object. Or in other words, after the resolution of Japan, as long as the United States does not participate in the European war, China will fight side by side with Germany.

The strong interference of Britain, Japan and France in China actually achieved such an effect, which made Heinrich just call God for blessing. In fact, as he was watching, what China is doing now is nothing more than to make its own military industry satisfy its military consumption. In Yang Rui's words, this is just to ensure self-sufficiency of ammunition. The army has not been expanded, but has also been reduced from forty-five divisions to forty-two divisions. As for the full-scale mobilization system under implementation, this is an armament method that every major European country has already implemented. There is nothing wrong with China's reference and implementation.

Because of his different positions, Prince Heinrich began to think about the various injustice imposed on China by Britain, France and other countries, and did not expect that Germany's previous arrogance had brought more injustice to China. Heinrich thought about all kinds of things in the Far East, which made him unaware of it after entering the Charlottemberg Palace. Heinrich only waited for the adjutant to call him out of the car before he woke up from his excited thinking. The emperor was already anxious.

"Albert, you are finally back." The emperor was wearing a proud German naval marshal's uniform and smiling face, and had already been waiting for his audience there.

"Your Majesty!" Heinrich was a little flattered when he saw the emperor greet him in person. He knew that William was a person who liked to show off. Now he was so kind, he must be very satisfied with his trip.

"I have read your letters repeatedly. It's very good that your diplomacy has enabled us to gain immeasurable strategic value. By the way, there are also small gifts from the Chinese people, both the Navy and the Army like them very much. I like them very much, too." The emperor smiled. For the whole summer, the Haier Royal Air Conditioner in his room was on, and he even wanted to stay in the air-conditioned room twenty-four hours a day. Until the Chinese craftsman who was sent to specialize in maintenance suggested that he could only enjoy air conditioning for up to five hours a day, otherwise he would get sick. He turned off the air conditioner in disappointment.

The emperor's excitement left Heinrich speechless. The success of diplomacy was not caused by his talent. It was the change in the Far East that made China make a new choice. "Your Majesty, China now has two considerations. Before the war against Japan, they took care of Russia, and after defeating Japan, they took care of the United States."

"Thinking about the United States... what are those country bumpkins about? Did the Chinese be bribed by the 200 million US dollars?" The emperor said unhappily. In fact, compared with the current Chinese emperors, he still prefers the Qing emperors, because the Qing emperor conquered China by force and eight tribes within controlled the state power, which is very similar to the situation in Germany. Germany is also composed of many principalities. In his opinion, the Zhenghuang Banner is equivalent to Prussia.

"Yang Jingcheng's personal representative said that the European war without the United States must be a victory for Germany, but if the United States participates in the war, or Germany did not completely block Britain and defeat France before the United States mobilizes, then..." Prince Heinrich said.

"But why do those Americans have to come to Europe to die? Just because they speak English?" The emperor's beard raised up unhappily. Although what the Chinese said is reasonable, how can Germany's defeat be accepted?

"It's the interest, your majesty." Heinrich said: "Germany's geographical environment makes us only a narrow North Sea. Once the ocean is blocked by Britain, then the United States' trade with Britain and France will have a huge contrast with its trade with us. When the trade between the United States and Britain and France reaches a certain amount, the United States may join the war to safeguard its vested interests..."

"Your Highness, it only takes a few weeks for us to destroy the French army. The Chinese trucks are very useful. France was defeated before the Americans were mobilized."

As the emperor entered the inner court, Heinrich discovered that there were quite a few people who "welcome" him this time, including Prime Minister Bateman Holvig, Marshal Tirpiz, Lieutenant General Augusta von Helingen, Navy Cabinet Minister Von Muller, Chief of Staff Von Moltch, and Field Marshal Von De Goldz.

It was said that the war against France took only six weeks to be carried out by General Feng Moltch. He was modifying the huge plan left by Schliffen to ensure that logistics could keep up with the military supply. At this time, the Chinese sent tanks and trucks. Not only did the former increase the offensive firepower of the troops, but the latter solved the logistics problem to a large extent. Just a few days ago, he had suggested that the German Emperor start to stock up on a large amount of diesel and purchase Chinese-made diesel engines in batches to build a large number of trucks. As for tanks, considering the diesel reserves and limited steel during wartime, he only hoped to make a small amount of them for infantry combat.

"Your Highness. The Royal Navy can also defeat the British navy in naval battles to destroy the enemy's blockade. The Chinese only need to be equipped with the army to restrain the Russians." Navy Marshal Tirpiz saw that Moltke showed off his army's power, and he had to stand up and speak. The military expenditure of the German Navy has increased very rapidly in recent years. However, the role of the navy was within the empire, especially by the army, especially after the British announced their shipbuilding plan.

"Okay, my generals." The emperor looked at the confident empire generals happily and said kindly: "Albert not only brought us new weapons from the Chinese, but also their precious friendship. This is extremely precious to Germany surrounded by the siege. Generals, what we want now is not arguing, but effectively talking about the war that is about to begin, such as how to borrow the power of the Chinese to win the victory of this great war? Albert, let's start first. Tell us what the ridiculous country has become like now. Does their emperor have braids like women?"

When the emperor talked about braids, several German generals burst into laughter, and even the most serious Marshal Von Gore couldn't help laughing. Although he had known from his students that although many people in the new country had long hair, they no longer had that ridiculous and dirty braid.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese emperor is very young. He is only seventeen years old. He has traveled around the world. It is said that he had come to Berlin a few years ago. He is a wise emperor, which should be attributed to his complete Western education since he was a child. He is humble and handed over most of his government affairs to the Prime Minister Yang Jingcheng of the Empire. Prime Minister Yang Jingcheng is very loyal to the emperor. It is said that when his troops had just occupied Beijing, some subordinates suggested that he proclaim himself the emperor, but he rejected it. He also severely punished the people who made such suggestions and drove them away from afar."

China's political system has always been taboo by imperial power countries. The powerless emperor is also disliked by other emperors. Therefore, when discussing the Chinese emperor, ministers from various countries not only need to describe China as an empire, but also repeatedly tell the false things several times. Sure enough, after Prince Heinrich finished these words, the emperor's originally towering eyebrows quietly relaxed.

"The empire's rights were firmly grasped by His Majesty's permission and a manipulated Congress in Yang Jingcheng's hands. It was an organization called the peasant association. They were all over the countryside. In order to please them, Yang Jingcheng passed the land rent reduction case, the tax donation case, etc., with the purpose of making the poor and unable to eat more wealthy farmers. Although the landlords suffered losses, they did not confiscate all the land after all. And as long as they wanted to start factories, the government would encourage them. Now the Chinese government is planning to use 300 million mark loans to support domestic industries.

The government had strict control over the state. In the past, the imperial officials were only appointed to counties, but now the imperial officials have been appointed to every village. With the strengthening of the control capacity of the state, the imperial tax revenue also increased significantly. Last year, in the Qing Empire's budget, the national tax revenue was only more than 800 million marks, and a large part of these tax revenue remained in various provinces. However, under the new tax system, all the tax revenue of the empire was handed over to the Beijing government to allocate, except for some provinces, because the greedy tax collectors in the past were removed and new taxes were levied. According to estimates, the tax amount of the empire will exceed 1.5 billion marks this year. It can be imagined that when the empire becomes completely stable in a few years, the tax revenue may exceed 2 billion marks.

Now the prime minister and his officials are using increased taxes and loans to advocate education, reward industry, and improve armaments. These measures are generally agreed by the people. Only the royal family and officials of the former Qing Empire, as well as those landlords who were forced to reduce land rents but were unable to establish industries. They hate the current government very much. They want to meet with me in Qingdao, but I rejected it.

Like His Majesty the Emperor's trust and the support of the Peasant Association, the generals of the army fully supported Prime Minister Yang Jingcheng. These people were his students ten years ago, and through Duke William, they entered the military academy in South Africa and participated in the Russo-Japanese War under the leadership of Duke William, where they had annihilated the reserve troops of a Japanese brigade. Although Japan still does not recognize this; in last year's Northeast War, they also surrounded and annihilated the Japanese division, but they also did not recognize it."

Prince Heinrich's social ability is undoubtedly outstanding. As he talked about the army, the generals present also became more and more attention. Hearing him say that the two Japanese refused to admit it, they laughed again. The war originally focused on the results. If they lost, they lost. The Japanese covered up in every way. Only the generals and marshals present looked down upon.

"Because of worrying that there are no qualified senior generals, their army organization is one-third smaller than that of the German division, with only more than 12,000 people per division. They have strictly trained officers and soldiers. Most of the officers have experienced actual combat, and a small number of them have fought from the Russo-Japanese War to the United War. Among these generals, three of them are the most outstanding, one is the Lei who occupied Beijing, the other is the Lin in Zhejiang, and the other is Qi who once defeated the Japanese. Now China has forty-three reorganized divisions, with a total strength of 500,000. These are just active troops. The existing peasant associations in the empire are still implementing the peasant soldiers system..."

Speaking of this, Prince Heinrich suddenly paused for a long time, and he sighed: "Your Majesty, this is an empire with a population of more than 400 million. Even if the Central Government does not want to expand the scope of peasant soldiers, according to the current recruitment standards, they have more than 10 million peasant soldiers who can join any war."

"Oh! God." The emperor sighed. He was a little excited. He waved his scepter, "I said! I said! It was a terrible country, as long as they were willing, they could completely armed 40 million or more troops. I used to be careful of the Japanese annexing her, but now she has begun to rise. The Chinese army will drive their tanks and sweep the whole world like the Mongols. Oh. God! Fortunately, they are on our side!... No! No! I should reach an agreement with the Chinese, Asia belongs to Asia. Europe belongs to Europe, that's it! That's it!"

The emperor's inappropriate speech moved the generals present slightly. Not to mention weapons, they were very uneasy even when they heard the 40 million troops. Germany's population was only 65 million. If the 40 million troops swept across, the whole of Europe would have to surrender.

"Yes. Your Majesty, most of the Chinese are Han people, not Mongols. In terms of their sphere of influence, they are not interested in territories outside Asia and even the Far East. Prime Minister Yang Jingcheng told me that the Chinese have a tradition of worshiping ancestors. Even if they want them to immigrate from Shandong to the Northeast, many people are unwilling to do so. If they want them to leave their hometown, they can only use some mild coercive measures." Heinrich understood the German Emperor's concerns, but in his opinion, China is still an extremely backward country. Even if he doesn't know how China produces weapons of 10 million troops, let alone 40 million. After he said this, he saw that the emperor had calmed down, and he began to take over the words before.

"The combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is not inferior to that of the German army. What they lack is only large-caliber artillery. Among the contracts signed a few months ago, helping China improve its military equipment is one of the most important contents. Like the troops of the Qing Dynasty, each division was equipped with 54 75mm caliber field guns or mountain guns. They also attach great importance to machine guns. Each division is equipped with about 45 Maxim machine guns. The soldiers' training and equipment are also excellent. The only disadvantage is that those soldiers are slightly weak due to their race and nutrition.

The weapons of the Chinese team are probably the most common in the world's army. In addition to rifles and cannons, they also equipped grenades, shotguns, mortars, and grenade launchers. The grenade launchers impressed me. They were so small that they could carry and fire a person. Although the range was short, only more than 100 meters or even dozens of meters, they had a very powerful effect. When the two armies were in trenches, this weapon that could be taken out of their pockets and fired small shells onto the enemy's heads could achieve unexpected results. There are also mortars. They were invented by the Prime Minister and Earl Schroeder. This weapon is very useful in trenches and mountainous terrain. I suggest that the German army equip this weapon on a large scale.

Another important weapon of the Chinese Army is tanks, which is really a great military invention!" Heinrich's tone suddenly became high. He had seen the exercise effect of this weapon in the secret camp in Tonghua, and felt that it was designed for Germany. "Your Majesty, the army has been considering how to effectively break through the trenches that the enemy hates. This weapon was born for this. As long as there are a thousand such tanks, our soldiers can occupy Paris in just three days."

"Acabet, I have begun to allocate funds to reserve diesel and purchase or produce such weapons according to Helmut's advice. However, its cannons are too small and the thickness of the steel plate cannot withstand the bombardment of enemy artillery. We are improving it so that it can be more suitable for combat on European battlefields." Tanks are what they will definitely talk about today. The emperor actually likes this weapon made entirely of steel, but it is still very weak because of technical limitations.

What Yang Rui provided to the Germans was a tank similar to the French Renault ft-17 in World War I. It only had a 37mm short-barrel tank gun. Obviously, because it did not fully understand the hydraulic retreat technology, the artillery could only use a spring retreat mechanism. In addition, many accessories and special steels on it were mostly imported from Germany. After all, this is a complete assembly. Only the diesel engine, track, and car body are domestically produced. But even so, this weapon still moved all Prince De Heinrich, who had seen the actual combat effect.

"Your Highness, Europe is not East Asia, we cannot use tanks like the Chinese. Even if the tanks can reach the city of Paris within three days, our infantry and cannons must be able to keep up with it. The tank is nothing more than a heavy armored cavalry. It must be used together with artillery and infantry to produce results." After the emperor spoke, Moltke added.

"No, we can let the infantry get on the truck as well and then attack forward with the tank troops." Prince Heinrich corrected that the combat idea he was instilled in the northeast was not like this.

"Then, how can the heavy artillery troops fight with tanks?" Xiao Moltch pointed directly at the flaw in the prince's idea. In fact, this was also the part that Yang Rui deliberately omitted, that is, the aircraft technology was not given. In World War II blitzkrieg, heavy artillery was replaced by dive bombers. Now the Germans do not have aircraft, so the result can only be to choose the traditional usage of tanks in World War I - to become infantry tanks and support infantry operations. "East Asia does not have so many fortresses that require heavy artillery bombardment and crushing, but Europe is different. The French will set up strong cement fortifications on the border. Without heavy artillery, even tanks will be difficult to move forward. Compared with tanks, trucks are more important. They can support our logistics. As long as diesel is enough, they can play the role of trains."

Hearing that the tank he valued most was of no use in Europe, Prince Heinrich was a little disappointed. He looked at the Marshal Tirpiz, "What about the torpedo? If a long-kiss torpedo is used, then even if the number is small, we can change the result of the naval battle to some extent, right?"

"Yes. That torpedo is very useful, but it's too small and has a short range." Tilpiz said. "What the Chinese say is completely correct. This weapon is only suitable for submarines."

"Then we can also produce submarines in large quantities like the Chinese." Prince Heinrich was completely brainwashed by Yang Rui after staying in the Far East for a long time and fell into Yang Rui's war theory, so that he had quite a difference from the emperor and the marshals.

"Your Highness, submarines cannot be used for naval battles between main battleships and main battleships. Its speed cannot keep up with the fleet. This second-class weapon is just a test-quality museum and can only engage in small and small local wars." Tirpitz had no good impression of submarines, and even disliked the name of this garbage thing. "We cannot believe the theory of someone who has never experienced naval battles. Even if he is considered by many people as an Eastern miracle, only a decisive battle at sea can be obtained. If you want to win the decisive battle, you can only build a capital ship. Let the Chinese build a submarine. All they want is offshore sea control."
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