"Hans, has this General Wu Chenxuan arrived in Hamburg?" Marshal Schlieffen sat in the car, still uncomfortably asking the adjutant beside him.

"Yes, General. General Wu Chenxuan arrived in the port of Hamburg yesterday with the Qing constitutional delegation, and according to their itinerary, they are going to visit Hamburg's city hall and court today. If nothing else, we arrived in Hamburg at four o'clock this afternoon and they were supposed to visit at the Hamburg City Court. ”

"Hans, don't make such unfortunate assumptions. You must know that this General Wu may fill the last hole in the previous plan for us, which is related to the victory or defeat of our army in the next war. Schlieffen said, and although Hans did not look back, the beads of sweat under the brim of his hat showed that he was shocked by Schlieffen's words.

At this time in Hamburg, Wu Chenxuan and Dai Hongci were conducting judicial investigations, mainly on courts, police stations and prisons. This visit to the Hamburg Inquisition (now the court) was mainly based on the internal set-up, the principle of operation, and the method of recording the criminal record. In particular, in the third aspect, looking at the trial records one by one, after the explanations of the translators, Dai Hongci felt that the Germans were compiling and recording "in an orderly manner, and they were able to follow the law." Although it has been many years since the criminal records were committed, as long as he checked these case files, "whether there is a backlog of cases, he will be able to investigate and discern them." Therefore, Dai Hongci believes that this can be emulated, and he should also learn from it after returning to China. However, as a household servant at that time, he also realized that China's household registration management was very chaotic, and it was impossible to compile a file for such recidivists to establish such a recidivist "without compiling the household registration first, and the statistics of the year columns", so he thought that "the household registration is not clear, and everything is not clear. Therefore, sorting out the household registration and establishing a reasonable household registration system has become the first thing to do.

During the next visit to the Hamburg police station, he saw that foreign countries used the fingerprint method to finalize the case, and then at the request of Dai Hongci, he went down to visit a district-level registration office in Hamburg, and saw that the household registration here is very detailed, and the household registration management policy is also relatively strict, Hongci saw the importance and urgency of sorting out the household registration here, and soon after Dai Wutuan returned to China, the Qing government began to check the household registration. Wu Chenxuan also instructed people to make records in these aspects, although Wu Chenxuan had already put on the skin of the armor protection law in Shandong and set up an urban and rural household registration system, but all of this was for the service of the military service system, so there was no detailed statistics on the old and weak women and children who were not subject to military service, let alone any criminal records. Anyway, photography has matured, Wu Chenxuan feels that he will go back to implement the ID card system in Shandong, as for the household registration book, he can also have it, and he has long been unhappy with the clan forces in the village, he feels that it is more suitable for the needs of the chamber of commerce to divide the family according to the household registration book, after all, without a trade union, it is the clan power that can fight against the capital. From the government's point of view, the main problem of not going to the countryside is the lack of manpower and clan forces, which can be solved at the same time, even if it is a tax, it can be more charged.

"General Sean, I'm sorry. Can you come out for a moment? A cultural affairs officer of the Hamburg city government, who was said to be in charge of the reception, poked out his head and whispered in French: "I have a distinguished guest from the War Office who wants to meet you, I wonder if I have the honor to invite you to dinner in the evening?" ”

"Well, may I know when Marshal Schlieffen intends to meet me?" Wu Chenxuan replied to him with a smile in French.

"It was 18:00 p.m., which was two hours later. Well, with all due respect, how did you know that it was His Excellency Marshal who invited you? "The top of the officer's head is already bald, which must have something to do with the fact that he likes to scratch his head when he encounters problems.

"Actually, only Marshal Schlieffen himself can know about this matter because it involves military secrets, and of course if he has authorization for you, I can explain this matter to you in detail."

"Uh, no, no." The four words of military secrecy were still far away for the officer, and apparently he knew the truth of curiosity killing the cat: "Our car is waiting outside, you can leave at any time, as long as there is an hour we will not be late." We're here for you, General Sean. ”

"Hehe, thank you for your hospitality, greet my colleagues in your department on my behalf, thank them for their hard work, I think Hamburg is one of the most administratively efficient of the cities I have visited, and there is no one."

"Thank you for the compliment. We have always been guided by efficiency and service. See you in a moment, General Sean. ”

Waving goodbye to the bald old official, Wu Chenxuan walked quickly to Dai Hongci and asked the old man for a leave in a low voice, no matter what, this old man is a righteous envoy. Dai Hongci is still very reasonable, knowing that the overseas relationship of this deputy envoy is complicated, and it is normal for people to have one or two old friends, so he didn't care about it.

Two hours later, accompanied by a colonel of the local garrison in Hamburg, Wu Chenxuan changed into a military dress with a full set of military rank logos and sat in the vehicle provided by the Hamburg city government.

The old marshal with a serious face looked at the Oriental general who was getting off the car in front of him, and when he got out of the car, he saw that he did not grovel and greet him like other Orientals, but straightened the brim of his collar and hat, and then stood there quietly, facing himself. On the small truck behind him, more than a dozen soldiers dressed in the same iron-gray tweed uniforms jumped down with iron helmets and rifles, and directly divided into two teams with guns and neatly trotted up the steps from both sides, and then stopped at the same time with a click, left and right a half-turned action, the back heel knocked the front heel, and with a click, they lined up on the steps face to face, and the gun in their hands was lowered together and then tightly attached to the seam of the pants in the right hand. Wu Chenxuan only took steps at this time and began to walk towards Marshal Schlieffen who was standing on the steps, his steps were not hurried, so that Schlieffen felt the pressure deliberately created by the other party in his heart.

The old marshal smiled slightly, took a step, took the initiative to meet him, the two happened to meet in the middle of the steps, a pair of young slender hands and a pair of loose and old hands held together, an old and a small two foxes couldn't help but laugh knowingly, the scene was as warm as a few main divisions, but this handshake will bring a new pile of white bones on the European battlefield in the future, I'm afraid no one can predict it in advance.

The greetings of the soldiers are always short-lived, and the two sides get to the point.

"General Sean, I don't know what the range and accuracy of the hand-held ultralight mortar you demonstrated in the United States, is there a way to improve it?"

"Field Marshal Schlieffen, IMHO. If you intend to break through the French trenches with such a simple weapon as a grenadier alone, it is too idealistic. As far as I know, there are many ways to defend against grenadier attacks in trench warfare, and to protect the defenders. Even if it can improve the range accuracy of the grenadier and the power of the warhead, the increase in cost and the decrease in the number of equipment will greatly weaken the power of the grenadier, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"So, General Sean, do you have any good advice?"

"Then you don't need to say," Wu Chenxuan sneered in his heart. The basic content of the "Schlieffen Plan" was to divide all German combat forces into the eastern front against Russia and the western front against France. Among them, there are 79 divisions of the troops on the Western Front, and only 10 divisions of the troops on the Eastern Front are interspersed with some local troops. The ratio of forces on the eastern and western fronts is roughly 1:8. The Western Front was divided into two wings, 68 divisions on the right and 11 divisions on the left, with a ratio of 1:8, and part of the left wing was in the center of Verdun, which was the northwest entrance to Paris (only 135 miles from Paris) and the center of gravity of the French defense system against Germany. The rest are deployed along the 240-kilometre-long Franco-German border. The right wing on the Western Front was the main force of the German main force and the key to Germany's victory in the war.

According to the "Schlieffen Plan", once the war began, the German troops on the Eastern Front, with a small number of troops, fought with Austria-Hungary? The army echoed from afar, pinning down the Russian army, with the aim of confining Russia to the border of East Prussia. At the same time, the right flank assembled on the Western Front rotated southwest with the Verdun area as the axis, passed through Belgium, a neutral country in Europe, entered France from the Belgian border, and surrounded Paris from the north, west, and south after crossing the Belgian plain and sweeping the French coast, and then eastward to outflank the main force of the French army. The task of the left flank of the Western Front was to lure the enemy and defend against the attacks of the main French forces.

Schlieffen's plan "required that the main forces of the right flank force should open the Liège Pass by the twelfth day, take Brussels on the nineteenth, enter France on the twenty-second, reach the Tionville-Saint-Quentin line on the thirty-first, and conquer Paris on the thirty-ninth to achieve a decisive victory." As judged by Russia? It would take 6 to 8 weeks for the military to be fully mobilized, so the Schlieffen plan called for Germany to completely defeat France within this time, and then turn around to deal with the belated Russia.

The whole project is like a German Mercedes-Benz, every component is so precise and rigorous, and the power is amazing, but the fault tolerance rate cannot match the car itself. That's why in many places in Africa, a ten-ton Dongfeng truck can pull 30 tons of goods to run wildly, and Mercedes-Benz dares to overload 300% of the load to lie down halfway. Too much time was held back, and too much assumption of war was the direct cause of the defeat of the Germans.

However, as a profiteer, Wu Daguan is very serious about Germany? Compared with the treacherous British, the arrogant French, the philistine Americans, and the unreasonable Russian Maozi, the strict and rigid Germans are sometimes a little cute. For example, this old Marshal Schlieffen who has fallen into Wu Chenxuan's trap and does not know it.

"What is this?" Looking at the machining drawings of this firearm in front of him, although he had not seen the real thing, the old marshal with solid skills could still see that this was a single-handed repeating firearm, but this strange firearm seemed to be a bursting weapon.

"Submachine pistol." Wu Chenxuan got up and went to the door, and the internal guard soldiers outside the door took out a box from their backpack and handed it in. The old marshal looked at the box on the table, which was slightly smaller than the violin, the parts inside had been assembled into several large pieces, and in Wu Chenxuan's hands, a box gun that was two sizes larger than the Mauser C96 appeared in front of him, the simple steel wire butt, and even the front sight was completely a hollow steel tube barrel, an obviously imitation of the Mauser pistol's receiver, and a magazine stamped with iron sheets. But when this crude pistol was assembled, it showed a different kind of deterrence, and the burst of fire foreshadowed by the long thirty-round magazine made the old marshal seem to understand.

"This is a weapon that we produce specifically designed for trench warfare, its theoretical rate of fire is 800 rounds per minute, there are two modes of single bursts, the effective range is 200 meters, the magazine capacity is 20 rounds, 30 rounds, and it can also be customized with a 75-round drum, and the weight with the magazine is 2.1 kilograms. There is no special aiming mechanism, so it is only suitable for shooting at close range. Wu Chenxuan introduced to the old marshal, and he smiled weirdly, "But none of this is important, do you know what the biggest advantage of this weapon is?" ”

"Is it the rate of fire?" Hans couldn't help but say, after all, the rate of fire of heavy machine guns in this era was not as exaggerated as 800 rounds.

"No, I'm afraid it's the cost." Although the old Marshal Schlieffen has decayed, his eyes are vicious, in a word.

"Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, and the estimated price of the mass-produced version of this gun is less than one-third of the Mauser rifle, which means that if your army needs it, you can equip each soldier with one at any time."

"One per person?" When the German soldiers jumped into a trench, and a group of British and French soldiers rushed towards him with bayonets with hideous faces, the German soldiers quickly threw away the rifles in their hands, picked up the submachine pistols they were carrying, and swept wildly, seven or eight enemies fell in the trenches, and the German soldiers changed their magazines and continued to advance. And this scene around him kept repeating itself, and the soldiers of the British and French forces were crushing with their heads in their hands, and they were unable to form an army.

Looking at being yy high? Lieutenant Colonel Hans in the tide, the old marshal covered his face with shame, it is really unfortunate for the German Army to have such a nymphomaniac lieutenant colonel adjutant who loves to be a nymphomaniac!