After the birth of the crown prince's child, the Romanian people were very fond of the newborn little prince. In the Basilica of the Last Chief, the baptism of the Patriarch Bardockvin I was also crowded, and everyone couldn't wait to see the new prince.

It is also rare for Eder not to deal with government affairs during this time, and he has been accompanying his family. He mainly cared about Sophie Marie and Prince Victor, who had just given birth, and he was often accompanied by his aging father, Carol I.

However, such a leisurely time did not last long, and in less than a week, he had to pick up the government affairs again and start to deal with them. Eder now picked up the document he was looking at, which was the Minister of War, General Courtois, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Prishan, who had jointly submitted a plan to improve the reserves. This plan, which was related to the great movement of the army, was still brought to the crown prince by Admiral Pureshan this time.

Looking at Eder who was carefully flipping through it, Prishan felt much more bumpy, he was afraid that the crown prince would not understand the importance of this plan. This was carefully prepared by him and the Minister of War in the light of the actual situation in Romania, drawing on the merits of the reserve programmes of various countries. But for now, it seems that his worries are unnecessary, and the crown prince sees it with relish.

If you want to talk about the strength of the Romanian army, it is definitely the leading countries in the Balkans. The mere fact that the caliber of artillery is much larger than that of other small countries can show that Romania has a lot of money, not to mention the number of Romanian artillery that they cannot match. It's just that now Eder's target is the Austro-Hungarian army and the Soviet army, which was born out of the Russian army, so his small but elite Romanian army alone cannot accomplish the above goals, so the reserves in Romania must be mobilized.

Relying on Romania's relatively abundant manpower in the Balkans, it maintains a reserve force of 400,000 all year round. They usually work in the fields and factories, and when the country needs them, they will take up arms and fight the enemy. There are reservists in all walks of life in Romania, and even Romania has a reserve company of bankers.

Moreover, when using these reserves, the Romanian military can only expect to recruit them into the army and disperse them as supplementary troops.

However, Romania's finances could only support the transformation and reorganization of its army, so it was more than willing to reform the reserve system. Now, with the outbreak of World War I, Romania's finances are improving, and the two army leaders put this long-prepared plan in front of Eder.

In this plan for the transformation of the reserves, the two army leaders first unified the rifles of the various models of the reserves, and replaced them all with Mauser 98 rifles used by the army. This consumption consumed 210,000 of the 310,000 Mauser 98 rifles in the army's stockpile. However, because the Romanian arsenal is now working overtime, it does not take two years to replenish the stock.

In addition, in this plan, they will train their personnel to use machine guns, which will consume 746 machine guns and 168 artillery pieces in the army's inventory, which will still need to be replenished by the arsenal.

After strengthening the weapons of these reserves, of course, their training time also needs to be strengthened, from the previous five days of training per month (the training time will be reduced during the busy farming time, and the training time will be made up during the slack time) to seven days per month, and the training time will be separately for a month in the winter when there is no farm work. In this way, the training time of the previous reserve from 60 days and two months per year was increased to 107 days and three and a half months.

Moreover, those who train these reservists in the programme will be replaced by serving military officers, and the reserve officers who were previously responsible for training them will also be pooled to train them in military skills.

Through the intensive training of these reservists, the Romanian reservists will be greatly strengthened.

In addition, in order to allow these reserve officers and soldiers to train with peace of mind, they have also increased their allowances in this program. In the past, the reservists had no allowance, and relied entirely on the patriotic fervor of the people to maintain their combat effectiveness. Therefore, the Romanian reserves were not trained at a high level before, and they were not easy to manage.

Now the two generals considered the reserve to be part of the Romanian army, so they gave each soldier 50 lei per year, the average allowance for the rank of lieutenant was about 70 lei per person per year, and the average allowance for the rank of colonel was 100 lei per person per year.

However, the army does not plan to give all the money itself. In this proposal, the two generals argued that because of the nature of the reserve, which is half civilian and half soldier, the government should also contribute half. Relying on the tense situation of the current war in Europe, in the end, Prime Minister Bretianu pinched his nose and acquiesced in the scoundrels of the two generals. Therefore, the annual funding for these 400,000 reservists is half of the government and half of the army.

In fact, more than the allowance is spent on weapons and ammunition, which costs more. You must know that if the training intensity of the army is followed, then these reservists will consume a lot of ammunition. Fortunately, the production of ammunition in Romania has been expanded several times, which can support the plans of the two generals.

And at the end, the two generals also thought about how to use these intensively trained reserves. First of all, before the outbreak of war, these officers of the units that prepared and trained them were formed into separate battalion and regimental levels, and then a regiment was drawn and supplemented from each division to form a new divisional unit with them. As for the technical arms of this division, it is also composed of non-commissioned officers and men who have been transferred to the division as the backbone, and the reserve technical officers and men who have been trained before replenishment.

On the whole, it is very similar to the style of the Japanese army in World War II, but it does not let the divisions divide the troops into supplementary areas, and there is no perverted army class like the Japanese army.

After reading the whole plan, Eder still agrees, but he still has to ask the chief of the general staff a few questions before making a decision.

"Admiral Prishan, according to your plan, how can the second wave member solve it?"

After hearing the crown prince's inquiry, Presan knew that this was precisely the part of the plan that they had not included in the plan. It turned out that on the second mobilization, he and Admiral Courtois had a disagreement. In his view, after the second mobilization expanded the scope of conscription, the conscripts were sent to the barracks for training for two months, and then went to the battlefield in a situation of replenishing troops, which is now the general pattern in Europe.

And General Courtois thought that doing so would be too dangerous for the small country of Romania. Once the second mobilization is launched, it may be that it will face opponents such as Austria-Hungary and Russia, whose manpower cannot be compared with that of the great powers. That is why he believes that there is a need to establish a sub-level mobilization structure. During training, these people can reduce the training time, two months or one and a half months a year, which is much better than training for two months after being called up and letting them go to battle.

And Admiral Pureshan mainly thinks that it will require more weapons and ammunition to support such a second-level mobilization organization, which is too burdensome for the current army, so he does not agree.

Now in the face of the crown prince's inquiry, Admiral Prishan had no choice but to say the question.

After listening to Prþsson's account, Eder knew that it was necessary for Romania to enter the war in World War I. At present, the Romanian army plus the reserve is only 700,000, and even if it continues to expand to a maximum of 1 million in the future, there is still a lot of gap for the current general conscription ratio in various countries. Therefore, he was more sympathetic to the proposal of the Secretary of the Army.

So Eder thought about it and spoke to Admiral Prissan. "At present, it seems that Admiral Courtois's plan is not bad, you should think more about the plan for his second-level mobilization and make a supplementary plan."

After Eder finished speaking, he signed his name to the reserve reform plan.

Thus, at the beginning of October 1914, Romania began to implement a new reserve program.