After the military got the money they wanted, Romania was calm for the past few months. The government is operating well, agriculture is also smooth this year, industry is still developing steadily, in a word, the country and the people are safe.

Eder also works half a day and rests half a day. As the wedding date approached, he also increased his training in wedding etiquette, and naturally a large number of people were busy with his marriage, the most enthusiastic of which was his mother, Queen Elizabeth.

At a time when Romania is steadily developing, an event is taking place in Morocco, North Africa, that is attracting European attention.

At the end of March 1911, a rebellion broke out in Morocco against the Sudan. By early April, the Sultan was besieged in his palace in Fez. Under the pretext of protecting the lives and property of Europeans, the French prepared to send troops to help suppress the rebellion, and at the end of April they sent troops to occupy most of Morocco. On 8 June, Spanish troops occupied Larache. Faced with this situation, the German government, which had benefited from the first Moroccan crisis, considered it a violation of German interests, and the Leopard gunboat arrived at the port of Agadir under the pretext of protecting German trade interests. More crucially, a few days later, the Bremen-class cruiser Berlin also arrived in the port of Agadir, forming a small flotilla with the previously arrived Leopard gunboats. The main purpose of this move by the German government was to test the strength of Anglo-French relations, and to demand that France take effective control of the issue of compensation for the commercial losses caused by Morocco to Germany.

The British, in the face of German initiatives, began to fear the arrival of Germany to stir up the situation in North Africa. Now the main fulcrum of the Royal Navy of the British Empire in the Mediterranean, the Gibraltar Naval Base is not far from Port Agadir.

The British Navy believed that the Germans intended to turn Agadir into a naval base in the Atlantic. Britain immediately sent warships from the Mediterranean Fleet to Morocco in case a war broke out between France and Germany over the Moroccan issue. And as in the First Moroccan Crisis, British support for France showed Germany the strength of the Entente.

By the time Eder received the news, the Moroccan British and French navies had surrounded the small German fleet in the port of Agadir.

In the face of this Moroccan crisis, Eder still has an impression, thanks to the fact that in his previous life, he was going to write a German historical novel and specifically checked the information. I can't remember the specific circumstances, but there is still an image of the general situation. Edel looked at the information in his hand and compared it with the memories of his past life, and felt as if they were all about the same.

"Keep an eye on it now." With the information in hand, Edel instructed Calust.

"Yes, Your Highness."

The chief of the guard complied and walked out of Eder's office.

Eder watched Caluster walk out and continued to be busy arranging work in the country.

Under Eder's close watch, the Anglo-French counterattack against Germany continued. On July 4, a financial crisis broke out in Germany, which came too suddenly, and caused a large number of people to lose a lot of money in this storm. The Frankfurt stock market plummeted 30% in a single day, and many people's hard work was wiped out. The same is true in the securities market, a large number of German securities were sold, causing panic among the people in the market, who began to ask the bank for gold exchange with the mark, which caused the German National Bank to lose a large amount of gold reserves. Lost a fifth of its gold reserves in a month.

In the royal palace in Berlin, the Kaiser is anxiously discussing the financial turmoil with Chancellor Bernhard.

"The financial turmoil that broke out in Frankfurt this time was so sudden that many people lost a lot. Now that there are rumors in the world, our banks have also been run, and a large number of people with marks are asking for exchange for gold, what should we do now? ”

Prime Minister Bernhard asked the Emperor a little uneasily. It's not that the prime minister is timid, the main thing is that now Germany is at odds with Britain and France in Morocco. He feared that if it continued, it would be the same as the first time, with both sides massing troops on the border to create tensions. For Germany, which is now suddenly in a financial turmoil, it cannot bear it.

"I am aware of the financial difficulties, Your Excellency the Prime Minister."

Wilhelm II certainly knew the Prime Minister's intentions, but the thought that Britain would unite with France against Germany made him resentful of Britain grow considerably. He had also thought of a rapprochement with England, which only needed Britain to recognize the status that Germany had achieved. They could have challenged all the European powers as they did in the Thirty Years' War, and this time it would be a resounding victory for Britain and Germany, which was his affirmation of the strongest combination of the German Army and the British Navy. Unfortunately, the Kaiser's flattery was thrown to the blind man, and Britain turned a blind eye to German friendliness, and directly approached France and Russia to be hostile to Germany, which was incomprehensible to the ambitious Wilhelm II.

In fact, it is easy to understand that Germany and the United States are now two of the fastest-growing backward industrial countries. Since industrial goods need markets, Britain and France, which now occupy the largest market share and colonies, certainly have reason to oppose the spoilers. And due to the problem of geography and size, Britain and France have no way to take the United States, so Germany under their noses is able to make a fuss. Coupled with the territorial contradictions between Germany and France, then Britain and France are in agreement on the German issue, plus Russia, which is controlled by French capital, this will be a very stable combination, in a word, Germany was chosen as a soft persimmon pinch.

"This time, the algorithm is a good chess player."

After much thought, Wilhelm II could only back down in the face of the current combination of Britain and France. This Moroccan incident also allowed him to see the figure of Britain and Germany drifting apart. He suspects that Britain and France are among the financial turmoil that broke out suddenly, and that the current confrontation in Morocco gives the two countries every reason to do so. After all, French capital is much stronger than Germany, and with the British, it is entirely feasible to create a financial storm.

"Your Majesty, then I will arrange for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to show goodwill to them (British and French)?" Prime Minister Bernhard proposed a solution.

"You go and arrange it, but you can't make too many concessions in terms of interests, otherwise it will be difficult to explain in China." The Kaiser stated his conditions.

"Okay Your Majesty, I will make it clear to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they (Britain and France) don't want to bring Germany to its knees, we will take a step back at most." The Prime Minister replied and walked out of the palace.

On 7 July, the German ambassador in Paris informed the French government that Germany had no territorial aspirations in Morocco and would negotiate a "reparation" for France in the Congo region, and that Germany could give up its economic interests in Morocco.

In this regard, the French side saw Germany's concessions, and agreed to negotiate to solve the problem.

The German clause proposed on 15 July contained a request for France to renounce its offer for northern Cameroon and Togo, for France to transfer to Germany the entire French Congo from the area at the mouth of the Singha River to Germany, and later to add that the French transfer was for the purpose of obtaining Belgian Congolese rights.

Speaking in the lobby of his mansion in London on July 21, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George declared that national honour is more precious than peace: "If the interests of Great Britain are seriously affected, we must defend the interests of the British Empire. Now I strongly state that achieving peace at such a price is an unbearable humiliation for a great country like ours. ”

Germany interpreted this statement as a warning from Britain that he could not impose an unreasonable solution on France.

In Eder's office in Romania, the chief of guard updates the Moroccan crisis to the crown prince.

"Your Highness, now that Germany has made concessions, it is now mainly France that negotiates with it, and Britain has only said that its interests cannot be harmed."

After hearing the report from the chief of the guard, Edel knew that the crisis was only left to put the finishing touches, but it would not be possible to end it in a short period of time.

"Is the chief of the guard still something?"

Edel asked, looking at the chief of the guard who seemed to have something to report.

"Your Highness has an update on the situation in Italy and needs to report to you."

Italy? Eder thought to himself what could happen to a country that had good relations with Romania.

"Say it."

In response to the Crown Prince's questioning, Caust reported the anomaly discovered by the Romanian Oil Company to the Crown Prince.

"Your Royal Highness, the Italian government recently urgently purchased 80,000 tons of refined oil from oil companies, and it is very urgent and does not care much about the price."

Upon hearing the Captain's words, Edel immediately sensed a different message. 80,000 tons of refined oil is not a small amount, and it can only be said that Italy wants to make trouble in this crisis.

Edel sat behind his desk and thought, the chief of the guard standing there not daring to disturb the crown prince's train of thought. Edel stumbled upon the globe next to him, and his memory came back to him. Flipping the globe, he saw that Italy was still Ottoman territory across the sea, and Eder remembered it as Italian territory during World War II. Before World War I, it seems that there was still an Italian-Turkish war, so is it this time?

Thinking of this, Edel immediately commanded. "Keeping an eye on what's going on in Italy, I guess they have an idea about the Ottomans."

"Okay, Your Highness, I will arrange for the people below to pay more attention to Italy."

"Go ahead."

Looking at the departing chief of the guard, Eder thought about the performance of Italy in two world wars, this is really not a people suitable for fighting.

The ultimate solution to the crisis in Morocco was Franco-German negotiations on the Treaty of Fes, under which Germany accepted French protection from Morocco in exchange for territory in the French colony of central Equatorial Africa (now the Republic of the Congo). This 275,000 square kilometre (106,000 sq mi) territory, known as Neukamerun (northeastern Congo), became part of the German colony of Cameroon. The area was partly marshland, but gave Germany an outlet on the Congo River. Germany ceded a small part of its territory to France (Fort Lamy).

(I made a mistake and didn't think it would be more difficult to code words at home.) ）