Chapter 22: The First Meeting with the Bear Child
"Well, don't say it, Wilhelm II is really good enough to show off, and when it's easy to get a chance to show, he will show off his feathers like a peacock!" Although I think I have experienced some big scenes! But when the traverser saw the pomp and circumstance put forward by the German crown prince, he still felt that the scene was a bit big! A whole number of guards were deployed on both sides of the road, and the number of German nobles accompanying the reception reached 500 people! The German crown prince is dressed in the uniform of the Black Eagle Knights. Next to them were 20 members of the Black Eagle Knights. These are the top aristocrats in Germany, and it is rare to appear in an informal setting!
In fact, the traverser is still making a bit of a fuss, and Wilhelm II's profligacy is almost incomparable to what it is now! There was once a record in history that at another royal event, almost all the nobles around Berlin who could meet the royal family were present, and there were enough people to meet more than 2,000 people! According to different classes, they are distributed around the passage to welcome the arrival of the Kaiser! What's the point of pomp now?
The crown prince was very satisfied with today's arrangement, especially after seeing the surprised expression of the person he received. But after all, the other party is also a prince, and he must be thoughtful in terms of etiquette. After the other party first saluted to show respect, the crown prince also returned the salute generously, and then the two entered the hall.
Although 10 years have passed, Prince Ruprecht is still a little uncomfortable with large-scale court entertainment, in the past, he had his father on top, and he would not go if he could, but this time it seems that he can't hide! After all, you're one of the main characters. However, Crown Prince William, who is the other protagonist, does not have the consciousness and consciousness of being the protagonist! After a short cutscene, he decisively pulled his little brother and the traverser into the private room to discuss some things that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was interested in! For example, warships and colonies!
As the younger brother of the crown prince, Tirpitz had already informed His Royal Highness the crown prince of the meeting with the traverser, of course, for the sake of the overall situation, in order to make the relationship between the two princes more harmonious, Tirpitz covered up some differences in ideas between the two sides in a spring and autumn brushwork.
The focus was on how much the new armored cruiser was, how much it would benefit the German Navy once it was commissioned, plus the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau had another more ambitious plan that could be launched when conditions permitted, and so on! And in the report, Tirpitz also attached a comparison of a new armored cruiser and other countries' warships of the same class, which is more obvious and intuitive, and can bring the prince a sense of satisfaction! The scum cruisers of the British Empire were worthless in front of the new cruisers of the British Empire, and nothing could make the prince, who loved the navy and was dissatisfied with Britain, even happier!
If you have something good in your hand, you have to show it off, deter those small countries, and then get some benefits or something! So today's topic has been decided, that is, the question of where the saber of the Imperial Navy is about to point! Now everyone in Africa is almost divided, and the Americas are the land of the Americans. Oceania is all the Commonwealth. The Arctic Ocean is inhabitable! The crown prince has a sword in his hand, but he can't find the target!
Smack! The traverser pointed with his finger to a certain country in the east of Asia!
"Qingguo? We maintain good relations with them, and the annual bilateral trade turnover is around 40 million marks, is this done? Tirpitz on the side said with some hesitation.
"Big brother, you can see clearly, I ordered Japan!" The traverser roared in his heart, because of the influence of the arc of the globe, Tirpitz was dazzled! Jumping twice, the traverser clicked twice again! "Don't drive me mad! See clearly! ”
"Japan? Does this little guy deserve the attention of the Empire? The crown prince's words were full of contempt, and Tirpitz was a little embarrassed. Later generations will never be indispensable in the description of Wilhelm II, and the German commander-in-chief in the German occupation of Jiaodong Bay and the Eight-Nation Alliance. It is true that in history, the Kaiser's attitude towards the Qing State after 1895 was very bad, but now, at least the two sides are still friends, Germany needs the real money of the Qing State, and the Qing State also needs the German Krupp artillery to install the façade! And Germany was not untyrannical in the Qing Dynasty.
If we have to say how the relationship between the two sides began to deteriorate, in fact, after the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, when the beaten Manchu Qing cleaned up their belongings and prepared to regain their strength, the German industry was full of joy and looked forward to more silver flowing into the pockets of the Germans, and launched a second-class ironclad ship with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons and a price of only 480,000 pounds! (Interested readers can take a look at the former Dreadnought Sea and Sky, the author thinks that although this battleship does not use hardened armor, its performance is really good.) Good value for money. )
However, because the price of 480,000 pounds for a single ship still exceeded the capacity of the Manchus, and at the same time, the Qing State, which was frightened by the accelerated shooting of British protective cruisers, still chose the British second-class protective cruisers, and only threw the Germans to order three 2,000-ton boats. This made Germany very unhappy! The Germans thought they should have earned their money and flew! Thus the relationship deteriorated. Of course, this is a later matter, so I won't mention it for now. At least for now, the relationship between the two sides is okay!
"If you only look at the current situation in the Far East, it is obviously the best for the empire, the Manchu Qing is still stable at present, and the aura brought by the Westernization movement can also deter Russia in the north, and the three countries of Britain, Germany and France, which have obtained economic benefits, have no intention of changing the reality! But if some small country in the East wants to break this situation, then the original equilibrium will be destroyed! ”
Looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was already frowning slightly, the traverser added another fire! "Unlike Britain and France, which had large colonies in Southeast Asia and East Asia, our foothold in the Far East was too far away from the Manchus and had the least influence on the situation in the Manchus! If there are new people who want to come in and share the cake, then the weakest side will definitely suffer, and we need to warn those countries who are trying to spoil the situation, or at least make them fall into the trap! ”
"Japan, such a small country is not worthy of our attention, is it? How could a country that had just bought a couple of ships from the French and the British change the situation in the Far East? Crown Prince William's words were full of disdain!
"It is precisely because of the support of the British that Japan can challenge the Qing state, and Britain also needs to support a country against Russia! We know very little about the situation in Japan, but since the British dared to do this, there would certainly be reasons for it. The British are sometimes annoying, but their plans are usually realized! Prince Ruprecht said seriously.
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