"Our navy has not even begun to be built, and it is already showing great gains! Just a week ago, after the representatives of the Reich expressed to the Germans the idea of building a navy, the Germans had already shown full sincerity, they expressed their willingness to discuss with us the question of the ownership of Western Ukraine, and said that the area south of this line, wherever the Imperial army could reach, was the territory of the Reich! We can even swallow the whole of Ukraine, and even go to Transcaucasia! This was the first time that the Germans had clearly responded to the Reich's territorial concerns, and as long as the Reich Navy was able to take up this obligation, then an agreement could soon be formed! In the Hungarian parliament, Archduke Ferdinand said excitedly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Now Archduke Ferdinand finally has a full reason to develop the navy! That's the ownership of Ukraine in the future! Even if it's just a moon in the well, it's enough to make the entire empire excited! Unlike Ruprecht, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had too much trust in its own power, or rather too much in the Germans. They spend their days thinking about how to start a war, how to profit from it, but they don't think about how to conduct it, and how to avoid defeat. And now the Germans have given them a huge blank check and given them a goal.

It may be true that they do not intend to bring the Caucasus under their control, but Ukraine alone is enough to attract their attention and put the last money on it! Even the Hungarian government, which has always been not very interested in war and the navy, is excited, because Hungary is next to Ukraine ....... If Austria-Hungary can get Ukraine, then it will definitely get a big piece of the pie, right? Almost all Hungarian parliamentarians have such an idea in their heads!

"A historic opportunity is before us, we must not give it up, let us unite and concentrate all our strength to survive this test of God, victorious, we will usher in new glory, and defeat, we will be doomed, not only the empire, not only Austria, but Hungary will cease to exist! What are we waiting for? What else are we worried about? Let go of the knots and open our hearts to our brothers, we need to forget our fears and strive to move forward, and the construction of the Navy will be our first step towards glory! And for the sake of this glory, we are willing to give more help to our brothers in the Kingdom of Hungary! "At the instigation and promise of Archduke Ferdinand, the Hungarian parliament finally chose to support the Empire's military expansion program, so that the Empire would be more financially sufficient to complete this batch of military expansion plans.

When the news of the consent of Austria-Hungary reached Berlin, the Kaiser in order to show his support for Austria-Hungary, and then decided to sell two Mainz armored cruisers to Austria-Hungary at a very low price within 3 years.

All this was not given in vain, Germany helped the Austro-Hungarian Navy to build the fleet, and Austria-Hungary deployed the fleet in Istanbul for strategic interests. So how to act, how to build, and what the future strategy is, all need to be communicated by both sides. There is even a need to communicate with the Kingdom of Turkey.

According to the plan, Germany would appoint a senior general to form a joint command with the Austro-Hungarians and Turks. Eventually, Count Spee was appointed as a delegate, and now, of course, for the sake of secrecy, the general, who had participated in many naval battles, could only be stationed in Vienna in the name of attaché to the Austro-Hungarian navy.

Since everyone was very willing, the whole plan began to move forward rapidly, and Count Spee, together with Admiral Haus, commander of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, came to Munich to meet His Royal Highness Ruprecht, the general planner of the German-Austrian naval cooperation plan. And as the Kaiser had guessed, there was no objection to this appointment, either within Germany or in Austria-Hungary. After all, both professionally and in terms of relationships, Austria-Hungary believed that the prince would not cheat himself.

The reason for the Kaiser's trust is that Ruprecht has performed very well in the past, has a sense of the overall situation, and has not harmed the interests of Germany in the exchange with Austria-Hungary, such a capable and capable person of real power will be used as a pillar in the future war, so the Kaiser is very generous to delegate all the rights of this aid plan to the crown prince, and hinted that if Austria-Hungary's behavior deviates from the original plan, then the prince can stop at any time.

"It's a lot better off now than it was in history." The prince stood up and came to the huge sandbox of the Balkan-Aegean region, which had just been made, and began to consider the layout of his Mediterranean. Judging from the current situation, without the outbreak of the Balkan war, Turkey's environment in the whole region is really good, and it also has a foothold in the Balkans.

Looking at the map, Serbia today is only about half of the history of Serbia before the start of World War I, and Macedonia and Albania are now part of Turkey, Greece is also suppressed in the Peloponnese, and most of the entire Aegean coast is Turkish territory. There was a land connection between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Empire.

And this situation should be said to continue, Russia is weaker than the same period in history, and Germany and Austria are ready to start a war with the Entente as soon as possible, and Turkey is an ally of the Reich at this time, so if the Entente is behind the scenes to instigate the small Balkan countries to do something against Turkey, Germany will definitely not stand idly by, and in this case, the Entente may not dare to attack Turkey. Of course, this is just the prince's speculation, in fact, this time, the prince is really a little blind.

If we further extrapolate the situation at the time of the war, it is estimated that the Kingdom of Greece will remain neutral, after all, Greece has been neutral since the beginning of history, because Britain and France forcibly broke their neutrality before finally joining the Entente, and the Aegean coast is Turkey's territory except for Greece. Suffice it to say that the surroundings are very nice, with at least one exit in and out of the Mediterranean.

And this sword hidden in the Aegean Sea is directly blocked by the most important communication choke point of Britain in the Mediterranean - the Suez Canal! Even if the main fleet does not move, simply using submarines or minelayers to harass the northern end of the Suez Canal is enough to make the British anxious, after all, the closest distance to Europe for materials and personnel imported from India, Southeast Asia and even from Australia is to take the Suez Canal!

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