Chapter 136: What a Big Deal
"Happy, aren't you? And then jumping? Now that you know you're scared? Know that you regret it? Bismarck was like an angry bull against Gustav in front of him. Krupp.
"Do you know how much trouble you've caused the Empire? You can get the Bavarian royal family to bend down and fight you in a lawsuit, which is also a skill. You didn't know how to narrow down the range when you got it? The Junker nobles of Württemberg, Saxony, and East Prussia have been offended all over again! Are you looking for death, for death, or for death? The Prime Minister continued.
"I'm only responsible for some of this, and those who attack Catholicism have nothing to do with me. I'm just saying that the expansion of Bavaria has taken over our market. Gustav shuddered and immediately argued.
"What's the use of all this? People are sure that you did it! Those guys want you to take the blame now? Do you reason with the king? You don't want to think about it, isn't it because of the Kaiser's support that you can get this far? But the Kaiser will never break with a state for you! You're too self-righteous, aren't you? Bismarck also knew that at the beginning, there were so many people in Germany, who didn't think about it a little, Krupp picked the head, and the other three religions and nine streams followed up, and when something happened, people naturally looked for trouble to provoke!
"So what now?" Gustav said with some trembling. With so many things on his own, coupled with the fall of his peers, maybe Krupp will really fall. What Prussia needed was a Krupp estate, and this industry was not necessarily run by this family!
"Do you still want the Navy order?" The Prime Minister asked.
"I don't want to!" Gustav. Krupp said very simply.
"Actually, the normal way of competition is not without a chance of winning, after all, the navy is not sure. Well, I'll admit, the probability of your success is no more than 3 percent. But now, Yicheng is gone! Go back and do what you're doing now, don't think about it. It is for the emperor's face to be able to save you this time, and if you use it this time, it will be gone! The prime minister waved his hand to the latter to hurry away, looking an eyesore.
The so-called shot shot first bird, the bird Krupp has been beaten half to death, so what to do with the bird in Bavaria? How to fight? For the German Central Committee and the Prime Minister, this bird is simply hob meat, and people don't care about the usual sanctions, they want to be more powerful? How good can you be? To put it bluntly, this is a bloody case caused by an order. But it doesn't work anyway, if it's okay in Bavaria in the future, something like this will happen, how do you let the boss take care of it?
In the general story, the second child who has an awkward relationship with the boss is generally handed over to the third and fourth children to check and balance, but the relationship between the third Saxony and Bavaria is okay, and it is not with Prussia in history. Württemberg has always had a good relationship with Bavaria since the establishment of the Empire, and from time to time the two sides join forces to find the boss uncomfortable, you say that Prussia is also a little depressed.
"Let's cut the agricultural subsidies to Bavaria this year, and if they are willing to admit that they have gone too far, then they can consider reducing the penalties." Frederick III put it this way.
"That's it?" Bismarck also felt a little incredulous.
"Of course it's over, what else can you do?" Frederick III asked. "It's good that this penalty can be implemented, the allocation amount of the appropriation needs to go through the Federal Parliament, and in the current situation, if Nande and Saxony join forces, it is difficult to say whether this bill can be passed!"
At the same time, the two sides are secretly exchanging interests. The Kingdom of Bavaria wanted a lining, and Prussia wanted face. So everyone has to talk about. And the focus of the conversation between the two sides was how to maintain Prussia's face! When such a big thing comes out, you have to make face-saving concessions.
In this matter, Ruprecht's grandfather, the regent of Louitpold of Bavaria, understands this truth, the German central government will temporarily reduce the allocation of the Bavarian royal family from the central government, and at the same time, agricultural subsidies will also be appropriately reduced, this reduction is more of a matter of face, probably only hundreds of thousands of marks. Of course, the latter needed to be passed in the Bundestag, and all Bavaria had to do was not to prevent the passage of this proposal in order to show Prussia's control over the Bundestag.
Of course, this incident not only lost face in Bavaria, but also hurt part of Lizi, as the original reasonable party, you let me cooperate with you to grow face, then Lizi must make up for it! First of all, needless to say, this time the Navy was bidding for armaments, Krupp was directly out, and other factories were not even qualified to compete. The Bavarian-Austrian military-industrial complex received the order directly. Including the turret, the internal servos and the artillery, of course, the Kaiser will definitely reiterate that if the next competition and Bavaria does not do well, then the order will run to someone else. As for whom, everyone is clear.
Before this incident broke out, it was a matter of the Bavarian royal family and Krupp, but after the trouble, it was not a simple matter of Prussia and Bavaria! Württemberg, Saxony, and the Catholic Prussians, Junker landlords, and capitalists were in harmony with each other, and this series of events was not settled just as it was settled. Bismarck suddenly discovers that there is a situation that goes back to ten years ago overnight! I wasted so much effort to coordinate various relations within Germany, and as a result, because of a few articles, the whole society was in turmoil, although the impact was not very great, but it was extremely scary to think about it!
Bismarck fought in the first half of his life to unify the empire, but what did he do in the second half of his life? It is to reconcile all kinds of relations, the relationship between the central and the local, the relationship between the Junker aristocracy and the capitalists, the relationship between Catholicism and Protestantism, the relationship between industry and agriculture, the relationship between capitalists and workers, the relationship between domestic and foreign. But coordination came and went, and Bismarck found that Germany's rise was still fragile. There is a lack of a real cohesion. And under the German constitution, the only way to increase this cohesion is for the top to stop asking for trouble with each other.
"The German sword can only be external, and internally, it is the prelude to the collapse of the empire. Compared to his father and grandfather, Prince Ruprecht is more capable and visionary. He has his own ambitions, but he can see the situation and know how to advance and retreat. We can have a good talk with him. Frederick III finally set the tone for the affair.
Ruprecht was going to Berlin for a walk eventually, but this time, instead of chatting with Wilhelm II or discussing how much money he should make with the Admiralty, he was talking to the ruler of the empire about the future of the relationship, and to put it bluntly, what do you really want and what can each side give each other. Prussia can unify with the saber, but not with the saber!
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