"Congratulations on your victory, Ruprecht, my son-in-law. www.biquge.info"When the prince met Emperor Ao, Emperor Ao said with a smile on his face.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ruprecht said with the same smile. "The Kingdom of Bavaria is willing to use iron and fire to strengthen the friendship between the two sides, and your country will reciprocate it, won't you?"

"It depends on how far you go." Ferdinand said expressionlessly.

"We can take care of the Bommia to Moravian line. I promise that as long as the Bommia and Moravian garrisons follow our arrangement, Austria-Hungary will not lose an inch of land! Ruprecht said.

"It's like we can't keep it." Crown Prince Ferdinand sneered.

"Nonsense, of course I can't hold it! If Germany hadn't sent hundreds of thousands of troops later, the Russian army would have paraded in Prague and Vienna within half a year! Not to mention fighting with the Russians, it is the most humiliating thing to start being beaten by Serbia. Ruprecht cursed in his heart.

"Also, what is wrong with the battlefield. Well, if Austria-Hungary can guarantee that the Russians' military boots do not step on their own territory, then how about the annulment of my demands? The prince said

"You are showing contempt for the Imperial Army!" Ferdinand exclaimed, in his opinion, that as a great power, he could not stand such blatant contempt for his own military power.

"You're so excited, the affairs of the army won't be because you are the crown prince, so what you said must be right, I am a prince, what I said must be wrong. And isn't this request I made very valuable? If you win, I'll be working for nothing. Ruprecht said disapprehantly.

"Enough, Ruprecht, your attitude is very unfriendly, and too arrogant!" Emperor Ao said with a gloomy face.

"I'm just stating a fact. This war will be very difficult to fight in the future, this is already the consensus of the military top of the German Empire, you don't think that the Kaiser's sudden decision to hold this exercise was a whim, right? If the question for us on the Western Front is whether we can take it, then the Eastern Front is whether it can be defended from the beginning! ”

"You are well aware of the recent planning of the Eastern Front made by the Prussian General Staff, in addition to my Bavarian Corps, Moltke Jr. has left another army group, which can reach 500,000 troops in wartime! How many troops did Austria-Hungary have to maintain on the Eastern Front at the beginning of the war? I don't think that's more than 900,000. ”

"Well, you don't think that Moltke and I are fools to leave a large number of troops on the eastern border to rest, do you? I think you can have a correct assessment of the combat effectiveness of the 500,000 Prussian and Bavarian regiments. If we only guarantee the security of eastern Prussia, can you guarantee your own security? And from the analysis of recent data, there is an eighty percent probability that the Russians will concentrate their forces to attack Austria-Hungary! Ruprecht said.

Although Moltke and Conrad negotiated that the Eastern Front would be dominated by the Austro-Hungarian Legion, the current situation is obviously that Germany still has a fairly strong military force on the Eastern Front, and even if the Bavarian Army is strong, East Prussia still has a legion left, and the reason for this can be understood with knees. Obviously, he can't trust Austria-Hungary.

Moreover, the prince's estimate of the size of the Austro-Hungarian army is really about the same, judging from the current plan, Austria-Hungary can indeed only concentrate about 870,000 troops of 4 army groups on the northern front. 500,000 German troops and 870,000 Austro-Hungarian troops confronted each other, and it is estimated that the latter will be crushed, right? Since Germany can only ensure its own safety by making such an arrangement, then the four armies of Austria-Hungary are completely inadequate, and if the Russians remain on the defensive in the northwest and concentrate on launching an offensive against the Austro-Hungarian army, the Austrian emperor and others will have no bottom in their hearts.

"Say what you want." The Austrian emperor really didn't want to get entangled with Ruprecht in military affairs, so he decided to cut straight to the point.

"I would like to give my wife, your daughter, Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, the title and power of the Grand Duchess of Bohemia-Moravia. And in the future, there will be descendants of both Habsburg and Wittelsbach descendants to inherit the Grand Duke's position. ”

"My wife is not involved in the domestic politics of Austria-Hungary and is subordinate to the Kingdom of Austria, but should have full internal power, military, financial, and personnel powers. And the imperial government should allow a better flow of people and goods between the Kingdom of Bavaria and Bohemia-Moravia. The Grand Duke should use his sword to defend the rights and interests of the Empire, but the Empire must pay adequate compensation. Ruprecht thought for a moment and then said: "The Bohemian government already has a considerable amount of autonomy, and if the head of the place is a direct member of the Habsburgs and has the ability to control the situation, it would be a good thing for the empire itself, right?" ”

"You want to create a Bavarian kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire?" Archduke Ferdinand sneered.

"Actually, within the German Empire, the Kingdom of Bavaria has more autonomy, at least we still have diplomats in some countries, and we have the right to vote in the Bundestag. The German Empire could allow the Kingdom of Bavaria to exist, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire could allow national autonomy, so what could my request not be adopted? ”

"And it seems to me that if your country really had an internal state like Bavaria, it would be more convenient to do something, at least I would not have to stand here." Ruprecht didn't mind the attitude of the other party in the slightest.

"You have met with the Kaiser, does the Kaiser agree with you?" Fritz asked.

"Why didn't the Kaiser agree? Anyway, this is an internal thing in Austria-Hungary. These two provinces remained within the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Wittelsbach family has always had a kingdom and a Grand Duchy divided into two empires, so what is there to worry about the Kaiser and you? Ruprecht asked rhetorically.

"Another condition, this condition is too high." Emperor Ao said.

"The conditions are not high at all, Bohemia is the need, and Moravia is the reward." The prince shook his head and insisted.

"Now that General Conrad is here, I think everything will be much easier, and militarily speaking, whether you want it or not, if you want to increase the combat effectiveness of the Austro-Hungarian Legion as much as possible, then the Czech troops in Pohsia must be included in our combat system." The prince still decided to defeat his opponent in what he did best!

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