The fact that her son was going to the Army Aviation Academy made Mary and Jochen lose their temper for several days, and Mary was originally very worried about her son going to play flying, but now it's good, and soon her son is going to take flying as a career, Mary is naturally not happy, except for Reinhardt, who secretly applied for the exam without telling his parents, was severely reprimanded, and even Jochen was beaten down.

Mary naturally hoped that her son could go to the High Officer Academy, which was also for the sake of Reinhardt's future, and if her son had to join the army, then the High Officer Academy, which was established in 1810 with Scharnhorst as the first president and Clausewitz as president for 12 years, would definitely be a good choice. Moreover, the High Military Academy is located in Berlin, and even if you can't get your son to come home every night, at least you can spend more time with them on holidays.

If it weren't for Mary's understanding that the admission letter had been sent to the palace, it would be a royal face to let her son not report for duty, otherwise she would really be ready to let her son be a deserter, but her daughter Lily privately praised her brother's audacity and said that she had the opportunity to go to the academy to see her brother being trained. Fortunately, Lily's actions were not seen by Mary, otherwise this girl would not have been able to count them down.

But Reinhardt's mess wasn't over yet. Before Reinhardt entered the military academy and was strictly controlled, the family decided to relax, so they went to Björk Island in the Gulf of Finland to escape the summer, accompanied by the invited Ruprecht family, the purpose is self-evident.

Reinhardt is not really stupid, so he naturally sees the clue from his parents' actions. There is nothing to complain about the fact that his parents have set himself a fiancée candidate like this, after all, no young boy can resist the charm of a beautiful girl like Ilmingard.

The Bavarian royal family itself is a military aristocracy, and Ilmingard is naturally not a deep lady who does not go out of the door. is not exclusive to the young and handsome crown prince, and the two sides get along very well. The Jochen couple, who were very pleased with this, were also willing to create conditions for the two young people to get along.

However, this time it brought himself a lot of trouble, and Ruprecht, who knew that the crown prince was going to the aviation academy, began to try to change Reinhardt's mind from the day he arrived in Berlin, and also unceremoniously criticized the emperor, believing that it was simply unseemly for the German crown prince to enter such a school.

Then, for the sake of the future of the prospective son-in-law, he proposed that the Bavarian Military Academy also admit Reinhardt. Although the Bavarian Military Academy is not as famous as the Higher Military Academy, it is also a serious army academy, and its graduates are accepted by the officer corps.

Ruprecht said that even if the back door is opened, Reinhardt will be "back on the right track". Although the result will not change much, it is obvious that the father and son will not be able to annoy the father and son, and the time of peace will pass quietly in this way.

"It doesn't look like it's going to be too easy." May 10, 1910. When Jochen set foot on London again, he saw a completely different scene than he had seen a few years earlier: "My uncle, even when he died, still made me very uncomfortable. ”

On May 6, 1910, Edward VII was still not in the way of the wheel of fate and was called by God to go to heaven. As a nephew, Jochen travels to London for a funeral. But it was completely different from the treatment I received when I attended my grandmother's funeral. This time the arrival of the German emperor was not welcomed by the British population. Although no one rushed out and threw shoes at themselves. But the cold eyes of everyone made Jochen feel the hostility of the country towards him.

Unlike Queen Victoria's low profile, Edward VII's funeral was extremely grand, with 10 monarchs, 4 crown princes and more than 40 royal families present, making the funeral unprecedentedly large.

Although the British royal family still treated Jochen as the German emperor very highly, and in the procession of Edward's hearse, Jochen rode a horse to the right of the newly enthroned King George V, and the two went hand in hand, but the British royal family did not treat themselves as relatives as they did when they came before.

My aunt, who didn't have a good impression of Germany, never gave herself a good look. Historically, Wilhelm II lowered his body and dismounted to push open the door of the chamberlain to personally open the car door for the newly widowed aunt, but the aunt opened the door and got out of the carriage by herself from the other side of the carriage. The nephew emperor, who left the other end of the carriage and walked and did not go, walked away, which made Wilhelm II not embarrassed. Naturally, Jochen wouldn't touch the mold.

However, the children of Edward VII, who were able to get along, did not reveal the slightest closeness to Jochen's cousin, which fully made Jochen feel the reality that the relationship between Britain and Germany was impossible to repair.

This alienation and confrontation inevitably infected other European royals and nobles who came to attend the funeral, and most of these royal nobles were also relatives, but they were also inevitably separated by the division of camps.

With the exception of Germany's staunch allies, King Ferdinand of the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom, Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania, himself a member of the House of Hohenzollern, and King George I of Greece, whose son was Jochen's brother-in-law, were more or less cordial to Jochen, the other monarchs were more or less cordial to the new King George V of Great Britain.

Of course, these monarchs will not really leave the German emperor aside, and the attitude they are showing now does not mean that they will really take sides in future wars, and they will not be strong enough to choose neutrality, or because they consider that those who oppose each other are in the middle of the situation. For example, the Russian delegates who now came to the funeral because they felt the need for Russian support, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who was close to Grandduke Mikhail, the younger brother of Nicholas II, and Ferdinand, the Crown Prince of Romania, who now stood by his side.

But this tendency and attitude imbues what should have been an occasion of family remembrance of the deceased with the smell of politics, and although the monarchs with different positions are hypocritically entertaining each other, Jochen can clearly feel a whirlpool of confrontation.

In this case, the two monarchs at the center of the vortex engaged in a mutual temptation without nutrition.

"George, please mourn, we are all saddened by Uncle Edward's departure." Jochen was comforted by his cousin, King George V, who had just ascended the throne of England.

"Thanks, Jochen, how is Aunt Victoria's health now?" George V asked.

"It's not good, I can only rest in bed now." Yoheng shook his head regretfully: "My mother's current health condition makes me very worried, and my mother's departure makes my mother very sad. ”

"I hope Aunt Victoria's health will be healthy." George V said, looking very sincere: "I would like to visit Berlin if I have time." ”

"That's great, it's hard for a mother to see any other relatives except us as children. If George, you can visit, my mother will be very happy. Don't those of us who are children want our parents to be happy and healthy? Jochen also invited very sincerely: "So it's great that George can come to Berlin." ”

"Jochen, you're right, we have no other luxuries for children, don't worry, I'll definitely go to Berlin to see Aunt Victoria." George V nodded in agreement.

Although the dialogue seemed to be full of affection, Jochen understood that the current Anglo-German relationship could no longer be maintained by relying on the bond of affection, and George V should have been very clear, so the conversation between the two was absolutely not about politics. The affectionate conversation has also become a kind of temptation, which is just a signal to the other party: I am not ready to tear my face now.

Everyone understands this.

And this mutual temptation to only talk about family affection and not politics is also sending another signal: I am not ready to give in.

Everyone understands this.

Since the attitude is clear, there is no need to cut the exchange to the substance, and the two monarchs ended this brotherly conversation with false affection.

Knowing that he is not popular in England now, Jochen is not as free to act as he used to, and his days in London have fully demonstrated how to be a low-key person. Jochen is not prepared to be seized by anyone who cares about his words and deeds to make a big fuss.

In 1908, in an interview with a special correspondent of the British "Daily Telegraph", Wilhelm II said that most Germans did not like the British, but he liked the British, but the British were full of suspicion of themselves, like "the recklessness of the hare in March", and he was very disappointed in this, thinking that the British were irrational and simply crazy. The British press was then ecstatic and took it out of context as evidence that the German Emperor was frantically trying to make enemies of the British.

So during this time in the UK, Yochen adhered to the purpose of going out less and talking less, and finally insisted on staying for a week before hurrying back home.

Although when Jochen left, George V expressed his sincere hope that Jochen could stay for a longer time, and the two families could continue to deepen their relationship. However, not long after Jochen returned to Germany, news came from Britain that it had decided to build a super battleship equipped with a 13.5-inch cannon.

"Cousin George is simply decisive, and in a blink of an eye, he will give Germany such a big disadvantage." Jochen said in a mocking tone, then shook his head self-deprecatingly: "But I'm no worse than him." (To be continued......)