"What the hell is going on in the heads of those Serbs?" Jochen's voice resounded throughout the room: "The Serbian army is still confronting the Ottomans, and now they are making trouble in Bosnia and Herzegovina!" Have they ever thought about things with their little brain stem?! ”

Imperial Prime Minister Holwig, Chief of the Army General Staff Goltz, Chief of the Navy General Staff Tirpitz, and the Minister of Defense, who has always been rarely seen and has little presence, all appeared in the emperor's study. And this makes the atmosphere in the study very depressing.

The Minister of Defense of the Reich is a subordinate of the Prime Minister, theoretically at the same level as the Chief of the General Staff of the Army and Navy, and in peacetime there is no real power to directly intervene in the army except for coordinating the distribution of resources between the Army and the Navy, and this position was originally created to limit the power of the General Staff of the Army. Therefore, the weight in the emperor's heart is far inferior to that of the two chiefs of general staff of the two services, and therefore, under normal circumstances, the emperor will not call the minister of defense when he wants to discuss military affairs.

However, the appearance of the defense minister here today shows that the matter is even more serious, because the power of the defense minister does not seem to be much in peacetime, but in wartime, the defense minister who is in charge of the issue of resource distribution will directly affect the country's support for the army's operations, and at that time, the power of the defense minister will change from coordination to overall planning, and it can be said that the front cannot be controlled, but the rear is in full charge.

What does it mean that the Minister of Defense is here today? Want the Ministry of Defense to exercise the power of wartime co-ordination, and then the Reich prepares to wage war abroad? The question is with whom to go to war? Is it difficult for the Empire of Moralwill to go to war with Serbia? Your Majesty the Emperor, what is this madness?

However, now His Majesty's mood is completely inconsistent with his usual steady personality, and even if he gets angry in the past, His Majesty will quickly calm down. But now His Majesty the Emperor, who was not sitting behind the desk, but walking around in front of the four of his own people, was visibly in a state of restlessness.

"Your Majesty, it's just a riot, and the situation is limited to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's not a big deal, and Presumably His Majesty Ferdinand should be able to calm things down quickly. As Prime Minister, Holwig had a responsibility to break the oppressive atmosphere in the room now, so he comforted him.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina has always been a region of focus for the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. There are enough troops there to calm the situation and maintain stability. Goltz immediately spoke.

In their eyes, this kind of riot is simply a big thing, is it necessary for Your Majesty to be like a great enemy? Tirpitz didn't speak, but his approving expression also showed that he agreed, was it worth calling himself back from Kiel in front of Fisher for this? The British fleet was still visiting the port of Kiel, and it was evidently a fuss and loss of grace to the British that he had left his guests aside and hurried back to Berlin for such a trifle.

Actually, I don't blame Holwig for thinking so. It really didn't seem like a big deal to them. Bosnian military junta chief Oskar? General Potiorek was attacked while traveling in Sarajevo, and Potiorek was not injured in the attack. After torture of the captured Assassins, Potiorek, who learned that he still had accomplices, ordered an all-out raid throughout Bosnia, consisting of the "Young Bosnians" and the "Black Hand", two secret groups of Great Serbs.

After all, Bosnia and Herzegovina was bought from the Ottomans and became the de jure territory of the Croatian-Slovenian kingdom not long ago, and the Croats, Slovenes, Slavs, and Serbs here are mixed, and the social situation is complicated, so in order to ensure social stability here, Ferdinand has not changed the military management policy here.

And the big Serbs like the "Black Hand" and the "Young Bosniaks" stir things up here, which has always been a huge factor of social instability. The eradication of these groups has also been the work of the military-run government in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In particular, the "Black Hand Society" is an organization that carries out terrorist activities such as assassination and bombing. It has always been targeting Kingdom officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and naturally it is the target of the cleanup.

This assassination hit the head of the military government. Naturally, a stern purge began. And this kind of large-scale manhunt naturally affects all Serbs in the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina region, and there will always be some expansion in this kind of thing, as long as you are an ethnic Serb, you are a suspect; If you don't investigate, you will be arrested directly if you are suspicious; What violent law enforcement in the process of arrest; Even taking the opportunity to embezzle the property of the arrested person, everyone knows this.

However, such acts of violence naturally make the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina fearful, and where there is oppression, there is resistance. As a result, a large number of Serbs confronted the military and police, and the riots began.

In the eyes of Holwig, this is also a thing? Isn't it just a riot? Wouldn't it be nice to suppress it? Which European country has not suppressed its own riots? If it weren't for Jochen and Bismarck, the coal miners' strike would have been bloodied. The Russians' suppression of domestic revolutionaries during the Russo-Japanese War turned directly into war. The current incident in Bosnia and Herzegovina is only a small scene, and the Serbs are not yet the main ethnic group in the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom, what storm can be stirred? So it is difficult for them to understand the current state of His Majesty the Emperor.

But the feeling on Jochen's side was completely different. The same in Sarajevo, the same "Black Hand Society", the same assassination, this is simply a remake of the Sarajevo incident in history when Ferdinand was assassinated! And the Oscars in history? Portiorec was also present as Ferdinand's companion!

Jochen had thought he was mentally prepared for the outbreak of war for so many years, but when it really came, he found that he was not as calm as he had imagined. Even though he had made so much effort, when it came to this moment, he found that he had no confidence to win a world war at all.

Germany's population is not large enough, agricultural production is not yet completely self-sufficient, all kinds of material reserves should be accumulated, industrial capacity should be able to tap the potential again, and so on.

After decades of actually living in this country, in charge of this country, the more you know about this country, the heavier the mentality of gaining and losing. The lessons of history are too profound for Jochen to look at this issue with a rational eye at the moment.

If it weren't for the Oscars now? Potiorek didn't die, the time wasn't June 28, the assassin wasn't called Princip, the damned British fleet didn't hurry home, but stayed in Kiel to receive the Germans' hospitality, Jochen was not in such an irritable state as he is now, but directly ordered the empire to enter an emergency mobilization!

"The riot is really not a big deal, if the Croatian army can't even solve the insurgents, then it can only be said that all the military aid we have provided to them for so many years has been fed to the dogs!" Jochen said in a graceless voice: "I don't think there is any need to carry out any manhunt, as long as it is a Serb, it will be shot directly, and the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be peaceful!" If all Serbs were to die, the Balkans would be too peaceful! ”

His Majesty the Emperor has never had a good impression of the Balkan-stirring sticks, as long as everyone knows this, but today's speech is still a bit exciting. Genocide, or against a white race, these remarks will cause an uproar, and the four people present had to look at each other and pretend not to hear it.

"The focus is on the source of this riot! This assassination! Do you believe that there is no shadow of the Serbian government behind it?! Jochen asked in a loud voice, "Don't tell me Goltz, you don't know who is behind the 'Black Hand Society'!" If you don't know, then the intelligence agencies of the army can be disbanded! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I know. ' Behind the 'Mafia' is the General Staff of the Kingdom of Serbia, and the intelligence services of the Kingdom of Serbia have been supporting the operations of the 'Mafia'. Golz immediately replied: "But Your Majesty, I do not think that this operation was planned by the Serbian General Staff. The Kingdom of Serbia was still in a confrontation with the Ottomans, and it would not be of any benefit for them to provoke the wrath of the Croat-Slovenian Kingdom at this time. ”

Goltz's words Jochen can accept it intellectually, now that the first Balkan war has not yet started, the Serbs should first find trouble with the Ottomans if they really want to make trouble in the Balkans. If it was really troublesome for Osman, Jochen wouldn't be so upset.

Because the war between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Ottoman Empire was an internal problem in the Balkans, and although the European countries would continue to exert their influence in it, they would never end up in it. So it doesn't matter who wins or loses the Balkan war, as long as you can control your interests within a range that is acceptable to you. Therefore, the smell of gunpowder in the Balkan powder keg is getting stronger and stronger, and Jochen is not impressed, if he really wants to fight like the two Balkan wars in history, he can buy Germany another 2-3 years.

But the current situation completely caught Jochen off guard, and the development of the situation is completely different from history, after it turns into a large-scale riot, how the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will evolve, how Ferdinand will respond, and how the Kingdom of Serbia will react, Jochen can no longer use his historical knowledge to predict.

The Sarajevo incident in history did not directly lead to the outbreak of war, but the failure of the response between countries in dealing with the Sarajevo incident was the main culprit that ultimately led to the outbreak of war. Therefore, Jochen now does not know whether a matter that is not a matter in the eyes of Holwig and others will finally detonate this powder keg due to a series of coincidences.

But Jochen could not explain these concerns to his ministers, and could only hope that the situation would be as Goeltz had said, and that the Kingdom of Serbia would not make any inappropriate responses to escalate the situation. (To be continued.) )