"Jojo, let's go back to South America and talk about how to get the Russians to bring the British in on the South American issue." Crown Prince Frederick worked hard to get tonight's conversation back on track.

And the old prime minister next to him obviously had other feelings about Joey's financing just now, and he was just silent next to him.

"That's the last point, to help the Russians and the French find a common language in international affairs, like the people they both hate, the British—" Joy said with a slight slurring as he glanced at his father.

Hearing Joey's words, another light flashed in the eyes of the silent old prime minister.

"Joey, say what you think!" The crown prince was already numb to his son's grip on Britain, and just asked urgingly.

"The struggle between Britain, France, and Russia for spheres of influence and colonies is the common language between them."

"For example, the French are not good in maintaining their spheres of influence in Peru and Bolivia in South America."

"According to the French newspapers, there has been a lot of noise in France over the 2 billion loans, and the biggest noise is that France not only has no money to expand its colonies, but also has no money to maintain the old sphere of influence, which specifically refers to Peru and Bolivia."

"Franco-American relations are good, but the French are extremely disgusted with the Americans reaching out to Peru." The old prime minister suddenly said without a head.

Continuing the old prime minister's words, Joy said with a smile, "If we tell the Russians at this time, this is an opportunity to reconcile with the French, because the French are desperate to maintain their sphere of influence, especially in this situation of temporary inability to expand their sphere of influence, and in any case cannot lose the existing sphere of influence." ”

"The most effective way to maintain a sphere of influence is through the military and investment, which, at the end of the day, is money." The old prime minister accosted.

"It just so happened that this was the time when the French were at their poorest, and all their money went to the Russians." Joey responded with a smile.

"If the Russians show their willingness to cooperate with the French and jointly support Peru and Bolivia in the victory of the Southern Pacific War, I think the French will choose an ally between the Americans and the Russians, and they will definitely choose the Russians, after all, the French have always wanted Russia to be an ally against Germany." The old prime minister looked at Joey with a smile on his lips.

"If this ally can deal not only with Germany, but also against Britain, the French will probably feel that the 2 billion francs are worth it, and they have won the jackpot." Joey said with a smile.

The old prime minister nodded, "I want to taste this pie." ”

"The French are so desperate to taste this pie because the Prime Minister has been hungry for the French." Joey complimented the old prime minister.

Perhaps before, the old prime minister was a little unhappy, and at the end of this song, Joey's compliment disappeared.

Crown Prince Frederick smiled and said, "I understand what you mean, so we have found a perfect excuse for the Russians to continue to contact the French and continue to borrow money from the French." ”

"But I don't believe that the Russians are willing to pay Peru, you know how stingy the Russians are." To Joy and the old prime minister, Crown Prince Frederick immediately poured cold water on him.

"Father, the French will convince the Russians that as long as the Russians dare to wade into this troubled water, the French will have a hundred ways to bring the Russians in, and the most direct way is to promise to continue to lend money to the Russians." Joey affirmed.

"For the sake of getting a new French loan, with the ingenuity of the Russians, someone must be willing to pay this money."

"And more importantly, now the expansion of the Russians is blocked by the British at the doorstep, as a nation-state, I think there is nothing more aggrieved than this, if suddenly someone tells the Russians that now the Russians want the whole world to make trouble for the British, father, do you think that under this national enthusiasm, the Russian nobles still care about money?"

"What's more, the money comes from France, and the French are ready to continue lending money to the Russians.," said Joey, spreading his hands.

"But the world is looking for trouble with the British, and the navy is needed, and although the Russian Navy is now the third largest in the world, it is no match for the British Royal Navy....... Oh! Crown Prince Frederick looked at his son with a confident face, and suddenly thought of something, "Jojo, do you mean that the Russians still have the help of the French Navy?!" ”

"Yes, father, the Franco-Russian navy unites, I think the British Royal Navy is going to have a headache for a while." Joey laughed, "To deal with the maritime challenges of the two great powers, I think the British Navy needs to build ships desperately." ”

"Since you want to build ships, you need steel, and the steel field, hehe, I think German companies still have a lot of say! Our products can be sold out in Britain and sold in Russia, and if the French also need it, as long as they can afford it, they can sell it! "Joey is acting like a little fox at this moment.

"Besides, when there are two powerful navies harassing Britain, the development of the Royal German Navy is not so remarkable, is it!" This sentence is the subtext in Joey's heart.

Looking at his son's secretly smug expression, Crown Prince Frederick finally remembered what Joey said to his friend Herman almost two months ago, "Uncle Herman, I have a recipe for making nickel-chromium alloy steel, and this alloy steel can make armor." ”

"Could it be that my own son thought about this two months ago?!" Crown Prince Frederick quickly shook his head at this thought that popped up in his heart, and said to himself in his heart, "Impossible, at most it is a coincidence.... It's just such a coincidence...."

"Well, if the Russian-French navy is united, that is to say the second in the world and the third in the world, it will indeed cause problems for the British Royal Navy. It seems that my British friends are about to start a naval race, and the good news is that in addition to the American orders for rails, the German steel companies will now have to get orders for armor steel from the shipbuilding industries of Britain, Russia, and France. ”

"The bad news is that we really can't let the wiki know about this, otherwise Jojo will be grounded, and it will be a trivial matter..... His son is not pro-Russian or pro-British, who is he pro-... What a hassle. ”

"Forget it, at least Jojo is the first man..... That's always true. Crown Prince Frederick thought about it for a long time, and finally found an excuse for himself to convince himself.

Crown Prince Frederick turned his head to look directly at the old prime minister, gritted his teeth and said, "Your Royal Highness, everything Joy said tonight is not a moral thing for anyone except the three of us, Joy is still young, I don't want to hear any gossip about this child." ”

"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince." The old prime minister put down the cigar in his hand, said with a straight face, and said with a smile in his heart, "A child of the Hohenzollern family who is familiar with the "Treatise on the Monarch", I like it too late. Well, since this little guy is so familiar with Machiavelli, it seems that I can talk about that. ”

"Your Royal Highness, I need your honor guarantee." Crown Prince Frederick next to him still added uneasily.

The old prime minister sat up straight, glanced at the crown prince and Joey, raised his right hand and said solemnly, "I swear by my honor." ”

Just as the crown prince exhaled and relaxed, the old prime minister suddenly said to Joey, which seemed to have nothing to do with the Russians' money, but obviously meant something, "As far as I know, those German Junkers who are very close to the Peruvians seem to be dissatisfied with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, your father's NEP." ”

Joey's face froze, staring at Prime Minister Bismarck, who was with the old god there, and asked slowly, "My lord, this is a big deal, can you confirm it?" ”

"Of course, Your Highness the Prince, I can swear by my honor in this matter." The old prime minister, who was sitting in a chair, raised his right hand again.

Looking at the old prime minister's right hand, Joey's expression only eased slightly, but he still asked cautiously word by word, "My lord, those Junkers who brought the Peruvians into Germany, they were able to go through a channel that you didn't expect, and finally met my emperor grandfather, I think you don't like them either, right?" ”

The old prime minister took a breath of smoke and said with a smile, "They all call me, Prime Minister of Iron and Blood, and I regard the kind of behavior you just described, Your Royal Highness, as a betrayal of the Empire. ”

"If I could teach them a lesson in the economic field that I will never forget, would my father get your friendship? For life! Joey asked, staring at the old prime minister.

The old prime minister put down the cigar in his hand again, sat up straight to the crown prince, and said solemnly, "Your Royal Highness, if I can serve you for life, it will be my life's honor." ”

The crown prince was quite surprised by the old prime minister's sudden allegiance, and after thanking Prime Minister Bismarck, he looked at his son suspiciously, and said in his heart, "How can it be related to the old prime minister's loyalty to me when it comes to talking about Russia's money?" ”

Before this doubt was solved, Joy added another question to the crown prince.

"Father, there is an easier way, don't the Russians want Germany to buy their industrial products? Then let the Peruvians buy Russian industrial goods in Germany. Joey's new approach is a big problem in the eyes of the crown prince.

"Peruvians, they have money, don't they have to borrow from Germany?" The crown prince asked, frowning.

"Father, it is to let the Peruvians use German personal loans to specify enough to buy Russian industrial products." Joey's explanation is even more unacceptable to the crown prince.

"Jojo, didn't we just say that Germany would only lend money to Peru and Bolivia when they lost the war. If they take out loans now, these German lenders will certainly have to lose as much money as the French and Americans. The crown prince was puzzled by Joey's sudden change of mind.

"Father, now the German Junckers of Peruvians, who are willing to contribute money, are enemies against your NEP." Joey turned his head to look at the old prime minister, who sat down in his chair and picked up his cigar again, and said, "Your Royal Highness, you also agree to punish them. ”

After hearing Joy's words, Crown Prince Frederick immediately understood that his son had just made an exchange of interests with the Prime Minister, in exchange for the official allegiance of the Prime Minister to bankrupt these political enemies of the old Prime Minister and those who were also his political enemies.

Joey is not a bad guy in the old prime minister's heart, and for like-minded people, Joey is very willing to share the benefits together, but for the enemies who play intrigue and trickery on the way forward, Joey does not mind using more means to get rid of them.

After hearing his father's account of the day's experiences last night, Joey already knew that the Germans who pulled the Peruvians into this game must be the opponent of the old prime minister. Although it is the opponent of the old prime minister, it does not mean that it is his father's opponent, you must know that his parents and the old prime minister are also opponents politically.

With the mentality of watching the opponents fight, in Joey's eyes, this kind of drama similar to office struggle, as long as it does not go beyond the scope of national interests, you can make any trouble.

But just now, after the old prime minister swore that these people were also his father's political enemies, Joey didn't want these people to take his own economic express and share the benefits.

The old prime minister immediately hinted to Joey that if he could teach these people a lesson, he could exchange the prime minister's allegiance to his father, and Joey did not hesitate to sell his father's political enemies.

In the political structure of the entire German Empire, there is currently no one who can replace Bismarck's position as Chancellor, and Bismarck's early allegiance can only be more secure for his father's position.

This is the biggest political benefit I have heard in this world.

For these political enemies who have always opposed his parents, thinking about the painful experience of his parents in the past eight years, and the open and secret arrows of Juncker's diehards against his parents in history, Joey still decided to be ruthless for once.

Although the old prime minister in front of him did not play a good role in the days when his parents were suffering, seeing that he was the first to express his allegiance to his father, Joey decided not to expand the war.

The old prime minister was also complacent, and the hesitation before coming to the palace, as well as the sullen breath that had accumulated in his heart, all disappeared.