In front of Joey was a hearty breakfast: a basket of freshly baked hot wheat buns next to bottles of chocolate sauce, peanut butter, jam and honey, a large ceramic jar of juice and yogurt, and even an omelette and bacon that would only come in an English breakfast.

Princess Victoria held a cup of hot herbal tea, smiling as she watched her youngest son gobble up breakfast, the worries of the past week finally disappeared, and in the eyes of a mother, there is nothing happier and happier than watching her son eat. The face similar to that of his mother in his previous life was affectionately nicknamed Joe, and Joey, who had been hungry for three days (although he ate some liquid oats in the middle), finally took on his new identity without any sense of disobedience in the foodie nature of the little guy.

Under the surprised eyes of the guards and female officers, after eating a large adult breakfast, Joey decided to stop in moderation, on the one hand, he was worried that his body would not be able to accept it at the beginning of his serious illness, and on the other hand, he did not want to sit on the title of foodie. Crown Princess Victoria, on the other hand, was pampered, and did not mind Joey's appetite at all, but only asked her personal secretary, Sir Ernst von Stockma, to prepare some milky yeast flakes for Joey.

After breakfast, at Joey's insistence, he did not lie in bed any longer, but followed his mother into his father's study.

Crown Prince Frederick's study is in the northeast corner of the Imperial Palace, and as the director of the Berlin Royal Museum, he needs to leave home early in the morning to work, so at nine o'clock in the morning in the spring, he was warmed by the sun in the Crown Prince's study, and after a cup of fruit and flower tea for his mother, Joey and his mother sat on the sofa by the window together.

Under the warm sunshine and the sweet aroma of fruit, Joey decided to take advantage of her mother's joy after her recovery to discuss her own schooling. After Joey had soothed her mother's spirits by talking about some light-hearted and unnutritious topics, Joey came up with a suitable excuse to cut to the nitty-gritty.

"Mother, do you know that at the last salon on the theme of poetry, I met Dr. Franz-Merlin, and he said that my father was a man of responsibility and determination, and that he would be a good emperor in the future." Joey said as if inadvertently.

"Oh, Jojo, is this what Mr. Dr. Merlin himself said? The Doctor has never praised anyone positively! "Crown Princess Victoria is a little excited, her husband can be supported and affirmed by famous figures in the German Socialist Workers' Party, which has always been the direction of her active efforts." Jojo, what did he say, doctor? The crown princess asked a little nervously.

"At the salon, Mr. Dr. Doctor talked to his friends about the Prime Minister's anti-Socialist law, and although I don't know why they had a heated argument, Mr. Merlin always believed that the current society could be... Improved, yes, Dr. Merlin used that word, and Dr. Merlin was always firmly on his father's side. ”

Joy then said to himself: "Mother, I also want to be a hero like my father, both an invincible regimental marshal and a man who can uphold the German spirit!"

"Jojo, didn't you say before that you wanted to aspire to be like Professor Gauss (a mathematician alongside Archimedes and Newton, whose face is printed on the 10 mark banknote of that year), why do you want to be a marshal?" Crown Princess Victoria was a little surprised, "Who told you something you shouldn't have said!" Crown Princess Victoria's voice became stern.

For the education of her youngest son, the crown princess has always been cultivated in the direction of science and culture, hoping that her youngest son can get rid of the traditional Prussian militarist education in the German court, and eventually become a person who has attained scientific or cultural attainments.

In fact, not only for their youngest son education, but also for the education of the eldest son Wilhelm and the second son Heinrich, even if William is the second heir to the throne, the crown prince and the crown princess also hope to give Wilhelm more liberal education, in order to let the eldest son Wilhelm and the second son Heinrich get rid of the influence of conservatism and militarism in the court, the couple even did not hesitate to quarrel with His Majesty the Emperor, and finally got their wish to send the two sons to the Kassel complete secondary school far away from Berlin for education.

Things have a good start, but it doesn't mean there is always a happy ending. After six years of full secondary education, the crown princess found that although her eldest son was sent to the University of Bonn by her own efforts, he eventually became the backbone of the "Prussian" student officer club, and the second son decided to join the German Royal Navy before completing his full secondary education.

Under the blow of the ultimate failure of the efforts to keep her two sons away from militarism, the crown princess, in addition to falling into deep self-blame, is to reconsider the educational choice of her youngest son, and the decision of the crown princess is to return Joey to the origin of private education in the court.

The only difference is that this education for the youngest son will be carried out by the crown princess herself, among which the younger son will be allowed to attend the cultural salon organized by himself early, and contact free and progressive people will be part of the crown princess's education method earlier. This is also an important reason why the crown princess began to resist her son's entry into the empire's middle school again.

Just hearing her son's words, the crown princess subconsciously became vigilant, could anyone be inducing her child to have the idea of joining the army, this is absolutely intolerable.

Joey keenly felt the harshness of his mother's words, and also felt the antipathy of his mother's words to the traditional militarism of Prussia.

Historically, German militarism has been the cornerstone of the nation's founding, from 1640, when Frederick Wilhelm Brandenburg of the Duchy of Prussia became Elector, during the Thirty Years' War, when the Holy Roman Empire was in decline and between Protestants and Catholics was raging.

At that time, the Duchy of Prussia was facing life and death in the war, and Elector Frederick-Wilhelm relied on the militaristic path he learned from Sweden to save Prussia's fate. Although he stubbornly sided with the weak in the subsequent wars, and eventually lost all his friends gloriously, he finally created the conditions for the establishment of Prussia in 1701.

Since then, successive Prussian monarchs have experienced the War for the Throne, two wars of the French Alliance, the Prussian-Danish, Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars, and finally formed a unified German state in the 19th century. The rise and establishment of the German nation and state, like other nations and nations throughout history, have undergone arduous tests of iron and blood. It is only that German militarism has played a greater role in the process of German unification, militarism has unified Germany, and a unified Germany has made militarism stronger.

Although it is often said that Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a state, to illustrate the injustice of Prussia's founding, the German philosopher and father of German nationalist thought, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, once said: "The common language shared by the German people predates any other form of human art." Language is like an innate and invisible bond that naturally binds the German people. Let them understand each other and become more intimate. The German people are one and belong to an indivisible whole, and this is the German state. ”

The fact that the Germans are born with the same language and culture means that the Germans have long been a whole, an ideological state. The linguistic and cultural history of Germany predates the Prussian army long before the Prussian army, and the Prussians eventually achieved the integrity and unity of the German state with a strong army.

What we call patriotism today also stems from the ideas of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and throughout the course of German statehood in the 17th and 19th centuries, the unity of the country and patriotism are beyond reproach!

From the author's point of view, historically, the establishment of any nation-state before the 20th century was full of fire and blood. The same German culture has long existed in the ideology of the common German population, but in the end it was realized by the iron and blood of the Prussian army.

To criticize the founding of the Second German Reich in the 19th century from the point of view of opposing militarism is to ignore the German nation's desire to establish a unified state, and it is also a manifestation of historical nihilism.

Even if anyone looks critically at militarism, there is nothing wrong with glorifying the contributions of military personnel and respecting the status of military personnel in any country at any time. Moreover, the world today has also proved that the development of the military economy is also an important part of the national economy of the whole country.

The civilian use of military technology has promoted the improvement of people's living standards, and the military service system is also the basic military system for each country to defend its territorial integrity from aggression, and the enlistment of male and female soldiers into military service has eventually led to the realization of the modern social concept of equality between men and women. Of course, militarism, reckless militarism, and aggression against other countries should be severely criticized.