Chapter 181: Vacation VIII

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After the most important duties of the German Volunteers to Chile had been determined, the remaining details, such as the commander of the Black Hawk Corps, were appointed by the old emperor to the respected Marshal Mandolfel, and logistics and corresponding diplomatic mediation were assigned to Crown Prince Frederick and Chancellor Bismarck.

And William I finally used HK81A2 to have a shooting addiction at the shooting range of Charlottenburg Palace one day later, and the father and son of the Mandolfer family enjoyed it together.

The happy old emperor spent ten minutes at the military cabinet meeting held in the afternoon of the same day, and talked about his feelings about the shooting of the HK81A2.

If a month ago, HK's shooting show in Spandau was regarded by the generals present as a sales show by a newly established German arms company to foreigners, now Hermann & Carr GmbH (HK), a company that has been established for less than a month, is finally remembered by the generals present.

According to the old emperor, this unit that was ready to protect the German people in Chile should be the best in terms of personnel and equipment since it was awarded the Black Eagle Banner of the Hohenzollern family, known as the Black Eagle Legion.

Under the outstanding performance of the HK81A2's shocking smokeless shooting, as well as Joey's clever sales pitch, as well as the old emperor's strong hint at the military cabinet meeting, Marshal Mandolfel, as the commander of the corps, naturally did not hesitate to name the rifles of the HK company for his legion, and at the same time promised Joey that he would visit the HK company in the near future to see some other infantry equipment in Joey's mouth.

Naturally, the HK company became a fierce rival to the Ludwig Royal Arsenal in Oberndorf in the selection of infantry equipment for the Black Hawk Regiment under Field Marshal Mandolf.

As a response to the challenge of HK Company, but a few days later, Paul Mauser of the Ludwig Royal Arsenal launched an improved model of the M1871 M1879, which changed the single-shot loading of the M1871 into the same tubular magazine loading method as the M1871/1884 in history.

The European continent recognized Germany, France, and Russia as the three continental war military powers, and among the three continental war powers, the Germans ranked the highest, and this contest about the rifles of the Black Hawk Regiment could not be more normal in the eyes of those who were interested, and a legend about the Germans having invented smokeless gunpowder began to spread secretly at the highest level of the major military powers.

But this smokeless ammunition, with no real objects and no photos, can only be a legend after all.

Although there is a rise in the corps, there are also commanders of the corps, and the weapons and equipment of the corps infantry are also being selected, but the structure of the officers and soldiers of the troops, and the procurement and military expenses for salaries and supplies are still zero.

Field Marshal Mandolfer was naturally familiar with the selection, appointment and recruitment of officers and soldiers, and he should have organized his own Black Hawk Corps according to his own wishes, but many matters related to logistics and supply could only be entrusted to Crown Prince Frederick, who held the power of the German economy and served as Minister of Economy.

In Joey's original plan, the intervention in Chile was supposed to be a regular German army, with natural personnel and equipment and pay from the existing troops, and at best, Crown Prince Frederick's treasury would only have to prepare a soldier's war allowance.

Who would have thought that due to General Kamek's questioning and General Albertier's covert encouragement, in the end the level of this intervention army became the level of the Prussian National Guard, and the pure National Guard may not lose to the regular army in terms of personnel quality, but it must be inferior to the regular army in terms of equipment, and the old emperor shouted out that this intervention army has the best people and the best equipment, which naturally requires a lot of money.

As the initiator and supporter of the Chilean plan, Crown Prince Frederick certainly wanted to quickly allocate a sum of money to support Marshal Mandolfer, but the German New Economic Plan, which began in May, has already arranged all the German government budgets for this year, and each finney has a precise plan for its use.

In addition to not being able to use the emergency funds for natural disasters, Crown Prince Frederick really can't find funds in the government.

Of course, Crown Prince Frederick could also submit an emergency financial allocation plan to the Council of States on the issue of the Black Hawk Legion, but under the thread of General Wadsey, the forces in parliament led by Count Kleist, who supported Bolivia and Peru, publicly stated that they would oppose the approval of the military budget allocation of the Black Hawk Corps in the Chamber of Commonwealth.

Of course, the reason is not that he has a secret agreement with Peruvian President Prado, but that the feeling of Chile this time is an emergency, and the government does not have an emergency fund reserve for this emergency, according to the practice of the German government, if there is no money, it can only open a new tax, and the new tax is related to the livelihood of the Germans and the votes of regional councilors, so they will never be willing.

Now, Crown Prince Frederick is in the same predicament as his teacher, Earl Ron, in 1860, when the Council of States refused to fund the army's contingencies.

In the same situation, the Earl of Ron in 1861 brought in Chancellor Bismarck to try his best to exploit the loopholes of the Prussian constitution of 1850, and through a sophistry in the parliament, he succeeded in distorting Article 99 of the constitution into the following: the state has to spend money every day to maintain its function, so if the House of Commons refuses to pass the budget, the government can spend money as it originally planned.

This method did eventually get the military budget that Count Ron wanted, but the Count of Ron and Chancellor Bismarck also knew that their sophistry in parliament was untenable, especially as it was a violation of the constitutional dignity of Prussia, so in 1862 they issued a government statement re-emphasizing the constitutional basis of government management.

Count Kleist and his allies were right, Crown Prince Frederick took a clear stand against his teacher's practice in 1861, and today, Crown Prince Frederick is even more unlikely to use his teacher's tricks back then, in short, first try to drag the Black Hawk Army in the country, so that he can have time to think about and deal with his investments in Peru and Bolivia.

The wind is going so fast that the war monster of Prussia is moving in Chile, and everyone has accumulated several lifetimes of investment in Peru, but it is really about to be gone, you must know that the land Junkers' property, by the accumulation of the little hard-earned harvest in the land, is not as rich as the financial and industrial capitalists.

Despite the parliament's obstruction, it did not mean that Crown Prince Frederick had no way to raise military funds.

It's 1879, 18 years have passed since 1861, and in those 18 years, time has taught Crown Prince Frederick many things, one of which is to learn from the French, to issue war bonds to raise reparations, and of course the Germans to raise military expenses.

Since he had already gambled on Chile's abundant copper and gold and silver resources, he borrowed a fund for the development of the German economy from German bank capitalists by selling options on the mineral resources in the above-mentioned areas.

Then just gamble again, and do not seek that the German Ministry of Economy must have more than 51% of the shares in these mines. Take the equity of the mines in the above-mentioned areas and borrow military money from the German bankers.

If you win the bet, you will use Chilean resources to fight a war in Chile, and if you lose, then you will slap Jojo's ass.

Just as Crown Prince Frederick, on behalf of the Ministry of Economy, was negotiating new military loans with German bankers and capitalists in accordance with the ideas of usury capitalism of the French, news finally came from far East Asia that the Qing were willing to sign a contract with Germany.

Immediately, the Japanese and French reparations were also negotiated in an instant, and Crown Prince Frederick suddenly discovered that Germany had money.......

Crown Prince Frederick was luckier than his teacher, Count Ron, after all!