Bismarck's analysis was strictly forbidden, and he succeeded in convincing the Foreign Secretary to support his opinion, better than he had imagined, and the Foreign Secretary arranged a direct meeting between him and the King.

It was up to him to introduce the king personally.

Bismarck believed that as long as China could be drawn into the war, it would not take long, perhaps a month or two to end the fighting, and he believed that China's military power in the west was extremely strong, and they only needed to mobilize the army in the western region, which was enough to expand the military force in the border areas to three million people, and they controlled the water and land transportation to Moscow, and Moscow was not a good choice for Russia.

The king was interested in defeating Russia, of course, mainly because of the humiliation and interests of Poland that Russia had taken away.

But the king is not a fool, how can he win China into the war? You know, if China wants to strike at Russia, they can send troops at any time. In addition, there must have been a secret treaty between Russia and Britain against China, and the British would support China if it was at war with Russia. Prussia was about to face a two-sided attack from Russia and Britain, and in this case, perhaps China could finally win a costly war, and it is difficult to say whether Prussia could win it.

Bismarck was well prepared, and he told the king that Prussia's role was to avoid bringing Britain into the war when China was at war with Russia.

The king asked what should be done to make Britain not help a country that was at war with China in the event of a confrontation with China. Bismarck replied that the war should be confined to Prussia and Russia, at least as it seems. There is no need for China to send troops, China's existence is itself an ally of Prussia, as long as China can maintain its strength in the border areas during the war, then the Russian army will definitely not dare to drive the main force to the west. And as long as China did not enter the war, Britain had no incentive to intervene. The traditional friendly relations between Prussia and Britain could be used to stabilize Britain on the one hand, and to use Britain to contain France on the other hand.

The king asked how China could mobilize on the border without entering the war and play a role in containing Russia, and why it was necessary for China to cooperate with Prussia.

Bismarck said that he had not found a way for the time being, but there was always a way, and he hoped that the king would approve him to go to China as a consul, and he hoped that he could find a way to persuade the Chinese. He believes that the breakthrough can be placed in the current Tsar's stubborn attitude towards the cession of land, the Tsar's refusal to sign a peace treaty with China, which will sooner or later lead to a war between the two countries, and it is a very strange thing to be able to maintain peace at present, perhaps only a fuse is needed to break out the war.

However, the direct outbreak of war between China and Russia may not be an opportunity for Prussia, because Britain will enter the war, and it will turn into a large-scale war between China and Britain, and either side of Prussia's intervention will be dealt a heavy blow.

Bismarck believed that with the tremendous pressure exerted by China on Russia, the Tsar did not compromise, and even if Prussia defeated Russia on a local battlefield, it would not be able to force Russia to back down, and the key was that China might not believe that Prussia had the ability to do so.

The king then approved Bismarck's consul to China, where he was responsible for establishing strategic relations with China.

Bismarck also applied for special powers, such as the desire that during his tenure he would be able to conduct an investigation of China's periphery in a private capacity, mainly in the hope of investigating relations between China and British India.

The kings agreed, and said that there would be no changes in the personnel of the consulate in China, that the former consul would be demoted to vice consul, and that the vice consul would be fully normal during Bismarck's absence.

In fact, Bismarck did these reconnaissance operations best as a military attaché, he served and had a military position. The problem is that his status is too low to directly participate in such a task as building a strategic alliance, and if he secretly commands from behind, it will affect his efficiency.

So Bismarck, who came to China again as a consul, was very silent, and did not immediately begin to join forces, he was waiting for an opportunity. It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and any clever strategic structure must be based on realistic conditions, build a strategic alliance out of thin air, and write it directly.

Bismarck took the train all the way into China, and the first time he was at the Nanking Peace Conference, he was in the same mood as his group of diplomats at that time, and was still full of curiosity about China, no matter how many professional books on China were published by Westerners, but China still seemed to be like a mystery, haunting the hearts of Europeans, and the huge cultural differences made them read about China, the more confused they became, unable to understand many of the Chinese's ways of doing things, because under the same conditions, Westerners may deal with it in very different ways.

It's like an empire like Qin Shi Huang, in the West, it is definitely Caesar, or even a great man who surpasses Caesar, because Caesar did not unify Europe, but in China, the evaluation of Qin Shi Huang by scholars is a loss of the country, a cruelty and inhumanity, and an emperor with a very low evaluation. They admired Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty who could endure humiliation and protect the territory and the people. It is the kind of emperor who admires Tang Taizong, although he can defeat the Turks, but he can save the Turks, and there is an emperor who rises and destroys and succeeds the benevolence. There is only one criterion for evaluation, not to make the country strong and the nation to rise, but to let the broadest masses of the people be peaceful and the country and the people safe!

Bismarck read from the book, no matter how you judge it, China is a cowardly, unenterprising, conservative nation and country, but their performance over the years does not look like a conservative country at all, even if it is not as exaggerated as the British described, but where the facts are, China is indeed expanding everywhere.

Either Western scholars have mistranslated Chinese political thought books, or China has consciously deceived the outside world, in fact, they never follow the morals they talk about all day, as if no Chinese he met opened his mouth and closed his mouth to be a moral person (gentleman) should be, but behind the scenes, he often found that these people were insincere, they were full of material desires like Westerners. Either China is consciously engaged in strategic deception, or they are as hypocritical as their diplomats, who are very restrained on the surface, cautious, respectful, polite, and luxurious, pompous, arrogant, and empty-eyed behind the scenes.

Bismarck did see too many diplomats of this kind, the Jo Chungden he met in Russia, and some of the consuls he met in Prussia, who were modest and cautious on the surface, very friendly to people, and simple, frugal, like a Puritan in any way, but there were several women in the family, full-time cooks, exquisite food, and great pleasures.

This was all seen by Bismarck himself, and he felt that these people were hypocritical.

But in fact, it may just be a misjudgment, raising women, most of them are because diplomats with good economic conditions have the phenomenon of concubines, and these exquisiteness of food and beautiful utensils must be attributed to the culture of the Western Zhou aristocracy inherited by Confucius Laofu, who pays attention to not getting tired of eating and not getting tired of being fine. When the emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty had to eat, he had to play music, and there were officials who specialized in managing the diet such as big rice and second meal, and different music was played for breakfast and lunch. Confucius classified it into the category of etiquette, believing that this kind of pleasure, which should have been a luxury, was the biggest difference between the Zhuxia (Chinese nations) people at that time and the surrounding Rongdi barbarian peoples.

Confucius's morality has been influenced for thousands of years, and it is still highly regarded by both literati and wealthy people, and is considered a symbol of status and decency. In essence, this is not fundamentally different from the aristocratic culture of the West. It is to distinguish himself from the poor.

China is relatively much better, because of the lack of a pure aristocratic group, China's culture is more downward, is the middle class culture, is a kind of literati culture, this kind of culture as early as the Qin Dynasty gradually formed, in the Han Dynasty began to occupy the mainstream, any foreign culture is bound to be affected by this culture, such as Buddhism introduced into China, combined with the culture of culture, the formation of a localized Zen, so the Indian monks are popular asceticism, Chinese monks began to grow tea, drink tea, write poems, lyrics.

Bismarck still did not know enough about China, and at the same time, he himself did not have the arrogance of a strong Junker aristocracy, unable to evaluate China with a positive attitude, but a thorn in the time of provocation. If he had learned more about Chinese culture, he would have seen that the refined culture of the literati was changing rapidly. With the impact of industrialization, the economic status of the literati based on the landed class is declining rapidly, and the industrial and commercial class now has the ability to consume daily necessities that the landlords and eunuchs could use in the past. Silk and satin brocade were no longer enough to give the self-esteemed class of scholars (famous families and eunuchs) superiority, and they constantly created new cultural symbols that were different from those of these nouveau riche.

But the nouveau riche are desperately chasing after the aesthetic taste of the scholars, who consume all kinds of books, and after they have money, they are also keen to collect, and every family has a big study, whether they can read it or not, whether they can understand it or not, they will put a room full of hardcover books first. The scholars sat in a sedan chair, they also sat in a sedan chair, and the scholars changed to a horse-drawn carriage, and they also changed to a horse-drawn carriage. The scholars built gardens, and they built gardens.

Once people have money, they want identity, they want to make others envious, worship, admire, this mentality, the cultural industry is always able to prosper quickly after the economy is abundant, not unique to now, but a phenomenon that has existed in all dynasties, called prosperous.

There is no doubt that the China to which Bismarck came has once again entered her heyday.

With his arrival, a new era began, and this new era was not another big era, but a new stage in the context of China's entry into the great era of Europe.

A new stage in the unification of the German nation, in which the German nation becomes the protagonist for a short time and in a glorious way, by burning national enthusiasm. Then they quickly burned off all the heat and fell silent again, returning to their place in history.

It was Bismarck, the figure who chose history and was chosen by history, who opened the epoch of Germany's short protagonist.