In the holy capital, the spring color is slowly getting stronger and stronger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter a few continuous spring rains, Feng Yunshan, who had not been out of the palace gate for a few days, suddenly came to be interested, and wanted to go on the bank of the Qinhuai River outside the Shuixi Gate, and look at the Huimu trees on both sides of the Qinhuai River, bustling and intoxicating spring. Who knows, just wanted to go out, but heard that Wu Chongyao, vice minister of commerce, led Prussian minister Karenwei and Li Jianwei, deputy general manager of the Imperial Krupp Iron and Steel Company, to come to meet him.

As a last resort, Feng Yunshan met them in the garden of the palace.

Although they were not in the palace, Wu Chongyao and the others still respectfully knelt down and bowed nine times and bowed respectfully. Affected by this, the Prussian minister Karenwei and several other foreigners reluctantly knelt on one knee, and just wanted to salute, Feng Yunshan raised his hand and said: "Mr. Karenwei, you and these gentlemen are exempted." You are my friends, not my subordinates, so you don't have to do it. ”

Karenwei immediately smiled happily and laughed loudly: "Your Excellency the Honorable Holy King, oh, wrong, the foreign minister is guilty, it should be the respected Emperor's Majesty, I haven't seen you for a year, and Your Majesty's demeanor is still the same." ”

Wu Chongyao, who was next to him, raised his head and reported to Feng Yunshan: "Your Majesty, Minister Karenwei has invited Mr. Moltke and some other Prussian officers from Prussia to Shengjing, and Weichen specially led them to meet Your Majesty. ”

"General Moltke?" Feng Yunshan's face was moved, and he stood up, he didn't pay attention to those foreigners, but when he heard Wu Chongyao say this, he hurriedly looked over, only to see that the group of foreigners was faintly headed by a white-faced middle-aged foreigner, and when he looked at it, Feng Yunshan was sure that the oldest middle-aged foreigner in this group of foreigners was Mao Qi.

He walked over in person, and said to the white-faced middle-aged foreigner: "This must be General Moltke?" ”

Kalunway hurriedly came over and introduced: "Your Majesty the Emperor, this is Colonel Moltke. He was already Prince William's aide-de-camp, and if he hadn't left Prussia, he would probably have been promoted to general, but since His Majesty specifically asked Colonel Moltke to come to your country to help train soldiers, and Prince William Jr. came forward to plead, Prince William could only reluctantly part his love. I hope that Your Majesty will give preferential treatment to Colonel Moltke! ”

"Haha, this is natural! Thank you Prince William and Prince William Jr., and Mr. Minister for your help! Feng Yunshan laughed, and, in order to show his sincerity, he immediately announced: "Colonel Moltke, I now appoint you as the general of the Chinese Empire. You were awarded the rank of Major General and served as Chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff of the Capture Army. I don't know if you have any comments? ”

Feng Yunshan attaches great importance to this famous Prussian and German famous general, the first general staff, and is the most famous chief of staff in Germany, and originally wanted to immediately appoint him as the deputy chief of the general staff, but after all, he is a foreigner, and he has not made an inch of merit for a newcomer, so even if Feng Yunshan is the emperor, it is not good for other soldiers under him to speculate wildly, so he can only order him to be the chief of the war department, and he is also the deputy director of the foreign carragher? Above the Shire. With this configuration, Feng Yunshan is also quite satisfied, Moltke is good at army command and making battle plans, and Carragher, who was born as an Irish naval officer? Shire, on the other hand, was in charge of naval command.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Moltke is willing to serve His Majesty! After listening to Karenway's translation, Moltke shouted directly.

Karenwei hurriedly translated this meaning to Feng Yunshan.

Immediately afterwards, he introduced the remaining ten foreigners to His Majesty, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, as if selling Prussian goods: "Your Majesty, these three are officers from the Prussian General Staff, these two are grenadier officers of the Prussian Army, and these two are the Mauser brothers, the gunsmiths that Your Majesty once asked me to look for. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he was overjoyed, Moltke had already surprised him, but this Mauser brother surprised him even more. Comparatively speaking, this pair of brothers who could invent the Mauser series of rifles in the future made him pay more attention. This classic murderous weapon, reaching the pinnacle of rifles of its time, is exactly what you need.

However, in my impression, it will take more than ten years for the Mauser brothers to design the first rear-loading single-shot Mauser rifle with a rotary locking bolt, and they will hire them to come to China at this time, will there be no birth of the Mauser rifle? Feng Yunshan couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

However, since the Mauser brothers were born into a family of gunsmiths and have been helping in the arsenal since childhood, they must have a great understanding of firearms design and production, and they only borrowed from other rifles and absorbed the process, this experience has their own, and it can be completely compensated. With their own half-understanding of this Mauser rifle, telling them the design direction is always faster than they groping around, and the so-called Mauser rifle is actually based on the French Chasebo rear-loading rifle, absorbing the design concept of the rear-loading Enfield rifle, inventing this rotary pull-back single-shot rifle. Although it will take another year for the rear pull-bolt hammer carbine of the Xia Sebo rear loading gun to be born in the world, Feng Yunshan can directly tell them about this design direction and creativity, I believe they can be inspired, even if it can't be produced, it will be more than a year later, and when the Xia Sebo rear loading gun comes out, it will always inspire them!

In order to show his attention to the foreigners, Feng Yunshan nodded to them, flattering these young Prussian officers and craftsmen. Before they came, their complaints about being carefully searched inside and out had already been thrown out of the clouds. It seems that the situation is very good, the emperor of this Eastern Empire, which has a larger and more population than the whole of Europe, attaches great importance to himself, nods and smiles at himself, what a kind and polite emperor, you know, this is the ancient Eastern Emperor who determines the life and death of hundreds of millions of people.

Originally, Feng Yunshan just wanted to nod and smile, so he was ready to let Li Jianwei, who knew Prussian, lead them down to rest, but unexpectedly, Karenway's introduction surprised him again: "Your Majesty, these three officers of the Prussian General Staff are all helpers brought by General Moltke, Alfred?" Feng? Second Lieutenant Schlieffen, Louis? Second Lieutenant Mackensen, both of them are civilians, but their ancestors were former Prussian soldiers, and if they want to restore the glory of their ancestors, they are willing to stay in your country for a long time, as long as Your Majesty pays them a salary and a position that makes them happy; The other one, Alfred? Feng? Second Lieutenant Wadsey, but we were born in Prussia Junker nobles, because he could not inherit the title of nobleman, he could only join the army and work hard. However, he still wants to return to Prussia after his meritorious service, and therefore wants to sign an agreement with your country for ten years of service. ”

Feng Yunshan was stunned! He didn't expect that in addition to the Moltke and Mauser brothers, the few officers that Kallenway brought back at random would have two characters he knew, this guy named Schlieffen, although he didn't even remember his surname, but he remembered these key words, wouldn't it be the chief of the General Staff who later put forward the "Schlieffen Plan" to make the German army invincible in the early days of World War I?

Of course, Feng Yunshan does not rule out that this person is just the same name and age as the bull man in history, but the other one is called Alfred? Feng? Wadsey's guy, this person's famous name is a deep memory, junior high school and high school history has not recited this guy's name, and even because he remembered Sai Jinhua, a famous prostitute in the late Qing Dynasty.

At the beginning, as the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, although he had not yet arrived in Beijing, the cowardly Manchu Qing had been defeated by the small garrison of the foreign powers in China, and even Beijing was occupied and ransacked, but after all, he was the nominal commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and he came forward to sign the "Xinchou Treaty" that caused the whole of China to suffer huge losses and humiliation, and China was completely reduced to a semi-colony. This Wadsey is therefore included in history textbooks as an important figure.

However, at the moment, Wadsey, who is only a second lieutenant officer, has no need to embarrass him, and with his appreciation from Moltke, he will be promoted step by step to the position of chief of staff of the German General Staff, and he must have extraordinary talents, which can be used for himself.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan thought that if the guy named Schlieffen was really the later German chief of the General Staff, then the first three chiefs of staff of the entire Germany would all be poached by themselves!

This decision of his own had too great an impact on the whole of Prussia and Europe.

I don't know if Prussia did not have Moltke, and whether Prussia could successfully defeat Austria and France in the later Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War. Feng Yunshan couldn't care about these names, he only knew that he had got a treasure.