"You have a point, so why don't you plan to let this fresh blood flow throughout the Empire? If I hadn't cooperated, it wouldn't have been impossible for you to become Chief of the Imperial General Staff or Minister of War one day. The Kaiser asked.

Hehe, white wolf with empty gloves, the prince does not know whether the Kaiser's promise will be fulfilled in the end, after all, there is no precedent in history for the high-ranking of other kingdoms to serve as the chief of the general staff. However, the prince can be sure that if the prince relents, then this fresh blood of the Bavarian army will definitely be contaminated. Prussia is too strong, their military is too strong, and the end result is that Prussia will not be transformed, and Prussia will in turn affect Bavaria!

"Your Majesty, you can't expect a puddle of clear water to irrigate a desert, much less turn it into an oasis in a day. You should be well aware of this, which is why you have slowly improved Prussia's military structure with the help of other kingdoms. The prince said.

"Hehe, you have always been like this, you can always add the so-called righteousness to those things that make no sense! I have acquired, I can give you the establishment of 4 motorized divisions, but, provided that you have to help me to build a complete system of motorized troops for Prussia! The Kaiser's face was a little hideous, and he said angrily! However, the prince was not afraid, because he knew that the Kaiser had agreed to make concessions, and all he was doing was to take care of his own face.

Prussia used 6 percent of its national strength to support nearly 8 percent of its military strength, but in fact, the pressure was still relatively large. After Schlieffen and others returned, the Kaiser was ready to build a mechanized army, but unfortunately, the German General Staff headed by Schlieffen did not agree with this proposal.

The reason is simple, it is too expensive, Bavarians are very rich, and almost all the vehicles are produced locally in Bavaria. Part of the cost was reduced, so people could get a mobile division, but the initial investment of this mobile division was still more than twice that of an ordinary infantry division. And if the Kaiser wants to get a division, then the cost will be higher, according to the calculations of Schlieffen and others, if you get an army, it will probably cost more than three times the investment of a normal army! This is not something that Prussia can afford now.

Of course, you can say that when the automobile industry develops, the scale will be large, and the cost will be reduced, but that is a matter for the future, and it will definitely not work now. And it is also a problem to want to pass these military appropriations in the Prussian Parliament, there is no problem with increasing money, but how to increase and how to spend money is a matter for the Prussian War Ministry and the General Staff, and the Kaiser does not understand this!

So the end result is that the Kaiser's request is not successful, and sometimes the Kaiser really wants to replace Schlieffen directly, but think about it, it may not be better to replace it with a new one, so bear with it first. The incompetence of his own teammates was also one of the important reasons why the Kaiser was able to indulge Prince Ruprecht. Because it is really difficult for him to find a like-minded partner with sufficient status and ability.

"I can't give you the establishment of 4 divisions at once, it will be divided into at least two batches, the relevant funds will not come out of the empire with a single mark, how Bavaria and Austria-Hungary will share this is your business. And in return, you need to train my 6 guards regiments into mobile regiments! "The Kaiser finally made the decision.

"Okay, no problem." The prince nodded in agreement, Prussia could not rush a mobile army, then Bavaria could not be on the horse at the same time 4 mobile divisions, in fact, it would be good to be able to complete one before 1901, and then Austria-Hungary would help complete one, and the remaining two would be completed It is estimated that it will be around 1904, depending on how well the prince sells arms in Russia.

As for helping the Kaiser train a mobile force? This is nothing, anyway, in history, the Kaiser had to pay out of his own pocket to equip the Guards Corps with machine guns, and this time it was nothing more than buying a car out of his pocket. All I need to provide is a few officers and training. There is almost no economic cost. As for whether the Kaiser can continue to promote this policy, it will depend on the battle between the imperial power and the Junker aristocracy, and the prince does not intend to get involved in these things in the short term.

The final result was not bad, the establishment of the mobile division was slightly larger than that of the ordinary infantry division, and a division could have about 15,000 men at most. And 4 divisions is 60,000, even taking into account that these troops may have elements of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the completion of this period of rearmament, Bavaria will at least have one more corps. The 4 corps accounted for almost one-sixth of the 25 armies of Prussia! This percentage is already very high.

And after completing his own army plan, it is time for the prince to think about how to help his father-in-law in the future! The combat effectiveness of the Austro-Hungarian army is really a problem, but fortunately, there is internal chaos, and it is easy to intervene, and if the Austrian emperor is willing to provide military expenses, he might as well help them improve.

Thus, the period was finally determined, and the Kaiser promised that within six months at most, the Kaiser would push Prussia from the General Staff to agree to the Bavarian reorganization plan, but before that, the two sides had one more important thing to do, and it was time for the Portuguese colonies in Africa to change their masters!

"The British had lost their strength in the war with the Boers, and the Boers were now almost in control of the entire Eastern Cape, and there were even signs of an attack on Cape Town, and the blacks could try to break free from the British. During this time, there was little chance that the British would intervene. ”

"The General Staff discussed plans for a war against Portugal and decided that they would not need much army to face the Portuguese, and their estimate was that 5,000 men were needed in Angola and 3,000 in Mozambique to break up the local Portuguese resistance. Schlieffen even thinks that there is no need for the Navy to participate at all, as long as we can send the Army over before. What do you think? The Kaiser asked.

"This is true from a purely military point of view, the Portuguese garrison in Angola is only 3,000 people at most, and I didn't use 5,000 men to promote them, but the problem is not necessarily so simple! There is also politics behind this military! The prince thought for a moment and said.

"I'm not worried about the form of Mozambique, Mozambique is surrounded by British and German colonies, the French have very few troops in Madagascar, and Mozambique is not very big in the first place. With the British not intervening, we could easily occupy it. ”

"But Angola is different. Angola is more than 50% larger than Mozambique, with the Belgian colony and French Equatorial Africa to the north, and it would be a waste of time for our troops to push south from Namibia when the roads were not good! The prince voiced his concerns.

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