Although the world is peaceful, forgetting the war will surely perish, and the war of arms expansion has always been on the main agenda of the Federal Republic of Germany. Because Eric was bent on doing a good job in economic construction, he temporarily suppressed the expansion of the army, and did not let Brauchitsch make much trouble.

On the surface, Eric seems to have no interest in expanding the military, but he is not, otherwise he would not have set up a large number of defense research institutes across the country. Walter Brauchitsch, Max Hoffmann and Rundstedt, among others, know a thing or two about the businessman-born president.

The common people need to recuperate, and the rulers need to expand by force. For a national leader, the difference in his thoughts often determines whether a country can achieve long-term peace and stability. Some leaders are afraid that the world will not be chaotic and stir up trouble all the time, while some leaders are immersed in hard work and are busy with the national economy and people's livelihood, and the key depends on what the upper echelons of the state need.

War means the death of people, and naturally the more people there are, the better, in order to prepare for succession, but it is a burden on the country and the people to raise so many people in peacetime. Unfortunately, since there has been a conflict of interests in human beings, there have been these great troubles and contradictions.

Although there are some foreign trade and diplomatic factors, its positive significance is far from this, and the biggest highlight is to make Germany have the ability and charm to attract a large number of comprehensive and high-quality talents at home and abroad.

In the past decade, Germany has ranked first in the world in terms of immigration arrivals, most of which are mainly German expatriates returning to China, and there are also many scientific and technological elites, which are a valuable invisible asset.

After the conscription began, Brauchitsch, Hoffmann and others soaked in the war room of the General Staff every day, and the guards helped carry them from the room for meals. In fact, they are intensively revising and refining the Barbarossa Plan. This is the hard task given to them by Eric, and it is also the job that Max Hoffman is most passionate about.

This "plan" is a huge offensive war system, which is complicated and complicated, and there are still many theoretical data that need to be accurately calculated.

Although the war was far away, Eric was also very concerned about the recruitment process, although he traveled back and forth between Berlin and Dresden every now and then. In the spacious president's office, Eric first asked Rundstedt about the availability of new equipment in the army, and then turned to Brauchitsch to ask about conscription.

Brauchitsch looked very embarrassed and dragged his feet in answering the president's questioning. Obviously, this is very different from his usual personality.

In fact, Eric also understands that the country's large number of welfare policies and development opportunities have made the German people taste the sweetness, and almost no one is willing to go to the barracks to suffer and even risk losing their lives. In the more than a dozen conscription points distributed in the state capitals of the country, there are almost few military recruits in the core state capitals, except for a few economically backward states that have been recently incorporated and have poor households willing to join the army.

However, what is strange is that most of the soldiers in those core states are the children of some prominent families for generations, and they usually take pride in military affairs, and can be regarded as some ruthless characters with a very wolf nature.

Eric has always hated the arrogance and unreasonableness of the Junker aristocracy, but he is also helpless against them, because a lot of embarrassment is also broken by these people who usually don't like him. In the active military of the Federal Republic of Germany, regardless of the upper, middle and lower classes, the Junker aristocracy occupies the vast majority, so what can be done?

You say they are hateful, but they are very reliable at critical moments, you say they are reliable, but when you are a little down, they suddenly give you a fatal blow in the back, so that you will never be able to turn over. Far from it, William's fate is a very typical example.

Eric did not have a more noble and proud bloodline than William, and naturally did not think that he could really shout at the three armies and make all the soldiers obey his orders. The reality is very skinny, don't want to catch a fish if you don't want bait, empty gloves white wolf, it's all nonsense. When decision-makers harm the fundamental interests of the country, especially the Junkers, you will immediately become blind and blind.

In order to counter the threat from the east, an expansion of the army was imperative. Although Eric was not on the front line when he was forming the new national defense army, he was always in command of the presidential palace, and sometimes even went to the national radio station to give patriotic education speeches to school-age youth.

Conscription was the main task of Brauchitsch and Hoffmann, who revised the Barbarossa Plan at night and worked hard during the day, one to solve the problem and the other to solve the treatment, and even Rundstedt and Manstein had to go out of the office to help the grassroots troops solve the problem of quality of life.

What is different from previous years is that the state has newly established the federal state lifetime honor medal and the meritorious service reward mechanism for various units. Many applicants are very optimistic about these accolades, especially young people in Simpang, who have dreamed of receiving such an accolade.

Leaving aside the meritorious service reward mechanism for the time being, the sense of honor is the easiest thing to win people's hearts without spending money. To this end, Brauchitsch specially convened a seminar attended by officers of the rank of major general and above in Berlin, and on the basis of the original one, he drew up a complete set of medals and certificates of treatment and grading, which were more in line with the needs of the army.

Subsequently, the Chief Counsellor Max also actively advocated that the cabinet and the staff team of Hanseasa Palace strengthen cooperation, and jointly discussed and formulated another set of new incentive mechanisms for demobilized and veterans, mainly based on policy support, supplemented by material rewards, and a program for veterans' pensions.

Berlin's every move has always been easy to attract the attention of the outside world, and as soon as the news of conscription and invalids came out, the international community suddenly began to be lively again. The EU organizations are greatly encouraged and warmly welcome. However, Britain, the United States, and other countries and the Soviet Union were like thorns in their throats, obstructing and destroying in every possible way, and even constantly singing about their decline and worry. France has never said a word about this, as if it has nothing to do with it.

Many domestic newspapers reacted positively to this, and in addition to using articles to engage in war of words with Western countries, they also published huge pictorials.

Eric turned a deaf ear to all the praise and criticism at home and abroad, and did not refuse all kinds of labor and military activities organized by the business community.

The enlistment of new recruits is different from the same period in history, and several highlights are very attractive. The new uniforms, equipment, the new preferential policy and the honor system are very encouraging. What is puzzling is that just as the country's conscription offices were closing their doors and the government was beginning to shift its focus to other industries in the country, an overwhelming amount of propaganda brochures and military books began to be sold off at extremely low prices throughout the country. Without waiting for everyone to solve their doubts, book lovers rushed to the top and snapped up the purchases.

The cabinet and the news media have remained silent and have not raised any objections to the book sale. In fact, Prime Minister Hans Luther knew best that it was not that Eric was reluctant to pay for it, but that everything in a federal government was inseparable from dealing with local states, and that if you wanted people to do things for you, nothing would work without money, and the cabinet was unwilling to take out the money, so in the end the people could only pay.

In the spring of 1930, when the conscription began again, Brauchitsch went to the presidential palace with the poll statistics from the Ministry of Defense Enlistment and gave Eric a detailed report on the research throughout the country. Unlike in the past, this year's recruitment process is relatively optimistic, and the desire to join the military in the core states that have been lukewarm seems to have reversed from before.

Eric thinks it's normal that as long as the government takes the initiative to fulfill its promises, doesn't fill in blank checks, and doesn't say empty words, the people can raise their hands to support it. By the same token, the more economically developed the region, the higher the level of education and the more affected it is, so the public is relatively active in supporting the government.

Because the war was still only predicted, the troops were not able to accommodate a large number of posts for a while. Eric played the "hunger marketing" trick and did not immediately order a nationwide conscription.

The first conscription office, Dresden, the capital of Saxony, planned to set up nine new barracks, and all young people of school age who met the requirements could register as long as they were healthy and pure-minded, and then they would be screened according to their family birth and education level.

The second conscription office is Leipzig, which is expected to recruit a total of nine divisions and is limited to young people of school age in the local state capital.

This move came as a surprise to the vast majority of young people in Germany's state capitals, and state officials were caught off guard. In order to enlist in the military next year, many local governments began to issue an oath to the presidential palace, demanding that the state's young people be given a wide field.

If that were all there was to it, it would be nothing, but in addition to playing the "hunger marketing" routine of the whole country, Eric went so far as to have Brauchitsch buy a street building on a boulevard in Berlin as a military recruitment office in the capital, and only recruit non-German foreign youths into the army.

The past is already incomprehensible, and the future is completely unsolvable, but Eric deliberately retains doubts among the people and never explains them.

Brauchitsch knew Eric best, and instead of objecting, he supported it vigorously, and although defense funds were very tight, he renovated and renovated the capital's military recruitment office like never before.

The Foreign Legion may be inferior to the German regular army in terms of equipment, nor as good as the German regular army, and it can even be said that it is even less loyal than the German regular army. However, none of these conditions were needed by Eric, and he never thought about so much.

What is the use of not planning to send such an army to the front, and feeding it with money, this is the core of the problem. In fact, Brauchitsch had already planned for those affairs that were inconvenient for the regular army to do; Some things that trample on international red lines, there may also be them. In the final analysis, this "Wanguo" army is the target of Germany's mistakes.

Hans Luther was an honest man, but he also acquiesced in Eric's approach, which shows how tacit there is within the federal government, and a good political partner can save too much trouble.

As soon as the spring conscription was completed, the commanders of the navy, army, and air force gathered in the No. 1 conference hall of the presidential palace to hold a high-level military meeting chaired by President Eric himself. In fact, such military meetings are not uncommon in Germany, but this year is very different from the past, and the calm atmosphere seems to be filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

According to the News Times, just a week ago, the Senate and the House of Representatives passed a special arms sales package to Finland and unanimously demanded that the Hansha Palace rule as soon as possible and give a stern warning to the Soviet Union's expansionist ambitions.

Eric doesn't have to think about it to know that these mercenary businessmen want the country to sell arms through Eric's military expansion, national hatred, and hypocritical justice, and as for the consequences, it is none of their business.

Behind the scenes, there are also hawkish groups, who are the representatives in front of the stage.

After the end of the First World War, Eric almost made them retreat, and as a result, he was given the illusion that he could not be harmed.

It had been several days since the "plan" had been presented to the presidential palace, and because of the strong opposition of the chief of staff Max, Eric had to call an emergency military meeting to let the commanders of the three services vote on whether to sign the "plan".

General Counsellor Max is a typical dove, and his opinion alone cannot shake the president's resolve, but at least temporarily delays the signing of the Hansha Palace. Although he could not stop the common aspiration of the government and the opposition, as the chief counsel, he at least had the ability to ask the Senate and the House of Representatives to temporarily withdraw the "plan" and reconsider it carefully.

If Eric firmly signed the "program", it would mean that Germany had openly provoked the Soviet Union. Conversely, if Eric doesn't want to sign, he has to give a satisfactory account to the House and Senate.

In the face of the young military faction raised by Eric himself, Max seemed a little alone, and could only try to unite the old and young of the imperial era as much as possible, trying to use their votes to prevent Eric from signing the plan for this use of force. Although he usually doesn't want to have anything to do with those old and young, the current situation doesn't leave him much time, and he can only gamble.

In fact, Max also left himself with a last resort, which was Andreas von Schmidt, a young ambassador far away in London, England. Because Eric and Brauchitsch and others admired his ingenuity, perhaps he was the only one who could successfully dissuade the president and the impulsive and belligerent groups.