Guo Songtao looked at Zhang Zimu, both of them looked embarrassed, they had actually only met Princess Elizabeth once, and the rest of the specific circumstances were not very clear. But even so, just from the hearsay, you can understand the friendship of the princess Elizabeth to her own emperor.

From the original worship and admiration of the emperor, to now staying in the palace of Shengjing for two or three years. Originally, because she was not very old, but now she is almost twenty years old, no matter how she is, she has to consider her name and reputation.

Guo Songtao felt embarrassed to explain to the princess's mother's family. He knew very well in his heart that the King of Prussia at this time was no longer the king of Prussia, but an ordinary father who had a good face and asked directly, but he was thinking about his daughter and hoping that his daughter could live well.

Therefore, Guo Songtao could only play a round for his emperor and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has always loved Princess Elizabeth. Just some other reasons...... I immediately pulled some more ministers of the court and the central government to our emperor, asking for a proper title for the princess and a decent wedding for the princess. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Songtao was a little ashamed, and hurriedly pulled Prince William and said, "Your Royal Highness, don't you dare to be interested in the holy oil business?" This time, through some personal connections, I have obtained some shares and agency rights from the general manager of the Chinese Imperial Oil Corporation, and if Your Highness dares to be interested, I will leave it to you to take care of. Why don't we find a place to talk about how to work together?

Your Majesty, Your Highness and I still have some private business matters to discuss, so I will take my leave!" ”

After speaking, Guo Songtao led Zhang Zimu to leave the room with Prince William in a hurry, and if he stayed here, even Guo Songtao couldn't face a father who cared about his daughter, not to mention that he was the king of Prussia. He just secretly wondered how to remind His Majesty, whether to ask Prince William to write a letter to the princess, pretending to greet her about her married life or something, and then accidentally being seen by the emperor? After all, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and the emperor's harem private affairs are not something that he can intervene casually.

Seeing Guo Songtao and Prince William leaving, Bismarck and Marshal Ron returned to the room at some point, but they didn't leave.

The three kings and ministers drove out the palace guards and maids and began to discuss.

Marshal Ron looked in the direction Guo Songtao left and said, "This envoy of the Chinese Empire is quite happy, and he has confiscated the gold and castle sent by His Majesty, but I don't know if he doubts our purpose?" ”

Bismarck said: "He should have no doubts. And, even if you doubt it, you won't say it. After all, the more chaotic Europe is, the more favorable it is for their Chinese empire. ”

King Pu said: "He is very smart. But I didn't think we would start two wars at the same time! In fact, probably no one in the whole Kingdom of Prussia, except for the three of us and a few of the leading generals of the General Staff and the War Department, knew that we had joined forces with the newly united Kingdom of Italy to flank Austria.

It's about this kind of unexpected effect.

No one would believe that we, Prussia, would suddenly declare war on Austria!

No one can even believe that we will go to war on both sides at the same time, and even that the main target of the war is not Denmark, but Austria! They could not have imagined that our Kingdom of Prussia had quietly amassed so many troops, and they could not have guessed that we had already made arrangements with all the relevant neighboring countries, and even with the Eastern Empire, which was thousands of miles away. ”

The King of Prussia looked determined to win, and when he said this, he patted Bismarck and Ron on the shoulders beside him, and said, "Of course, these arrangements are inseparable from the efforts of the two of you!" The iron triangle of the kingdom formed by the three of us monarchs and ministers is to let the Kingdom of Prussia unify the whole of Germany and restore the glory of the Holy Roman Empire! ”

In the face of these two right-hand men, King Pu is really satisfied.

Marshal Ron needless to say, the powerful army of the Prussian Kingdom today, although King Prussian knows in his heart, is mainly that he advocates military reform, plus a lot of financing and trade profits from friendship with the Chinese Empire, on the other hand, it mainly depends on the military reform implemented by this Marshal Ron!

The king believed that the unification of Germany would eventually be his own kingdom of Prussia. And if he wants to be unified, as he and Bismarck carefully analyzed, they must defeat the three powerful enemies of Denmark, Austria and France in turn, and also get rid of the interference of the two European powers, Tsarist Russia and Britain. This was a hellish level of difficulty for Prussia, and in order to succeed, it was necessary to have a strong army.

Now, after the Prussian military reform designed and implemented by Marshal Ron himself, a large number of well-trained and loyal troops have been mass-produced for the Kingdom of Prussia, from the Prussian standing army of only 140,000 in previous years, after a period of reform, especially in the last two years of reform of the military system and the large-scale secret expansion of the army, the standing army has increased to as much as 340,000. Of course, this is the actual data that King Pu has himself, and the only thing that can be found by others is 240,000 standing troops.

This is the equivalent of forging a sharp sword. The most important thing is that even Bismarck, the prime minister, was the result of Marshal Ron's strong recommendation. Therefore, the credit of Marshal Ron, obviously.

And Bismarck, the new prime minister, made King Pu very satisfied, and he felt that he had chosen the right person. In the past six months, the monarch and the minister have cooperated tacitly, and Bismarck, the new prime minister, has helped Prussia solve one problem after another!

It is precisely because Bismarck, a foreign minister and prime minister who was born as a foreign minister, is good at taking advantage of every opportunity to mediate with the European powers, and because of this great victory of the Chinese Empire, that he got this excellent opportunity to send troops!

For example, this time the preparation of another invasion of Denmark was made, because the Schleswig region had been occupied by Prussia through the last Danish war, and it stands to reason that there was no excuse to send troops to attack Denmark and make territorial claims on the grounds that the Germans in Denmark were demanding autonomy. But through Bismarck's long-sleeved and wonderful diplomatic trick, the European powers even acquiesced in Prussia's dispatch of troops.

Tsarist Russia, which has the closest interests, has suffered a great reduction in national strength after the defeat of the Crimean War and the disastrous defeat of sending troops to China twice, and in addition to the recent reform of serfs in its country, the nobles and serfs in various places have rebelled together, and the rebellions are continuous, and its domestic chaos is like hemp, and it is simply unable to pay attention to Northern Europe, and through the conditions just now, let the Chinese Empire make a posture of sending troops to Orenburg against Russia, and its attention and troop deployment will not care about the Danish side.

As for the British side, because of the disastrous defeat of the Second Expeditionary Force to China, and because of the intention of the Chinese Empire's envoy to send troops to attack the port of Aden and make an intention to expand into West Asia and Africa, the British army must be extremely nervous, and in addition, they are eager to sign an armistice treaty with the Chinese Empire and solve the problem of a large number of prisoners of war, and it is even more difficult for them to care about the situation in northern Europe.

As for the rest of France, the Prussian king knew that Bismarck, on the condition that France would be allowed to annex the territories of Luxembourg, a neutral principality between Prussia and France, had allowed France to acquiesce in Prussia's invasion of Denmark.

For the rest of the country, Prussia did not have to care at all. Moreover, the Prussian king did not know how Bismarck did it, not to mention several European countries, not to mention the Kingdom of Italy, which had secretly ally allied, and other rivals, even the stupid emperor of Austria, as well as Sweden and the Netherlands, secretly expressed their support for Prussia's territorial claims to Denmark's Jutland.

Thinking of this, King Prussia couldn't help laughing, looked at the two right-hand men, and said with joy: "This time, our Kingdom of Prussia will definitely be able to take up the important task of unifying the German Confederation!" ”

Ron, who has always been unsmiling, also nodded, clenched his fists and said, "Prussia will win!" Your Majesty will surely fulfill the dream of a unified Germany and become the emperor of a unified German Empire! ”