After Karenwei left, Feng Yunshan summoned Zuo Zongtang of the General Staff of the Capture Army, Luo Xuan, Minister of the Navy, Wu Ruxiao, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Guo Songtao, the current Minister of Commerce, the special envoy to Europe who had just left his post, to discuss the matter of aiding Prussia.

The most vocal is actually Guo Songtao, who has been in Europe for nearly ten years. Feng Yunshan directly asked him to give his opinion, and Guo Songtao immediately replied: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Prussia should indeed be aided. But Your Majesty, Prussia must not be underestimated. Wechen has stayed in France and Prussia for a long time, and according to Wechen's understanding and speculation, Prussia is a country with a pure military tradition and is completely a country founded on military affairs. In the past, because of their economic strength, although the technology was advanced, they did not have much capital, so the overall military strength was not conspicuous in Europe, but in fact, they hid a lot of strength. In particular, after receiving the financial assistance of our Chinese Empire, Prussia's economy has developed greatly, and through the agency distribution of the goods of our Chinese Empire for sale in Europe, they have accumulated a lot of funds, and have used these funds to develop a lot of new weapons and equipment.

Moreover, because Prussia has always set its goal on the mainland of the European continent, it did not spend much money on the navy, but spent all its military expenditure on the construction of the army, creating the most powerful army in the whole of Europe today. ”

Luo Xuan was taken aback and said, "Prussia is the most powerful army in Europe? And what about France? ”

Guo Songtao replied: "The French Army is known as the number one army in the world, in fact, that was a few years ago. At least a few years ago, after the large-scale application of the Mauser rifle in the Chinese Imperial Army, especially the large-scale production of the Krupp artillery, the Chinese Imperial Army is the world's most powerful army!

In recent years, Prussia has also secretly developed rapidly, its conventional army has far exceeded France, and the rifles equipped are not much worse than those of France, and the artillery is imitated because of the introduction of China's Krupp cannon technology, which is far more advanced than the French artillery. Therefore, if it is really ranked, the French Army can only rank third at most. Prussia is the second largest land power in the world and the first in Europe! ”

What Guo Songtao said made everyone a little shocked, and only Feng Yunshan believed it because he was familiar with the historical process.

Guo Songtao saw everyone's skeptical looks, and added: "Actually, it is not surprising that the Prussian Army is strong, and Weichen only secretly inquired about it when he was about to return to China recently!"

The King of Prussia and the Minister of War Ron were very cautious and cunning, they were pure ****, and invested more than 50% of the entire Prussian treasury revenue in military development, and all of them were army development, which was used to recruit and train troops and make weapons. The British and French arsenals together had less than 100,000 workers, but the Prussian arsenals had 120,000 workers in arms manufacturing operations.

Wechen remembered that from four years ago, after the transfer of the original version of our Krupp cannon to Prussia, they also secretly collected 2 medium-caliber Krupp guns, transported them back to Berlin to disassemble, and organized people to imitate them, Wechen secretly inquired about Prince William, it is said that they are equipped with more than 1,500 Krupp guns in the Prussian army, and more than half of them are enhanced versions of their own improvements, with higher range, rate of fire and accuracy. Maybe we have caught up with the latest version of the Krupp cannon produced by our original Krupp Steel company.

And they actually quietly dismantled and copied our Mauser rifles, at least one or two hundred thousand Mauser rifles, but they are not called this name, but called Dresser M1863 rifles, presumably to confuse outsiders. I have to say that the Prussian War Department really did a very good job of being a thief, they hid it from all other countries, even our allies did not know, and even in the wars against Denmark and Austria, they did not put into use this improved Dresser M1863 rifle, but replaced it with the original Dresser firing rifle and ordinary artillery.

Your Majesty, Wechen boldly speculated that the defeat of the French army in the previous Franco-Prussian campaign was due to the fact that the Metz corps was too small in strength, and secondly, the Prussian corps used new weapons. It's just that I'm afraid that the top of the French army has not yet noticed it!

This is the greatest confidence of the Kingdom of Prussia! There is the largest number of regular armies and the largest number of reserve armed forces in the whole of Europe, and this is the craziest thing about this country, almost all of them are soldiers. Coupled with these weapons and equipment that have been quietly trained without forbearance, it is precisely because of this that Prussia can still calm down in the face of the enemy of the whole of Europe, and is not willing to retreat and surrender, but also dares to insist on fighting!

Your Majesty, in the end, what Weichen would like to say is that after the loss of overseas colonies by the leader Britain, the civil strife at home, and the defeat of our Chinese Empire twice, Europe not only suffered a great loss in military strength, but most importantly, a great loss in economic strength. Because a lot of domestic capital investment in overseas colonies and the Americas and other places, most of which are difficult to recover, coupled with the vigorous strikes of domestic workers, the products are squeezed by the goods produced by our strong rise of industry without much profit, Britain's economy plummeted, and the serious economic crisis that broke out a few years ago has not been eliminated in the first place, and now it has swept Europe again, further wreaking havoc and destroying the economic situation of the whole Europe. Today, except for Prussia and France, which have grown economically because of the care of our Chinese Empire, the rest of the European countries are in trouble. ”

Zuo Zongtang said admiringly: "It seems that this Prussia is really worthy of attention and vigilance!" Although it is only a small Western country, and its area is only the size of two provinces of Guangzhou or Yunnan and Guizhou, it has so many troops, so fierce weapons and equipment, and so deep intentions, and its rise is inevitable!

Your Majesty, what moved Wei Chen the most was that so many Prussian troops were secretly training and using these new weapons, and they did not reveal any news, which shows the strength of the Prussian army's military discipline and the depth of the loyalty of the soldiers, such an army must be well-trained and invincible, and our field army cannot do this. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "I understand, I didn't expect this European ally of ours to be so powerful, so I was worried in vain!" In this case, we should still help, but we must also make Prussia pay some more price! deliberately weakened him, lest his family dominate Europe and be detrimental to the Chinese Empire. Let them kill themselves.

As for the European economy that Guo Aiqing said, the more chaotic and bad the better! Let the Imperial Trading Companies, which are dominated by the Oriental Company, the Nanyang Company, and the Western Company, as well as the private merchants, dump their goods in Europe at any cost, and I will turn Europe upside down and spit out all the wealth they have plundered from Asia and the Americas!

Asia, my Chinese Empire, our Chinese civilization with a history of 5,000 years, is the center of the world! ”

In a word, Feng Yunshan set the tone.

Let Europe be in chaos, and the interests of the Chinese empire will be greatest. It would be better to shift the center of the whole world from Europe to Asia, that is, to the Chinese Empire. In fact, this is not impossible, in later generations, as early as after the First World War, and especially after the Second World War, the center of the whole world shifted from Europe to the United States, and the financial center of the world also shifted from London to New York. Among them, in addition to the rapid development of the American economy, the two civil wars in Europe, and the United States stayed away from the wars unscathed.

Today, the Chinese Empire is easier than the United States in later generations, after all, the proportion of the world's population and economy occupied by the Chinese Empire is now the number one existence, with a longer history, stronger military power, and a much more solid foundation than the United States.

And if Prussia is allowed to dominate and occupy the richest places such as the Eastern European Plain of Tsarist Russia, its rise will be rapid and unstoppable. Therefore, he must not be allowed to become too powerful and occupy France as well.

Even if Prussia is allowed to become the first power in Europe, it must not be allowed to occupy all of Europe, France must still exist, and these two competitors must be held in check.

Of course, with Britain in the presence, it will not tolerate the dominance of Prussia, and the balance of power on the European continent has always been Britain's foreign policy.

"The Ottoman Turks have turned their backs on me, and we must teach them a lesson! Spread my orders to support the Persians, Kazakhs, and Cossacks, and organize them to attack Tsarist Russia, limiting them to the Eastern European Plain! There are also Ukrainians and Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Jews, Tatars, Moldovans, etc., which allow them to build states. By the way, and the Austrian Empire, hasn't Hungary always been dissatisfied with Austrian rule, contacting them, inciting them to become independent and establish their own state. In short, don't let Europe become a unified power, let them be scattered into a plate of scattered sand, the more divided the country, the more beneficial it will be to our Chinese empire!

It really can't be done, so we can move more and more Japanese people to the past and let them survive and develop in that land! Give the West a makeover! ”

The emperor's words made Zuo Zongtang and the others cry and laugh, they found that the emperor was getting more and more outrageous, but after thinking about it carefully, although it was a bit nonsense, there was a reason for him.

Only when the West is in turmoil can the East become more powerful, and the whole world can be dominated by the East. They didn't know that Feng Yunshan's mind was actually very simple: the hardships he had suffered, future generations would not have to suffer anymore, at least to hell with learning his mother's English.