When Chen Tian and his party arrived in Bangkok, it was already the next morning, and since their plane could not land at night, they could only stay in Bangkok for one day, and then they set off in the morning light. In the next four days, they flew over the vast Indian Ocean, the vast Arabian Desert, the beautiful Suez Canal and the pyramids, the ancient and mysterious Mediterranean Sea and the Greek city-states, Vienna created for music, and finally returned to Chentian's old nest - Königsberg in East Prussia.

Sitting in the carriage back to the castle, Chen Tian looked at the familiar scenery outside the window, and his mood became very comfortable. Summer in Germany is not very hot, and the fields are lush and full of life, and the farmers are busy in traditional shorts and short sleeves, and it looks like there will be another harvest autumn this year. On both sides of the street, children of school age play carefree, and stout German women carry buckets and laugh loudly with their neighbors. Sometimes Chen Tian feels that this is his real home, and the simple people here are his family.

As soon as the carriage drove into the gate of the castle, Chen Tian had already seen several familiar figures waving at him. After politely helping the ladies out of the car, he rushed up to Thomas, Ollie, and Zach to hug each other, and they were accustomed to hugging the prince who did not like etiquette.

"My good friends, let me take a good look at you!" Chen Tian looked at his right-hand men who he hadn't seen for a long time. Thomas was still so personable, with his black hair neatly combed back, that no one would think he was the intelligence chief of East Prussia when he walked down the street; Ollie's body is still so large, and the baptism of war has made his chubby face full of confidence and perseverance, and there are a few more fierce eyes in his eyes; Zach was in his sixties after all, and he had more and more gray hair and wrinkles, but he looked very good in spirit.

"Zach, you help Madame settle this lady, she is staying with us for the time being, and find another translator who can speak Korean or Chinese, and see what else she wants." Chen **** Li Xianyun nodded slightly, explained a few more words to Lisa, and then hurriedly pulled Thomas and Ollie into his study.

"Did anything special happen while I wasn't there?" Although Tatsu had close contact with Thomas during his time in Qingdao, he was concerned that the few words in the telegram would cause him to miss out on important information.

"In general, almost everyone is watching our arms race with Great Britain, and now German politics is very calm." Thomas gracefully picked up the coffee cup and stirred it gently with a small spoon.

"Is there any movement on the emperor's and the crown prince's side?" Chen Tian felt that Wilhelm II's father and son were very unpredictable, the emperor seemed to have clairvoyance and always knew what he was doing, and the prince was obviously dissatisfied with himself, but he repeatedly cooperated with him.

"As always, he is developing his own power in the parliament and the government, but there is news that he will be the commander of the Guards, and it seems that His Majesty the Emperor has a lot of trust in the crown prince!"

"Commander of the Guards?" The Guards have always been directly led by the emperor, and it is impossible for him not to know that the prince is developing his own power in a big way, but now he suddenly lets the prince command his forbidden army, Chen Tian always feels that there seems to be something wrong with this matter, but he can't think of a reason.

"Yes, if nothing else, he should be in office within the year!"

"yes, I see!" Chen Tian pondered for a while, and finally shook his head.

"Ollie, what's wrong with you? What's on your mind? He noticed that Ollie had been sitting there without saying a word, and he had not taken his eyes off the steaming cup of coffee on the table, and he called Ollie several times before he came to his senses.

"Huh? Sorry, I was just thinking about something! Ollie glanced up at the two of them, then back to the cup of coffee.

"When did you learn so deeply!" Chen Tian picked up the graduation photo on the table, everyone on it was still full of childishness, and Ollie looked particularly honest.

"This time in Turkey we lost a lot of soldiers, a lot of good German soldiers!" Ollie's expression was full of sadness, but his voice was very calm, "I just don't understand, why should we contribute to the war of the Turks, it was a cruel war, why do we put the lives of the Germans into it!" ”

"Ollie......" Chen Tian was not surprised, Ollie is different from ordinary Germans, because he is always thinking about why, so Chen Tian has long been worried that this guy will fall into this problem, and sure enough.

"Gigi, I'm just an officer, my duty is to obey orders, and I have no right to ask the reason for sending troops to Turkey! But I find it cruel that those German soldiers who died in battle will never see their families and their homeland again! Ollie said all his thoughts in one breath.

"Ollie, there are some things you won't understand! I hope you can believe me that German blood will not be shed in vain! Chen Tian could not tell him that if he did not change the history of Turkey, then the decaying Ottoman Empire in World War I would not be able to confront Britain and Russia, which would be very disadvantageous to the Central Powers. What's more, Turkey is also a land passage between Europe and Asia, which is also very important for Chentian's future planning.

Ollie didn't say anything more, but the atmosphere in the room suddenly became solemn.

"The interests of Germany come first! Those precious lives were sacrificed for Germany! Chen Tian put his hands on his shoulders.

Ollie looked up and saw the eyes that had been full of trust and confidence for more than a decade. After staring at each other like this for a few seconds, Ollie's sleepy eyes finally returned to their usual sharpness and ability.

"Gigi, I see!"

"That's right! Ollie, I want to thank you! You have trained a fighting force for Germany, and our weapons in the air, on land and at sea have been tested in real combat, which has brought many valuable improvements to our technicians! Being able to untie the knot in Ollie's heart, Chen Tian also let go of a big stone in his heart.

"Well, stop talking about such serious political topics! In a few days, His Majesty the Emperor will personally preside over the launching ceremony of the battleship Oldenburg, so let's go too! I heard that it was a big guy! Thomas's proposal reminded Chen Tian of his own experience on the way, and he knew that the German warships were not inferior to the British in terms of quality, but unfortunately they were too poor in quantity.

"Good advice! Let's go and see the great German Navy! We will definitely beat the British! ”

Since Li Xianyun's subordinates would not be able to reach Germany for a long time, Chen Tian arranged for her to learn German first, and transferred an instructor from the military academy to conduct basic military training for her alone. Just like her stubborn character, she tries her best to study 200% of every course, so that people can't tell that she is a princess who grew up in a royal family.

Two days later, Chentian took Lisa, Thomas and Ollie to the Shuoxiao shipyard in Danzig to watch the launching ceremony of the fourth and last Oldenburg battleship of the Helgoland-class battleship.