President Moe and Chief of General Staff Rob Cles finally waited for a reply from the German side!

Mr. Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister of Germany, invited President Moe to visit. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"We're pretty much talking to France, aren't we? Do you still want to cooperate with Germany? Princess Katrina Kaaf looked angrily at the invitation sent by the German side, "They are now seeing that we have eyebrows, so that's it!" ”

President Meng smiled faintly, "Wait two more days, if the British side doesn't reply, and then go to Germany, you always have to find a few more partners." ”

Princess Katrina Kafu doesn't understand what kind of person President Moe is, sometimes she seems to be very impulsive and easily angry, and sometimes she seems to be very calm.

Actually, President Meng can't hold his breath on small things, and when he really encounters big things, he still has a lot of city government, especially the economic operation, and President Meng is very calm.

I want to cooperate with Germany, but also because, President Meng doesn't want to be limited by the French!

He still has enough money, and the big deal is to throw all the proceeds of this trip to Europe into the sea!

Germany: Europe's second largest industrial power after France, they have the ambition to ensure that the army power competes to become a naval power.

After reunification, Germany is bordered by Russia to the east and France to the west, and is in the land of four wars, and is determined to ensure its status as a European army power.

In 1872, the House of Representatives passed a bill to use 166846810 lei (1 lei is equivalent to 1 tael of Chinese silver) as the cost of rearmament.

Nearly 200 million taels of Chinese official silver!

This military budget is too scary!

At that time, there were about 430,000 officers and men in the standing army, and there were more than 3.2 million reserve troops and reserve troops, totaling more than 3.2 million people, and the first mobilization for the war could reach 1.316 million people.

In the original history.

When Parliament asked the Parliament about the reasons for the increase in the number of troops proposed by the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck, General Moltke replied: "If the people of the country wish to cede the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to France, there is no need to increase the number of troops, otherwise there is only one way to increase the army." As a result, the parliament approved an increase in the army's peacetime strength by 25,615 and wartime strength by 92,406. At the same time, the Army's funding was correspondingly increased to 43.86 million marks.

In 1886, the German government again proposed a bill to expand the army establishment on the grounds of France's military expansion, which was rejected for a long time in parliament, but finally passed in March of the following year.

According to this, the German Army was expanded to 487671 in peacetime, plus mercenaries, military doctors, etc., to 525,000 people.

The standing army is more than 520,000, what is this concept?

If there were mustachioed classmates at this time, Germany would be able to knock down nearby countries in minutes.

Germany can be so crazy after that, and it has something to do with its foundation, the foundation of the army, and the foundation of industry.

In 1889, France adopted a plan to expand the army, and Germany immediately responded strongly, and the following year Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an order to expand the peacetime strength of the German army, bringing the total number of personnel to more than 545,000. In less than 20 years, the total number of personnel in the German Army Standing Corps has increased by around 115,000 in peaceful international conditions, an increase of 26.7 per cent.

In 1870, the German government allocated $48 million to the army, and in 1890 it reached $121 million, a growth rate of 200 percent, the fastest of any Western power, and nearly twice the average growth rate of all countries.

Thanks to the efforts of the German Government, its army system is relatively tight, its equipment is relatively sophisticated, its officers and men are well trained, and it has always maintained a relatively strong combat effectiveness.

At that time, people called the German Army the first in the world, and many countries imitated the German army system when engaged in military modernization, purchased German-made guns, and hired a large number of German army officers as their military advisers.

In the autumn of 1911, in response to the Second Moroccan Crisis, the German War Office and the General Staff Headquarters proposed a proposal to increase the number of troops from 595,000 to 622,000, which was approved by the Reichstag; In 1913, the Reichstag approved a decree to increase the number of troops by 132,000.

By the eve of the war, the German Army had reached 808,000 men, including 30,459 officers, 107794 non-commissioned officers, 647793 enlisted men, 2,480 doctors, 865 veterinarians, 2,889 civilian personnel, and 16,000 volunteers.

After the outbreak of the war, after general mobilization, the army expanded rapidly, with a total of 107 divisions and 3.82 million men in Germany.

The European powers can reach millions of soldiers in a minute, and it is impossible for the second power to wrestle with the powers, let alone the uncivilized countries.

Asia is too far away and supply is difficult, so the competition in Asia is far less intense in Europe than in Africa.

The German Navy was founded in 1867, and in 1872 the German Admiralty proposed a ten-year naval expansion plan to the Reichstag, planning to build 14 ironclads and 20 cruisers by 1882, plus a total of 100 other ships.

However, this plan was not fully realized, and until the early 90s of the 19th century, Germany's main attention was still on the construction of the army, and in the construction of the navy, defenseism prevailed, so both the naval funds and the strength of the navy ships were relatively limited.

The German Navy of this period was only a second-rate navy.

In 1890, Germany's naval expenditure was 23 million US dollars, less than 1/5 of its army funding that year, only 1/3 of the British naval appropriation that year, and equivalent to 1/2 of the French naval appropriation that year.

By 1887, the German Navy had a total of 65 ships with a total displacement of 176,000 tons. By 1890, the German Navy had 72 ships of about 190,000 tons. At this time, Germany did not have warships of more than 10,000 tons, but mostly second-class cruisers of two or three thousand tons. Its combat capability is also mostly limited to defending its own coasts and estuaries.

However, by the last years of the 19th century, there was a radical change in the approach of German naval construction, which also sought to create an attack fleet with great strength. The Kaiser and his ministers wanted to create a powerful fleet to complement and protect Germany's growing overseas commercial and colonial interests, and to demonstrate Germany's strength. To this end, the German Admiralty proposed two new bills to expand the navy in 1898 and 1900, both of which were approved by the Reichstag. With these two new acts, the German navy was financed at £7476287 in 1900, of which shipbuilding amounted to £2,395,000. After 1901, the investment of the German navy and the speed of shipbuilding were further increased, which aroused the vigilance of the world's largest naval power, Britain, and the two countries launched a fierce competition in building a navy in 1904~1908. By the eve of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the German Navy had 391 warships and 79,000 naval personnel.

Although Germany had not yet caught up with Britain, it had already jumped from a "baby fleet" that was the seventh largest among the great powers to a powerful fleet second only to Britain.

At the outbreak of the war, Germany's ally, the Austro-Hungarian Army, had 63 divisions and 2.5 million men, and the navy had 20 warships and 18,000 personnel.

In order to ensure the speed of industrial development and the quality of industrial products, President Meng can not leave Germany, President Meng hopes that his industry can add more elements of the German team in the initial stage, he likes the rigorous personality of the Germans.

Another reason for adding Germany as a partner is that Russia and Japan, without a strong army, cannot fight against these two vicious dogs.

Europe and America, after all, are too far away from China, and if they really fight, it is unlikely to rise to a life-and-death struggle between countries, which is actually why the Empress Dowager Cixi can play the balance so smoothly, so many powers are lying in China, and China is too big, as long as the feudal empire itself does not fall, so many powers have no way, and many powers have to support the Qing Dynasty in disguise, not to let the Qing Dynasty fall, once the Qing Dynasty falls, they can't borrow money if they want to, how can they knock on the bone and suck the marrow?

Therefore, if the Qing court does not fall, it is the most beneficial to the great powers!

Except for Russia and Japan, especially Russia, for the time being, Japan has only just begun to civilize, and it is unlikely to pose any threat to the Qing Dynasty within ten years, and Russia, the evil polar bear, is ready to slap it down at any time and continue to encroach on the land of northern China.

Russia: Maintaining a large army and moving the navy from defensive to offensive.

At the end of the 19th century, Russia spanned the two continents of Europe and Asia, and its territory continued to expand to 22.8 million square kilometers, accounting for 17 percent of the world's land area.

Special mother, one-fifth of them are from Lao Tzu's great China!

Since it was first and foremost a land power, government officials from the tsar to the Russian government attached great importance to army building.

On the eve of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-878, the total standing army of the Russian army was 720,000 men, and after the war it was about 770,000.

This was undoubtedly the largest standing army of the Western powers of this period.

At that time, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and the United States all had between 250,000 and more than 400,000 standing armies, and Russia's total army exceeded the total army of any two other countries combined.

After that, around 1890, Russia's total army was reduced to 700,000 men, but it soon swelled again, reaching more than 1.12 million men in 1900, still the largest army of any foreign power.

After the outbreak of the Great War, after general mobilization, the army expanded rapidly, and Russia had a total of 143 divisions and 5 million people.

What is the concept of 5 million people? It is possible for one country to fight against the whole world!

The presence of a large army standing army raised Russia's position among the Western powers, and it had terrified the Germans, who wanted Russia to act as the gendarme of Europe to curb German ambitions.

However, a huge armament inevitably means a huge defense expenditure, and the amount of military expenditure that the Russian Government spends every year is very large.

In 1890, for example, although the Russian standing army was not the largest in the late 19th century, the government allocated $123 million to the Army, and with the Navy appropriation, the total defense expenditure of the Russian government amounted to $145 million.

This amount is comparable to that of Germany, close to that of the United Kingdom, and much more than that of Italy, Austria, the United States and other sub-powerful countries.

In 1890, Russia's GDP was $21.1 billion, compared to $29.4 billion for Britain and $26.4 billion for Germany.

In terms of the per capita industrialization level of that year, Russia was only 15 percent of Britain, 22 percent of the United States, 29 percent of Germany, and 38 percent of France, and excessive military spending would inevitably affect Russia's entire national economy, affect the living standards of the Russian people, and intensify various domestic contradictions, which was similar to that of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Between 1870 and 1900, the Russian government's appropriation of the navy increased year by year, from $12 million in 1870 to $17.55 million in 1880, $22 million in 1890 and $46.6 million in 1900, with an average annual increase of $1,116,000.

During the same period, the number of ships and total displacement of the Russian Navy also increased, from 223,000 tons in 1880 to 191 ships or 397,000 tons in 1900.

In terms of guidelines for naval construction, Russia basically pursued a defensive naval policy from the end of the Russo-Turkish war to 1895.

For about a full decade of the 80s of the 19th century, Russia had the largest number of torpedo boats among all naval states. By the mid-90s of the 19th century, the Russian Navy was influenced by Mahan's theory of sea power, which swept the world at that time, and its naval policy began to undergo significant changes, from the previous emphasis on defense to emphasis on offense. The Russians also designed and customized the world's first 8,000-ton icebreaker "Yermak" in the UK.

The Russian Navy began to appear more often in other seas of the world far from the Russian coast.

In order to complete the shipbuilding program, Russia has increased its naval military spending year by year.

However, from the tsar to the senior admirals of the navy, there was a lack of advanced knowledge of the modern navy.

They did not see the importance of serious training of their soldiers when they were engaged in naval construction, and as a result, they spent a lot of money on ships and ships, but they made petty calculations on their crews, so that their salaries were inferior and their training was not guaranteed.

Ships spent more and more time at anchor in the harbor, and the Russian navy gradually became the least effective of the great powers.

President Meng Don't talk about Europe and the great powers, as the most ferocious and appetite polar bear that came to China at that time, President Meng almost didn't even have any possibility of defense, so the establishment of a colony in Danzhou was really because President Meng was too patriotic!

President Meng wants to shoulder the burden of China's defense on one person's shoulders!

"The French are really hard to pester, talking nonsense all the time." Princess Katrina Kaaf was very angry, and she also participated in the negotiations, "This kind of negotiation is really exhausting. ”

President Meng nodded and sighed. (To be continued.) )