The day after Wilhelm II summoned Shi Dakai, a telegram from Count Barak arrived in Berlin, and Chancellor Bismarck sent a telegram directly to the palace and placed it on Wilhelm II's bookcase.

"Your Majesty, this is an urgent telegram sent back from the Huaxia Empire by Count Barak!"

Bismarck's tone was a little hurried.

Wilhelm II frowned, urgent electricity? Was it really said by Shi Dakai?

"Your Majesty, Barak visited the latest artillery developed and produced by the Chinese People's Army in the suburbs of Beijing this morning, the power is huge, much more advanced than the Krupp artillery, Barak asked whether to start negotiations to purchase large-scale artillery from the Chinese Empire for the next Franco-Prussian War!"

Bismarck continued.

Wilhelm II hurriedly picked up the telegram and watched it carefully, and sure enough, Barak blew the Howling Tiger artillery into the sky in the telegram, and strongly admired the performance of the Howling Tiger artillery, from the size, mobility, to the range, power, and rate of fire, all the data were listed on it, and it was obvious that the relevant data of the Howling Tiger artillery had been obtained.

"Oh my God, such powerful artillery, if the Prussian army is really equipped with these artillery, then in the future in the Franco-Prussian War, the French army will be vulnerable! At the very least, the arrogant French artillery will be quickly destroyed in a big battle, and the French artillery is definitely not an opponent! ”

Wilhelm II muttered, handing the telegram to General Moltke beside him.

Moltke hurriedly read the telegram and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, we must immediately start negotiations on the Howling Tiger artillery, these artillery artillery has just been successfully developed and put into production, then their annual production will definitely not be too high, I propose to directly make large-scale purchases from the Chinese Empire, and even buy out all the artillery and shell production they have produced in three years, in this way, even if the French Empire gets the news, it will not be able to purchase these artillery pieces from the Chinese Empire in time. In the future Franco-Prussian War, with these powerful artillery, we will occupy an absolute firepower advantage, and we can defeat the main force of the French army in a short time, and then win the Franco-Prussian War! ”

"Artillery production in the next three years?"

Wilhelm II smiled bitterly: "General Moltke, how many artillery pieces can the military-industrial complex of the Chinese Empire produce in three years?" At least three or four thousand gates, right? As for the artillery shells, if they are produced at full capacity, I am afraid that there will be no problem in producing two million rounds in three years. How do we buy them all? ”

"Even if we can't buy all of them, we must be equipped with at least a total of more than 1,500 new artillery, plus 1.5 million shells, so that we can ensure a certain advantage in future wars!"

Moltke replied.

"A thousand guns, a million shells!"

Bismarck smiled bitterly: "Moltke, your appetite is too great!" You know, that's a lot of money! Huge to the extreme! You look at the prices listed by Barak above......"

Moltke then remembered that Barak had listed the purchase price, a cannon was about 30,000 marks, and a shell was about 20 marks, so if it was calculated, 1,000 artillery pieces would be 45 million marks, plus 1.5 million shells, 30 million marks, a total of 75 million marks, converted into pounds, which was nearly 4 million pounds, and 30 million Chinese silver dollars!

Nearly 4 million pounds, it seems that Prussia can't afford it, but Prussia now needs to spend money everywhere, stabilize the domestic political situation, maintain the expenditure of the navy and army, education, people's livelihood, Prussia is not like the British Empire, there is an income of nearly 100 million pounds a year, even if Prussia gathers all the other hurried finances, a year's time, it is only 60 or 70 million pounds, and there is still a clear gap with the British Empire, just the purchase of artillery equipment Lu Army will cost one-fifteenth of the whole year's finance, too high! The Prussian war was imminent, and the annual military expenditure was only 30 million pounds!

"What are you afraid of!"

Moltke was silent for a while, and then said fiercely, "Big deal, we will sell all the guns and some shells that have been decommissioned and sell them to other countries, I think we can always recover a million pounds, right?" As for the other expenses, we can pay them in installments, and allocate all the money to the Huaxia Empire in five years, with the relationship between our two countries, and then ask Marquis Shi Dakai to maneuver around it, there should not be much problem, no matter what, we must sit down on this transaction. As long as we take more than half of the output of the Chinese Empire, and the rest of the production is just enough to equip the Chinese People's Army, where can they sell it to others? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, what General Moltke said is very reasonable, our purpose is to monopolize the artillery trade of the Chinese Empire, although we need to pay a lot of money, but as long as we defeat France, we can get it back exponentially, isn't it less than 80 million marks? We defeated the French and asked them to pay us thirty times as much as they wanted, and we wanted them to pay three billion marks in compensation, and we also took their most valuable resources, Lockus and Lorraine! ”

Bismarck said fiercely, "We must do this business, not only for the war with the French, but also for the global hegemony with the British in the next twenty years, as long as we are equipped with a large number of weapons of the Chinese Imperial Army, and we are making every effort to develop the navy, it is not without chance to fight a full-scale decisive battle with the British in twenty years!" ”

Wilhelm II's eyes lit up immediately, yes, the Franco-Prussian War was just an appetizer, and then the Kingdom of Prussia and even the empire in the near future will have to compete with the British Empire for colonies all over the world, and then there will be no strong military force, how to compete with the British?

"Shall we buy it right away? However, a Barak is negotiating in the Huaxia Empire, but I am afraid that his strength is a little weaker, and Barak's level is also a little low......"

"Your Majesty, there is no other way now but to rely on Barak, I hope that Barak will not accept our hopes and try to fight for more interests for the kingdom, and besides, Barak is also in charge of the foreign affairs of the Chinese Empire, and it is not impossible to give him a marquis, so that he can obtain more authority in the negotiations!"

Wilhelm II nodded and replied: "In that case, then pass on the decree to promote Barak to the rank of Marquis, with full responsibility for the foreign affairs of the entire East Asia led by the Chinese Empire, and at the same time be responsible for the arms trade negotiations with the Chinese Empire, Moltke, Bismarck, you personally draw up the terms of this transaction and send them to Barak, so that he can have some confidence in his heart!" ”

(To be continued.) )

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