Lin Haijiang glanced at the cowhide bag on his desk. Is this an opportunity or a trouble? Lin Haijiang was a little apprehensive.

After tasting a cup of coffee that was not too pure and a little overground, Lin Haijiang and Feng Haijiang and Feng Haijiang. The Earl of Dwis immediately got to the point, and Lin Haijiang smiled and said to Feng. The Count of D'Avis offered to purchase several ironclad ships that Prussia was about to assemble for sea trials, and to place orders for several additional warships, and to order a large number of industrial equipment before October.

Regarding Lin Haijiang's statement that he wanted to buy the ironclad ships under construction. Earl Dewis was not surprised, and said to Lin Haijiang with a slight smile: "Before leaving, Prime Minister Bismarck had advised, if you need any Prussian products, please don't be polite, our attention is now focused on the northern and southern city-states, to be precise, on land, we lack experienced admirals, with a few ships we can't compete with a sea power like Britain and France." ”

Feng. Seeing that Lin Haijiang was listening carefully, Earl Dewis changed his words and said, "Our attention is on the land, and the sea belongs to you!" Lin my friend. ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Feng. The Earl of Dewis was slightly stunned, when did the stereotypical Prussians become so tactful? Feng. The righteous words of the Earl of Dewis made Lin Haijiang feel as if he could buy Prussian things at a discount in the future? In fact, he didn't spend a penny less on his own silver, if it weren't for Feng. The noble surname of the Feng family of the Earl of Dewes, Lin Haijiang would think that Feng. The Earl of Dwys was a Jew who did not give in.

Although Feng. The Earl of D'Avis has repeatedly claimed that he does not know the contents of the secret letter, but Lin Haijiang can be sure that Feng. The Earl of D'Avis was well aware of the contents of the secret letter, for he had put forward almost all the conditions von. The Earl of Dewis gave him a satisfactory answer very easily, instead of needing to return to China to ask for instructions as before, etc., Lin Haijiang even guessed that Feng. The Count of Dwys, himself probably one of the drafters of the secret letter, was only done by the Prussians to leave room for their plans to be reversed.

The Prussians were also under tremendous pressure to unify with China, and Prussia, which was far away in Europe, was unable to take care of the Far East, and the Prussians, who valued the construction of the army more than the navy, had no extravagant hope for territory in the Far East, so it was decided that Lin Haijiang could become a partner with Prussia at the strategic level.

However, Lin Haijiang also realized that in international politics, there are no permanent allies, only eternal interests, and the strongest team in Prussia's history has set up a stage to prepare for Cairo to sing, Prime Minister Bismarck is the protagonist of this drama, and he is also facing the unification of the country, and he is not ready to join this war rashly under the premise of not being fully prepared?

Can Prussia win as easily as it has historically? The wars against Denmark and Austria were the beginning of the war for the unification of Prussia, and the complete union of the southern states to defeat France was the end of the war, and at the same time laid the foundation for the First World War.

There was silence in the reception room of the Governor's Mansion in Old Port, which had been renamed the Führer's Residence, only the slight sound of the pendulum, Lin Haijiang knew at this moment that he had reached the point where the arrow had to be fired at the bowstring, what would the Prussian ask of himself in the secret letter in the cowhide bag?

The Prussians agreed to almost all of their demands, ships, factories, technologies, talents, patents, etc., and even allowed him to extend the time limit for the payment of ships and plant equipment with a reduction of interest therein?

Lin Haijiang himself is an extreme pragmatist, he has always believed that there is no love for no reason in this world, and there is no hate for no reason, and the sudden huge change in Prussia's attitude towards himself can be said to be a positive progress from the perspective of strategic cooperation between the two sides, but behind this progress that?

Lin Haijiang thought about it a lot, and he didn't rush to open Feng. The Earl of Dewis brought a glimpse of the secret letter, but was very patient with von . The Count of D'Affaires chatted about all aspects of Prussia. The Earl of Dewys also happened to be an extremely talkative man, and the two had a close conversation in English.

In the course of the conversation, Lin Haijiang has been able to get from Feng. The words of the Count of Dwys sensed that the Prussians seemed to be ready for war.

Lin Haijiang and Feng. The Earl of D'Avis talked until late at night to bid farewell to von Von. After the Earl of Deweis, Lin Hai [***] sat alone in the study, and at this moment his two big think tanks Hu Weimin and Zhang Yunji were not around, and for some things at this strategic level, Lin Haijiang did not want too many people to participate, he was afraid that some views and opinions would affect his final overall strategic decision.

The advantages and disadvantages of reading talent are obvious, a person to decide the fate of a nation, a country seems to be a bit of a child's play, but if a nation in dire straits does not yet know the awakening of endeavor, still holding a fluke mentality to not starve to death like a plate of loose sand to comfort themselves, reading is undoubtedly a fierce medicine! Or the awakening and rise of a nation and a country is destined to be full of thorns.

Slowly open the wax skin, the eagle on the wax skin makes Lin Haijiang feel extremely familiar, compared with the Chinese Empire's black dragon totem military flag and military emblem, the Prussian eagle seems very concise, the resolute lines make people have a kind of iron and blood **, and the eagle eye gives people a feeling of being stared at.

Historically, the Prussian eagle accompanied the rise and fall of the First, Second and Third Reichs, and unlike the American Eagle, the German Eagle seemed to feel stronger?

Immediately, Lin Haijiang looked for a while on his desk, but he didn't find any tools that could open the seal? Facing the half-palm-sized lead seal, Lin Haijiang frowned, twisted it a few times before discovering a problem, this lead is soft and good, but there seems to be something like steel wire added to the lead? No matter how much he twisted and twisted, he couldn't break.

In the end, Lin Haijiang used his command knife to cut the bottom of the leather bag and pulled out two documents that also had wax seals. German, Chinese, French, English? The memo, about a finger thick, had a large pile of densely packed signatures on it.

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath, he spread out the text in Chinese and English in front of him, and after a while, Lin Haijiang eased down from the shock, it turned out that this so-called secret letter was basically a Far Eastern cooperation part of the strategic decisive battle plan drafted by the Prussian General Staff. The Earl of Dwys knew the general direction of the decision, but he did not know the contents of the secret letter.

Lin Haijiang was born in the military, so he naturally knew the significance of the Prussian General Staff, and his General Staff of the Chinese Empire was modeled on the structure of Prussia and introduced some mature regulations and experiences of later generations, and it can be said that the general staff of all countries in later generations were improved and perfected on the basis of Prussia's imitation of the Swedish General Staff.

The signature on the first page of the document caught Lin Haijiang's attention, Helmut? Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Moltke? The current Chief of the General Staff of Prussia.

For Helmut? Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Mochlin's cult of personality can be said to be so great that if Chancellor Bismarck was the soul of Prussia, then Helmut? Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Moltke's Chief of the General Staff is the Prussian blade!

In Lin Haijiang's memory Helmut? Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Moltke attached great importance to the use of new technologies in the military, and in 1848, the first year of his tenure as chief of the General Staff, he introduced the world's most advanced breech gun to the Prussian army. In 1855, he drafted a report on the capacity of railways at home and abroad, including them in the deployment and battle plans. In cooperation with Reihel and Minister of War Boin, the special status of the General Staff was gradually revealed, and officers of the General Staff could be promoted within the General Staff, and in Prussia since 1843 the uniforms of the officers of the General Staff had a special mark that distinguished them from those of other services, and the staff officers became a glorious status.

During Moltke's tenure as Chief of the General Staff, he reformed the General Staff on the basis of the achievements of his predecessors and won the high trust of the king with his personal extraordinary talents, thus giving the General Staff the command of the army and pushing the Prussian General Staff to its heyday, becoming a model for Europe and the world to emulate at that time.

Lin Haijiang remembered that Moltke once pointed out that in history, some commanders did not need others to make ideas, but thought about problems and made up their own minds, and the people around them only carried out their will. But it is rare for such a superstar to emerge in a hundred years, and in most cases, the army instructor needs advisers, and it is very important for an army to form a command.

Moltke made unremitting efforts and struggled to raise the status of the General Staff and expand its functions, precisely because he realized at that time that due to the progress and complexity of military technology, the drastic increase in the number of combat personnel, and the expansion of the combat area, a unified plan and command structure of the army was of great significance for winning the war.

In history, the Prussian army won the victory with a stormy attack because of the excellent command and logistical coordination of the General Staff in the operation against Denmark, and under the tactical coordination of the new rifle and the massive use of artillery as infantry support offensive weapons. Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Moltke.

Now this idol he has always admired actually wrote the "Far East Strategic Implementation Tactical Arms Coordination Plan" for himself? Lin Haijiang did not continue to read this "Far East Strategic Implementation Tactical Arms Coordination Plan", but first opened the attachment, because Lin Haijiang wanted to see what kind of conditions Prussia had offered that they could not refuse, so that they were full of confidence, and even put on a posture of being sure of themselves without negotiation? Even such a thing as the "Far Eastern Strategic Implementation Tactical Arms Coordination Plan" was released in advance?

Lin Haijiang took a sip of tea and took a deep breath, he knew that the conditions offered by the Prussians would definitely not be the same as those offered by himself and Feng. The pediatric stuff that Count D'Affaires talks about is selling himself a few more warships, speeding up the delivery of factory equipment, providing high-skilled workers and engineers, and so on.

As the attached documents continued to be flipped, the smile on Lin Haijiang's face became stronger and stronger, and after a while, Lin Haijiang slowly closed the attachment, and then slapped the table violently.

The guard outside the door thought he was greeting himself, so he hurriedly pushed the door in, Lin Haijiang was slightly stunned, and then waved his hand and said, "I didn't greet you, go down!" ”

Looking at the two guards who closed the door and left, Lin Haijiang excitedly poured himself a glass of whiskey, the mellow and slightly spicy liquid made a circle in Lin Haijiang's throat, at this moment Lin Haijiang really wanted to find someone to share this joy with him, his family and parents in the old port? Lilies, purple cuckoos? Fu Shanxiang? Jiang Rong'er? Cluna? Wanxin? Shen Yilan?

A series of figures appeared in Lin Haijiang's mind, and in the end they were all vetoed by him, because the stakes were so high that even Hu Weimin and Zhang Yunji could only let them know the steps of the strategic layout step by step, and the annex to this secret Prussian agreement to assist the Chinese Empire could not be fully announced until the strategy was transformed into tactical implementation at the last moment.

Only then did Lin Haijiang feel the true meaning of a scholar, that is, in principle, he does not completely trust anyone, no one shares the joy of your success, and no one will share your pain and sorrow, and he is completely alone.

After the Chinese Empire provided a diplomatic note to the Prussian side, the Prussian side planned to provide the Chinese Empire with 22 20-ton vulcanization blast furnaces and corresponding machining processing equipment, chemical refining equipment, drawings and technological processes of Krupp's latest artillery, and provided the Chinese Empire with interest-free loans totaling 12 million gold marks in seven years for the purchase of military supplies and civilian products for warships produced by Prussia, and also helped the Chinese Empire to help build three of the largest military ports in Asia, and to provide artillery for the construction of the main defense force.

Lin Haijiang knew that this was the greatest sincerity that the Prussians could come up with, and it could be regarded as a good-looking and delicious thing, the Prussians had a thin foundation, and they could provide a total of 12 million gold marks of interest-free loans for the purchase of Prussian warships, military supplies and civilian products produced by Prussia, and it was their maximum affordability, although the 12 million marks were not cash, but were paid for in kind by Prussian industry, but later it also showed that the Chinese Empire could have mineral products, grain, palm oil and so on as a repayment.

This is undoubtedly good news for Lin Haijiang, Prussia's artillery technology can now be said to have gone to the forefront of the world, just like Archimedes, give me a fulcrum I can pry the earth, it is to give Krupp a lot of financial support and some advanced design concepts and ideas, Krupp Brothers Company has produced a sharp weapon that should not belong to this era, or to be born in advance, although these sharp weapons still need to be improved and perfected, but only in terms of Prussian shore artillery fortress artillery, in the face of the British, The ironclad ships being built by France and other countries were more than enough to defend Prussia's coastal ports.

In the plan, Prussia requested that once it was ready to enter a state of war with France, before declaring war, the Chinese Empire should carry out a thunderous sweep against the French forces in the Far East and Indochina within a week, and completely destroy the French armed forces with a fierce attack, and Prussia would declare war on France in the next 16 weeks.

Lin Haijiang noticed Helmut? Cal? Bernhardt? Feng? Moltke knew exactly what sixteen weeks meant for a sudden war! That is the time point of preparation and assembly of the French [***] team, that is to say, after Prussia completed the preparations for the campaign against France, the Chinese Empire would take the lead in attacking the French forces in the Indochina Peninsula to attract the attention of the French, and then Prussia would launch a surprise attack on land to achieve the sudden surname of the war.

Lin Haijiang knew that if he sent troops to attack according to the above arrangement, the possibility of the French coming to the aid of fighting with him in the Indochina Peninsula was basically equal to zero, but the British that? Will there be a major reversal in the attitude of the British, who are already entrenched in Southeast Asia and India? According to Miller's intelligence from London, England, the British had at least thirty ironclad ships under construction in shipyards throughout the Southwest.

The fleet that Lin Haijiang spent five years building in Prussia was simply not worth mentioning to the industrially developed British, and it would not take long, as long as the British Parliament passed the second round of naval armaments budget under the pressure of Queen Victoria, the advantage he had was about to turn into a disadvantage in two years, and three years later, the capital ship of the British Empire, the armored cruiser, would run rampant in the Pacific and Atlantic.

The strength of the British Empire was not what Lin Haijiang usually slandered, and Lin Haijiang was just giving it a tactical contempt.

The British Empire has many overseas colonies, and Britain's armaments and warships are built according to the plan to meet needs, while Lin Haijiang is using military force, and there is a fundamental difference between the two, just like the shouting of Little Ben and Uncle Sam during World War II, as a result, the tonnage of ships produced by Uncle Sam in two months exceeded that of the whole year, and the ships were piled up to death by each other.

So on some issues, Lin Haijiang must pay attention to some British attitudes, he can get some advantage when the British are not angry and pour their troops over, but a strategic decisive battle with the British Empire? Lin Haijiang has not gone crazy to that point, he can only wait for an opportunity for the British to fall in, and then wipe out the British power in the east in one fell swoop, and even clear it out of India.

What Lin Haijiang remembers deeply is that during the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been trying to prevent China from becoming one of the four powers, preventing China from joining the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the representatives of the four powers, choking China's neck everywhere in the delivery of materials from Myanmar to China's theater of operations, and even engulfing and diverting Chinese materials in large quantities.

Churchill was worried that it was precisely because of China's strength that Britain's influence and interests in the East would be seriously weakened, and now Lin Haijiang is facing Empress Victoria, a fat woman who is much more insidious and shameless than Churchill's! The British man who is full of chickens and dogs on the surface is not easy to deal with, and it is even more difficult to deal with the fat woman who is more insidious than the secret prostitute!

(To be continued)