The first update

Berlin reacted mediocre to the assassination of the French president during his visit to Berlin, while Paris was even more indignant. The French people believe that this was a deliberate assassination by Germany in order to deprive France of its most important national leader and clear the last obstacle to their attack on Paris.

That's the savior of France!

The right-wing newspapers in Paris even launched an overwhelming attack, declaring that it was a German attack and revenge. They did not really want to end the war, but they were trying to expand it through this incident, and the French side should be put on full alert and ready to resist the invasion.

France would not allow an inch of territory to be left to the Germans, much less allow a single German soldier to cross their lines.

Of course, behind these criticisms, there is Napoleon's authorization, he wants to use this matter to pressure King William, once at a time, to achieve his own political goals.

However, King William did not face unilateral pressure from France, and even British Prime Minister Disraeli declared to King William through Foreign Secretary Russell that Great Britain would be concerned about the development of this incident.

Arrested and imprisoned awaiting trial, Mackensen may not know that the bullet he fired nearly changed the situation in Europe, and in Napoleon's view, it was no less thrilling than the Serbian young man who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian emperor in history.

After this incident, King William, who had always lived in seclusion, had to reappear in the public eye, and the people and leaders of other countries made their positions clear.

Berlin was innocent, and the political incident was indeed the result of negligence, not a deliberate political conspiracy.

From now on, Germany has officially ended the war with France, and the two sides are negotiating and cooperating to properly resolve the impact of this political incident, hoping that France and Germany can negotiate peacefully in the conference room to solve the problem, instead of fighting each other on the battlefield.

King William apologized to the French government with a smiling face, and at the same time, in private, he lashed out at the new prime minister, Ron.

"No, guy."

William I paced back and forth in the office angrily, pointing to the new Prime Minister Ron in front of him from time to time, and said word by word, "Why didn't you inform me when you knew that some riots might break out in the near future?" Remember how you assured me before the meeting? You said that the guards had arranged and explained to me that there would never be any accidents, but now? We almost wasted all our efforts! It was not an ordinary person who was shot, he was the foreign minister of France, and he was injured in front of the French president, do you know the consequences? ”

"Do you know what the whole of France is saying about you right now? It is said that I, King William, used a weak and incompetent prime minister, and at the most critical moment, he actually left the VIP and fled alone, and in the end, it was the French president who subdued the assassins, do you say that there is no shame? I even had to bite the bullet and explain to the French delegation something that even I did not believe. For your act of retreating. ”

The more King William spoke, the more angry he became, he had anticipated all the circumstances, but he had not expected them.

"For the emperor's sake, I only hope you can behave professionally. Rather than narrowly framing Germany in the war again. I hope that Prime Minister Ron will not intervene in the next negotiations, in case it will cause disgust to the French delegation. There's nothing I can do about it. It would be better for you to be a bystander in the next negotiations. ”

"But His Majesty ......"

Hearing William's words, Ron immediately became anxious, he had been preparing for this negotiation for a long time, intending to become famous in this important political contest, but he didn't expect King William to directly come to a ban and let everything he have burn.

"Nothing, Lord Ron. You don't want me to give you an indefinite vacation to accompany Bismarck to tea, do you? Remembering this lesson, we were almost dragged into the abyss of war. ”

King William threw out the killer idea, and Ron had to keep his mouth shut. He knew what happened after the king's decision, and he couldn't change it, although he was still a little lucky before, thinking that the Kaiser would be lenient.

However, in the Kaiser's opinion, he was tolerant enough, and if it weren't for the fact that there might be no one around him, Ron also went to have tea and chat with Bismarck.

King William told him a few more words, and when he was done, he was about to turn and leave, but before leaving, he suddenly remembered something, paused, turned to Ron, and said, "Also, about Captain Mackenson, and about the Young Officers Conservative behind him, you must give me a deeper study." ”

Ron was stunned for a moment, then asked rhetorically, "Isn't this an individual-initiated attack?" ”

William said coldly, "I just don't want the next personal incident, you know?" ”

"We must strangle all the unstable factors in the cradle, destroy the hotbeds behind the extremists, and uproot all the organizations that may be involved. You just have to do it. I'll take care of the rest, including going to meet with French President Napoleon. ”

In the end, King William said with great disdain, "Because you may not be able to handle this." ”

The Kaiser was very low-key this time, and appeared almost quietly in the hotel where Napoleon lived, and it was only when Napoleon opened the door and saw Wilhelm I standing in front of him that he understood the other party's intention.

The king wanted to settle it privately, and the chain reaction caused by this political incident was a surprise to Napoleon, who had just returned from visiting Minister Dekaz in the hospital.

"I'm here today to settle the war conflict between the two sides and reach a peace agreement, oh yes, and the political incident that came before."

Napoleon made a gesture of please, and said, "Sit down and speak, King William." ”

At this time, Napoleon did not show a reasonable cross-examination, but poured a cup of coffee very calmly.

"It's happened, and I'm confident that the Germans will take care of it. As you can see, this incident has seriously affected relations between France and Germany, and the people of our country even think that Berlin did it on purpose, so we should both be very cautious in dealing with this incident, and if something like this happens again, we will have to be forced to declare war again. ”

"I understand."

King William nodded, and he tried his best to convince Napoleon, "We have no ill will. ”

Napoleon said simply and clearly, "Whether there is malice or not, that is a matter for you on the German side, and now France only wants to confirm one thing." About the reparations for that bullet. ”

Prussia remained the bastion of the Junker military aristocracy. The German officer corps was a proud warrior class with the arrogance of a feudal aristocracy and a sense of superiority as technical experts. They swore allegiance to the emperor personally and firmly believed that they had a sacred mission to defend the country. In the country's strata, the Junkers have an absolute majority, and in the ruling circles of the army, their ideas are the mainstream.

So Napoleon wanted to use this incident to get Ron to carry out a surgical blow and cut off the most radical part of this proud military aristocracy.

It is also to ensure that in the next few years, Germany and France will not be misfired because of the accident of a bullet.

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about?"

King William was stunned for a moment, and his heart suddenly became nervous. His hand secretly grasped the military uniform, and his eyes were worried.

Napoleon reminded him, "Have you forgotten? Mackensen shot my foreign minister and hit him in the shoulder. This would have been a serious intentional injury incident, so it's normal for us to make a claim. You tell me? ”

"Hmmm......"

And what Napoleon said next made King Wilhelm feel his head big in an instant.

"France is asking for reparations of 10 million marks, is this condition not excessive?"

"Ten million marks?"

King William instantly felt his head big, and he thought he had heard it wrong at first, but it was only after Napoleon said it that King William really realized how valuable Mackensen's bullet was.

He jerked to his feet, and his chair was kicked to the ground.

"You want us to pay 10 million marks for a bullet?"