Volume 1, Chapter 53: Resolute and resolute
On the night of acceptance, General Fritz visited Frederick the Great overnight with his destruction suit, and spent nearly three hours in a secret room with only Frederick the Great, General Fritz, and Wagner's governor.
When Frederick himself tested the power of the Destruction Suit, and listened to Mick's latest assertions on the form of magical warfare, the old emperor was as excited as if he had ridden a war horse for the first time.
He couldn't wait to summon the legendary alchemist, but was stopped by Wagner's director.
The chief steward of Wagner leaned close to Frederick the Great's ear and whispered: "Your Majesty, this Viscount Beckmann is very close to Lord Alexander, and besides, he is the son of Michel von Beckmann. ”
"Oh?" Frederick the Great was stunned for a moment, the look of surprise on his face slowly disappeared, he pondered for a while, and said: "Then, this matter should be delayed a little, and let him come when that thing is done, such a person must be used by the empire." ”
That night, Frederick formulated a "revival plan" and decided to purchase 15,000 destruction suits, as well as 5,000 matching mount armors, to establish five magical combat battalions, each with two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, with a strength of 3,000 men.
The four main legions were divided into four magic battle battalions, and the remaining one was incorporated into the Imperial Praetorian Guard, which was outside the military headquarters and was directly under the command of His Majesty the Emperor himself.
The total amount of the "revival plan" was a record 85 million gold coins, 50 million of which were squeezed out of the military department (in three years) by the Ministry of War, 20 million (in three years) from Frederick the Great's private treasury, and 15 million (one-time) secretly allocated from the Cabinet of Finances in the name of renewing equipment.
The "Revival Program" expects to receive all equipment within half a year, and to form combat effectiveness within a year.
The next day, the commanders of the four main army corps received an urgent letter from the military headquarters, asking them to immediately hand over command to the adjutants, and then go to the military headquarters for a meeting.
In non-war times, it is rare for the commanders of the four main armies to be summoned at the same time, and considering several major political events that have occurred in Maltis in recent years, almost all the generals present at the meeting thought that something big might happen in the empire.
With trepidation, they rushed to Maltis as fast as they could. What I heard in the highest operational chamber of the military headquarters was the "revival plan" for the formation of a new army.
In the beginning, everyone thought that the military department was making a big fuss. But after they had finished watching the test of the Destruction Suit and listening to Mick's account of the war, all the commanders put away their contempt and became extremely eager.
Shocked by Mick's sentence "Maybe this is the opportunity for the Imperial Army to unify the entire continent", the hearts of several generals were full of surging ideals, which were the pure ideals when they first stepped into the army.
Sweeping across the seas like the god of war Dragon Destead, if he has such a trump card in his hand, how many generals will not rekindle their fighting spirit?
There were no quarrels, no quarrels, no quarrels, and less than three hours of meeting time, which should have been the shortest of the Empire's highest military meetings in history.
However, this meeting agreed on almost all the details of the formation of the magic battle camp, and in the sea of Wenshan meeting that took several days, this meeting seemed extremely efficient.
After the meeting, several legion commanders stationed in other places immediately rushed to the garrison without stopping, as if there was an outbreak of plague in Maltis, and they did not want to stay for a second.
Only three days later, the four main legions of the empire and the Royal Praetorian Guard began to select soldiers and officers under various names, and the conditions could be called quite harsh.
All candidates must be above the third grade, and the officers must be at least the fourth level or above, and they must have rich experience in actual combat command.
This big move of the army naturally attracted the attention of all parties, but the nobles of Maldis were weak in their hearts, thinking that this was His Majesty's statement to the "bloody night of the imperial capital" and a knock on the nobles' outrageous behavior.
The House of Nobles and the Cabinet were a rare silence on a series of big moves by the military department. Without asking a single question, the Finance Department under your jurisdiction allocated fifteen million gold coins to the Ministry of War, thus smoothing the work of forming a new army.
Eighty-five million gold coins is already close to one-third of the empire's annual income, which is definitely a huge expense for the empire. However, the Equipment Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs has calculated that the cost of the destruction suit should be between four thousand eight and four thousand nine hundred gold coins, and Mick can only earn a pitiful one to two hundred gold coins from each piece of equipment.
An epoch-making masterpiece that can't be released publicly, even if it can't even make the money it deserves. Fritz and Frere were full of apologies to Mick.
In particular, General Fritz sincerely admired Mick's "noble patriotic spirit" and praised Mick as a model and soul of the younger generation of the Reich on numerous public occasions, and almost awarded him the Order of Special Contribution to the Reich.
In fact, General Fritz really thought about it, but once the military department awarded the medal to Mick, the "revival plan" might be exposed in advance, and he weighed it again and again, and finally gave up.
It's just that in his heart, the guilt for Mick has swelled a lot.
However, the truth is not as Fritz and Frell thought, and the two upright soldiers clearly overestimated Mick's character.
The destruction suit can't be released, which is equivalent to making Mick suffer a loss, how can he not make a big fuss about the gold coins?
The real situation is that the destruction set is divided into two parts, one is the Imperial First Class Heavy Cavalry Combat Armor produced by the Military Department's Equipment Division, which is worth 600 gold coins, and the other part is the customized version of Power Source No. 2, which is worth ...... Mick has the final say, of course.
In fact, the destruction set disintegrates a three-dimensional magic array into nine parts, which greatly reduces the difficulty, except for the magic potion specially prepared by Mick, there is almost no cost in the magic array.
Since other magic alchemists had to go through analysis to understand the magic array, Mick had preset the encryption and self-destruction systems in advance in Power Source II, so he was not afraid that any alchemist would reverse copy his work, and he could hand over all the drawings to Eric's factory for mass production, and he only provided the high-concentration special magic potions needed to draw the magic array.
Thus, in addition to Eric's production and transportation costs, Mick and Alexander were able to earn a net income of 1,500 gold from each Destruction set, and 500 gold from the matching mount armor.
In this way, aside from the profits from routine maintenance, repair, and replacement in the later stage, they can net 25 million gold coins just by selling finished equipment.
Mick and Alexander immediately became one of Maltis's richest few.
The two sighed that happiness came too suddenly, and they woke up laughing several times in the middle of the night when they went to bed, and when they met the next day, they were like two stealing cats, laughing at each other with thick dark circles under their eyes.
Where there is profiteering, there is motivation. In order to deliver all the equipment within half a year, Eric's three military factories implemented a three-shift system, and all workers worked overtime, working at full capacity.
The first batch of 500 sets of equipment was produced in only one week, and it successfully passed the secret acceptance of the military department.
Both General Fritz and Colonel Frell were very pleased with the progress of the "revival plan", and their appreciation for Mick rose to a new level in an already extremely high position.
But that's all for later, and now Mick is concentrating on preparing for the first event of his life, the first magical alchemy launch.