"Adjutant Conrobel! If it were you, which side would you choose to side for! ”

Jérôme. Bonaparte did not rush to express his attitude, but asked Colonel Conrobell unhurriedly.

It is a happy thing for a neighbor to be unlucky, but after the happiness, he must think about how to fan the flames and make the conflict between his neighbors more intense.

There is no one better than Jérôme. Bonaparte understood better that the crisis in France was not in Paris, not in the republicans, but in the German region next door.

If the integration of the German region is completed, not to mention Felix. The 70 million people in Schwarzenberg's grand blueprint, even the small German empire with Prussia as the core excluding Austria, was a huge empire slightly surpassing France in terms of population and military, and slightly inferior to France.

At that time, France will be removed from the position of the First Army of the European Army, as in history, and the German Empire, which is at a crossroads, will become the new darling of Europe.

This is Jérôme. An ending that Bonaparte could not accept in any case.

In his opinion, the best outcome was that Prussia fought with Austria, with one dead and one wounded, and Uncle France protected the Rhineland and Germany as the guardian of German order.

Jérôme. Bonaparte's inquiry stunned Conrobert for a moment, and then cautiously said, "Your Majesty! I'm a soldier and I don't know how to go through the twists and turns of diplomacy. If only from a military point of view, I think we should give Prussia some support. ”

"You agree to support Prussia?" Jérôme. Bonaparte's tone was slightly trilled.

Conrobert thought without hearing Jérôme. The change in Bonaparte's tone, he nodded as a matter of course: "That's right! From a military point of view, we had to weaken Austria! Austria had a potential and population that Prussia could not match, let alone a terrible Prussian army. ”

Conrobert's expression made Jérôme. Bonaparte realized that the French army's perception of Prussia was still stuck in the Napoleonic Wars.

Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars can be said to have lost the face of Frederick the Great, and the army that was able to support the armies of France, Austria and Russia with a great disadvantage of 1 to 3 in the army and 1 to 20 in population until the army of Peter III came to power in less than 30 years, it degenerated into a "garbage army" that was defeated by Davout's division, and then was taken by the Napoleonic Emperor to enter Berlin in a leisurely stroll for two weeks.

Even in order to plead with the Napoleonic Emperor for "forgiveness", the Queen of Prussia had to submit herself to Napoleon, and the Prussian King Frederick. William III had a green glow above his head.

You must know that the Kingdom of Prussia did not agree with the "open" Paris, and the "hospitable" Parisians never minded the cheating of their wives in their political marriages, and they even took pride in having a charismatic wife.

The typical representative here is the "Bank of Nuchingen" in Balzac's human comedy, witnessing the death of the old man Rastigne is determined to climb to the top of power, he climbs the daughter of the old man, that is, the Baroness of Nuchingen, under the powerful "offensive" of Rastigne, the Baroness soon became like a knee to Rastigne, of course, all this was seen by the Baron of Nuchingen, he was happy to mix his wife with the knight of Rastigne, and tried his best to match his wife with RastigneWhenever they had an awkward quarrel or were about to break up, Nuqin and the Baron would pretend to be about to find out about their affair, which scared the two of them into reconciliation.

The counter-example was the hapless King Louis XVI, who became the object of ridicule of the citizens of Paris because Louis XVI loved his wife so much that he had no mistress.

Of course, it is different from the "wonderful" product that Catholicism and Paris have bred together.

As a Prussia under Protestant rule, the Puritan conservatism was so ingrained that it was impossible to use cheating as a way to show off capital.

Therefore, the act of the Queen of Prussia proposing herself to be a pillow is the greatest insult to Prussia.

Under the influence of Emperor Napoleon, the French people throughout Germany set off a wave of love for the German sisters.

Wearing French dragoon uniforms, the Guards became the favorite of German ladies, so much so that there was a ridiculous saying at the time: "You deserve to marry a German".

Even when Prussia followed the counteroffensive of the Russian Empire, Blucher used his strong cavalry mobility to effectively support the battlefield of Wellington to "bloodbathe" the stain of the two-week annihilation.

But in the eyes of the French, and even the entire European powers, Prussia was still the last power that was destroyed by blitzkrieg.

So much so that Tolstoy openly mocked the French in "War and Peace" for whether they would only bully the Germans.

Jérôme. Bonaparte knew that the French army, with its arrogance and conceit, would become even more formidable after the Crimean War.

It wasn't until they were slaughtered by Moltke's 800,000 troops that they realized they were too far behind.

"Bad army? My dear adjutant, we cannot look at the new with the old eyes, and Prussia carried out the same reform after that battle (the Battle of Jena). The current Prussian army is different from the Prussian army before the battle.

Don't you think that the Prussian army was too large? "Jérôme. Bonaparte asked tentatively: "Prussia has a population of 14.33 million, a standing army of 10,000 people, a reserve of 10,000 people at all levels, and it costs less than 50 million francs a year, and the cost is kept low in peacetime, and it does not occupy too much labor, and it can quickly mobilize a large number of combatants in wartime, while our country has less than 300,000 field troops, and the soldiers recruited every year are seriously insufficient, and we have to allow others to spend money to exempt themselves from military service."

The long military service makes our soldiers more courageous, but the long military service period also makes it impossible for us to recruit more soldiers, one for three years, the other for ten years, and once the war starts, the army with three years of service can easily call up more troops, and once the war is started, they will call all the personnel back. What will happen to France at that time? ”

Jérôme. Bonaparte gradually extended the conversation from supporting Prussia or Austria to the French system, in order to make his lieutenants understand that the French military service system should really face a change.

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, do you mean that the Prussian army can already equalize France?" Conrobel looked at Jérôme suspiciously. Bonaparte, he even wondered if the monarch in front of him was in his right mind.

Even Pesini beside him also showed a shocked expression, he really couldn't imagine that the "Prussian threat theory" could be said from the emperor's nephew.

In the face of the great right and wrong, Jérôme. Bonaparte was also not easy to say that France's military system had completely lagged behind Prussia next door, and he could only respond vaguely: "Prussia's army may be far worse than France's at present, but they have a reserve army of nearly one million, and what army do we have in France?" ”

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude!" Conrobert to Jérôme. Bonaparte bowed slightly, and then said bluntly with a hint of arrogance: "How can an army of lawyers and citizens defeat our battle-hardened troops, we only need to put two shots on the battlefield, and they will scatter and flee in a hurry."

Rest assured, if one day Prussia really dares to invade us, we will crush them before they are fully mobilized. War is not an arithmetic problem, and no matter how much preparation you have, you will not necessarily win on the battlefield. ”

"Really?" Jérôme. Bonaparte said to Conrobert in a questioning tone.

"Surely, Your Majesty!" Conrobel said angrily, "Please believe in this army created by your uncle!" ”

It was because of the army created by my uncle that I did not want to believe it.

Jérôme. Bonaparte complained in his heart, if it wasn't for his uncle who forcibly pulled the French army to the first place in Europe, how could the French army be arrogant, they just wanted to stay in their uncle's original credit book and were unwilling to move, completely forgetting that the difference in the times made the war gradually change from an aristocratic recruitment system to a general war.

Of course, a century later, with the advent of nuclear weapons, the general war also gradually came to an end, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the national forces except for a certain major country returned to the era of conscription.

In particular, the military powers, led by the United States and Russia, have pushed the scalpel-like strike of small elite troops to the peak.

Jérôme. Bonaparte stopped talking, and Conrobert was silent.

Now Jérôme. When Bonaparte and Colonel Conrobert were in an unhappy situation because of the problem of military philosophy, Pessini, who was inclined to Conrobert's theory of "the French army is invincible in the world", hurriedly came out and said: "Your Majesty, we are not discussing the question of who wins and who loses between Austria and Prussia!" How did it become France and Prussia! Adjutant Conrobert, do you agree that Austria will be able to defeat Prussia? ”

"Austria wants an adult to beat a child to Prussia, and the result speaks for itself!" Conrobel said in a firm tone, and then added euphemistically: "Of course, this is only my opinion on the military. ”

To help Jérôme. Pessini, who had regained face from Bonaparte, hurriedly said: "Adjutant Conrobel, I have also had a few years of experience in the army!" I think there is a good chance that Prussia will fight Austria! ”

After that, Pesini subconsciously skimmed Jérôme. Bonaparte at a glance.

This should be the answer His Majesty wants!

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