Rudolph's position changed, but he remained in his office. The working conditions here are good, it's an ensuite, and Rudolph can stay here for a long time if he wants.

Rudolph's new official took office, carrying everyone's high expectations, and his grass platform team has not yet been built, and various departments are still being integrated.

In accordance with the law, the General Staff is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. After the outbreak of war, the general staff that directly led the operation actually controlled the army, but because of the limitation of its authority, some requirements of the army had to be approved by the war department, and the entire state apparatus had not yet fully entered the state of war.

The strategy of general war is difficult to implement in Austria-Hungary, on the one hand, nationalism is difficult to awaken, cohesion is insufficient, and on the other hand, it is also a double-edged sword, and it may collapse first. Germany began to implement it in 1916, and two years later a revolution broke out.

Before there was a specific task, Rudolph received a huge sum of 4 million crowns. This year, Austria-Hungary's military spending has reached $20 billion, Germany's military spending has reached $50 billion, and the three main forces of the Entente countries have also spent about $40 billion. The overwhelming superiority of the industrial countries was unmistakable, and compared to the Ottoman Empire at the same time, they had to bear only $500 million. In fact, all countries cannot come up with such a large amount of cash, and the high military spending is more based on the production of weapons and ammunition.

Speaking of the various powers, we have to mention Italy. Their armies were built entirely on the strength of Britain and France, and their annual military spending was less than $2 billion.

In short, Rudolph's money is still very well spent. And there are almost no restrictions on the use of it, according to the above meaning, this money is equivalent to the funds of his activities, since it is a fund, there are naturally many ways to spend it, and Rudolph can easily embezzle at least a million crowns.

However, he had not yet withdrawn the money from the treasury, and Rudolph hid in an office, giving orders to the whole country.

He expanded the local forces in the Tyrolean region, forming three new divisions, and the situation of the war was already serious. Italy had been negotiating with Germany and Austria again about the cost of joining the war, and at the same time, they were also in contact with the Allies in the hope of gaining more leverage. Rudolph and most people believed that it would be difficult to get Italy to choose neutrality. In the words of US President Wilson, Italy is not qualified to sit in the seat of the victorious nation, and in the values of this country, the value of justice and morality is zero; In these nine months, Italy has only calculated who gives more money and who promises more land in London or Berlin.

There is no need to worry too much about the problems of Italy, as history has proven that the Italian war on the Isonzo River is meaningless. Rudolph's hole cards are very good, in the original time and space, at this time, Austria-Hungary has just come out of the defeat in the Carpathia, although it has kept the Hungarian plain, but the loss is as high as 800,000. Przemyśl and 100,000 defenders were also lost. Since then, the German army has been marching on the southern front, maintaining the stormy Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Eastern Front was always the only focus of the war, and for this reason, Austria-Hungary even abandoned the original intention of destroying Serbia.

At the moment, the situation on the Eastern Front is good. The Russian army was driven out of the land of the empire and retreated to the line of the Vistula. Both Germany and Austria planned to attack Russia again, preparing to crush Russia in one fell swoop. To this end, the commanders of the two armies also held several meetings in a matter-of-fact manner and assigned combat tasks.

But no one was ready, the supremacy of the Western Front was the established policy of the Germans, and the German troops on the map now went to Belgium. The French lost about 400,000 men throughout the winter and paid more than 200,000 men in the Battle of Champagne alone. The Germans suffered less than half as many casualties, which gave the German Chief of the General Staff Falkingham hope for a decisive victory on the Western Front.

The British came to the scene at Ypres, where they destroyed the barbed wire with shells and flattened the hills with explosives. The sky was dyed yellow-green. This was the first large-scale use of poison gas by mankind, and it was also the loss of civilization and humanity.

Rudolph hated it, but he knew it. War makes people lose their minds and lead them to destruction. Everyone is being put at the table, and Rudolph suspects that he may sign an even more brutal order one day in the future.

The Austrians were lonely, but they were still ready to move. In the absence of artillery preparation, some units went on the offensive and then achieved nothing. Command halted the death and continued to wait for reinforcements.

The generals are optimistic about the situation on the battlefield and they can't wait to crush the Russian army. Naturally, Rudolph would have a hard time reversing this idea, and he also needed to prepare sufficient supplies for the front.

Hungarian railways became the best excuse. The gauge of their railways was unusual, and trains heading to the East had to stop at the internal borders. And in Bosnia, to the south, the railway will even be cut off.

In the previous military reform, the army strengthened the coordination of rail transportation. After the civil war, Hungary lost its direct dominion over other ethnic regions. But the Hungarian government is still there, and they still control the railway.

The Austro-Hungarian railways were largely state-owned. Although the Hungarians did not care about other things, they also experienced more than ten years of hard work in the acquisition of railways. The central authorities must act in accordance with procedures, and sacred private property is inviolable.

In times of war, the Hungarian railways were able to be used and were placed under the jurisdiction of the army. The Hungarians may not dare to oppose it directly, but they can treat it negatively. In the case of leaving the cooperation of the locals, it still affects the transportation efficiency very much.

Rudolph reorganized the Railways Division, bringing the various units and local railway departments under its jurisdiction, and the army had taken over the railways. Hungary's railway problems were still not cured, and Rudolf felt that he still needed to deal with those local snakes. Without investigation, there is no voice, and some issues cannot be solved in the office.

On April 10, Rudolph received a letter.

"I've been fine lately. I'm getting engaged in July this year. Did you have time at that time? Maybe no one knows. But I still hope you can come.

.......

Now, do you know why crows look like writing desks?"

The letter was sent by Chloe, and Rudolph read the beginning, thinking it was an informal invitation. We talked about some trivial things in the middle, and at the end of the reading, Rudolph felt inexplicable, and then was stunned for a moment. He read out a dialogue from Alice in Wonderland to himself: "Mad Hatter: Why the Raven Is Like a Writing Desk."

Alice: Because I like you for no reason"

Rudolph looked up at Fran and asked nonsense, "Have you seen Alice in Wonderland?" ”

"General, no."

"Oh, I've seen it. Tomorrow we will go to Prague. ”

"Okay."