After the death of Wilhelm I, Frederick III ascended the throne, and within a few days, Bismarck came into conflict with the new emperor, and the reason for the conflict was a continuation of the conflict four years earlier. The former King of Bulgaria, Alexander von Badenberg, was engaged to Jochen's sister Victoria in 1883, and Jochen's mother was very active about the marriage because his grandmother liked the Badenberg family very much, and considered the family to be handsome and gentle. Crown Prince Frederick agreed, but was not at all positive; Jochen, on the other hand, said he had no opinion. Originally, this was a private matter of the royal family, but the imperial family had no family affairs, and this marriage was strongly opposed by Bismarck, and the reason was that Bismarck thought that the situation in Bulgaria was very unstable, and letting the royal princess marry would make the empire very passive when the time came. In 1884, Bismarck took the liberty to sue Alexander against the marriage by the "German government", telling him that it would be better to marry "an Orthodox woman with a fortune." Alexander listened, and the marriage fell through. However, as soon as this incident came out, Bismarck's unauthorized actions made Crown Princess Victoria very unhappy (it is really difficult to distinguish between the three generations called Victoria).

In September 1885, there was a wave of overthrow of the Sultan and the annexation of Bulgaria to the Turkish-administered Eastern Rumiria. Russian Emperor Alexander III objected: "It is not permissible to break the Berlin agreements!" "Odetudu affirmed his support for Russia, and some officers in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, took the opportunity to force the palace, and Alexander announced his abdication.

Alexander's abdication was sympathetic to Crown Princess Victoria. So I still want to marry my daughter to him. Bismarck then made a small report in front of Wilhelm I: Alexander would be uneasy if he stayed in Germany. It is even possible to become the leader of the opposition party in the empire. Bismarck succeeded again, and Wilhelm I decreed: Badenberg could not become the son-in-law of the Hohenzollerns, and neither the German court nor the army could accept him nor appoint him.

That was the end of the matter. As a result, after the death of William I, his mother, who had been promoted to Queen Victoria, brought up the marriage again. Frederick still agreed this time, but as Emperor at this time, he did not allow Bismarck to play the same game of 1884 again, and the conflict began.

The chamberlain at the Charlottenburg Palace recalled the sound of a heated dispute between His Majesty the Emperor and His Excellency the Prime Minister in Frederick III's study. After that, the pale-faced Prime Minister could be said to have walked out of the door out of his temper, and the emperor in the study also had an ugly face.

That evening, at dinner with Jochen, Frederick III opened his mouth to talk about the quarrel this morning, which angered Empress Victoria and even encouraged her husband to remove Bismarck. Although Jochen wished Bismarck bad luck, it could not be now, and the future development of this matter was very beneficial to Bismarck, so removing Bismarck now would be bad for the emperor's reputation. Therefore, it is very rare for Jochen to come out to persuade his father and mother, and of course Jochen will not say good things about Bismarck: "Father, mother, don't be angry. There is an ancient saying in the Qing Dynasty that "the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly", which means that as the prime minister of the country, he must be able to tolerate people. And our prime minister's belly is full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, fame and fortune, so there is no room to support the boat. ”

Johen's degrading words made the emperor's and his wife's faces slightly aligned. Frederick III then intended to hear his son's opinion: "Jochen, have you agreed to this marriage?" ”

Yoheng smiled and shook his head: "Father, I still have the same attitude as back then, I have no opinion. Neither for nor against. The reason for His Excellency's objection is obviously the cliché again, what Alexander became the son-in-law of the Hohenzollern family is not conducive to the domestic political situation. The reason my mother agreed to the marriage was because my grandmother liked the Badenberg family very much, and Aunt Beatrice married Heinrich of the Badenberg family. So let's talk about it, we are all family. Father, you agree because your mother agrees. But I think that whether it is Your Excellency the Prime Minister or your father and mother, your views are important and not important. ”

Frederick III and his wife knew that their son often spoke from a different starting point than ordinary people, and they were not angry when they heard this. Frederick III raised his eyebrows and motioned to his son: Go on.

Jochen looked at his sister Sophie and Margaret, who were also listening to his father and brother chatting, with rather doting eyes, and then turned back and continued: "Your Excellency Prime Minister is thinking about state affairs, or Mother is thinking about family affairs, but in the end, it is Victoria's sister's marriage, and I think her own opinion is the most important. ”

"You mean to ask Victoria if she agrees to the marriage, how can this be done?" Empress Victoria couldn't help but retort, while Frederick III frowned thoughtfully.

"Mother, marriage is a lifelong thing, of course, the opinions of the parties should be respected. And our Hohenzollern family does not need to rely on political marriage to obtain anything. You and your father have a deep relationship, they are happily married, Sophie and Margaret are not young, and they will marry one day in the future. Don't you want them to be happy in their marriage? Although I don't dare to say that I will always be happy if I marry someone I like, but if I marry someone I don't like, I can't be happy, right? Say yes, Sophie, Margaret, is my brother right? Jochen laughed at his two sisters, and the 18- and 16-year-old princesses said they had eaten well, and ran away shyly with their skirts.

Frederick III rubbed his eyebrows, and then spoke: "Jochen, what you said also makes sense, let's talk about it when Victoria returns from her trip to Sanremo." Seeing her husband say this, Queen Victoria agreed.

Yoheng knew that in fact, whose opinion was useless, this marriage would not work out anyway. There's no need to get involved. The next day, Frederick III summoned Bismarck and announced the marriage, and Bismarck's attitude towards His Majesty the Emperor changed very strangely, but he still apologized for his gaffe yesterday, and a conflict was over.

A few days later, on April 13, the British ambassador told Bismarck that it turned out that Alexander kid had already been fighting with an actress, so there was no need to worry about it at all.

On April 22, Queen Victoria arrived in Berlin to visit her favorite son-in-law, and her grandmother persuaded her to think more about her granddaughter's happiness in her life and not to marry her to a little white face who was looking for flowers and willows. After knowing that his grandson also had such an opinion, he praised Yoheng for being considerate and thoughtful. Yochen once again had a good impression of his grandmother and mother.

The Queen's attitude changed the Queen's mind, and the marriage was nullified completely, and the conflict between Frederick III and the Prime Minister dissipated, much to everyone's relief. Just when everyone thought that the contradiction between the emperor and the prime minister had dissipated and that the imperial government would continue to maintain stability, Frederick III took a shot at the top of the empire. To everyone's surprise, the knife did not reach the head of the old chancellor Bismarck, who had always been at odds with His Majesty the Emperor, but Bismarck was very much in favor of this knife, and the target of the knife was Alfred Graf von Waldzer, the quartermaster of the General Staff.

As a young man, Waldzer was intelligent, conscientious, and capable, and before the Franco-Prussian War, he was stationed in Paris as a military attaché in France, where he dutifully collected very detailed military and political information, and it was for this reason that he attracted the attention and admiration of the Count Moltke, the chief of the General Staff. As a staff officer, Waldzer handled affairs with ease. Waldzer was dignified and extraordinary, with the perseverance and uprightness of a soldier, and the gentleness of a politician, coupled with a flexible mind and excellent ability, he was very much respected by Count Moltke, and Bismarck also praised him, and even when His Majesty Wilhelm I was alive, he joked that Waldzer was "an omnipotent handyman." ”

In 1882, when Count Moltke's health gradually became unable to bear the heavy work of the General Staff, he thought of Waldzer, who was nicknamed "The Fox", and arranged for this excellent officer, whom he considered to be vigorous and energetic, and who was good at making decisions on the spot, but who had no ill of poverty of thought, as the Quartermaster General of the General Staff, and gave him great autonomy. The leadership of the General Staff was actually transferred to Waldze's hands as a result.

However, the Quartermaster General, who had a brilliant mind and a strong self-confidence, also had ambitions to match his abilities, and Waldzer, who had extreme confidence in himself, believed that he was the one who could control the foreign wars of the German Empire, especially the war against France, so he always preached the theory of waging a preemptive war. In order to gain this right, Waldzer embarked on a disgusting act of military interference, and he used his ingenuity in conspiracy, which caused Bismarck's opinion of him to change sharply.

Waldzer put aside the military work of the officer corps, but established a close relationship with the military cabinet chief, von Alberdier, since the entire personnel of the officer corps was to be arranged through the military cabinet. In order to counter the power of the War Ministry, Waldzer and Albertil fought for the full autonomy of their units. As a result of Waldze's activities, the Chief of the General Staff was given the power to face the monarch at any time. War Minister von Kamek was forced to leave his post after a conflict with the military cabinet. He was succeeded by Bronensart von Schellendorf, who had been head of the General Staff since 1870, and the War Ministry had since fallen into the hands of Waldzer. Moltke never asked about powers that could be reported directly to the king, but it was a better way for someone like Waldzer who wanted to carry out his intentions in the realm of Qiē.

And Waldzer was well aware of the power of the news media, so he tried to establish contact with the press. Waldze's Intelligence Service under the 3rd Division, a General Staff Information Bureau. Waldzer's followers were convinced that Waldzer would one day become the chancellor of the Empire. Some of the dismissed military writers were used as "press cavalry" to promote Waldze's ingenuity. In order to get his article published in the ultra-conservative newspaper Cross, Waldzer relied on his wife, who came from a wealthy American family, to seek out the newspaper's preferences. The merry, extravagant, debt-ridden boss Baron Wilhelm von Hammerstein offered a loan of up to 100,000 marks.

Waldzer, with the support of his religiously obsessed wife, formed an alliance with the court preacher and bishop of the Berlin Evangelistic Corps, the anti-Semitic priest Adolf Stecer. In the Red House of the General Staff on Hurvat Straße, Waldzer's salon became a centre of activity that was at the same time reactionary as well as excessive charity and piety, mixed with an abhorrent mixture of totally non-military and non-Prussian weird, chaotic ideas. The Waldzer-Stockel alliance is directed at the forces of modern society – capitalism, socialism and liberalism.

Bismarck was disgusted by this, and publicly denounced it in 1887. Behind the scenes, Waldzer was engaged in the overthrow of Bismarck. Bismarck naturally hated him, and Frederick III did not have a good opinion of the military-politicians and the militants. So after Frederick III ascended the throne, Waldzer was unlucky.

To be honest, Jochen was not disgusted with him, although this man, unlike his successor Schlieffen, did not pay attention to technological innovation and the development of military equipment, which was very unpalatable to Jochen. But I have to admit that this guy is very good at being a man, and his flattery and wooing of Yoheng is really hard to dislike. Since Jochen has always been clean and self-conscious, and his work and rest are very regular, as a prince, his style of life can be called exemplary. Therefore, it has always been considered difficult to please the imperial grandson within the empire, and some people even speculate whether the imperial grandson is an ascetic. Under his intervention, the products of HK company fully entered the German army system, and the Sansha camouflage uniform promised by Waldzer also officially became the combat uniform of the African colonial army, and the version using NATO standard three-color camouflage also began to become the equipment of the Prussian Army, and the response was good, and it became the standard of the entire German Army in the near future. Not only that, but there is also a lot of favoritism towards HK in production orders. Even the newly improved Maxim 1888, which fired new rifle cartridges, was purchased in small quantities and sent to the army for trial, receiving an official number MG88, much to Jochen's surprise. However, this made Maxim himself even more desperate to start a business in Germany. So although he knew that this person was very unreliable, it was really difficult for Joechen to have a bad feeling.

After Waldzer was dismissed, Mowdge realized why His Majesty had to serve for another year, in order to avoid frequent changes in the selection of the chief of the General Staff. Waldzer's departure from the position of Quartermaster General, originally according to Frederick III's intentions, was to make Waldzer resign, but Jochen reciprocated his father's advice, awarded Waldzer a first-class Iron Cross as compensation, and transferred Altona as commander of the 9th Army, and for Jochen, this capable and ambitious guy still has a place to use him in the future.

Waldzer's successor was none other than Alfred von Schlieffen.

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