"Count Schelling, you don't seem to be in a good mood?" When Count Schelling withdrew from the prince's study in a worried manner, he was confronted by Countess Laura, who was dressed in a lilac suit as beautiful as a delicate rose. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Your Highness seems to have overlooked some issues, I tried to warn him, but it worked poorly, and I hope you can persuade him when the time is right." Count Schelling expressed his worries more than once, and not only to ****, but this time he pinned his hopes on this highly valued countess.

"I'll do my best, but after all, we're just His Highness's subordinates, and we can give advice, but we can't overstep our bounds." Countess Laura said with a smile.

"You have a point, dear lady." Count Schelling was slightly stunned, but he still decided to talk about this matter again when he had the time to do so, after all, he had just gone out, and it was obviously a little bad for the countess to go in and talk about this matter again. Thinking of this, Count Schelling moved out of the way, and then watched the countess enter the prince's study.

"My father once said that a true politician can carry out his plan according to the situation, and use the general trend to complete the cloth without anyone else noticing. When things broke out, everything was ripe and overwhelming, I didn't believe it at first, but today I believe it. Congratulations, Your Highness Rupprecht. Countess Laura bowed slightly, bowed and said.

"Actually, I can't help it, after all, the German Empire doesn't have so much hard currency to pay debts and interest, and we are fighting on the front line, and the capitalists naturally need to pay some other costs, otherwise we will fight to the death in the front, what is it for them to spend all day drinking in their mansions in Berlin?" The prince smiled slightly, closed the document in his hand, and looked at the subordinates in front of him with a smile.

"No, no, no. I'm not just talking about our relations with the United States, but about the relationship between Germany and Austria-Hungary. I really admire Your Highness, you have invisibly done what the Austro-Constitutional Empire wanted to do but could not do! The countess shook her head.

"However, I am afraid that once this incident breaks out, the impact will be very large, if it is not well controlled, it may affect not only Prussia, but even the whole of Germany and even Austria-Hungary, and the final result is that we have not collapsed on the battlefield, but the internal contradictions and conflicts will kill ourselves, and I want to ask, if the Prussian royal family compromises, then how can Bavaria guarantee that it can survive?" Laura asked, a little nervously.

"It seems that you already know part of my plan, okay, I'll tell you what I think, and then you can see if there are any loopholes." Ruprecht thought for a moment and said. Count Laura is already a high-ranking member of his side, and his fate has been tied to the Kingdom of Bavaria, although he is a Hungarian, all his roots and abilities exist with the endorsement of the Bavarian side, and some things still need to be dealt with by her, so it is still necessary to let her know some details of the plan.

"My wife once said to me that if the situation in Germany does not change, and Germany loses, we will certainly lose everything, but it will not be good to win, and in this war the territory of the German Empire is likely to be directly expanded by more than 1 times, and the vast majority of these places will fall back into the hands of the Kingdom of Prussia, and we now account for one-seventh of the territory and one-sixth of the population of the Empire, and close to one-fifth of the total industrial production, but once the expansion is completed, Bavaria doesn't even have a tenth. When the time comes, I'm afraid the Kaiser will also consider taking action against Bavaria, right? His Royal Highness **** said a little gloomily.

Recently, the Kaiser has already begun to take action, first ordering Württemberg and the Kingdom of Saxony in the name of the central government to complete the docking of the domestic railway system with the central government, and then the postal service. The German Central Committee had sent a similar request to Bavaria, but King Friedrich III (****'s father) ignored it.

Before leaving, the prince also wrote a letter to Moltke Jr., saying that in the future, the Bavarian Army would fight on the Eastern Front, and in order to facilitate the war, it was natural to ensure direct contact with Austria-Hungary, and the Kingdom of Bavaria considered to maintain the same communication routes with Austria-Hungary first, and then Prussia.

And for this request, Moltke Jr. did not have too many objections, after all, what Ruprecht said was indeed reasonable, the northern part of the Eastern Front was East Prussia, and naturally the Prussian Legion was in charge, and the Prussian Legion was strong. Reinforcements from other kingdoms will not be considered. And Bavaria in the middle, Austria-Hungary in the south, it is Austria-Hungary that really needs reinforcements, and only Bavaria can provide reinforcements recently, so it makes sense for Bavaria to ask for a delay in changing the route, and to ensure the smooth flow of traffic with Austria-Hungary.

Although the matter was eventually abandoned, the prince was still afraid, which meant that the Prussian central government was still pushing forward the process of centralization, but the current Bavaria was a little bigger, and it was too close to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to force it. Think about it, if one day, once the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapses, the Bavarian king has fallen from a prince to about a provincial governor, and in the face of the unprecedentedly powerful German central government, if people want to cut the feudal domain, there is really no way at all!

Don't say then, even now, it's definitely impossible to resist it. Prussia could easily use four times as many forces against Bavaria. It is not enough to rely on Austria alone, even if he can help his wife become the empress of the Kingdom of Austria in the end, it is still not very safe, after all, after Austria loses Hungary, its combat effectiveness will also shrink significantly, the place is not small, and there are quite a lot of people, but if you want to say that the combat effectiveness of industry and army is still forgotten. And Austria is, after all, a foreign country and also hangs the brand of an ally.

But adhering to the little things that he figured out in his previous life, His Royal Highness **** still believes that the internal cause of things is the ultimate factor that determines the development of things, and the external causes only promote or hinder the development of things. and cannot be terminated. However, Bavaria can't jump out of anything for a few pounds and taels. The only thing that could determine the direction of German politics was the change in Prussia itself!

That's right, since Bavaria has not been able to make great strides on its own. Then it will only be possible to weaken Prussia internally, at least the energy of the center, and the power of the Hohenzollerns! And compared to Bavaria, there are indeed various contradictions within Prussia, and there is also the possibility of being weakened!

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