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1780 The first strike is stronger 2

"Your Majesty, you are not a truly outstanding leader. Germany can win this war because of its strong national strength and military strength! The current rule is not suitable for the future empire. We won this war, but we are not ready to receive the fruits of victory. In my opinion, your plan is simply terrible. Whether it is allowing the Poles to establish their own kingdom or supporting the establishment of satellite states in the Baltic region, this will be a huge harm to the cohesion within the empire! Your grandfather has created a Bavaria that is too big to lose, and now, how many Bavaria are you going to create?" Hindenburg asked back.

To be honest, Hindenburg was finally able to get together with the Social Democratic Party, and the personal interest factor accounted for less than 30% at most! In fact, as a senior German army official who climbed up from the grassroots level, he had his own views and opinions on the entire German society. First of all, he did not like the current domestic political system of Germany. What he liked was a state system that broke the barriers of religion and state and centralized power. Because he believed that only in this way could the power of the empire be concentrated, he could not be said to be hostile to the Bavarian Kingdom at the beginning, but he had a certain complaint.

So simply speaking, the Social Democratic Party has always emphasized the need to strengthen parliamentary rights, which is very consistent with Hindenburg's political demands, and changing the composition of the German bureaucracy is also very attractive to Hindenburg. Especially at the beginning, Albert, who was in contact with Hindenburg, planned to continuously weaken the boundaries of various states and eventually integrate all states. (Of course, the current strategic goal is changed to just fighting for the rights of Prussia) These places are in line with Hindenburg's political demands and ideas, so it became natural for Hindenburg to be indicted!

Of course, the German Emperor did not have the time and energy to discuss the future of Germany with Hindenburg. He had a lot of things to do now! Although William II was very slow in his perception, he knew that a storm was about to sweep the entire Germany! His imperial power was in danger! This time, the German Emperor took his rare decisiveness and decided to take a series of decisive measures to kill the storm!

He first had to stabilize the army on the Western Front. At this time, he found that the latter's vision was so accurate. He began to collect materials and control the western German region near the front! At the same time, he also sent a telegram to Ruprecht, in which he rarely asked the Bavarian Legion to take on the responsibility of maintaining the monarchy in a "pleading" tone.

This time, the prince used the excuse that he had insufficient troops and needed to deal with the Hungarian issue, but was unable to mobilize enough troops to make the German Emperor a soft nail! In his reply, Ruprecht's words and words were all dissatisfied with the German Emperor's previous "bending faith" and pointed out that such a telegram was "unsincere"! It did not admit the previous mistakes and did not make any compensation. The prince clearly stated in the letter: The Bavarian Legion would never go to the battlefield for a mere telegram!

If this letter is sent under other circumstances, then for the German Emperor, it can be regarded as a rebellion! But now, what can the German Emperor do if he really can't do Bavaria! And more importantly, if he cannot quickly quell the rebellion, then Bavaria is still the bargaining chip to decide the outcome! He knew that Bavaria might be at a price in this German political turmoil! But there was no way, people had to bow their heads under the roof!

At this time, the German Emperor was loyal to the loyal little Moltke. He wanted to recall little Moltke as the chief of staff, but the latter rejected the goodwill of the German Emperor. Little Moltke believed that it would be better to let him stay in the country at this time to suppress possible mutinies at any time. In Little Moltke's letter to the German Emperor, he asked to send more troops and equipment. He also suggested that ensuring the stability of the Western Front is the most important thing! He believed that General Crook, the commander of the First Army Group, was a good candidate to take over as the chief of staff.

This time, the German Emperor's political and military wisdom broke out in the domestic political situation of extreme crisis! With his efforts, the military force loyal to the royal family quickly controlled important areas in western Germany, allowing the German Army to maintain for at least a period of time! At the same time, the German Emperor's response to the domestic situation was correct in principle, concentrating his troops to prepare for forced suppression, and sending a telegram to Prime Minister Holvig to prepare for offline action!

However, there is a saying that goes? The plan cannot keep up with changes! Or in other words, the German Emperor is still too optimistic about the domestic political situation!

If it was still expected that the German Emperor would be rejected when he asked for help from Bavaria, after all, all the German senior officials knew that the Bavarian crown prince was not a lord who repays grievances with kindness, and at the same time, they also knew that Prussia now had lost the ability to use violence to solve domestic problems. Without the help of powerful measures, if you want to gain the support of the other party, you can only use benefits or so-called "kindness". Before, the German Emperor's reckless actions almost reduced the relationship between the two sides to a freezing point!

Then the next thing is difficult for the German Emperor! The German Emperor asked Tirpitz to return to Kiel Port immediately and mobilize the fleet to transfer Markensen's army back to the country from the ice and snow on the eastern front! The German Emperor's order was smoothly passed to Tirpitz, and Tirpitz also went to the port smoothly, but some of the naval personnel at Kiel Port were very uncooperative, and some troops were also a little unstable!

The most deadly thing is that at this time, the main force of the German high seas fleet was in the Baltic Sea! The fleet's actions required icebreakers, and almost all advanced icebreakers in Germany are now accompanying the fleet! In other words, even if Tirpitz could come over to enough transport ships from other channels, he would not be able to take Markensen's army back on the ice of the Bay of Riga......

This was particularly severe on the German Emperor. This not only caused the German Emperor to lose the last large army that could be used in domestic political storms, but also made William II not understand why the German High Seas Fleet he had been committed to betraying himself at a critical moment?! Is it because he had cut the treatment of the navy before? However, no matter what, the navy's failure to cooperate also made the German Emperor lose the last opportunity to solve domestic problems in the overall situation!

In this case, the German Emperor tended to let Prime Minister Holvig take the first move! He planned to let Holvig adopt a beheading method to destroy the command system of the Social Democratic Party! Dismantle the opponent from within!
Chapter completed!
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