1748 Coping 1
"Is there no other choice?" asked Prime Minister Tirpitz.
"No more, the High Seas Fleet will only have the opportunity to defeat the British under the leadership of Crown Prince Ruprecht and with the full cooperation of the Bavarian air force. Now, we do not have any conditions." General Schell replied.
"However, you already know the threat of Rudendolf. Under the current circumstances, the navy may be marginalized, our supplies will be reduced, and the normal training and combat of the navy may be affected, and the fleet personnel will also have some conflicts due to wages and treatment issues. So, have you all here figured out a way to deal with it?" Tirpitz asked.
"Will the Emperor of Democracy agree with this ridiculous proposal? Wouldn't we have the opportunity to meet the Emperor of Democracy?" asked Hippel.
"It is very likely, to be honest, that's true that the German Emperor used the navy more as a political tool and a totem. Although we paid a lot and achieved a lot of success, the German Emperor still did not realize the importance of the navy to the future German Empire and the particularity of the navy." Tirpitz paused and continued: "Although it's not good to say this, I have to say that His Majesty the Emperor does not understand the navy at all. If he could have half of the naval cultivation of Crown Prince Ruprecht, then we would be much better."
"I agree with your opinion, Your Excellency Marshal." General Schell said, and the others nodded and expressed their agreement with the Marshal's opinion... If Prince Ruprecht was here and heard what Tirpitz said, I would probably despise the Marshal, because the latter, in addition to being firm in will and able to get a budget, and being a very good naval office bureaucrat, in history, the fleet plan of this guy was really bad...
However, Tirpitz said rightly, although the German Emperor liked the navy, the high seas fleet, and was willing to invest in support, before this fleet showed strong strike capabilities, it was indeed just a political tool and totem. The former was just to give more social personnel a channel to rise in the army, and at the same time as a symbol of imperial expansion. As for the latter, the Germans hoped to use the army to quickly lie down on France, and then force the British to surrender with a relatively complete high seas fleet.
But now, the German Emperor still did not use the high seas fleet as a tool to decide the outcome. In his opinion, the army may be more useful! So, in addition, the German fleet refused to attack and put things that were temporarily unused aside, and then supplied limited supplies to land war was not a good decision? At least that was what the German Emperor thought!
"If the German Emperor must reduce the naval supplies and the treatment of officers and soldiers, I hope you can try your best to fight for the navy." Faced with this situation, Scher was completely speechless.
"I will do my best," said Tirpitz.
"In addition, Mr. Marshal, we have a handwritten letter from the Crown Prince of Bavaria to the German Emperor. I hope you can hand it over to His Majesty the Emperor when you are alone with the German Emperor, and do not let anyone know, including Rudendolf and the Chief of Staff Hindenburg." After saying that, Scher took out a document bag with a number from the document bag and sent it to Tirpitz.
"You actually had private contact with His Highness Ruprecht? You also want to be a messenger for him?" Looking at Scher's actions, Tirpitz said with surprise, and while speaking, he turned his eyes to Hippel, wanting to get some information from the latter's eyes! The meaning in his eyes was already very clear: "Say! Did you instigate Scher to contact the crown prince?"
"There is also a handwritten letter from General Moltke here. I hope you can read it. In order to keep it confidential, I hope you can finish reading it here and then destroy it. I believe that after reading this letter, you will believe in our loyalty to the empire and can understand why various problems arise in the military mobilization of His Majesty the Emperor recently." Scher said, and sent another document to Tirpitz.
"Is Little Moltke? This guy is indeed loyal to His Majesty. It is really regrettable to have such a result." To be honest, Tirpitz has no good impression of Little Moltke. It has nothing to do with character. Just because Tirpitz is fighting for the Navy for the budget and Little Moltke is fighting for the Army for the budget, the relationship between the two sides is absolutely impossible! Is it easy to get along with the money issue?!
But now, Moltke has been "retired". The conflict between the two sides no longer exists. Let's look at the current situation of Moltke... Tirpitz also feels sad. Moreover, as Scher and others said, if you talk about loyalty, Tirpitz also thinks that Moltke is definitely the most loyal group!
Tirpitz was a little surprised that Xiao Moltz was involved in the Navy. He wanted to know what happened that made the retired guy jump up and down like this? Was it because the pension was not paid enough? Or was it something else? No matter what, Tirpitz still opened the letter suspiciously, and under the gaze of Schell and others, he read Xiao Moltz's letter.
In the letter, Moltke did not mention that he suspected that some people in Hindenburg or the General Staff might have been bribed by the Social Democratic Party. It was useless to mention this, but instead made Tirpitz suspect that he was dissatisfied and prepared to kill people with a knife. In the letter, he just said that the top leaders of the German High Seas Fleet, including Scherr and Hippel, were loyal to the German Emperor, and Germany is now very empty. In order to deal with some possible changes, Tirpitz should try to gain a larger "range of activities" for the navy! For example, actual control of all ports and docks! For example, control of some coastal cities!
"There is no problem with this." Tirpitz thought about it and handed over the letter from Moltke in his hand to others. After Scher and others finished reading it, Tirpitz said.
"The German Emperor also knew about the empty situation inside Germany and had begun to prepare for adjustments, but it would probably be too late in the short term. I can suggest that the German Emperor take over the public security of some port cities. After all, didn't Rudendolf say that the navy was useless and useless? Let's find something for the navy personnel to take over some tasks originally undertaken by the military military police and police. At least, once there is a turmoil, we can ensure that there will be no problems in the coastal areas of Germany." Tirpitz said.
"No problem, I will try to arm those who are loyal to our crew and give them weapons," said Admiral Schell.
Chapter completed!