Chapter 498 That's it!
The situation is now clear. Prussian companies divide the market with the Bavarian royal family in the name of cooperative research and development. In return, they give Bavaria certain help and support in the reserve army and financial financing. For pure armored vehicles, Bavaria can get a slightly stronger profit. It will also drive the development of other industries, such as trailers, engines and machinery manufacturing. If you want to cooperate, then these aspects must be discussed. Overall, the prince is quite satisfied, but in some aspects, the prince still wants to fight for it.
To be honest, since the prince decided to give Bavaria a share of the fruits of victory on the future Eastern Front battlefield, the prince has been preparing in all aspects. If the German emperor acquiesces to Bavaria's expansion and to allow his wife to ascend to the Austrian throne, it is not possible to not have enough strength. It is not possible to rely solely on the Austrians, and the original size of Bavaria's army is not possible. After all, it now accounts for less than 20% of the imperial army. This weight is still a low point!
Since it is impossible to expand its own troops in name, we can only use our brains in form. For example, a Prussian armored battalion has 45 various tanks and tanks, and the prince can get 60 armored battalion in Bavaria......
This seems a bit exaggerated, but in fact, it is normal for the troops to be over-organized or lack the organization. For example, most of the German armored troops in the second battle, while for example, the German division during the Kursk War, if you remember correctly, all the Leopard tanks were incorporated into the German division. So now the question is, why did Prussia have to accept the organization and keep Bavaria in its large organization?
It was very simple. Judging from the current military scale and economic level, the situation in Bavaria was much better than that of the German central government. Except for Prussia who supported a larger-scale army with a smaller proportion of funds, the German navy was almost all built by the German central government, and other German kingdoms invested very little in this regard. Therefore, Bavaria could give each army more armored units, and Prussia would never do it.
For example, for example, Prussia took 1 million marks to support a 500,000 army, while Bavaria took 30 marks to support a 100,000 army. The funds allocated to each military unit are obviously different! The prince has always planned to do some tricks in the organization......
"I want to get the dominance of the construction of armored forces." The prince thought for a while and said.
"What does it mean?" Arnold Siemens suddenly became alert. Although the rise of the Siemens family was closely related to politics, Arnold himself had a lot of dealing with politicians, he only knew that some things were not something they could touch!
"Prussia has not conducted any research on the armored forces yet, and the Kingdom of Bavaria has undoubtedly come to the forefront. Therefore, I hope to follow our opinions in the specific organization and construction plan." The prince explained.
"It has nothing to do with us, we are just merchants." Arnold himself was like rejection. "And the German Emperor itself would be very resistant to this kind of thing."
"The German Emperor is already very resistant to some of the things you did. Or what we are talking about now makes Germany dissatisfied. Your purpose is to make money and use the name of expanding the army to put the country's funds into your pockets. Although those Junckers' approaches are wrong, but at the same time, your approach is actually not appropriate. Is that right?"
"Okay, if you look at the Siemens family, you will not be very clean from the laying of the first telegram line, right? You are familiar with this. What's more, I think what we do is in the interests of the empire, so we can't let lay people lead experts, right?" The prince said half-threateningly and half-exhorted. The prince dare not overestimate the integrity of German capitalists, but this is good, and it provides some convenience for himself to act.
"I need your help, and I will give you a certain reward. How about it? This is a cooperation between you and me, and it has nothing to do with others." The prince said.
"You look down on me too highly." Arnold Siemens did not give a positive answer.
"Think about it carefully. Anyway, we still have a lot of time. We can take it slowly. We have a good start and reached a certain understanding between each other. Although no agreement was signed, future discussions can be based on this." The prince seemed a little tired. The words he said were already ready to issue an order to expel the guest.
This time, the spy got a lot for Arnold Siemens, but it may not have obtained anything. After all, the two sides only reached an intention and did not have a written agreement! In other words, both Bavaria and Prussia now have the opportunity to renege, but it is obvious that the possibility of Prussia, as the proactive party, is almost zero. However, the Bavaria will decide whether to implement this agreement based on what the other party has done.
"Since that's the case, I'll say goodbye first." Arnold Siemens said after owing a little. Before leaving, he turned around again: "I will consider your personal suggestions carefully, because I also think that laymen are not suitable for leading experts."
"Your Highness, you have to some extent talked about these things with the Siemens family, right? If this matter is known to the German Emperor, it may be very unfavorable to us." After the meeting, the prince told Earl Schelling part of the content of the talks and hoped that he could be responsible for contacting the Prussian industry, after all, he was very busy. But the latter was obviously worried about the content of the talks!
"First of all, the German Emperor hopes that we can share the big cake of German military industry with Prussian industrial enterprises. Many of the things we discuss today were instructed by the German Emperor. As the head of Siemens said, it is impossible for us to eat all orders by ourselves. It would be good if we could take away one-third of them. Even if we do not agree now, the German Emperor will force us to submit through other means in the future. Just like this naval order."
"What's more, those Prussian industrial giants do have some interests with us. We want to expand our army, and they also want them, so we aimed our knife at some Junker nobles. The more chaotic the Prussians is, the better for us. For the future, we also need to find some other powerful allies in the empire. As for the blame for the German Emperor? They are not afraid of these merchants, so what are we afraid of?" Ruprecht said with a smile indifferently.
No matter how good the relationship between the two sides is, it is like this. No matter how bad the relationship is, it can ruin history? In history, Friedrich III (the prince's father) and the German Emperor did not even fight each other when they met. Isn't the prince also the marshal of the imperial court in the end? Isn't his uncle also the commander-in-chief of the German and Austrian Eastern Front? It doesn't matter!
Chapter completed!