William II felt that he was humiliated by the Chinese Empire. He angrily said: "The Chinese Empire is too shameless. It actually exported the castrated version of tanks and fighter jets for us. This is clearly a warning to us and is not in line with the spirit of allies!"

Bismarck smiled helplessly. He wanted to say that his allies were for betrayal, but he didn't dare to say it out.

"Your Majesty, there are no real friends between countries, only eternal interests! The Chinese Empire is defending us, and we are also guarding against the Chinese Empire. Now the Chinese Empire has basically defeated America, and it is Britain's turn next. Once Britain is defeated, the only one in the world that can compete with the Chinese Empire is our German Empire. The Chinese Empire Emperor Li Weiguo is a wise and powerful emperor. He cannot not know this, so after the end of this world war, the next war will probably be the Chinese Empire and our German Empire."

William II calmed down and asked back, "What you said makes sense, then do you mean we are going to buy these tanks and fighter jets?"

Bismarck nodded and said, "Yes, Your Majesty! We must buy it, just to strengthen the military strength of the empire and sweep across Europe in one fell swoop!"

Sweeping Europe!

William II naturally liked to hear this sentence, but he asked unhappily: "But, don't you say that the empire's defense industry cannot rely on imports? I said I wanted to buy 1,000 T-tanks, but you opposed it, saying that it would be enough to buy 500, and we will copy the rest ourselves. The same was true when we bought the F15 fighter last time. You said the same thing, you can't hand over the lifeline of the national defense industry to the Chinese Empire, but why do you want me to agree to buy this batch of equipment now?"

Bismarck said with a bitter face: "The situation is different! The Chinese Empire's military has made a clear attitude. If we refusal to purchase from the Chinese Empire by copying T tanks and F15 fighters, it will affect the relationship between China and Germany."

William II frowned immediately. He guessed the intention of the Chinese Empire and forced the German Empire to purchase so many tanks and fighter jets in an instant, in order to block the German military's own development and production path. Because once the German military purchased 3,000 T-tanks and 3,000 F15 fighter jets, there would be no need for other tanks and fighter jets in a short period of time. Then the local arms dealers in Germany would not be able to invest money and energy in developing tanks and aircrafts, because even if it was developed, the German military would not be able to purchase them.

"How much does it cost?"

Bismarck had a moment of brewing and said to William II carefully: "Tanks, aircraft, and related supporting facilities, a total of 2.7 billion goldmarks!"

"What? 27 Jinmak?"

William II stood up and said in anger: "Go and tell them, let them just go and grab the Deutsche Bank directly! I don't have the money to give it to them!"

Since the outbreak of the World War, the German Empire's military expenditure has been huge and has almost emptied the national treasury.

You should know that it is 1896. The German Empire in history was unified in 1870 and the World War was only launched in 1914. There were 44 years of development in the middle and accumulated a lot of wealth, but by 1918, the economy had collapsed.

The German Empire has only been developing for more than 20 years and has accumulated more wealth than in history. However, in the early arms race, under the instigation of the Chinese Empire, a German high seas fleet alone was far stronger than the naval power of Germany's strongest period in 1916, which means that more wealth was consumed.

Therefore, although the military power of the German Empire far exceeded the peak of World War I in history, its finances were far inferior to those of World War I.

To describe it in four words, that is, military force and militia, stimulated by the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, if the German Empire in history could persist from July 18, 1914 to November 11, 1918, then the current German Empire had at most a financial capacity from September 18, 1895 to the summer of 1897.

At this time, gold reserves in the German Empire's vault were decreasing greatly. Gold and mark exchanges were banned in China. All gold was used to pay for international exchange business, and the major exchange customers were the Chinese Empire.

Due to war, the German Empire had already suffered 1.01 million casualties on both sides of the east and west, which was far less than the 1.7 million casualties of the Allies. A large part of the reason was that all the German soldiers could be treated with special medicines, and the mortality rate was very low. Because the Allies could not obtain the special medicine supply from the Chinese Empire, many wounded soldiers died in the end.

But the German Empire was also very sad because the special medicines they imported from the Chinese Empire were not cheap. Most of the gold reserved by the German Imperial Bank was given to the Chinese Empire as the cost of purchasing a large number of special medicines.

Germany's finances are very difficult today. It also depends on starting the printing press to keep Mark depreciating to solve fiscal and military expenditures.

In this case, paying 2.7 billion gold marks to the Chinese Empire, equivalent to 300 million yuan of foreign exchange, will put a greater burden on the German Empire's finances.

But what made William II the most painful was that he was cheated by the Chinese Empire. The T-tank and an F15 fighter were manufactured locally in Germany and the cost could be controlled, but the price difference was more than 30 times that of the Chinese Empire.

That's a price difference of more than thirty times!

How wronged can one have to do such a transaction?

William II thought he could not do it, so he kicked Bismarck the ball.

Bismarck shook his head helplessly and said, "Let the old minister be this evil person! Anyway, the old minister won't live long!"

William II turned around and waved his hand.

At this moment, William II felt guilty and for the first time, he felt that Bismarck was not that annoying.

However, William II pointed his resentment at the Chinese Empire, and from then on he did not regard the Chinese Empire as an ally. He vowed that if the German Empire controlled the entire Europe, his next goal was to defeat the Chinese Empire.

"Li Weiguo, don't be too happy too early. It will be the turn of the showdown between the two of us soon. I hope you won't regret it when that time comes!"

Under Bismarck's instruction, the German military agreed to the deal with the Chinese Empire. Bismarck also became a sinner who killed Germany's local tank industry and aircraft industry and was scolded.

William II then stood up, dismissed Bismarck, and placed an order with several local arms giants in Germany to develop German local tanks with more than t and German local fighter jets with more than t.

For a time, William II's prestige increased and was loved by Junker's arms merchants.
Chapter completed!