Berlin, palace.

"Well! You make sense! Then you are fully responsible for dealing with the affairs of the Russian Revolutionary Party!" William II shook his hand in front of Chen Tian and said, "But be careful, you must not leak it out, and you must report it to me regularly!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

Chen Tian had just reported to William II the assassination in Vienna and the handling of his Russian revolutionaries, and successfully convinced William II to secretly support the Russian revolutionary party.

"One other thing, Your Majesty, now the empire is undergoing large-scale military preparations, especially the two expansion naval bills passed in 1898 and 1900, which have planned a huge shipbuilding plan!"

"Yes, if Germany wants to gain an advantage in future wars, it must have a strong military force. Do you have anything to say?"

"Your Majesty, I have no objection to this. I just hope to establish some military research institutions and arms factories in East Prussia to do my best to do my best!"

"So that's it! You can do it yourself! But I remind you that the allocation needs to be approved by the cabinet, and they are not easy to deal with! It's difficult to ask them to allocate some money! Hahaha!"

"Your Majesty, I will try my best to solve the problem of funds!" Chen Tian smiled in his heart. According to his plan, Zach was helping him make money from Japan. Parliamentary funding? Humph...

"Also, Your Majesty! I hope to research and manufacture submarines at the Konnisburg Shipyard, and I hope your Majesty can approve it!"

"Submarine? Is that thing useful? We should use all resources to build battleships now! Cruisers! We must surpass the British and be the overlord of the ocean!" William II said the navy and looked very excited. It seemed that the British navy put a lot of pressure on him and his empire.

Chen Tian listened silently: The German navy was not the most arrogant submarine force in the first battle, but it also gave the Americans an excuse to join the war! Humph! However, the Americans were destined to join the war. After all, the conflict of interest between Germany and the United States in South America is very obvious, and the excuse to join the war is not difficult to find.

"Uh... But since you think it's necessary, just do it! Just don't spend too much energy and money on it! Also, don't forget that there is a powerful Russian Baltic fleet there!" William II found that he seemed to have gone too far just now, "In principle, I agree with this matter. You have to discuss the specific matters with the Admiralty!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

What can the Navy have? Since the French submarine Gustav Zied sank the British battleship Machenta with torpedo, showing the huge power of the submarine in naval battle, the navy of various countries began to develop submarines. However, at this time, the German navy focused on the main ships of large-scale construction, and seemed to be willing but not capable of submarines. Moreover, Germany did not have a large shipyard in Cornisburg, so since there was a relative

Wang jumped out and paid money and worked hard, why not? So the Minister of Navy agreed with a stroke, and then expressed his intention to send some technicians and skilled workers to Corniesburg to assist Chen Tian. However, the Ministry of Navy did not provide funds for research and manufacturing submarines, and even the wages of those technicians and skilled workers had to be paid out for themselves. Fortunately, with the strong assistance of the kind Japanese people, the funds were not too difficult for Chen Tian.

After completing these things, Chen Tian and Ollie came to the intelligence room of the General Staff where Thomas was located.

"His Prince! Hello! Long time no see!" Thomas held Chen Tian's hand with a smile.

"I haven't seen you for more than a year, and you've become very gentlemanly!" Chen Tian said with a smile.

"Haha! And Oli, I'm fat again!"

"Where? I'm obviously thinner than before!"

"Hahaha……"

"Come on! Take you to visit my working environment!" Thomas pulled the two of them in a large room, but it seemed that various documents were placed in a mess.

"I laughed! There are not many people here, but there are a lot of information, so it's a bit messy!" Thomas explained with a smile.

"Are you just collecting all kinds of information like this?" Chen Tian found that there were no decent instruments here. The people who used intelligence should have many agencies in 007, but this place looks more like a newspaper office.

"Yes! We have military officers responsible for intelligence in embassies everywhere. They will send various information back to us, and then we can choose which ones are useful and then hand them over to our superiors for use." Thomas leaned into Chen Tian's ear and whispered, "We recently got the information of the French Miss 75. The artillery has a good return system, and the shooting accuracy and speed are much higher than ordinary artillery. Soon after, our empire's artillery will catch up or even surpass them!"

"Miss 75"? That is, the French 1897 75 caliber rapid-fire gun, a scam that the French are most proud of! Chen Tian remembers that this rapid-fire gun in France is a milestone in the history of artillery development. When the Germans boast that their new 77-cm rapid-fire gun can fire 8 6.85 kg heavy shells per minute, the French new gun can fire 30 7.2 kg shells per minute. With the assistance of the perfect "long-range return system", the French 1897 rapid-fire gun is in the projectile.

It can still perform perfectly when the rate of heavy and the rate of fire is higher. More importantly, although the rate of fire is so fast and the recoil is so strong that the entire gun will hardly displace under continuous shooting, so the gunner can easily adjust the shooting elements to fix the bullet point between each shot. France carefully planned various activities to deceive the enemy, and even deliberately posted false news in the media, claiming that the new field gun adopts a "short-trip re-energy system", which made the German army believe that they are using the world's most advanced technology.

"Thomas, there is something I have to say!" Chen Tian glanced at Thomas, "The enemy will not let you get their information comfortably. Sometimes using a little trick can make you in vain, and even lead you to the wrong direction! Just like this '75' Miss, you'd better determine the correctness of the information in your hands!"

"Also, you want to obtain information from your opponent, so do your opponent!" Chen Tian stood up, put on his military cap, shook hands and said goodbye to Thomas.

"Good luck! Brother!"

"I wish you good luck too! Brothers!"

Back in Cornisburg, Chen Tian began to take over the management of East Prussia with the help of Oli.

In terms of economy, the economic situation in East Prussia was the same as in most German regions. Industry was in a period of booming growth. As most of the funds from banks and finance were directly invested in industrial and commercial enterprises and used to promote the development of industry, steel, coal mines, electrical, machinery and heavy chemical industries maintained very high growth rates. Agriculture was playing an increasingly secondary role. Most of Junkers regarded their land as their property and continued to expand, but they no longer rented the land to farmers, but instead hired free labor to work. This made it possible for many new technologies to be applied. The application of these technologies greatly increased the output of German agricultural products. At the same time, the agricultural population was gradually leaving the land and joining the urban employment army.

In the army, Chen Tian's East Prussian Legion, the Eighth Legion in World War I, currently includes two armies and local security forces, with a total of more than 100,000 (when World War I broke out, there were 4 armies, one reserve division, one cavalry division, and some local security forces, about 200,000). The First Army and the Second Army under the legion each had 4 divisions, each division was organized 12,500 in wartime, and each division was currently about 10,000. Each division consisted of 5 infantry regiments and 1 artillery brigade, each artillery brigade has 3 rapid-fire artillery battalions and 1 howitzer battalion, each battalion has 4 field artillery companies, and each company has 6 artillery pieces.

In terms of the naval, as a natural harbor, Cornisburg's geographical location is actually very superior - the entrance of the harbor is narrow, but it is suitable for large ships to be moored. At that time, the main naval shipyards in Germany were the Royal Shipyard (Williamshaven), Brom-Foth Shipyard (Hamburg), Wessel Shipyard (Bremen), Germanic Shipyard (Kill), Hovald Shipyard (Kill) and Shuoxiao Shipyard (Danze). There were only a few small and medium-sized civil shipyards in Cornisburg, and Chentian basically needed to start from scratch for naval construction.

Chen Tian was quite satisfied with the deck of the card he had with his toes. East Prussia had good industrial and economic strength. Although the arms industry and shipbuilding industry were very weak, it had an industrial and economic foundation, and there was more than 10 years to prepare for it. There should be no problem. Although it was very close to Russia, as long as you start the war first, you could lead the war to Russia's territory. According to history, the Russian Baltic Fleet would have greatly weakened in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, and there were not many opportunities to perform in World War I.

"Oh! Zach is still making trouble in Japan! I hope not to make Japan's economy too bad. If they lose the Russo-Japanese War, then Russia may still be a powerful enemy." Chen Tian thought about it and suddenly laughed, "Zach just went to make money from Japan's private sectors, which would not have much impact on Japan's overall economic and industrial strength, but the impact on people's peace of mind is probably hard to say. Is the Russo-Japanese War? It's best that Japan can win, but the greater the loss, the better! Maybe you can also deliberately reveal some valuable information to Russia to make their wars more difficult and last longer!"

"Prince, there are two people outside asking to see you! They said it was your old acquaintance in Vienna." Chen Tian was yelling beautifully, and the guards came in to report.

"Oh? Please come in!" Chen Tian came to his senses and it seemed that the Russian guests were coming!
Chapter completed!