Chapter 241 Heixingen Admission
Borrowing is naturally not so simple. If you want to maximize the benefits in the Franco-Prussian War, you also need to appeal politically.
As the state of South Germany, Hexingen is also obliged to participate. Although Hexingen is the territory of Prussia, the name of the royal family of Hexingen can still be borrowed.
"Uncle William, as a member of Germany, Hexingen is also obliged to participate in the Prussian resistance war against France."
Um! William I didn't understand, what did Ernst mean by this? The company's money has been borrowed, and the royal family of Hexingen still wants to contribute.
"Although Hechingen is now an inalienable territory of Prussia, our Kingdom of East Africa, as a member of the German states, is also obliged to contribute."
"Uh, your Kingdom of East Africa is also planning to join the war!" William I seemed to have heard a big joke. Although the Kingdom of East Africa was established on the day it was recognized as a country of Germans, the geographical location of East Africa made everyone laugh. Don't really think of Africa as Europe!
"No, Hechingen joined the war as a German state."
"Ernst, with all due respect, Hechingen is now only a German prince in name, and we Prussia will do it for us..."
Suddenly, William I was stunned. It suddenly occurred to him that Hechingen had indeed become part of Prussia, but there were indeed a group of personnel with good military literacy, and Prussia had no right to requisition it.
Prussia has long implemented compulsory military service, but conscripts can only be forced to recruit citizens in Prussia, but at the military academy in Hechingen, the student status was originally the so-called "Far East students" made by Ernst, so they are not Prussian citizens , Later, the Kingdom of East Africa was established, and these students studying in the Far East naturally became citizens of the Kingdom of East Africa.
In fact, Prussia has long paid attention to the Hechingen Military Academy. After all, conscription is a task that Prussia attaches the most importance to, and the Hechingen Military Academy is actually an informal military academy registered in Prussia, that is, the Pheasant School.
At the beginning, the Prussian government didn’t pay much attention to the pheasant school run by Prince Constantine. After all, Heixingen is a big place with a small population, so what kind of tricks can it play.
But they did not expect that this pheasant school did not recruit students in Prussia at all, but brought a large number of so-called "foreign students" from the Far East.
This is nothing, a pheasant university, the students are still from the world's "well-known" power in the Far East, and Prussia's impression of the Far East is just like what its envoy to the Far East saw in Zhili, which is comparable to the Ottoman Empire in the south.
But later, when the Prussian-Austro-Prussian War broke out, Prussia changed its mind. The local conscription department in Hechingen mentioned in a report to the central government: its students are obedient and disciplined. Visiting its exercises, military literacy can be compared with Compared to the general Prussian army.
In fact, they wanted to use a large number of students (compared with the Hexingen area) as cannon fodder, which was naturally rejected by the Hexingen royal family at that time. They were "students studying abroad", not Prussian citizens, and there was a shortage of manpower in East Africa at that time. Well, the Hechingen Military Academy is full of crash courses, and it will be sent to East Africa, so this matter will not be resolved.
Later, William I began to pay attention to the Military Academy of Hechingen, so it was time to talk about the Military Academy of Berlin.
Prince Constantine relied on his relationship to force two of the best Hechingen Military Academy students to study in it. At that time, Ernst only valued three talents, and now the Chief of the Army General Staff of the East African Kingdom is one of them. , because Ernst needs someone with outstanding ability to go to East Africa to check and balance the mercenary faction and the consortium faction for himself.
The remaining two, also one in a million talents, were sent by Ernst to the Berlin Military Academy for further study.
Related households! So the initial life after they went to the Berlin Military Academy can be imagined, but soon the Berlin Military Academy was shocked by their learning ability.
At the Berlin Military Academy, the top military academy in the Kingdom of Prussia, both of them rank among the top every time, because they both come from the Hechingen Military Academy, and are called "Hexingen Heroes" by students and teachers.
He also met the two men at the Berlin Military Academy, and they really belonged to the dragon and phoenix among men. The fame of the two heroes brought the Hechingen Military Academy a little prestige in Prussia, which changed the impression of some people in Prussia on the Far East. People from the Far East are not bad. There are so many talents, but they only bloomed in Prussia. It can be seen that it is not that the quality of the people is weak, but that the government is stupid and deliberately suppresses talents. Conversely, our Prussian education is strong.
William I, who had a good impression of the Hechingen Military Academy, asked: "Why don't you join the war in the name of the Kingdom of East Africa, but in the name of the Prince of Hechingen?"
"Although East Africa is also a German country, it is located overseas, while Hexingen is a traditional South German state. If there is a war between the popularization of law, it will inevitably affect South Germany. Naturally, it will participate in the war in the name of Hexingen."
Ernst's explanation in this way is actually to separate the East African Kingdom. The East African Kingdom cannot be hostile to France. Use Hexinggen to get the benefits, and then transfer them to the East African Kingdom.
With this procedure, it is too important. If East Africa directly declares war on France, France will inevitably be in trouble in Africa and East Africa in the future.
But Hexingen is different, because now Hexingen is really a part of Prussia, and the French will also blame Prussia on how much profit Hexingen takes.
"What are your demands?" William I asked.
After all, it’s too early to get nothing, and the royal family of Hexingen must take the initiative to participate in the war because they want some benefits.
"Uncle William, it's actually not difficult. You also know the geographical location of East Africa. We just want to get a small island in the East African waters where the French are."
"Island?"
"Yes, this island is part of the Comoros Islands. It is now a French colony called Mayotte. For East Africa, the location of this island is very important, but it is of little use to France, because France is in the west. There are other islands in the Indian Ocean, and if the Kingdom wins against France, we hope to be able to negotiate for Mayotte."
This request is indeed not high. I have never heard of an island, William I thought, and if an island can be exchanged for the Hechingen Military Academy to join the battlefield, it is very cost-effective. For Prussia, the more troops the better now, After all, the opponent is France, the "No. 1 army country in Europe". .
"Yes, if Hexingen joins the war, we will hand over the ownership of the island to the royal family of Hexingen after the war."
"By the way, Uncle William, although Hechingen participated in the battle, I hope to give the command of this force to Cousin Leopold." Ernst said.
"Of course there is no problem!" This is not a requirement in the eyes of William I.
But this is very important to Ernst. The Hexingen Military Academy is his own "Whampoa", and it is not really going to be cannon fodder for Prussia.
In this Franco-Prussian war, we can also take advantage of the situation to see what the capabilities of the Hechingen Military Academy are, and at the same time train this group of students. The battlefield is where soldiers grow up, and military academies cannot cultivate real military strategists.
In the future, the enemies facing East Africa will not always be indigenous, so it is very important for the students of the Hechingen Military Academy to go through war experience. After all, the future of East Africa is to build an East African military system based on them.
Leopold was also one of the fuses of the Franco-Prussian War. His Spanish throne was disturbed by the French, so Leopold still held an important position in the Prussian army, and in the future it is estimated that he will only be able to inherit his father's business.
Prince Karl was originally the commander-in-chief of the Prussian Army, and he had great energy in the army, so Leopold also rose all the way in the Prussian army. In addition, his younger brother Carol I went to Romania, so in the future Leopold's position in the Prussian army will be at least Can also be ranked in the top ten.
Handing over the students of the Hechingen Military Academy to Leopold, Ernst was also relieved, after all, they were all his own.
(end of this chapter)