Just after William read the Gneisenau test paper, his mood became better and better, and he said to Qi Teng:
"Yes, you are interested"
After William finished speaking, before Qi Teng could speak modestly, Dessau said awkwardly:
"Your Majesty, this Gneisenau is an Austrian after all. Should we wait any longer?"
After listening to Dessau's words, William thought for a while, but then William said seriously:
"We in Prussia must double our efforts to win over talented people, regardless of whether they are Prussians or Austrians. Only in this way can everyone know that Prussia is an open country and will not give up cooperation because of conflicts between countries.
The use of talents”
Seeing what William said so categorically, Dessau wisely stopped refuting. In fact, what William did was nothing more than a show, yes, a show. William was putting on a show in front of all Europeans by admitting him to Gneisenau.
Prove to the world that Prussia is a country that promotes talents in an eclectic way.
Subsequently, Dessau presented several other test papers to William. Of course, the owners of these test papers were all Prussians. It was okay to demote talents according to any style, but if more foreigners were admitted, it would have a negative impact on the country's public sentiment.
It's just a blow, so it's okay to set a certain example, but you can't have too many examples.
William nodded slightly after reading a few test papers. William was proud of the literacy rate of Prussian youth. These test papers proved the success of Prussian education, because some of them had very similar views to William. They all
It is believed that Prussia has reached a moment of change, and William's military reforms are in line with the people's sentiments and the trend of history. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these people are trying to please William.
After once again expressing his gratitude to Zi Teng and his team for their hard work, William left the living room, because after finishing the affairs at the military academy, there were still navy matters that William needed to worry about.
In the era of Frederick the Great before William, although the Prussian army was prominent in various European countries, the Prussian navy was completely useless. All Prussian territories along the Baltic Sea had to be defended by locally organized levies.
Prussia only has a navy that is weak compared to all the countries along the Baltic Sea, and the navy only has a thousand soldiers, and these thousand people also include logistics personnel.
Now that the ocean is becoming more and more important, this situation is simply unbearable for William. Based on this, an important condition for William to send troops to North America is that Britain will help Prussia build a navy and related supporting facilities.
Of course, this condition does not appear to be difficult for George III. You must know that the British Empire has the glory of the world's largest navy. Although countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Spain are chasing after them, the British Empire generally
It is believed that unless the British Navy does not add any equipment for ten years, these countries can catch up. But how can the British Navy not develop?
George III was very fond of Prussia. During the Seven Years' War, Britain and Prussia forged a deep friendship, and the then Prime Minister Pitt's continental policy was to support Prussia and threaten France from the side, even though Frederick the Great had died.
, but the British people had no ill feelings towards Prussia, so George III readily agreed to the conditions proposed by Prussia.
William returned to the study and picked up a piece of paper on the desk and read it. What was written on the paper was the development of the Prussian Navy.
For the Prussian Navy at this stage, William did not blindly purchase warships but focused on training naval soldiers. William always believed that the root of everything lies in people. Even if there are powerful naval ships, there is no one to control them.
Absolutely not, it will be like the Beiyang Navy a hundred years later. It has the strength of Asia's first fleet but lacks the manpower, and it is still stuck.
Of course, the importance of weapons and equipment is self-evident. What William envisioned was that after the British navy defeated the Danish fleet, Prussia would immediately send troops to attack Denmark, and after acquiring the Danish shipyards, it would fully build an ocean-going navy.
The shipyards established with British aid in Prussia do not need to be very large, because there are several large-scale shipyards in Copenhagen, Denmark. If the goods are good, just grab them.
In this report, the head of the navy, Count Tremmel, reported to William that after large-scale recruitment, the current Prussian navy had a total number of more than 6,000. However, due to the shortage of ships, it could only take turns to board ships and
Regarding navigation training, considering the current situation in Prussia, instructors from the United Kingdom believed that it was necessary for Prussian soldiers to strengthen naval warfare training, so Trenmel applied to William to increase military expenditures for naval warfare training.
William approved this request with a heroic stroke of his pen. Although boarding battles still occur from time to time in modern naval battles, most of them are battle line tactics.
In battle line tactics, the operational flexibility and proficiency of soldiers is one of the most important factors that determine success or failure. Of course, training in battle line tactics is a money-burning behavior, and the shells fired are just money.
As the saying goes, a cannon is worth ten thousand taels of gold. You must know that the cannons used by the navy are larger in caliber than those used by the army, and the corresponding cannonballs are more expensive.
Well, after signing his name gracefully, William felt a little regretful. Thinking of this, he wrote on the paper again: Cannonballs are more powerful. For the safety of naval officers, please use them with caution. If the situation allows, you can use empty bags.
Bullet replacement.
What a shameless person. He obviously felt sorry for the tickets in his pocket but pretended to be compassionate. But not to mention that when Trummel saw William's words, he was not only deeply moved by them.
, you must know that in the era of Frederick the Great, it was difficult for the Prussian Navy to expand or maintain its current size, because Frederick the Great was a Continentalist.
After William approved Trenmel's application, he saw another piece of paper on the desk, which contained Napoleon's activities.
It must be said here that the time traveler is an existence that changes history. Since the end of the Austro-Prussian War, Queen Marie of France has become more and more disgusted with Prussia. With this disgust, Marie changed her usual life of drunkenness and dreams, and she began to
He became concerned about the domestic political situation and military development.
In this report, the intelligence officer wrote that just a few weeks ago, Queen Mary led a group of generals to the Brienne Military Academy for investigation, and during this investigation, Napoleon came to be valued by Queen Mary.
It's funny to say that when Queen Mary arrived at the Brienne Military School, she found a naughty child playing with a bronze cannon in the school garden. It was time for class, so Queen Mary stepped forward and asked curiously
Why did this child play with the cannon again instead of going to class?
The child said to Mary:
"This is not a cannon, this is history, it is glory. Every cannon is a war epic. I am here to admire the war epic. Besides, the things in the class are too simple."