It had been a little half a year since Wilhelm decided to carry out the reforms, and in this small half year, some of the Prussian troops, including those who had accompanied Wilhelm in Austria, had begun to report to their superiors that they had decided to recommend soldiers for the Brandenburg Military Academy examinations.
William's biggest fear when he decided to reform was that those with vested interests would instigate the soldiers of the army to resist this policy, but God forbid that it did not make too many waves among the soldiers, on the contrary, because it gave all soldiers a step up, this policy was welcomed by most ordinary soldiers.
But the opposition was still strong, and a quarter of the Prussian army did not submit their referrals, and these armies were influenced by many conservative forces, and it is clear that they were waiting to see what was going on.
Thinking of this, William thought of the Marquis of Morakot in East Prussia, although the Marquis did not explicitly oppose the reform plan later, but in the conversation, William felt the old marquis's dissatisfaction and resistance to the reform.
You must know that although Prussia can be called a great power in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, Prussia is still a serfdom country, and the strength of the serfdom country is relatively limited.
But as the saying goes, you have to eat bite by bite, and the road has to go step by step, Rome is not built in a day, only by reforming the army, so that the country's armed forces can operate completely according to their own will, can the impact of the future reform of the national system on the whole country be minimized.
Of course, in later generations, there were also opinions that political reform should be carried out first and then military reform, but it is very dangerous to carry out political reform at present, and some nobles may support military reform, but once it is said to be political reform, then the entire aristocratic class will oppose it.
Because in the later Prussia month, the then Prime Minister of Prussia, Stein, signed the October Edict, abolishing serfdom, as an opportunity, Prussia's military reform was also able to begin, Prussian military reformers, abolished the hierarchy in the Prussian army, and used the military merit system to determine the promotion and promotion of officers, and those Junker children who were unmeritorious and those who were old and incompetent were cleared out of the Prussian army.
But for now, political reform is too dangerous, William is only ten years old this year, military reform is based on his prestige in leading Prussia to victory in the Austro-Prussian War, the military aristocracy will oppose but not all the nobles will oppose it, the military reform has opened the door to the military power that was previously held by the military aristocracy.
The abolition of serfdom for the time being not only offended the aristocracy, but also a considerable part of the capitalists would resist it.
Serfs received a share of the land from their masters, in return for which they had to cultivate the lord's land without compensation, perform all kinds of labor, and surrender most of the products of their labor.
The basic feature of serfdom was that the serfs were tied to the land and had to be dependent on the serf owners.
The serf owners, on the other hand, took advantage of this personal dependency to carry out supra-economic forced exploitation of the serfs.
But at present the economy of serfdom was the basis of the Prussian system.
At the present time, when commercial agriculture and factory crafts began to develop, serfdom provided cheap labor resources, which played a certain role in the development of Prussia's commodity economy and factory handicrafts.
Therefore, in terms of abolishing serfdom, William did not show the same hatred of serfdom as his predecessors, he had to choose the most advantageous path at present, and if it was said that the price of civilization regression was exchanged for Prussian hegemony in Europe, Wilhelm would definitely agree.
Killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, building bridges and repairing roads without corpses is not empty talk, since it has embarked on the road of hegemony, then it must go on forever.
As far as William knew, his previous bill to reform the army did not enjoy the support of a majority in the cabinet, and it was Locks who used his prerogative as prime minister to force it through.
According to a letter from the Earl of Bruneke brought by the British Navy, William learned that because the American army in the south had been severely damaged under the city of Savannah, the American army in the north had to draw a group of troops that were nominally American but in fact French to support the south.
The Washington Department, which was originally rampant in the north of North America, has gradually calmed down because of the resolution of the Continental Congress on the transfer of American forces from the north to strengthen the forces of the American forces in the south, and Brünecke boldly predicted that in the near future, the American forces in the south will definitely make a comeback again, and in the face of this pressure, the few forces that Brunek has left in his hands will not have much chance of winning at all.
In the Battle of Savannah, although the Prussian army was victorious, but the result was not as easy as Brüneke imagined, the Prussian army paid a heavy price, after the battle, according to Brüneck's statistics, more than 2,000 Prussian soldiers were killed in the Battle of Savannah, and nearly 300 soldiers were seriously wounded, which means that the first Prussian army sent to North America has lost more than half of its strength.
William thought about the distance in his mind, and after careful calculation, the second army was expected to reach North America in January, the following month, and God willingly this army could be replenished under Bruneke before the Southern army could make any moves.
At the same time, William also thought about when to send the third batch of troops to North America, and he decided to send the last and largest batch of 10,000 troops to North America in April next year, for which William had high hopes.
If all goes well and Bruneke is able to wipe out the remnants of the American army in the south, then the North American struggle will be fought for at least another two or three years, and these two or three years will be extremely precious, not least because the Prussians have helped Britain restore its rule in North America.
Rather, it is because North America is like a wound cut on the bodies of Britain and France, and the Prussians helped the British to give the British the hope of winning the war, and at the same time, it is a pity that the French have helped the colonies of North America to this extent.
So what William had to do was to make both the British and French think that they could win in North America with a little more effort, so that they would shed their blood in North America, and Prussia needed a stable international environment, and as long as the French did not end the war with Britain for hegemony in the whole world, he would not have the strength to interfere with Prussia's actions for a day.
Of course, the key task of this plan is Brüneke, although Willian has given him a face-to-face opportunity before Brüneke's trip, but whether such a major task can be successfully completed, Willian is still very anxious.
With a soft sound outside the door, William woke up from his contemplation, he quickly raised his head to look at the door, and the moment he looked up, William saw a person walking towards him.
With a loud noise, William felt that his head was heavy, he couldn't lift his head, and all parts of his body seemed to be disobeying, and after hearing an exclamation, William fell into darkness.
"His Royal Highness Louise, His Majesty William is only in a temporary coma, after our examination, His Majesty's body has no problems, but there is one thing I want to remind you is that Your Majesty is really lacking in rest" There was an intermittent exhortation in William's ear, William laboriously hoped to be able to open his eyes, but his eyelids could not be lifted at all.
William felt his hand being grasped in a daze, and then Louise's whimper sounded in his ears, the poor woman who had not received much grace in her husband's life, and who had been saddened to watch her son lose weight after his death.
Hearing the whimper, although William couldn't open his eyes, he told himself in his heart that he must not let his mother be sad again.
Although his body was asleep, William's consciousness was not awake, and William took this opportunity to recall all the things he had experienced since he was reincarnated, and the people and things he had experienced came to his heart.
Think about Paretts's life, think about the lovely Du Li and Carl, and then think back to after returning to Sanssouci Palace, every step of people is a process of growing up, the carefree of childhood is just a memory that can make his heart sweet when he is old, although William is only ten years old, but every step he has taken in the past ten years is the aftertaste of life, and people can only go further and further in front of them by constantly summarizing the past.
After William fell into a coma, His Majesty's physical condition became a taboo in the entire Sanssouci Palace, and no matter how much people like to chew the root of their tongues, they dare not say a word at this time, the affairs of the royal family are bigger than the sky.
Once the later Emperor Wilhelm II of the German Empire once said: The monarch is even the supreme law.
But no matter how much it was concealed, the news of William's sudden coma reached the ears of some people who paid attention to William in a relatively short time.
Some are worried, others are ecstatic.
But those who were ecstatic were destined to be disappointed, and on the second day of the coma, William woke up and summoned some of the nobles in the hall of Sanssouci Palace, and William's words and deeds made the nobles feel at ease about his body, because after summoning the nobles, William personally led the nobles to the horse race in the horse farm behind Sanssouci Palace.
William himself rode on the horse, and his horse was a full-grown horse, and his skillful riding skills and still sharp eyes let everyone know that the king's body was not as bad as he imagined.