Just after William read the test paper of Gneisenau, his mood became better and better, and he said to Qi Teng: "Yes, you have a heart" After William finished speaking, without waiting for Qi Teng to speak modestly, Dessau said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, this Gneisenau is an Austrian after all, shall we wait?"
After listening to Dessau's words, William pondered for a while, but then William said solemnly: "We in Prussia must double down on talent, regardless of whether they are Prussian or Austrian.
Only in this way can everyone know that we in Prussia are an open country and will not give up the use of talents because of the contradictions between countries" Seeing that William said it so categorically, Dessau wisely did not refute it again.
In fact, Wilhelm was doing this not more than putting on a show, yes, it was putting on a show, Wilhelm was putting on a show in front of all Europeans, and by admitting Gneisenau to prove to the world that Prussia was an eclectic country that reduced talents.
Subsequently, Dessau presented Wilhelm with several other examination papers, of course, the owners of these examination papers were all Prussians, and it was okay to reduce talents without sticking to one pattern, but if more foreigners were admitted, it would be a blow to the hearts of the people in their own country, so it was okay to set a certain example, but not too many examples.
Wilhelm 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 were very similar to Wilhelm, they all believed that Prussia had reached a moment of change, and Wilhelm's military reform was in line with the will of the people, and it was in line with history.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these people were trying to curry favor with William.
After once again expressing his gratitude to Qi Teng and his party for their serious work, William left the meeting room, because after being busy with the affairs of the Military Academy, there were still naval affairs that needed William In the time of Frederick the Great before Wilhelm, although the Prussian army was prominent in Europe, the Prussian navy was completely a scumbag, and all Prussian territories on the Baltic coast were garrisoned by locally organized levies.
Prussia had only one navy, which was weak compared to all the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, and the number of soldiers in the navy was even a thousand, and this thousand men included logisticians.
At a time when the sea was becoming more and more important, this situation was unbearable for William, and it was on this basis that an important condition for William to send troops to North America was for Britain to help Prussia build a navy and related supporting facilities.
Of course, this condition is not very difficult for George III, you must know that the British Empire has the glory of the world's first navy, although France, the Netherlands, Spain and these countries are in hot pursuit, but Britain generally believes 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.
For Prussia, George III is full of good feelings, during the Seven Years' War, Britain and Prussia formed a deep friendship, and the then Prime Minister Pitt's continental policy is to support Prussia to threaten France, although Frederick the Great has died, but Britain has no bad feelings towards Prussia, so the conditions proposed by Prussia were readily agreed to by George III.
William returned to his study and picked up a piece of paper on his desk and looked at it, which was written about the development of the Prussian Navy.
For the Prussian Navy at this stage, William did not blindly purchase warships but mainly to train naval soldiers, William has always believed that the root of everything lies in people, even if there are powerful naval ships, but no one to control it is absolutely impossible, just like the Beiyang Navy a hundred years later, there is the strength of the first fleet in Asia, but people are not powerful, and they are still lying down.
Of course, the importance of weapons and equipment is self-evident, and William's vision is that after the British navy defeated the Danish fleet, Prussia will immediately send troops to attack Denmark, and after obtaining the Danish shipyards, he will go all out to build an ocean-going navy.
The shipyards built with British aid in Prussia did not need to be of much size, because there were several large-scale shipyards in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In this report, the head of the navy, Count Tranmel, reported to William that the current Prussian navy had exceeded 6,000 after large-scale recruitment, but because of the shortage of ships, it could only take turns to carry out boarding and navigation training, considering the current situation in Prussia, the instructors from Britain believed that it was necessary for Prussian soldiers to strengthen naval combat training, so Tranmel applied to William for an increase in military expenses for naval warfare training.
For this request, William approved with a bold stroke of the pen, although naval battles in the current era still occur from time to time, but more are battle line tactics.
In battle line tactics, the flexibility and proficiency between soldiers is one of the most important factors in determining success or failure, of course, training battle line tactics is a kind of money-burning behavior, and the shells fired are just silver for nothing, as the saying goes, a cannon fires gold ten thousand taels.
You must know that naval guns are larger caliber than army guns, and the corresponding shells are more expensive.
Well, after signing his name in a dashing manner, William regretted it a little, and thinking of this, he wrote on the paper again: The cannonball is more powerful, for the safety of the admirals, please use it with caution, and if the situation allows, it can be replaced with empty cartridges. is really a shameless person, obviously distressed by the tickets in his pocket but pretending to be enlightened, but not to mention that when Trummeer saw William's words, he was not only deeply moved, 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 Continental Armyist.
After William approved Trummel's application, he saw another piece of paper on his desk, which was written about Napoleon's activities.
Since the end of the Austro-Prussian War, Queen Mary of France has become more and more disgusted with Prussia, and with this disgust, Mary has changed her usual drunken life, and she began to care about the political situation and military development in the country.
In this report, the intelligence officer writes that just a few weeks ago, Queen Marie led a group of generals to the Brienne Military Academy, and that Napoleon was highly regarded by Queen Mary during this investigation.
It is also ridiculous to say that when Queen Mary arrived at the Brienne Military Academy, she found a mischievous child fiddling with a bronze cannon in the school garden, and it was the time for class, so Queen Mary stepped forward and asked curiously why the child did not go to class and fiddled with the cannon again.
The boy 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, and the things in the class are too simple" This answer surprised Queen Mary
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