Bismarck was in an era when the national general staff system began to take shape, and Germany was the country where this system originated.
Strategists such as Bismarck and Moltke Lao were the first promoters of this staff system!
Before them, national strategy was actually decided upon by a few top politicians after consultation, and sometimes there was even no consultation by elite politicians.
It was the king and the high nobles who made a decision. Even if the decision was as bad as shit and destined to fail, at that time, the power of the entire country had to cooperate with such a decision!
The middle and lower-level officials, soldiers and civilians have to spend countless money and blood to make this bullshit strategy a success!
Therefore, if you take a closer look at the history of wars before the Industrial Revolution, you will see that they are full of accidents, drama, and tragic heroism. It is difficult to judge!
Because there are too many things to make a decision on!
In fact, William I's personal political talent was not very high. The three battles for the rise of Prussia were all planned by professional politicians and strategists such as Bismarck and Moltke the Elder.
The credit of William I was not to be constrained, to firmly support them, and not to hold them back! Of course, in that era, a king who could do this, even just this, was considered a wise king!
Too many kings and nobles are the ones who command blindly. For example, William II during World War I, this grandson is not as wise as his grandfather!
Outside the palace of Crown Prince Karl, William I and Bismarck lost their identities and chatted candidly like old friends.
Bismarck also had a lot of things to say in his heart. When he saw that His Majesty the Emperor had raised his head and had no airs, and there were no outsiders around, he simply spoke his heart out.
"Your Majesty, you asked me if I have any adventurous plans? Are you referring to the plan we made to sneak attack on London?"
"That's right! I can clearly tell Your Majesty that there is such a plan... and the plan is very detailed. The information and map files are enough to fill three huge walnut bookcases..."
"Ah! God...are you really going to attack Britain? Has Britain already found out your secrets? You are too radical and I don't agree..." William I quickly shook his head.
Bismarck smiled bitterly and said, "No! Your Majesty! Things are not what you think... Everything I have done is actually just a staff plan. I have four more plans like this that have not been put into action." There are more than ten sets, and this is just one of them!”
"God! Your Majesty, do you know how many plans Xiao Letian has? Hundreds of them..."
As Bismarck explained, the eyes of this old king who was still thinking in the medieval era suddenly lit up!
It turns out that what Bismarck is doing is nothing more than the most common national strategic plan for modern countries in the 21st century. This is the daily work of the National Staff Headquarters, that is, the think tank!
The army is called a staff system, and the country also has senior think tanks! These people can't just work during the war, soldiers can rest and recuperate in peacetime.
But there is no rest for this system! It cannot be said that the war has stopped and the entire general staff system has been released!
On the contrary, this general staff system is even busier than during the war!
This is to conduct brand-new war games and make various plans for various changes that may occur in the future. Maybe this kind of plan will never be used, but once this special thing happens, countries with plans will It responds much faster than anything else.
"Your Majesty... did you know... Xiao Letian even has a plan to deal with... alien invasion..."
Um? William I couldn't think anymore. "What...who is that person?"
"Your Majesty, Xiao Letian is the strangest person I have ever met. He has always believed that our earth is not the only one with life in the universe. There must be more civilizations in the distant and endless space!"
"And among these civilized planets, some have higher technological levels than us, and some have lower levels than us... But one thing is for sure, as long as they can take the initiative to find us, the civilization that comes to Earth will definitely be better than us. We are of a higher level!”
"It's just like the Spaniards went to the New World with muskets in the early days of the Great Navigation. The Europeans at that time were like gods in the eyes of the natives of the New World!"
"Higher civilizations don't have much respect for lower civilizations... The Spaniards massacred the Incas, the British colonists massacred the Indians, and we face backward black Africans..."
"Why don't we Europeans feel the slightest sense of guilt for massacring these races? In fact, it's because our level of civilization is higher, and it's high enough to classify these indigenous people... as non-human beings!"
"So, we do these things with the mentality of humans killing ants!"
"Then Xiao Letian asked... What if one day, aliens come to the earth, and the gap between their civilization level and Europe is even greater than when the Spaniards faced the Incas?"
"In the eyes of people on Earth, are those aliens omnipotent? And in the eyes of aliens, are humans on Earth just a bunch of low-level reptiles?"
"This kind of setup is very interesting... Xiao Letian even believes that all religions in human history are actually true! They are just ancient humans who encountered aliens because they were too inferior and faced higher civilizations. A kind of worship plot!”
"It's even possible that the aliens encountered by all the nations around the world are all of the same race! It's just because of the language barrier, different customs, lack of communication... and other reasons among the human nations!"
"It was only in the following thousand years of history that ambiguities arose in the descriptions of these advanced civilizations...and this different ambiguity formed the images of different gods in their respective religions!"
"God! Your Majesty, you are shocked. In fact, I was even more shocked at the time... Xiao Letian gave me the feeling of shock from beginning to end!"
William I was already a bit out of his mind. At that time, Europeans were very devout to Christianity and did not allow various heretical theories to exist. Of course, the situation became better after the emergence of Protestantism.
But it can’t be as enlightened as in the 21st century!
Xiao Letian's concept was like the feeling after opening his head, stuffing a cannonball inside, and then exploding it!
"Your Majesty... don't think that Xiao Letian is just drunk and joking... He... He is really secretly looking for many Chinese wise men and strategists to analyze, and he has made a plan based on the results of various analyses. Seal it!”
"He even deduced three plans for war with aliens, five plans for negotiation and cooperation... and even a plan for how to preserve fire, that is, the preservation of the human race, once all mankind is destroyed!"
"Madman! This... this is a madman!" the Kaiser exclaimed.
"Yes! That's what I said about him too... But what do you think Xiao Letian said?"
