In the palace, Edel sat on a chair and carefully reviewed the terms of the negotiated contract. In front of him stood the prime minister and the foreign minister who were responsible for the negotiation. The contract had passed the review of the parliament and only needed the king's signature to take effect. Even if
He had already read the copy before, but Edel carefully reviewed the terms of the contract. This was not because he did not trust the two of them, but because he was responsible for the work.
After reading it, Edel put down the contract and said to the two of them: "Thank you for your hard work. I am very satisfied with this negotiation."
Facing the king's thanks, the two replied in unison: "It's not hard, this is all for the benefit of the Kingdom of Romania. The main reason is that the Ukrainians realized the huge gap in strength with the Kingdom, so that they could negotiate the contract."
After listening to the two people's polite answers, Edel picked up a brush and signed his name in the lower right corner of the contract. Now that the contract is signed, it can take effect.
Then he handed it to the Prime Minister, and when the Prime Minister took the contract text, he said: "This peace negotiation has taken a lot of energy, so you should rest for two days."
Faced with the king's words of concern, Prime Minister Bretianu, who took the text, smiled bitterly and said: "After walking for so long, the documents waiting for me to process in the government have been piled up more than two feet high. Where can I have time to rest now? Next time
Bar."
Faced with the Prime Minister's concerns about government affairs, Edel had no choice but to say: "Okay, after the war is over, I will give you a holiday. Take good care of your body. The white hair on your head has grown a lot. This is all
tired."
Seeing that the king was concerned about his gray hair, Prime Minister Bretianu could not answer the question and could only shrug awkwardly and smile.
The Prime Minister couldn't take a break because of his work, but Foreign Minister Barnosk was moved.
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. Don't tell me, my old bones really need a rest after nearly a month of hard work."
Faced with the foreign minister's joke, Edel smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, but I can't tire my foreign minister. There are still major negotiation tasks that need you."
The two people present are not stupid. They know that the most important thing next is of course the meeting to share the spoils after the war. By then, more than ten or twenty countries, large and small, will all compete for their own interests from the Allies. At this point,
Time is not an easy life.
Right now, Germany is struggling to support itself, and everyone knows its failure is imminent.
After seeing off the two of them, Edel was about to go to the General Staff Headquarters to have a look. By the way, he asked General Pule Shan to talk about the post-war army issues. Unexpectedly, he almost bumped into someone when he walked to the door.
After Edel saw the person in front of him clearly, he asked curiously: "Calust, what's wrong with you today, why are you so anxious?"
When the captain of the guard who was being supported saw Edel in front of him, he gasped and said to the king: "Your Majesty, we just received the news that a sailors' rebellion occurred in Kiel, Germany. This is a telegram."
Kallust's shocking words immediately opened up Edel's long-lost memories: the Kiel Marine Rebellion, the German surrender, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Edel did not accept the telegram. Instead, he pulled the captain of the guard and said, "Let's go in and talk."
After pulling his captain into the room, Edel took the telegram and read it. The Kiel Sailors' Uprising was an important event that marked Germany's defeat. Before, he was worried that this event would disappear because of his stirring up it.
It seems like it still happened now. I just don’t know how this incident is different from my previous life.
According to intelligence, the cause of the Kiel sailor uprising this time was the same as in the previous life, which was caused by ordering the High Seas Fleet to fight. In June and July, in order to prevent the German army from transferring reinforcements to areas under attack, the Allied Powers moved from Verdun to
Launch a full-scale attack on the Atlantic coastline and the entire 400-kilometer-wide front.
Since the German army had been fighting for four years and was exhausted, it was unable to withstand such a huge offensive. The front line steadily advanced to the pre-war German-French border. In this battle, the Allies captured a total of 190,000 German prisoners of war.
The decline in the German army's will to resist and the increase in prisoners during this attack shocked the top brass. In order to boost the morale of the army, Ludendorff, Hindenburg and others came up with the idea of having the navy attack.
Therefore, on August 23, the Naval Command ordered the German High Seas Fleet in Kiel Port to go to sea to fight the British army and "sink with honor" if it failed. This was an attempt to allow the High Seas Fleet to pass the decisive battle and inspire the currently demoralized German army.
However, the officers and soldiers of the fleet who were treated as abandoned sons were extremely angry at the order of the naval headquarters. No one wanted to be sacrificed, and it was still under a situation where there was no hope. Therefore, with the connivance of the senior officers of the fleet, on August 27
, nearly 80,000 sailors disembarked from the battleship and crowded into the streets of Kiel to hold a demonstration.
The actions of the sailors quickly received an enthusiastic response from the workers. Under the leadership of the sailors, the demonstration quickly developed into an armed uprising. It also quickly occupied strategic locations. At the same time, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies and the Soviet of Soldiers' Deputies were also in Kiel.
established.
In order to make the uprising a success, Kiel workers held a city-wide general strike on September 5 to support the sailors' uprising.
When the German government received the news of the sailors' uprising, it was shocked. It immediately sent 6 infantry companies from other places to suppress it. But what the German government did not expect was that 4 of them also turned against the rebels and joined the ranks of the rebels. Very soon
Hurry, the city of Kiel is already under the control of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
The news of the uprising of the Kiel sailors was immediately spread to the world via telegram. As the head of the Romanian intelligence department, Calust immediately found Eder and informed him of the news.
After reading the telegram, Edel walked back and forth in the room, constantly thinking about the impact of this incident on Romania. This incident would make Germany surrender quickly, but during this period, there were still many things in Romania that were not settled. For example,
The clean-up work of the Hungarians in the occupied areas, the referendum in the Eastern Moldavia region, and how to solve the problem for the Poles in Galicia. Whether to discuss with the future Polish government and let them take it over or not, you need to make your own decision.
Calust looked at Edel, who was walking around and thinking about the problem, and didn't dare to express his anger.
Edel, who had been wandering around, finally stopped. He said to Karlust in front of him: "Now send personnel to pay close attention to the situation in Germany. I want to know their movements at any time. In addition, send a report to General Salamik.
, let him speed up the cleaning work. Also, let the Prime Minister speed up the referendum in Eastern Moldavia. I want to see them join the Kingdom of Romania within a month."
Facing Edel's several orders in succession, Calust quickly wrote them down.
"Your Majesty, I will do it right away."
"Go ahead."
After seeing off the captain of the guard, Edel was thinking in his heart. It seems that this war is coming to an end, so the next step is to ensure the interests of Romania.
