Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Early the next morning, William II made a rare move and called Yannick over to have breakfast with him.

Before taking a few bites of bread, William II suddenly asked. "I heard that you asked the Mauser representative for 12% of the shares?"

"..." Not only does this damn guy not know how to appreciate others, but he dares to complain?

Then he thought again and asked. "Grandpa, how did you know about this? Did Mauser's people tell you or did my secretaries report it to you?" He had already guessed the four beautiful women sent by William II. The secretary will definitely still have the task of monitoring him. After all, not long ago he was an ignorant playboy who spent all his time drinking and drinking. If it were him, he would not trust the empire to himself.

William II shook his happy beard and chewed the ham sausage. After swallowing it, he spoke. "What's the difference?"

Sure enough, those four secretaries were watching him by the way. "Of course there is a difference. If Mauser told you, then I will find a way to kill them. If it is the few people you sent to report to you, I have nothing to hide. I just want to do what Mauser did It’s just a transaction, I don’t want their 12% shares for nothing, I exchange them for the firearms design drawings.”

William II couldn't help but wonder. "Firearm design drawing? Who designed it?"

Yannick pointed to his nose. "I."

"You?" The strange expression on William II's face seemed to almost make him laugh. "When did you learn firearms design? Are you so bold as to ask others for 12% of their shares? You don't want to blackmail them, do you? A friend called last night and asked if you were short of money."

Yannick sighed helplessly and had no choice but to tell the truth. "Grandpa, I can't hide it from you. Well, I can't hide it from you. You should know that I used three design drawings to exchange 12% of the shares with Walter Company yesterday. I didn't see Walter come to complain to you and accuse me of blackmail. Them. I saw him waltzing with excitement when he left."

"Really?" William II still didn't believe it.

"If you don't believe it, you can send someone to ask. Firearm design is just taking the strengths of each company and adding a little innovation. It's not difficult." The easiest way is to directly plagiarize using the knowledge of later generations. "Grandpa, can you just leave this matter alone? I think Mauser is getting carried away because he is the main supplier to the Wehrmacht. I want to reduce the army's purchase of Type 98 by 30% and use me to give Walter Company replaced by a new type of rifle.”

William II said somewhat disapprovingly. "Is the new rifle really that good?" His reaction was natural. After all, Mauser was a royal arsenal established during the reign of Frederick I and has a history of more than 100 years. The company has gathered top talents in various fields of firearms. How can it be compared to what my grandson came up with in a flash? As for Walter, maybe he just flattered Yannick because of his status as the future emperor of the empire.

"No matter how bad it is, it's better than the Type 98, right? I think the design of the Type 98 is just that. You should also know that the end-locked Mauser bolt is not as fast as the rear-locked Lee-Enfield bolt. Ours The soldier must move his entire arm to eject the shell and load the gun, but the British soldier only needs to move his wrist joint to do so. The Type 98's rate of fire is only 10 rounds/minute, while the Lee-Enfield can reach 15 rounds/minute." This is also It is just the rate of fire of ordinary soldiers. On foreign video websites, there is even a video owner who shoots a Lee-Enfield rifle at a speed of 10 rounds in 5 seconds. The most impressive one is a British army shooting instructor who set a record in 1914 by firing 38 bullets in one minute, and all of them hit a 30 cm diameter target 210 meters away.

"I gave them a chance, but they didn't want it, so don't blame me for being ruthless. Not only will I reduce my purchases by 30%, but when I find a new partner and come up with another rifle, they will have to purchase more Type 98s. Reduced to more than 60%. Well, there is no need to find a partner, I can open an arms company myself. Then my arms company will supply the army's arms, and Mauser is just a piece of cake."

Seeing Yannick's resentment towards Mauser and his "boasting words", Wilhelm II Yaoyaotou said. "Son, I can't make this kind of decision hastily. I'd better wait until Walter Company makes the gun and get it to the army for trial, and then make an evaluation."

Yannick nodded. "Okay then. Grandpa, I want to... borrow some more money."

William II raised his eyebrows slightly. "How much more do you want to borrow?"

"I'm afraid I'll scare you by saying it. But let me say it beforehand, I will repay the borrowed money with interest around 1930." Yannick held out five fingers as he spoke.

"Five million?"

"five million?"

"Fifty million?"

Seeing Yannick still shaking his head, William II almost cursed. If it weren't for the fact that he had made some progress these days, he would have really wanted to drive this bastard grandson out of the palace and let him live on the streets as a beggar for a few days.

William II suppressed the anger in his heart and asked. "Then you have to at least tell me what the money is going to be used for?"

"This matter is being kept secret for the time being." Yannick certainly couldn't tell him that the U.S. stock market would collapse at the end of next year.

It's a pity that he traveled through time a little late. If we had prepared billions or even tens of billions of capital investment a few years earlier, it would have definitely caused a massive hemorrhage in the United States. But now even if William II could misappropriate 10 billion US dollars for him, he would not dare to invest all of it.

After all, he only acted based on the experience of future generations, but those financial giants on Wall Street were real experts. If those old capital foxes see the signs, he will be the one to lose all his money. Not only him, but also the whole of Germany may be affected.

So he can only set a small goal first, invest US$500 million, and be satisfied if he earns two or three times.

William II said somewhat sullenly. "Keep it secret from me too? Do you know that the domestic economy is in a shambles right now, and there are not many foreign exchange reserves. Five hundred million US dollars is not a small amount."

Seeing that William II was really angry, Yannick quickly took out a document and handed it over. "Grandpa, this is the follow-up to the Elite Soldiers Plan I mentioned to you last time. The 'Stealth Force' Plan."

On June 22, 1941 in the original time and space, the mustache completely tore up the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and attacked the bearded Soviet Union.

In the first few hours, thousands of German aircraft violently bombed Soviet airfields, and countless Soviet tanks and artillery were destroyed before they could even be transported from their warehouses. In the first few days of the war, entire Soviet divisions and entire armies were surrounded and destroyed by the Germans, and even entire armies were not spared.

The bells of victory seemed to have sounded for the Germans.

However, facing the endless team of Soviet prisoners of war, the sober-minded German generals began to feel helpless.

A German general even wrote in his diary: "We underestimated their strength. After careful screening of prisoners, we have now discovered and identified 360 divisions!" The German army added 153 divisions. There are only 190 divisions in total among the 37 divisions of the subordinate countries. Even if the war situation is the most favorable to them, they cannot destroy the entire Soviet Red Army. Moreover, the German general was only talking about the first-echelon Soviet divisions fighting in the western region at that time. How many divisions are there in the second echelon? How many divisions are there in the third echelon? After several large-scale battles, why did the number of Soviet troops not decrease, but miraculously recover?