Eastern Development (Tenth Update)

Oscar remained in northern France for three days. Only after finalizing the plan for the war against Britain did he leave France and return to Berlin. By then, the peace treaty between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy had been signed, and the Austro-Hungarian delegation had also departed Berlin.

"Your Majesty, the Austro-Hungarian delegation has left. However, they were far from pleased. Crown Prince Karl in particular is probably dissatisfied with the Empire to the extreme," Imperial Foreign Minister von Kiderlen-Wächter said.

"I noticed long ago, during the war against Russia, that Crown Prince Karl bore some inexplicable hostility toward me. I never expected him to remain the same even now. Still, that is actually a good thing for the Empire. Without people like Crown Prince Karl, how could the Empire find an excuse to act against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the future?" Oscar said with a smile.

Oscar believed that after Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I died and Karl inherited the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, relations between the two nations would inevitably deteriorate further. Conflict might even break out. When that time came, the German Empire would have more than enough reason to strike against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wachth nodded.

"Your Majesty, the Empire's war against Britain will begin in three months. Apart from the war against Britain, there are no conflicts on any other fronts. Furthermore, we have obtained vast territories and enormous war reparations from Russia, France, and the Kingdom of Italy. Therefore, the Cabinet believes that we can begin developing the newly acquired eastern territories," Chancellor Bülow said.

Under the treaty signed between Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Party, Russia ceded Poland, the Baltic States, and half of Belarus to Germany. Finland and Ukraine would also become independent with Germany's