Industrial Module Unlocked

"Oh?"

Eitel looked somewhat blankly at the task completion lettering on the system interface.

Glancing at the time, five minutes had already passed since the task notification of completion.

"Ring-ring-ring!"

At that moment, the telephone in his room suddenly emitted a hurried ringing sound. Walking over to the phone and picking it up, Manstein's excited voice came from the other end.

"Your Majesty! Guderian has completed the mission perfectly, arresting 47 people, among them three ringleaders."

"At present, the main naval rebellion in Wilhelmshaven has been quelled."

Manstein's report did not come as a surprise to Eitel, but the mission requirements also demanded the eradication of the Spartacus League. Though he did not know why, looking at it now,

the basic workers' movement had already been quelled, and the rest of them could not stir up any great waves.

Just as Eitel was pondering, Manstein spoke up again.

"Your Majesty, just now, that young man named Wilhelm suddenly brought a few people to the White Hall conference room and requested an audience with you."

"Wilhelm?"

Hearing this name, Eitel was somewhat dazed for a moment, but he quickly reacted. Wasn't this Wilhelm simply the son of that leader of the Spartacus League whom they had captured alive earlier?

"What is he here for?"

"Weren't they told to go home and get a good rest?"

Eitel was somewhat puzzled, but he still stood up and straightened the clothes on his body.

"Wilhelm only said he had an important matter to report to you."

Facing Eitel's question, Manstein replied.

Eitel did not think much more about it. After agreeing, he walked out of his room and headed in the direction of the conference room.

Soon, he arrived at the conference room. Pushing open the door, he saw Wilhelm looking at him with a face full of joy, still wearing the German military uniform given to him that day.

Whether he went back and altered that military uniform or not, it looked quite fitting now.

Beside Wilhelm, two people whose hands were bound and mouths covered were looking at Wilhelm with faces full of anger and disbelief.

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing Eitel push the door and enter, Wilhelm trotted up to Eitel, saluted him militarily, and then made way.

"Your Majesty, after going back I thought about it for a long time, and I found that everything you said was right."

"Our biggest mistake was failing to win this war, and my father's anti-war theories are completely wrong."

"Only by winning this war can we achieve the unification of our great German Empire!"

Saying this, Wilhelm pointed to the two bound people beside him.

"These two: one is my father Karl Liebknecht-it is precisely because of him that the empire's supplies could never be delivered in time; and the other is Rosa Luxemburg, who is also one of the leaders of the Spartacus League and likewise one of the chief culprits for the failure of this war!"

Wilhelm looked with earnest eyes at the somewhat dumbfounded Eitel, his face filled with an expression that craved praise.

"Wait a minute, you're saying this one is your father, and that another leader of the Spartacus League was captured by you?"

"How on earth did you pull that off? No, I should ask, what were you thinking?"

Looking at the absolute filial dutifulness radiating from the Wilhelm before him, Eitel felt some doubt about his view of reality.

Wilhelm proudly puffed out his chest: "I figured that only by arresting all these leaders of the domestic workers' movement could the empire's factories be restored to operation."

"Only after the factories resume operation can they produce a steady stream of bullets and firearms to support our combat."

"So I went back and imparted your ideology to a few of my direct subordinates, and last night we raided both of their residences and arrested them. As for how to deal with them next, Your Majesty, you have the final say."

The mystery was solved; it turned out this kid had quietly gone and pulled off a major feat out of nowhere.

Originally, Eitel had still been planning to wait until the naval rebellion in Wilhelmshaven was quelled before assembling forces to eradicate the Spartacus League, but now it was no longer necessary.

Only, Eitel was genuinely somewhat puzzled now-could he really be a genius? A few words could turn a firm Bolshevik fighter into a defector?

Thinking thus, Eitel patted Wilhelm on the shoulder: "Well done."

"Thank you for the praise, Your Majesty! This is what I ought to do!"

Looking at Wilhelm's expression, Eitel was momentarily speechless. Indeed, one could never underestimate any of the people of Germany.

You never knew when they might pull off some astonishing feat for you.

However, the system's task was considered completed. Having figured it out, Eitel looked at Wilhelm: "So what are your plans for the next step?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I intend to lead those willing to follow me into military service, to fight for you and fight for the empire!"

Wilhelm's response was full of spirit, and Eitel nodded with gratification: "Good lad, keep your spirits up and don't disgrace yourself."

Having finished encouraging Wilhelm, Eitel summoned Rommel and instructed him to take the two people away and lock them up.

After the dust settled, Eitel sat in his seat in the conference room and opened the system interface.

The originally crude interface also featured an additional module: the Industrial Module.

He clicked to open the Industrial Module.

[Available civilian factories: 61]
[Available military factories: 75]
[Congratulations to the host for unlocking a system branch module for the first time]
[Reward: National Focus slot +1]
[Unlocked industrial branch focus]
[Four Year Plan, Effects: Unlocks industrial advisor Schacht; metallurgy and synthetic fuel industrial research efficiency +100%; military factory, shipyard, and synthetic oil refinery construction speed +10%; infrastructure +10%; activates Mefo Bills: gradually increases military factory production capacity each month, but consumer goods demand rises slowly, post-war penalties magnified]
[Prioritized Economic Growth, Effects: Short-term consumer goods demand +75%, each civilian factory acquires an additional 1 baseline imported resource, military factory construction speed -10%]
[Build Imperial Highways, Effects: Realm-wide infrastructure construction speed +20%, domestic railway transport efficiency increased, supply attrition reduced]

Looking at the three new national focuses unlocked on the system interface, Eitel pondered for a while.

"System, select Four Year Plan."

[Selected national focus: Four Year Plan]
[New national focus has taken effect]

Although the other national focuses were not bad either, and the subordinate national focus branches they could unlock were also very useful, right now Eitel was still more pressed for military industrial production efficiency.

By comparison, the Four Year Plan still offered a higher cost-performance ratio.

Having figured it out, Eitel looked at the system interface: "Next, I'm going to start micro-managing."

"System, allocate twenty military factories to produce various types of ammunition, allocate fifteen factories to produce rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns, allocate another fifteen factories to produce various artillery pieces, and allocate twenty factories to produce corresponding artillery shells."

"As for the final five, use them to produce various military supplies."

[Allocation successful]

Hearing the system's response, the heavy boulder that had weighed at the bottom of Eitel's heart was finally lifted.

Now the supply problem for the frontline soldiers was resolved, and what remained was to hold the line firmly.

He would set a small target: before the Versailles Conference, he would not let the soldiers of the Allies set foot past the Hindenburg Line by even a single step.

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