C2488 He even lied to his own people? (1/2)

You're even deceiving your own people?

Do you know what the highest realm a swindler can reach? Then what about the higher realms of deceiving your own people? That was to deceive even himself.

A successful diplomat was destined to be a successful swindler. Bismark was not only an expert in governing nations, he was also an expert in diplomacy. The rise of Prussia was inseparable from his outstanding diplomatic skills of dancing on blades.

But right now, Bismark had already set up a huge scam, a scam that had already fooled the entire world, and even William I.

Bismark's scam could fool others, but could not fool Xiao Letian.

Xiao Letian had exposed this conspiracy of his countless times in private, forcing Bismark to state the truth to him.

What was Bismark's scam? Actually, it was just showing that he was weak on purpose. The entire world's analysis of Prussia was all based on Bismark's fake intelligence.

By deliberately concealing Prussia's true strength, whether in terms of technology or gross industrial product, including the income from agriculture, all the government reports were false.

What was interesting was that Bismark had not only deceived the entire world, he had also deceived his boss, William I.

modern man seemed very absurd at this point, but thinking about it carefully, it was within reason.

Not to mention the backward-looking social environment at the end of the nineteenth century, even the largest multinational corporations in the world after the twenty-first century could not possibly know the specifics of every single one of their factories.

For example, it could be said that the entire middle management had fallen into a fraud scandal, and even the upper echelons had been deceived.

Because a man was always a man, his energy was limited, and the information he received daily was also limited. He could not rule his own empire in every possible way.

The management of the small company that was at least 180 levels away from him, was a mess, corruption, and data fraud that was hard for the upper echelons to detect.

Even in the 21st century, when the internet was exploding, it was impossible for someone at the top to put their control on the front lines, much less in the late 19th century!

Although William I was the King of Prussia, he had already entrusted all the authority to manage the internal affairs of the country to Bismark. What he could see were all things that Bismark wanted him to see.

In other words, at the same time that Bismark was deceiving the entire Europe, he was also deceiving William I at the same time.

Xiao Letian felt that this was probably the main reason behind the deep estrangement between the monarch and subject. Bismark was too strong, so strong that he could not even see a ruler. In other words, if he had met such a kind and friendly Sovereign like William I, his head would have already hit the ground.

The William I of history was indeed a benevolent ruler. His personal moral character was not bad and the concrete example was the Potsdam Mill.

In 1866, William I wanted to imitate the Versailles and build a Worryfree Palace in his territory. However, on the side of this palace, there was an old mill that blocked his view, which made him very regretful.

He belonged to a farmer, so William I had no choice but to send Attendant to buy the land and mill at a high price. William I was prepared to demolish and build his own small garden.