"Victor is dead!" Old Dick held Wang Heidi's sleeve tightly and refused to let him leave, and said hurriedly: "Silem, I want to apologize to you. The telegram you received in the Far East in 1900 to cancel the wedding was not Catherine's intention. I asked Verani to take Catherine to the countryside manor for vacation and send you a telegram in her name. I was afraid that you would not believe it and published the news of your remorse in the newspapers in Kilburg Berlin. Siemem, Catherine's feelings for you have never changed, they were all caused by me, a greedy and damn old man."

The otaku was silent. He did not doubt the authenticity of the telegram, and he also sent a telegram to ask Redel, who was stationed in the empire's homeland, to inquire about the news. Until Redel reported that the Dicks' family had cancelled the wedding in the newspapers in Hamburg, Berlin. The otaku then lost his mind, hid the complaints in his heart and married Anne, the youngest daughter of the Shrekt family in anger. Catherine also came to find the otaku afterwards and wrote more than a hundred letters to explain, but Wang Heidi, who was angry at the time, had no intention of paying attention to it. When he took it lightly, the otaku was already married, and the letters also dissipated in the dust with the sea breeze of the past.

"Why, Victor is dead. It's time for me to appear as a spare tire?" Wang Heidi barely stopped and had suppressed his emotions for more than ten years burst out. He laughed angrily: "What can I do? Leave my wife, abandon my lovely daughter, ignore the kindness of the Shrekt family to me, and then marry your daughter?!"

"I thought about finding a husband who is a good match and can take care of her, but I never thought that I was harming her. Catherine was only thirty-five years old, and she was destined to be the proud daughter of Keel. I will never allow her to become a poor widow. Silame, I will give you one thousand yuan a month, no, the salary of the five thousand empire mark. I am even willing to share half of my property with you, as long as you are willing to come back, marry my daughter and take care of her..." Dick, a big businessman with a net worth of tens of millions of pounds, begged.

"Catherine...she...is she okay?"

The black-hearted businessman who used all kinds of squeezing methods to fight against the whaling ship of the South Shireswig was gone. Standing in front of Wang Heidi was only an elderly father who felt sorry for his daughter with inconvenience in legs and feet. The otaku felt that this world was wonderful. Some things were always lost and they would regret it. When you want to cherish it, it was irreversible. Just as Wang Heidi was impatient with his girlfriend before traveling through time, just like Dick's contempt for his former son-in-law Silame, just like the otaku submitted a retirement report to the Personnel Department of the Admiralty.

With the otakus' stuttering inquiries, the hatred buried in the heart for more than ten years disappeared, and for nothing else, the otakus was born as a father and he also loved his daughter extremely.

"Catherine was seriously ill and her spirit was broken. She had to take a lot of tranquilizers and sleeping pills every day to fall asleep. Silame, I know you hate Verani and me, but Catherine is innocent, for the sake of God, for the sake of you and Catherine, for the sake of a poor father..."

The wind blew, and just a little breeze blew the small garden so that the sand and stones were gone, making the otaku almost unable to open his eyes. After smoking the cigarette in his mouth, the otaku touched another one and pulled the match hard, but because the breeze couldn't hit it, he stuffed the match cigarette box back into his pocket as if nothing had happened and walked towards the apartment staggeringly.

"Mr. Dick, I can't help you. I'm already married. I'm wearing a cheap wedding ring on my hand and swore to stay together for life in front of God and the priest. There is also a lovely daughter who I can't go back! Also, my love for my daughter is no less than your love for Catherine. Please put your heart on your father's side and don't disturb my life again."

The otaku left a few words of scenes and fled in panic. He bypassed the German tricolor flag and the naval flag embroidered with iron crosses and black hawks in front of the apartment building, and rushed up the corridor in three steps, until he ran into Gunther Lütjens, who was standing sneakily in the corridor.

"Silem, who is that person?" Lütjens finally asked after a fierce psychological struggle: "Are you okay?"

"I'm OK..." The otaku answered the romance of the mountain flowers, calling Lütjens confused: "As for him, my most familiar stranger's father..."

****

At the end of January, a jeep with a Turkish government license plate was parked in front of the apartment building, and the otaku jumped into the military car in a straight military uniform.

"Silem, telegram from the Admiralty!" Lütjens, who had just walked over from the communication room, called Wang Heidi.

The otakus' heart skipped a beat, knowing that his retirement application report had a result. He hurried on the cold and hard rear seat of the jeep, pinched the folded telegram, shook his head and stuffed the letter back to Lütjens's hand.

"General Enzel has something to ask me for trouble. Lütjens, please help me take this telegram back and wait until I come back from the high gate..."

The otaku is not in a hurry, but has a decision in his heart. Whether the Admiralty refuses or not, Wang Heidi will definitely take off his military uniform this time. The otaku is really tired of having no destination, no direction, and no future wandering life.

The jeep was bumpy on the bumpy dirt road in Istanbul for a long time, and the road conditions did not improve until it entered the city. The German jeep passed through the streets and alleys in the old city of Constantinople, and it took half an hour to enter the high gate. Under the guidance of the adjutant, the otakus came to the office of the Turkish Defense Minister Enzell.

Enzel was one of the three giants of the Turkish military government. In 1912-1913, the two Balkan wars failed. The Turks were poor and wanted to change. At that time, Enzel, who was only a school-level officer, led a group of young officers to launch a coup and expelled the liberal cabinet from the government. In June 1913, General Sevket, an iron-fisted figure in the young Turkish party, was assassinated, and the last power of the liberals was wiped out by the young Turkish people. In the same year, Enzel took office as Minister of Defense and formed a military oligarchy government together with Minister of Interior Talat and Navy Gemal.

Enzel was born in Istanbul, the capital of the empire, and his father was a railway official. He graduated from the Turkish Army University in his early years and soon joined the Youth Turkish Party. He played an important role in Turkey's 1908 revolution and won the reputation of "freedom hero". He was once a Turkish military officer in Berlin and was well aware of Germany's strong industrial strength and strong military potential. This is also the reason why he adopted a pro-German stance after he came to power.

Wang Heidi is not unfamiliar with Enzele. The reason why the otaku can dominate the Turkish navy is also the help of Enzele. At the New Year's Officer's Cheer in 1913, Wang Heidi was invited to attend as a German adviser. During this period, he encountered Enzele, who was similar to his age. The otaku was a man who could not drink, but he had the habit of being greedy. He was drunk and pulled Enzele, who was young but highly powerful, to complain randomly. He joked about the Balkans, the secret history of Austria, the feud between Germany and France, and the dilemma of Turkey, and so on, and was shocked by Enzele as a confidant.

"Captain Sileme, we have taken the Sultan Ottoman I..." Enzel threw the documents on the desk aside, pointed to the chair opposite the desk and let Wang Heidi sit down.

"Congratulations to Damad and your Ottoman Empire..." Damad is the honorary title of the Ottoman royal princess. Enzeel is about to marry an Ottoman royal princess. The otaku smiles and calls Enzeel the honorary title of Damad, and he compliments him without any thoughts.

"Silem, the Germans were not worried about the Ottoman Empire turning to the Allies?" Enzel carefully played with the pen in his hand, raised his head slightly and said with a condescending look.

"General, in fact, the Greeks may not be the biggest loser in this arms race, and you may not be the biggest winners. The real winner can only be the Germans!" Wang Heidi curled her lips and played the old tune again.

"Silem, are you worried that we won't get those two super-dreadnoughts?" Wang Heidi said this more than once. The professional soldier Lütjens doesn't understand it. It doesn't mean that Enzele, a politician who is the head of state, cannot think about the meaning of the otaku. He shook his head and did not say anything: "Tear the contract and get the Türkiye apart, the British will not make such a low-level mistake!"

"Mad, if the British comply with the contract, we would be glad that the Allies had two more super-dreadnoughts!"

"What if we join the Allies?" Enzel calmly added weight.

"Impossible!" The otaku said firmly, waving his arms without surprise: "The polar bear cannot accept Türkiye!"

As early as the era of Peter the Great, the Russians formulated plans to approach the Indian Ocean as much as possible and conquer the world. All the Tsars after Peter the Great insisted on this policy. In order to open up the Black Sea channel, they took the strategic location, the Turkish Strait, into their pockets, and allowed the Black Sea fleet to threaten the Mediterranean and threaten the Suez Canal, the Russians did not hesitate to launch ten Russian-Turkish wars. If the Turks wanted to join the Allies, they would probably be the first to jump out and oppose it.

"Türkiye can still remain neutral!" Enzel said fiercely.

"If the Allies win, the Ottoman Empire will get nothing; if the Allies win, without the restraint of Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire, in front of the insatiable double-headed eagle with the power of victory, General Enzell, do you think the Ottoman Empire has room for a foothold?" The otaku casually resolved Enzell's rebuttal one by one. In 1898, the otaku did the same at the Berlin Congress hearing. Although the otaku was not good at speaking, in the area where he was interested, the otaku's heart was big, and he liked this feeling.

"Okay..." General Enzell, the famous pro-German military oligarch, smiled heartily. The head of state, who was younger than the otaku, took out a letter of appointment from the drawer and threw it in front of the otaku. "First Deputy Minister of the Turkish Admiralty, Silem, are you interested in this position?"

First Deputy Minister of the Navy?

The stinky Taoist priest, with the asymmetric battle of small and big, the ideal of traveling through the world with the ideal of being a little sword and iron horse, fantasized about saving the world countless times, and the champagne with victory within reach, the huge reputation, the beauties who were thrown into their arms and countless money, the heart of the otaku, which was about to cool down, came to life instantly, and he almost nodded in agreement.

Unfortunately, it was only "almost". Wang Heidi's fist became loose and tight, and she repeated it again and again until her palms were filled with sweat and she tried her best to refuse:

"General, I'm sorry, I'm determined to retire, and no one can stop me..."

"Why?" Enzel was stunned for a long time according to the appointment letter.

"General Enzel, from joining the Navy in 1894 to coming to Turkey with frequent wars in 1912, twenty years, I dedicated the best time of my life to the Navy. It would be fine if I had not achieved success or become a laughing stock in the navy. After more than ten years of overseas service, I could hardly remember what my daughter looked like. I had hardly taken care of my seriously ill father and father-in-law." Wang Heidi said a lot in one breath, as if she wanted to vent the blocks he had accumulated over the years: "I have two Navy medals for ten years of excellent service, which is enough!"

****

"Why haven't Sileme come back yet? What did the telegraph say? Why don't I read it first and check it out for him?" Lütjens wandered around the telegraph paper on the table for many times. He could not resist his curiosity after all, and opened it and took a look.

"Refusing to apply for retirement? Promoted to major of the Navy? Transferred to the Chief Staff Officer of the First Reconnaissance Fleet in the High Seas Fleet?" Lütjens's face turned blue and white. After thinking for a long time, a few words popped out of his mouth: "Retreat as a advance, a good way! It seems that I have to apply for early retirement!";
Chapter completed!