 In 1862 the Landtag refused an increase in the military budget needed to pay for the already implemented reform of the army.This involved raising the peacetime army from 150,000 to 200,000 men and boost the annual number of new recruits from 40,000 to 63,000.However, the truly controversial part was the plan to keep the length of military service (raised in 1856 from two years) at three years.