Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

But even so, it is useless. If the SPD wants to develop smoothly, it must become a true majority party, that is, occupy more than 50% of the seats. If this requirement is too difficult, then it can retreat to more than 40% and less than 50%. If there is any problem, it can just win over the centrists.

Therefore, the SPD needs to have extensive contact with various groups in society and strive to get their help.

Everyone present knew this, so they all thought about which group to win over. After more than ten seconds, Louis took the lead and said to Lin Shangzhou: "Fritts, we can contact the Jews."

"Jew?"

There was some doubt in Lin Shangzhou's eyes. He was not as anti-Semitism as some people. He did not have a very bad impression of Jews, but he also did not have a very good impression of them.

"Yeah, the Jews."

Louis nodded and continued to explain: "There are quite a few wealthy Jews in Germany. They have the right to vote and can become our helpers. Your identity can also be a tool to attract them."

"Your identity can also attract other immigrant groups."

Lin Shangzhou thought carefully about Louis's words. This was a very good idea, but if not handled properly it would cause ethnic problems. The Jews were easier to deal with, as they had lived in Germany for who knows how long and could be considered Germans. But it was harder to say about other immigrants. Other immigrant groups may have come after World War I, before World War I, or when the German Empire was founded.

Based solely on the Junkers' attitude towards Alsace Lorraine, Lin Shangzhou believes that the Junkers are hostile to foreign immigrants, and if immigrants gain political rights, the first thing they want to do is to seek benefits for themselves.

There is nothing wrong with such behavior, but such behavior is an infringement on the rights of the Germans. Regardless of whether it will really infringe on the rights of the Germans, nationalists will definitely say so when they play nationalism. At that time, regardless of whether it is really infringed or not, once the conflict is triggered, it will be difficult to eliminate.

The biggest benefit of doing this is not the general election in 32, but the general election in 37. After being elected next year, the SPD will reform democratic elections. At that time, all German civilians will have the right to vote. As beneficiaries, immigrants will use their votes to give back to the SPD in the general election in 37.

The ethnic issue is a time bomb that has been turned off, but the Social Democratic Party needs more votes. Lin Shangzhou is very hesitant about this matter.

After much thought, he thought of China's ethnic policy in OTL, which could be said to be a benchmark for multi-ethnic countries. Although its specific methods were not suitable for implementation in Germany, it was still possible to learn from it, not to mention that he had Goebbels by his side.

When he thought of the solution to the ethnic problem, his thoughts immediately became clear and he nodded to Louis.

Then others expressed their opinions. To sum up, they should try their best to win over the petty bourgeoisie, part of the bourgeoisie, German Jews and immigrants, as well as a few women who had just gained the right to vote some time ago.

Lin Shangzhou does not think that women will support the SPD just to repay the party for its actions during the protests, but it won’t lose anything to try. If they help, that would be the best; if they don’t, then forget it.

Regarding the propaganda activities before the election, Lin Shangzhou proposed to give full authority to Goebbels. The top leaders of the SPD had no objection to this, as they were all aware of the strength of the Vorwarts.

They also discussed more things at the meeting, such as deciding to actively help workers fight for their legal rights and interests and protect their interests; insisting on maintaining the social status of women...

After the meeting, the SPD began to prepare for the decisions to be made at the meeting.

Everything will depend on the general election in March next year.

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Chapter 242 Preparations before the Election

After the meeting in early October, on the advice of Lin Shangzhou, Vorbeck left the SPD and returned to the National Liberal Party. The reason why the old general chose to help Lin Shangzhou was for the German Emperor. Although the two had a good relationship, the German Emperor was out of control, so there was no need for him to stay in the SPD.

Moreover, General Volbeck was still very interested in the position of Chancellor. He had his own ideas about the future of Germany, and the National Liberal Party also warmly welcomed his return.

As for the Jewish and immigrant groups, Lin Shangzhou has no plan to contact them directly. If they knew the needs of the SPD, the Jews would then make an offer. Lin Shangzhou does not want to make any promises to the Jews or other immigrant groups.

They must be allowed to support the SPD voluntarily. With Goebbels around, Lin Shangzhou is not worried that they will not support the SPD.

In parliament, Lin Shangzhou led the Social Democratic Party to repeatedly oppose the proposals of the Center Party and the right wing. They couldn't prevent the bills from being passed, but they could still disgust the right wing.

After a period of stability, it was November 1931. On November , Lin Shangzhou took Bode to leave Berlin and go to other cities in Germany to investigate the living conditions of workers in order to further determine their future propaganda commitments and the measures to be taken after taking power.

This investigation lasted for a month. On December 10, Lin Shangzhou brought Bode back to Berlin. After a month of investigation, Lin Shangzhou found that the workers did not have excessive demands. All they wanted was to reduce working hours, increase wages, and form a union composed of workers.

After returning to Berlin, he wanted to start the next round of work to investigate the demands of the German middle class, but he was forced by Letitia and Noah to take a break for a while. Only after Christmas did the two girls agree to let him continue working.

A few days after Christmas, 1931 was over and the time came to 1932.

In the first month of 32nd year, Lin Shangzhou continued the work he had not completed in the previous month. In the middle of the month, he ended his inspection and began to prepare for the general election.

The general election in the German Empire will be held on a day in early to mid-March. After the voting ends, it will take a few days for necessary calculations and the results will be announced on a day in the middle of the month. Therefore, all political parties must make all preparations before March, and the SPD is no exception.

As the election approaches, people in Germany and even other countries of the Reichstag have begun discussing this year's German election and speculating which party will win.

In the past, people would have no hesitation in thinking that the right-wing party would win the general election, but what happened in the past year has given people a completely different view.

The Center Party has no hope. The resignation of the prime minister and the agreement to women's demands have already caused the Center Party to lose some voters. Other political parties are bound to squeeze the Center Party out, so there is no need to consider this party.

What people are most looking forward to is how the SPD will perform in the general election?

The SPD has been in the spotlight over the past few months, helping women protest, speaking up for striking workers, and fighting right-wing bills in parliament... not to mention their leader has a close relationship with the Emperor.

There are also reports that the Deutsche Volkswegen, a newspaper that has been very popular in Germany since last year, was founded by the party's leader. With the support of various factors, many people believe that the SPD has the strength to compete with the right wing this year and is expected to win the general election.

No matter what people speculate, all the answers will be revealed in March.

Starting from mid-January, various political parties began to prepare for the general election. Goebbels wrote speech after speech for Lin Shangzhou to use, and he also prepared several speeches for himself.

Starting from February 1st, various political parties officially began their propaganda campaigns, and the German government was also preparing for the general election.

The slogan of the Social Democratic Party is very simple, "Germany of the People". In a speech, Lin Shangzhou stated that after coming to power, they will make every effort to promote Germany's democratic reforms, introduce appropriate economic policies to promote Germany's economic development, and so on.

Thanks to the efforts of Goebbels and the Vorwärts newspaper, the SPD's support among German citizens continued to rise. Every SPD speech was watched by countless people. Speeches on the streets even caused excessive traffic congestion, so much so that some citizens complained to the SPD and asked them to give speeches elsewhere.

Therefore, Lin Shangzhou's speech was forced to move to other places. On February 20th, he gave a speech entitled "Germany, Glorious and Great!" at the Berlin Stadium. Tens of thousands of Berlin residents participated in the speech. If the real-time broadcast was included, the audience should have been even more. Even Alexandrine took the initiative to attend the speech as an audience member to cheer for Lin Shangzhou.

After the German Emperor appeared here, people's focus shifted. Starting from February, each political party had its own speech, but the Emperor did not attend the speeches of other political parties but came to the SPD's speech rally.

Such an action is enough to illustrate Alexandrine's attitude.

Although the emperor's appearance stole the limelight from Lin Shangzhou, Goebbels's inflammatory article soon captivated the audience.

There is actually nothing special about this article. It is just a simple patriotic article with a certain nationalist nature, but it was written by Goebbels.

After this speech, more citizens chose to support the SPD. The right wing was deeply dissatisfied with this. They were dissatisfied with the SPD for snatching away neutral voters, and even more dissatisfied with Lin Shangzhou, a Chinese, who kept saying "I love Germany".

After the SPD's speech on the 20th, representatives of other political parties also held similar activities. However, the people were obviously not interested in their speeches. Their manuscripts were actually quite good, but they were still a little worse than Goebbels's.

After March, the political parties began the final sprint. They still had time to win votes for themselves before the official voting. However, what no one expected was that the German Emperor's assistant Letitia gave a public speech.

The content of the speech was nothing special, it just said that His Majesty hoped that Germany would become better and better, but the content was implicitly saying: "You should support the SPD."

Three days after the speech, on March 10th, voting officially began.

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Chapter 243

At 10 a.m. on March 10, the voting phase of the German general election officially began. Members of various political parties were on high alert, waiting for the upcoming final result.

Will the right-wing party, which has long held a great advantage in Germany, become the ruling party as usual? Or will the Social Democratic Party, a left-wing party led by a Chinese, win the election? Or will the tepid centrist National Liberal Party unexpectedly win?

The final result will be determined by the votes of German voters, who are currently voting.

Media from all walks of life in Germany, and even other European countries, whether they are countries within the Imperial Pact or not, are all paying attention to the general election in the German Empire.

Different people have different views in different countries. The socialists in the Reichstag countries hope that the SPD can win the general election so that they will have the opportunity to take the leadership in their countries in the future, while the right wing naturally hopes that the right wing in Germany can win the general election.

The right wing being in power may not necessarily be in their interests, but the left wing being in power is definitely not in their interests.

The French Commune and the British Union did not report this incident excessively in their own countries. For them, it did not matter whether the left or the right was in power in Germany. No matter which party was in power in Germany, it would not be possible for them to treat the Commune and the British Union very friendly.

However, the lack of official reporting does not mean that the public is not paying attention. The people of the French Commune and the British Union cannot get news directly from Germany, but they can learn relevant information through third-party countries.

The foreign reactions have no impact on Germany, and now the German people are nervously waiting for the final results.

Lin Shangzhou sat on the sofa in Wuyou Palace and looked down at the book in his hand, hoping to relieve the tension in his heart by reading, but he did not read a single word of the content in the book, and his heart was full of worries about the election.

The room was very warm, but beads of sweat appeared on Lin Shangzhou's forehead because of worry. Noah, who was standing next to the sofa, noticed the sweat on his forehead keenly, so he came to him, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped his forehead.

"Shang Zhou, are you nervous?"

"Ah."

Facing Nuoya's concern, Lin Shangzhou nodded without disguising, closed the book and said to the people around him: "Very nervous."

Everyone else in the room was equally nervous, except Cecilia.

Alexandrine turned her head to look at her sister, and when she found that she looked nonchalant, she poked her shoulder and asked, "Liya, Fritz is so nervous, why do you seem to not care about this at all?"

"I am the captain of the Storm Troopers and a soldier. It doesn't matter to me which political party is in power. I just need to do my job well."

Cecilia said calmly. Hearing her say this, Lin Shangzhou felt relieved. Such a soldier is a qualified soldier...even though Cecilia's past actions were somewhat unqualified.

"Alexandrine, Cecilia is right. A soldier only needs to do his job well and does not need to care about things like the election."

Lin Shangzhou said to Alexandrine. His words made Cecilia look at him. After a few seconds, she said, "Fritts, if you are really nervous, why don't you take a rest first? I see from your appearance that you didn't sleep well last night, right?"

Lin Shangzhou was a little surprised by the girl's sudden concern. In his impression, Cecilia rarely cared about him.

"If you want to sleep, you don't need to..."

Lin Shangzhou was halfway through his words when he saw the look in Letitia's eyes as she sat on the sofa opposite him and swallowed the rest of his words. He didn't sleep well last night because he was too nervous. He knew that even if he lost the election this time, it didn't matter, there would still be another general election in 37 years, and the Social Democratic Party would have a greater chance of being elected then.

But his heart just couldn't calm down. Facing such a big event, I'm afraid no one would be able to calm down.

"Ha~ah~"

He pretended to yawn, covered his mouth with one hand, and put the book on the table with the other hand. He stood up, stretched, and said, "Then I'll go to sleep. Maybe the result will come out when I wake up."

After the words fell, Noah and Letitia looked at each other, and then Letitia came to Lin Shangzhou and took him out of Alexandrine's office.

Lin Shangzhou and Letitia came to his room - the room Letitia specially prepared for him.

After entering the room, Lin Shangzhou turned to Letitia who was closing the door and said, "Letitia, this shouldn't be a good time, right?"

"Not suitable?"

Letitia was stunned for a moment. After she reacted, she frowned and walked to Lin Shangzhou, stretched out her right hand and tapped his forehead.

"What are you thinking about? I just brought you here to sleep."

After saying that, Letitia grabbed Lin Shangzhou's arm, pulled him to the bed and forced him to lie on the bed.

"Just sleep well, I won't disturb you."

After letting Lin Shangzhou lie down on the bed, Letitia left. Lin Shangzhou suddenly felt a little lonely lying on the bed alone. He had been thinking of doing something else to relieve his mood, but now it seemed that he could only sleep.

He sighed lightly and closed his eyes. As time passed, he gradually felt sleepy and soon fell asleep.

While he was sleeping, the voting phase of the general election was still proceeding in an orderly manner.

On March 12, voting ended and government workers officially began counting the votes received by each party.

One day later, on March 13, the Central Party government announced the final results.

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Chapter 244 Taking office

On the morning of March 14, the German government officially announced the results of the general election.

The Central Party of the former ruling party only received about 9 percent of the votes, a drop of two-thirds compared to the last general election, which also means that the Central Party will become the "former ruling party."

Three other right-wing parties like the Center Party, the Fatherland Party, the Conservative Party, and the Empire Party, won 2%, 31%, and 7% respectively.

Although only the Conservative Party among the four right-wing parties received more than 30% of the votes, the remaining three right-wing parties, excluding the far-right Motherland Party, still had nearly 50% of the votes, which means that the right wing still has nearly half of the seats in parliament.

For the German right wing, having nearly half of the seats in parliament is a good thing in itself, but unfortunately, it is only nearly half. This time the right wing did not become the majority in the German parliament. They only have 49% of the seats, while their arch-rival, the Social Democratic Party to which Lin Shangzhou belongs, won 36% of the votes in the general election. 36% means that the Social Democratic Party will obtain about one-third of the seats in the Imperial Parliament, the same as the Conservative Party, and the Social Democratic Party, which has 5% more votes than the Conservative Party, will have more seats than the Conservative Party.

The National Liberal Party only got 15% of the votes, which is neither high nor low. The National Liberal Party was very satisfied with this result because neither the Social Democratic Party nor the Conservative Party had truly achieved the status of an outright majority party.

Under such circumstances, their centrist parties have become the target of both the left and right wings, which is also a very good result for them.

After the results were announced, the whole world was shocked. Although the German general election resulted in a situation where neither the left or right party won more than half of the seats, the 5% more votes that the SPD won over the Conservatives meant that the SPD would become the ruling party in Germany.

For those who are paying attention to this matter, it is no longer important which political party has won more than half of the votes and more than half of the seats in parliament. Even though its position is very embarrassing, the SPD is still the undisputed largest party in the German Imperial Parliament.

Is there anything more outrageous in the world than a left-wing party becoming the ruling party in Germany, a right-wing country where conservatism has always been dominant?

The results of the German election immediately made headlines around the world. Even the French Commune and the British Union did not expect this unexpected result. Although most of them did not have a positive attitude towards the SPD's policies toward France and Britain, a SPD Germany was more or less a good thing for them.

Socialists from all over the world were very happy about the SPD's victory in the general election. This also greatly encouraged them. If the German SPD was able to become the ruling party, why couldn't they?

The socialists, deeply encouraged, decided to send people to Germany to express their congratulations to the SPD and at the same time hope to get their guidance on how to bring the SPD to power in their own country.

Of course, the happiest people are the Social Democrats in Germany. This is a huge happy event for them. In the past, the Social Democrats never thought that they could become the ruling party, but now this has become a reality and they have become the ruling party in Germany.

Lin Shangzhou in Wuyou Palace was the first to get the results of the election. After hearing that the Social Democratic Party had 36% of the votes, he finally felt relieved.

At the same time, Lin Shangzhou also knew that this was just the beginning. They only had 36 percent of the seats, and no matter what they did in the future, they would be obstructed by the right wing. Therefore, it was necessary to win over the National Liberal Party.

However, future matters can be considered later. At least for now, Lin Shangzhou plans to enjoy the joy brought by winning the election.

After commissioning Goebbels to write a short inaugural speech for him, Lin Shangzhou threw himself into bed and began to sleep to replenish his energy. He had not been able to sleep well every day in the few days before the results were announced. Now that he had the chance, he certainly had to have a good rest to prepare for the upcoming inaugural speech.

At nine o'clock in the morning on March 15th, Bode slowed down the car on the road in front of the Capitol and finally stopped on the side of the road. Lin Shangzhou looked at the reporters on both sides of the road outside the window and felt a little nervous. This nervousness was not about the reporters, but about the inaugural speech he would deliver in the parliament.