Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

As soon as these words were spoken, Bode was the first to applaud enthusiastically. Officers such as Witzleben also stretched out their hands to applaud and congratulate Lin Shangzhou for his good results.

Then Lin Shangzhou heard warm applause behind him. At the signal of the officers, the soldiers clapped to add to the atmosphere.

The applause made Lin Shangzhou's mouth twitch twice. This time he finally understood what it felt like when the people around him cheered loudly for the leader's simple accomplishment.

He pulled the bolt to eject all the bullets, then placed the bullets and rifle on the table, and then turned his attention to a machine gun that looked a bit like an MG34.

After asking the officer next to him, Lin Shangzhou learned that the model of this machine gun was called "MG32". He himself was not so clear about the performance of mg34, but considering that 98k was developed three years in advance, it was reasonable for mg34 to be developed in this world under the name of "mg32".

Lin Shangzhou looked at the mg32 and thought about the shooting with the 98k just now. The more he thought about it, the more itchy he became. Since he was already a prime minister, it should be okay for him to play with the equipment, right?

So, in the next ten minutes, with the help of Bode, Lin Shangzhou played with all the light weapons equipment currently in service with the German Army.

His behavior puzzled General Witzleben and other generals. What was the chancellor doing? Was he playing with a gun?

Due to Lin Shangzhou's identity, the officers all thought that Lin Shangzhou was just testing the performance of light weapons. Otherwise, if they really believed that the prime minister was using these equipment for "play", Witzleben and others would probably not be able to accept it.

After firing a burst of MG32, Lin Shangzhou finally stood up from the ground with satisfaction, brushed off the dust on his body, and turned to praise the precise German craftsmanship to officers such as Witzleben.

Afterwards, Lin Shangzhou followed Witzleben around the camp. He asked about the soldiers' living standards and salaries, and finally left the Berlin Garrison at five in the afternoon.

On the way back to the city, Lin Shangzhou took out his communicator and dialed Bauman's number.

The call was connected after a few seconds.

"Mr. Prime Minister, what do you want?"

"Please help me contact the people at the Krupp Arsenal. I will go there tomorrow to inspect their armament research. Tell them that I will arrive in Essen at noon and inspect the work in the afternoon."

When Bauman on the other end of the phone heard that Lin Shangzhou had arranged something for him, he immediately became alert and said:

"Okay, Mr. Prime Minister, I'll do it right away."

"Yeah. Trouble."

After saying that, Lin Shangzhou hung up the phone. After hanging up the call to Baumann, Lin Shangzhou seamlessly called Goebbels and Louis. The content of his calls to both of them was the same. He had something to talk to them about and asked them to come to Lin Shangzhou's house in the evening.

The two agreed readily.

After putting away the communicator, Lin Shangzhou leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, thinking about the contents of the new book.

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Chapter 279 Problem Breakthrough

At six o'clock in the evening, Lin Shangzhou returned home early to prepare dinner. Since last month, because a maid in Wuyou Palace asked for leave to go home, Letitia and Noah came to his house less frequently, and in most cases he had to prepare dinner by himself.

While Lin Shangzhou was cooking, Louis and Goebbels arrived at his home one after another.

The two sat on the sofa and chatted about their recent life while waiting for their host to prepare dinner.

Ten minutes later, Lin Shangzhou stood up, took off his apron, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and began to take out the dishes one by one.

When Louis and Goebbels saw him coming out with the plates of food, they stood up and went forward to help. A minute later, the three of them sat down steadily at the dining table.

Halfway through the meal, Lin Shangzhou put his chopsticks on the porcelain bowl that Bauman had gotten from somewhere and watched the two people, one picking up food and the other drinking porridge.

Louis and Goebbels also felt Lin Shangzhou's gaze, so Louis put down his chopsticks, turned his head and looked at him and said: "Fritts, just say whatever you want to say."

Louis paused and said, "Or you can talk about it after dinner."

Goebbels put the bowl down and nodded slightly in agreement with Louis.

The two of them focused their eyes on Lin Shangzhou, and he felt a little nervous when he thought about what he was going to say next.

After all, marrying the German Emperor was too outrageous.

"Hmm...cough cough..."

Lin Shangzhou coughed lightly to clear his throat, and his expression became serious.

Seeing his attitude change, Louis and Goebbels couldn't help but wonder what Lin Shangzhou would say.

Did you come up with a new policy? Or something else?

From Lin Shangzhou's attitude, the two could only guess that this matter was not simple. As for what it was, they could only find out after Lin Shangzhou said it.

Goebbels stared at Lin Shangzhou intently, and with one hand he held up the bowl to drink the porridge.

At this time, Lin Shangzhou spoke.

"Louis, Paul, I want to marry Alexandrine."

"Uh... cough cough cough—"

The moment he heard this, Goebbels' eyes widened instantly. He was about to say something but choked himself. Louis, who was sitting opposite him, also widened his eyes and looked at Lin Shangzhou with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

"You don't have a fever, do you?"

Goebbels was choked and couldn't recover, and Louis stood up and walked to Lin Shangzhou, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead to see if this prime minister who said such shocking words had a fever today and his brain was damaged.

Lin Shangzhou moved his head to the side and said, "I'm fine, I don't have a fever."

Seeing his answer, Louis stood there and looked at Lin Shangzhou in disbelief and said, "If your brain is not burned, then what's the matter with what you just said?"

Louis sat back in his chair. Goebbels recovered and looked at Lin Shangzhou with surprise and said, "Fritts, I know that you have a good relationship with Her Majesty Alexandrine, and it can even be said that there is some ambiguity..."

"But, no matter how you want to marry His Majesty... this is a little too..."

"Isn't this too unacceptable for the Germans?"

Louis also nodded vigorously and said, "Fritts, whether what you just said was a joke or serious, I think you should know how much resistance this matter will encounter."

After saying this, Louis and Goebbels recovered from their surprise and their expressions became serious.

Lin Shangzhou, who had been silent from the beginning, was obviously not joking. Since it was not a joke, he had to think carefully about how to deal with this matter.

Louis spoke first: "There is no problem with Her Majesty. I don't think she will disagree with marrying you."

“I don’t think it will be a problem in terms of public opinion.”

He said this and glanced at Goebbels.

"After all, we have Paul here."

Goebbels felt much happier after hearing this, but after a brief moment of happiness came tremendous pressure. He knew very well what kind of social opinion Lin Shangzhou would face at that time, and the person who would cover for Lin Shangzhou was naturally him, the Minister of Propaganda.

Thinking of this, Goebbels suddenly felt a surge of pressure in his heart, but along with it, a burning fighting spirit also appeared in his eyes.

He would not be afraid of such a challenge, and more importantly, this was his friend's lifelong event and there could be no room for any mistakes. No matter how contrary to the public this matter was, he would make the public think it was extremely appropriate.

“But how are you going to deal with opposition from the right wing in parliament, right-wing people in society, and the military?”

Louis asked the fatal question with a serious face, and Goebbels nodded in agreement. He couldn't deal with these people, so he could only see how Lin Shangzhou would deal with them.

Lin Shangzhou did not answer Louis' question immediately. He did have a way to deal with the military, but he had not really thought about how to deal with the right wing. After all, this was something he came up with on the spur of the moment at noon.

“I have no idea how to handle the right wing of the protest.”

Lin Shangzhou said honestly.

"I came up with this idea on the spur of the moment at noon, and the only people who knew about it were the three of us and Cecilia."

Hearing Lin Shangzhou say that Cecilia knew about this, Louis and Goebbels looked at him in disbelief at the same time. They were surprised again. How could this be told to Cecilia?

But now is not the time to dwell on this point. The key point is that the protagonist of the incident, Lin Shangzhou, does not know how to deal with the protesting right wing.

Louise looked at Lin Shangzhou and sighed, then said in a more relaxed tone: "We can simplify the issue. The right wing has no way and no chance of changing the mind of the emperor who is determined to marry you. Moreover, even if they resign collectively, it will not have a fatal impact on the German government."

Louis continued, saying that the German government would continue to function as usual without the parliament, and the chancellor and the cabinet would be directly responsible to the emperor.

But this will only bring the Social Democratic government into disrepute.

"As for the negative impact of the collective resignation of the right wing of the parliament on our Socialist People's Party, it can be ignored. After all, your power of dismissal is in the hands of Her Majesty, and Her Majesty is yours, so she cannot dismiss you."

After Louis said this, the three people present felt a little weird, as if something was wrong, but also seemed right...

Then, in the next second, Louis changed the subject and said sharply: "But how are you going to deal with the military's opposition?"

"At present, your relationship with the military, except for General Volbeck, is entirely based on interests. However, in the eyes of the military high-ranking officials, such a relationship of interests is definitely not as important as His Majesty's lifelong affairs."

Although he had his own way of dealing with the military's objections, Lin Shangzhou couldn't help but nodded when he heard Louis' words.

He himself has too little contact with the military. He can rely on the power of Alexandrine and Cecilia, but that is not his own power after all.

Louis said with a very serious expression:

"At present, the military as a whole has no intention of getting involved in politics except for a small number of personnel. But if we make this matter public, then if the right wing opposes you and resigns en masse, and the military also opposes you and is dissatisfied with you, then the originally neutral military will unite with the resigning right wing of the parliament to force you to resign."

Louis did not mention the more serious consequences, after all, the matter was not made public.

The atmosphere at the table became very serious because of Louis' words. In order to ease the tense atmosphere, Louis changed his tone and said in a slightly relaxed tone: "Of course, now only the three of us and Lady Cecilia know about this. We have plenty of time to think about how to solve these problems."

Goebbels thought about it and grasped a key issue. He said: "In other words, as long as Fritz can get the support of the military and let the military approve his wedding with His Majesty, then we don't need to care about the right wing."

After saying that, he looked at Louis and said, "Louis, I think what I said is correct, right?"

"Yes."

……

Seeing Louis and Goebbels never trying to dissuade him from giving up even when faced with such a difficult situation, but instead discussing how to deal with the problem, Lin Shangzhou was deeply moved. He was very glad that he had such friends.

Looking at the two people who were discussing, Lin Shangzhou said: "Paul, Louis."

Hearing Lin Shangzhou's voice, Louis and the others stopped discussing and waited for Lin Shangzhou to speak.

"I have an idea on how to deal with the military's objections."

Hearing him say this, Lewis raised his eyebrows and asked curiously: "What's a good idea?"

After clearing his throat, Lin Shangzhou said, "I plan to convene a meeting of military generals on the 10th to formulate a war plan for Germany based on possible changes in the future."

"In this meeting, I will present my own opinions on how armored forces should be used to the military and try to get the military to agree to hold a military exercise to test whether armored forces should be used for defense or offense."

"One side of this exercise is the military, and the other side..."

Lin Shangzhou pointed at himself and said to Louis and the others with a smile: "They are my people, and I am the commander among them."

Hearing this, Louis and Goebbels were shocked again. Ah? Lin Shangzhou was going to command the army to fight?

At this moment, Goebbels and Louis quickly recalled Lin Shangzhou's experience so far in their minds, and the conclusion they came to was: Is he kidding?

If it wasn't for confirmation that Lin Shangzhou didn't have a fever, Louis would have wanted to stand up again and ask him if his brain was damaged by a fever.

Lin Shangzhou had expected the incredulous and unbelieving looks from Goebbels and the others. He comforted them before they could question him, "Don't look at me like that. I'm the commander, but the actual officers will handle the specific matters. I won't interfere too much. I'm just a figurehead."

After hearing this, Louis and the other two felt relieved, but even so there were still problems.

"But you don't have any prestige in the army. Where can you find officers who obey your orders?"

Goebbels asked doubtfully.

"hey-hey……"

Lin Shangzhou smiled and said, "Mr. Albert will help me with this."

"Albert?"

Goebbels and Louis both expressed doubts. How did he get involved with Albert again?

"how do you……"

Goebbels changed his words mid-sentence and said, "Forget it. I probably don't know as much about military affairs as you do."

"I also understand what you mean, so just keep going in this direction. Louis and I will help you think about how to deal with the right wing."

"Your Majesty is still young anyway, we have plenty of time to think."

After saying this, Goebbels stretched. Today's events made him feel very tired, with each one more confusing than the last.

"But Fritz, you can't delay this for too long."

Louis on the other side suddenly said to Lin Shangzhou.

"I heard from my young Junker friends that Schleicher has recently held several balls and invited a large number of young nobles. Although he did not directly state that he was looking for a fiancé for Your Majesty and even if he was, they would have introduced him in vain, I still feel the need to tell you."

"In the future, I will help you keep an eye out for banquets held by Schleicher and the like. Ask Bauman to keep an eye out for you. If His Majesty is invited, I suggest you go along as well."

"Her Majesty may not like balls and banquets. Even though she has Cecilia by her side, I think she will inevitably feel uneasy in an unfamiliar environment full of strangers. If you can be with her, I think she will feel much more at ease."

Louis spoke to Lin Shangzhou earnestly, and Lin Shangzhou nodded and kept it in mind.

The next period of time was just a normal dinner time. After dinner, the three of them chatted for a while, and soon Louis and the other two left.