Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Lin Shangzhou felt a little uneasy. After he said this, he looked at the workers' expressions. The workers were all very surprised, and none of them looked dissatisfied.

One of the workers asked, "So Mr. Hipper are you leaving?"

"Ah."

Lin Shangzhou nodded.

"Will you come back in the future?"

Lin Shangzhou was stunned. He didn't expect someone to ask this question. Then he nodded without hesitation.

"Of course I will come back, but I may not come to work with you guys, but to openly investigate your living conditions."

"Then you must remember to come and visit the factory when the time comes..."

The workers said similar words to Lin Shangzhou one after another, and Lin Shangzhou nodded repeatedly. He was deeply moved, and his previous worries were completely unnecessary.

The workers were in a commotion for a while because of his words, but soon returned to normal. Lin Shangzhou sat back in his chair and turned his head to see Lin Wenhua and Andy walking towards him.

As soon as Lin Wenhua got closer, he shouted to Lin Shangzhou:

"Shang Zhou, you are really amazing! I don't know how to praise you. You led us to strike, and you are a newspaper employee..."

"Compared to you, I suddenly feel like I am nothing. In the end, I am just working in a factory."

As he was talking, Lin Wenhua became discouraged. Lin Shangzhou smiled and comforted him: "Wenhua, don't be too discouraged. You can achieve something if you work hard. I am such a good Shandong man. Don't be discouraged. Be ambitious!"

After his comfort, Lin Wenhua's eyes lit up with fighting spirit. He clenched his fist and said, "Yes, Shang Zhou, you are right. I must have ambition!"

After the excitement, he took out a note and handed it to Lin Shangzhou, saying: "Shangzhou, this is the address of my classmates. If possible, I hope you can meet them. I believe they will be very happy to see you."

Lin Shangzhou took the note, glanced at the address on it, and put it in his pocket.

"If I have time, I'll go and see them."

Andy, who was standing by, also took out a note and some money from his pocket and handed it to him, saying shyly, "Brother Fritz, this is my home address. My home is a bit far away, and I would like to ask you to help send the money back. I haven't sent money home for more than a month, and I think my mother is almost dying of worry."

"Yeah, I will."

Lin Shangzhou took the note and Mark and nodded repeatedly.

At this time, the workers also left the cafeteria one after another. There were still two hours before the new regulation of getting off work at 6 o'clock. The strike was over and it was time to work.

Lin Wenhua and Andy said goodbye to him and walked towards the cafeteria door.

Looking at the two people's backs as they left, Lin Shangzhou stood up. It was time for him to leave too.

When he was about to leave, Hoven stopped him.

"Fritts, we still have something to discuss, so don't leave yet."

"Is there anything else you haven't discussed?"

Lin Shangzhou stopped and looked at him in confusion, then he remembered that there was indeed one thing that had not been discussed - forming a trade union.

He patted his head and said:

"Ah... I forgot about the union."

Hoven was surrounded by five or six workers, including Chris, the worker who proposed forming a union, and other older workers.

Lin Shangzhou walked over and came to Huo Wen.

Howen said:

"We discussed electing you as the union president at the beginning. As for the vote, I think everyone will vote in favor."

"But if you leave now, we will have to reconsider the selection of the chairman. Do you have any recommendations?"

Huo Wen's question stumped Lin Shangzhou, and he didn't know who to recommend.

He wanted to recommend Howen, but this seemed selfish. After all, he had a good relationship with Howen, and among the other people present, he only knew Chris.

After thinking for a few seconds, he replied: "I don't know who to recommend. Why not let the workers vote? This is the fairest way."

Everyone nodded, this was the best solution.

After some thought, Hoven said:

“But I think we should give Fritz the title of honorary chairman to prove his great contribution to the factory workers.”

"this…"

Just as Lin Shangzhou was about to speak out to stop them, the other disciples nodded one after another, leaving him no room to interrupt.

"And you, Fritz, what do you think?"

It was not until the very end that Huo Wen asked for his opinion. What could Lin Shangzhou say? Although he could disagree, there was no harm in agreeing.

"Since you are all so enthusiastic, I will accept the title of honorary chairman."

After discussing some more issues, Lin Shangzhou said to them, "We have dealt with everything that needs to be dealt with. I will leave now. I will come to the factory more often when I have time. Goodbye."

"Well, you must remember to come back and see me. Bye."

Hoven nodded to him.

After Lin Shangzhou ran a few steps, he seemed to have thought of something and turned around and shouted to them, "Remember to tell the boss that I'm resigning."

"Do not worry."

Hoven waved at him.

If the factory owner knew that he had resigned, he would probably be so happy that he would jump for joy.

Then Lin Shangzhou left the cafeteria, walked to the gate, and got into Monkie and his friends' car.

Only then did they have the chance to ask Lin Shangzhou what had happened.

"Fritts, why did you lead the workers to strike?"

Eric looked curious. They had asked Lin Shangzhou to conduct an investigation, but they had not asked him to lead the workers on strike. The strike was a complete surprise.

"When I paid wages a few days ago, I found out that the workers had not received enough wages for several months. I also asked them why they did not complain or resist. After knowing the answer, I decided to do this."

Lin Shangzhou replied, and Monkie held the steering wheel with one hand and gave him a thumbs up with the other.

Then Eric and Goebbels also gave him a thumbs-up.

"Fritts, I really admire you now. Not only do you write well, but you also stand with the workers and lead them in their strike."

Goebbels praised sincerely, and Eric and Monk also expressed their praise.

"Thank you for your compliments. The editor-in-chief will be very happy, right?"

Lin Shangzhou said.

Hearing him mention the editor-in-chief, Monk replied happily: "The deputy editor-in-chief may have already written a letter to tell the editor-in-chief about this matter. I estimate that the moment the editor-in-chief sees the content of the letter, he will rush back from Berlin to see you. He will definitely give you an extraordinary reward at that time. Just look forward to it."

"Then I am quite honored to have the editor-in-chief come back to see me in person."

Lin Shangzhou smiled and nodded.

(Berlin…)

Thinking of the city of Berlin, he sighed in his heart. If possible, he would like to ask the editor-in-chief to take a letter to his uncle. He might not be able to enter the Wuyou Palace, so he could only ask the editor-in-chief to give it to his uncle.

"Fritts, do you want to go home first or report back to the agency first?"

Monkey asked.

Lin Shangzhou raised his left hand, looked at the red bandage and said, "Let's go to the hospital first."

"Doctor...Hospital...Oh...I understand. Let's go to the hospital right away."

Monk was stunned for a moment, then Lin Shangzhou stretched out his left arm for him to look at and he nodded.

On the way to the hospital, he also told them the reason for his left arm injury. During the conversation, he learned that his novel had sold more than a thousand copies, so he was still making money.

After having a professional doctor treat the wound in the hospital, Monk took Lin Shangzhou home. They could go to the newspaper office tomorrow. Lin Shangzhou wanted to go home and have a good rest now.

During the nearly two weeks at the factory, Lin Shangzhou had not had a good night's sleep, and he had not taken a bath for a long time. Although his arm was injured, he decided to take a good bath when he got home.

After getting off the car at the door of the apartment, Lin Shangzhou saw Wolfgang who was about to go out. He was wearing a round-brimmed hat, a gray coat, and carrying a suitcase in his hand, like a secret agent.

When he saw Lin Shangzhou, he said to him, "Fritts, Miss Adolf's family took her home a few days ago. She probably won't be back until the day after tomorrow. I'm going to be away for a few days, so I'll leave the apartment in your care."

(Has Letitia returned home?)

Hearing the news that his lovely roommate had returned home, Lin Shangzhou felt a little disappointed and nodded to Wolfgang.

"Okay, I understand. You can go out without any worries."

Afterwards, Lin Shangzhou went upstairs and opened the door. He saw very obvious shoe prints on the ground. He guessed that they were left by Letitia's family.

Then he walked into the living room and saw shoe prints all over the living room, some small and some big.

When he saw children's shoe prints all over the living room, he was shocked and hurried to his bedroom to check if anything was missing. Fortunately, there were no shoe prints in his room.

However, there were child's shoe prints at his door, which seemed like the child wanted to open the door but was stopped.

Lin Shangzhou was very dissatisfied after seeing so many shoe prints. Seeing this situation, Lin Shangzhou also guessed that Letitia’s family took her away after coming here, otherwise she would definitely clean up.

"From now on, I'll have to rely on myself..."

With a light sigh, Lin Shangzhou began to clean the room.

After dinner and a nice bath, he began to write the report.

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Chapter 53: Aftermath of the Strike

On March 3, Lin Shangzhou was leisurely revising a report he had written at home. He didn’t know...or rather, something he could have guessed would happen.

The fact that a Chinese led a strike by workers in a machinery factory and won the strike became the headlines in Strasbourg and surrounding areas. Every newspaper, whether mainstream or non-mainstream, was vying to report on this matter and sent a group of reporters to the machinery factory to interview workers and factory owners in the hope of obtaining more information.

Everyone in the city, from ordinary citizens to government officials, wanted to know what exactly happened. The workers were even more excited and they all paid for a newspaper at the newsstand to see if there was any detailed report on the incident.

Soon an unknown worker discovered that the Strasbourg Workers' Newspaper, which he usually read stories for entertainment, actually published detailed information about the strike, from the reasons for the strike to the specific process of the strike and even the negotiation process between the leaders of the striking workers and the factory owners.

Every article about the strike in the newspaper was accompanied by a photo of the workers. The most shocking photo was the one of Lin Shangzhou leading the workers forward while waving his arms and shouting.

The news spread among workers and citizens in an instant. They rushed to the newsstands to buy the Strasbourg Workers' News. All six newsstands were packed with customers. Of course, the deputy editor-in-chief had anticipated this. He asked employees to remove all other books and newspapers from the newsstands and replace them with the Workers' News. On the evening of the 27th, the newspaper worked overtime all night.

Everyone who went to a newsstand to buy a newspaper could buy a copy of the Strasbourg Workers' Newspaper, and everyone who bought the newspaper read the reports with great interest. The name Fritz Hipper spread more and more widely, reaching the ears of the German left in Alsace and the ears of the Social Democratic Party.

In front of a newsstand in the newspaper office, an ordinary-looking blond man bought a newspaper. After reading the contents carefully, he left the newsstand with his newspaper tucked under his arm like an ordinary citizen.

He came to a bar, walked to the bar counter and put the newspaper in front of a brown-haired girl who was drinking juice. He sat down next to her and said, "This is the information about yesterday's strike. It's so detailed that I even doubt whether the employees of their newspaper participated in the strike."

The girl put down the cup, picked up the newspaper and began to read it in detail. While she was reading the newspaper, the blond man asked the bartender for a beer.

The bartender poured him a beer and also served a beer to a red-haired woman on the other side. If Lin Shangzhou were here, he would recognize that the red-haired woman was Catherine, and this bar was Wolfgang's bar.

The brown-haired girl put the newspaper on the table, pointed at the photo of Lin Shangzhou cheering and said:

"If possible, I would like to meet him. We need comrades like him who can unite the workers."

Catherine on the other side became interested when she heard her talk. She dragged her drunken body towards the girl and said, "Who do you want to see... Come... Let me see you."

She put her head close to the newspaper and squinted to try to see what the person on the newspaper looked like, but because she had drunk too much, she couldn't see clearly. After looking for a few seconds, she shook her head.

"What? I don't know you. Come on, Liz is having some juice. Come drink with me..."

Catherine hugged the brown-haired girl and burped into her face, which made the girl take her arm away in disgust.

What the girl didn't know was that the person she was looking for was so close to her in Wolfgang's apartment across the street.

On March 3, Lin Shangzhou was still resting at home. He planned to return to the newspaper yesterday, but in the morning Monchi drove over to tell him that the deputy editor-in-chief asked him to have a good rest at home before returning to work, and as for the report, he would submit it when he returned.

After a day, the news of the strike spread more and more widely, radiating from the Alsace region to the surrounding areas. More and more newspapers in cities published the news. At this rate, it would not be long before it was published in Berlin newspapers.

The most attractive thing about this incident is not the strike, but the Chinese who led the workers to strike. People are very curious about what kind of Chinese person led the factory workers to strike.

In factories in the Strasbourg area, more and more workers expressed their dissatisfaction with their treatment under the influence of this strike. In order to prevent the workers from striking, the owners of these factories increased the treatment of their workers within an acceptable range.

On March 3, Lin Shangzhou was bored and typing on his typewriter at home, reporting that he had finished writing. He was writing the rest of "The Story of Ashes". This time he would not finish it in a week like he did with the first book. He planned to finish it in about a month, so there was still plenty of time.

He had been staying at home for almost three days. He had heard that his strike had made headlines. While he was happy, he was also a little worried. He was afraid that reporters would come to him, and he didn't want to deal with those reporters, so he seldom went out except to buy groceries.

He was still the only one in the apartment. Letitia hadn't come back, and neither had Wolfgang. After living alone for three days, Lin Shangzhou felt a little lonely. He planned to rest for two more days and then go back to work on April 1st.