Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

(I guess! Is this the editor-in-chief?)

Lin Shangzhou's eyes widened. He didn't expect that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper was actually the tenant on the second floor. He began to recall what happened when he came to Strasbourg. He remembered that Wolfgang's letter of recommendation to him was written by his friend. If his friend was referring to the tenant on the second floor, Editor-in-Chief Louis, then it made sense.

But he was still surprised; he had never expected this.

"Are you surprised by my identity?"

Louis looked at Lin Shangzhou's surprised expression and asked, without waiting for Lin Shangzhou to answer, he said: "But I think you surprised me more than I surprised you."

"I surprised you?"

Lin Shangzhou was stunned at first, then he realized that he was talking about the strike.

“You also know about the strike…”

"How could I not know that, although the Berlin newspapers did not publish detailed information, Liavat sent me a letter and a newspaper telling me about you. The contents of the letter and the newspaper made me very interested in you."

(Liyavat?)

After hearing this name, Lin Shangzhou thought about it in his mind. He remembered that this seemed to be the name of the deputy editor-in-chief.

Louis leaned over and approached Lin Shangzhou and said, "For you, I rushed back without even attending the Imperial Parliament on the 1st."

Then he lowered his brows and pretended to be regretful and said: "That is the only time of the month when I can see His Majesty the Emperor..."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Lin Shangzhou again, with a strong interest in him in his eyes.

"Although I didn't get to meet the lovely Emperor, your deeds, the workers' support for you, and the reports you wrote have proved to me that you are indeed someone worthy of attention, Mr. Hipper."

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Chapter 59 Invitation

Lin Shangzhou looked at Louis in front of him, and he extracted two pieces of information from Louis' words.

First, Louis was a member of a party and had a seat in the Imperial Diet.

Second, since Louis runs a left-wing newspaper in Alsace, Lin Shangzhou estimates that his party is the Social Democratic Party, and if not the Social Democratic Party, then the Progressive People's Party.

But this is just speculation. He still needs to ask Louis whether it is true or not.

"Editor-in-Chief Louis, from what you said, are you a member of the Imperial Parliament?"

Louis nodded and said:

"Uh-huh~ That's right, I'm a member of the Imperial Parliament, representing the Socialist People's Party."

After getting the accurate information, Lin Shangzhou asked with some concern: "Is it really okay for you not to attend the parliament?"

Louis waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "It's okay. The Socialist People's Party I belong to has very few seats in parliament. It doesn't matter if there are more proposals or less votes. Besides, many people in parliament would rather I don't attend parliament, so it doesn't matter whether I go or not."

(Well... it's not surprising that the left-wing party in Germany is like this)

Lin Shangzhou thought to himself, it doesn't matter if we have one vote less or one vote more. Editor-in-Chief Louis is really open-minded.

"They don't want me to go, and I don't want to go either, so I go once a month on the first day of the month to prove that I'm still alive, and then admire the lovely Emperor from afar."

At the end, Louis looked at the white wall on the other side with fascination, as if Alexandrine appeared on the wall.

"So you like His Majesty the Emperor?"

Lin Shangzhou looked at him strangely and asked.

What he didn't expect was that Louis shook his head without hesitation.

"I don't like it. To be exact, I admire His Majesty the Emperor with an attitude of appreciating beauty. Don't you want to take a few more glances at beautiful things? A girl's beauty is like a beautiful scenery. Appreciating it can make people feel better."

"really."

Lin Shangzhou nodded perfunctorily.

"Don't be so perfunctory. You will have the same idea as me when you meet Queen Alexandrine."

“Maybe…”

Lin Shangzhou looked at Louis, wondering what Louis would think if he knew that he had been with the German Emperor every day before he came to Strasbourg.

Louis seemed to realize his own incompetence and coughed. He straightened his attitude and said seriously, "Your Majesty, I have read your report and it is well written. I will report some of the issues to the Strasbourg government for them to deal with."

“And the factory where you led the strike, I went there to take a look, I personally investigated the living conditions of the workers, asked them how you led them to strike, and there was a very good article written by an employee named Paul Goebbels in the newspaper.

(Goebbels indeed)

Hearing the editor-in-chief praising Xiao Huang, Lin Shangzhou thought to himself that it was a pity that Goebbels was not valued. He wondered whether he should take this opportunity to recommend him to Louis so that he could have more room for development.

Louis rested his elbows on his thighs, with the back of his hands against his chin, and looked at Lin Shangzhou's hands with interest: "You have done such a great thing as leading the workers to strike, Fritz, let me ask you..."

Lin Shangzhou listened to Louis' words carefully, waiting for his questions.

“Have you ever thought of joining the Socialist People’s Party?”

(Um?)

"Ok?"

Lin Shangzhou's brain froze for a second after hearing this sentence, and question marks appeared in his mind and mouth at the same time.

After he reacted, he looked at Louis in confusion and surprise.

(Did he just invite me to join a political party?)

Lin Shangzhou was a little unconvinced, so he asked, "Editor-in-Chief Louis, what did you just say? Do you want to invite me to join the political party?"

Louis also saw how much impact this sentence had on Lin Shangzhou, so he nodded and repeated his words: "Yes, what I asked is, do you want to join the Socialist People's Party?"

After receiving the affirmation, Lin Shangzhou became excited. Joining a political party was something he had never thought about. If he joined this party, he would have a greater chance of returning to Berlin in the future. Moreover, if he followed the editor-in-chief Louis to Berlin, he felt that he would not have to worry about Klein... I think...

And after Louis made this invitation, a bold idea emerged in Lin Shangzhou's mind: If he joined a political party, would he be able to release Alexandrine from the birdcage of the Worshipful Palace?

However, this idea was quickly crushed by reality. If he wanted to release Alexandrine, he would need to first get the current Prime Minister Albert to step down, which was a difficult thing to do.

Secondly, he needs to lead the SPD to win the general election, which is even harder than a chicken pecking at the rice or a dog licking the noodles.

Because chickens will peck at rice and dogs will lick noodles, it is only a matter of time before they finish pecking the rice and licking the noodles. However, it is almost impossible for the SPD to become the ruling party. The dilemma of the SPD can be seen from what Louis said, "It doesn't matter if there are one more vote or one less vote on a bill."

Although it is extremely difficult, Lin Shangzhou still knows a way to make the Social Democratic Party the ruling party - let the national will take action. As long as the national will takes action, everything will be fine, no matter whether you are the majority party or the minority party. As long as the national will takes action, even if your party has only one member, then congratulations, this member will be the prime minister.

Of course, there is no national will in reality. This is something that only happens when playing on the tightrope, so this is just Lin Shangzhou's complaint.

Therefore, the idea of ​​joining a political party and liberating the German Emperor from the Sanssouci Palace himself is just something he should just think about. Even if he really has the ability to lead the SPD to defeat other opponents and become the ruling party, it will take him countless years just to improve his status within the party.

Seeing that Lin Shangzhou did not answer for a long time, Louis sighed lightly, thinking that Lin Shangzhou looked down on the Socialist People's Party.

"Alas... you who took the initiative to lead the workers in the strike really look down on the weak Socialist People's Party..."

Hearing Louis say this, Lin Shangzhou hurriedly shook his head.

"No, no, no, Editor-in-Chief Louis, I absolutely do not look down on the Socialist People's Party..."

(? Socialist People's Party? Isn't it the Social Democratic Party?)

As Lin Shangzhou was talking, he discovered another outrageous thing that he had not noticed.

Didn't he remember that the two political parties that were more right-left in the German Empire were the Social Democratic Party and the Progressive People's Party? Why was there another Socialist People's Party now?

With this question in mind, he asked, "Editor-in-Chief Louis, isn't this the Social Democratic Party?"

"It seems you don't know..."

So Louis looked at the puzzled Lin Shangzhou and explained to him: "After the last Central Party was re-elected, that is, after the 1927 election, in order to deal with the growing right-wing parties, I joined forces with some people to promote the fusion of the Social Democratic Party and the Progressive People's Party, and finally became the Socialist People's Party."

"what?"

Lin Shangzhou was stunned. What kind of world line change was this?

Is there anyone as awesome as this editor-in-chief Louis? He is pushing the two political parties to integrate!

Although it is possible that these two parties, which are relatively left-wing compared to the right and are unlikely to sack each other, might unite to strengthen their own power in order to cope with the growing strength of the right-wing party, Lin Shangzhou still finds it a little unbelievable.

As for the true leftists like the trade unions, they are likely to expel each other from the left in the face of such a situation, of course, on the premise that they have a seat in parliament.

"You don't need to comfort me. I know that the weakness of the Social Democratic Party is obvious to all."

Louis said with relief that he was used to this kind of thing. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Lin Shangzhou: "If you think the Socialist People's Party is weak and don't want to join, I can introduce you to other people."

"Eh?"

Lin Shangzhou was stunned again. Introducing other parties? What did he mean? He could introduce himself to the Imperial Party?

"They may be radical enough, but they also have a fatal flaw, which is that they are not recognized by the government."

The moment he heard the second sentence, Lin Shangzhou understood who he was talking about. Louis was talking about the German syndicalists.

"Ah? You want to introduce me to the Syndicalists?"

Lin Shangzhou was confused. Does Editor-in-Chief Louis know so many people?

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Chapter 60 Consideration

Lin Shangzhou looked at Louis in shock. He leaned over to look at the door of the ward, and after confirming that it was closed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Editor-in-Chief Louis, you really know how to shock people... You even know syndicalists."

"Haha, I know so many people..."

Louis laughed and said, Lin Shangzhou felt that if this person said now, "I also know people from the French Commune", he would not find it strange.

"Are you thinking of getting to know them and joining them?"

Louis asked.

"this…"

Lin Shangzhou hesitated for a moment, and then he remembered what Huo Wen had said at the factory: "They just told the organizers what to do and provided some suggestions, but they didn't lead us in the strike."

This sentence gave him a much worse impression of the German Syndicalists at the time, but when he thought about it now, combined with the fact that he had led the workers in a successful strike, he could say that he had a little disgust towards the German Syndicalists.

He shook his head.

"You don't have to join. I don't have a good impression of those who are unwilling to provide practical help to the workers' strike."

Louis was a little surprised. He was not surprised because Lin Shangzhou was unwilling to join them, but because of his disgust. Why would a man who could lead workers to strike hate syndicalists? Shouldn't he welcome them?

Louis said curiously:

"You look like you dislike syndicalists. Can you tell me why?"

"The reason is simple. One of my colleagues in the factory told me that in the past, the syndicalists only provided basic guidance for the workers in Strasbourg to strike, but never led or participated in a strike."

“I know that the situation of the syndicalists in Germany is very bad, but they are syndicalists. Since they bear this name, they should help the German workers. I don’t ask them to be enthusiastic about helping the workers, but at least they can’t just provide guidance and not send people to fight with the workers.”

"I would like to meet them and ask them why they do this."

Louis looked at Lin Shangzhou who was getting angrier and angrier, and said, "Okay, don't get excited. When you are healed, I will take you to see them. Then you can ask them directly why."

He himself knew part of the reason, but he felt that Lin Shangzhou wanted that group of people to answer him personally, so he didn't tell them what he knew.

Lin Shangzhou stopped thinking about the German syndicalists and thanked Louis.

"I'll trouble you then, Editor-in-Chief Louis."

"It's just a small matter. Would you like to consider joining the Socialist People's Party?"

After waving his hand in a relaxed manner, Louis took the opportunity to win him over.

"I…"

Lin Shangzhou is hesitant. Should he join the Social Democratic Party?

Seeing that Lin Shangzhou was still hesitating, Louis felt that he might have put too much pressure on him, so he said softly: "Don't worry, there is still a long time, you can think about it slowly. I have dealt with the things in Berlin. I plan to stay in Strasbourg for at least a month this time. You just need to tell me before I leave at the end of April."

After saying that, he leaned close to Lin Shangzhou and whispered with a smile:

"By the way, if you let me introduce you to the party, you will become a formal party member in just a few days. This is a backdoor I'm giving you as the strike leader. It's a treatment that no one else can enjoy."

“There may be people in the party who oppose you, but your achievements are enough to shut them up.”

Louis' words moved Lin Shangzhou a little, but this did not make him completely determined. After thinking about it, Lin Shangzhou decided to give himself some more time to think.

"Well, okay, I'll think about it."