Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Lin Shangzhou and Louis walked into the room. Wells extended his hand to Lin Shangzhou and said, "Hello, Mr. Hipper, I am Otto Wells, you can call me Otto from now on. I have heard about your deeds. When I knew you were leading the workers to strike, I was thinking how great it would be for someone like you to join the SPD. I didn't expect that this idea would actually come true today. I am so happy."

Wells smiled happily. He had a very good impression of Lin Shangzhou.

Lin Shangzhou was also touched by his heartfelt smile. He shook Wells' hand and said, "Otto, I am very happy and honored to meet you today. You can call me Fritz from now on. It is my honor to join the SPD, and I am very happy to meet you. We can fight together for the interests of the people in the future."

When Wells heard Lin Shangzhou mention the interests of the people, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he held Lin Shangzhou's hand a little tighter.

He said to Lin Shangzhou excitedly: "Yes, that's right, work hard for the benefit of the people!"

Wells let go of his hand after a long time. He took Lin Shangzhou and Louis to sit on the sofa, while he went to get the kettle to pour water.

Lin Shangzhou sat on the sofa and looked around the room. The decoration was simple and the furniture was also very simple, without any unnecessary items.

Louis leaned over to his ear and whispered, "I forgot to tell you that Otto was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party before the two parties merged."

This surprised Lin Shangzhou a little. Before, Louis only said that he was a senior member of the party. Who would have thought that he was the former chairman of the Social Democratic Party.

This also reminded Lin Shangzhou of something. He remembered the Social Democratic Party national policy of the German Empire in KX when he was playing KR's derivative expansion module KX. If you choose a coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Progressive People's Party in the general election, you have to choose a chancellor between the two parties. If you choose the Social Democratic Party, it will be Otto Wels, and if you choose the Progressive People's Party, it will be Erich Koch.

If he is the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, then it corresponds to the content in the game.

Apart from this, he had no other impression of this person because he had not known these two people specifically. However, judging from Otto Wells's appearance, Lin Shangzhou felt that he was a hardliner.

Thinking of this, Lin Shangzhou suddenly felt that the world now should not be KR, because there is no content about the Social Democratic Party in KR, but there is in KX.

(Perhaps this world is actually a magically modified world of kx?)

(Never mind.)

Lin Shangzhou threw this question aside in his mind. It didn’t matter whether it was kr or kx. He wanted to focus on practical issues.

Louis continued, “Tell him about the bet between you and Cecilia later, otherwise he may not choose to support you.”

Lin Shangzhou looked at him suspiciously and said, "Are you sure? You can't just talk about that..."

"Don't worry, don't worry. Otto can be trusted completely."

Louis nodded repeatedly.

"That's fine."

Wells came over with two teacups and placed them in front of Lin Shangzhou and Louis respectively, then sat aside.

Louis looked at Wells and smiled mysteriously, then said:

"Otto, first of all, I want to tell you a good news."

"What good news?"

"Fritts succeeded in winning General Volbeck over to our side."

After hearing the news, Wells looked at Louis suspiciously. He didn't believe it was true.

"Fritts is just an ordinary party member, right? How did he win over General Volbeck? Louis, April Fool's Day has been a month, and this joke is not funny."

Wells's behavior was what Louis had expected. He shrugged and said, "Believe it or not, Fritz has won over Forbeck."

Wells looked at Lin Shangzhou in confusion, wanting to get an answer from him.

Lin Shangzhou nodded to him confidently and said:

"Otto, what Louis said is true. I did win General Volbeck over to our side."

"this…"

Wells didn't know what to say for a moment. He was very happy, but compared to being happy, he was more curious and puzzled. He was curious about how Lin Shangzhou had won over Volbeck. He said to Lin Shangzhou with a puzzled look on his face: "Fritts, how did you win over General Volbeck to our side?"

In his impression, although Volbeck was not completely a conservative, it was absolutely impossible for him to have anything to do with them.

Lin Shangzhou smiled slightly and told Wells what had happened. After he finished explaining how to win over Forbeck and his relationship with Cecilia, Wells' brain was stunned for a while.

After a long while, Wells looked at Lin Shangzhou with an incredible look and asked, "Is what you just said true?"

"Yes, it's all true, and there's no need for me to lie to you about this."

Lin Shangzhou nodded seriously.

Wells stretched out his hand to signal Lin Shangzhou not to speak for the time being, as he needed to think about the matter carefully.

"Wait a minute, let me slow down a bit."

He thought back to what Lin Shangzhou had just said, some of which were very outrageous: the speculation circulating in the parliament was true, but if Cecilia did not expose the prime minister, there would be no way to use this incident to force the prime minister to step down.

Cecilia said that if Lin Shangzhou became the party leader, she would consider exposing the prime minister's evil deeds and forcing him to step down.

Lin Shangzhou and Cecilia made a bet that if he lost the election, he would pack up and leave Germany and return to China, but if he won the election, Cecilia would fall in love with him.

This was simply outrageous no matter how one thought about it. Cecilia actually made a bet with herself and Lin Shangzhou by letting a Chinese man who had no achievements other than leading workers on strike and had no political accomplishments be the leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Wells had never heard of such an outrageous thing in his decades of political career. He subconsciously thought it was fake, but Lin Shangzhou's firm look made him feel that it was true.

And if this is true, then he would have to consider letting Lin Shangzhou be the party leader. Even though this is nonsense, the benefits are obvious - the support of the military.

Although Lin Shangzhou also told him that there was no way to fully guarantee the military's support for the SPD, it would be fine as long as they did not cause trouble.

But the problem is that Wells is not happy to let a person with no political achievements be the party leader, or even lead them to participate in the general election.

He doubted Lin Shangzhou's ability.

Wells said seriously, "I believe what you said. The support of the military is indeed tempting, but I cannot support a new party member who has no political achievements and only led a workers' strike once."

Wells' attitude and the questions he raised were within the expectations of Lin Shangzhou and Louis, but Lin Shangzhou didn't know how to solve the problem of his insufficient qualifications.

He didn't know, but Louis did.

Louis waved his hand and put his arm around Lin Shangzhou's shoulders and said:

"As for the question of qualifications, that's easy. Just let Fritz work in the Strasbourg Parliament and government departments to gain experience."

"what?"

Lin Shangzhou was stunned for a moment. Asking him to work in a government department?

(This is indeed a solution)

"I believe Fritz can do something great at work to prove himself, don't you think so, Fritz?"

Louis said to Lin Shangzhou with a smile, and Lin Shangzhou nodded.

Wells looked at the two men, hesitated for a while, and then nodded. Although he was still dissatisfied with letting Lin Shangzhou become the party leader, if he could really produce political achievements to prove his strength, then supporting him to become the party leader would not be a bad thing. On the contrary, from the overall perspective, it would be a good thing for the Social Democratic Party.

Wells said to them, "That's it, but I'll say this first. I will only support Fritz to become the party leader if he can prove his achievements to me."

"You can rest assured."

Louis answered confidently. The more confident he was, the more pressure Lin Shangzhou felt beside him. However, no matter how great the pressure was, since he had already said so, he could only bite the bullet and go ahead.

Wells' support progress was halfway completed, and the only one left was Erich Koch, the former senior leader of the Progressive People's Party.

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Chapter 77 Return to Strasbourg

After talking with Wells for more than 20 minutes, Louis said to him: "Otto, Fritz and I will leave first. We have to go find Erich next."

When he heard that they were going to look for Erich, Welsh said, "Erich went back to his hometown of Wuppertal in May and won't be back for a few days."

Lin Shangzhou and Louis looked at each other. Lin Shangzhou was asking Louis what to do next. Louis thought for a moment and said, "Then we will wait for him to come back in Berlin."

Something unexpected happened to Louis and Lin Shangzhou. Wells shook his head at them.

"If you are looking for Erich to tell him these things, then I suggest you don't go to him. He can't know these things."

Wells said to the two of them, which aroused the doubts of Louis and Lin Shangzhou.

Lin Shangzhou didn't know much about the man named Erich Koch, and he didn't know why Wells said that. He looked at Louis and found that Louis had the same confusion on his face as he did.

This surprised him. Wasn't Louis a high-ranking member of the party? How could he not know Erich Koch?

"Otto, why do you say that?"

Louis asked in confusion.

"Louis, you know very little about Koch and don't know his affairs, but I do."

Wells frowned and said seriously, "Erich is a right-wing member of the party and has always maintained close relations with right-wing politicians."

These words startled Lin Shangzhou. He did not expect that Erich was actually right-wing. Although he was left-center-right, he maintained close ties with right-wing politicians, so he was almost right-wing.

(PS: Erich Koch and Otto Wells are two extremes. The latter is a staunch anti-Nazi and a good man, while the former is a Nazi. He is a beast in both OTL and TNO. He is slightly better in KX and is a left-center-right)

Louis nodded after learning that Erich was a right wing.

"Humph... If that's the case, then we really shouldn't go to him to discuss this matter."

Lin Shangzhou was also very grateful that he came to find Wells first, and Erich had also returned to his hometown. If he had found Erich first and told him these things, Lin Shangzhou didn't know what serious consequences would have occurred.

"Leave the people you can trust in the party to me. Louis, you can take Fritz back to Strasbourg to gain political experience. Don't worry about what's happening in Berlin."

Louis looked at Lin Shangzhou, who nodded at him, so he said, "That's it. I will take Fritz back to Strasbourg, and the work of persuading some party members in Berlin will be left to you."

"Do not worry."

Wells smiled confidently.

Then Louis and Lin Shangzhou left Wells's house. Lin Shangzhou wanted to go home and spend the rest of the afternoon with Lin Yangyu, but Louis took him to deal with the matters related to publishing the novel.

It was also because of this that Lin Shangzhou learned that Louis owned a listed company in Berlin and two factories in the suburbs. This also explained why Louis insisted on running the newspaper despite continuous losses, because he was not short of that little money at all.

After everything was done, the afternoon was almost over. Lin Shangzhou stood beside the car, looked up at the darkening sky and could only sigh.

Because he would go back to Strasbourg after saying goodbye to his uncle. If he waited a few more days, Louis would be too busy to go back, and he still needed Louis to arrange a job for him. So he had to take advantage of these two days when Louis was still free and go back to Strasbourg together to ask him to arrange a job for him in the government department.

He actually wanted to spend more time with his uncle. His uncle was his only relative, and he was also his uncle's only relative. However, time did not allow it now. Anyway, there was still a long time to go, and it would not be too late to accompany him later.

Lin Shangzhou stretched to relax his waist. At this time, Louis came out of the store next to him with two bottles of Coke. He handed the Coke to Lin Shangzhou.

"Thanks,"

After taking the Coke, Lin Shangzhou did not drink it immediately. Instead, he looked at the bottle for a while. He thought of another drink - Fanta.

"Louis, do you know whether Fanta or not?"

Lin Shangzhou asked Louis, he remembered that Fanta was made in Germany, and the specific reason seemed to be that it was a solution proposed by the German Coca-Cola branch during World War II to solve the problem of the United States cutting off the supply of Coke, but that was all during the OTL World War II period, and the time was completely incompatible, it was only 1930 now.

Although the American Civil War had the potential to cause a supply shortage of Coke, it would still take seven years until the start of the 7 American Premier League.

So Lin Shangzhou had already thought about Louis' answer in his mind, and he would definitely answer that he didn't know.

"What? What is Fanta?"

As expected, Louis looked at him puzzledly and asked.

"Nothing, I'm just asking."

After saying this, Lin Shangzhou drank a bottle of Coke in one breath, threw the bottle into the trash can and got back into the car.

"Let's go. I want to go home and say goodbye to my uncle."

"Row."

Louis quickly finished his Coke and returned to the driver's seat, driving the car towards the Souci Palace.

After returning to his home, Lin Shangzhou chatted with Lin Yangyu for a while. After hesitating for a long time, Lin Shangzhou told Lin Yangyu everything.

After listening to his nephew's story, Lin Yangyu was dumbfounded. What kind of big things did his nephew do!!!

Join a political party, and then compete for the party leader?! After competing for the party leader, you have to find a way to win the election!? If you win the election, won’t you become the prime minister?!

And there is something more important, the bet between Cecilia and her nephew. If her nephew leads the Social Democratic Party to win the general election, and Cecilia falls in love with Shang Zhou, then wouldn't Shang Zhou become a royal relative?

But despite the shock, Lin Yangyu was still deeply worried. Having been the emperor's driver for ten years, he knew that politics was a dangerous thing. He was afraid that something would happen to his nephew. If something happened to Lin Shangzhou, he would not be able to face his elder brother who died for him.

He stretched out his trembling hands to hold Lin Shangzhou's face, his eyes full of worry, and said to Lin Shangzhou earnestly: "Shangzhou..."

"I won't stop you from doing anything you want, but you must be careful. You are my only nephew, so don't let anything happen to you..."

"Then if you lose the election, we will sell the house and return home with the money. We will bring a lot of money with us. We won't go back to our hometown. It's boring to go back there. We will go to Shanghai, Beijing, or other big cities to settle down. With money in hand, we won't have to worry about many problems."

"Also, if you are tired from work, remember to come back. Uncle will cook your favorite dishes for you. You can eat as much as you want, and you can rest as long as you want at home."

Lin Yangyu kept stroking his nephew's cheek, as if he would never come back, and the atmosphere was very sad.