Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Lin Shangzhou held his uncle's hands with both hands and took his hands off his face. Lin Shangzhou said to him: "Uncle, why are you so sad? It's not like I won't come back. Don't worry about the election. I, your nephew, have a secret magic weapon! I will not fail."

"Don't worry, just wait for your nephew to marry Cecilia and have grandchildren!"

Lin Yangyu's mood improved a little. He stretched out his right index finger and pressed it hard on Lin Shangzhou's forehead. He pretended to be angry and said, "Humph, kid, let me see how you deal with Noah and the girl named Letiya in Strasbourg."

However, although he appeared angry, he was actually very happy in his heart. First it was Noa, then Letitia, and now there was Cecilia. All three of them were good girls. No matter which one his nephew married, it would be a great blessing.

"Uh... hehe..."

Lin Shangzhou smiled awkwardly, his uncle talked about a major problem that he must pay attention to. Although he said he had to pay attention to it, he had no idea how to deal with it.

After chatting with Lin Yangyu for more than ten minutes, Lin Shangzhou left the house and got into the car. Lin Yangyu stood at the door and watched his nephew go away.

Louis slowed down the car, turned around and asked:

"Want to go to Wuyou Palace?"

Lin Shangzhou glared at him fiercely and said, "Do you think I dare to go?!"

"I guess Noah doesn't want to see me now!"

Louis was stunned by his look, and he shrank his head and whispered: "Don't think so..."

"What the hell are you talking about! If it weren't for you, Noah wouldn't be like this!"

Lin Shangzhou raised his fist and wanted to hit Louis on the head, which made Louis speed up and yell: "Don't hit me now! I'm stepping on the accelerator!"

"Your mother——"

Lin Shangzhou gritted his teeth and put down his fist, then crossed his arms and looked at the Wuyou Palace which was getting closer and closer.

"Just go."

"Are you sure? I don't think you can leave that girl alone."

Louis kindly reminded.

"Can you please stop talking about this!"

"Okay, okay, I won't mention it. I'll leave now."

Louis stepped on the accelerator and drove forward quickly, and soon passed the Wuyou Palace.

After passing Wuyou Palace, he slowed down. Lin Shangzhou turned his head and looked at him. He regretted why he didn't drive himself, so that he could stop and beat Louis whenever he wanted.

"Ugh…"

Thinking about the future, he sighed heavily. Even the future Lin Shangzhou would sigh when faced with such a thing...

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Lin Shangzhou boarded Louis' special train again. After dinner, he returned to his room to rest. He lay on the bed and prepared to fall asleep to the sound of the train.

Less than a minute after he closed his eyes, he suddenly opened them. Lin Shangzhou just realized something extremely serious. There were no Klein spies in Wuyou Palace, but there were Papen's spies!

He sat up suddenly, feeling very nervous. No matter what, Papen's spy would definitely take a picture of him and Louis together. What would happen if Papen knew that he and Louis were together...

amount….

Lin Shangzhou thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a bad result. Even if Papen knew that he was with Louis, he would only see him and Louis together. He still didn't know anything. Could he guess that he had joined the Socialist People's Party?

Could he have guessed the bet he had made with Cecilia? Could he have guessed the incredible deal he had made with Louis?

Of course not!

Thinking of this, Lin Shangzhou breathed a sigh of relief and was no longer so nervous. He lay down again, closed his eyes and prepared to sleep.

On the other side, in Papen's office, just as Lin Shangzhou had thought, Papen looked at the photo that his spy had sent to his desk with a confused look on his face. He couldn't understand why Lin Shangzhou and Louis were related.

After thinking for a long time without any clue, Papen simply threw the photo into the trash can.

Anyway, he is just a driver and a member of parliament from a declining party. There is nothing to worry about.

Papen thought so.

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Chapter 78 New Job

On May 2, Lin Shangzhou returned to Strasbourg after a day out. That morning, Louis used his connections to arrange a job for Lin Shangzhou in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in the government department. His daily work was to deal with labor disputes and social events.

To put it simply, a mediator is responsible for mediating various conflicts and disputes.

Lin Shangzhou was speechless after knowing that the job Louis arranged for him was actually just a mediator. However, Louis said that this was the most suitable job for him at the moment. He had led workers in a strike, and this department happened to have many opportunities to directly contact the workers.

Moreover, Louis couldn't arrange too high a position for Lin Shangzhou. This department had always been mediocre and no one cared about it. It was just right for him to work here.

So starting from May 3rd, Lin Shangzhou officially started working in the government department of Strasbourg. Although he was only a mediator in an ordinary department, it was precisely this kind of job that allowed him to accomplish great things.

Because of the new job, he also quit his job at the newspaper, but he still had contact with the newspaper because he needed the help of the newspaper to publish his novels.

On the morning of May 3, Lin Shangzhou arrived at his workplace, a two-story building located in a residential area in Strasbourg.

Lin Shangzhou stood downstairs and looked around. This place is indeed suitable for arranging such a government department, which can conveniently handle various conflicts and issues.

After walking through the door and identifying himself to the staff, he was taken to his office, or to be more precise, their office.

There are not many employees in the entire Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. There are only five people working in the office, and including him, there are exactly six people.

The five people in the office looked up at the door and saw Lin Shangzhou coming in. Before Lin Shangzhou could introduce himself to them, one of the young men stood up excitedly and pointed at Lin Shangzhou and said, "Frittz Hipper!"

Lin Shangzhou was startled by his movement, and nodded to him after he recovered.

"Yes, that's right. I'm Fritz Hipper. From today on, I'll be working with you all. You can just call me Fritz."

Seeing Lin Shangzhou reveal his identity, the young man quickly walked up to Lin Shangzhou, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Fritz, I'm Kevin."

"Oh…hi, Kevin."

Lin Shangzhou politely shook Kevin's hand. He could guess that Kevin knew about him through the newspaper, but why was he so excited?

Kevin said to him with admiration: "Fritts, I wanted to meet you when I knew you were leading the workers' strike, because you did what I have never dared to do, so I admire you very much."

"I worked in the factory for a year because of a family change. That year was a complete torture for me. The foreman bullied me and the factory withheld my wages. I always fantasized about going on strike, but I didn't have the courage to do it, so I left the factory in the end. I came to work in this department just to help the workers."

Lin Shangzhou loosened his hand and said to Kevin with a smile: "You are also very good. It is good enough to help the workers in other ways."

Hearing this, Kevin's face showed a bit of disappointment. He sighed and then returned to his previous excited look.

"Forget it, let's not talk about those bad things for now. I'll introduce everyone to you."

(Bad things?)

Kevin's words made Lin Shangzhou very concerned. What bad things could happen? Then he thought of what the workers in the factory told him: the factory would arrange thugs near the complaint mailbox.

The complaint mailbox may be handled by his current department. If so, then the "troublesome things" Kevin mentioned refer to this kind of things.

Kevin took Lin Shangzhou and introduced him to the remaining four people in the office. After introducing them one by one, Kevin took Lin Shangzhou to his seat.

After he sat down, Kevin took out some documents from his desk and put them on Lin Shangzhou's desk and said, "These are the documents we usually deal with. Take a look at what is written on them, then think about how to solve them and write down the solutions. Today you will deal with the documents in the office first, familiarize yourself with the working environment, and then go out to work in two days."

Lin Shangzhou nodded, picked up the documents and started reading them. Just as he thought, these documents were all about trivial conflicts among civilians. The more documents he read, the more he felt like a mediator.

Lin Shangzhou spent the next hour processing these documents. After finishing them all, he stood up and came to Kevin with the documents.

"It's all settled."

"Oh..ok, please put it here."

After putting the document on Kevin's desk, Lin Shangzhou remembered the "bad thing" Kevin had just mentioned, so he asked curiously: "Kevin, what was the bad thing you mentioned when I came here? Can you tell me about it?"

Kevin stopped writing and sighed, then looked up at Lin Shangzhou and said, "It's about the complaint mailbox."

"Didn't I come here to work because I wanted to help the workers? But after working for a while, I found that the things I dealt with were conflicts between citizens, and I hardly saw any complaints from workers."

"Later, I went to the complaint mailbox and saw a group of thugs guarding it. It was a day off, so I wanted to open the mailbox to see if there was any mail inside. But the thugs came up to me and threatened me. I had no choice but to leave."

After listening to Kevin's story, Lin Shangzhou felt a little angry. This was exactly the same as what his co-workers said. Although the treatment of workers at the Raven Machinery Factory had improved, the treatment of workers in other factories might not have improved.

"I tried to tell the police about this, but they couldn't do anything about it, and they couldn't keep looking at the mailbox."

"I also tried to move the mailbox to a place near the factory, but it was broken the next day. I had no choice but to move it back to its original location."

Kevin looked lost. He had clearly entered this place wanting to help the workers, but now he could only deal with family conflicts every day. This made him feel very disappointed.

Lin Shangzhou put his hands on the table and lowered his head to think about a solution. The factory owner was determined not to give the workers a channel to appeal. If the government did not enforce it, the complaint mailbox would be destroyed no matter what, and the workers would not dare to put the complaint letters in because of the threats from the thugs.

(Let the workers deliver the letters directly here?)

An idea popped into his mind, so he said to Kevin, "Kevin, can we let the workers send the complaint letter directly to us?"

"This way we can directly handle their complaints and report them to higher authorities, and the workers don't have to worry about being threatened by thugs."

Kevin was delighted at first, then shook his head.

"No, most factories are in the suburbs. We are in the city, too far away from the factories. The workers don't have time to come here."

"That's right, I didn't think it through..."

Lin Shangzhou put his right index finger on his chin and continued to think of other ways.

"Workers... workers..."

Lin Shangzhou whispered to himself, ordinary people don’t have to worry, the key lies in the workers. If the workers cannot protect their rights in this way, they can only rely on strikes.

But striking is not an easy thing. He can't go to all the factories in Strasbourg and lead the workers to strike one by one, right?

(It seems that it is not impossible...)

If he really led the workers in a general strike, perhaps this would improve the overall treatment of workers in Strasbourg, but this is easier said than done.

Let’s pass it for now.

Worker…

As Lin Shangzhou was thinking about it, another idea popped up in his mind: find someone to enter the factory to investigate the situation of the workers in different factories, just like he did back then.

This idea is indeed feasible, but it is a waste of time and manpower. It is okay if it is just one or two factories, but if all the factories in Strasbourg are to be investigated, it will take a lot of time, and they do not have enough manpower to complete this task.

(Oh, I can ask the trade unionists for help!)

He thought of Liszt and Walter. The syndicalists might be able to help them in this matter. This would neither require them to enter the factory to lead the workers in a strike, nor go against the intentions of Paris. After all, it was natural to go out and make money when one had no money.

(That’s it.)

"Kevin, I will try to find a way to handle this matter. If I need your help, I will let you know."

Lin Shangzhou said to Kevin, and Kevin nodded. He believed that Lin Shangzhou could come up with a suitable solution.

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Chapter 79 Seeking Help from the Trade Union

After getting off work at five in the afternoon, Lin Shangzhou rode his bicycle back to the street where his apartment was located. He rode past the apartment and came to Wolfgang's bar.

After locking the car, he walked into the bar. He came here not to drink, but to find Lister and Varta. Of course, he came here with the idea of ​​trying his luck.

Standing at the entrance of the bar and looking around inside, Lin Shangzhou was very happy when he saw the blond young man in front of the bar. Walter was here. Lin Shangzhou himself also wanted to find Walter. The girl Lister would probably leave directly after seeing him. Walter's attitude towards him was pretty good.

Lin Shangzhou walked up and patted Walter on the shoulder to greet him.

"Hey, Walter, good evening."

Walter was startled by the sudden slap, and after he came to his senses, he responded: "Good evening, Mr. Hipper."

Lin Shangzhou sat down next to him, asked the bartender for a beer, then turned to Walter and said, "Walter, why is Miss Lister not here?"

"After that day we found out through Catherine that you lived on this street, and then Lister rarely came to this bar anymore, and I apologize for that."

Walter said to Lin Shangzhou sincerely, and he waved his hand hastily and said, "No need to apologize, I won't be angry because of such a small matter."

Seeing that Lin Shangzhou had no intention of blaming Lister, Walter felt relieved.

"Thank you for your generosity. Lister's attitude at that time was a bit too much. Even if you don't plan to join us, you stand with the German workers. For this reason, she shouldn't treat you like that."

Lin Shangzhou recalled the change in Liszt's attitude that day. After she heard that he had joined the SPD, her enthusiasm and admiration turned into hostility. He also thought of Thalmann's death, and he could understand why Liszt's attitude had changed so much.

He said to Walter with emotion:

"I suppose Herr Thälmann has had a great influence on her?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Walter nodded and said, "If I am Uncle Pick's student, then Lister is Mr. Thalmann's student and daughter. She lost her parents when she was young and was raised by Mr. Thalmann himself. The importance of Mr. Thalmann to her cannot be expressed in words."