Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

"Then I would like to thank you, General."

Lin Shangzhou thanked Volbeck respectfully. The good idea he had was to let Volbeck sell the communicator in the army and then attract the attention of the military. Cecilia could also help, but she might not have the time as she stayed with Alexandrine all day.

He now knew clearly the support he could get from the Army. Although gaining favor did not count as support... it was better than having no favor at all. Next, Lin Shangzhou shifted his attention to another branch of the military - the Navy.

But when this idea came to him, he felt it was strange. Wasn't it inappropriate to ask an army general about matters related to the navy?

Considering that he might not be able to get in touch with naval generals now, Lin Shangzhou decided to ask about the Forbeck navy.

"General, may I ask how much do you know about the Imperial Navy?"

"navy?"

Volbeck looked at Lin Shangzhou in surprise. Why would he want to ask him, an army general, about the navy? Thinking of the question just now, Volbeck understood what Lin Shangzhou wanted to ask.

He was somewhat dissatisfied with Lin Shangzhou's question, but for the sake of the communicator, he decided to talk to Lin Shangzhou.

After thinking about the navy, Volbeck replied, "I don't know much about the navy, but I can be sure that both the navy and the aviation forces will like this kind of communication equipment very much."

"Thank you very much, General, for your patience in clearing up my confusion."

After hearing Forbeck's answer, Lin Shangzhou's mood became very good. In the future, he would not have to worry about matters related to the military. He only needed to worry about the party leader and the general election.

This sentence also reminded him of the air force in this world. With the magic force, the development of the air force must be so backward that it cannot be backward anymore. Others do not know the importance of the air force, but Lin Shangzhou is very clear about the importance of the air force. In the future, he will vigorously develop the air force.

He really wanted to ask about the situation of Volbeck's flying unit, but he had just asked an army general about the navy, so it would not be appropriate to ask about the flying unit again. He could ask Cecilia this question in the afternoon.

After having a brief chat with Forbeck about Alexandrine's condition which was not related to the military, Lin Shangzhou took Havot away.

After walking out of the door, the two of them got into the car. Lin Shangzhou didn't rush to start the car. He said to Harvot in the passenger seat, "Harvot, the communicator has a very obvious drawback. Do you know what this drawback is?"

As the inventor of the communicator, Harvot naturally knew what Lin Shangzhou was talking about. He nodded and said, "Of course I know that if the communicator wants to talk, both parties need to tune to the same frequency."

Lin Shangzhou asked: "Can you solve this problem and make it work like a telephone?"

Harvot nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course, I will do my best to solve this problem."

Seeing that he was so confident, Lin Shangzhou felt relieved. If the communicator could only realize calls at the same frequency, then the communicator would become useless.

Then Lin Shangzhou thought of another thing. What did Harworth think of him providing his invention to the military?

Providing it to the military means serving the war. Generally speaking, scientists are anti-war. What would Harvot think?

"Havot, I'm sorry to give your communicator to the military without your consent."

Lin Shangzhou said to him apologetically, but this would be a case of acting without prior consent. He had already agreed to provide it to the military. What was the point if Havot disagreed?

Harvot naturally knew this, and he had no objection to it. The funds for his activities were all provided by Lin Shangzhou, and he was prepared for similar things to happen.

He shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay. It doesn't matter to me whether it is used by the military or not. As long as I can continue my research, that's fine."

"I will discuss anything with you in advance in the future... Where are you going next? Are you going back to the apartment to continue your research, or are you going to the Worry-Free Palace with me?"

Lin Shangzhou asked as he started the car.

"I'll go back to the apartment first."

"Row."

Then Lin Shangzhou took him back to the apartment. After sending Harvot to the apartment, Lin Shangzhou drove to Wuyou Palace.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at Wuyou Palace. Cecilia was not in Wuyou Palace, so Lin Shangzhou came to the driver's lounge and sat there to accompany Lin Yangyu.

At almost five o'clock, Cecilia opened the door and walked in. She handed a small bag to Lin Shangzhou. Lin Shangzhou took the bag and opened it to see that it contained several round metal pieces with a diameter of five or six centimeters and a thickness of two or three millimeters.

There was an iron cross engraved on the front of the metal piece. Lin Shangzhou was very curious about it. Why was it a metal piece like this back then, but now it was a necklace?

Cecilia explained to him that in the early stages of the war, an important means of attack for magic troops fighting each other was to knock out the enemy's core parts, which were metal pieces like this. Later, the French were the first to use necklaces as the core, followed by the British. Germany scoffed at this at first, but later, after suffering losses in battle, it also used necklaces as core equipment.

Lin Shangzhou felt very strange after listening to her story, but it made sense.

Cecilia also told Lin Shangzhou about the flying unit. To put it simply, they have only now developed biplanes, and triplanes are still in service.

This level of backwardness makes Lin Shangzhou feel a little tricky, but he can think of specific solutions in the future, it is enough to understand it now.

After speaking a few more words to his uncle, Lin Shangzhou returned to the apartment with the small bag and handed the titanium metal sheet inside to Harvot.

Next he would focus on setting up a newspaper and party meetings.

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Chapter 135 Bad Things

On December 6, three days had passed since the founding of the Qianjin Daily. The newspaper was recruiting employees from all over. Once the recruitment was completed, the work of the newspaper would be on track. During the 4th and 5th, Lin Shangzhou was busy with various matters of the newspaper and visiting other party members.

The process of visiting other party members went very smoothly. He even visited Erich Koch who had returned. The former leader of the Progressive People's Party did not give him a good look. As Lin Shangzhou had expected, Erich's reaction to his becoming the party leader was also firm disagreement.

However, the Social Democratic Party has more members than his Progressive People's Party, so Lin Shangzhou only needs to ensure the majority support of the Social Democratic Party. The main purpose of his visit to Erich is to avoid possible internal party splits in the future.

If the Progressive People's Party is excluded from this matter, it will inevitably cause a rift between the two sides. Lin Shangzhou does not want to see the Progressive People's Party announce its separation from the Socialist People's Party in the future, which would be troublesome.

However, the party meeting could not be held for the time being because Wells and some others were still out of town. This undoubtedly intensified Lin Shangzhou's worries. The longer it was delayed, the more dangerous his situation would be. Klein would definitely do something after knowing his situation.

He has done everything he can. If he is really sanctioned by the Prime Minister, there is nothing he can do as the difference in strength is too great. At that time, Lin Shangzhou will have no choice but to return to Strasbourg to develop there and then wait until Black Monday to launch the uprising.

Today, Lin Shangzhou plans to go to the Technical University of Berlin to meet Conrad Zuse there, and see if there are other talents there that can be recruited.

What he didn't know was that at 7 a.m. Klein's men got off the train at Berlin Railway Station.

And everything will develop in the direction that Lin Shangzhou least wants to see.

As soon as Klein's men got off the train, they rushed to the prime minister's residence as fast as they could. Klein and his uncle the prime minister lived in the same mansion.

Arriving at the gate of the mansion, the three men hurriedly urged the servants to open the door for them. After entering the courtyard, the three men ran to the house in a hurry. They had to tell Klein everything they knew in Strasbourg as soon as possible. What happened there was not a small matter.

However, the three of them slowed down when entering the house, because the owner of the house, Prime Minister Albert, did not like anyone making too much noise in his home.

Despite this, the three of them walked quickly towards Klein's office. They knew that their captain would get up early every day and stay in his office to read after morning exercises.

The leading commando knocked on the door, and after the knock the three heard Klein's voice.

"Please come in."

After getting permission, they opened the door and walked in.

In the office, Klein was sitting in his chair reading a novel he had recently bought. When he heard the door open, he put down the book in his hand and looked up at the three plainclothes commandos who walked in.

Because he had lost interest in Letitia, he was even a little reluctant to let them report their investigation to him when his reading was interrupted by the three people.

Thinking that "even if the three of them have made no contributions, they have worked hard", Klein decided to listen to what they had found out in Strasbourg.

He asked the three people irritably: "What did you find out in Strasbourg?"

The leading commando hesitated after seeing the annoyance on Klein's face, because he knew that if he told him what he and his companions had found out, he would be in an even worse mood.

Klein was surprised and annoyed when he saw the man in front of him was silent. Why did he come here without saying anything?

He said to the three people impatiently: "Aren't you usually the one who likes to talk the most? Why are you suddenly silent now?"

"If you haven't found anything, get out of here and don't bother me! If you have found anything, tell me what it is."

At Klein's urging, the leading commando said, "Captain, we have found out a lot about Miss Adolf and the Chinese man."

Klein was furious when he heard about Letitia and Lin Shangzhou, but he still controlled his emotions and signaled his people with his eyes to continue.

"Ms. Adolf is the daughter of a wealthy man in a small town near Strasbourg. She lived with the Chinese man for a long time in Strasbourg..."

Hearing that Letitia and Lin Shangzhou had been living together for a long time, Klein became increasingly annoyed. He said to the commandos in a harsh voice:

"Okay! Don't tell me about her. Tell me what you found out about that yellow monkey."

The commando swallowed his saliva. Klein's behavior showed what happened after they left, and his angry look made him hesitate whether to tell him about Lin Shangzhou.

This time he didn't hesitate for too long. If he kept dragging it out, Klein would only get angrier.

"The Chinese man worked for a newspaper in Strasbourg. Later on March 3, he led a small-scale workers' strike in Strasbourg..."

"Ok?"

The second half of the commando's words confused Klein for a moment. His doubt interrupted the commando's words, so he said to him, "Go on."

The commando went on to say: "After that, the factory where the Chinese man had worked established a trade union, and the Chinese man joined the Labor and Social Affairs Department of Strasbourg in May. After he entered the government department, starting in July, the workers' movement in Strasbourg gradually became more active. At the end of July, there were even three consecutive strikes within a few days. During the strikes, he served as a mediator to handle the relationship between the workers and the factory. After that, he was called a 'friend of the workers' by the newspapers."

"Oh, friends of the workers..."

Hearing this title, Klein sneered disdainfully, and the wave of strikes also made him start to pay attention to what the players in front of him said. Striking is not a good thing.

The team member swallowed and continued: "Then in August, he became the head of the department and a member of the city council..."

"Became a city councillor?"

Klein looked at the commando in surprise, and he nodded to confirm the matter. Klein didn't understand how that yellow monkey became a city councilor, so he didn't ask immediately, but gestured to the commando to continue.

"He pushed the city council to pass some policies that benefited the citizens and got the Strasbourg government to acquiesce in the establishment of trade unions. Strasbourg workers established a Strasbourg General Labor Union, but there is no direct evidence that he was involved in the establishment of the General Labor Union.

"He was later nominated as a mayoral candidate and was well-liked by the citizens in the subsequent mayoral election, with 25% of the votes, ranking second in the mayoral election."

This sentence shocked Klein even more. How could that yellow monkey be nominated as a mayoral candidate and even get 25% of the votes? He even felt like he was still dreaming.

Lin Shangzhou's experience also made him feel disgusted. How could a yellow-skinned monkey live such a comfortable life? What went wrong?

"Is there anything else?"

The commando nodded and said to Klein, "More than 11 days after the mayoral election, in late November, the Chinese man resigned from his government job and returned to Berlin in early December. According to the news published in the newspaper, he joined the Social Democratic Party."

(Joined the Socialist People’s Party?!)

After hearing the last sentence, Klein's thoughts instantly became clear, and the previous things were easy to understand. However, there was still one thing that didn't make sense. If he joined the Social Democratic Party, he would just be an ordinary party member. How could he directly enter the city council?

Unless there are high-ranking members of the Social Democratic Party helping him...

"Social Democratic Party leaders?"

The figure of Louis gradually emerged in Klein's mind. He connected Louis and Lin Shangzhou together. Louis was a senior member of the Social Democratic Party. If Lin Shangzhou also had his help, then it made sense that he had risen steadily in Strasbourg.

He also thought of what happened when he met Louis in the Worry-Free Palace in May. Logically speaking, Louis could not enter the Worry-Free Palace at that time unless someone brought him in. If it was that yellow monkey who brought him in, then it would make sense.

After connecting Louis and Lin Shangzhou together, Klein found that everything became clear, and he was also guessing in his heart the purpose of Lin Shangzhou's return to Berlin.

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Chapter 136: Prime Minister’s Plan (I)

(Why did the yellow monkey quit his job in Strasbourg and come back?)

Klein pondered the question. He glanced at the three commandos in the room and asked, "Anything else you want to say?"

"Nothing."

The leader shook his head.

"Then you guys go down first. I know everything. It's none of your business."

Klein motioned for the three to leave, and they left the office one after another. As the door closed, Klein was the only one left in the room.

He looked at the novel on the table, his eyes gradually lost focus and his vision became blurred, but the thoughts in his mind gradually became clearer.

Why did Lin Shangzhou come back from Strasbourg?

This is the problem that Klein cannot understand the most. If he were that yellow... uh... if he encountered the same situation as that yellow monkey, he would never stupidly return to Berlin from Strasbourg. First, he had his own enemies in Berlin, and second, he had already developed in Strasbourg and lived a carefree life, so there was no need to come back.

(Is this the unique idea of ​​the yellow monkey?)

Klein sneered. Of course he didn't really think so. The yellow monkey must have his reasons for coming back from Strasbourg, but he just didn't know it.

He pieced together the information he knew: that the yellow monkey had led strikes, established trade unions, joined government departments, joined the Social Democratic Party, and even had the help of Louis, a senior Social Democratic Party member of the Imperial Parliament. Putting all these things together, Klein could not guess what the yellow monkey wanted to do, but he had reason to believe that he wanted to get involved in politics.

Thinking of this, Klein stood up, took the hat from the hanger and put it on his head, then left his office. He was going to find his uncle Albert.

It was very rare for a Chinese to become a government official and a party member. In addition to what he had done, Klein felt it necessary to tell his uncle about this.

He quickly walked to the bedroom of Prime Minister Albert. He hesitated before knocking on the door. He raised his hand to check the time on the watch on his left hand. After confirming that it was almost eight o'clock, he knocked on the door.

The reason why Klein hesitated was simple. His uncle, Prime Minister Albert, got up between seven and eight o'clock. If he disturbed Albert's sleep, even he would inevitably be scolded.

Three seconds after the knock on the door, Klein heard his uncle's voice from behind the door: "Come in."

After getting permission, he opened the door and walked in. He saw his uncle sitting on the bed enjoying his breakfast. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Good morning, uncle."