Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

After a moment of silence, Conrad stood up and walked towards Lin Shangzhou excitedly.

As he walked, he said to Lin Shangzhou respectfully and sincerely: "Hello, Mr. Hipper, I am Conrad Zuse, a student you sponsored. I am very grateful that you are willing to sponsor me to complete my studies. Thank you very much!"

Conrad held Lin Shangzhou's hand and shook it excitedly, his gratitude evident in words.

Lin Shangzhou accepted Conrad's thanks with a smile and shook Conrad's hand tightly.

After more than ten seconds, Conrad let go of Lin Shangzhou's hand and invited him to sit on the chair. Harvot sat on Lin Shangzhou's right hand side, and Conrad sat on Lin Shangzhou's left hand side, with the two of them sandwiching Lin Shangzhou in the middle.

"I don't think there's any need to introduce myself. Harvot should have told you, Chuze, about me."

After sitting down, Lin Shangzhou said to Conrad, and Conrad nodded and said, "Well, I learned about you, Mr. Hipper, from Harvot. You don't have to be so distant. Just call me Conrad."

Because of the sponsorship of his studies, Conrad was very fond of this stranger.

Lin Shangzhou smiled and nodded slightly. Calling someone by name directly was the first step to building a good relationship. Lin Shangzhou was happy to build a good relationship with scientists. Although there was such a magical thing as ether in this world, based on his current understanding, Lin Shangzhou had reason to believe that ether still belonged to the category of science, and scientists were crucial to this.

The two then chatted on the bench for a few minutes. During the conversation, Lin Shangzhou also learned the reason why Conrad's family was in debt. The reason was simple. The family had encountered an unexpected accident. His mother had a serious illness a year ago and spent all his family's savings and borrowed almost several thousand marks. After paying it back in installments, there are still two thousand marks left.

Without Lin Shangzhou's financial support, Conrad estimated that his studies would have been delayed for a while due to debts. Because of the debt, he took a two-year leave of absence from school to work and earn money.

Although two thousand marks was a considerable debt for Conrad's former family, it was not too difficult to repay.

However, after his mother recovered from a serious illness, she could no longer work and needed to take medicine constantly to stabilize her physical condition. For a family that had lost a labor force and added an economic burden, two thousand marks was a huge sum of money.

Lin Shangzhou funded him to complete his studies, which helped his family solve a large expense and reduced the burden on his family. Conrad was very grateful for this.

Of course, Conrad also knew that the funding was not free and Lin Shangzhou was not doing charity. Harworth also told him why Lin Shangzhou was willing to sponsor him.

He also assured Lin Shangzhou that he would work with Harvot to improve the Ethernet communicator and do his best to make a product that would satisfy Lin Shangzhou.

Lin Shangzhou just smiled at this. It didn’t matter whether the product was perfect or not now. He was more curious about how Conrad, who studied civil engineering, would invent a computer in the future?

He had not learned about Conrad Zuse in OTL in detail before traveling through time, so he had no way of knowing why he invented the computer. Now Conrad here is just an ordinary college student, and he certainly doesn't know why his self in another world invented the computer.

Lin Shangzhou asked, "Conrad, have you ever thought about changing your major or are you interested in other majors?"

Being interested in other majors is the best explanation that Lin Shangzhou can think of at the moment. If Conrad is interested in other electronic technologies and switches to studying electronic technology in the future, that makes sense. (In fact, it was just that Conrad was tired of the computing process, so he came up with the idea of ​​developing a computer.)

Conrad shook his head and said, "I chose civil engineering because of my personal interests. I am not very interested in other majors."

Seeing that his idea was denied, Lin Shangzhou simply stopped thinking about this difficult problem. The purpose of his coming to the Technical University of Berlin was to meet Conrad and take him to his apartment so that he could study the communicator with Harvotte on Saturdays and Sundays.

In addition to this, Lin Shangzhou also thought about trying his luck in this school to see if he could meet some scientists or future great scientists. However, he thought about it and decided to give up the idea. After all, it would be useless for him to find too many scientists now. On the contrary, it would be a bit useless.

Not to mention whether you can meet them or not, once you meet them you have to establish good relationships with them. There are two simple ways to make friends with scientists. The first is to be familiar with his research and be able to chat with him. The more you chat, the better the relationship will naturally be. The second is to directly fund his research.

As a liberal arts student, Lin Shangzhou knew how bad he was in science, so he naturally passed the first option, and the second option was not difficult for him. Not to mention that it was not appropriate to directly fund someone who had just met him by chance, scientific research was very expensive, and Mark, who he had, did not support him in doing so.

Harvot knew Lin Shangzhou's purpose. In order to avoid his funding appearing to have a strong purpose, he took the initiative to stand up and said, "Conrad, didn't you say you wanted to modify the appearance of the communicator? Let's go back to the laboratory in the apartment. Today happens to be the weekend, so you have time to do research with me."

"Ah."

Conrad nodded, and then said to Lin Shangzhou: "Mr. Fritz, let's go."

"Row."

Lin Shangzhou stood up. After he stood up, he thought of something, so he turned to Conrad and said, "Conrad, it would be difficult for only the two of you to research the communicator. If possible, I hope you can help Harvot recruit some people who are interested in communicator research among your classmates."

"For those who can participate and make contributions, I will sponsor them to complete their studies."

Lin Shangzhou is unable to fund a second person's research, but it is very easy for him to fund others to complete their studies.

After a brief thought, Conrad nodded.

"Okay, Mr. Fritz, I will promote it among my classmates later."

Lin Shangzhou looked at Conrad with satisfaction, and then took the two of them back to the car.

The main researcher of the communicator research is Havot, who masters the core technology. The reason why Lin Shangzhou asked Conrad to help recruit some students is mainly to improve the shortcomings of the communicator in other aspects.

Lin Shangzhou looks forward to seeing a better and more complete Ethernet communicator in the future, but unfortunately, he will receive bad news before seeing the communicator.

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Chapter 140 Bad News

At 12 o'clock in the morning on December 8, Lin Shangzhou was sitting in his office typing on his newly bought typewriter. After typing the last letter, Lin Shangzhou leaned back on the chair and let out a sigh.

"It's been a long time since I typed like this today..."

As he spoke, he took the manuscript he had just written from the typewriter. The white manuscript was covered with densely packed German letters. This was part of the new novel he had started conceiving yesterday afternoon. Since the newspaper had not yet recruited enough employees, he might as well take advantage of this time to write a new novel.

In this new novel, Lin Shangzhou slightly plagiarized the future ideas of Winston Churchill, a writer from the Kingdom of Canada. In fact, it can't be considered plagiarism. After all, it is normal for a time traveler to have the idea of ​​adapting the OTL things into novels. What's more, it is unknown whether Churchill has this idea now. Whoever writes it first will get the idea.

However, because he was in Germany, Lin Shangzhou made some modifications to the content, replacing the place names and personal names with other things. If the final outcome of Germany in the OTL was written, the book would probably be in trouble. Not to mention the defeat in the two world wars, the content about the land ceded after the defeat in World War II alone was enough for the German government to invite him for tea.

Germany's territory was greatly reduced, and East Prussia, the hometown of the Junkers, was directly given to the Soviet Union. This certainly could not be written. Lin Shangzhou didn't know whether Churchill wrote about this in his book "The Hour of Greatest Glory". Even if he did, it didn't matter. He was in the Kingdom of Canada, and the story he wrote was still the story of Britain's victory. In the end, the British Empire also stood on the side of justice.

Lin Shangzhou is in Germany, and in Berlin. It would be troublesome if the content of the book caused dissatisfaction among German right-wing conservatives, not to mention that there is also Klein waiting for an opportunity to act.

Lin Shangzhou didn't seek to make this book a big hit; he just wrote it to pass the time.

He looked up at the clock hanging on the wall, confirmed the time, put the manuscript in his hand into the drawer, and then stood up to prepare to eat.

Lin Shangzhou walked to the door of the office and just opened it, he saw Louis standing behind the door with an anxious look on his face. The anxious look on his face made Lin Shangzhou feel uneasy.

He had never seen Louis like this before. Something bad must have happened to make him look like this.

"Bad news?"

Lin Shangzhou asked tentatively, and Louis nodded vigorously and said, "It's bad news that can't be any worse."

When Lin Shangzhou heard the words “it couldn’t get any worse”, his heart skipped a beat. He could guess what the bad news was. If nothing unexpected happened, Klein knew about what happened to him in Strasbourg and told the chancellor, and the chancellor decided to sanction him.

This is indeed news that cannot be any worse. He currently has no capital to confront the Prime Minister. Cecilia is wavering, and he has to become the party leader first before he can get her help.

The difficulty on the military side is less, but we have to wait until the communicator is mass-produced and provided to the military before we can get their support.

just now…

(I need to prepare to go back to Strasbourg…)

Lin Shangzhou had prepared for the worst in his mind, but this was not the worst plan. The worst outcome was that the prime minister would send someone directly to arrest him, but this should be unlikely.

"Come in first and have a glass of water before I tell you the bad news."

Lin Shangzhou invited Louis into the office. Louis walked to the table in the office, picked up the kettle on it, poured himself a cup of tea, and then drank the water in the cup.

Lin Shangzhou sat on a chair and watched Louis drinking water. He felt a little lucky. This lucky feeling came from his past sense of uneasiness that was similar to his "spider sense".

In the past, whenever something bad was about to happen, he would feel uneasy in advance. The intensity of the uneasiness depended on the severity of the bad thing. For example, when he saw Klein in Wuyou Palace a few days ago, he felt very nervous.

But today it was just a normal feeling of uneasiness, and it only came after I saw Louis and saw the anxious look on his face.

Lin Shangzhou hopes that this frequent premonition is his golden finger, so that the bad news this time will not be so bad.

Louis drank two glasses of water, turned around and leaned against the table, and said to Lin Shangzhou with a serious expression: "The Prime Minister proposed a motion in the parliament this morning, and the content of the motion is to restrict immigrants from participating in politics."

Lin Shangzhou's face darkened after hearing this proposal, and his mood also became heavy.

"It seems that Klein knows about my affairs and told those things to the Prime Minister."

Lin Shangzhou said in a serious tone.

"I think so."

Louis nodded, and then continued, "The main content of this bill is to completely restrict immigrants from participating in politics and joining political parties. This one-size-fits-all policy has caused some dissatisfaction in the parliament, so it is still in the discussion stage. However, no matter what the result is, it will definitely not be good for us."

Lin Shangzhou listened to Louis' words quietly, lowered his head and pondered how to deal with this difficult matter.

No matter what the outcome of the parliament's discussion of this bill is, it will be a fatal blow to him. If this policy is passed, he will need to return to Strasbourg, or turn to the syndicalists and let them take him to the French Commune.

At that time, he can choose to stay in the commune and help the commune beat up the Germans in the future, or follow Mr. Wang back to China to fight the Northern Expedition. Both options are better than staying in Germany.

"Fritts, I remember you came to Germany to settle down more than 10 years ago, right?"

Hearing Louis' question, Lin Shangzhou looked up at him and nodded.

"Well, I came to Germany with my uncle when I was ten years old. I'm twenty now, which means it's been exactly ten years."

Speaking of this, Lin Shangzhou remembered that he still didn't know when his birthday was, and he might even be twenty-one now.

He didn't know whether he should ask Lin Yangyu about this matter. It was too strange that he didn't even know his own birthday...

"ten years…"

Louis whispered the word, and then his eyes lit up. He found a way out. He looked up and said to Lin Shangzhou:

"Fritts, don't worry too much. I will do my best to give opinions on the content of this bill and change the complete restriction to 'one must live in the country for ten years before participating in politics'. There are many people in the parliament who are dissatisfied with this one-size-fits-all policy. The chancellor has also made corresponding concessions and will listen to suggestions to amend the bill. Finally, I will present the bill to Your Majesty at the Imperial Parliament next month when Your Majesty attends it."

Lin Shangzhou sighed softly and said:

"But are the opinions of the parliamentarians useful? Doesn't Alexandrine's opinion determine whether the policy will be passed in the end?"

"And Alexandrine is controlled by the Prime Minister. She will not agree to this..."

Hearing Lin Shangzhou say this, Louis chuckled and interrupted Lin Shangzhou.

"Your Majesty may not agree."

"Ok?"

Lin Shangzhou looked at Louis in confusion. He was full of doubts. Why did Louis say that?

(Could it be…)

After seeing the smile on Louis' face, Lin Shangzhou had a bad idea in his mind, and Louis' next words confirmed Lin Shangzhou's idea.

Louis smiled faintly and said, "I told Her Majesty that you were working hard for her to become the leader of the Social Democratic Party and the chancellor. If Her Majesty valued you, she might not necessarily agree with this policy, and might even reject it."

"No matter what, she is the emperor. If she firmly refuses to pass such a policy in parliament, the prime minister will have no choice but to accept the result."

After listening to his story, Lin Shangzhou was stunned for a few seconds, and then said to Louis with a smile: "Louis, I really don't know whether to be happy or sad."

"What?"

Louis was a little confused at first, but then Lin Shangzhou's words made him realize it.

"Have you forgotten that Cecilia is determined not to let her sister get involved in politics? If she refuses to pass this policy, it means that she is involved in politics. If Cecilia knows that you are involved, then we will be in trouble. She may even refuse to give us any support."

At the end of his speech, Lin Shangzhou sighed in distress. If he caused Cecilia to dislike him, it would be the end of him.

Louis, realizing what he had done, felt very embarrassed and ashamed. However, after thinking for a while, he coughed and said to Lin Shangzhou, "Um... Fritz, I don't think you need to worry too much. After all, the policy is to restrict immigration, and you are a Chinese immigrant. Her Majesty also knows that you are Chinese, so if Cecilia asks, she might explain it this way."

Lin Shangzhou rolled his eyes at him and said, "I hope so."

“Ah…hahaha…”

Louis laughed dryly twice, and in order to ease the awkward atmosphere, he hurriedly brought up another matter.

"Fritts, Otto and his team will return to Berlin this afternoon and will convene a party meeting tomorrow. You must be prepared to convince them."

When Lin Shangzhou heard about the "party meeting", he became serious. Although he was now facing the possibility of all his previous efforts being wasted, it was only a possibility and there was still room for turnaround.

If he could become the party leader as soon as possible and convince Cecilia to step down as the prime minister, everything would be solved.

"Well, I will."

He stood up and nodded vigorously, and then Lin Shangzhou went to eat with Louis.

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Chapter 141 Party Meeting (I)

At about 9: p.m. on the th, Louis drove Lin Shangzhou to the SPD's office in downtown Berlin, parked the car on the side of the road, and he and Lin Shangzhou got out of the car.

“Is this the Social Democratic Party’s stronghold?”

Lin Shangzhou asked while looking at the building in front of him.

"Well, Otto and the others should be waiting for us in the conference room. Let's go over there quickly."

Louis nodded, and then walked quickly into the building with Lin Shangzhou. After entering the office, Lin Shangzhou noticed that all the staff who walked past them would greet Louis without exception. Some people looked at him with puzzled eyes, while others looked at him with scrutiny.

The former is obviously someone who doesn't know himself, while the latter is someone who knows his own business.

More than a minute later, Louis brought Lin Shangzhou to the door of the conference room. The front and back doors of the conference room were open. Before Lin Shangzhou walked in, he saw that only some people were sitting in the front row, and the rest of the seats were empty. The conference room was not big, and judging from the seats, it could only accommodate less than a hundred people.