Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Hearing the name, Lin Shangzhou also remembered that it was indeed this program, so he nodded repeatedly and asked, "Wasn't a new program drafted after the Gotha Program? What was the name of that program?"

"The Erfurt Programme, which was later criticised by Mr. Engels, who also wrote an article criticising it."

After answering, Louis seemed to have thought of something and said self-deprecatingly: "To be honest, the Erfurt Program that was criticized decades ago is better than the current Berlin Manifesto. If Mr. Marx and Mr. Engels had read the Berlin Manifesto, they would probably scold us to death."

"I believe they will do so."

Lin Shangzhou said with a smile, and at the same time he changed his plan in his mind.

His ultimate goal was to revise the revisionist parts of the Berlin Manifesto and to revise the SPD's programmatic document. Instead of reading Marx's works directly, he should first read the Erfurt Program and the critical articles written by Engels, and then look at the Berlin Manifesto and revise the unreasonable parts.

After the plan was decided, Lin Shangzhou prepared to do it in the afternoon.

He turned to Louis and said, "Louis, can you help me find the Erfurt Program and the critical articles written by Mr. Engels? If possible, please also give me a copy of the Berlin Manifesto. I also hope you can help me find Mr. Marx's works."

"Okay, I'll deliver it to your house after I get it."

Louis readily agreed without asking why.

Then Lin Shangzhou and Louis got up and left the meeting room. Lin Shangzhou took Louis' car back to the newspaper office and started working. After sending Lin Shangzhou to the newspaper office, Louis went to the Social Democratic Party's dedicated library to look for the relevant information that Lin Shangzhou wanted.

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Chapter 144 Newspaper Office Opening

On December 12, the newspaper finally recruited enough employees and officially started business in the afternoon. After discussion within the newspaper, it was decided to publish two issues a week for the time being. Although there were old employees from the Workers' Daily in the newspaper, most of the employees were still newcomers. They would first publish two issues a week to accumulate experience and then switch to a daily newspaper later.

On the afternoon when the newspaper office opened, employees from various departments began to rush to their posts and work hard. Lin Shangzhou also learned a very interesting thing from Louis.

The party newspaper of the Social Democratic Party is also called "Forward". The difference between our newspaper and the party newspaper of the Social Democratic Party lies in the prefix "German People". Moreover, the Social Democratic Party's "Forward" is a party newspaper and is only available to party members.

Having said that, Lin Shangzhou remembered that he had not received this newspaper when he was in Strasbourg. After asking Louis, he learned that Louis did not help him subscribe to this newspaper.

Subscription to the party newspaper is free and voluntary. You can read it if you want, or not if you don't want to. The reason why Louis didn't subscribe him to a newspaper or tell him about this was that he worked in the Workers' Daily and had the Workers' Daily to read, so there was no need for him to read the party newspaper.

(From now on, when we mention Vorwärts, we will refer to the newspaper of the protagonist. The SPD’s Vorwärts will be referred to as the party newspaper, if we mention it at all.)

In response, Lin Shangzhou just rolled his eyes at Louis and never mentioned the matter again.

On December 12, one day after the newspaper officially opened, the Prime Minister's proposal to restrict immigrants' participation in politics was reported by the media belonging to the Center Party in parliament. The media belonging to other political parties also reported the matter one after another. The remaining newspapers that did not know the detailed information sent people to find out about the matter.

"Forward" was no exception. Goebbels had learned about this matter from Lin Shangzhou two days ago, but he did not take immediate action. Firstly, he was busy with other matters in the newspaper, and secondly, he wanted to see how the Berlin media would comment on this matter. After seeing other media reports on this matter on the morning of the 11th, he immediately sent people to learn more about this policy.

He knows exactly who this policy is aimed at, so be fully prepared to criticize it.

Lin Shangzhou's secretary Kevin and Monk from the press department led a group to interview two SPD members (Louis and Otto) and spent an afternoon learning about the incident from all aspects. Finally, at four o'clock in the afternoon, they were so exhausted that they delivered the report to Goebbels' desk.

In addition to the report from the Press Department, Goebbels' desk also contained all the other newspapers available in Berlin. He read the reports in detail. Among them, the vast majority of newspapers that reported on this policy affirmed it, and the remaining small number remained neutral, but judging from the descriptions in their articles, they also tended to approve of this policy.

Although whether this policy can be passed depends on the Emperor's thoughts in the Imperial Parliament next month, Goebbels knows that if the current public opinion trend continues and the media is allowed to continue reporting in this way, then in a month Berlin may be filled with an anti-immigration political atmosphere.

This situation was not good for Lin Shangzhou, not to mention that he was already facing a big problem within the party. Goebbels would naturally not watch such a thing happen.

After a brief thought, he picked up the typewriter and began to write an article criticizing the policy. More than forty minutes later, Goebbels wrote an article criticizing the chancellor's new policy. After reviewing his article, Goebbels handed the article to Jesus from the publishing department and asked him to publish it in the first issue of the newspaper tomorrow.

Goebbels knew that this article alone was definitely not enough to change public opinion. This article only criticized the irrationality of the policy. If he wanted to better arouse public sympathy, he needed to think of other methods.

After thinking for more than ten minutes, Goebbels thought of looking for a solution from history. So he told Lin Shangzhou, who was reading the SPD's manifesto, and left work early and went to the Berlin library to read German historical books, hoping to find reasons from history to refute this restrictive policy.

A day later, on December 12, after arriving at the newspaper office, Lin Shangzhou marveled at the wonder of today's day. It was Double Twelve. Before he traveled through time, he might have been swiping his phone to look at some of his favorite products.

Double Twelve is a very shocking day, and shocking things are indeed happening in Berlin today.

People in Berlin could not believe that a newspaper called "German People's Forward" that came out of nowhere would publish an article criticizing the chancellor's new policy, and the author of the article was "Paul Goebbels" who came out of nowhere.

You know, there are almost no articles in Berlin that dare to satirize the chancellor and criticize the policies so directly. After all, there are not many left-wing newspapers in Berlin. The SPD’s party newspaper, which is only for party members, may make some satires on the chancellor, but newspapers for the general public rarely do so.

This article alone brought considerable sales to the "Vorwards". People were very curious to see what the article criticizing the chancellor's policies was like. After reading the article, most people had a new opinion on this policy, which seemed indeed unreasonable. After reading the newspaper, the citizens of Berlin also speculated and looked forward to whether this newspaper called "German People's Vorwards" would publish other articles satirizing the chancellor in the next few days.

However, what makes people feel a little disappointed is that this newspaper is published twice a week, one on Tuesday and one on Friday. Today is the 12th, which is Friday. If you want to read the next issue of the newspaper, you have to wait until next Tuesday.

Such news naturally reached Klein's ears. After knowing this, he took the newspaper to find his uncle. The prime minister was very curious about this. After reading the article, he sent people to investigate the newspaper. Soon, the relevant information of the newspaper was delivered to his desk.

After seeing the name of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, the prime minister felt that the appearance of this article was very reasonable. It turned out that this newspaper was the newspaper of that Chinese man. In this case, it was reasonable for it to publish an article criticizing his new policy.

Albert's usual approach to media matters was to leave it to his subordinates. He was not interested in this aspect, and this time was no exception. He left the matter of how to fight back against such articles to his subordinates. However, this time Klein also proposed to get involved. Albert did not refuse, but told him not to do it too much and then let him do it.

After obtaining his uncle's consent, Klein discussed with Albert's confidants how to launch an offensive against the newspaper.

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Chapter 145 Attack Conspiracy

After coming out of the Chancellor's office, Klein led the person in charge of publicity in the Chancellor's think tank to one side of the corridor. He found an empty meeting room and walked in with the person.

After entering the conference room, Klein closed the door tightly.

Darren, one of the prime minister's think tanks, pulled out a conference chair for Klein and asked him to sit down. After thanking him, Klein sat down very naturally. From the perspective of others, the status of the two seemed equal. Darren's position was even higher than Klein's, but he cleverly chose to humble himself in front of Klein.

After all, he was the prime minister's nephew, and he was just an employee under the prime minister.

After Darren sat down, Klein said to him, "Mr. Tiant, one of my ideas is to send some people to harass the newsstand of their newspaper. The location of the newsstand only needs to pay one mark to bribe the newspaper boy to make them tell everything, which can reduce their newspaper sales."

Darren nodded silently after hearing Klein's idea, but he secretly teased in his heart: If the Prime Minister hadn't told you not to go too far, you would probably have thought of getting someone to close down that newspaper.

Although this idea was essentially a bad one, Darren knew that it was actually the most direct and effective solution. The other party was just a tabloid and there were many reasons to shut it down. Moreover, if it was shut down, not many people would pay special attention to this tabloid. Moreover, most of the media in Berlin would not sympathize with this newspaper. After all, for them, one less newspaper meant one less competitor. With a little bit of fanning the flames, this matter would have no negative impact on the prime minister.

However, Darren was more aware of the prime minister's other intention. The prime minister's advice to him not to overdo it showed that the prime minister did not intend to use tough measures. He wanted to see himself defeat the other party with his most commonly used means of public opinion.

"Mr. Klein, do you have any other suggestions?"

Darren asked. Since Klein proposed to get involved, he would like to see what Klein is capable of in this regard. If he can only come up with such insignificant methods that the prime minister would not approve of, then he would not care too much about Klein's opinions.

Klein smiled and nodded, saying, "Of course, Mr. Tiant, you don't know the identity of the editor-in-chief of that newspaper, but I do."

Darren was a little curious. He really didn't know the identity of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He only knew that his name was Fritz Hipper.

"Please tell me."

Klein sneered and said disdainfully: "Although the editor-in-chief of that newspaper bears the German name 'Fritz Hipper', he is actually a lowly Chinese."

"Chinese?"

Darren opened his eyes slightly, feeling a little surprised. He had not expected that the editor-in-chief of that newspaper was actually Chinese.

"And that yellow monkey used to be your Majesty's driver..."

Klein said with a straight face.

Darren was even more surprised when he heard the last sentence.

Klein tried not to think about Lin Shangzhou. After calming down, he said to Darren, "If we want to deal with that newspaper, the identity of that yellow monkey is a good starting point."

Darren showed some hesitation, but he soon realized what Klein was going to do, and it was related to a word...

"Are you planning to use the 'Yellow Peril Theory' against that Chinese man and his newspaper?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Hearing Darren mention such a "beautiful" word, Klein couldn't help but laugh, and he nodded and clapped to show that Darren was right.

"This statement, which was once advocated by His Majesty Emperor Wilhelm, can be used to attack the Chinese and his newspaper."

Klein said proudly, but Darren objected to this.

"But Mr. Klein, with the development of Sino-German trade, the Yellow Peril theory has long been out of fashion. Don't you know that?"

Darren asked doubtfully. As a member of the Chancellor's think tank, he was well aware of the changes in Germany's attitude towards China in recent years. Except for racists like Klein in front of him, most people were actually not interested in the Yellow Peril Theory, and they also had no aversion to the yellow race.

"what?"

Klein was suddenly stunned. This was something he had not expected, which made him very embarrassed. His embarrassment also made the atmosphere on the scene very weird.

"Um... Mr. Darren, you know me... I often visit the Germanic Club, so... you know."

He spoke awkwardly to Darren with a stiff smile, not knowing where to put his hands and making some incomprehensible movements to ease the embarrassment - this made him very funny

What he meant was that it would be strange for him to know such things since he hangs out with racists all day long.

Darren chuckled and nodded, saying, "It's okay. The noble Germans naturally don't bother to understand the affairs of the yellow race."

As a subordinate of the Prime Minister, he would not embarrass Klein, even though there were only two of them in the huge conference room.

In order to ease his embarrassment, Klein asked Darren:

"Mr. Tiant, do you have any good ideas on how to use the 'Yellow Peril Theory' to deal with that yellow monkey and his newspaper?"

Darren chuckled and said, "Of course."

"Although people are no longer interested in the Yellow Peril theory in recent years, that's just the end of the story. People are easily influenced by media reports. As long as we add fuel to the flames on this issue, we may be able to lead a new wave of Yellow Peril fever. Even if we can't cause such a fever, it would be okay to make people in Berlin hate yellow people."

As Darren said, the masses are easily influenced by media reports, not to mention that the only channels for people to get news now are newspapers, radio and word of mouth.

"That newspaper will certainly fight back, but it's just a small newspaper. How can it possibly compete with us who control the German media?"

After listening to Darren's story, Klein immediately nodded excitedly. Of course, he fully supported such a good thing.

"So what are you going to do, Mr. Tiante?"

Darren thought for a while, then said: "First, to arouse people's disgust towards the Chinese, I have a very simple and direct method to arouse people's disgust towards the yellow race."

"what way?"

Klein looked at Darren expectantly.

Faced with Klein's expectant eyes, Darren hesitated for a moment. He hesitated not because of Klein, but because of his own method. After all, this method offended someone.

After hesitating for a second, he said, "Didn't our beloved Emperor Wilhelm die unexpectedly five years ago? Wasn't his driver a Chinese?"

"Ah."

Klein nodded. When he mentioned this incident, a sadness rose in his heart. His parents were also on the airship that Emperor William and his family were riding on. His parents left him forever that day.

As for "His Majesty the Beloved Emperor Wilhelm", judging from the current situation in Germany, Alexandrine's grandfather Wilhelm II is a hundred times more popular than her.

Darren went on to say, "His Majesty Emperor Wilhelm used to advocate the Yellow Peril Theory, but he later abandoned it and even let a Chinese man be his driver. Five years after the Chinese man became his driver, he died unexpectedly. We can write an article about this."

After listening to Darren's proposal, Klein suddenly felt enlightened. Although it was only in the planning stage, he seemed to have seen the future anti-pornography wave.

Just as he was about to speak out in support of Darren, Darren said with difficulty: "But if we use the matter of Emperor William to attack the yellow people, it may make His Majesty and Lady Cecilia unhappy... The Prime Minister may also be dissatisfied."

Klein swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. This was indeed a problem, but he also thought that Her Majesty never left the house all day and she didn't usually read newspapers. Cecilia had chosen to let her uncle control the German Emperor, so it should be okay to make use of the deceased Emperor William.

More importantly, if those two have objections to this, they will not investigate it until it is him. Then it will be Darren who will be in trouble, and Darren will not be stupid enough to give him up.

So Klein told Darren not to worry, and if he had any objections from the Prime Minister, he would find a way to convince the Prime Minister.

Darren nodded in agreement, but in his heart he was madly complaining about Klein.

Then the two discussed the specific matters, and half an hour later they walked out of the meeting room.

Lin Shangzhou, who was reading the Social Democratic Party's program documents and Marx's works in the newspaper office, did not know that a public opinion conspiracy against the Chinese had begun.

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Chapter 146: Bad News Coming One After Another

On the evening after discussing the specific matters with Klein, Darren sent people to take action. However, he did not immediately have people publish articles about the Yellow Peril Theory. Instead, he first started with another thing - shaping a good social opinion for the new policy.

Darren was very surprised when he first learned about this policy. He didn't understand why the prime minister would design such a one-size-fits-all and unreasonable policy, and he got no answer when he asked the prime minister.

When he discussed this with Klein, he asked Klein about this matter. Klein told him the reason. Darren suddenly realized that the prime minister chose to do this in order to break the rumor.

In this way, the plan to shape good social opinion for the new policy can actually be put on hold, because this policy will not harm the prime minister whether it is passed or not. However, shaping social opinion against immigration participation in politics and creating the Yellow Peril theory are interrelated and can even promote each other.

The yellow race is also within the scope of immigration. Promoting the development of the Yellow Peril Theory can accelerate the process of public opinion against immigration and political participation. Similarly, promoting the process of public opinion against immigration and political participation can accelerate the development of the Yellow Peril Theory.

And most importantly, the Yellow Peril Theory can focus people's attention on the Chinese or Japanese and reduce the negative impact on immigrants from other countries.

For three consecutive days on the 13th, 14th and 15th, the media affiliated with the chancellor published three articles written by different people from different perspectives, advocating the correctness of the chancellor's policies. At the same time, the newspaper on the 15th also published a small news item that a Berlin resident complained that the Chinese next door were too noisy and disturbed his rest.

Three consecutive articles brought the momentum of public opinion back to the prime minister's side, but some people were looking forward to a response from Forward. They were the only newspaper criticizing the policy, and people had high expectations for their next article.

At 15 a.m. on the 10th, Lin Wenhua, on behalf of Lin Shangzhou, went out and bought today's "Central Daily News" from a newsboy near the newspaper office. This newspaper is published by the Central Party of the current ruling party in Germany. It represents the attitude and views of the Central Party on various issues.

After buying the newspaper, Lin Wenhua did not return to the newspaper office immediately. Instead, he turned around and went to a bakery nearby to buy two loaves of bread. These were what Lin Shangzhou asked him to buy.

The bread he bought was in the shape of long strips and had a very hard texture. Lin Wenhua heard from Lin Shangzhou that this kind of bread was called... "baguette", and the name sounded like French bread.

Lin Wenhua looked at the bread in the bag in his hand with confusion. He didn't understand what was so delicious about this ridiculously hard bread.