Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Lin Shangzhou closed his mouth and waited quietly for the stranger to speak.

"My name is Ma Enna, I am an agent of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and I am meeting you on the orders of Marshal Seeckt, the Chief of the General Staff."

(Seeckt is one of the six marshals in the Kx German opening)

Lin Shangzhou felt that the name Ma Enna was very strange. In his impression, a person with this name should be a blond uncle, but the Ma Enna in front of him was obviously a black-haired man.

But what shocked Lin Shangzhou even more was what he said afterwards: "On the orders of the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Seeckt." The Chief of the Army General Staff sent someone to see him? How capable was he to attract the attention of the Chief of the Army General Staff?

(Oh, communicator!)

Lin Shangzhou thought of the communicator he gave to Volbeck and Cecilia. Volbeck also promised that he would show the communicator to other generals in the army, so it made sense.

Volbeck demonstrated the power of the communicator in front of the Army Chief of Staff Seeckt, which attracted his attention. As a result, the Chief of General Staff Seeckt sent someone to see him.

"The communicator in my hand was given to me by General Forbeck to use temporarily."

Ma Enna went on to say that this was consistent with Lin Shangzhou's guess, so he was not very surprised.

Lin Shangzhou guessed that Xikt sent him to find him because he wanted to know more about the communicator, so he asked, "So Marshal Xikt sent you to meet me because he wanted to know more about the communicator?"

Then Lin Shangzhou was surprised to see Ma Enna shook his head.

"not quite."

(Not exactly?)

Lin Shangzhou was confused. What else did he want to discuss with him?

He thought of Mainna's identity - an agent of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

As soon as we heard the name Military Intelligence Bureau, we knew it was an intelligence agency, which meant that Mahner was a German spy. Why would a spy come to find him?

(Strasbourg thing?)

Lin Shangzhou thought to himself that in his eyes, the only reason the spies were looking for him besides the communicator was the things he had done in Strasbourg. If that was the case, it was very reasonable. The only puzzling thing was why the spies had not found him until now.

"Is it also about the Strasbourg incident?"

Lin Shangzhou asked tentatively, and Ma Enna nodded as expected.

"Yes, we noticed you when you launched the March 3 strike in Strasbourg, and we have been keeping a close eye on your movements since then."

(Hiss~ Doesn’t this mean that they know everything I did?)

Even though he took a deep breath, Lin Shangzhou was not nervous or worried. After all, if there was really something wrong, they would not have come to him now.

Lin Shangzhou's calmness surprised Ma Enna. He thought that after he said that he had been paying attention to him since the 327 strike, Mr. Hipper should have been nervous, but now he was so calm.

"You don't seem to mind our attention at all?"

Lin Shangzhou chuckled and said, "Why should I care about the attention you paid to me in the past? If I really did something I shouldn't have done, you would have gotten rid of me a long time ago. Since you didn't do that in the past, there's no need to do that now. Why should I care?"

Ma Enna laughed and said, "You don't have to think so badly of us. After all, you have a good relationship with Wuyou Palace, and what you did was not a bad thing. How could we do anything to you?"

"Haha, yes."

Lin Shangzhou laughed and agreed, but thought sarcastically in his heart: Don't think too badly of the spy agencies, tsk tsk tsk.

"But there is one thing we want to confirm about your situation in Strasbourg."

As Mainna spoke, he seemed to feel a little cold and put his hands in his pockets to warm them.

Lin Shangzhou had his own guess about his question. He estimated that Mahner was asking about his relationship with the German trade unionists.

"You want to ask about my relationship with the German Syndicalists?"

Mahner smiled, nodded and said, "It's a pleasure to deal with smart people."

Lin Shangzhou smiled at his words and nodded in agreement.

But after smiling, Ma Enna's expression changed a little. His eyes became sharp, and he changed the subject and said in a warning tone: "I suggest you tell the truth. This will benefit both you and me. You have a good relationship with Wuyou Palace. It is impossible for me to do anything to you, so please feel free to speak."

Although he said so, Lin Shangzhou felt uneasy. He killed himself here and dumped his body in the wilderness. Who would know that it was him who did it? Who would know that it was someone from the Military Intelligence Bureau who killed him?

But Lin Shangzhou still did not have the palpitations he felt when he foresaw danger, so he thought that if his answer could satisfy Ma Enna, nothing would happen.

So he answered honestly: "Don't you just want to know the relationship between me and the German trade unions? I can tell you very clearly that the Social Democratic Party and the German trade unions have broken off, and I have never been, am not now, and will never be a syndicalist. I am a staunch supporter of Her Majesty Alexandrine, and you can rest assured."

After hearing Lin Shangzhou's answer, Ma Enna fell silent. After a few seconds, he took his hands out of his pockets, rubbed them near his mouth, and then blew a breath into his palms. He seemed to be quite cold.

"I believe what you say."

Ma Enna said with a smile. Seeing him like this, Lin Shangzhou's inner uneasiness disappeared, and he also felt relieved. It seemed that he had overcome a hurdle.

"So is there anything you want to know about the communicator?"

Lin Shangzhou asked, his second purpose in coming to see him should be to understand the communicator.

"Marshal Seeckt and other people in the General Staff are very satisfied with your communicator. He hopes to see better communicators in the future and hopes that you can provide such excellent equipment to the military."

"Don't worry, I will."

Lin Shangzhou vowed that he had reached an agreement with Cecilia, and even if he had not reached an agreement with Cecilia, and Ma Enna did not mention it, he would send the communicator to the military in order to gain their support.

"In that case, I believe Marshal Sickert and his men will also be very happy."

After saying this, Ma Enna put on his hat. Seeing him like this, Lin Shangzhou realized that the conversation was about to end.

"Mr. Hipper, it's been a pleasure talking to you. I won't bother you any more."

Ma Enna said to Lin Shangzhou, Lin Shangzhou nodded, said goodbye, opened the car door and got out.

He walked towards his car, while Ma Enna sat in his car and watched Lin Shangzhou's departing back. He reached out and touched the knife in his pocket: "It seems that I was worrying too much..."

Then he drove away.

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Chapter 159 Second Party Meeting

After returning home, Lin Shangzhou did not tell anyone about the spy who came to contact him. He believed that Xikt's purpose of sending the spy to contact him was to act in secret, so he kept the matter to himself.

On the afternoon of the 12th, Lin Shangzhou took Goebbels to attend the second party meeting. The reason for bringing Xiao Huang was simple - Otto and others wanted to meet this man who led the tabloid "Vorwarts" to fight a public opinion war with the right-wing media in Berlin and gained the upper hand.

After all these things, Louis was even more grateful that he had listened to Lin Shangzhou and allowed Goebbels to join the party. Although he was still very puzzled as to why Lin Shangzhou knew that Goebbels was so powerful, there was no need to care about such trivial matters, and pursuing them further was not a good choice.

Today's party meeting is, after all, a continuation of the discussion at the last meeting. The last restrictive policy was the biggest obstacle, and now that the restrictive policy has been rejected by Alexandrine, the biggest obstacle has become the issue of "too little experience".

Lin Shangzhou had no good solution to this problem. After all, it was a fact that he was too young and had too little experience. If Erich Koch insisted on using this point to refuse, then no one could do anything.

Lin Shangzhou hopes to unify the power of the two factions within the party. Although not all members of the Progressive People's Party listen to Erich, as a senior leader, he has a strong appeal. If Erich Koch insists on refusing to stand on his side, the SPD may split.

If he took some of the former members of the Progressive People's Party and ran away to establish his own regime, Germany's legal left-wing parties would be hit hard again. They were not very strong to begin with, and now they are divided internally.

With a nervous mood, Lin Shangzhou took Goebbels into the meeting room.

The people in the conference room were the same as in the last meeting, and the content of the discussion was the same. During the meeting, Lin Shangzhou took out his revised version of the "New Berlin Declaration" and asked the person on the rostrum to read it, and also distributed it to the party members in the audience.

After reading for a few minutes, the four senior officials of the Social Democratic Party showed satisfied expressions, while Erich Koch of the Progressive People's Party had a gloomy expression, and the expression of the senior official of the Democratic Party next to him was not much better. Only Anton nodded approvingly.

In the view of Otto and others, although this "New Berlin Declaration" still has some minor flaws, it is overall many times better than the previous one. They were also surprised that Lin Shangzhou was able to make such a revision, which fully demonstrated that he had carefully read the "Berlin Declaration".

Then Lin Shangzhou also took out the communicator. He introduced this small and flexible device to the party members and called Wuyou Palace. The person who answered the phone was Alexandrine.

He simply greeted Alexandrine, chatted for a few words and hung up the phone. The participants were dumbfounded when they heard the voice of the German Emperor on the communicator.

Although they didn't know much about the ether communicator, they knew that Lin Shangzhou's conversation with the emperor indirectly demonstrated his friendly relationship with the emperor, and they all knew what Alexandrine did in the Imperial Parliament not long ago.

Although no news came out of Sanssouci Palace for a week after the meeting of the Imperial Parliament, this did not affect the speculation of various parties in Berlin about the emperor's behavior.

Those in attendance knew that if the emperor ever chose to take back his power, the biggest victim would be the current chancellor, Albert, and the biggest beneficiaries would be those close to the emperor.

So far, apart from Lin Shangzhou who was speaking at his seat, they were not clear about which person from which party had a friendly relationship with Alexandrine. In other words, the biggest beneficiary after the emperor took back power would be Lin Shangzhou.

Of course this is not absolute, it's just their guess, but this little guess is enough to make some people change their minds.

The most uncomfortable thing for the SPD has always been that they do not have the support of the emperor, whether it is the former Emperor Wilhelm or the current Queen Alexandrine. If someone close to the emperor could become the leader, the emperor might develop a friendly attitude towards the SPD out of love for the emperor.

And Lin Shangzhou's next words completely changed the direction of the atmosphere in the conference hall.

He told the attendees that he had given the equipment to General Volbeck and Lady Cecilia of Sanssouci Palace. Apart from Cecilia's identity as a German princess, these two were members of the German military.

From what Lin Shangzhou said about this communicator being very popular among generals in the army, this sentence seemed to be promoting his product, but in fact he was telling the attendees that he would maintain friendly relations with the military in the future, which meant that he had the support of the military.

The emperor's support and the military's support, these two powerful weapons completely changed the minds of the vast majority of participants, not to mention the presence of Goebbels.

Faced with such advantageous conditions, Erich brought up Lin Shangzhou's age, but Lin Shangzhou just smiled and refuted his objection with very reasonable reasons.

He admitted that he was too young and lacked political experience, but the prime minister had to form a cabinet and cabinet members could make up for this shortcoming.

Erich was speechless about this. In the end, he had no more reasons to attack Lin Shangzhou, so he chose to firmly disagree as if he was cheating.

Lin Shangzhou had no way to deal with this kind of cheating behavior. If the meeting was to pass, it would need the support of more than half of the party members and the consent of more than two SPD members and two DPD members on the rostrum. Now the four SPD members naturally agreed, but the only person who agreed from the DPD was Anton Eklenz.

Therefore, due to Erich Koch's obstruction, Lin Shangzhou failed to pass the second meeting and become the party leader.

This result was within his expectations, and after the meeting, Lin Shangzhou even had the idea of ​​expelling the DPP and going it alone with the SPD.

But if this is really done, it will lead to another split in the German left-wing forces. Although Erich Koch is an annoying bastard, his ideas cannot represent the attitude of the DPP and its members. Don't forget that there is also Anton Eklenz who supports Lin Shangzhou.

Moreover, Lin Shangzhou remembers very clearly one of the national policies of the Progressive People's Party after it came to power: "Taxation of the Junkers". They even dared to take money from the Junker masters, which shows that this party is still a left-wing party in essence, but Erich himself is a bastard.

Therefore, Lin Shangzhou can only put the matter of becoming the party leader aside for the time being, since there is still a lot of time left.

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Chapter 160 A Quiet Half Moon

The day after the party meeting ended, Lin Shangzhou received the latest news about the investigation of the threatening letter from Chen Chali. A young man who claimed to be a member of the German Club surrendered himself to the police station. After interrogation, it was confirmed that this man was the one who sent the threatening letter.

After he surrendered himself, Chen Chali's boss asked him to stop investigating the German Club, on the grounds that the mastermind had been found and there was no need to investigate the club anymore. Chen Chali naturally knew what his boss meant and simply stopped the investigation. He also told Lin Shangzhou about this incident and more information about the German Club.

The Germanic Club, as the name suggests, is a club for Germans. Its owner is a young Junker from Berlin, whose father is a senior government official. After hearing that the owner is a Junker, Lin Shangzhou understood why Chen Chali's boss asked him to stop the investigation. One reason was that he couldn't afford to offend the Junker, and another reason was that even if they found out, they couldn't really do anything to him.

The young man who turned himself in was most likely an unlucky guy who had to take the blame, and the police did not punish him severely. This matter seemed serious, but in fact it was not serious enough to be brought to court, so this person only received criticism and education and was thrown into the Berlin police station for a while and paid compensation.

The owner of the club was also very sensible. He assured the police that he would keep a close eye on the club members. He also went to the Wuyou Palace that morning to apologize to the emperor.

Lin Shangzhou was naturally not satisfied with this result. His idea was to completely wipe out the club, but due to the noble status of the owner, he had to give up. Although he could borrow Alexandrine's power to deal with them, it would be an overreaction, and Cecilia might not agree. So he could only give up for the time being and wait until he was stronger in the future and didn't have to worry about the Junkers before he could wipe out the Extreme Citizens Club.

Even though this incident has passed, Berlin, which had experienced two waves of public opinion wars, the restrictive policy and the Yellow Peril theory, finally calmed down.

It is strange to say, but looking at the entire process of the public opinion war, it is not difficult to find that both public opinion wars were carried out in the city of Berlin and rarely affected other cities. If "Vorwarts" is a tabloid and has no ability to expand the public opinion war, then why don't right-wing media such as "Central Daily News" expand the public opinion war?

A Berlin current affairs commentator keenly noticed this and put forward the idea in the newspaper, and then others also put forward their own opinions, but these opinions did not cause much controversy in Poland.

On the 15th, Lin Shangzhou received the second batch of titanium equipment from Cecilia. This batch of equipment was developed and put into use during the war. In addition to this batch, Lin Shangzhou also asked for some titanium equipment before the war. Although Cecilia was puzzled, she did not think much about it. These old equipment had no value in being put into use again, so she might as well do Lin Shangzhou a favor.

That night, Harvot ended his half-month vacation and started new research. In addition to using better titanium equipment to research the M3 communicator, Lin Shangzhou also gave him another task: to make more M2 communicators. The reason was simple: Lin Shangzhou wanted to sell the M2 communicator commercially.

Then Lin Shangzhou remembered that Havot had not yet applied for a patent for the communicator. After discussing with Havot, he took Havot to apply for a patent. It is always good to apply early.

Havot also took on the task assigned to him by Lin Shangzhou, but it took a while for him to produce more M2 communicators. Lin Shangzhou said that time was not a problem.

After that, time moved forward rapidly, and it was early February 1931. In the past half month, Lin Shangzhou had completed half of his third novel, Final Destination, a novel that imitated the movie Final Destination, but was written based on the social conditions of the 2s.

Lin Shangzhou believes that this novel will also be a big seller. As for "The Moment of Glory", he threw it into a drawer. No matter how many times the country names are changed in the story of OTL, anyone with a little bit of intelligence can tell that it is about Germany. The Germany of KX is immersed in the afterglow of the victory of the war, and the people are also enjoying the joy brought by the victory of the war.

Wouldn't it be depressing for him to write a book about Germany's defeat? And it would be even more disastrous if the military got to know about it. And as everyone knows, the winner of the world war is a debuff, and the military would definitely not like to read such a novel.

The German Empire won, and then you write a novel saying that in another world the German Empire lost. Although it is not bad, it will ruin people's mood.

So it’s better to change your mindset and write another book.

The research at Havot is also in full swing. Lin Shangzhou estimates that he will be able to see better news from Havot in about a week.

During this half month, the racists did not cause them any trouble as promised, but Lin Shangzhou did not let Bode leave. He still lived in Lin Shangzhou's house. The police did not completely withdraw the patrol force in the direction of Wuyou Palace, but only reduced it slightly.

Who knows if they will have any bad intentions again, it is best to be safe.

The past half month has been quite smooth for Lin Shangzhou. The work at the newspaper went smoothly, the racists did not cause trouble, and his status in the party also rose because of his publication of "Critique of the Berlin Declaration" and the draft of the "New Berlin Declaration". Both the former SPD and DPP members recognized this young man very much.

And that bastard Erich still maintained his original attitude. Lin Shangzhou was used to it. As long as he didn't take anyone out to work alone, it was okay for him not to talk about becoming the party leader for the time being.

However, something that made him very worried happened at the end of January. On January 1, there was a heavy rain in Berlin, and Letitia was on her way to clean the mill. She was drenched by the heavy rain, and there was no heating in the mill. Letitia stayed in the mill for more than an hour, wet and cold. Finally, the rain stopped, and she caught a bad cold.

Lin Shangzhou didn't know about this until February 1st. After learning that Letitia was seriously ill, he immediately drove to Wuyou Palace. When he arrived at Wuyou Palace, she was sleeping in bed, and Noah was by Letitia's side, taking good care of her.

After confirming from Elena again and again that Letitia was fine and just needed to rest, Lin Shangzhou left with peace of mind. On the way back to the newspaper office, Lin Shangzhou recalled the scene in the room where Noah took good care of Letitia, and he felt inexplicably relieved. It seemed that the two girls got along pretty well.

Two days later, on February 2, Letitia's condition had improved to a certain extent. It was also on this day that a letter from Flanders Wallonia (Belgium) was delivered to the Sanssouci Palace.