Chapter 1075: The Ghost Has Been Wandering
News from Europe kept coming, and the light of the scope of this revolution erupted with a ferocity that no one expected.
Lao Xi's roar was powerless to stop.
His promises, exhausted by the war, could no longer move the disappointed people.
Not to mention the European masses who were oppressed by the Germans and could not even eat.
"We want bread, we want butter, we don't want cannons!" Among the countless slogans, such slogans are the loudest and most moving.
Once unleashed, the passion ignited by the need to survive quickly spread across Europe.
"Isn't there still food in Germany?" At first, Meng Xiang just thought that the Great Revolution in Germany was caused by someone making trouble.
In Huaxia's intelligence, there are many lists of people who oppose Lao Xi. It's just that this list was not given to Lao Xi, but as a backhand to restrain the Germans in the future.
Meng Xiang thought that these people couldn't hold their breath and jumped out to organize this event, as for the red tide, maybe it was just a cover-up. But the reality is that the crisis of food has triggered a red tide of resistance against exploitation and oppression.
However, the Chinese intelligence agencies, which have been paying attention to Germany, also have detailed records of Germany's food problems, and the General Staff has also estimated this, which may be lacking, but such a large-scale food shortage incident should not have occurred at all, leading to chaos in Germany.
Even if the people in the German-occupied lands rebelled for food, such a drastic change would not have occurred in Germany, which had always paid attention to the living conditions of its own people and continued to raid the whole of Europe.
Meng Xiang has always been very skeptical about this.
"It's not unusual, someone hoards food, and it's easy to cause something like this!" Pharmacist Tang was not surprised.
The more turbulent and chaotic it is, the more difficult the moment, the more people hoard food, and the contradictions are more intensified, until everything collapses and even destroys together.
During the change of dynasties in China, there is no shortage of such things. This is often the case, even in normal times. Old Tang has seen a lot a long time ago.
"Hoarding? No way. Germans have always been very orderly......" Meng Xiang just shook his head. But he paused suddenly.
Anyone who has seen the unimaginable inflation that erupted in the twenties will say that the German capitalists do not know how to exploit.
Capitalists are by nature profit-seeking.
Including Lao Xi's coming to power, there is also the support of German capital groups behind it.
They need cheap raw materials and a wider market.
Lao Xi gave them hope and opportunity.
At a time when German tanks swept across Europe and constantly brought new wealth, Lao Xi was their darling. And the German chariot stumbled and was pulled by the Allies, not to create new wealth. Even the original capital is constantly being swallowed up by the endless war, and these German capital predators are also anxious.
Even if the Chinese alliance participated, it was impossible for the German capital predators to have no ideas when the interests of Asia and Africa were constantly being drawn into China's pockets, and even the interests of Europe were also threatened.
They need peace talks with Britain and the United States to preserve their current interests. It may even work with Britain and the United States to deal with Huaxia and earn greater benefits from Huaxia.
But Lao Xi has long seen through them, once he talks with Britain and the United States, those capital predators may be fine, but he and many of his subordinates will inevitably be pushed out as scapegoats, so Lao Xi relied on the support of the army to categorically say no to them.
So these people gradually began to hook up with the anti-Greek coalition. Their names are on the list of the Chinese intelligence agencies. And in the news from Europe, there is no shortage of them.
After the compilation of information from all sides. Meng Xiang has roughly figured out the context of the whole thing.
Perhaps it was the promise of Britain and the United States to push. Maybe it's the greed of capital itself, or maybe it's just a means for some capital predators in Germany to force Lao Xi to compromise. Let them go the other way, only they have chosen a stupid path of self-destruction.
They have opened the ghost seal in people's hearts.
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"A specter, the specter of internationalism, hovers over the continent.
For the sake of the sacred encirclement of this spectre, all the powers of old Europe, the Pope and the Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, the radicals in France and the police in Germany, were united. ”
But as long as there is exploitation and oppression, it will always wander in the world and in people's hearts, making all the rulers above panic all the time.
"Sometimes it may only take a flag and it will jump out of the hearts of struggling people, crying out and burning the whole world with rage!" Meng Xiang sighed.
At this time, he thought a lot.
From the very beginning of industrial production, it has changed people's rhythm with its machine gears.
Human beings have gradually lagged behind the extended machines in their own evolution, and they have also reveled in the prosperous world created by external objects.
And the foundation of this artificial world is the primitive accumulation of human beings by sweat and blood.
Primitive accumulation itself is a process of external plunder and internal oppression.
Even countries like Britain and the United States, which are good at getting rich by plunder, will not be soft on the exploitation and oppression of their own people.
This is the nature of capital, and this era is not the Western welfare era that many people yearn for in later generations.
Child labor, overtime, pollution, and black coal kilns were all done in the Western world in this era more thoroughly and blatantly than later generations.
Even in the fifties and sixties after World War II, all kinds of cruel exploitation also hit the moral bottom line of the Western world.
This was one of the reasons for the rapid expansion of Soviet Russia's power.
Don't think that the Russians relied on one country to make the entire Western world afraid of terror, no matter how large the territory of Soviet Russia is, even if they still pull in a group of younger brothers in Eastern Europe, they can't hide the economic and demographic shortcomings that have been traumatized by World War II.
Although relying on a unique system and bursting with the passion of the people to quickly accumulate the primitive accumulation inside, the development strength of Soviet Russia was not enough to shake the Western world.
But within the Western world, the harassment of that specter began to crumble.
The wave of national independence in the colonies of the fifties and sixties was at best a little demoralizing to the Western world, but it was not fatal, and it was even necessary to support an agent or use more economic means to keep those colonies in control.
However, in the fifties and sixties there was not only a wave of national independence, but also a wave of strikes that swept the world, and even continued into the seventies.
The backlash after exploitation has been suppressed to its limit has made workers rebel for survival.
The most profitable tool of capitalists is to make those capital bigwigs worried. And these main forces that created the world of capital can bring both creation and destruction.
Perhaps since the advent of the machine gun, it has been difficult to succeed in the rebellion against the impoverished lower classes, but it is not only the workers who have become the ghost believers.
The defects of capitalism itself, the human spirit and morality worn by the cold steel and the dislocation, made even the elites of the Western world begin to get tired of it, and began to explore another ghost world, and even some people constantly turned to the side of Soviet Russia, or secretly gave all kinds of help to Soviet Russia, which caused greater panic in the Western world.
All strata of the Western world turned to Soviet Russia, and even the internal instability of the army, which almost became a precursor to the end of capital.
At this time, capital also realized the crisis and began to compromise and improve.
Perhaps the nature of exploitation remains the same, but the means are more moderate, and only a little more labor costs are needed to achieve peace.
All kinds of welfare, even jokingly called Nordic high welfare, which is more international than internationalism, began to prevail in the seventies and eighties, and gradually won the hearts of the people. On the other hand, it also affected Soviet Russia, which was no longer passionate, and created the rapid decline of Soviet Russia.
Without the support of the people's hearts, the Russians could no longer support the huge body that had expanded before, revealing all their weaknesses, and finally the red empire collapsed quickly.
"Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help." That is what is said, if it were not for the arrogant Soviet Russians, who were deceived by their inflated confidence and continued to act according to their original brutal behavior, they would not have collapsed so quickly.
However, it was the rapid promotion of the Soviet Russians that caused the compromise of capital, and the so-called Western civilized society full of humanity was created at the beginning.
Otherwise, according to the greedy character of capital, it is impossible to consciously give love.
"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road." This is the most realistic description.
"Those dicks are going to get an inch!" Rao is so, and the exploiters are still indignantly justified.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. If there is no inch-by-inch struggle, even if those benefits are fed to the dogs, they will not be given to the exploited.
Even after the fall of the Russian Empire, the specter still lingers.
It's like a god in the head, so that all the exploiters, even the rulers, still have a taboo in their hearts, fearing that the ghost will one day cry out the dissatisfaction in everyone's hearts with a scream that will make the whole world tremble.
Such a specter is no longer something that can be stopped by the army, guns and cannons, just like the German tanks are helpless now.
The hoarding of food by the German capitalist predators, under the impetus of Britain and the United States, immediately turned into an uncontrollable disaster, like a fuse, detonating all the dissatisfaction brought about by the war over the years. (To be continued.) )
PS: There are more nagging, I hope you will forgive me!