After exchanging the mark in his hand for gold, half a month passed.

Lin Youde sits on the second floor of a café in central Munich, looking through the glass window facing the street at the protesting crowd below.

The crowd held up signs saying "We want to work" and "We want bread", shouting slogans over and over again, and holding up various slogans in their hands every time they shouted. Although the slogan shook the windows in front of Lin Youde with a buzzing resonance, the "iron wall" blocking the crowd did not shake at all.

There were no police guards in front of the array of the Knights of War in Munich, an important town in southern Germany, who simply stood there in their ornate ornamental equipment, which deterred the demonstrators - probably the demonstrators knew very well that the array could not be breached, and any attempt was just a futile exercise.

Around the array of the Knights of War Princess, the police formed a human wall that Lin Youde was accustomed to in another time and space, blocking the way for the crowd to move in other directions, and the police and the crowd at the front had pushed and rubbed from time to time, Lin Youde sat in front of this window for a short time, and saw several young people holding signs being beaten down and taken away by the police.

On the police side, several people were hit by flying bricks.

It turns out that the Germans are also making bricks.

"Just a month ago," said Viola, who sat across from Lin, "Wilhelm III and his staff were still swearing that they were ready to deal with all the effects of the economic turmoil in the United States, and that the German economy would continue to grow at home, and that the people had nothing to worry about." It's ridiculous that I believed their rhetoric at the time. ”

"Believe me," Mr. Lin said, "they didn't mean to deceive the public, they really didn't expect the situation to take a turn for the worse." ”

"Perhaps," Viola shrugged, "but in the eyes of the masses, the government has deceived them and taken their jobs and bread away from them with a bad lie." That's why they're so angry now. ”

Lin Youde didn't answer, because he also felt that Viola was right.

After a moment of silence, Lin Youde said: "I don't understand, it has been so many days since the crisis began, and the government has not yet adopted a practical and effective strategy to reduce the damage caused by the crisis. At the very least, the Mark gold standard should be abolished and gold trading should be restricted to avoid further damage to the financial sector, but the government has not introduced relevant restrictions so far, allowing financial turmoil to ......."

"What's so strange about that," Viola shrugged again, "that most of the upper echelons of the government are Junker aristocrats, and the poor ones are indifferent to everything but their barren estates and so-called honours in East Prussia. Moreover, they have a deep-rooted notion that as long as the parliament and the cabinet put forward a bill, they will do everything possible to obstruct it, and as long as it is supported by the burghers, they will oppose it, which is simply hopeless. ”

In the original time and space, the Junker aristocracy in Germany almost completely collapsed after the First World War, and the so-called burghers – in fact, mainly the capitalists and the new aristocracy – seized power and established the Weimar Republic. But in this world, the Junker aristocracy was still preserved, but had to open up more power to the burghers.

Lin Youde has always thought that the Junker aristocracy is a strange race. Most of them came from a piece of land known as East Prussia, which was located in a remote part of the German Empire in 1914 and was part of Poland at the time of Lin's birth.

In the thirteenth century, a group of Germans formed a monastic order, calling themselves the Teutonic Knights, who conquered the Slavic tribe called Prussia, who originally lived in the region, and then received recognition from the Holy See in the name of the Kingdom of Prussia, and they intermarried with the Slavs who had lived there, forming a new sub-race called the Junkers.

Many Junkers still retain their Slavic surnames, such as the famous war theorist Karl ? Feng? Clausewitz. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Junker aristocracy of Prussia became the most warlike of the German states, and the Kingdom of Prussia eventually led the German States to defeat France and proclaimed the German Empire at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles.

Subsequently, this ethnic group, which did not constitute the majority of the German population, became the ruling class of the German Empire. Most of the Junker aristocrats were not wealthy, and the men of the family had to work the estates to barely survive a semblance of aristocracy, nor did they receive much education, and were a bunch of armed hillbillies.

Although a small number of Junkers were wealthy, relying on the privileges granted to them by the German Empire, the Junkers had neither numerical nor economic superiority in Germany as a whole, and they were more like the Tsar's Cossacks, a group of loyal military elites. But power in Russia was in the hands of the majority, the Cossacks were only a whip in the hands of the Tsar, but the Junkers became the ruling class of the German Empire.

Lin Youde thought this was very incredible, because the political power should be based on the economy, and this is true of all the classes that have been rulers: the slave owner class, the landlord class, and the bourgeoisie. Even the Manchu Qing Dynasty controlled a certain amount of economic power through a series of means to maintain its rule.

This Juncker privilege of detaching itself from economic power caused a lot of problems for the society of the German Empire. For example, in order to prevent the estates of the Junkers from going bankrupt in free competition, which was almost an inevitable consequence of competition, the Second German Reich enacted a large number of food-related laws to protect the estates of the Junkers. So much so that the Second German Reich was nicknamed "the welfare institution of poor landlords" in the mouths of later historians.

However, the rapid capitalization of the country and the rapid development of capitalist industry weakened the effect of these protective measures, and the imperial government was unable to introduce new protective measures, so the Junker aristocracy began to form an alliance with the new industrial capitalists, known as the "Steel-Rye Alliance", which allowed the new capitalists to gain the right to participate in the affairs of the state, so that the empire could continue.

In the end, this group of German Cossacks still colluded with the basic forces of the imperial economy to barely maintain their position, which can be regarded as saving face for the bearded theoretician.

But a large number of well-educated professionals still do not have the slightest political influence in such an empire.

These people have launched activities in order to fight for their political rights.

Therefore, in the world before Lin Youde crossed the world, the reason why so many people in the ruling class of the German Empire wanted to start a war so much was also to prove the value of the existence of the Junker aristocracy to the rising burghers.

In this world of Germany, the existence of the god queen made the privileges of the Junker aristocracy much more stable than Lin Youde's original world of the world, even the First World War could not make the Junkers' rule end, the first war of the world of the world only exposed the original world of those before the First World War Germany had an intensifying tendency to expose the social problems.

Because of this, the strike action that was taking place in front of Lin Youde's eyes was far more serious than what Lin Youde knew about the last century - in the last world, in the face of the secular Weimar Republic, the mustache realized after the failure of the initial armed coup that Germany during the Weimar Republic did not have the soil to support the armed coup, and he learned his lesson and began to use legal means to ascend to power.

And in this world, at least in Lin Youde's opinion, it has come to the time when an armed uprising is about to break out, and if it weren't for the deterrent power of the Knights of War, the uprising might have broken out.

This is also something that Lin Youde did not envision before, and he thought that Germany in this world would be like the previous world, struggling to move forward in the economic crisis, and eventually evolve into mustache doctrine in a relatively peaceful way.

While Lin Youde was thinking about this, a new change occurred on the street outside: the crowd rushed into the high-end café on the side of the street, dragging out the gentlemen and young women who looked like wealthy people inside, and they didn't know what Lu Dao was doing—it wasn't a good thing anyway, Lin Youde guessed.

The police found out about the situation and tried to separate the crowd to save the hapless couple, but were firmly blocked by a human wall formed by the crowd.

Lin Youde asked Viola with some worry: "We will stay here now, there will be no problem, right?" ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the guests in the café.

It seems that there are quite a few rich people in this café now.

Lin Youde couldn't help but complain in his heart: What are these rich people doing badly, don't they have to come to watch the demonstration, aren't they afraid of setting themselves on fire?

At this time, Viola said: "Don't worry, even if all the cafes in Munich are stormed by the marchers, this café will be safe and sound." ”

Lin Youde couldn't help frowning and looked at Viola blankly.

"What?"

"I said, 'Even if all the cafes in Munich were stormed by the marchers, this café would be safe.'" Viola repeated exactly what she had just said.

Without waiting for Lin Youde to continue to ask, Viola stood up from her seat, and then she raised her hand and high-fived her three times.

The café, which was still full of conversations and elegant piano sounds just now, suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Lin Youde and their table.

"First of all," Viola looked down at Lin Youde, who still had an out-of-condition expression, "I must apologize to you for deceiving you from the very beginning. I'm hiding part of the truth from you. I'm a hidden god, yes, but I'm not as powerless as I claim to you. Over the past month, you have fully proven your worth to me and won my personal appreciation, so I have decided to reveal my greatest secret to you. ”

Viola snapped her fingers.

So a flag was unfurled behind her.

The flag had a red background that Lin Youde was familiar with, but the white part on it was not round, but gear-shaped, and the middle was not an anti-swastika, but a Teutonic cross.

"We are the Pan-German Union Party, an organization created to put an end to the stupid dictatorship of the Junker aristocracy and to establish a new state for all Germans." Viola crossed her hands on her hips, her golden hair swaying gently under the blowing of the wind that came from nowhere, and the flag behind her reflected in the distance, "Mr. Lin Youde, now I formally invite you to join us in our great cause. ”

"I'm Chinese." Lin Youde, who had calmed down, responded calmly.

"No problem, in this month, I have fully felt that you Chinese are as good as the Aryans. Therefore, we would love to welcome you to join us. ”

Lin Youde bit his lip.

Instead of looking for another way, let's hug the thigh that is close in front of you.

With this thought, Lin Youde also stood up, and then shook Viola's hand.