For Yang Rui, the resentment of the Germans is as meaningless as the snowflakes of Tonghua winter. Although Germany had been accumulating technology since its defeat in an attempt to rebuild a strong army, this was not entirely in China's interest.

-- At this time, the evolution of the world situation has made it impossible for Yang Rui to judge who is the enemy and who is the friend, he can only judge that the probability of so-and-so being a friend is higher, and the probability of so-and-so being an enemy is higher, and a 'strong' Germany has no other role than being able to strategically contain the Soviet Union and make the United States gradually break free from isolationism.

If the United States is destined to go to war, then Stalin's attitude will determine whether China wants to fight on two fronts; And Germany's containment, perhaps, will avoid this, but will lead to the destruction of Europe and the birth of NATO, which in a sense is more like a gift to the Americans. In this way, a multiple-choice question was placed in front of Yang Rui: if there was really a war with the United States: Or, take the risk of fighting on two fronts to defeat a strong enemy alone, reach a peace treaty, and then continue to develop under the obstruction of the British Empire; Either they would allow Germany to start a war and share the pressure in order to end the Pacific War more easily, but in the future they would have to face the encirclement and interception of the 'free world' led by US imperialism.

Although there is also the uncertainty of the Soviet Union affecting the political landscape of the world, although the British Empire will also lead the 'free world', although ...... There are many, many factors outside the scope of cognition, but abandoning the scientific analysis that he thinks is correct, there is only one truth that Yang Rui accepts: that is, there is no free lunch in the world, and anything ingenious will not have a good result. With this in mind, one day at the end of November of the eighteenth year of Shenwu, he received the German delegation in his Tonghua manor.

It's probably been a long time since I've seen Rebecca. After she saw the salute, Cheng Ying forcibly pulled her away from the crowd. In the huge reception room, only German Chancellor Brüning, Goering, and German Economy Minister Hermann Brown were left. Wabard, German Consul General in Shenyang, Heinrich. Gruen, the old broker, Count Christian. and Alfred, the eldest son of Krupp. Arnold of Krupp and Siemens. Siemens – as for other underqualified bidders, only wait at the inn.

"Your Excellency the Duke, our President, Mr. Hindenburg, has asked me to greet you on his behalf, and wish you always... Healthy. German Chancellor Brüning was the first to speak, and the funny thing was that he looked at Yang Rui, who did not look old at all, and almost swallowed the word 'health'.

"Your Excellency, although we live on two sides of the mainland, the friendship between China and Germany goes back to ancient times." Yang Rui smiled and said some clichés, making the already warm living room even warmer. "I know what you're here for. Although I hope that your company will win the bid, after all, it is a bid, and it is not my China that pays for it, the Russians and the Japanese have a share, and the United States, Britain, France, and even Belgium and Czechoslovakia also participate in the bidding, so you can only rely on your own strength to win. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, we understand that perfectly." Before Brüning arrived in China, he heard that the huge purchase was not under the auspices of the Chinese government. The venue is also not in Beijing, but in Shanghai and organized by a company in Shanghai. This is obviously good for Anglo-American companies, as there are quite a few members of the three countries in the Shanghai Listing Parliament.

"That's good." Yang Rui saw so many of them, and some things were not easy to say in public. So he gave the Germans a pamphlet with the bidding process prepared in advance, and then sent it away, except for Goering, who remained as his niece and son-in-law. Follow Yang Rui into the back house.

In Goering's eyes, Yang Rui, who has left the political arena, still exudes the power of a strongman. According to unreliable rumors, the current Chinese government is just a puppet manipulated by him. The real power of the country is still in his hands. Goering was convinced that force was essential to the rule of a country, and that was why the Hohenzollerns had become emperors of Germany. Although every province in China has an army, for many reasons, the most powerful troops of the Baxing Army are all in the north, according to some Chinese newspapers, the power structure in China is no different from that of the former Qing Dynasty, and it is still the case that the military aristocracy and the gentry share power together and rule the country effectively.

"Did you have a baby?" Goering walked with Yang Rui to the back house, but he cautiously lagged behind a small step, only until Yang Rui asked.

"Yes, sir." Goering is not taller than Yang Rui, so when he speaks, he is a soldier-standard upright posture. "But this time I came back in a hurry, and the children stayed in Berlin."

"Boy or girl, how old?" Yang Rui then asked.

"A three-and-a-half-year-old boy, a girl who is just one year old." Although Goering's face was serious, when it came to the child's eyes, he was loving, and he could not see the slightest arrogance and domineering.

"Hey! All grown up. Yang Rui sighed lightly, the Rebecca he remembered was just a well-behaved little girl, but now she is a mother of two children; And the eldest son is nameless, although the disability makes him not want to face marriage, the amiability is still decided, the woman is Xu Huafeng's granddaughter, and she will get married next year.

"Don't sigh for a long time, we all have to be happy when Rebecca comes today, I'm going to cook a few dishes myself." In the inner house, Cheng Ying, Rebecca, son and daughter were already laughing, and the daughter was still wearing a Western dress, seeing her father coming, she hurriedly hid behind Cheng Ying, and Cheng Ying protected her with one hand, while talking to Yang Rui with a smile. Although she didn't hear what her husband said, she could still read the slightest vicissitudes from his stern expression.

"Uncle ......" Rebecca, who was standing on Cheng Ying's side, blessed Yang Rui, if it weren't for the dress and high nose and deep eyes, I really thought that this was just a Chinese girl next door.

"Alright, sit down." Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief, and he said to Goering and Rebecca: "Although your fiefdom is a hundred kilometers away, this is also your home, just stay here for a while, and spend the New Year here." ”

Yang Rui's statement made Rebecca and Goering smile at each other, but when they heard Yang Rui mention the New Year, Rebecca said, "It's best to spend the New Year here, but ......" She paused slightly, and her fingers lightly scraped Yang Wuhua's face who was looking up and ignorant, and said, "There are many things in Germany, and the children will miss me, so we can only go back next month." ”

"Just say, you should bring the child back this time. They still have to go to the Imperial Court to be canonized. …… It is best to take a cruise, and when you arrive in Persia, you can go ashore and take a train; To be faster. Then take the Trans-Siberian Railway from Russia. Airplanes are good, but not safe. Every plane crash is ......" Cheng Ying took Rebecca's arm, didn't go to the kitchen, and started a woman's homework.

Women have women's gossip, Yang Rui looked at Goering, who was still standing, and said, "Let's sit down." Then he pulled a cigar out of the humidor and asked, "Smoking?" ”

"Thank you!" Goering took it carefully, rubbed it, cut it off, and carefully lit it with a match.

"You ......" Yang Rui was about to say something serious, not wanting a voice outside 'Dong Dong Dong' to come quickly from far and near, "Sister Li......" It was Yang Wuming who came in, and he shouted. Rushed to Rebecca as if no one was there, and then grabbed her tightly as she stood up.

"Nameless ......" Rebecca was talking to the innocent Wuhua, and she didn't care about the sound of 'Dong Dong Dong', but she didn't expect Yang Wuming to come. When Yang Wuming shouted 'Sister Li', she immediately stood up and looked at him, carefully identifying his face, and then looked at his whole body, and only when her eyes fell on his legs of different lengths did she pause. Her eyes were full of surprise.

"It's been a long time, it's been good for a long time." Yang Wuming turned around as he spoke, stumbling a little, but his indifference only made others sad. Yang Rui, who couldn't stand it, coughed and said in a deep voice: "Don't look at your sister all the time, I haven't seen your brother-in-law yet!" ”

"I've seen my brother-in-law!" Yang Wuming turned to look at Goering. Make a bow. He saluted, and Goering, who was well versed in Chinese etiquette, hurriedly held him up. While saying kind words.

"Sit down." As a parent, Yang Rui greeted the guests and children in this room. Finally made him a little old.

"Nameless was injured a few years ago, but no matter what the injury is, a man is a man." He looked at Goering and said with some pride, "I remember that Herman was an Air Force fighter pilot, and Nameless is also an Air Force fighter pilot now, and this is not by my face, but by his own efforts." ”

"It's amazing!" When Goering heard that Yang Wuming was an air force pilot, he was more kind to him, and he couldn't help but shake hands and hug him, and at the same time he also hoped to have the opportunity to fly in Tonghua, preferably in a Chinese military aircraft.

"Men of courage are amazing!" Yang Rui looked at Yang Wuming, and felt that the profession of pilot really made his son come out of the shadow of that trauma, at least he became a normal man when he drove a fighter jet.

"Alright, let's talk about you." After Cheng Ying left, Yang Rui looked at Goering and Rebecca, "The situation in Germany seems to be worse than before. ”

"Yes, sir." Goering nodded, although his wife was closer to Yang Rui, as a man, he felt that he should introduce the situation. "There are more and more socialists and communists, and more and more people think that only socialism can save Germany, and we think that only the restoration of the emperor can pull Germany up from the abyss of socialist communism."

"Restoration?!" Yang Rui was surprised, in the future historical path of Germany that he knew, there was never a choice of restoration, she was either Nazified or Bolshevized, there was no third way to choose, could restoration work? Why did they choose to restore, was it because of their own influence?

"My lord, we unanimously agreed that only the emperor could confront the Bolsheviks and the democrats, and they seemed to have different aims and slogans, but they tended to take the same position on many things." Goering explained. "After the chaos of the Weimar Republic, many people miss His Majesty the Emperor. During the reign of His Majesty the Kaiser, Germany had never experienced such a painful experience; Moreover, many German scholars also believe that China's retention of the emperor and not the implementation of a republic is a major reason for China's success. ”

When Göring explained, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Spain, a country that had been restored under Franco's choice not to be democratic or communist. However, is Goering Franco? Is Rebecca Franco? Germany lacks strategists with a global perspective, and all their tactics are nothing more than anger with their neighbors.

"Hermann, do you think Germany is a strong country or a weak country?" After the silence, Yang Rui asked.

"She used to be a great power, but now she is a weak country, but she will definitely be a strong country in the future." Goering said, and Rebecca listened carefully.

"In my opinion, with the advancement of technology. Germany has gradually turned into a weak country. Yang Rui said. Because from the point of view of war, we no longer need coal but oil. Is there oil in Germany? No! In the event of a large-scale war, just tighten the German oil pipes. She had to give in. ”

"But ......" faced with Yang Rui's conclusion, Goering wanted to refute it, but because of his dignity and reality, he could only blush.

"Uncle, is it true that Germany can't find oil fields?" The husband couldn't speak, so Rebecca came out to ask questions, and the couple had a tacit understanding.

"Of course, there are oil fields, there are them in the North Sea, and with the current technology, it is estimated that it will take thirty or forty years to exploit them. By that time it was already late. Yang Rui told the truth, which disappointed Goering and Rebecca even more. From now on, the war will not end in one or two years, but will be fought for four or five years like the last world war, and with Germany's position and resources, it is a weak country. Of course you don't like to hear that, but it's true. ”

"What about Germany? Is it really going to become a second Russia? Rebecca asked.

"It can't be." Yang Rui shook his head and said, "The Social Democrats had the opportunity to turn Germany into a second Russia just after the end of the war, but this did not happen. This shows that Germany cannot become a second Russia. History has a choice, and after the February Revolution in Russia, Kerensky and others also hoped that Russia would become the current Germany, that is, the Weimar Republic that you hate, but this did not succeed. So in the end Russia slipped into communism. ”

"And what should Germany do?" This time, even Goering asked, Yang Rui's words contained philosophy, as if announcing God's will.

"The easiest path to take in Germany. It is a path to the destruction of Europe, and thus of itself. Yang Rui said, "Because many people think that the last war was not lost." The outcome of the peace talks was so humiliating and painful that it was the expectation of most people to start another war. They hope to follow in the footsteps of Leo and finally finish the war that was not fought ten years ago.

But they really forgot that the reason why the last war happened was because Germany was the dominant power in Europe, and at the same time threatened Britain's world hegemony, and then launched another war and then succeeded in occupying the whole of Europe, which would make Britain even more taboo. The German occupation of Europe was not the end of the war, but the beginning of it. ”

"If Germany occupies Europe and China occupies Asia, then ......" The words of the last meeting were brought up by Goering, which made Yang Rui want him to drive him out, but thinking that he was just a pilot with shallow knowledge, he put up with it again.

"Don't mention what this kind of child says." Yang Rui changed his tone, cold and cold. He took a sip of his tea before adding: "It is very likely that Germany will now be on this path, if no one stands in the way." Since Herman was a former Air Force pilot, he should have known what it was like to be without oil. When the German army could only use horses, but the enemy was all trucks, chariots and planes, this war could only be lost even if Sun Wu was alive. ”

"There is another way in Germany, perhaps what you call restoration, if there is such a way. It depends on the intensity of the German Civil War, if the Civil War is simply won, it will eventually turn to the previous path, but if the Civil War is so tragic that all Germans forget the humiliation of Versailles and the unfinished battle of Leo, this road will be successful. Germany may be broken, but it still exists. Yang Rui imagined history and couldn't help but say such things.

"That is the only way?" Goering and Rebecca seem extremely disappointed, they both want Germany to return to its former glory, but in Yang Rui's account, she can only be destroyed or broken.

"It can only be like this!" Yang Rui nodded in their expectant gaze, "If I were the chancellor of Germany and did not think about myself but only Germany, the best way to face the angry and hungry people would be to condone the Bolsheviks to launch a rebellion, and at the same time condone them to gain an advantage in the early stage of the civil war, at which time the Treaty of Versailles and foreign reparations would automatically disappear, and the people's dissatisfaction with the government would also turn to the Bolsheviks." A few years later, when the war ended, the economic crisis ended, and the people were better off day by day, and all the crises were lifted. ”

"But Alsace Lorraine will never return...... Goering looked distressed, and he and all the Nazis were dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles. No matter what path they take, they believe that what they have lost should be taken back.

"So let the bitter civil war kill all those who, like you, are obsessed with Lorraine in Arthas." Yang Rui said incomparably cruelly. "In the case of lack of strength, if you do something beyond your ability, the result can only bring disaster to the country. This is like Japan, if Japan is bent on fighting another war with us and snatching Taiwan back, then the result will be the destruction of Japan. Now Japan has no complaints, except that they know that they can't fight, and that Russian land makes up for their loss of Taiwan.

But this was only Japan, Germany had nothing to make up for the loss of places such as Alsace and Lorraine, and in the face of a disgruntled and angry populace, unable to follow the communist road, it had to choose civil war, and finally push all the evil on the Bolsheviks. Although this was cruel, at least Germany's existing territory was preserved, most of the people were preserved, and most of the property was preserved. ”

"Uncle, if there is another war in Europe, will China go to Europe to participate in the war?" Rebecca asked, disappointed by Goering.

"As last time, if Germany can win, of course it will not send troops to the war, but if it is destined to lose, China has no reason not to enter the war. Do not forget that China was once a member of the Entente. Yang Rui told him bluntly and did not hide it.

"In this case, the United States is the key to everything." Rebecca asked.

"Quite right!" Yang Rui looked at her with a smile, feeling a little relieved. "America is the key to everything. The Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations are twins, and they dominate the course of the world. You want to start a war to regain lost ground and regain Germany's former glory. I think they will raise their hands to agree with you in this way, because the war will bring the United States out of the quagmire in economic crisis, and at the same time out of isolationism, and the hegemony of the world will be shared by Britain and the United States. In this case, if Germany wants to take back Alsace Lorraine, it will only fill the whole country with it. ”

"But what about the Soviet Union?" At this time, Goering and Rebecca had given up arguing with Yang Rui, because Goering had not reached this level, and Rebecca only wanted to get more information when Yang Rui was willing to speak.

"Before the completion of the three five-year plans, Comrade Stalin was still worried that the capitalist countries would take the initiative to attack him. It is now the third year of the First Five-Year Plan, and the Soviet Union would not have taken the initiative to provoke a war until 31 years ago. Moreover, the most common trick of the Bolsheviks was the tactic of cutting sausages, which began with the establishment of trade unions, strikes, and demonstrations, followed by assassinations, bombings, riots, and finally border conflicts, local wars, and all-out wars. The Bolsheviks had many enemies, and they used to infiltrate and rarely use war, especially if it was not clear your will to resist. Only when he is sure that you are a weak and powerless person, and there is no strong person from the outside world, will he start a war.

Besides, Germany and the Soviet Union do not share a border, so what are you thinking about the Soviet Union? That was a matter for Poland and Finland, the Curzon Line was signed between the British and Russia, and once the Soviet troops crossed the border, Britain and France, which endorsed it, would naturally declare war on the USSR, and Germany, as a non-bordering country, what was there to worry about? Taking the opportunity to make soy sauce is fundamental. ”

The term 'soy sauce' is unknown to Germans, including Rebecca. Seeing this scene, Yang Wuming on the side smiled and said: "It's the meaning of indiscriminately filling the numbers, eating and taking cards to grind foreign workers." ”

After Yang Wuming finished speaking, Yang Rui continued: "The most dangerous thing for Germany is the dissatisfaction of the German people with the Treaty of Versailles, and the economic crisis is that everyone can't eat, and this sentiment is easier to be exploited. If the user lacks a world-class strategic vision and only focuses on the whole of Europe, he will feel that Germany is indeed the first in Europe, and completely forget that there is a United States on the other side of the sea. ”

"Is America really invincible?" Quietly listening to Yang Rui say this, Goering asked. "If Germany took the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, he was not willing to acquiesce to the German occupation of Europe?"

"Of course not!" Yang Rui nodded, "A strong Soviet Union and a strong Germany, of course the Americans will be close to the powerful Soviet Union and hostile to the powerful Germany, there is no doubt about it." ”

"Why?!" This time, even Yang Wuming, who was in the audience, was surprised, although he had long accepted some of his father's views.

"Is this still going to be asked?" Yang Rui was also a little surprised, "The strength of the Soviet Union is the strength that buries the future of the country, and in a few decades she will go to decay and then perish; Germany, which occupied all of Europe, had no control over the occupied territories as much as the Soviet Union, and its vibrant populace would create a lot of wealth, so that German rule could barely be maintained. One is a short-term enemy, the other is a long-term enemy, and this kind of multiple-choice elementary school students will do it. (To be continued.) )