Episode 71 The Jew Next Door

The railways of Nazi Germany, Xiang Xiaoqiang has now seen it. There is absolutely no such thing as "late" and the like in later generations, and a night is ten minutes, half an hour, an hour, and a few hours, as if punctuality is a gift, and being late is what it should be. …… On the train timetable at Bremerhaven Station, the southbound train should have entered the station at 8:45, and Xiang Xiaoqiang had been staring at the big clock on the platform for a long time. At 8:44 a.m., a bright light appeared in the distance, and then the train honked in the distance.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was immediately convinced.

With the gasp of the steam engine, almost the last second of stepping on the big bell, the locomotive spewed white gas, dragged a long string of carriages, and drove past Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyes with a strong wind.

When the train slowly stopped, Xiang Xiaoqiang looked up at the big clock, and the clock dial pointed to 8:45. In addition, the big clock does not have a second hand, which gives people the feeling that it is not bad for a second. He simply did not understand how the Germans in the 30s did this. There are no computers, no satellite phones, no array of electronic devices, no software-controlled operating systems...... Just by relying on mechanical clocks.

At the end of the day, it's a saying: attitude is everything. In this regard, it can be said that the Nazi railway system was 100 years ahead of the railway system of later generations in China.

The Germans of this regime and this era were determined to give the world a new impression and show the world the determination of the new Germany with the precise operation of the railway. Regardless of the outcome, this attitude is absolutely valuable. In later generations, so many people "Hader" rushed to this point, and the Germans at this time had a reason to be "Ha".

Xiang Xiaoqiang originally wanted to book four boxes that were connected together: one for Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Yun, one for the three old consultants, and two for the four guards, which were stuck at both ends. But unfortunately, no two of the trains, whether they are first-class or second-class boxes, are connected together, and the boxes in the middle of them are sold. Xiang Xiaoqiang asked Song Ruhai to ask if they were selling it by jumping, but Song Ruhai persuaded him:

"Forget it, sir, you know what's going on."

"What's going on? I don't know how. ”

Song Ruhai looked around and explained in a low voice that this was a common trick used by intelligence agencies of various countries to spy on foreign diplomats. If a diplomat is traveling by train or staying in a hotel, there is usually an agent in the next box or room. A small microphone was installed in the diplomat's room, and the agent eavesdropped on the conversation next door. If it's a train box, it's even simpler, and you can basically hear each other clearly by sticking a stethoscope to a wooden board in the next box.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was angry, and he was about to have a seizure at that time, threatening to return to the port immediately and buy a ticket to return to China. Later, several people persuaded him together, and he gave up angrily.

Now several people are on the train. Since they can't be connected together, it doesn't make sense for the four guards to be divided into two, so now there are only three rooms, separated by two in the middle, and they are not too far from each other.

The conductor was very respectful and settled them in the box. Xiang Xiaoqiang gave the conductor a tip, and then called four guards in and asked them to "clean up" the box. These four guards are all agents of the People's Guard security team, and they are all masters, those of the Gestapo. They quickly searched up and down, but found no microphones or recording equipment.

"Your Excellency," one of the guards said in a low voice, "the other party probably knows that we'll clean up the box first." ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, still very indignant:

"Well, they're going to rely on the stethoscope next door."

The four guards looked at each other for a moment, and they all nodded.

"Okay then," Xiang Xiaoqiang was extremely depressed and waved his hand, "Then let's assume that the box next door to our box is all the Gestapo." Remember, from here to Aachen, you are not allowed to talk about anything that could leak secrets. ”

"Yes, sir."

Far from the polite hospitality he imagined, this kind of almost rude surveillance made Xiang Xiaoqiang very annoyed.

After the guard went out, he paced a few steps in the box, and suddenly said loudly to Qiu Yu:

"I don't care, if there are no five or six rooms connected to Aachen, I will immediately ask people to buy a ticket back! Then buy a ferry ticket! When I return home, I will tell Your Majesty what happened to us in Germany, and I will add fuel to your Majesty's words, and I will say to Your Majesty that the Germans look down on us, and they say that people of color are inferior...... Do you think Your Majesty is on fire? I would like to confess to Your Majesty that I had been grossly wrong in encouraging her to react to the German overtures! Damn, as long as I'm not happy, Daming and Germany will have no fun! It's no one to come! …… Autumn water, let's go to Italy for our honeymoon! Damn, Italy is many times more fun than Germany, and you can definitely buy a connected box! ”

"Little Strong ......"

"I'm going to ...... On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, I would like to support Mussolini in protecting Austria! Because of Austria, Mussolini was unhappy with Hitler! Then Hitler would not have wanted to get his hands on Austria! If Austria cannot be taken, it will not be able to form a three-sided encirclement of Czechoslovakia, and the Czechs will not be able to bird him! Hitler, stay in Central Europe honestly, 'living space in the East', hum, he doesn't even think about it! ”

"Little Strong ......"

"Damn, after all this, I will accept the position of governor of Sumatra, Qiuyun, I will take you with me, and we will go to Nanyang to be the emperor of the soil! There we can spend our honeymoon every day! It's like now, it's like we're in a hurry to stammer it, and we don't even have a few boxes...... Everyone eats this bowl of rice, who is fooling! ”

After scolding the street, Xiang Xiaoqiang was a little more angry, sat down with Qiu Yu in his arms angrily, looked at the scenery outside the window, and drank tea one by one with a teacup.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's big pass blocked the street, which frightened Qiu Yu. She didn't know if Xiaoqiang said it on purpose, or if she was simply dizzy. If you're dizzy, that's a really bad thing. She asked in a whisper:

"Xiaoqiang...... You...... Did you mean to tell them that? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang drank tea, glanced at her, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and said "um" half-truthfully.

Qiu Yu was relieved at this time, she came over with a smile and asked in a low voice:

"Hey, how do you know what Hitler wanted?"

"Of course I do, silly girl."

Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that during this period, Hitler was not "your forever friend Adolf Hitler" to Mussolini, and Mussolini was still very unpleasant to Hitler and did not like this "Austrian corporal" very much. At this time, Italy was still the protector of Austria, and Mussolini still regarded Austria as his own backyard and could not tolerate Hitler's involvement. After the Austrian Nazi Party assassinated Chancellor Taulfis in 1934, Mussolini immediately became alarmed and immediately sent four divisions to the Brenner Pass to intimidate Hitler.

The two looked at each other very well, and that was after the Spanish Civil War, when the two countries had to turn to Germany because of their mutual support for Franco, Italy, and Britain and France. In October 1936, the two countries signed a secret agreement. For the first time, Mussolini used the term "axis" for this agreement. The two countries then became closer and closer, and when Hitler forcibly occupied Austria in 1938, Mussolini abandoned Austria half-pushed and half-abandoned.

Now, however, even Hitler and Mussolini themselves did not know about this. Only Xiang Xiaoqiang knows.

……

Two hours later, at 10:50 a.m., the train stopped at the first stop, Osnabrück. Qiu Yu's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly tugged on Xiang Xiaoqiang's sleeve, pointed out the window and said:

"Xiaoqiang, look, is that the Gestapo."

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at her fingers, and a few people wearing beige trench coats and gray top hats walked over from a distance on the platform. There were four of them, two of them got into the carriage next door, and the other two walked over to this side, and stopped very close to Xiang Xiaoqiang's box, and the two stood there talking and smoking, as if they deliberately wanted Xiang Xiaoqiang to see clearly.

"Huh? What are these people going to do? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang guessed in his heart, and soon heard someone knocking on the door of the box next door. Then the next box opened, and a few words of German conversation were heard, and suddenly one of them shouted, as if angry, followed by the sound of tugging and fighting.

"Boom!"

There was a muffled sound on the platform, and the sound of something shattering. Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Yu hurriedly looked out the window, and a box was thrown out of the platform, the lid was broken, and inside were some clothes and a few broken glassware.

Next door...... Isn't the next door a surveillance post?

At this time, someone knocked on the door of this box. Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Yun glanced at each other, and then motioned to Xiao Qiang for Qiu Yun to open the door. Although he knew that it was not necessary, he still subconsciously touched the small pistol in his waist.

As soon as the door opened, a Gestapo appeared at the door. He saw that there were two Asians in the box, and he made some surprised expressions on his face, and then bowed slightly to Qiu Yun, smiled very gentlemanly and said something, and then said it again to Xiang Xiaoqiang.

At this time, one of Xiang Xiaoqiang's guards also followed, he stood between the Gestapo and Xiang Xiaoqiang and his wife, and said to Xiang Xiaoqiang:

"My lord, he said that they are a state secret policeman, and they are being ordered to carry out an important mission, and ask every passenger in the car to show their ID."

The Gestapo handed over a copy of the papers. The guard took it, looked through it carefully, and then glanced at him at the photograph with a cold look in his eyes, more Gestapo than the Gestapo, as if he were checking on the fugitives. This Gestapo coughed very unnaturally, he had never been the only one who had examined others like this, and no one else had dared to examine him in this way. But now he had to endure it patiently. Because he knew who he was up against.

"My lord, no problem."

The guard nodded and returned the papers to him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took out a cigarette and lit it, then leisurely took out his and Qiuqiu's passports and threw them on the table. The Gestapo wanted to reach out and take it, but the guards blocked him and didn't let him get close to Xiang Xiaoqiang, so he picked it up and handed it to him. The Gestapo glanced at him, took it very unhappily, looked at it briefly, and then handed it back to the guard, touched the heels of his shoes, saluted Xiang Xiaoqiang, and said something loudly.

The guard translated:

"My lord, he calls you 'Mr. General.'"

Waving his hand to Xiaoqiang, the Gestapo owed to Qiu Yu again and withdrew.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately asked the guard:

"What happened next door just now? How did you throw everything out? What's going on? ”

guard says:

"My lord, when another secret police officer checked next door, he found that there was a Jew living next door, and they said that the Jew was not worthy of a box, and that it was crowding out the space of other superior people, so they threw his things down, and the Jew was driven into the hard-seat car."

Xiang Xiaoqiang squinted his eyes:

"So, the box next door is empty?"

"Yes."

Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyes tightened, and he smiled slightly:

"I dare say that there are Jews living next door to us on the other side, and they will be kicked out, and the boxes will be empty."

The guard laughed:

"My lord is high, and my subordinates think the same way."

Before the words fell, there was a German shout from the next door on the other side, "boom", and another suitcase was thrown onto the platform.

Sure enough.

Xiang Xiaoqiang hurriedly asked the guard to go to the corridor to look, the guard went out to take a look, and then came back and smiled:

"My lord's expectation is true, and sure enough, another Jew was found next door here, and he was also rushed to the hard-seat carriage."

Xiang Xiaoqiang laughed, and secretly sighed in his heart that although these Germans were so simple and blunt, they were still very on the road. And it's also very efficient. I scolded the street when I was in Bremen, and now it was only two hours later, and they had already finished reporting and arranging everything at this stop. The owners of the two boxes next door were suddenly transformed from the Gestapo into "Jews" and were legitimately kicked out, and the boxes were legitimately empty.

"Damn, both sides are Jews at the same time, you can figure it out. It's been 36 years, and German Jews are not even citizens anymore, and they can still buy first-class boxes? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and scolded and shook his head.

……

The train started slowly. After leaving the station, there was a soft knock on the box door again. This time it was the conductor, and the guards were still following. The conductor said something with a smile to Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Yu very respectfully.

The guard behind him also grinned and translated:

"My lord, he said that there were two Jews living in the box next to you just now, and now they have been cleared out, if you want, you can arrange for us to change the box, so that the three of us can be close together."

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked up to the sky and laughed happily, startling the conductor. Xiang Xiaoqiang finally suppressed his smile and said:

"yes, that's what it looks like a friendly country! Those guys are on the road! Then, go ahead and arrange it! ”

He took out a tip of 50 marks and slapped it on the table, and the conductor's eyes kept and his saliva immediately came out. He shook it for a moment, and it was easy to calm down the great sense of happiness, respectfully took the 50 marks, spoke a lot of German with great humility, waved his hand to Xiaoqiang, and did not bother to let the guard translate these sycophants. The conductor bowed repeatedly, withdrew and called a few people to carry the luggage for the three old advisers and the four guards.