Chapter 3: Early Snow
1929 was destined to be a year when many things would happen; in January, Kuhn observed the resonant fluorescence of the nucleus in his experiments....com Mussborough, the later Nobel Prize in Physics, was also born in Munich, Germany this year. Churchill, who was once the British Prime Minister, was defeated by the British Labor Party in May of that year and gave the Prime Minister's position to Chamberlain.
Xu Yang believes that 1929 is definitely a year of special significance. Assuming that without the economic crisis spreading from the United States to the world in 1929, Germany would have difficulty taking advantage of the self-care of various countries to rise again.
As time passed by minute by minute, Xu Yang was still lying lazily on the balcony, silently looking at the velvet snowflakes falling in the air. He thought: Hal must be very busy at this time.
In the eyes of many people, Hal von Stark is a weak Junker nobleman, but Xu Yang doesn't think so. Could a weak person take the burden of running a large family business?
Hal spent a lot of time to investigate before selling the stocks, and finally concluded from all the small signs that he knew that his son's suggestions were correct, which made him feel very incredible. However, he had not had the opportunity to ask in detail, because he had to do too much at this time.
Xu Yang was thinking about how to persuade Har to transform his family's factory.
"Well... Now the family already has a factory for producing light guns. The tractor factory can also specialize in producing tanks, but how can the tank be built? By the way! Krupp must have reserve talents in tanks, so he can try to sneak a few of them over. Hehe... it seems that they are too anxious."
Xu Yang thought about it and couldn't help but smile foolishly. He jumped up suddenly: "Prepare the car, I'm going out!"
Stile said: "Master, where are you going? The master has told you not to let you go too far."
Xu Yang was a little embarrassed to disturb his dark black broken hair, and he asked, "Do you have any fun introduction?"
From his experience of serving Xu Yang for more than ten years, Stile knew that he, the young master, had a very fanatical love for China and always paid attention to any news from the far east country. In order not to make Xu Yang have a long journey, Stiles pondered and asked: "Is it okay to call the Crystal Palace in Shibei later called 'Ningfinburg'? The museums there contain artworks from ancient Eastern countries."
As Stella thought, when Xu Yang heard the word "Ancient Kingdom of the East", his eyes lit up and hurriedly urged to prepare the vehicle.
The vehicle was soon ready. Xu Yang was dressed as a servant at home, dressed in his quaint Prussian winter outfit and sat quietly in the car and looked at the streets. The first snow in November came a little early. The sharp roofs of Gothic buildings were covered with snow, and snow piles were piled up on both sides of the streets that could not be cleaned. Few people walked on the streets. They preferred to gather around the iron buckets burning firewood to keep warm. Under the arrangement of the old housekeeper, they dispatched five two-seater convertibles produced by their family car company this year. Xu Yang sat in the passenger seat and looked out curiously, asking the drivers some questions from time to time.
Originally, Xu Yang went out with excitement, but when he saw the streets lying full of homeless men, wrapping his thin body with something that was so broken that he didn't look like clothes, he couldn't get excited when he was trembling because of hunger and cold.
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, and its architecture is mainly Gothic. The overall style characteristics of Gothic architecture are: ethereal, slender, tall, and sharp. They directly reflect the new structural technology and strong religious consciousness of the Middle Ages. Since ancient times, Munich has been the representative center of Bavarian culture. Nowadays, under these representative buildings, there are people who represent the bottom of this era more.
Xu Yang ordered the driver to slow down. He looked out the car window in gorgeous clothes, and those who looked at the people who looked at them with numb eyes. That's right, compared to those outside the car window, Xu Yang's clothes can of course be called gorgeous, because those people don't even have a complete piece of clothes that can resist the cold.
"How could this be the case?" Xu Yang didn't dare to look out any more. No! It's not that he didn't dare, but that he couldn't bear to look out any more.
Of course, Xu Yang knew about the poverty in Germany in 1929, but those were learned in person before, and they were incomparable to the visual shock brought by their own eyes.
Xu Yang raised his head, as if he was talking to himself: "No wonder Germany launched a war under the instigation of that madman. People can't survive anymore. The madman gave them hope to survive, and of course people will follow."
According to historical records, after a brief period of stabilization, the Weimar Republic, which could not exclude foreign aggression from outside and could not resolve internal troubles from inside, was severely hit in the global financial crisis in 1929. This fragile republic faced serious economic problems and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The German people lived a very difficult life, which provided a good opportunity for the rise of certain German forces.
Just look at the stormtroopers with armbands with "后" characters on the road, they kept sizzling heat among the poor people, sending leaflets, and using exaggerated body language to describe who should support to have a beautiful and happy life.
It has to be said that Goebbels is a qualified propaganda minister of the National Socialist Party. He can always quickly detect what people need, give people hope from propaganda, and give them a guiding belief.
Xu Yang found that wherever there is a place where there is a heating place, the "卍" flag and publicity posters are hung, and people line up in long queues waiting to receive potato soup. Nowadays, people don't care what you want to do. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they won't mind who they should support.
The car was still moving forward, and Xu Yang was not worried that those who would suddenly rush to stop the vehicle. Despite the difficulties, most of the Germans still maintained an admirable discipline. The eyes that came over were not without greed, but when the stormtroopers learned that Kahn Stark, known as the apostle, was consciously isolated from the crowd. Those with greedy eyes could only envy and could not act.
"The car stops here." Xu Yang opened the car door and walked out, raised his head to look at the snowflakes falling.
The sky is gray, just like most Germans are in the mood. People lack the eyes of **, and only when they take the potato soup, can they see hope of survival in their eyes.
There are long crowds in front of the food distribution points of the KSBC. The small amount of food is not enough. Often a small box of potato soup becomes the total amount of food for the whole family that day. The economic downturn caused even the strong men who were not able to find a job, and they could only rely on the gifts of others to survive every day.
According to the restrictions of the treaty, Germany can only have 100,000 troops and cannot have heavy equipment. However, those men who want to rely on joining the army to make a living still sharpened their heads and wanted to drill in, which caused a very interesting situation; German army soldiers were incredibly healthy.
The stormtrooper of the KS Party did not belong to the German government. It was not restricted by the treaty. The men who lost the opportunity to join the army to make a living, turned to the stormtroopers for a way out. With the support of the Junker nobles and a small number of capitalists, the stormtroopers became sufficient. Although the stormtroopers had no salary, they were at least responsible for their meals. With this attractive condition, the stormtroopers had expanded from the initial rapid expansion of ten thousand yuan, which was twice that of the German Defense Army!
"Your Mightiness!"
A loud tribute pulled Xu Yang's gaze from the sky, and turned around to see a middle-aged man in the stormtrooper uniform. He stood upright, raised his right arm 45 degrees, and his fingers were put together, carrying out a very standard hand-raising ceremony. From the uniform badge, this stormtrooper team leader.
Xu Yang was stunned. He knew that the raising of hands was a respectful manner for the leaders within the Kuomintang party. He thought, should he do the Junke noble ceremony or return the raising of hands? "When did I be so respected by the raising of hands?" This is why Xu Yang was stunned.
In this way, Xu Yang raised his head and looked at the leader of the stormtrooper.
"Please remember my name; Lyon Foster." He said solemnly: "We really don't know what to do without the help of your family. It was your family who saved them!" He pointed to those who were waiting in line to receive their food.
"Oh..." Xu Yang slowly understood a little. He remembered that in September this year, he seemed to have signed documents about giving food to the stormtrooper. "So, Foster, would you take me everywhere?"
Foster raised his hand again, and his tone was a little excited: "Yes! Mr. Kahn von Stark, of course I do!"
In this difficult era, myths are easily born. In Munich, almost no one knows that there is a legendary figure in the Stark family - Kahn von Stark! That genius who has had an extraordinary wisdom since childhood, and just turned fourteen this year, Kahn von Stark has taken over a large number of family businesses from his father Hal. When the people were in trouble, he donated supplies to help people repeatedly in the name of the Stark family.
As the Kuomintang intends to get closer to the Junker family, he has worked hard to promote the intimate relationship between Xu Yang and Hitler. If Hitler is the hope in the eyes of the Communist Party of China, then Xu Yang has been promoted as an indispensable stroke on the "hope".
Under Foster's guidance, Xu Yang walked aimlessly on the streets in the snow. The things he saw along the way made the atmosphere look a little dull. Xu Yang learned from Foster that due to the lack of food and warm clothing, seventeen people had died in despair in the face of hunger and cold, and this number would rise further. Ironically, at this time, only the stormtroopers with a very bad reputation were doing their best to help.
"We are able to do this because of your family's help, so we thank the von Stark family. Thank you sincerely!" Foster's voice was quiet and hatred: "Those damn speculators, they only want to earn every copper plate of the German people." Then the voice turned high, "Only our noble German Junker nobles and our great party stood up and helped the people with selflessness and generosity. We are both Germans, and we must not watch our compatriots die in despair!"
To Xu Yang, this sounds like a swearing.
Perhaps intentionally or unintentionally, Hitler brought the words in his conversation with Xu Yang to the speech. I remember that it was on a night two months ago, when Xu Yang shouted in front of Hitler, "We Germanic people must not see our compatriots die in despair!".
How thoughtful the word compatriots are now...
And that sentence is so inciting!
Look, Hitler excitedly used the next day in speeches, newspapers, flyers, etc., and received a lot of echoes. This made Hitler praise Xu Yang as a genius of language. Since then, Hitler has also had a little habit of taking a secret to record every word Xu Yang said in the conversation between the two.
Xu Yang looked at the people who were waiting in line to receive the potato soup and asked, "There is only potato soup, why not distribute some bread? Is it because the food is not enough?"
To Foster, Xu Yang's question was like the sound of nature, and fools knew what would happen next. His sentence was urgent: "Not enough. Your Excellency, this little food alone is certainly not enough. Will your family be willing to help us generously?"
Xu Yang smiled and said decisively: "I am willing! I will also persuade the entire Junker noble class to donate food and enough winter clothes as the heir of the Stark family."
Foster was so excited that he couldn't speak. He stood there, his face turned extremely rosy due to excitement, and his nose was squirting two rays of white air, like a cattle gasping. They were stormtroopers, but they were even more of Germany. Without the foundation of the people, there would be no them.
However, at this time, a very inconsistent voice appeared, "Young Master, I'm afraid you can't do this. This will cause your family to lose a lot of benefits and even fall into losses, with very serious consequences!" The person who spoke was Stella, who had been following Xu Yang.
Stile's words dragged Fordler and his group from heaven to hell, and they roared in a low mood, attracting people's attention.
Xu Yang kicked the snow under his feet and said in a very affirmative tone: "If our nation is gone, then our Stark family will lose its meaning of existence. My family is willing to overcome this difficulty with all the fellow Germans!" His expression was so solemn.
The crowds in the street were excited. They all heard Xu Yang's declaration. They asked those who were informed with curiosity. When they knew what happened, in their eyes, the legendary heir of Stark, now the status of the legendary Stark in their minds has risen to the apostle sent by the Emperor to help people!
I don’t know who shouted “Long live!” and then people responded, their faces blushed and their necks were thick, and they fell into a state of madness.
Amid the cheers, Xu Yang got into the car and the vehicle slowly left the people.
In the car, Xu Yang wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, as if complaining: "It turns out that it is so hard to win over people's hearts. It's so hard to do it once, and I'm not exhausted! I began to admire that person..."
"What did you say?" The driver couldn't understand Chinese.
Xu Yang saw the driver's eyes with respect and felt a little proud, but when he thought of the consequences, he was soft on the seat cushion, "It's over! My father will smash my **."
This time it was German. The driver finally understood what the idol had just recognized. He suddenly braked, causing Xu Yang to fall to the windshield. Xu Yang was about to get angry, but saw the driver sitting in the driver's seat with a desperate look on his face, in a swearing tone: "Your Excellency! No matter who wants to hurt you, he must step over my body first!"
Xu Yang thought to himself: I'm having a big time this time... ,!
Chapter completed!