Chapter 291 The Grand Duke Party and the Labour Party

China has gained Zimbabwe and Zambia, but its relationship with Britain has also dropped to its lowest level in nearly two decades.

As a retaliation, Britain and the United States supported Russia to pay off the last 140 million pounds of debt to China through new loans, forcing China to withdraw its troops from Russia.

The current political situation in Russia has always been dominated by the Russian Social Cooking Alliance, which belongs to the leftist regime. Based on the Mensheviks, it has learned from China's experience in social insurance, labor bill, national medical insurance, joint venture cooperatives, and large agricultural economic policies.

Based on the national macroeconomic policies of the left and the support of Britain, the United States and France, Russia's economic situation has been improving rapidly, and the strength of domestic populism and [***] hardliners is also increasing.

In such a situation, in May 1924, Hu Chuyuan and his entourage visited Germany during the upcoming Paris Olympic Games.

The initial dividing line of power was very clear. China controlled Russia and Britain, the United States and France controlled Germany. However, Britain, the United States and France never gave up the plan to use Russia and Japan to contain China, and China also did not give up the plan to use Germany to contain Britain and France.

On May 14, Hu Chuyuan arrived in Hanover, Germany, accompanied by Minister of Defense Zhang Shiying, Army Chief of General Staff Li Kaiye, Vice President of the National Institute of Military Industry and Brigadier General Hu Weitang and others.

Hanover used to be a calm city, but now it has become the new capital of Germany, and the country's main central institutions have moved to Hanover.

At this time, Germany was no longer the empire that inherited the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, but the Federal Kingdom of Germany, with "King of Prussia and Hanover" - William III of the Hohenzollern family as the federal king.

After arriving at the Royal Palace of Hanover, Hu Chuyuan was welcomed by the Hohenzollern family, the Grand Duke of Baden and the Grand Duke of Ludwig Hessen.

There is no German Emperor Wilhelm II, who has been prominent for decades, in the crowd. Now, he is not allowed to set foot in Germany and can only live in seclusion in the Netherlands.

Although China and Germany were the most important opponents in the battlefield of World War I, and it was Hu Chuyuan's persecution and persuasion that Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed to surrender, was deprived of the title of German emperor, and was forced to abdicate from the position of King of Prussia... But anyway, now turn back Let's take a look again. Hu Chuyuan did give Germany the most important help at the most critical moment.

He saved the foundation of Germany's prosperity - a complete country, a complete industrial system that has not been seriously damaged, a financial system that has not been damaged by war... BASF Consortium, Deutsche Bank, UBS (after the merger of Commerzbank and Winterthurbank Switzerland, it was renamed Switzerland. Union Bank still retains the foundation of the German Commerzbank in Germany).

Especially in the forced response to the Spartak alliance uprising, China's garrison in Germany was quickly launched, defeating the uprisings in Munich and Berlin first, which buffered the right forces of the Mingzhu Party in German society and stabilized the situation in Germany.

On the issue of war reparations in Germany, it was also Hu Chuyuan's insistence that controlled Germany's total indemnity at 7.2 billion pounds, and the repayment period was also set to be indefinite.

After that, Hu Chuyuan also served as the chairman of the German International Debt Management Committee. Through the discount of the remaining fleet of the German navy, he reduced the total compensation in Germany to 6.3 billion pounds.

Although it is still a huge sum of money, in any case, under France's aggressive continental European hegemony policy, he did try his best to return the favor to Germany.

Without Germany, there would be no China today.

Not only does Hu Chuyuan know this truth, but also most Chinese people know it.

Subject to the restrictions of the Brussels Treaty, all military schools in Germany have been ordered to be demolished and stop training German officials. However, China allows foreigners to study in designated Chinese schools at their own expense, and it deliberately does not prohibit Germans.

In fact, under the secret work of Hu Chuyuan, August von Mackensen, the commander of the German Army on the Eastern Front in World War I, was invited to become a consultant to Xi'an Army University. German students at Xi'an Army University mainly received his education.

All this, under the international oppression of France, Germany can maintain the current situation, and the one who must be thanked is Hu Chuyuan.

After the Duke of Ludwig delivered a thank-you speech to Hu Chuyuan and China on behalf of everyone, a simple dinner party was held in the palace. Hu Chuyuan has always opposed to European tedious ceremonies and banquets.

At this point, before Hu Chuyuan's arrival, Hu Weitang had already been in Germany and the Ernst-Ludwig bus, who was responsible for the whole reception.

The whole dinner was very simple. Most of the ladies, young people, children, and people who had nothing to do with politics and rights were arranged in another larger restaurant.

At this time, William III was 42 years old. During World War I, he nominally served as the commander-in-chief of the German Fifth Army to fight against the French on the Western Front. In fact, he was a colonel and commanded a regiment.

Even so, he still received very high support in the army.

Before the end of the war, Germany was divided into two huge forces, one was the German aristocracy and the army, and the other was the German people and the German leftist parties.

At that time, Germany had almost only two choices, either to continue to fight until the leftist uprising in China, or to surrender and let the leftist parties to govern, while the German aristocratic system collapsed and the country became the Mingzhu Republic.

It was with the support of Hu Chuyuan that after the surrender, Germany temporarily maintained the stability of Germany through China's garrison in Germany, eliminated the left-wing radical parties in Germany, and gave the centrists of the Mingzhu Party in German society a relatively stable governance environment.

Even so, Hu Chuyuan is still worried about the deterioration of the situation in Germany.

In 1920, through the relationship between Hu Weitang and others in Germany, they found Kurt von Schleicher, who was the director of the German Ministry of Defense at that time. The National Intelligence Agency of China supported and planned to establish the German National Cook Workers' Party, referred to as the German Labor Party.

Before talking about the German Labor Party, we should first talk about the policy program of the Grand Duke Party of China.

The Taigong Party of China, led by Hu Chuyuan, is a left-wing centrist political group. It promotes national macro-control economicism and extensive social welfare policies, based on workers and the middle class, small assets, rich peasants, and small and medium-sized landlords. At the same time, it promotes consortium monopoly economy and expansionism in national policies, and pursues the country. The strength of military power.

The Tai Gong Party pursues national capitalism to guarantee the limit, that is, to control a certain degree of national capital economy under the requirements of maintaining the basic operation of the country. For example, in telecommunications, postal, railway, public transportation and other systems, state capital can occupy a certain proportion to monopolize the economy of the consortium. There are certain restrictions.

Zheng Axe has a certain national consortium. In terms of supporting domestic small assets, it gives a relatively loose policy to support the development of small assets.

At first glance, the policies of the Taiko Party and the Nazi Party are almost very similar, which is the so-called national socialist road.

There are still many differences between

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The biggest difference is that the Dagong Party does not promote military talentism, but seeks the ruling power of the majority party in the Mingzhu parliamentary system and maintains the implementation of party policies.

The Dagong Party and the Social Mingzhu Party also belong to the left-wing center, but they are more centrist than the Social Democratic Party. The political party itself is the regulator between the national consortium and the middle class, small assets, rich and medium-sized farmers, small and medium-sized landlords and workers. It is responsible for the coordination and communication between the two interest groups to avoid the national interests completely biased towards the other. One side.

Therefore, in the center of the party emblem of the Grand Duke Party, there is a golden sky, below is a wheat ear symbolizing agriculture, on the top are two hammers symbolizing industry, on the left is a bayonet symbolizing the army, and on the right is a string of shells symbolizing capital.

The national policies of the German Labour Party and the Grand Duke Party are completely the same. With the support of the BASF Consortium and Deutsche Bank, Hindenburg was persuaded to be the leader of the party, while Kurt von Schleicher secretly controlled behind the scenes.

Compared with the Social Democratic Party, the Labor Party is easy to get the support of the army and large conglomerates.

Hu Chuyuan has been quietly operating in the business community in Germany for more than 30 years, and has accumulated strong enough industrial and business contacts to ensure the support of most of the consortium and capital forces for the German National Cooking Workers' Party, Hindenburg and Schleicher, Paul von Forbeck, Hermann von Francois, Austria The appeal of famous military generals such as Gust von Markensensen and Alfred von Tierpitz is also enough to absorb the German and pro-military camps.

Since the official establishment of the Party in 1921, the German Labor Party has continuously held propaganda activities nationwide, with the German Workers' Daily as the main stage, issuing one million copies for free every day, promoting the policies of the German Labor Party, and also in the German Daily, the German Post, the Frankfurt Business Daily and the World. More than 20 newspapers continue to advertise, recruit volunteers, and promote a policy of affluence for all.

The Labour Party even promised that once it came to power, it would let the German economy recover to its original level, and implement comprehensive medical and social insurance in Germany, so that all Germans would have jobs.

Not only that, Hu Chuyuan also gave a huge amount of economic support to the Labor Party, allowing the Labor Party to hold a large number of seminars in Germany, establish grass-roots organizations, distribute free relief supplies to the poor, and call on large consortia to donate for national education and infrastructure.

At this stage of Hu Chuyuan's third visit to Germany, the German Labour Party, which has only been established for three years, has become the second largest party in Germany after the Social Mingzhu Party.

The influence of the German Labour Party is expanding rapidly, and even Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig is a member of the German Labour Party.

Hu Chuyuan did not stay in Germany for long, but secretly met with William III, Hindenburg, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and others, and reached some secret agreements.

In addition, he also met with German Prime Minister Friedrich Ebert. Just like the intelligence of the National Intelligence Agency, Friedrich Ebert's own thoughts are also biased towards the overall policy of the center. Therefore, within the Social Democratic Party, he himself was attacked by the radicals on both the left and right wings.

In order to persuade Friedrich Albert and the Labor Party to regroup, Hu Chuyuan took the opportunity to invite him to visit China.

In terms of military cooperation, Hu Chuyuan also secretly approved a new plan to allow the German General Staff to send some young German officers to China for secret study, especially to learn the rapid combat ideas and holistic ideas of the mechanized corps.

The idea of overall war theory is the theory put forward by Li Kaiye in the General Staff of the Chinese Army, that is, during the whole war, we should fully consider the strength of the country and the strength of the opponents to formulate appropriate military strategy. In terms of general strategy, we should first ensure the dominant position, and at the same time, we should constantly realize strategic tasks in tactics and use the strongest superior power. Attack the most vulnerable and deadly places of the opponent, restrain, reduce and eliminate the opponent's ability to war in the shortest time, and ultimately ensure the victory of the national war.

Around this theory, Li Kaiye established a set of theoretical analysis courses at the Central Military University, allowing students to learn to analyze the whole situation and analyze their own advantages and disadvantages of their opponents. At the same time, there are a large number of exercise courses to exercise the command ability of young officers.

At the same time, China also has another set of secret weapons in the military, that is, the militarization of the army, which is exactly the system that Germany urgently needs, which cannot establish military academies in the country.

After a short visit to Germany, Hu Chuyuan had a clearer understanding of the situation in Germany. In fact, the upper classes of China and Germany are basically the same in political ideology, but China succeeded, while Germany failed.

This idea strengthened Hu Chuyuan's decision to increase investment and recovery in Germany. Before leaving Germany, he separated Commerzbank from UBS and joined the camp of the Anglo-Dutch Fortis consortium. At the same time, he approved the plan of the Anglo-Dutch Fortis consortium and the BASF consortium to continue to increase investment in Germany.

In addition, he also officially allowed the CITIC consortium to enter Germany, especially through CITIC to establish German agricultural credit cooperatives in Germany.

After his visit to Germany, Hu Chuyuan visited Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and other countries one after another. Except for Poland and Ukraine, the rest are basically the defeated countries of World War I, and some of them have been supported within the Eurasian Alliance. China has regained its vitality, and some of them, such as Austria and Czechoslovakia, are still in a period of chaos.

During this period, Hu Chuyuan began to consider spreading the centrist party ideology of the Dagong Party to guide the economic development of all countries within the whole Eurasian alliance system.

The centrist ideology has a very important foundation, that is, the support for international consortia.

Of course, this is also because the most important consortium in the world is basically the main force behind the Dagong Party and the German Labour Party.

In September 1924, Hu Chuyuan returned to China.

At this time, another problem he faces is the new prime minister. On the throne of the President of the Federal Republic of China, he can serve until 1933.

After selection, he decided to elect Yang Shiqi as the new Premier. Wang Chaoqing served as Vice Premier and Director of the National Economic Commission, while Hu Weizhong served as Minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Director of the National Assets Commission, and Luo Chengqi as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

In March 1925, the National Assembly held a re-election. With the special position in the party and the strength of the Dagong Party to occupy 70% of the seats in the National Assembly, Hu Chuyuan passed a resolution on the adjustment of the cabinet of the State Prime Minister's Office.

In the end, Yang Shijian, Wang Chaoqing, Hu Weizhong and Luo Chenghua became the backbone of the national premier's office. In the adjustment of the overall cabinet, a new generation of cabinet ministers around the age of 45 appeared one after another.

These people are all new forces that Hu Chuyuan has observed and cultivated in the party for many years. At this time, he has made a comprehensive change of the cabinet, which is actually preparing for the economic crisis and the possible subsequent World War II.

In May, German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert was invited to visit China. After a week-long visit, he was preparing to continue his visit to Japan. He was hospitalized for appendicitis and was forced to have an appendectomy at Yanjing Tongji Hospital.

Because there were signs of inflammation during the operation, Friedrich Ebert stayed in Yanjing for another month after using antibiotics to stabilize the condition.

It was precisely during this period that through the observation in Yanjing, the overall evaluation of China's economy, military and society, and the conversation with Hu Chuyuan, Friedrich Ebert finally made a decision to cooperate with the center and right-wing forces of the German Social Democratic Party with the German Labor Party to reorganize new German workers. The party.

The Social Democratic Party is a left-wing party with the overall surname. Its centrist and right-wing forces are actually the German Labor Party, and the two are basically the same in political program.

To be precise, the Taigong Party is a centrist party, between the right and the left.

(to be continued)