The Beirut estate on the outskirts of Kiel is full of summer flowers, and against the blue sky and white clouds, it looks particularly beautiful and bright. Colorful butterflies shuttle among the flowers and lawns, adding a bit of vitality to this picture-like scene.

Fang Yan stood on the stone path in the garden, the warm morning breeze blowing the corners of his clothes into the subtle flutters; Although it was just an ordinary civilian dress, wearing it on his body still revealed a handsome and handsome meaning that was difficult to hide. At this moment, facing the pleasant garden scenery in front of him, Fang Yan had no intention of appreciating it, he stood in place with a somewhat complicated expression, quietly waiting for the person he wanted to see coming.

After a while, a familiar sound of soft footsteps came from far to near, and Fang Yan followed the voice, only to see Linna, who was dressed in purple, walking towards him along the path. Under the light of the morning light, the tall and graceful Linna is like a fairy in the forest.

"Jonas, congratulations on your promotion to the rank of captain." Linna smiled and grabbed Fang Yan's arm, the joy in her wonderful eyes was both gentle and affectionate. Just a week after Hitler's review of the fleet, Fang Yan was included in the list of allowed promotions, and was officially promoted to captain on April 5. The warship he served on was also transferred from the Nuremberg to the pocket battle cruiser Admiral Schell, which had a larger tonnage, more complex technical equipment, and more personnel organization, and also held the position of second officer. Fang Yan understood that this was almost certainly the result of Hitler's personal involvement: in order to get along with the new chancellor, even Raeder had to consider a few adaptations to make his old friends shine brightly in front of him. If it was according to Raeder's original thoughts, he would have to sharpen Fang Yan for at least another half a year, after all, the latter was too young!

Fang Yan stared at the soft and delicate Yiren in front of him, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart. Since they reunited a few years ago, there has been no barrier for the two to be alone: Lena has completely put herself in the role of wife. And Fang Yan also acquiesced to everything Linna did to him. In the past 3 years, Lina has completely become Fang Yan's second woman, and her erudite, intellectual, independent and strong mature characteristics give Fang Yan a unique feeling completely different from Sylvia. Fang Yan couldn't help but wonder, if he hadn't met Sylvia, would Lina in front of him become his lifelong lover?

Seeing Fang Yan's expression a little strange, Linna couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Jonas, what's wrong with you today?" Fang Yan was silent for a moment, and then slowly said, "Linna, I have something to tell you. Two months later. Sylvia was about to finish her studies at the University of Rome and had come to Kiel to join me for a long time. After that, it's going to be hard for me to get a chance to visit you here, and you've forgotten about me. ”

As soon as the words fell, Fang Yan clearly felt the delicate body of the person beside him tremble. Fang Yan, who seemed to have knocked over the five-flavor bottle in his heart, had no words to comfort the delicate young woman in front of him, so he could only hold the pair of silky and delicate soft wattles tightly in the palm of his hand. Gradually, the corners of Linna's mouth hooked up a little bitter smile, and said softly: "Yes, so many years have passed." Your little wife has grown up completely. I promised not to destroy your existing family, and in two months, you can rest assured that you will live happily ever after with Sylvia. ”

"Linna......" Fang Yan said in a low voice, with an indescribable hoarse feeling in his clear and magnetic voice; I don't know since when. This lonely young woman who once violated him also occupies an important position in his heart that is difficult to let go. He stared at this beautiful and charming face with excitement, and suddenly leaned over and kissed the two bright and ruddy delicate cherry lips; Lina let out a crying cry, and crystal tears flowed down her jade. The mixed and stirred incense of the two is mixed with a little saltiness.

"Jonas, I've decided." The tears on Linna's face had not dried at the end of the deep kiss, and there was already a determined light blooming in her aqua blue eyes. "I'm going to bear you a baby. Only in this way will I be able to keep you in my life, and even if I never see you again, a part of you will always be my own. ”

Fang Yan's heart shook suddenly, and his face showed a bit of incredible consternation. After a long while, he gently pursed his thin lips and replied, "But is this really appropriate, Linna?" If you do give birth to a child, not only will it cause serious damage to your reputation, but the child will not be cared for by his father as he grows up. This is so unfair to all of you, and I hope you will think about it again. ”

Lina shook her head lightly and smiled, "I've already thought about it." This child will be my spiritual support for the rest of my life, and since I have missed you, the only hope is to be able to get the crystallization of your affection. In addition, I am not young now, and if I hadn't been pregnant in recent years, I might not be able to be a mother again. Seeing that Fang Yan still showed hesitation, Linna said in a soft voice again: "Don't worry, I will never say who the father of the child is, and our relationship will not be exposed because of this." Can you promise to leave me this parting gift? ”

Looking at Linna's delicate face with a poignant smile in her smile, Fang Yan's throat seemed to be blocked by something. Linna's affection for him is like a spring water, and she has given him too much in recent years but has never asked for anything in return; This made Fang Yan feel nostalgic, and he couldn't refuse her hopeful request at all. Fang Yan took a deep breath, then lowered his head heavily, he tightened the warm fragrant nephrite in front of him into his arms, and his heart melted as if some shackles had been opened.

The sun was shining, the flowers were blooming, and on the soft grass with faint dewdrops, the two people who were excited immediately started a friendly friendship without any reservations. When Fang Yan burst into flames one after another in the deepest part of Linna, Linna, who was tightly entangled with Fang Yan like an octopus, actually cried. Looking at the beautiful jade with pear blossoms and rain under him, I don't know whether it was joy or sadness, Fang Yan could only keep kissing the tears from her cheeks and the corners of her eyes, and in the next two months, he wanted to give all the favor to this woman who loved him.

In the early spring and summer of 1933, when Fang Yan and Lina were living a real married life and sowing good seeds into the fertile soil, the situation at home and abroad in Germany also underwent earth-shaking changes.

At home, Hitler was sweeping away all his political enemies with his stormy, dense and ruthless methods. One political party after another has been uprooted by the National Socialist Party on trumped-up charges, including left-wing enemies such as the Social Democrats and the Centre Party, as well as former right-wing allies such as the National Party. The multi-party democracy of Weimar Germany had collapsed, and the Reichstag had become the voice of the National Socialist Party.

However, Hitler's drastic action was met with no opposition from the old President Hindenburg, the officer corps, the big industrialists, and the ordinary people to Hitler's drastic action. During the previous four-year economic crisis, they had hated the weakness of democratic governments and abhorred the kind of "cattle trade" style of elections that served no purpose but to create chaos. Looking back at the past, the German people can easily discover an obvious "truth": that Germany can only achieve prosperity, dignity, and glory under the leadership of a powerful government with iron and blood. This was true of Prussia under Frederick the Great, as well as in the German Empire under Bismarck and Wilhelm II. What Germany is suffering today is the result of the democratic electoral system imposed on Germany by the West; Now that Hitler has smashed these foreign dross to pieces, and it is too late for the German people to cheer for the restoration of the country's strength, where will there be the slightest voice of opposition?

Because of the popular will, Hitler's party-state integration swept away with a tsunami of raging. At the same time, national integration is taking place. For thousands of years, states such as Bavaria and Saxony have maintained their own separate powers, with their own armies, governments, parliaments, and even monarchs, but they are economically subordinate to Prussia, which is absolutely dominant. Even Wilhelm I, who had established an empire in the past years of unification of the German states, failed to destroy the entrenched politics of state independence. In the republican period, although the old aristocracy that ruled these states had been defeated in the revolution, the actual power of these states was still in the hands of the local government, and the Weimar government, which was itself weakly based and crumbling, was unable to touch this area, so the independence of the German states has continued to this day.

However, with Hitler's coming to power, all this no longer existed. Hitler, who held the legislative power, then decreed that the government had the power to appoint state governors, and the state governors had the power to appoint and dismiss local governments, dissolve parliaments, and appoint and remove state officials and judges. The new governors were all National Socialists, and they "must" carry out "the general policy laid down by the Prime Minister". In this way, Hitler accomplished what Bismarck, Wilhelm II and the Weimar Republic had never dared to attempt: he abolished the separate powers of the historic states and brought them under the central power of the state in his own hands, and this was the true unification of Germany!

At the same time, the members of the government's cabinet were fundamentally different from when Hitler became chancellor. Economic Minister Hugenberg, who was a member of the National People's Party, was deposed and replaced by Dr. Schacht, an ardent supporter of Hitler; The post of Minister of National Enlightenment and Propaganda was created, which was filled by Goebbels, a lame Hitler lackey. Hess, deputy leader of the National Socialist Party, and Röhm, commander of the SA, were appointed ministers (ministers who did not have specific jurisdiction over a particular ministry), while the non-partisan ministers of the six ministries, including post, labor, agriculture and food, transportation, justice, and finance, also defected to Hitler's side. Since Goering had been strangled by Fang Yan in advance, the Ministry of Aviation was not established as scheduled in history, but the absence of this one member did not affect the monopoly of the National Socialist Party in the cabinet.

Having established his dictatorship, Hitler was ready to start gearing up. (To be continued.) )