At the beginning of July, the three major German newspapers, the Berlin Morning Post, the Berliner Zeitung, and the Berlin Local Newsletter, began to publish a number of strange articles that seemed strange to ordinary Germans, mainly about the clash between Eastern and Western cultures, and the role that Germany should play in economic, cultural, military, and political exchanges between East and West.

In particular, three cheap newspapers, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, and Bild, which have just recently emerged in Germany, have triggered a more lively and direct discussion of Germany's role in German-Qingdao relations and German-Japanese relations, and in light of the possible diplomatic trends in East Asia, which have triggered a great discussion on Germany's overall foreign and security policy.

In fact, only a handful of people understand the secret relationship between these three cheap newspapers, which have just emerged recently, and the Crown Princess Victoria Foundation in particular. The creation of the three newspapers was actually established by Joey over a period of nearly two months after receiving a huge grant in April, through multiple trust funds and a series of trusteeship, escrow and so on.

At the beginning of the establishment of these three newspapers, Joy gave them a clear positioning, "Die Welt" paid attention to the wide range of information sources and concise words, paid attention to international news, emphasized professionalism and authority, mainly faced the upper elite in Germany, the style of the newspaper was right-leaning, conservative, and focused on authoritative reporting of the German royal family and government.

Even at the instigation of Joey, the capitalists of the emerging German bourgeoisie used Die Welt as their base and base camp to propagate bourgeois ideas and morals, which was inevitably mixed with a great deal of propaganda for German Protestant views.

It is the same as the purpose of Joey's newspaper Le Monde in his previous life.

Der Spiegel, on the other hand, focuses on social phenomena, government policies and the livelihood of ordinary Germans. The newspaper is clearly left-leaning and emphasizes social change, and has been loved and supported by the general public in Germany since its launch.

Because of these characteristics of the newspaper, it attracted a large number of contributions from social democrats. In particular, the column opened by Professor Mach and his supporters in Der Spiegel, through a reinterpretation of social democracy, has made many middle- and low-level people in Germany realize that it is possible to achieve the life they want through social change, not revolution.

And "Bild", like Joey's pre-intellectual style, is best at breaking news, gossiping and hunting, if the first two newspapers are elegant, then "Bild" is completely vulgar, vulgar and unbearable.

But this vulgarity captures the innate curiosity in human nature, and the biggest feature of "Bild" is that it has pictures and truths, and the ratio of photos and illustrations is greater than the proportion of words.

"Bild" does not talk about politics much, but pays attention to the vulgar position, and treats everything from the perspective of vulgar economics and vulgar political science, and is completely a picture of serving and speaking for the small citizens, low-level civil servants, and small white-collar workers in the city.

Unlike the three major newspapers in Berlin, which are more academic and theoretical, the three newspapers that Joy secretly supports pay more attention to the actual situation in Europe and Germany on the basis of facts.

In layman's terms, everything is evaluated from the point of view of pragmatism and opportunism, and by the criterion of whether it is beneficial to the German people or not, and any policy, guideline and action issued by the German government and parliament.

For example, the entry point of "Le Monde" on German-Qing relations is to start from Bismarck's theory of continental alliance diplomacy and the theory of continental balance of power, and propose that the world should not be just five balls (the top five in Europe), but should be seven balls, and in addition to the top five in Europe, the United States and the Asian power should also be added.

He also concluded that German diplomacy should look at the whole world, not be confined to one place in Europe, and should develop the German continental alliance into a world alliance.

The competition between Germany and the great powers should be a competition of interests between countries, especially the economic interests related to Germany's development, and it should also focus on the whole world.

In terms of the way of competition between each other, "Die Welt" proposed peaceful competition, fair competition, and the iron-blooded spirit of "Made in Germany" and the Germans never give up to make friends, and directly shouted in the newspaper that German diplomacy should uphold the Protestant principle of equality of all people, and that German diplomacy should treat all countries equally, regardless of whether the country is big or small, strong or weak.

In the German-Qingdao relationship, "Die Welt" put forward a new proposition: in the face of the well-being of the German people, should the government's diplomatic posture become softer, if only one sentence of "sorry" can be exchanged for huge orders from German industry and German employment, then the government says sorry to the governments of other countries, does this damage face?

In the selection of the first power in Asia, "Le Monde" did not give a specific name of the country, but gave a detailed and detailed introduction to the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty and the ongoing Meiji Restoration in Japan. Among the Qing and Japan, the question of who is the strongest is left to the readers.

In a multi-day serialization in Le Monde, a reader wrote directly to ask why Asia can only be one power, but not two powers.

For such a tricky question, Joey, who uses the pseudonym "Le Monde" to catch the knife, is very troublesome, whether Asia can stand side by side, this is indeed a good question.

Der Spiegel's commentary on the German-Qing relationship is from the perspective of German social and industrial workers, and a series of articles in Der Spiegel directly represent the interests of the working class to raise the question: if the German government obtains huge orders from the Qing Dynasty, then which local and which factories should produce these government orders? What will be the wages and benefits of workers?

Even Der Spiegel bluntly stated in the newspaper that some German factories should not receive government orders because the wages and benefits are too low and there are no basic labor protections for workers.

This practice, which suited the reality of the workers and shouted for their working conditions and working conditions, immediately gained great favor among the working class, and made Der Spiegel surpass the newspaper of many Social Democratic sympathizers and become the favorite newspaper of the working class.

On the issue of German diplomacy, "Der Spiegel" has taken a bigger step, claiming that according to the Christian principle of salvation, German diplomacy should be people-oriented, sympathetic to the weak, as an emerging European power, should abandon the traditional diplomatic method of simply showing off force without a sense of knightly justice, and hope that Germany's diplomacy will be based on safeguarding world peace, justice and justice.

In terms of apology to the Qing Dynasty, the editor's note of "Der Spiegel" claims that as a representative of the new European civilization, he can apologize for the harm caused to the Eastern civilization by the traditional forces of Europe.

The bold and outspoken "Der Spiegel" successfully attracted the attention of those advocates of humanism and humanism in Europe and the United States from London, England to Berlin, Germany. Internationally, Berlin is well positioned to become the center of new ideas in Europe.

At home, in the German Reichstag, many politicians were keenly aware of the value of "Der Spiegel" and began to write articles in "Der Spiegel", asking the government to put these government orders in factories that treated workers well on the basis of comprehensive consideration of the actual situation of factories in various parts of Germany, combined with the voice of workers.

It must be admitted that the speculation of these politicians was immediately embraced by the German industrial working class, and the most direct manifestation of this is that several politicians won seats in the Reichstag by virtue of this round of political speculation.

Crown Prince Frederick also took advantage of the public opinion propaganda of "Der Spiegel" to issue a statement from the Ministry of Economy, announcing that all orders from the German government will give priority to the social welfare of German factories, and only those factories that meet the social welfare standards and are entered into the government procurement directory can obtain huge government orders, and the government will go to these enterprises every quarter to do social responsibility audits.

In the face of huge government orders and huge profits, the motivation of entrepreneurs to rectify is amazing, and the German steel giants, chemical giants, manufacturing giants, and electrical giants have issued statements listing the timetable for improvement in response to the call of Crown Prince Frederick and the German government.

Der Spiegel's style of focusing on investigations, focusing on serious social issues, and daring to directly attack social ills quickly aroused tremendous repercussions in Germany, in which Crown Prince Frederick personally visited the editorial office of Der Spiegel in Berlin and directly praised Der Spiegel as "the bastion of freedom and democracy in Germany."

The vulgar "Bild" is still so vulgar that it does not even introduce a simple Qing customs and customs, but directly lists the possible trade fields between Germany and Qingdao in the form of pictures in the newspaper, which is full of copper smell inside and out.

According to the demographic statistics made by Bild, the population of the Qing Dynasty is nearly 400 million, and if these 400 million people demand German industrial products, it means that Germany has a population of 46 million, and each German has to serve eight Qing people..... At present, the known trade orders between Deqing and Qingdao are nearly 80 million marks, and the unannounced orders are said to be hundreds of millions....

The editors of the newspaper Bild, with some exaggeration, said that from their reliable grapevine, the trade between Germany and Qingdao was not a one-shot deal, but a long-term trade agreement between the two countries.

Bild proudly believed that from the summer of 1879 onwards, there would likely be a labor shortage in Germany, and the unemployment rate in Germany would hit a record low of less than 1%! Industrial output will also be the highest since the establishment of the German Empire.

Of course, in its final editorial, Bild attributed all this to the wise leadership of Wilhelm I, the genius of Crown Prince Frederick, and the hard work of the "Minister of Peace" Lord Bismarck, whose words were so numb that even those with a thick skin as Joey found it unbearable.

In Germany, under the bombardment of left-center-right, elegant and vulgar media, the whole country has unified its understanding that as long as it is beneficial to the Germans, apologize and apologize!

However, the other European powers did not see it that way, and a battle of public opinion and diplomacy over how Western civilization would determine its position in front of the backward Eastern civilization was about to begin.