Fortunate? August was not a lucky month for William, because he did not feel the happiness of the August holiday at all, of course, this does not include the sweetness of love with Elizabeth.

William's unhappiness also has to start with the residence of Count Kleist of Pomerania at 51 Avenue de France in Berlin.

The political salon "Opposing Armed Interference in Chile's Internal Affairs and Maintaining Peace in South America," which is already quite famous in Berlin's political circles and newspaper media, is being held here.

A large group of journalists, fearing that there would be no big news if there was no chaos in the world, were huddled together in a small living room on the first floor with ultra-leftist socialists who also opposed imperialist aggression against other countries.

Warm.... Agitated? Or use a hoarse cry to accurately describe the atmosphere in the living room.

"Against the war! Against aggression! ”

"We can't impose an evil war on the peace-loving Peruvians and Bolivians!"

"The affairs of the South Americans should be handed over to the South Americans, against interference, against power!"

"The proletariat of the whole world is one, unite, down with imperialism, down with the capitalists!"

"Great compatriots of the proletariat, unite! No to exploitation, no to oppression! ”

.......

The plainclothes policemen of the Berlin Police Station at 51 Avenue de France, and the agents of the Berlin Ministry of the Interior, watched in amazement at everything in front of them, and the left-wing extreme socialists jumped in the middle of the meeting hall shouting anti-war and anti-oppression slogans, surrounded by a large group of Berlin and even foreign journalists, taking pictures with their lives.

Plainclothes policemen and secret agents disguised as reporters kept inhaling with their mouths open, and at the same time struggled to write down the names of Count Ewald von Kleist of Pomerania, Baron Ernst von Meyer of Saxony, Baron Friedrich von Auerbach of Bavaria, and a certain Junker of Hanover, Brandenburg, Thuringia, and Posen at 51 Avenue de France.

Even if you are well-informed, who can believe that these big Junkers are actually supporters of those ultra-socialists who are wanted by the German government, and the big Junkers of Prussia have begun to openly violate German law....

Their superiors or leaders will never believe their reports, but what does it matter, tomorrow morning in the major newspapers in Berlin, there will be photos to corroborate their information.

In stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the living room on the first floor, the quiet conference room on the second floor, where there seemed to be more people crowded in than the living room downstairs, and the Junker aristocracy, who usually paid great attention to physical distance between people, piled up in the conference room like a school of crowded sardines.

The smell of precious perfume mixed with the strange smell of sweat, body odor and fox odor kept circling in the meeting room with closed windows and doors, but everyone kept their mouths closed, controlled their breathing, and was silent as if it were empty.

Several able-bodied servants of Count Kleist's family were blocking the stairs leading to the second floor, struggling to block the reporters who were trying to rush to the second floor to interview the Land Junkers.

The extreme noise in front of them and the extreme silence behind them made these servants wonder in their hearts, "In that small conference room, is there any secret passage that no one knows, otherwise how can you stuff it in, so many noble masters?" ”

It was like a moment, the smell of perfume and sweat in the air, all of which could not resist a foul smell that came out of nowhere, and this stench finally pushed the suffocating pressure in the conference room to the extreme.

"Who?! Who the fuck fart! With this whispered scolding, the fragile balance was finally broken, and everything had an outlet for catharsis.

"Isn't it you, son of a bitch Ernst!"

"Fart, how could it be me, I think it was that idiot from Wolfgang!"

"Shameless bastard, this smell can only be released by you, a country farmer from Posen!"

"Posen is a countryman?! You bastard from a Hanover bed warmer! ”

"Don't push me, you fox-smelling Saxon!"

"Don't get in my way, you're going to smash that North Prussian idiot's head! ，”

.......

The sudden outbreak of cursing and quarrels finally made the attendants guarding the stairs secretly breathe a sigh of relief, sure enough, there was no secret room, and the nobles were really in the room.

It's just that the aristocratic lords' ability to scold people is not at all more elegant and noble than their own subordinates.

"Boom!" With a bang, the oak door was squeezed open from the inside, and a large group of Junkers, covering their noses with one hand and pushing each other with the other, cursed, swarmed out of it.

In the eyes of a squire from the Brandenburg countryside, they looked like a group of stinking pigs, screaming at each other after the pigsty was opened.

Several pairs, Juncker old men, who have long been disagreeable to each other, began to wave their fists with an attitude of being able to do their hands and never be verbose, this kind of rare spectacle on weekdays, so that the reporters on the stairs are like sharks smelling blood, fluttering, struggling, desperately rushing to the second floor, and must show everything in front of them to the readers of Berlin in detail and detail.

"That's enough, stop it!" The owner of the house, Count Kleist, waved his arms and shouted hoarsely, "Charlie, Bolt and you, go get the reporters out of the house for me, and get the damned socialists out of the house!" ”

"If you don't get out, notify the Berlin Police Department!" Count Kleist couldn't help it, and after a word of advice to the servants, he rushed into the Junker masters, who had already been beaten into a mess, and desperately pulled each nobleman apart one by one.

Count Kleist can stop the fight, but he can't control the mouths of the Junkers, since everyone lives on the land farm, the Junkers naturally have a hardness to admit defeat.

Immediately the finger was pointed at Count Kleist, "I say Ewald, since my ancestors my family has been at odds with the socialists, you summoned us to talk about investing in Peru and Bolivia, why do you have my rival socialists in your family, and there are also journalists from Berlin!" ”

"Do you want Lao Tzu and the damned group of socialists to be in the headlines of the Berlin newspapers tomorrow?!"

"From your ancestors? I say August, that heresy is only a few decades old, and your ancestors have been dead for hundreds of years! The other fellow, who had suffered a loss in what he had just done, immediately sneered at the previous nobleman.

"You haven't been beaten enough, have you? Lower Saxons who can only cry! Juncker, named August, raised his fist again.

"Who is afraid of you, dare not duel, you damned Posen countryman!"

Seeing that the situation that had just calmed down was about to collapse again, Count Kleist jumped to his feet in a hurry and shouted desperately, "Shut up, damn it, shut up for me!" ”

"Listen to me, it's not my idea to find socialists and journalists, it's all Friedrich, Baron Friedrich von Auerbach from Bavaria!"

"What do you mean by that, Ewald!" The tall and stout Baron Auerbach casually pushed away the person in front of him and crashed in from the corner.

"My dear, Count Kleist from Danzig, Pomerania, what do you mean by this, that you are ready to put all the blame for today's farce on me?!" Baron Auerbach, who stood in front of Count Kleist, stared fiercely at his allies with the size of Count Kleist, who was more than half his body.

"Everyone!" Baron Auerbach raised his hand, "Everyone, please be quiet, please listen to me!" ”

"I'm worried that someone won't know me yet, so I'll introduce myself again. I, Baron Friedrich von Auerbach from Bavaria, am also the executive director of the so-called group for the opposition to armed interference in Chile's internal affairs and the preservation of peace in South America, as well as the voting managing director of the Iron Valley Alliance. ”

"Today's reporters and the group of socialists I don't like are indeed what I found!" As soon as Baron Auerbach said this, a huge boo immediately rang out in the crowd.

"Gentlemen, I will not deny my deeds, it is indeed what I did." Auerbach put on a straight face and said solemnly, "Gentlemen, respected gentlemen, as the failed investors of Peru and Bolivia, don't you want to know the hidden story behind this?!" ”

This sentence immediately quieted down the people present.

After glancing at Baron Kleist, whose eyes were already on fire, Baron Auerbach said in a loud voice, "This is so that you can resist Crown Prince Frederick's issuance of military bonds and drive down the price." ”

"Him!" Auerbach pointed to Count Kleist, "Sweep the goods at a low price to make up for the failure of his own investment." ”

"Boom!" Discussion erupted.

Everyone present knew that Crown Prince Frederick had just launched a military bond related to Chile, and those of them who invested in Peru and Bolivia gathered together today for the sake of military bonds.

After discussions with his wise and good friend Sir Gruson, and his own economic team, Crown Prince Frederick agreed with Joy's view that Chile's affairs were still to be settled with Chilean resources, and that the funds from the Qing Dynasty, France, and Japan for the purchase of government bonds, reparations, and peace guarantees, in addition to compensating the Imperial Navy for its outstanding performance, remained in Germany to continue to develop the economy.

Under the nineteenth-century gold standard, in order to vigorously promote his New Economic Policy, Crown Prince Frederick had to ensure that enough money was invested in the German economy, and the more money was put into the economy, the better the economic stimulus effect.

The most important thing is that there is no need to worry about the economic inflation caused by the oversupply of paper money in the future.

With money in his pocket, Crown Prince Frederick naturally had greater confidence to negotiate better and more favorable borrowing plans with German bank capitalists. Thanks to Crown Prince Frederick's huge influence among Jews and liberals, after all, the financial industry of the whole of Europe is dominated by Jews and economic liberals, and in just three days, they subscribed to Crown Prince Frederick's military bonds of 1 million German gold marks.

The bonds of 1 million German gold marks raised by Crown Prince Frederick from the German banking industry are only primary market bonds, and as shrewd bank capitalists, they naturally want to pass on risks and seek profits, and naturally, these bonds have entered the secondary bond circulation market.

It is very different from two months ago, everyone is now starting to be optimistic, Chile, which is backed by Germany, plus the interest rate of the three-year military bond, which is higher than the previous government bonds, just like the French government came forward to guarantee the issuance of bonds, and all those who like to eat money and interest are immediately sought after this military bond.

Quite normally, in the secondary bond market, the price of military bonds related to Chile naturally rose, and the emerging bankers of Judea and Germany, within two days, even withdrew their investment in Crown Prince Frederick.

The bankers, having tasted the sweetness, began to encourage Crown Prince Frederick to issue another military bond, a larger amount, and a faster pace, such as a 5 million gold marks.

But the intervention in Chile itself was a small-scale war, you must know that the Prussian-Danish War was only a silver coin of 5 million thalers of the Prussian government, and no one believed that the fighting power of the Peruvian and Bolivian federal armies could be compared to the combined forces of Denmark and Austria.

It doesn't matter if it's comparable or not, isn't everyone waiting to make money.....

The guys who support Crown Prince Frederick need to make money, and those who oppose Crown Prince Frederick also need to make money, so the military bonds issued by Prince Frederick have also become the prey that Count Kleist wants to make money.

If you can't get the primary bonds, then you will make waves in the secondary bond market, use all means to suppress the price of military bonds in the secondary bond market, and organize the Junkers to resist the purchase, which is an overt way to call the ultra-leftist socialists to protest, and it is also a secret approach.

Whether it was Juncker or the socialists, they were all pawns in the hands of Count Kleist, which had been planned for a long time.

It's just that today, Baron Auerbach, who is responsible for operating and organizing the ultra-left socialists, has put together the time of the Junkers' meetings with the time of the gathering of the ultra-left socialists, which is not so coincidental, or inadvertent, or purposeful, and together with the large number of Berlin journalists, there is such a farce as today.

But such a farce broke Count Kleist's scheme.

Baron Auerbach said that the first result of Count Kleist's plot was that the anti-intellectual alliance was completely divided, and no one believed in the Count's reputation anymore, except for Count Kleist's small circle.

Fame is the life of an upright nobleman. ，

The second result was to reinforce the credibility of the military bonds issued by Crown Prince Frederick.

Reputable, interest-bearing bonds are naturally big sellers.

The third result was that Baron Auerbach bought a large amount of Chile-related first-class military bonds from a secret channel, and made a lot of money.

In the end, it was the "gray cardinal" Holstein, who hid in the shadow of the house at 51 Avenue de France, who lost confidence in the ability of this group of Junkers.

"After all, we still have to pin our hopes on him."