On his return to Austria, Karl Renner had a quick exchange of views with the German ambassador Holwig stationed in Vienna, who was naturally aware of what was happening in Berlin. A referendum is not an easy task, and it usually takes a long time to prepare, setting up stations, arranging staff, and forming committees to maintain the principles of fairness, impartiality, and fairness for elected representatives to oversee. But as the saying goes, things are done urgently, everything has to be done according to the actual situation, and the situation in Austria at this time is already very critical, and the menacing of Italy has also forced the whole of Austria to unite unprecedentedly, and those who originally only had voices but no action began to spread again. The Austrian public began to lose their antipathy to the merger of Germany after the usual small talk and exchange of opinions, and the number of people who accepted this view began to increase again after the news spread from within the government. And those who wavered joined the firm and moral trend.

Late at night on the day of Carl Renner's return, all government agencies across the country had entered a sleepless night, and the efficiency of the staff was also surprisingly high, with documents and quotations from people from all walks of life, lists of supporters, oppositionists, and neutralists all sorted out with the joint efforts of Germany and Austria. Then, as a representative of Germany, Holwig began to make contact with the supporters, to strengthen the existing position of this part of the population, and then to carry out ideological work. It's just that the former prime minister of the Second Empire is obviously not very skilled in ideological work, but fortunately, the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of the Interior have sent people to assist, making his work much easier. The centrists, on the other hand, were mainly at odds with Karl Renner's federal party, and in the case of Austria's own insecurity, these parties had no need to quarrel with Karl Renner, and the advice provided by Holwig also played a key role.

Because there were only three days, it was too rushed, and after winning the support of the majority of the party on the first day, the referendum began on the second day. When the estimated data of the Ministry of National Security and the data given by the Ministry of the Interior are about the same, Holwig still does not dare to take it lightly, because whether Austria can successfully merge with Germany is directly linked to him, and whether Austria can succeed and Germany succeeds, and on the surface he has nothing to do with it, but he must bear the main responsibility for this.

Holwig, who did not dare to relax, continued to lobby the remaining neutrals and neutrals with the cooperative parties, and the figures found were also targeted, and the results were not good at first, but when the referendum on the second day came out, everyone felt that the general trend was coming, and some of them agreed. Holwig was relieved that the group that had finally been persuaded to agree had cast their precious representative votes at the last minute before the end of voting.

At noon the next day, Karl Renner, in concert with the delegates of all walks of life who agreed to the referendum, announced the results of the referendum in Vienna, with 85 percent agreeing, 14 percent neutral, and 1 percent opposing, and then declared the annexation of Austria to Germany.

The day after Austria announced the results of the referendum and officially joined the German Confederation as six states, Holwig appeared from Vienna as a German representative at the Rome Mediation Conference.

Before Holwig appeared, he received a direct order from the president, which taught him to speak to Mussolini, and there was no shortage of words such as leather shoes and craftsmen.

Sure enough, at the meeting, after a few words, Italian Prime Minister Mussolini was sneering at Holwig and officially ended the meeting, which had no hope of reconciliation, by slapping the table and leaving the venue.

German President Eric immediately convened a parliament after receiving the message from Holwig in Rome and invited the media from various countries to attend.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the catastrophe of 1914 is still fresh in our minds, and it is sad that Italy is going to war again at a time when people from all walks of life are reflecting on the suffering caused by the war. And Germany, in line with the idea of serving the people wholeheartedly, reluctantly accepted the proposal of the former Austrian Chancellor Karl Renner to let the Austrian referendum, and the results were also public! Fair! Fair! Eric was standing in the middle of the Capitol Hall, surrounded by media crews, and it would be a historic moment for the press to make a lifetime of money.

Eric said righteously: "Germany is peace-loving!" We are also reflecting on the grief of the last war, so Ambassador Holwig participated in the Peace Assembly in Rome on my behalf in a spirit of not wanting to provoke a war. But the Italian government relied on its strength to forcibly deprive the people of what was now German territory of their personal property and refused to return it! In the face of such bandits, Germany was not afraid to go to war, even if it did not want to go to war! ”

Eric's words touched the hearts of some peaceful people and supporters who agreed with the sanctity of personal property, and they applauded Eric, even many members of the media.

"In the Confederation of Germany, in the spirit of absolute freedom, I, the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Eric Adriant, hereby initiate a ballot on the issue of a declaration of war by Germany against Italy. 90% of the votes will pass, less than 90% will be considered unpassed. If this vote does not pass, Germany will have to be forced to accept the fact that Italy now occupies German territory. Eric then left the podium with both hands and bowed deeply to his surroundings.

"The president played this trick wonderfully, and it was wonderful." In a corner of the Capitol, Max and Hoffman are sitting together, and it is Max who is speaking.

"It's a mess to play with someone else." Max said with a little pride.

After Eric's speech, the rotating chair stood up and announced, "Voting begins." Hesse. ”

The representative of Hesse immediately stood up and raised his fist and shouted: "Agreed! ”

"Mozeland."

"Agreed!"

"Rhineland."

"Agreed!"

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"Tartu."

"Agreed!"

Tartu was the last state to vote, and the vote was passed in a way that did not need to be counted at all, and the rotating president only invited the members of the Supervisory Committee to sign the following and then invited the representatives of the states to come up and sign.

Eventually, the chairman-in-office got a three-page list of signatures and handed it to Eric.

After getting this voting instrument, Eric saw that the approval rate on it was 100%, followed by the congressional approval: unanimously approved, agreeing to Germany and Italy to go to war.

Eric put the paperwork on the podium and spoke into the microphone: "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for taking so much importance to the sacrosanct territory of Germany, and I hereby declare that Germany is at war against Italy. ”

Whoa—

With Eric's announcement, no matter who was in the scene, they were infected by this atmosphere and applauded with their free hands.

And the German people, who had been waiting outside the Reichstag for the results, were standing in a dense crowd, their eyes fixed on the door.

Immediately followed by interviews with the media from all walks of life, Erik, who stepped out with the cabinet in the crowd, shouted loudly to the Germans waiting outside, raised the paperwork in his hand: "Go to war!" Justice for Germany and ours! ”

The heavy shouts like a mountain pierced the sky over the whole Berlin for a while, this is Germany, this is the Germany that Eric wants, the sword is pointing, its profit is gold, and it is invincible!