The car slowly entered the city of Cologne along Route 8, but the entire city was almost gone, leaving only a few lonely buildings standing in the rubble.

Ninety percent of the buildings and roads were destroyed by Allied bombing, and hundreds of thousands of Germans were left to live in the rubble, carrying the debris with their own hands.

Both sides of the road were piled with all kinds of cement and sand, as well as cleared bricks. Where it is a little flat, there are pieces of shacks, and the roofs are all patched together with waste wooden planks, which does not have much rainproof effect at all.

Only on the other side of the river stands prominently the Cologne Cathedral, which was preserved as a result of a strong Catholic protest and which was once the central landmark of Cologne, but is now more prominent.

As the car passed through the culvert under the railway bridge, it slowed down. Because it is a natural haven, it has become a shelter for many refugees.

Dense sheets occupy the road on both sides of the road, and each family has only one bed space, and pots and pans are all placed on the road in the middle of the road.

There were no houses, no food, not even wood to make a fire. The men were cleaning up the rubble, and the women had to run dozens of kilometers to the coal mine to carry some cinders to make a fire. The children lived in the coal pile every day, and it was pitch black all over their bodies.

This is how most Germans live.

Now it's good because it's summer, but if the new houses can't be built before the winter, and the heating can't be restored, I don't know how many people will die in the cold.

The driver carefully avoided the children running around, and forced his eyes to look ahead, not looking at the black and thin palms stretched out by the trembling old men.

He is not in a position to help them, and he has a large group of relatives to feed at home. The price of food is high now, and even if Mr. Hoffman pays him well, he can only feed his family.

Yannick and Helde kept their heads down from the begging gazes, oblivious to the hand reaching through the window. It's not that they're ruthless, it's that they really can't help it.

Now there are 400,000 people in Cologne who are living in dire straits, and they can save a few of them even if they take out all their money!

The only thing they could do was to help these people get more supplies from the British, to add more jobs, so that more people could live.

Out of the bottom of the bridge, Yannick looked up and said, "Held, I've thought about it for a long time, and I still think that Jonas needs you more than I do now. I can find a lot of helpers here, but in Switzerland, Jonas doesn't have a real helper of his own, so I want you to go to Switzerland to help him. ”

Helde and Yannick had been together for several years, and there was no need for any more probing.

On this issue, Helder had already considered this possibility. To be honest, being able to take his family to stable Switzerland at this time is also what Helder has always longed for.

But this matter can only be brought up by Yannick, and if he wants to take the initiative to ask for it, then don't think that Yannick will continue to trust himself.

Hearing Yannick's words, Helde deliberately showed some concern and said, "If I leave, there will be no trustworthy people around you now." ”

Yannick's eyes looked out the car window and said, "Is there still a shortage of talent in Germany today?" But Jonas is in Switzerland and needs someone he can trust to help him manage his assets, and I trust you the most. ”

Halder stopped pretending to be embarrassed at this time, nodded and said, "If this is your decision, I will follow your instructions." ”

Here in Yannick, he will always be just an assistant, because all the power of business is controlled by Yannick.

But when it came to Jonas, he was a man with no interest in business, and now he was focusing on the cultural sphere. If he went, not only would his family's life be better, but the management of so many assets in Jonas's name would be in his hands.

Unbeknownst to Jonas, Jonas already had a lot of assets to his name.

During his time in Switzerland, he and Yannick not only helped Jonas set up an asset investment company, but also invested most of Yannick's properties in the name of this company.

According to their registration and legal procedures, Jonas has been able to take half of the Hoffmann family's assets by providing more than 5 million Swiss francs.

By waiting for the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the British occupation junta to agree to the investment, Jonas became a foreign businessman with a large amount of money.

Will the British object? Of course not, they want more foreign investment in Germany now.

So, the short company under the name of Jonas, those funds will become high-quality assets.

Listening to his answer, Yannick nodded and said: "I will find a relationship to get the British to agree to your immigration, you only need to go to Switzerland first, and the immigration matter can be done slowly." ”

"But I want to wait until this business plan is completed before I go to Switzerland," says Holder. ”

Yannick laughed. Of course, Jonas's investment still needs to be registered with the Swiss government. After the whole investment plan, we will all have to travel to Switzerland together, and you will stay in Switzerland to help Jonas. ”

After crossing the Rhine, we came to the old town of Cologne. It's slightly better than the east coast, but it's only a limited good, with collapsed ruins everywhere and only roads cleared.

The car stopped at the door of an ordinary house that was still relatively intact, and the driver turned around and said, "Sir, we have arrived." ”

Yannick nodded, lifted the file box at his feet, pushed the door and got out of the car. Helde also lifted his suitcase, got out of the car from the other side, and followed Yannick.

There were a lot of people coming in and out of the house, most of whom knew Yannick, and Yannick kept greeting them.

In the living room on the first floor, a large group of people were listening to the speech of a sturdy old man with gray hair on the stage, and bursts of applause rang out from time to time.

Yannick and Hyrd also stood at the back of the crowd, listening to the old man talk about the importance of propaganda to the partisans. The old man, who was too young, also saw him and nodded to him, but did not interrupt his speech.

Yannick looked at the familiar figure of the old man, but he was thinking about the great achievements of the old man that Jonas had said about the future. Who would have thought that this seventy-one-year-old man would have such high achievements in the future.

Originally, he still looked down on this newly established party, let alone imagined that this newly established party would firmly control German politics in the future.

As the old man's speech ended, the hall began to be noisy, and the people in the audience were assigned tasks one by one, and they all went out in good spirits.

The old man whispered a few words to a few middle-aged people, and then made his way through the crowd and came to Yannick. "Yannick, is the fundraising going to Switzerland going well?"

"Yes, Mr. Adenauer...... It seems too noisy here, so let's find a quiet place to talk. ”

He nodded and said, "Then you go to the reception room first, and I'll come later." Elena, Elena, pour Mr. Hoffman two glasses of water. ”

The reception room was simply furnished, with only a long table and ten wooden benches on either side, not even a sofa.

Elena brought just plain cold water, no tea, and no coffee.

Yannick and the others waited for a short time, and Adenauer walked in, and before he could sit down, he said: "Yannick, since you went to Switzerland to raise money smoothly, I can only speak to you again, and now there are too many places to use money. ”

Yannick nodded and said, "I'm here for this today, and my fundraising in Switzerland is going very well this time, so maybe my sponsorship will be more than you think." ”

Adenauer, who had just sat down, stood up again, looked down at Yannick and asked, "How much?" Can there be 10,000 dollars? ”

"Don't worry, Mr. Adenauer, I can guarantee more than ten thousand dollars, and there are even bigger surprises."

Adenauer breathed a sigh of relief and sat back on his stool. "I never imagined that when I was seventy-one years old, I would wake up every morning and worry about money. Until now, we didn't even have the funds to start a tabloid. Limited resources should be used where it matters most, and if I could exchange this old bone for money, I would not hesitate to change it. ”

Yannick laughed, "But now you are the hope of our German future, and no one can afford you." ”

Yannick meant what he said, but Adenauer and Helder thought it was flattery. However, Yannick certainly does not explain the reason for this, and he thinks more about how to use Adenauer's influence to help more people.

Adenauer shook his head self-deprecatingly, and said, "But I want to sell this old bone to the British, but they won't ask for it." ”

After the end of the Second World War, Adenauer was appointed mayor of Cologne. However, the British later thought that his prestige was too high, and they were afraid that if he integrated the Germans, he would be able to confront the British, so they ousted him from power in less than three months.

Adenauer only formed the current party, the CDU, but in the early days of the CDU, due to lack of money, everything was going very slowly, and it is only a little famous in Cologne.

"That's the weakness of the British, not yours, Monsieur Adenauer. I am looking for you for three purposes, one is to contribute to the development of the CDU, the second is to officially join the CDU, and the third is to integrate the forces of the CDU and provide more help to the citizens of Cologne. ”

Adenauer was even more interested, asking, "How to integrate?" How can we help? ”

Obviously, Yannick's participation in their party, including donations, is less important than this.

"My idea was that I would provide the funds and then use the CDU to contact more entrepreneurs to negotiate with the British people for better conditions to get back to work. As long as the workers have work to do and food to eat, society will naturally be more stable. ”