.“ That fat man......"

The Kaiser's words did startle the people around him, especially his attendant Mattheissander and the several staff generals who accompanied him, who had never heard the Kaiser call such an indecent person, a man with whom he had just been confronted. From this point of view alone, the Kaiser's current mood is not ordinarily bad.

Hearing the summons of the Emperor, the owner of the hotel, the "fat man" in Chentian's mouth, walked in quickly, it seemed that he thought that His Majesty the Emperor was dissatisfied with the dishes, so he said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I'm really sorry, under the rush of time, the preparation of our store is really not good, please forgive Your Majesty!" If Your Majesty has anything else to eat, I'll tell the kitchen to do it!" ”

"What's your name?" Chen Tian asked him in a loud voice.

"That fat man" was stunned for a few seconds, "Back to Your Majesty, my name is Augusthorst von Fasen!" ”

"Then from today onwards, your name is August Horstfasen!" Chen Tian looked at this fat man extremely indifferently.

"Your Majesty......" The guy named Horst was stunned. The Kaiser's body began to tremble under the majesty of the Kaiser, but he still did not understand what had angered the noble king.

"Want to know why?" Chen Tian looked at him extremely indifferently.

"Don't think that because you speak aristocratic German fluently, you're noble! Hum! I don't see the slightest trace of the Germans in you! We Germans—"

Chen Tian turned his gaze to the naval officers at the door, and the words that followed were obviously to them.

"We, the Germans, will never forget the teachings of our ancestors!"

At this time, every German, or more precisely every German, including the accompanying officers, the Egyptian governor, and some of the staff of the hotel, heard this with their chests held high. The title "We Germans" seems to be a charm that makes each of them unable to "extricate themselves".

"Loyalty! Probity! Industrious! Punctual! Chen Tian said one word at a time. The tone was aggravated, until the end of the sentence was said in a high tone: "And the most important virtue - frugality!" ”

The whole hall was now completely immersed in the few words that the Kaiser had inscribed, no one moved, no one spoke, and all eyes were focused on the German Emperor who wore a gray military hat with a flat top and a short brimmed cloth, a pale gray field marshal uniform in his spring suit, a Grand Cross and two Iron Crosses of the First Class, a black, white and red saber ribbon, and a pair of short black leather boots of the rank of an army general.

Chen Tian then turned his gaze back to the hotel owner in front of him, and his tone was still so stern:

"You, August Horstefasen, are trying to confuse the soldiers of my German Empire with luxury and erosive enjoyment. Trying to make them forget the foundations of the German Empire! You are truly unforgivable! ”

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, I know that I was wrong, please forgive Your Majesty! You see, this hotel turned out to be the British Governor's Palace, and I only ...... it slightly" Horst was about to argue something, but was interrupted by Chentian.

"No need to explain! Governor! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" General Werner hurriedly walked up to Chentian, his mind was slightly sweating, and he was also nervous, after all, this hotel was open under his nose, if the Kaiser knew that he frequented this place and did not pay for meals. I'm afraid that even myself will be implicated.

Seeing General Werner's expression. Chen Tian already understood one or two things in his heart, but he didn't intend to mess up the Egyptian management too much, just give these guys a stern warning this time.

"Mr. August Horstefassen is allowed to leave Egypt with his family and belongings within three days. The hotel was confiscated and then converted into a museum, and the words I say today are hung in the most prominent place in large letters! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor!" Werner replied loudly that as long as the Emperor stopped holding himself accountable, he would be willing to do it.

And the innocent and unlucky Horst was miserable, he wanted to make his hotel famous by entertaining the Kaiser, but he did not expect to anger the ruler who was known for his severity and wisdom, since he was caught on the spot, it was impossible to avoid this punishment through connections, and the only way to do this is to drag his family and move abroad.

"Squire officer!" Chentian's tone was much calmer. After "killing one", he obviously has to implement the measure of "doing hundreds".

"Yes, Your Majesty, what do you command?" Mattheis glanced at Horst, who was still trembling, with disdain, and then respectfully came to Chentian's side.

"Today's events will be issued to the whole army and the whole country as an important proclamation, requiring every soldier and citizen of the German Empire, regardless of status and identity, to conduct self-examination and introspection, and at no time can anyone forget the warning left to us by our ancestors: thrift can rejuvenate the country, and extravagance leads to the destruction of the country!"

After saying this, Chen Tian turned and walked to the side of the gate and stopped about ten paces away from the officers. These naval officers are obviously clear about what happened just now. At this time, everyone's eyes were full of reverence for the Kaiser.

"Boys!" Chen Tian said in a loud and impassioned voice, "We may be hungry today, are you willing?" ”

"Yes!" The shouts of the crowd in unison were especially loud in this luxurious hall.

Chen Tian looked at this group of energetic officers with satisfaction, "Very good, everyone pay attention...... Attention! Turn right, aim for the pyramid, board the car, go! ”

Snapping upright, brushing the ground and turning around, walking out of the hall in a hurry, neat military appearance, majestic expression, people saw the reason for Germany's strength at this moment.

Chen Tian turned around and motioned for the governor to come to him.

"Prepare us a hundred and fifty army marching meals, I don't want you to go hungry to visit the pyramids!"

"Yes!" The Governor replied with a look of reverence.

As a result, before visiting the pyramids, everyone and others had a marching lunch of bread, grilled sausages, and vegetable soup in front of the Sphinx, which was nothing compared to the ones on the table at the Brandenburg Grand Hotel, but Chen Tian and his officers ate with great relish, and even the governor General Werner and several Egyptian guides joined in.

The simple but fulfilling lunch ended in half an hour, during which the two accompanying photographers captured these precious images with their cameras and shortly afterwards edited a special edition for the whole army, the most famous of which was a group photo of the Kaiser and the officers in front of the Sphinx. Everyone in the photo was smiling so brightly that even the incomparably majestic Kaiser showed a rare smile.

After more than two hours of pleasant tour, Chen Tian took the officers to bid farewell to the tall Pyramid of Khufu and the sphinx with a missing nose and embarked on the way home, singing along the way, from the navy's war songs to Bavarian folk songs, the officers sang in unison one after another, and all the depressed, worried, irritable and unhappy emotions in people's hearts were vented at this moment.

The convoy returned to the port of Suez before dark, and waited for them to return to the battleship. The people who stayed on the ship were surprised to find that their mental outlook had changed so much from before they left the ship, and when a group of officers stood together, one could even easily identify which ones had participated in the tour, because each of them had a happy expression on their faces.

Of course, while the officers and men were still relieving how approachable and amiable His Majesty the Emperor was, a propaganda offensive was brewing to promote frugality among the whole people.

A week later, on May 25, the German government's Germain newspaper, with a daily circulation of more than 5 million copies, first published the Kaiser's visit to Cairo and the famous "Brandenburg Hotel Incident" on the full page, and cited the frugal life of generations of Prussian monarchs, German emperors and ministers, and exaggerated the five-word national motto of Kaiser Wilhelm III: frugality, loyalty, honesty, diligence, and punctuality!

Subsequently, dozens of newspapers and magazines, such as the Berlin Zeitung, the Berlin Morning Post, the Berlin Local News, the Hamburg News, and the Pan-German Zeitung, which were influential in Germany, published the "Brandenburg Hotel Incident" and the five-word national motto of Kaiser Wilhelm III. And published a variety of supportive and advocacy articles. Klaas, author of "If I Were the Emperor" and "Saving the German Empire from Destruction". Eisenhardt, the author of "Germany is Awakening" and "The Imminent World War", as well as a large number of writers who had advocated war before the war, wrote articles on this historic event and national motto.

For a time, the "Brandenburg Grand Hotel Incident" was known to everyone in Germany. The five-word national motto can be recited even by three-year-old children. After that, the German royal family first announced that it would cut its spending and use the saved funds for army building, and then Chancellor Batemann and cabinet ministers also came out to approve and promote frugality, and decided to regularly publish their income and expenditure items in the Big Germain newspaper for public scrutiny. Under the leadership of the royal family and cabinet ministers, the German government launched a campaign to "live frugally, donate honorably", and in just one week raised more than 3 million marks, which were then transferred to the treasury for the country's various military projects.

The royal family and government departments have set an example, and aristocrats, chaebol leaders, and industrial magnates have expressed their support for the virtue of frugality, and have donated part of their living expenses to support the construction of the country and the army. The two giants of the shipping industry alone, the American Mail Line Company and the Reutte Steamship Company, each contributed 2 million marks, and the arms giant Krupp was even more unwilling, and under the leadership of Auguste Krupp, the entire enterprise donated a total of 5 million marks, and was rated as a "model of frugality" by the Grande Germain Zeitung, the Berliner Zeitung and the Pan-German Zeitung.

It was not long before the thrift trend finally affected the relatively conservative Junker landlords, who also contributed a large amount of money to the state and the army, and were honorably awarded the "Medal of Thrift" by the government.

The upward and downward effects, the thrifty trend was finally successfully promoted to the people. In recent years, the standard of living of the working class in Germany has improved to a certain extent. But it is only one step closer on the basis of food and clothing, and there is still a certain distance from abundance. Despite this, the workers responded to the government's call for frugality, and although their donations were small, they used the savings to buy government bonds and post-war colonial development bonds, which played a positive role in the economic development of Germany.

All this made Chen Tian quite satisfied, for which he also specially praised the head of the government propaganda department. Since the time of Bismarck, the German government has set up a special fund for buying newspapers and periodicals, and so far, the government has a considerable stake in a series of important newspapers and periodicals and weekly magazines, including the Germain Zeitung, the Berlin Zeitung, and the Berlin local news.

Another benefit of thrift is that it reduces the social contradictions caused by the treatment of workers to a certain extent. On this issue, the government of Wilhelm II adopted a dual policy of repression and softness, on the one hand, by enacting laws to introduce Sunday and holiday holidays, prohibiting factories from substituting wages in kind for monetary wages, prohibiting the use of child labor under the age of 13 in factories, and forcibly reducing the working hours of young and female workers under the age of 16, and on the other hand, by adopting new laws to ban workers' rights to strike and association, impose strict restrictions on political associations and assemblies, and give the police broad powers.

After the accession of Wilhelm III to the throne, the government continued to pursue a policy of social reform, supplemented by a policy of repression, "suppressing any uprising and stopping any revolutionary movement" while "showing the workers with a fair hand that the government would care about their well-being", "making them feel that the empire is a just and moral authority," and reaching an agreement with the capitalists on the condition of reducing taxes to raise the conditions of workers and improve working conditions.

At the same time, the rise of the wave of colonial development not only attracted a large amount of capital and big capitalists, free merchants and burghers, but also brought a large number of orders to Germany's domestic industrial enterprises, and the machine tools, boilers, steel pipes and other equipment needed for the construction of the colony were even more sought-after, and throughout 1915, Germany's industrial output value increased by 56 percent over the previous year, and exports increased by 82 percent. Due to the German government's strict restrictions on the introduction of foreign labor, the unemployment rate in Germany has continued to fall, and the wages of industrial and agricultural workers have increased relatively, all of which have made all walks of life in Germany prosperous and peaceful.