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In the following period, Li Qi became a "brick" and lived a life of moving where he needed to. He frequented most often in East Prussia and Pan-Saxony, in the streets, in the theatres, on the radio, wherever the Reich Propaganda Department felt necessary.

Pan-Saxony was very wide, accounting for almost one-seventh of the entire Second German Reich, followed by Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg...... and other kingdoms and principalities, as well as free cities such as Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. In fact, although it is called the Second German Reich, Germany is actually a federal state.

How else to say that Bismarck is powerful? He rose to prominence in Prussia and took advantage of the desire for unity in the Kingdom of Germany to complete the unification of Germany. That is to take the national strength of a kingdom of Prussia to swallow a territory that is at least seven or eight times larger than itself!

It may sound a bit convoluted, but Bismarck spent the first half of his life plotting the unification of Germany, and the second half of his life was about maintaining the unity of Germany. The former was unification with force, and the latter relied on compromise and bargaining to really unify the divided Germany, and in a very short period of time it rose to become the first industrial power on the European continent.

Li Qi gave speeches to a wide range of people, including citizens, workers, and peasants, and most of the time he also gave speeches to these groups. Speech to the aristocracy? He was not arranged to do anything similar, but was arranged to join some drinking parties held by nobles, large landowners, and capitalists.

The Second German Empire was controlled by the Kaiser, who was from Prussia, and the Hohenzollerns were supported by a group of Black Eagle Knights to control Prussia, and the Black Eagle Knights were more mixed, but most of them were old nobles.

The Black Hawk Knights' most glorious days have passed, and most of them have been reduced to large military landowners with little influence, the Junkers. Now the groups that can really influence the Hohenzollern family to turn into capitalists, such as Mauser, Krupp and other large military-industrial enterprises, of course, there are also those consortia.

The common class of Germans began to have difficulties because of the war, but the difficulties were not yet related to the aristocracy, the big landowners, and the capitalists. Looking at the living conditions of ordinary people, and then looking at the aristocracy, large landowners, and capitalists who still lived a life of drunkenness, Li Qi completely extinguished the idea of trying to "save" the Second German Reich, although he could not save it.

Richie has undoubtedly been having a good time lately, with his speeches on the radio and his pages in the newspapers, but ...... Is he really beautiful? For some groups he may be, but for others he is just an actor who has been pushed onto the stage.

"I desperately want to be able to return to the front line and do my duty." The person Li Qi faced was a team leader of the Imperial Propaganda Department, and he looked sincere: "I shouldn't go back and forth like this, I should play a role on the battlefield." ”

In fact, the same depressed person as Richie was Ewald. Feng. Kleist, they've been busy going back and forth for nearly a month and a half.

Peter. Reinhardt was the name of the team leader, and he looked surprised and said, "You are safe in the rear, and you can contribute to the empire without braving the rain of bullets." ”

Ewald. Feng. Kleist frowned, only to find out that things were a bit ridiculous when he got to the rear, such as the fact that most civilian civil servants were glad that they didn't have to go to the trenches, let alone carry their rifles to meet the charge in a situation where they were almost certain to die.

[Is this a group of people who we are fighting for so hard? They enjoy a safe and comfortable life, disrespect for the soldiers who fought bloodily in front of them, and even talk about it with a hint of contempt? 】

[Not only a group of civilians, but also aristocrats, big landlords, and capitalists, they don't care how many people die at the front. During the war years, they were still drunk and dreamed of death, ignoring the increasingly difficult living conditions of ordinary families and the casualties paid by the soldiers in bloody battles......]

Ewald. Feng. Kleist was also a nobleman, but unlike some nobles who grew up, the Kleist family is known as the family of swords. His great-grandfather was a field marshal under Frederick the Great, and his children and grandchildren had brave soldiers throughout the ages. But he himself did not come from a military family. He was born on August 8, 1881, in Braunfels to a family of professors. After graduating from high school, Kleist was sent to the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment as a midshipman and was promoted to captain a year later. In 1906 he was a battalion adjutant, a year later a regimental adjutant, in 1910 he was promoted to lieutenant and was admitted to the military academy for training.

Only after experiencing something will you stand in what position to think, there is no doubt about Ewald. Feng. Kleist felt that the atmosphere in the country was very dangerous, as if an extreme polarization had been formed, and the soldiers, the common people and the aristocracy, the big landowners, the capitalists, the two groups of people were about to become people of two worlds.

"In just a month and a half, the number of people who are encouraged to join the army has increased by 18 percent." Peter. Reinhardt took it for granted, raised his chin and said, "We took the opportunity to issue a new round of war bonds......

Ironically, the Second German Reich did not run war bonds before the war, but because of Britain's obstruction in various countries, the issuance of bonds could not be put on the market at all, and in the end only a small part of them were subscribed by some capitalists and large landowners in the country, and the rest were not even waste paper.

What is even more strange is that the Second German Reich had no reserves, no strategic reserves. There are no reserves, grain, cloth, fodder, fertilizer, machinery for any of the supplies...... None of them, and the only thing that has an advantage is the system, which has a good mobilization system and a mobilization foundation.

"We set up the Wartime Grain Company, the Central Feed Bureau, the Central Potato Bureau, the Wartime Animal and Vegetable Oils and Fats Administration, the Central Fruit and Vegetable Bureau, the Wartime Grain Bureau, the Imperial Grain Bureau, the Imperial Clothing Bureau, and other institutions...... "Peter Brown. Reinhardt was finally a little worried. "Soon we will have some new, necessary measures," he said. ”

It was the Hindenburg Programme, which was in the making, which provided the necessary preconditions for the functioning of the wartime planning apparatus by stipulating that labour could not move freely and that all industrial production must be subordinated first and foremost to military necessity. To a certain extent, the control of enterprises and labor force has enabled economic development to shift away from the orientation of market profits and turn to production in accordance with the requirements of the government. Like the wartime economies of other major countries, Germany's wartime planned economy was initially born out of temporary wartime needs, but in this need eventually developed a new model of state control of the economy.

Li Qi didn't know anything about the "Hindenburg Program" at all, but after listening to it, he was a little stunned, and his heart was almost broken.

[Is there a mistake!] The Second and Third Reichs were both virtuous, and they all paddled until they had to change before they thought of doing certain things. Isn't it too late to think about it? 】