In Zeppelin's house were only a few people, such as Karl Maybach, Count Alfred von Söden, and Alfred Cosmann, who were both technical geniuses, executives of the airship company, and individual shareholders of the airship company, all of whom had given the shares of Zeppelin several times, adding up to nine percent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Needless to say, Maybach is a technical genius, a veteran of Otto Automobile Company, participated in the research and development of Otto gasoline engine as the director of the design office, it can be said that he is also one of the inventors of the car, the car is not only made by Otto alone, but the difference in design concept made him leave Otto.

Later, he joined his friend Daimler's car company, and his greatest achievement was the development of the famous Mercedes.

However, after Daimler's death, Maybach clashed with the management of Mercedes, and in 1907 left Mercedes-Benz and received an invitation from his esteemed Count Zeppelin to start a career in China.

Count Soden joined the Zeppelin team in 1910, he was also a technical genius trained in the automobile industry and a technician from Daimler Engine Company, but he was always friends with Zeppelin, and later received an invitation from Zeppelin to come to China.

Kaussmann is also a technical genius, specializing in gear machining and other technologies, and he is now the legal representative and managing director of ZF, the gear factory in the Zeppelin Triumvirate. It was he who persuaded the engineers in Zurich, Switzerland, who invented precision gear technology, to build a gear factory here, which is ZF in German.

Among the three giants, Maybach is the head of the engine department, and the engines of the Zeppelin are all produced by Maybach with requirements and design parameters, and Diesel provides production technology and cooperates in production; As the general manager, Soden is responsible for the management of the entire plant; Cosmann is responsible for the production of precision components such as gearing systems and crankshafts.

Zeppelin died, and only the three of them took care of the funeral here, and the German officials in Qingdao all went to the train station to pick up Yang Chao.

Of course, it is not only these three people who remember Zeppelin, many German expatriates in Qingdao still respect Zeppelin, but the three of them help to take care of the aftermath, and the others come to remember it, pay homage to the remains, and leave.

Yang Chao was very low-key, wearing a black suit, a top hat, and a handful of white chrysanthemums in his hand, followed the other guests, slowly walked into Zeppelin's coffin, saw this quiet old man, gently put the flowers next to his coffin, and then walked slowly.

Because of the war, Zeppelin's family was not in China, and he did not allow his son and grandson to refuse state obligations, his son worked in the German government, and his grandson went to the front to fight, so he did not even have a family around him.

Let Yang Chao want to say that he can't find anyone.

After admiring his remains, Yang Chao quietly walked to Suo Deng's side.

"Lord Yang, thank you for coming to visit the Earl."

Soden politely thanked him.

Yang Chao said: "Does the earl have any last words?" ”

"The Count wants Germany to win," said Soden. ”

Yang Chao nodded, when Zeppelin was dying, he was still thinking about the country, which was the German Juncker.

"I hope the Count will get his wish."

Yang Chao sighed.

He couldn't help but think deeply, the difference between a successful country and a failed country, the core power of Germany now is obviously the Junckers, which is a group of landlord nobles, born out of the past knights, obviously feudal aristocracy.

However, they adapted well to the industrial era, and with the encouragement of the state, with the goal of increasing national strength, they devoted themselves to modernization, focusing mainly on heavy industry, and they ruled all aspects of Germany, from the financial group to the industrial group, which was composed of such Junkers.

The same is true of the British aristocracy, although the British aristocracy is also keen to build estates in the countryside, but also actively engaged in the construction of industrialization, they also inherited the traditional moral culture, and developed modern industries, they successfully turned from the old era into the new era, and at the same time brought their country calmly to the modern era.

The same example is Japan, the Japanese have also successfully transformed the samurai class into a force to promote modernization, not to mention Ito Hirobumi and Yama Prefecture Aritomo, who are high-level samurai people, that is, a large number of participants in modern industry, are also samurai backgrounds, such as the founder of the Mitsubishi Group, Iwasaki Yataro, is an old samurai background, although he has fallen down, but by virtue of his old identity before the Meiji Restoration, he has served as a lower-level official. Although Mitsui was not a samurai group, it had always been a merchant group attached to the samurai class. The Kawasaki family is old-school aristocrats.

It can be said that almost all of Japan's major companies were born out of the samurai class or attached to the samurai class, and in the process of their innovation, the old power groups were not clear, but successfully turned around, so their innovation was very stable. Even the United States was founded by the gentlemen like Washington and Franklin, and politics was always in the hands of the gentlemen.

On the other hand, Russia has fought against the countries of the old bloc through revolution, not to mention Russia, even the most successful France has experienced decades of turmoil, lost the era of competing with the British for hegemony in the sea, and later lost the hegemony of the continent, and completely lost the hegemony established in the Bourbon era.

The aristocratic spirit of the British, the Junker spirit of Germany, the samurai spirit of Japan, and the gentleman spirit of the United States have all been transformed into the national spirit of modern society, so that their culture has a deep core, and the Chinese have abandoned the traditional culture, the rural gentry disappeared as a class, and there is no core culture in the crazy expansion of the city, full of Western cultural symbols, a civilized country that has been inherited for thousands of years, has lost its own cultural core, which has to be said to be a tragedy.

But the most important thing is that a civilization that does not have its own core and grafts all the things of others, does such a country really have a future? The public opinion circles of later generations are full of all kinds of unbelievable voices, and all kinds of people who say how Europe and the United States are, are they just admiring foreigners?

Yang Chao feels that it is because the culture has lost its own spiritual core, so many people's minds are confused and infiltrated by other cultures.

Without its own spiritual core, without its own ideological support, talking about the rise of the country is simply a joke.

Is there a core spirit in traditional Chinese culture, and is there a moral elite in China?

Yes Those scholars looked like the scholars who were behind the times, a decadent cultural class that was about to be overthrown.

But is the scholar class with a sense of family and country really outdated and decaying?

They just haven't kept up with the pace of modernity, and to turn these people around is tantamount to turning the country around, just as the British aristocracy became an industrial aristocracy, and the German Junkers became an industrial Junker.

Let China's scholars become industrial scholars, modern scholars, retain China's cultural core and national spirit to modernity! (To be continued.) )