Chapter 602 A Trip to Europe II
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Dessau, in the eastern part of the country, is a beautiful little town. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info This one was built from the beginning of the thirteenth century. The beautiful city that grew and enriched over the centuries is located on the banks of the Elbe, just 65 kilometres south of Leipzig, the second largest city in eastern Germany.
Dessau is not big though. But it is the Altebon, built in the 16th century palaces, town halls, churches and the 18th century Mosigcan Palace, the whole city is beautiful, comfortable and quiet, even the port and the railway are built exquisitely and elegantly, pleasing to the eye, everywhere revealing a rich humanistic color and the historical trajectory of the exhibition of Western civilization, and the most famous of them is also the most representative of Dessau's reputation and image. It is the Wollitz Palace Garden, which is famous in Europe and the United States and admired by countless chaebols, politicians, rich and celebrities. This European garden built in the eighteenth century adopts the style of natural landscape garden, the first belonged to Prince Franz, by the British and Italian gardens and architecture, covering an area of more than 100 hectares of Wollitz garden has become an excellent work of combining nature and art, that is, it has the valley-style scenery of the Elbe River, and the reflection and moisture of Wallitz Lake, that is, there is Gothic architectural style and the simple and exquisite Chinese bridge, the garden has attracted a large number of famous and famous people, Hundreds of years of history and the glory and changes it carries have made the Tierlitz Garden known as the most noble garden in Germany.
The garden's white main building stands on the lakeside, nestled between towering trees and blue waves, dotted with satin-like paths and exquisite sculptures, and the reflection of the water surface swaying with the gentle wind.
In the elegant, spacious and elegant conference room, more than a dozen dignitaries of the Junker family gathered together to enjoy a glass of wine. Whisper elegantly.
On the narrow mahogany tabletop, delicate fruits and vegetables and a few small plates of nuts are neatly arranged, as well as a new magazine and a newspaper smelling of ink.
Enrique von Hess, who owned four butterfly mines and heavy machinery production plants in East Germany, was not tall, and the thirty-eight-year-old heir to the lord of the side branch who was a golden sparse envoy appeared to be older than his actual age, and three days ago he had just sent An Yi and his entourage, who had visited his heavy tractor, military construction machinery and excavator factories, back to Pailin, and before he could make substantial contact with the interested An Yi, he received a notice from his cousin, Hugo Juncker, the founder of the Junker Aircraft Company, and rushed to Dessau with the heavy business at hand. Attended an impromptu gathering of the Junkers family.
A week ago, a military delegation from China completed a three-day visit to Krupp. At the request of An Yi, he visited the headquarters of Siemens in Pailin, and after attending the reception dinner held at the Pailin Armored Forces School, An Yi returned to the hotel to continue a long talk with William Jr., the head of Siemens, who visited him. So far, there has been no arrangement for Hugo Juncker to visit the Junkers aircraft factory in Dessau, which is confusing for Hugo
Last year to March this year. An Yi personally purchased eight three types of aircraft produced by Junkers through Lu Lin. Two of them have just been successfully developed and mass-produced, and twelve are still not favored by the German world, but An Yi is quite satisfied with the test of the four-type Junkers all-metal six-seat single transport aircraft, and also said to the Junkers engineers who went to distant China with the goods, "I look forward to the success of the Peng-type three-seat transport aircraft under development as soon as possible, and we are full of expectations for high-performance and high-safety transport aircraft." The surprise had given great hope to Junkers, which had been hit by the economic crisis and had weak sales. It stands to reason that in addition to Krupp, which has established a close relationship with An Yi for a long time, Juncker should be the second largest trading partner of An Yi and his Jiangnan enterprise group in Germany. Today, instead of visiting Junkers, An Yi is interested in other inconsequential manufacturers of optical instruments, radio communications and tractors. So that Hugo and his companions couldn't figure out what An Yi was thinking.
For many years, the saying was popular in Germany: Prussia ruled Germany, and Juncker ruled Prussia. After a long period of generational development, the Prussian Empire did not have any more land to enshrine the new nobility, so it had to give titles to the nobles who made up the main part of the empire, and then let them serve in the military and become professional soldiers in Germany. It was against this backdrop that the Junker aristocracy grew and strengthened in the context of the change of the inheritance system, which forced young or non-heir nobles to leave their parents' fiefdoms and invade other people's lands to gain more land for the Prussian Empire. So far, the Juncker family has been integrated into the German political circles and various industries of agriculture and industry, and has huge power and capital advantages. A large group of nobles was formed that could influence the decisions of the state, and Bismarck was the leader of them.
However, the economic crisis hit Germany so badly, the Junckers suffered heavy losses, a large number of factories and shops in Germany collapsed, agriculture and industry fell into a huge disaster, and economists exclaimed that the economic crisis that had intensified in the past two years had set back the German economy by 30 years.
Cut in times of crisis. France, Britain and other victorious countries did not consider the actual situation in Germany at all, and still forced the German government to pay the huge war reparations payable every year, which made Germany sad and indignant but powerless, and Hitler's party won more and more approval and support from the German people due to the hardline nationalist ideology and the introduction of protective policies for small and medium-sized industrial enterprises and agriculture. On the contrary, Hitler did not forget the Junker family with a glorious history and their strong political influence, as well as financial, material and human resources, and carried out exchanges and discussions with the Junker family many times to explore the way out of Germany, so he also won the understanding and support of some Junker family members, but before the entire class made a unanimous decision, no one would easily express their political attitude, and more energy was focused on how to get out of the crisis and quickly get on the right track and revive the glory of the family.
Hugo sighed and looked around at the thought of what was upsetting, and the heirs of the Juncker family were still talking about the worrying policies of the National Socialist Party, about the Jewish capitalists who continued to hoard materials and drive up prices regardless of the lives of the people, about their insatiable collection of loans and loans, and about devouring German financial capital's financial lifeblood, mineral resources, public transport and commercial enterprises at an ever-increasing rate, about the growing number of unemployed workers and the corpses starving to death on both sides of the streets". Hugo did not pay much attention to the distant and poor and backward China for a few years, and the rapid rise of military and commercial prosperity in China had a population of 40,000, and the war in the ancient and vast land lasted for more than ten years, but the Juncker Aircraft Company made little profit from it until the end of the twenty-ninth year, after the Krupp Institute of Industrial Research reported on Sino-German trade and the paper on the prospect of economic cooperation. Hugo just woke up from a dream, quickly formulated a strategy to advance into the Far East market, and also achieved relatively satisfactory business results in the following year, especially the continuous procurement of An Yi Military Group, which has become a major customer with the most Junkers aircraft in China, Hugo also saw from the latest news that Jiangnan Group has applied to the Chinese National Government to operate the metropolitan cargo routes between Kunming, Yunnan, Xufu, Sichuan, Yichang, Hubei, Qiancheng, Hunan, Nanchang, and Nanjing, and applied for the operation of Qiancheng, Yichang, Nanchang, The news of the three passenger routes between Syria and Kunming gave Hugo a glimpse of great wealth and a vast world of mutual cooperation.
"Hugo, what do you think?
The tall and ruddy-faced Oak Baker von Junker had just arrived, and after greeting everyone, he sat next to Hugo and asked his nephew with a smile.
Hugo took his gaze back from the cover of the magazine, picked it up and showed it to his uncle: "Uncle, please look, this Chinese general stands with Hermann Kribeyer, Georg Weitzel, and my cousin Hans Seckert. At a young age, he had the rank of general on his collar, and Kerrybar, who was a lieutenant in World War I, now has the rank of colonel, which makes me wonder whether the Chinese military rank can be hereditary or bought with money. Just like the titles and official positions of the Qing Empire during the Qing Dynasty, which had perished
Oak Baker smiled slightly, took the magazine and whispered: "My dear Hugo, when have you ever seen such a kind and polite smile from the arrogant and over-eyed Kribeyer, who had participated in the Adolf Hitler beer hall riots? You can see his hand on the right arm of the young Chinese general, and the talented Colonel Weitzel, who is called the hope for the future of the Wehrmacht, close to the young Chinese general, and it is clear that the relationship between them is quite good, don't you see the deep meaning contained in it?
Hugo stared at the cover photo again: "I was negligent, it is indeed reminiscent, it seems that this young general is not simple!" ”
"Don't look at his youth, in less than five years, he has been promoted from a small engineer company commander to the current lieutenant general and the rank of general; more than two months ago, he commanded nine divisions to solve the last separatist force in the southwest for his central government in one fell swoop, and realized the dream of the central government in Nanjing to unify the southwest. This achievement is only another glory in his military career for several years, before which he defeated almost all the separatist forces, and the army he trained became the most elite army under the Nanjing government, and he led his troops to annihilate hundreds of thousands of enemies, and won a total of 12 medals. Oak Baker asked with a smile.
Hugo glared at his husband in surprise: "I have seen these in newspapers and magazines before, and I thought they were deliberately exaggerated by the media, are they all true?" ”
Oak Baker nodded with emotion: "At the working lunch four days ago. Kerry Bair once said to me and several veterans: General An Yi's military rank is well deserved, and if he is judged, General An Yi should even receive the same military rank as Mr. Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the squadron, because in the past ten years, no one in China has the talent of General An Yi, and no one has General An Yi's military exploits and advanced military concepts. Weitzel on the side agreed, and it was only after listening to this that I really believed the introduction in the media.
Later, through a brief conversation with General An Yi, I was immediately moved by his frank but witty personal charm, and I thought I should tell you that two alloy smelting furnaces and a set of sheet coiling equipment produced by our Oak family trust had obtained an order from General An Yi within the time of drinking half a glass of dark beer, with a total value of 2.3 million marks, and within a month, General An Yi's client would come from the United States to sign the contract and pay a one-time deposit of 30 percent. I only need to send a few installation and production commissioning engineers to the hinterland of southern Sichuan in China. A one-year technical support is sufficient. Hugo, this is the only order for General Ann in the fifteen days since he arrived in Germany, don't you rejoice for me? ”
Hugo was very surprised at first, then raised his glass to congratulate his uncle heartily, put down the glass and remembered that he had not seen An Yi yet, and couldn't help but feel lost.
Oak Baker leaned over, patted his nephew on the shoulder, turned to everyone and said loudly: "Gentlemen, there is something that needs to be consulted by you, entrusted by General An Yi, I bring you the general's respect and good wishes to the Junker family, this time the general is indeed prepared, plan 1 to purchase up to fifteen million marks of raw materials and equipment in Germany, all transactions will be carried out under the guarantee of Lu Lin Company and Bank of America, and the general has made it clear that this is only a large-scale direct purchase within a year. When I applied for the General to come to beautiful Dessau, the General made a request that embarrassed us without any compulsion, and he would be tempted to make a match through us, if it was convenient. In his meeting with Mr. Adolf Hitler, the general always stated that even if he did not do so, it would not affect his friendship with the great Junkers.
Everyone was happy and surprised, and they did not understand why the young Chinese general would make such a foolish request.
Schacht, the most powerful and highest-ranking member of the Juncker family, who had just resigned as president of the National Bank at the end of last year and parted ways with the Weimar republican system, calmly asked:
"Gentlemen, is the socialism advocated by Mr. Hitler more terrible than the economic crisis? Before the dawn of a great era in history, does we, the Junkers, who have made a glorious contribution to the Prussian nation and to Germany as a whole, still need to reject a hand of friendship that has been slowly extended from the Far East across the ocean for the sake of a temporary small ideological disagreement? And this hand is so strong and so young, don't you want to be like the frank and pragmatic Oak Baker, with a hearty and enthusiastic smile to hold this warm hand? ”