China gained Zimbabwe and Zambia, but relations with Britain also fell to their lowest point in nearly two decades.

In retaliation, Britain and the United States supported Russia in paying off its last £140 million debt to China through new borrowing, forcing China to withdraw its troops from Russia.

The current political situation in Russia has always been dominated by the Russian Social Boiler Alliance, which belongs to the leftist regime, which is based on the Mensheviks and has absorbed the experience of social insurance, labor laws, national medical insurance, joint ventures, and large-scale agricultural economic policies from China.

On the basis of the national macroeconomic policies of the leftists, and with the support of Britain, the United States and France, the Russian economy has been rapidly improving, and the strength of the populists and hardliners in the country is also growing.

Under such circumstances, in May 1924, just as the Paris Olympics were about to be held, Hu Chuyuan and his entourage visited Germany.

The initial dividing line of power was very clear: China controlled Russia, and Anglo-American-French controlled Germany, but Anglo-American-French never gave up their plan to use Russia and Ben to contain China, and China also did not give up its plan to use Germany to contain Britain and France.

On 14 May, Hu Chuyuan, accompanied by Defense Minister Zhang Shiying, Chief of Army General Staff Li Kaiye, and Vice President of the State Military Industrial Research Institute and Army Brigadier General Hu Weitang, arrived in Hanover, Germany.

Once a quiet city, Hannover is now the new capital of Germany, and the country's main central institutions have been relocated to Hannover.

At this time, Germany was no longer the empire that inherited the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire, but the Federal Kingdom of Germany, with Wilhelm III of the House of Hohenzollern, the "King of Prussia and Hanover", as the federal king.

After arriving at the Royal Palace of Hanover, Hu Chuyuan was welcomed by the Hohenzollern family, the Grand Duke of Baden, and the Ludwig Hesse family.

The crowd did not include Kaiser Wilhelm II, who had been prominent for decades, and who was now ordered not to set foot on German soil, but to live in seclusion in the Netherlands.

Although China and Germany were the most important opponents on the battlefield of World War I, it was Hu Chuyuan's persecution and persuasion that Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed to surrender, was stripped of the title of German emperor, and was forced to abdicate from the position of king of Prussia...... But in any case, looking back now, Hu Chuyuan did give Germany the most important help at the most critical moment.

He preserved the foundations of Germany's prosperity - an intact state, an intact industrial system unravaged, a financial system undamaged by war...... BASF consortium, Deutsche Bank, UBS (Commerzbank and Winterthur merged and became UBS, and the basis of Commerzbank remains in Germany).

In particular, in the forcible response to the uprising of the Spartacist League, the Chinese garrison in Germany was quickly activated, and the rebel armies in Munich and Berlin were defeated first, so that the rightist forces of the Ming Party in German society were buffered and stabilized the situation in Germany.

On the issue of Germany's war reparations, it was also Hu Chuyuan's insistence that controlled Germany's total reparations at 7.2 billion pounds, and the repayment period was also set indefinitely.

After that, Hu Chuyuan also served as chairman of the German International Debt Management Committee, and he reduced the total German compensation to 6.3 billion pounds sterling by discounting the remaining fleet of the German navy.

Although it was still a huge amount of money, in any case, under France's aggressive policy of hegemony on the European continent, he did his best to repay the favor of Germany.

Without Germany, there would be no China today.

Not only Hu Chuyuan knows this truth, but most Chinese also know it.

Due to the restrictions of the Brussels Treaty, all military schools in Germany were ordered to be demolished and the training of German officers was stopped, but China allowed foreigners to study at designated schools at their own expense, which also deliberately did not prohibit Germans.

In fact, under Hu Chuyuan's secret work, August von Mackensen, the commander of the Eastern Front of the German Army in World War I, was invited to become a consultant to the Xi'an Army University, and the German students at the Xi'an Army University mainly received his education.

In all this, under the international pressure of France, Germany was able to maintain the current situation, and the person who must be thanked is Hu Chuyuan.

After Archduke Ludwig delivered a speech of thanks to Hu Chuyuan and China on behalf of the people, a simple dinner was held in the royal palace, and Hu Chuyuan was always opposed to the cumbersome ceremonies and banquets of the European style.

At this point, before Hu Chuyuan's arrival, Hu Weitang had already represented the Ernst-Ludwig bus in Germany and the Ernst Ludwig bus, which was responsible for the whole reception.

The whole dinner was simple, most of the ladies, young people, children, and people who had nothing to do with politics and power were arranged in another bigger restaurant.

Wilhelm III by this time was already forty-two years old, and during the First World War he was nominally commander-in-chief of the German Fifth Army fighting the French on the Western Front, and in fact was a colonel, commanding a regiment.

Even so, he received a very high level of support in the army.

By the end of the war, Germany had split into two great forces, the German aristocracy and army on the one hand, and the German people and leftist parties on the other.

At that time, Germany had almost only two options, either to continue fighting until there was a leftist uprising at home, or to surrender and let the leftist parties come to power, while the German aristocracy collapsed and the country became a Mingzhu Republic.

It was precisely with the support of Hu Chuyuan that after the surrender of Germany, Germany temporarily maintained the stability of Germany through the stationing of Chinese troops in Germany, eliminated the leftist radical parties in Germany, and provided a relatively stable governance environment for the centrist wing of the Ming Cook Party in German society.

Even so, Hu Chuyuan was worried about the deterioration of the situation in Germany.

In 1920, through the connections of Hu Weitang and others in Germany, they found Kurt von Schleicher, who was the head of the office of the German Ministry of Defense at that time, and the Chinese National Intelligence Agency supported and advised the establishment of the German National Boiled Workers' Party, referred to as the German Labor Party.

Before talking about the German Labour Party, we must first talk about the policy program of the Chinese Grand Ducal Party.

The China Grand Communion Party, led by Hu Chuyuan, belongs to a left-wing centrist political group, which pursues the state's macroeconomic regulation and control of economics and a wide range of social welfare policies, based on the workers and the middle class, small bourgeoisie, middle rich peasants, and small and medium-sized landlord strata, and at the same time promotes the monopoly economy and expansionism of the consortium in state policy, and pursues the strength of the state's military power.

The Ecumenical Party pursues a guaranteed limit of state capitalism, that is, to control a certain degree of state capital economy under the requirements of maintaining the basic operation of the state, such as telecommunications, postal services, railways, public transportation, etc., in which state capital can occupy a certain proportion to impose certain restrictions on the monopoly economy of the consortium.

The political axe has a certain state consortium, and in terms of supporting domestic small assets, it has given relatively relaxed policies to support the development of small assets.

If at first glance, the policies of the Grand Ducal Party and the Nazi Party are almost very similar, the so-called National Socialist path.

There are still a lot of differences.

The biggest difference is that the Grand Ducal Party does not promote the doctrine of military literacy, but seeks the ruling power of the majority party in the open parliamentary system and maintains the implementation of party policies.

The Grand Communion Party and the Social Cooking Party also belong to the left-wing centrists, but they are more centrist than the SPD, and the parties themselves are the regulators between the state consortium and the middle class, small bourgeoisie, middle rich peasants, small and medium-sized landlords, and workers, and are responsible for the coordination and communication between the two interest groups, so as to avoid the national interest being completely biased to the other side.

Therefore, there is a golden scale in the center of the Emblem of the Ecumenical Party, with an ear of wheat symbolizing agriculture on the bottom, two iron hammers symbolizing industry on the top, a bayonet symbolizing the army on the left, and a string of shells symbolizing capital on the right.

The national policies of the German Labour Party and the Grand Ducal Party were completely identical, and with the support of the BASF consortium and Deutsche Bank, Hindenburg was persuaded to become the party leader, while Kurt von Schleicher was behind the scenes.

Compared to the SPD, the Labour Party is easily supported by the military and big business.

Hu Chuyuan has quietly operated in the German business community for more than 30 years, and has accumulated strong enough industrial and commercial contacts to ensure the support of most of the consortium and capital forces for the German National Benjamin Workers' Party, and the appeal of famous military generals such as Hindenburg and Schleicher, Paul von Forbeck, Hermann von François, August von Mackensen, and Alfred von Tirpitz is also enough to absorb the German army and the pro-military camp.

Since its official founding in 1921, the German Labour Party has continuously held propaganda activities throughout the country, with the "German Workers' Daily" as the main stage, with one million copies per day distributed free of charge, to publicize the policies of the German Labour Party, and has also continuously placed advertisements in more than 20 newspapers such as the "German Newspaper", "Deutsche Post", "Frankfurter Business Daily", and "Die Welt" to recruit volunteers and promote a policy of prosperity for all people.

The Labour Party even promised that, once in power, it would revive the German economy back to its original level, introduce comprehensive health care and social security in Germany, and provide jobs for all Germans.

Not only that, Hu Chuyuan also personally gave huge financial support to the Labour Party, allowing the Labour Party to hold a large number of seminars in Germany, establish grassroots organizations, distribute free relief materials to the poor, and call on large consortia to donate money for national education and infrastructure construction.

At this stage of Hu Chuyuan's third visit to Germany, the German Labour Party, which had only been founded for three years, had become the second largest party in Germany after the Socialist Party.

The influence of the German Labour Party is expanding dramatically, and even Archduke Ernst Ludwig is a member of the German Labour Party.

Hu Chuyuan did not stay in Germany for long, but secretly met with Wilhelm III, Hindenburg, Archduke Ernst Ludwig and others, and reached some secret agreements.

In addition, he met with German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert, who, as the intelligence of the National Intelligence Service, was in favour of the centrist whole, and it was for this reason that within the SPD, he himself was attacked by radicals on both the left and the right.

In order to persuade Friedrich Ebert and the Labour Party to re-form a government, Hu Chuyuan invited him to visit China.

In terms of military cooperation, Hu Chuyuan also secretly approved a new plan, allowing the German General Staff to send some young German officers to China for secret training, especially to study the idea of rapid combat and the idea of holism in the mechanized corps.

The idea of the theory of overall war is a theory put forward by Li Kaiye at the General Staff of the Chinese Army, that is, during the entire war, it is necessary to give full consideration to the strength of the country and the strength of the opponent to formulate an appropriate military strategy, first of all, to ensure a superior position in the grand strategy, and at the same time, to constantly realize the strategic task in terms of tactics, to strike at the most vulnerable and deadly places of the opponent with the strongest superior force, to restrain and reduce the opponent's war capability in the shortest possible time, and ultimately to ensure the victory of the national war.

Focusing on this theory, Li Kaiye established a complete set of theoretical analysis courses at the Central Military University, so that students can learn to analyze the entire situation and learn to analyze their own strengths and weaknesses of their opponents.

At the same time, China has another secret weapon in the military, that is, the military academy, which is precisely the system that Germany desperately needs because it cannot establish military academies in the country.

After a short visit to Germany, Hu Chuyuan had a clearer understanding of the situation in Germany, in fact, the upper classes of China and Germany are basically the same in terms of political ideology, but China has succeeded, while Germany has failed.

Before leaving Germany, he spun off Commerzbank from UBS and joined the Anglo-Dutch consortium, and approved plans for the Anglo-Dutch consortium and BASF to continue to increase investment in Germany.

In addition, he officially allowed the CITIC consortium to enter Germany, in particular by establishing the German Agricultural Credit Cooperative in Germany through the CITIC Agency.

After concluding his visit to Germany, Hu Chuyuan visited Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and other countries one after another; except for Poland and Ukraine, the rest were basically defeated countries in World War I, some of which had recovered their vitality with the support of the Io-European Union, and some of them, such as Austria and Czechoslovakia, were still in a period of chaos.

During this period, Hu Chuyuan began to consider spreading the centrist party ideology of the Grand Ducal Party and guiding the development of economic integrity in various countries within the entire Eurasian Union system.

There is a very important foundation for centrist thinking, that is, support for international consortia.

Of course, this is also because the most important consortium in the world is basically the main force behind the Grand Ducal Party and the German Labor Party.

In September 1924, Hu Chuyuan returned to China.

At this time, another problem he faced was the choice of a new prime minister, who could hold the presidency of the Federal Republic of China until 1933.

After selection, he decided to elect Yang Shipai as the new premier, Wang Chaoqing as vice premier and chairman of the State Economic Commission, Hu Weizhong as minister of economy and industry and chairman of the State Assets Commission, and Luo Chengxiang as minister of foreign affairs.

In March 1925, the National Assembly held a re-election, and by virtue of its special position in the party and the strength of the Grand Ducal Party in the National Assembly, Hu Chuyuan passed resolutions on the adjustment of the cabinet of the Prime Minister's Office.

In the end, Yang Shipai, Wang Chaoqing, Hu Weizhong, and Luo Chengxiang became the backbone of the Prime Minister's Office, and in the adjustment of the overall cabinet, a new generation of cabinet ministers around the age of 45 appeared one after another.

These people are all new forces that Hu Chuyuan has observed and cultivated in the party for many years, and his comprehensive cabinet reshuffle at this time is actually preparing for the economic crisis and the possible subsequent World War II.

In May, German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert was invited to visit China, and after a week-long visit, he was preparing to continue his visit to Ben when he was hospitalized with appendicitis and forced to undergo an appendectomy at Tongji Hospital in Yanjing.

Because of the signs of concurrent inflammation during the operation, Friedrich Ebert stayed in Yenching for another month after taking antibiotics to stabilize his condition.

It was during this period that Friedrich Ebert finally made the decision to reorganize the German Labour Party by cooperating with the centrist and right-wing forces of the SPD with the German Labour Party, through his observations in Yenching, his overall assessment of China's economy, military and society, and his conversation with Hu Chuyuan.

The SPD is a leftist party with a general surname, and its centrist and right-wing forces are actually the German Labour Party, and the two are basically the same in terms of political program.

To be precise, the Ecumenical Party is a centrist party, somewhere between the right and the left.

(To be continued)