Chapter 710: The Rise of Hitler
readx; "The people in Germany have reported on the second presidential election on the German side, in which the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany won a big victory. Hitler received a whopping thirty-seven percent of the vote. www.biquge.info According to this situation, it is only a matter of time before Hitler will rule Germany! Gu Weijun of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported to Chen Jingyun on the affairs of the German side.
To be honest, Gu Weijun didn't quite understand why Chen Jingyun paid so much attention to Germany, and this time of connection allowed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the German side in order to keep abreast of the latest developments in Germany. Although Germany can be regarded as an industrial power, in Gu Weijun's eyes, Germany is just an ordinary industrial power, and its impact on the world situation is extremely limited.
If Germany in World War I was still a world-class power, then after the defeat in World War I, and then being suppressed by Britain and France for ten years, even though it had a certain recovery in the mid-to-late twenties like the rest of the world, Germany at this time was different from Germany during World War I.
Naturally, he didn't know what the reason for Chen Jingyun's attention was to Germany.
Although Chen Jingyun has changed a lot of things in this era, there are still some things that he can't change or don't change, such as the defeat of Germany in World War I, and the rise of the German Nazi Party.
After the end of World War I, German lands were ceded and the Danzig Corridor was established to divide Germany proper and East Prussia in two. In the twenties, it was not easy for Germany to be economically, but in the mid-to-late twenties, a large injection of capital from the United States brought the German economy back to life.
However, after the economic explosion in 1929, the Americans took care of themselves and transferred a large amount of capital from foreign countries back to China, and in just two years, they drew about 20 billion marks of loans from Germany, and after a large number of loans were withdrawn, the German economy fell into collapse all of a sudden, banks collapsed, factories shut down, and workers lost their jobs, which almost immediately pushed Germany to the brink of economic collapse.
Before 1929, the Nazi Party in Germany had only about 100,000 members, but today the number of its members has exceeded 1 million, and in the 1930 parliamentary elections it received as many as 6.4 million votes, accounting for 18 of all votes. 3%, and the Nazis have now vowed to get more than 40 percent of the vote in the upcoming Reichstag elections in July.
The rapid rise of the Nazi Party is inseparable from the terrible economic situation in Germany, which has plummeted by 40% since the economic explosion, and the coal and steel production, which measure a country's industrial strength, have plummeted in this era: coal production has fallen by 32.7% and steel production by 65%. In addition, the output value of the machinery manufacturing industry, which is vital to the German industrial economy, fell by 62.1 percent, and the products could not be sold, so there was naturally no money to import, and Germany's import and export trade plummeted like the rest of the world, with a decline of as much as 70 percent.
In 1932, the number of industrialists exceeded 8 million, which still excluded those who worked as temporary workers, and if we added these people, there were more than 10 million people who did not have a stable income to maintain their lives, and the total population of Germany at that time was only tens of millions, and the economic crisis not only made ordinary workers industrial, but also hit small and medium-sized businessmen, craftsmen, etc. hard.
Germany at the time of economic crisis was a country full of anger and resentment, and in this context, Hitler used exaggerated gestures and language to describe a bright future for the Germans that no German could refuse, so people began to regard Hitler as the hope and savior of Germany, and the Nazi Party developed rapidly and grew rapidly in the parliament.
On July 31, 1932, in the new Reichstag elections, the Nazi Party received 38% of the votes and became the largest party in Germany. Even if it was German President Hindenburg who persuaded Hitler and Franz? Feng? Papen united to form a political axe, but Hitler sternly refused, claiming to be given the entire power of the state, which included everything.
At this point, no one could stop Hitler from ascending to the throne of the German Führer.
After learning that Hitler's Nazi Party had won the German Reichstag election, Chen Jingyun poured himself a small glass of wine in his office alone to celebrate.
Chen Jingyun's celebration is naturally not a sincere celebration of Hitler, in fact, Chen Jingyun does not have a good impression of Hitler, nor does he have a good impression of Germany, well, since this is said, in fact, Chen Jingyun does not have a good impression of any country in the world, including the country he single-handedly established.
He cares about his own interests, and this interest includes power, fame, money, everything he wants. The creation of this country, the development of this country, and the struggle against the so-called 'Ben and Soviet Russia' were largely for these reasons. As for the rejuvenation of China that he often says, the slogan is just talking, but it's really boring.
At the root of his life, he is an egoist.
But his personal interests are combined with the interests of the country, and he led the country to win the war, and if he wins, he can also reap huge benefits for himself. He has no shortage of money, he has power now, and his reputation is high enough, for Chen Jingyun, all that can be pursued is the posthumous name and some vanity or bad taste.
People's pursuits will be different at different stages, Chen Jingyun used to pursue power and fame, and now that he has these, he will begin to pursue vanity in his heart, such as leading China to become the hegemon of the earth? Another example is to get some nuclear bombs and throw them away, some things can only be understood but not spoken, and it is difficult to understand Chen Jingyun's thoughts without sitting in this position.
Such a person already regards the Republic of China as his private property, and the country belongs to him, not that he belongs to the state.
Now he seems to be playing a strategic game, running the country, developing strength, and striving for hegemony on the earth, pursuing the happiness in his heart, as for saving the Chinese nation, it is only incidental.
And in this world strategy game, there are so many players, and he Chen Jingyun is just one of them. Chen Jingyun, who has regarded all countries in the world as potential hostile countries, is naturally very happy to see Germany fall into the abyss of hell, and only when Germany starts a madness under the leadership of Hitler's madman and then messes up the whole of Europe, can he fish in troubled waters. If Germany had not provoked a world war, he Chen Jingyun would not have the confidence to start a world war on China alone.
Although I knew that Hitler's people would set off a bloody storm in Europe, it was still too early, and China couldn't do nothing and sit back and watch the world war fight so lively, and wait until the right time to intervene in the world war, you have to have enough strength, otherwise no one will look at you if you learn from Cixi's declaration of war on the world.
So when Hitler was messing around in Germany, Chen Jingyun also put a lot of energy into domestic construction.
In 1930, after Chen Jingyun returned to power, he successively issued a series of policies to revitalize the industrial economy, in order to avoid the impact of the sharp decline in import and export trade, Chen Jingyun vigorously developed the domestic market, and used the expansion of demand to digest and stimulate the development of the domestic industrial economy.
China's population is already large, although because of the low income of most people in China, resulting in its own industrial market is not large, but after more than ten years of China's economic revival, the domestic market has expanded a lot, coupled with the existence of trade barriers, China can not export, but foreign goods can not enter the Chinese market, this part of the imported market is squeezed by domestic products, so that the domestic industry is also relieved and continue to develop.
Although the Sino-Chinese War broke out in the middle, although the Sino-Chinese War, which lasted for nearly half a year, affected China's economy to a certain extent, but the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, and the stimulation of military production stimulated the development of domestic light and heavy industries for a short time, especially the heavy industries related to the national defense industry developed rapidly.
After the end of the war in 1931, China's domestic demand continued to increase, and after entering 1932, China promulgated several plans to stimulate industrial development, and domestic infrastructure construction entered a larger scale, which led to large-scale growth in all aspects of China's industries.
Taking the steel industry of the country's industrial base as an example, before the outbreak of the economic crisis, that is, in 1928, China's steel output was only about 5 million tons, and in 1929, because the outbreak of the economic crisis affected the growth of the steel industry, the steel output in 1929 was 5.3 million tons. However, by 1930, Chen Jingyun introduced a series of economic reform policies, among which a large amount of infrastructure construction led to the explosive growth of the steel industry, reaching a huge 7 million tons. In 1931, due to the Sino-Chinese war and the continuous acceleration of domestic infrastructure, steel production reached 8 million tons. Economic development is expected to be able to break through the 10 million ton mark this year, in 1932.
In 1931, China's steel output only ranked fourth in the world after the United States, Germany, and France, which is already a veritable world steel power, surpassing the Soviet Union and Russia a lot.