A carriage escorted by cavalry drove straight along the Untalinden Boulevard, which runs through the center of Berlin, to the Royal Palace in the East End. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The breath exhaled by the tall Hanoverian horse flowed like a white mist in the cold air, the black, white, and red flag of the German Empire and the Prussian flag with a black eagle on a white background fluttered in the wind, and the metal decorations on the tops of military hats and spears glistened silver in the sun.

Pedestrians on the side of the road watched the procession and whispered on the side of the road.

"That's Your Excellency Prime Minister......"

"That's Prince Chillingsfest......"

The Chancellor of Hohenlohe-Chillingsfirst, who was also a member of the Bavarian royal family, and was titled Marquis Hornlohe-Chillingsfister and Prince Latibaut Corvi, was a low-level civil official, wearing a crisp suit and shooting eagle-sharp eyes from the carriage window. He seemed to be bothered by something, and his face was as cold as a rock, and his expression was serious.

It's no wonder, three years ago the Reich Prime Minister Leo? Feng? The resignation of Count Caprivey, as his successor, Hohenlohe-Chillingsfest, has been trying to prevent or compensate for the unnecessary damage caused by Kaiser Wilhelm II's fanatical religious sentiments, and many diplomatic and domestic problems have already exhausted him at the age of eighty.

On the side of the road, two Orientals also stopped, staring at the carriage and cavalry galloping in front of them.

"Yi Mingjun, that is the prime minister of the German Empire."

Shibata Yoshi's young man said to his companion.

It was early in the morning of January 7, 1897, and although it was cold, Berlin had a rare winter sunshine. For Berliners accustomed to the winter haze. Today is indeed a good day. Because of this, the streets are more lively than yesterday.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the alley beside the road, mixed with roars and hurried footsteps, and a young man with unkempt blond hair rushed into the street frantically, and several police officers followed with red faces.

The young German, exhausted, gasped for breath and staggered towards the prime minister's motorcade. The cavalry escorting the carriage immediately rushed out to block the youth. The police officer also caught up in time, and scolded and subdued the young man with all hands and feet.

The carriage carrying Chillingsfest drove away from the scene at the same speed as if nothing had happened, and the cavalry who had been out of line for a while galloped back to their original posts.

"Get up! You anarchist! ”

A police officer dragged the young man up and slapped him hard. This action was like some kind of signal, and several fists immediately slammed down on the young man's chin, lips, and chest, and the beating was staged directly and without hesitation.

"Let you taste the bitterness."

"You socio-democratic devil!"

The beaten young man, whose nose and lips were bleeding, glared at the police officer with hot eyes, and then pointed to the Brandenburg Gate, which stood on the west side, and roared loudly with all his strength:

"One day, the flag of internationalism will fly high at the top of that gate. Someday, you're going to see ......"

"Shut up! You madman. ”

"It's still crazy."

The officer rained down again. Soon dragged the fainted young man away.

The two Orientals who witnessed this scene from beginning to end looked at each other unconsciously. For them, who are immersed in their studies, they do not understand or even care about the German folk ideology, and they are more concerned with the fate of their own country than the chaotic trends of thought in Europe.

"Yi Mingjun, does that person want to endanger the prime minister?"

Although naturalized as a Chinese four years ago, Shibata still speaks with Japanese habits.

"This ...... Maybe he was being hunted down and happened to rush over. ”

Lin Weizhi just casually coped with it, because the weather was very good today, he would leave the hotel and enjoy the winter sunshine, of course, more importantly, he would soon leave Germany, in fact, the reason why he came to Berlin was to wait for the graduation of his classmates at the University of Berlin.

Five years ago, the first batch of international students sent that year, although most of them were concentrated in Germany, were scattered all over Germany. Meyer's tutelage studied chemistry, like Shibata, who had been sent as an international student three years earlier, at the University of Berlin.

Although Shibata Yoshiki is two years older than Lin Weizhi, and the two are neither in the same school, nor are they different, but because of his attainments in chemistry, he became friends with Lin Weizhi as early as two years ago, and even in Lin Weizhi's opinion, he failed to enter Victor? Meyer's disciples, it is indeed a pity.

"I don't know anything about the social democrats."

Shibata Yoshiba looked confused.

"But what is internationalism?"

"I don't know very well, it seems to be the doctrine of the Jews, it's class anyway, whatever, oh, it seems that the internationalists have no homeland, and no nation, and it seems that Bismarck has been quite troubled with these people since he was prime minister."

"It's strange that they are so dissatisfied, in such a superior civilized society?"

"Well, isn't that what it is?"

When he was at Heisenberg University, Lin Weizhi listened to a lecture by the social democrats, but it was purely out of curiosity, and he did not fully understand their ideas, let alone obey their beliefs.

For young people who had just escaped from the slavery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and had not received the baptism of modern civil society until the Tongwen Academy, it was really something that was too different in level and too stimulating, and it was not something that those of them who studied at public expense should be exposed to. Of course, more importantly, the so-called internationalism is fundamentally in conflict with the people he believes in.

However, when Lin Weizhi looked at the Brandenburg Gate in front of him and the golden statue of the Goddess of Victory Tower opposite it, his chest was stirring with the shouts of the young man just now.

"Is that really just crazy talk?"

He muttered to himself on his lips.

"What did you say?"

"The young man said that one day the banner of internationalism would be hung on that door. Do you dare to say that there will never be such a day in the future? ”

"I find it hard to imagine. …… How did you come up with such a thing? ”

"The changes in history are really drastic. Take, for example......

Lin Weizhi stared at the Brandenburg gate again. At the end of the 18th century, it was designed by Ranghans on the basis of the gates of the Athenian temple. Then the magnificent gate with the bronze statue of the ancient chariot made by Schader is the symbol and pride of Berlin, but ......

"In the autumn of 1806, when France defeated Prussia, Napoleon entered the city through that gate in high spirits, and brought the bronze statue of the ancient chariot back to Paris to commemorate the victory."

"Well, I've heard about that, too."

"But. History has now been completely reversed, you see! ”

Lin Weizhi pointed to the gorgeous golden statue of the goddess glittering in the morning light, which proudly told the world of Prussia's three victories in the Victory Memorial Tower in Kennesses Square. Prussia, which had won the war against Denmark in 1864 and the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, went to war with France in 1870 and subdued Napoleon III.

"Think about it, in 1860, how many people could have foreseen the fall of Napoleon III in just a few years? At that time, who could have imagined that Prussia would become the great power of Europe today? ”

"You're right, we really can't predict the future of the world, the only thing we know for sure. Human science is constantly improving. ”

Shibata Yoshiba doesn't seem to be very interested in history, and makes conclusions about what he has said. In fact, this may have a lot to do with the fate of Japan, which ten years ago would have thought that Japan would one day become history, and history is always full of too many uncertainties.

But Lin Weizhi still thought about the somewhat gloomy side face of the German prime minister just now, and continued to recall the history after the nineteenth century.

In 1812 Napoleon's failed expedition to Moscow and fled back to Paris. When the nations that had previously submitted to him heard of the defeat of the French army, they rebelled. In March 1814, the coalition invaded Paris, and in May exiled the abdicated Napoleon to the island of Elba.

In order to straighten out post-war Europe, Austrian Chancellor Metternich proposed the convening of the Vienna Conference. Due to the conflicting interests of various countries, the conclusion has been delayed. At the end of February 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba Island and landed near Cannes, and in March he sneaked back to Paris to re-ascend the throne, but was defeated again at the Battle of Waterloo in June, ending his Hundred Days regime. In October, Napoleon was exiled to the distant island of St. Helena, ending his lonely but magnificent life six years later.

During this period, the countries panicked by Napoleon's resurgence finally reached an agreement, and the final agreement of the Vienna Conference was signed on June 8, 15. At this time, Germany drew a lot, and under Metternich's scheme, it was divided into thirty-nine countries.

However, Prutu, whose national power had grown significantly, became the leader of the North German Customs Union in 1819, and gradually assumed leadership for the unification of Germany. In 1861, Wilhelm I ascended the throne, promoted Bismarck as prime minister, Moltke as chief of staff, and won the aforementioned three wars in a row under the "iron and blood policy" of these two men.

In January 1871, Wilhelm I finally became the hereditary emperor of the German Empire, a federal organization in which the constituent states retained their respective thrones and legions, and were essentially a unified state.

In May of the same year, Bismarck became the first chancellor of the Reich, and in order to prevent French revenge, he carried out a clever foreign policy, forming alliances with countries one by one, bringing the so-called "Bismarck Peace" to Europe. At home, however, he was plagued by years of antagonism with the Catholics, and even more so by the growing power of the Social Democrats.

Seven years ago, the high-ranking chancellor was forced to resign as chancellor, and in the following seven years, Germany seemed to be getting stronger day by day, but behind the power of internal turmoil was inevitable, in just seven years, there have been two chancellors, before that, it was almost unthinkable.

The future is really unpredictable, a hundred years from now, no, even ten years from now, the fate of Germany is unpredictable, and not only that, but even what will happen to itself in a year is unknown.

Lin Weizhi sighed unconsciously.

This is his last year studying in Germany. At most, after graduation, they will take a cruise ship from Asia Europe Cruise Line, not because it is the cheapest, but because it is a cruise company in the Northeast, a company specializing in shipping between Asia and continental Europe. The German office will naturally be inclined to work in "its own people".

Return!

When he left five years ago, he longed for the day when he returned to China, but now, when he was about to return to China, he became anxious when he thought of the university position waiting for him when he returned to China.

Lately, he has been plagued by some kind of pent-up emotion, and often spends sleepless nights in an unbearable sense of emptiness...... He feared that he would be disappointed, because they carried too much hope - the national, the national and, of course, the handsome.

He casually looked at the side of his companion, Shibata Yoshiba had long forgotten about the social democrats, and his expression seemed to be a little distracted—probably thinking about chemistry again!

What a happy man!

At least now, like his previous self, he is fully immersed in chemistry and studying hard to bring the most advanced German chemistry knowledge back to China.

Lin Weizhi thought so. He himself had tasted the satisfaction of his life of study and research, but now he felt that such days had suddenly become a distant past, and now, he was about to return home, and soon, a new battlefield would await him, waiting for him to prove that he was worthy of the great wealth that his country had spent on cultivating him. But he was a little frightened in his heart, because he was afraid that he would be ashamed of the nation.

"Yi Mingjun, have you ever considered a question?"

Suddenly, Shibata Yoshiki asked Lin Weizhi beside him. Facing Shibata Yoshi, who seemed to be honest in appearance, his expression at this time seemed a little excited. Sometimes, some thoughts always come to people's minds, just like now, a sudden thought comes to his mind at this moment.

"Just now, you mentioned history, and I can't help but think that if it were not for the victory in the Franco-Prussian War, how could there be today's German Empire? Who will take Germany seriously? Therefore, if you want to become a strong country, you must defeat a strong country on the battlefield! ”

Shibata Yoshishi did not directly say his thoughts, but looked at Brandenburg in an exclamatory tone, and then suddenly changed the conversation again.

"In other words, in the future, we will definitely have to fight with the Western powers, but how can we fight them? The demise of Japan has proved that relying on the weak national strength cannot confront the Western powers, and the fate of Asia has completely fallen on the shoulders of China, yes, as the previous person said, each of us should abandon the decadent and old view of the state, of course, China, Japan, and Korea are of the same species and the same language, how can they be compared with Western ghosts and animals......"

Lin Weizhi was slightly surprised by Shibata's words, but just looked at him and waited for him to continue.

"Hmm...... I thought, since war is inevitable, is it possible that chemistry, chemistry, can be used in war? (To be continued.) )