Early that morning, Edgar, editor-in-chief of the Bavarian Forward, had just sat down behind his desk when he heard a knock on the door outside before he could pour a glass of water into his glass.

"Ah, the door is not closed, come in by yourself." Edgar said with a grin. He has been in a good mood lately, because the recent strikes in their newspapers and in the newspaper Forward, which have been investigating accidents at chemical plants, are about to bear fruit: legislation to provide adequate compensation for workers injured at work is soon on the agenda, and regulations to strengthen safety management at chemical plants are beginning to be prepared. In short, since Bismarck's ouster, the situation of the workers has clearly changed for the better. Naturally, this made Edgar, who had been working for the workers' movement for decades, very happy.

The door was gently pushed open, and when Edgar saw Dena walk in, he immediately smiled and said to Dena, "Hi, Dena! Good morning. Ah, I've got your Aunt Emily's little biscuits, would you like a few? "In the newspaper, this newly-arrived little girl who works as a temporary reporter is very cute, she is not only beautiful, but also very good-hearted, and she is very talented and capable. To be honest, it is generally not easy for a girl like this to go as easily as she does to support the workers, to support the most humiliated, the most humiliated and trampled people. Because this is really too difficult a road, and a girl like Dena, with such good conditions, can choose an easier and more comfortable path. Among other things, Dena was a student at the University of Göttingen, and there was no shortage of family backs at that university. Jing, a very good young man. If a girl like Dena doesn't have a large number of suitors behind her, then Edgar absolutely doesn't believe it. Because he himself was young, he also played the guitar under the window of his beloved girl in the middle of the night. And, right now, several young male reporters at the newspaper are also clearly courteous to Dena. Among other things, since Dena came to the newspaper, the male reporters have dressed significantly more carefully than before. As for Dena's abilities, it has been made clear in recent reports of accidents at chemical plants. It is said that the authentic newspaper Forward has sent an invitation to Dena......

"Thank you, Mr. Edgar." Dena walked over to Edgar's desk and said to him apologetically, "I don't want to spoil your good mood, but I have bad news for you." ”

"What's wrong, Dena?" Edgar saw Dena's stern and serious look, and didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly asked.

"I got a bad news for the newspaper." Dena still said seriously, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if she was very worried.

"What's the news? Could it be that the government is preparing to shut down our newspapers again? Edgar asked with a smile at this time. Anyway, he and his colleagues don't have to shut down this newspaper too many times, everyone is used to it. Even, recently, their newspaper has been in continuous operation for almost a year, and it has not been seized for such a long time, which has made many old employees in the newspaper feel unaccustomed.

"The situation could be even worse than that, not only could our newspapers be seized, but some of our people could also be arrested and sent to jail. They may even be sentenced to long or even lifelong hard labor. Dena said.

This situation was strict, so Edgar was very surprised.

"Dena, who did you hear about it from. How is this possible? Although our recent reports have upset the authorities, even if Bismarck is still on stage, it will not be said that he will get to the point of imprisoning the newspaper and sentencing them to hard labor for life. At best, expulsion and exile. ”

"If it's just because of what we reported some time ago, it's really a seizure of our newspaper at most." "But if it's for this report, I think there's every reason why they're going to throw us in jail to feed the rats." ”

As she spoke, Dena placed a stack of manuscript paper in front of Edgar.

Edgar put on his glasses, then picked up the paper and read it carefully.

At the top was a press release, related to the accident they had reported before, at first glance it seemed to be just a follow-up report of that news, but further down, Edgar's face began to gradually change. Because the report makes it clear that the terrible use of these toxic chemicals - as a weapon to kill human beings. Moreover, in this report, Dena used a very scientific and very digital way to calculate the efficiency that can be achieved if these things are used as murder weapons.

"It only takes dozens of tons of poison to easily kill tens of thousands of people, or even turn a large city into a dead zone? This ......," Edgar's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Yes." "This was a crucial step in the preparations for a world war that the German Reich was taking." ”

Preparing for a world war is not a new phrase on the left. Especially in the school of Marxism. Because according to the basic tenets of Marxism, after the analysis of economic problems, the conclusion that world war is inevitable is already clear and clear. Engels, who is still alive, has predicted a possible world war more than once. However, a war of this magnitude is completely unthinkable for most people. So, while theoretically such a scenario is possible, or even inevitable, it is not easy to get people to accept it. In fact, even within the left, many people are not convinced that a war of this magnitude could really take place. As for those in the trade union faction, they directly denounced this statement as alarmist, and in their opinion, did not the capitalists know that a world war could eventually lead to disastrous consequences? Won't they compromise with each other? After all, in the eyes of people who are used to compromise, there is a way to compromise on everything.

"In fact, as far as I know, there is a good chance that other countries have similar plans. Even if not, it's nothing. Because almost all chemical plants in the world can easily produce something like this. "At least," replied, "I know that in the MacDonald Consortium's big room, there have been many things that are more effective at killing people than killing insects." In addition, the British and French will not be too bad in this regard. This thing is actually not very technically difficult, if you want, just give me a day to buy the ingredients, and I can even make something like this in your office. It is estimated that only Russia among the major powers will have problems in terms of production capacity. ”

"If that's the case, it's a terrible situation." Edgar said as he began to wonder if his newspaper should expose it. Obviously, if his newspaper exposed the matter, it would definitely be attacked by the German Imperial government. And this time it will not be as simple as a seizure, because the matter involves military secrets, and the imperial government can easily accuse them of treason, throw them in prison, and finally sentence them to hard labor for life. And, even more frighteningly, unlike before, in the past, even if their newspapers were shut down, those who supported them would continue to support them. And now, if they do publish such news, will the readers who were once loyal to them also think that they are traitors to the motherland?

"Think about it, if one day, the Imperial Government really uses this in the war, what will be the consequences?" "The militarists must have had this wishful thinking: first, they would want to use it and immediately scare their opponents, so that they would immediately kneel on the ground and kowtow, and then the war would be over." And they won. But this is certainly a delusion. Because, even if the opponent doesn't have this kind of thing now, it is not very difficult to make it temporarily. If you admit defeat, you may suffer more losses than if you continue to resist and quickly come up with something similar to fight back. Do you think, what Junker aristocrats did to fight France with something and really won, how can they ensure that France will not retaliate with similar things in the future? It could easily be made in any chemical plant, and in order to ensure that there would be no similar retaliation in the future, they would have to completely deindustrialize France. And is this something that France could possibly accept? Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to expect that one dozen will scare the opponent into surrendering. So both sides use this thing to slaughter each other, and aren't the proletarians who are deceived or forced to be cannon fodder die? After paying such a high price, the capitalists on the winning side can get much, much more, but what do the proletarians on the winning side get? Mr. Edgar, you can take a closer look at the editorial that follows me and then consider whether or not to publish these things. ”

Edgar listened, nodded, and continued to look at the editorial below without saying anything. In that editorial, Dena begins by arguing that the outbreak of the full-fledged emperor. Country. Host. The possibility and inevitability of a war between the righteous and the righteous, and then using historical facts to point out that such a war can only bring endless disasters to the proletariat of all countries. After that, she began to criticize the idea of relying on legitimate struggle, pinning hopes on compromise with the bourgeoisie, pursuing the "common good" and pursuing a "win-win" situation in the workers' movement, and accused those who advocated this idea of eventually becoming traitors to the proletarians, and when war came, they would side with the capitalists and deceive the proletarians into shedding blood for the bourgeoisie with nonsense such as "defending the motherland".

"'The proletarians have no homeland!' That's a great saying! Edgar read the editorial, then looked up at Dena and said, "It's hard to imagine that such an article could be written by a girl of this age." I remember I didn't know anything when I was that old. However, Dena, I can't send this article out for now...... Don't look at me like that, I mean, first of all, I'm going to prepare the rest of the people in the newspaper. Let my children, including you, leave the newspaper first - you know that this kind of article will involve a lot of people, and we are not afraid of sacrifice, but we must sacrifice as little as possible. Secondly, this is a good article that can be passed down to the world, and if it is marked with your name, I dare say, you will become famous in Europe instantly. But Dena, you have a great future, and you can't put yourself in danger because of that. For a revolutionary, fame is far less important than working for the revolution. You're better than me in this regard. So, allow me to change the name of the author of this article......"