Chapter 386: The Children's Training Ground (5)
Alice had been worried that Miss Dena would suddenly play with her and disappear. ¤ But this concern seems unwarranted, for after leaving Paris, Mademoiselle de Na behaved normally. She first took the train to Germany and spent two days in Frankfurt, where she visited a Russian friend in Germany whom Ms. Sophia had introduced, an anarchist named Sergei.
In Europe of this era, anarchism was as popular as socialism, and even in the era of the First International, anarchists were an important part of the First International. Although it differed from the orthodox Marxist views, there were many contradictions, and there were even repeated struggles for the leadership of the First International. In any case, this faction, at least for the time being, belongs to a revolutionary force that can be united.
However, Dena's opinion of these people is not very high. Sergei was a good man with the temperament of a poet, as many anarchists do, and this is especially true of the anarchists in Russia. Sergei, for example, seems to have a very radical idea, he advocated the elimination of the upper rulers, represented by the Russian Tsar, by means of guò assassination, forcing them to "surrender to the people".
Before going to Europe, I already had a certain understanding of the various "socialist" or "anarchist" or "anarchosocialist" guys in Europe. In her opinion, the ideas of people like Sergei seem radical on the surface, but in fact they are extremely weak in nature. The reason why they chose assassination is essentially to avoid a truly fierce life-and-death battle between one class and another. Sergei told Dena that they did not want an age of terror like that of Jacobin or Robespierre. But others she knew didn't think so. There were Marxists who decided that the complete elimination of the antagonistic bourgeoisie was inevitable.
"If we want to bury the capitalist system and achieve socialism, we must violently deprive the capitalists of the means of production, because they cannot hand them over by themselves. A large part of the reason for the failure of the Paris Commune was that we did not decisively confiscate the Bank of France by force, which gave them more opportunities to fight back. Of course, they will not voluntarily withdraw from the stage of history, they will fight back, just like the Bourbons fought back after the bourgeois revolution. No, it is more intense, because the landlords and aristocrats can become capitalists, but the capitalists are by no means willing to become ordinary laborers! This was what Dena told her from a socialist named Aderson whom she met in Paris, and Dena felt that it made sense. How is it possible to count on assassination to overthrow class by class? Not to mention the entire bourgeoisie, even a certain capitalist, such as her uncle Scrooge, even if you assassinate him a hundred times, it is impossible to scare him into giving up his assets voluntarily. On the issue of defending their assets, whether it is Scrooge, or Morgan, or Rockefeller, they are much more determined than Sergei.
After leaving Frankfurt and taking another day's train, Dena met her destination, the small German city of Göttingen.
Göttingen is a small town in every sense of the word, and it can even be called a small town. Even in the 21st century, the city had a population of only about 100,000, and the population at this time was even smaller, with only 40,000 or 50,000 people in the city. Göttingen has some unbeatable advantages over other German cities. For example, at least in this day and age, you won't find a better town in Germany than Göttingen.
Most of the other German cities were filled with noise and commotion, with billowing black smoke chimneys and deafening noises from factory machinery. However, in Göttingen, this qiē does not exist zài. This is not because the government of the German Empire is particularly concerned about the environment in Göttingen, nor is it because the people of Göttingen themselves are environmentally conscious. Rather, it is because the conditions of Götting's own industrial development are not as good as those of other regions.
However, this leaves an extremely beautiful environment for this university town. The Lena (a tributary of the Rhine) flows slowly through the city, and the water is clear and sparkling. But there is only one section of the river that flows northward, and before it has time to join the Rhine, it has already passed through several industrial areas, and then when it finally flows into the Rhine, it has become as muddy as the water of the Rhine.
It was still early when the train arrived in Göttingen. Following Ms. Sophia's instructions, Dena and Alice first went to Sonya's landlord who had been studying here and rented a small room. The old lady still remembers Ms. Sophia, who stayed here.
"Sophia was the first woman to get a Ph.D., and for that alone, I won't forget her." The old lady smiled and said to Dena and Alice, "I didn't expect that after so many years, two more girls would come to me. I really wish you had a chance to break her record as well. When the time comes, I will be able to boast to everyone that there are three female doctors in this hut of mine. To be honest, it's not easy for girls to come here to study. Over the years, however, the number of female students in the university has gradually increased. ”
"Are there a lot of female students at the University of Göttingen now?" Dena asked curiously.
"Ah, of course it's not much compared to male students." The old lady smiled and replied, "As far as I know, the whole school does not count the number of female students on two fingers. But it's a lot more than Sophia. Sophia, at that time, she was the only girl in the whole school. You know, it's not easy. But you're also amazing, Sophia already had a husband to take care of her, and you're still a child. It's not easy...... Ah, you must be tired from the train you just got off the train, and there is a bathroom over there, which is shared by the tenants. There's no one right now, there's hot water over there, you can go take a shower and get some sleep. ”
"Thank you, that's what I thought." Dena replied.
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A few days later, Dena officially entered the mathematics department of the University of Göttingen, and Alice was not academic enough to study mathematics at the University of Göttingen. However, the University of Göttingen has other majors, and in order to complete the task of protecting Dena, Alice received two years of surgical education at the University of Cleveland in advance, and now she has entered the medical school in Göttingen under the banner of an exchange student. Since then, Dena has lived a fairly regular life, going to school every day, and sometimes going to other cities in Germany with Alice on Sundays. At least to Andy, who is secretly protecting her, it seems that Miss Dena doesn't plan to play hide and seek with them.
As the landlady said, there are only ten women at the University of Göttingen today, and there is only one in the mathematics department. In addition, Dena herself is not bad, although she is not a natural beauty, and she cannot reach the level of disaster for the country and the people, but a girl appeared in the mathematics department composed entirely of boys, which is like a female disciple suddenly accepted in the Shaolin Temple. And compared to Sophia many years ago, Dena is younger, and she has no husband, not even a boyfriend, which naturally makes a group of juniors look at it twice. Moreover, Dena's grades have always been good, and her unique self-reliance and self-improvement are also particularly attractive. So much so that one professor even joked that Dena's influence in the mathematics department is now close to Gauss's, and her classmates often refer to Dena in private as "our George Sand" or simply "Her Majesty the Queen". It's just that although there are many suitors, there is no one who can really enter Dena's eyes.
Time passed slowly. In the blink of an eye, Dena had been in Göttingen for more than a year. The year was very peaceful, and the only thing that could be regarded as a big event was in March of this year, when the German Emperor Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck, the iron-blooded chancellor.
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"The German tank is finally getting out of control." After hearing the news, Scrooge said to his family, "Bismarck has been trying to bring a halter to Germany, control its **, and don't let it run wild, and finally the car will be destroyed and killed." However, the need for capital is by no means something that he alone can control. No matter how high his prestige and clever means are, in the face of such a general trend, what he can do is actually very limited. Over the years, German industry has been unfolding too fast, and the traditional German market can no longer absorb their productive forces, and they have no way out but to expand. ”
When later generations look at this period of German history, they often feel that if it were not for Wilhelm II, who not only had physical problems, but also had brain problems, he kicked Bismarck away, and then stupidly began to storm the navy to stimulate the British, and would not have forced the British into an alliance between France and Russia, and would not have led to the explosion of World War I, and would not have lost the country because of this.
Later generations always like to be hindsight, but in fact, because of the lack of understanding of the socio-economic situation at that time, they often think that they are Zhuge when they are actually just pig brothers. In fact, the options before Kaiser Wilhelm II were rather limited. If there is no expansion, what will happen to the goods produced by Germany's excess productive forces, and to whom will they be sold? The discontent in the country has become more and more severe, and the socialists are increasingly active in Germany, and even in the parliamentary elections after Bismarck's resignation, socialists and anarchists suddenly won several times as many votes and seats as before. If we don't expand, it won't be long before there will be a revolution in Germany.
"There's no problem with Dena, right?" Catherine asked.
"No, it's still early before the war. This is not the beginning of the war, it is just that the war is beginning to prepare. Scrooge said.
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