Lin Youde did not join the discussion of his classmates, he quickly washed up and returned to the room with his utensils, and as soon as he went up to the third floor, he saw Viola standing in the stairwell on the third floor, looking impatient.

"What's going on down there?"

"Mukden is lost." Lin Youde replied succinctly.

Viola then asked, "Is that a very important city?" ”

"It was the capital of an administrative region of the Ming Empire, which was 200,000 square kilometers larger than the mainland area of the German Empire at its peak."

"Eh, it's that big...... Viola didn't hide her surprise at all, "then the loss of this city is really a serious problem." Or ......"

"No matter what we international students do, we can't change the fact that Mukden has been lost." Lin Youde shrugged, "Let's go, it's not good to miss the train." ”

Viola stared at Lin Youde for a few seconds, and asked in a slightly puzzled tone, "You came to Germany to seek a strategy to revitalize your country, right?" Contributing to me doesn't do your country any good. You're probably trying to soak me back, are you? ”

Lin Youde said, "That must be one of the alternatives", but said: "I haven't felt good about myself yet." ”

Viola was still staring at Lin Youde, as if waiting for him to continue, but at this time, there was a car horn downstairs, and it seemed that the car that came to pick up Viola had arrived.

The girl directly snatched the toiletry in Lin Youde's hand and stuffed it to the maid waiting behind her.

"Let's go."

After saying that, the girl took the lead and walked down the stairs.

**

After getting into the car, Lin Youde saw that Viola was still in a state of relief, so he said to her: "I also have realistic considerations for helping you, first of all, I may be able to put my ideas into practice in Germany and see how they actually work......

"If you want to use Germany as a testing ground, aren't you afraid that I will let the driver drive into the forest and bury you now?"

Lin Youde shrugged.

Second, it now seems that the independence of Yingzhou is almost a certainty, and the British are now presumably celebrating, but then they will have to face the problem that the newly independent Yingzhou will continue to increase its influence in East Asia. The British are expected to switch from supporting Yingzhou's independence to neutrality, and even secretly supporting the Ming Empire, and they are quite skilled in playing this game. If the leaders of the Yingzhou people do not see this step, it is impossible for them to play the Ming Dynasty in the political and military struggle. ”

In fact, Lin Youde is not very sure whether the people of Yingzhou can see through this, and in his original world, there are many high-level fools in Japan, all over the political, economic, and military worlds. For example, Japan has been studying the exploitation of oil shale in Fushun, and they have introduced Estonian technology, but found that Estonian technology has ventilation problems when processing shale oil in large quantities, and the product fully meets the requirements of the Navy's Deshan Fuel Research Institute during small-scale trial production.

Later, the head of the fuel section of the Fushun factory, Abu two pigs - oh no, Abu Ryonosuke invented the pickling method, which can solve the impurity problem almost perfectly, but will cause the production to drop by ten percent. It stands to reason that most people will choose the pickling method in the face of this situation, after all, there is no choice between 90% of the usable and all unusable, but the Japanese bureaucracy thinks that wasting 10% of the output in vain is an unforgivable act, and rejects Abu's pickling method, and continues to produce high-impurity shale oil that cannot be used at all, until 1943, when they were about to lose, they decided to switch to the pickling method......

Strange things like this were commonplace in Japan in the last time and space, so Lin Youde was not very sure if the Japanese would see through Britain's next move, but this did not prevent him from telling Viola his thoughts.

Viola nodded after listening to Lin Youde's words: "It makes sense, no wonder since Yingzhou gained partial autonomy in the Second Sino-British War, they have been sending students to our Germany and the neighboring France. ”

Lin Youde couldn't help frowning, what the hell is this Second Sino-British War, is the Second Opium War a copy here? Since he didn't know the specific situation, Lin Youde decided to keep silent for the first time, and made up his mind to go back and make up for the recent history of this world.

Since Lin Youde remained silent, Viola waited a few seconds before continuing: "So, do you think that after independence, Yingzhou will turn to Germany for support to counter the British?" ”

"This is the most reasonable, Germany lost all its interests in Asia in the last war, and His Majesty Wilhelm III would like to have a chance for Germany to return to Asia, right?"

Viola nodded, but immediately changed her words: "But then it doesn't make sense for you to approach me, my current position is very delicate, and it is unlikely that I will gain the ability to influence the Empire's diplomatic strategy in the future." If your aim is to prevent Germany from supporting independent Yingzhou, it would be too inefficient to approach me. ”

"Actually, I didn't think that far ahead at first," Lin Youde shrugged, "at first I was just trying to avoid turning myself into fertilizer in the Black Forest, or fish food in the North Sea. What I just told you about came to me after convincing you to hire me. ”

"You're so honest." Viola shook her head, "Aren't you afraid that my opinion of you will be lowered?" ”

"I don't think you're so stupid as to lower your opinion of a guy for telling the truth."

"I'll give eight points for this sycophant just now."

Lin Youde was about to reply, but the scene outside the window attracted his attention.

A large number of people dressed in low- and middle-income classes were running in the same direction, as if something terrible was chasing them behind them, and more people were emerging from the alleys next to the street, joining the flood in a steady stream.

"What happened?" Viola also leaned over and looked out the window on Lin Youde's side, the smell of perfume on her body penetrated into Lin Youde's nostrils, and a few strands of golden hair hung down from her ears and fell on Lin Youde's collar.

At this time, Lin Youde saw people moving against the flow of people, and those people were holding burlap bags that looked quite weighty, and their faces were full of joy.

Immediately after, the truck full of the sacks came into Lin Youde's field of vision, and many people crowded next to the truck, all holding the crumpled Reichsmark in their outstretched hands. A man dressed as a soldier stood at the very edge of the truck body, collecting the marks that were delivered to him, while directing the two workers in the truck to carry the sacks out and hand them to the payers.

Suddenly, two hands wrapped in different sleeves grabbed a sack at the same time, and the next moment the scramble occurred, and the white flour poured out of the torn sack, making the faces of the people huddled next to the car body, but this did not make the crowd retreat half a minute.

Viola, like Lin Youde, looked at all this attentively, probably in order to see more clearly, she leaned forward, pressed her hands on Lin Youde's knees, and the whole person was about to lie on Lin Youde.

At this point, the driver seemed to be intent on offering his courtesy, and opened his mouth to explain to Viola: "The Munich City Council has decided to partially release flour and wheat flour from government reserves in order to alleviate the negative sentiment caused by rising prices in recent months, and distributions like this have already been carried out several times in the past two weeks, Miss Sidranny. ”

Viola just glanced at the driver, didn't speak, and continued to watch the crowd outside the car snap up the flour until the car turned another corner.

Viola, who sat back in her seat, stared at Lin Youde for a long time before she whispered, "You guy......"

Lin Youde also looked at Viola and said half-jokingly: "You hired me for this money, is it worth the money?" ”

Viola shrugged her shoulders: "Who knows, maybe that scene just now is just a temporary phenomenon." ”

After that, Lin Youde and Viola chatted about some inconsequential topics, and the car came to the Munich train station. Before getting on the train, Viola said to Lin Youde: "Tomorrow remember to remind me to arrange for someone to go to the bank to exchange the mark for gold." ”

"I thought you had already arranged for someone to do it today."

"The bank won't open today, you idiot!"

**

When Lin Youde and his entourage arrived in Dessau, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening.

However, the temperature in Dessau is much higher than that in Munich, which makes Lin Youde quite surprised, he believes that Dessau, which is higher in latitude than Munich, should be very cold according to his inertial thinking, so he also wrapped a scarf before getting off the train, and was ridiculed by Viola.

Another surprise to Lin Youde was that there were still many people on Dessau Street after ten o'clock, and most of them were Asians with yellow skin and black hair.

Viola, who has been to Dessau many times, explained: "Dessau does not have many military industries, so Ming students who come to study industrial technology like to run here, because it is relatively easy to get the opportunity to enter the factory for apprenticeship. According to the old technicians in the factory, Dessau has often seen yellow people since sixty or seventy years ago. ”

But Lin Youde soon discovered that Viola had made a mistake.

"These are not Ming people." Lin Youde pointed to a small group of yellow people gathered on the side of the road to celebrate something outside the car window and said, "Do you see the wine jug they are holding in their hands, it is the ...... The sake of Yingzhou, they are Yingzhou people, in celebration of the capture of Mukden. ”

"Is that so?" Viola leaned on Lin Youde again, stretched her neck to look out, "But it's a man written on that bottle." ”

"Yes, but I know it's sake."

"Well, I didn't know what to do before."

"I've been paying attention to the yellow people on the road since I first started, and almost all of them are celebrating, they should all be from Yingzhou." Lin Youde retracted his gaze and sighed softly, "According to what you said, the people of Yingzhou have been learning techniques in Dessau since sixty or seventy years ago, and it seems that the people of Yingzhou started much earlier than our Ming Dynasty in terms of learning from the West." ”

- That's right, it's the same as the original world.