Chapter 26 026 Don't Underestimate Liberal Arts Students!
On May 15, 1930, the fortieth day of Lin Youde's passage to this parallel world, the German Republic was proclaimed in Munich, officially raising the anti-flag to the German Imperial Government in Berlin.
Under the slogan "Regain the fruits of labor", the wave of revolution swept through the more industrially developed regions of the southern and central German Empire. On the afternoon of the first day of the establishment of the Republican government, the Kingdom of Bagolia declared its support for the Republic, and all its subordinate Knights of War Queens switched to the Cogged Teuton Cross Flag of the Republic. Only a day later, Württemberg, Baden, and other southern principalities also declared their support for the government of the Republic, and a week later, the Kingdom of Saxony joined, and the knights of the kingdom of War Queens departed from Dresden to Leipzig on the same day, and when the Republican vanguard with a cog bar cross entered Dessau, the vehicles were still painted with the marks of the German Empire.
By 15 June, the southern states of the German Empire had completely fallen into the Republic.
The reason for this situation is that Lin Youde has a lot of credit. In the "café attack", he advised in advance the evacuation of the gathered party leaders, so that the first and second men of the regional branches were spared - of course, thanks to the strict Germans who had planned their evacuation sequences in advance, and the good habit of maintaining order and discipline in the face of crisis.
On June 16, the Federal Foreign Office of the German Empire issued a telegram claiming that hopes for reconciliation had faded and that the German Emperor Wilhelm III had ordered a general mobilization.
But by this time the government of the German Reich itself was in a deep quagmire. The financial crisis in the United States, which began at the end of 1929, had already affected Germany, and the German government had to take a series of economic measures to try to avoid a recession in the country, but the current situation showed that these measures had no effect except to empty the imperial treasury.
The original wishful thinking of the North German capitalists was to sell the South German gang in exchange for concessions from the Junker aristocracy, gain more power, and then annex the property of the South German guys, and finally save themselves from the economic crisis. Originally, their wishful thinking was very likely to come true, no matter how good Viola's blonde little girl's bloodline was, she still had no chance of winning in the face of the fully armed three princesses without being armed, and the only end was to gradually exhaust her physical strength and spirit in the battle, and then be captured.
It is a pity that the sudden appearance of the "unexpected factor" completely shattered the dreams of the North German capitalists.
Goddesses from the East - only they have animal ears and tails.
The Ming Empire immediately telegraphed and said: Our fox will spit out beads, and the battle will also use more beads from birth, this is not a fox made in China who comes up to use physical arts, you ask the island country that has just become independent.
Yingzhou, who had just announced the establishment of Japan, said: We haven't had a fox fairy god for a long time, and it must be a god sent by the Ming Empire and then blame us.
The war of words between the two sides brought the armistice negotiations to a complete stalemate.
But this has little to do with Germany, which is half a world away.
For the capitalists of North Germany, it did not matter where this oriental goddess came from, what mattered was that she had caused great losses to herself. Not only was the goal of annexing South Germany's assets unattainable in one fell swoop, but it also had to face the whip in the hands of the imperial government called the "war tax".
However, they did not have a place to complain, because the betrayed southern states would certainly not spare them, and if the German Reich government lost, it was their betrayers who would be purged first.
But in the stock market crash a month ago, the capitalists in North Germany had just suffered a heavy blow, and a great deal of wealth had been wiped out, and at this time the reich had not been able to scrape together enough military spending to meet the expectations of the imperial government, and the Reichstag had no choice but to propose to the cabinet to lend money to the foreign powers.
But at this time the great powers were busy dealing with their own messes, and only Britain, in order to prevent Russia from taking the opportunity to collude with Germany, verbally promised to provide low-interest loans, but it was estimated that the money would have to wait until the autumn to arrive.
Another problem facing the government of the German Empire was the number of goddesses.
In the last war, although the gods of European countries did not die much, they were injured a lot, and even some girls completely lost the ability to go to the battlefield and fight with the enemy gods, and could only be used to suppress ordinary armies with only conventional weapons - in the words of martial arts novels, the internal strength is completely wasted, and only external strength can be used to fight third-rate gangsters.
And Germany as a defeated country, the loss of the goddess is more serious than the victorious country, now there are only three goddesses under the rule of the imperial government, the eldest princess is only twenty years old, she was less than ten years old in the last war, although before the defeat was forced by the situation to put on a posture of fighting with the British big sister, but in fact, at that time, the same exhausted Britain was already secretly contacting Germany and preparing to negotiate peace with Germany alone.
Later, the eight-year-old goddess did not wait for the opportunity to go to war, and the battle was over.
After the end of the war, the surviving Hindenburg and other gods were courteous, according to the Treaty of Versailles, they would "retire for the rest of their lives" in Liechtenstein, in order to make this statement look like that, Britain and France also sent their old gods who had been scarred by the war to Liechtenstein, and provided these old people with a good life comparable to that of the emperor.
According to the Treaty of Versailles, the remaining young goddesses in Germany and other countries had to study in England and France, and only the eldest princess was left to the German Imperial Government to stabilize the situation. Later, three of the four infant goddesses who had been hidden in the last moments of the German Empire's defeat were discovered, and they were sent to France at the strong request of France, and the French government still shows no sign of letting them back.
So the German Imperial Government had only three Divine Queens who could fight against the two Divine Queens owned by the Southern German Republic Government, and to make matters worse, the Second Princess of the Reich, Catherine, was also a supporter of the Pan-German Union Party, and although she betrayed her comrades together with the members of the Prussian branch of the Pan-German Union Party, no one guaranteed that she would not regret it and betray the Imperial Government in the future.
On 20 June, the Government of the German Republic announced the release of the Third Princess, who had been captured in the café attack, bringing the number of Divine Queens available to the Imperial Government to four, but this action deprived the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was clamoring that "the majesty of the Divine Queens must be preserved", of an excuse to intervene, and that the Imperial Government feared that Ludendorff had secretly returned home and that Liechtenstein was only an actor.
However, the two-to-one advantage still greatly strengthened the confidence of the German Emperor Wilhelm III, as long as the new armor of the three princesses was prepared and the military funds were in place, the German imperial government would definitely eradicate the remnants of the south in one fell swoop, and then use the southerners' money to enrich the treasury and solve the economic crisis in one fell swoop.
Imperial propaganda believed that by the end of 1930, the Imperial government would put down the rebellion once and for all.
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And what is the South doing at this time?
The government of the republic did not use its troops to reorganize its armaments like the government of the Northern Empire, but Viola adopted Lin Youde's suggestion that "only by getting the economy and winning the hearts of the people can we obtain the capital to fight the empire" and began to carry out economic reforms.
Of course, the plan for economic reform was single-handedly handled by Lin Youde, a future person.
Lin Youde fully referred to the results of later generations on the economic crisis of the 1930s, as well as the reform practices of various economic geniuses in the next 70 years or so, and formulated a set of plans.
The economic crisis of 1930 was not caused by the contradiction between the lack of social production and the needs of the people, but before the crisis of 1930, the entire capitalist world was overproduced, while the purchasing power of the people was constantly decreasing, which eventually led to the outbreak of the crisis.
To put it simply, it is the crisis caused by the exploitation of the capitalists too harshly and the serious imbalance in the distribution of social wealth.
Roosevelt or mustache alike, their economic reforms were of a redistributive nature to society's wealth.
Therefore, the primary goal of Lin's economic reform program is also to redistribute social wealth.
And there is a saying in China: blocking people's wealth is like killing parents.
In order to avoid an overly strong backlash, Lin Youde planned to protect the big capitalists and kill the small and medium-sized capitalists to help the people.
In order to implement this plan, he must first stabilize the financial situation in the south. So the first step in economic reform was to ban the Reichsmark and issue a paper mark. For this reason, Lin Youde organized an activity called "Gold Tour", Viola personally brought a large amount of gold to the capitals of various southern states, publicly displayed the gold and threw a large number of paper marks, in order to build momentum for the paper marks.
At the same time, the government of the Republic ordered that all factories must use paper marks to pay workers, and the Republican Army also switched to paper marks for military pay.
In line with this action, the government of the Republic of China, in accordance with Lin Youde's reform plan, forcibly arrested small and medium-sized speculators, confiscated their stocks, and signed the "Paper Mark Guidance Price Agreement" with large businessmen in exchange for government seats in exchange for them, forcing them to recognize the status of paper marks and price their goods according to the government's guide price.
Lin Youde believed that in this stage of capitalism, the merchants were inferior to the industrial capitalists, so he took tougher action against them.
As for the industrial capitalists who produced actual goods, Lin Youde adopted a policy of supporting the big capitalists in the annexation of small and medium-sized factories, in exchange for forcing the big capitalists to raise the wages of the workers.
In just a month and a half, the government of the Republic succeeded in establishing a unified system of paper mark prices in southern Germany, and when the workers found that their paper marks could really buy goods, and the prices were far fairer than before, they immediately kicked aside the unions and shouted Long live the Republic.
With the approval of the masses, paper marks have also changed from printed matter to money.
With the completion of this "magic" of turning paper into money, Lin Youde also became the most exposed Oriental in the newspapers of the great powers in one fell swoop.
By August 1930, the operating rate of factories in the southern German states had returned to 70 percent, and although the economic situation was far from the pre-crisis level, the strong paper mark and the gold reserves also generated by Lin Youde's strategy allowed the government of the Republic to have enough military funds to prepare for the war.
The enthusiasm of the workers to defend the fruits of their labor was also very high, and many of them spontaneously participated in military training after work, ready to go to the battlefield at any time in the name of "workers' Red Guards".
In September 1930, the government of the Republic decided to organize a military parade in the capital of Munich.