In New York, USA, on the top floor of the newly completed Empire State Building, a grand inauguration and the 1931-1932 New Year's Eve Ball are being held.

The edifice, which is regarded as a symbol of American industrial and economic power, was completed much later than in another time and space, but only Lin Youde knew about this in this plane. American capitalists and engineers involved in the building's construction gathered to toast in a penthouse suite that was temporarily used as a ballroom while enjoying the thrill of overlooking Manhattan.

Charlotte parked her wheelchair in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the side of the ballroom and looked out at the view.

Hearing the movement behind her, Charlotte maintained the person facing the window and said, "Looking down on Manhattan like this, you can't help but have the illusion that you are already on a par with the gods." ”

"Miss Governor's Impressions...... It's unique," said the man's voice behind him, "but the open view is truly refreshing." ”

Charlotte didn't answer, the magic rune on her wheelchair lit up, and the wheels of the mechanically driven wheelchair ran in reverse, causing the wheelchair to turn around.

John Jr., the heir to the Rockefeller family? D. Rockefeller bowed respectfully to Charlotte: "Thank you very much Miss Governor for her help in stopping the antitrust law, my father would have liked to come and thank him in person, but he was not in good health, and the doctor was worried that he would not be able to bear the burden of taking the elevator to such a high floor." ”

"Old man, I understand." Charlotte nodded.

In this world, the United States is the only country in the world that implements universal suffrage, even if Shenji wants to enter the top of the country, she must participate in the election - of course, Shenji has an innate advantage in canvassing votes, so half of the presidents of the United States here are women.

In addition to this, universal suffrage in the United States, like another time and space, has a lot of money transactions, and without financial support, it means that it will be completely crushed by the propaganda offensive of the opponent, and it is impossible to win.

And now, with the bell of 1932 New Year's just around the corner, the next presidential election is ringing in the ears of all those who aspire to rule the United States.

Charlotte is the closest of these people to the presidency.

Since 1931, she has followed the example of the Chinese in Germany in New York State to implement economic reforms, successfully turning the state's economic situation around, and benefiting neighboring states, and the various consortia gathered in New York State have also profited handsomely from Charlotte's reforms, and now, Charlotte has successfully prevented the state legislature from passing antitrust laws, saving Standard Oil Company, headquartered and registered in New York State, from being broken up.

So now Charlotte has the support of the Rockefeller standard, the largest consortium in the United States, and the Morgan consortium and the Boston consortium have also shown obvious tendencies to support her, and the remaining five major consortiums are simply unable to compete with these three consortiums unless they are all united.

But Charlotte will not give them a chance to unite, she has already told the Cleveland consortium, which controls the steel industry, that after being elected, in addition to reversing the economic situation, she will vigorously develop the navy armament, build a large number of ships to enrich the navy, and the resulting large demand for steel will bring huge profits to the Cleveland consortium.

Charlotte's adoptive father, Theodore? Roosevelt served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Navy and presided over the formulation of the first expansion plan of the U.S. Navy, which brought huge profits to the Cleveland consortium. So it's almost certain that Charlotte's commitment will attract the attention of the Cleveland consortium.

These conglomerates control more than 60 percent of the wealth of the entire United States, monopolize oil and steel in the United States and finance in the northern United States, and provide jobs for tens of millions of people.

So at this stage, Charlotte is not at all worried about losing the election, and her opponent, the current president, Herbert Hoover, has performed very badly in economic reforms, almost as if she were trying to set off Charlotte's reforms in New York State.

"Miss Governor," Little John? Rockefeller said to Charlotte respectfully, "The main guests have almost arrived, and everyone is waiting for your speech." ”

Charlotte nodded, then turned her wheelchair to the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen in the banquet hall.

At this moment, the people gathered at the top of the Empire State Building to enjoy the pleasure of looking down on the crowd already saw Charlotte as the next president of the United States, and they were not waiting for the Governor of New York to speak, but for the new masters of the United States to show them the bright future of the United States.

Charlotte knew this, and she slowly maneuvered her wheelchair through the crowd before soaring into the air and landing on a heightened podium specially prepared for her.

She turned from the podium and looked at the crowd.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered today to celebrate the inauguration of the tallest building in the world. In the history of mankind, there has never been such a great project. Even the legendary Tower of Babel did not have one-tenth of the majesty of this edifice.

"The Eiffel Tower of France is but a dwarf in front of the building, the Tower of London in England is just a dwarf in front of this building, and the Forbidden City of Ming, the Hermitage of Russia, and the Brandenburg Gate of Germany are nothing compared to this great Empire State Building! This is the symbol of modern human civilization.

"In the construction of this edifice, I, as a god, was not able to help in any way, and the warriors and armor that the European powers relied on to show off their might did not help in the slightest. This great project is accomplished entirely by the wisdom and strength of our human beings. I don't know if the gods of the Dao will engulf the delusional human beings who want to reach the kingdom of God with a monstrous flood as they did in mythology, if they are going to do so, let them come, and when the flood recedes, our descendants will surely build a new Tower of Babel, and it will definitely be higher. ”

The guests below looked at each other, and someone was already exchanging opinions in a whisper: "How does it sound like the content of the Declaration of Humanity?" ”

"yes, but I think that declaration doesn't seem to be wrong."

Charlotte, as a goddess, has a sharper sense of hearing than ordinary people, and she hears it clearly, but she ignores it, and continues her speech:

"Ladies and gentlemen, isn't it ridiculous that the United States is a country that lacks gods, and therefore we have always been despised by the European powers, and no matter how hard we try to develop our industry and economy, we are regarded by the Europeans as a second-rate power on an equal footing with Mexico. But, ladies and gentlemen, we need not be presumptuous, because you see, we have accomplished such a great work! As I sit here at this moment, I have no doubt that the United States is a great nation!

"When I become President of the United States, I will not only turn around the economy, but I will also be committed to showing the world what the United States is capable of, and that every American can share the pride we feel in this moment!" Let the people live with dignity', that's my campaign slogan! Please support me! ”

After a brief pause, a storm of applause nearly toppled the ceiling of the ballroom.

**

Just in Charlotte? Draenau? While Roosevelt welcomed the new year with the wealthy businessmen on the newly completed high-rise, Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia, had entered midnight on New Year's Day in 1932.

The Balkans are a veritable powder keg on both planes.

There are a complex ethnic composition here, including Slavs who are related to Russia, Mazars and Turks who migrated from long distances, Macedonians and Greeks who originally lived nearby, and so on.

In addition to ethnicity, the mixing of religions has become one of the most important factors in the region's instability. The Balkans are the borders of the Christian and Muslim borders in Europe. If there is a subdivision, the Christians in this region can also be divided into Orthodox Christianity, which is mainly among the Slavs, Calvinism, which is mainly among the Hungarians, and Catholicism, which is practiced by the Austrians.

With so many religions mixed together, it is inevitable that there will be friction.

What's more, the Balkans still have great geostrategic value.

The Russians wanted to control the Balkans and gain access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the British wanted to control the Balkans to prevent Russian forces from entering the Mediterranean and threaten Great Britain's Mediterranean routes, and Germany wanted to open up the Balkans and gain land access to the Middle East.

Of course, for Russia and Germany, there was another allure in the Balkans: Constantinople.

The title of the Russian monarch: "Tsar", in fact, is the Russian word for Caesar, the Russian Caesars of all generations, want to occupy Constantinople, declare themselves the orthodox successor of the Eastern Roman Empire, the protector of the Orthodox Christians. The monarchs of Germany thought the same thing.

Therefore, Germany continued to use its economic power to infiltrate the Ottoman Empire, while the Russians deployed troops in the Crimea, and the infiltration of the great powers made the bloody wind on the peninsula a little stronger.

In Lin Youde's original time and space, before the outbreak of World War I, two wars broke out on the Balkan Peninsula, and the Serbian principality that became independent from the Ottomans with the support of Russia, although it was a small country, showed its might in these two wars, first united with the neighboring Slavs to drive out the Turks, and then grabbed a large piece of land from the neighboring Bulgaria, with a posture of a Balkan hegemon. Later in the First World War, the country was even more under their Marshal Radomir? Under the leadership of Putnik, he bravely resisted the Austro-Hungarian army, and even entered the **** situation for a time to prepare to seize Bosnia under the control of Austria-Hungary.

Of course, the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914 had fallen to a draw with the Italians, which made the Serbs' achievements look bleak.

And in this time and space, the Serbs are not so glamorous. A small country like this, which has no industry at all, is simply unable to compete with the strength of the Divine Queen, and what is even worse is that its territory is so small, the smaller the battlefield, the more beneficial it is to the Divine Queen.

So Serbia in this time and space did not become independent from the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the nineteenth century, as in another time and space, but was swallowed up by Austria-Hungary after the Second Crimean War, and only in this century did it reluctantly gain independence under the protection of Russia.

The most urgent desire of the Serbs at this time was to have their own goddess, and all Serbs were envious when they talked about the Romanian black-blooded princess, and they very much hoped that their country would also have such a powerful goddess, and they thought that it would change the situation that Serbia had been under the fence.

And on this evening, in the palace in Belgrade, the Serbian king and his wife and the country's prime ministers and ministers gathered in anticipation.

Near the palace, a crowd gathered to hear the wind.

In the world world here, all the great powers have established a complete set of screening mechanisms for the bloodline of the gods, and once a newborn with the bloodline of the gods is born, they will be immediately discovered and adopted. However, not all regions in the world have such a complete screening mechanism.

The complex Balkans are one of the regions where such a screening mechanism has not been established. Take Serbia as an example, a small country where only babies in the capital Belgrade can be screened, and in the surrounding Balkan mountains, even if a god comes, it is difficult to be detected at the first time.

Of course, Serbia is a region where there are very few goddesses, and after entering the Common Era, only one goddess was born here, and this goddess led Serbia to establish the Grand Duchy of Serbia, which dominated most of the Balkans in the middle of the 14th century.

Later, with the death of this goddess, the glory of the Serbs was completely dissipated, and the once-dominant principality was dismembered by the Hungarians and Turks.

And now, the Serbs have waited for six hundred years to come back to the goddess in this land again.

She is the daughter of a candlemaker in a remote mountain village, and has spent sixteen years in the mountain village, and this is the time for her to step onto the big stage of history.

Her name is Angelina? Bloz? Tito.

The Serbs were so excited that they paid no attention to the howling of the wind, which heralded the rain of blood.