Episode 51 Misfortune Leads to the East

Faced with a large number of newspapers from the past three months, according to his request, the servants brought the big ones that were political and rigorous, and they were all only political editions. That's it, still a whole bunch.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at a few photos quite carefully at first, but later found that he couldn't finish reading them until tomorrow, so he began to browse quickly, only looking for those headlines with the words "Germany", "Czechoslovakia", "Sudetenland", and "Chamberlain", and only those newspapers before and after the Munich Conference. In less than two hours, he had finished reading all the newspapers he should have read.

Xiang Xiaoqiang pondered, and gradually had a feeling. He felt that the whole thing before and after the Munich conference felt very different from his history textbook in elementary school. The most obvious feeling was that his history textbooks from junior high school to high school repeatedly told him that the main purpose of Britain and France's appeasement of Germany was to "bring disaster to the east" and deliberately let Germany attack the Soviet Union.

But now, when Xiang Xiaoqiang was personally in the "Munich era", looking at the newspapers at this time, from the speeches of those politicians and the words of commentators, he could not find any sense of trying to "lead the way to the east", on the contrary, he could feel a deep fear - the extreme fear of another European war. And that strong ostrich mentality, self-consolation of hiding one's ears and stealing the bell - Chancellor Hitler was a man of status after all, and since he said that this was his last territorial claim in Europe, then it must be.

In a newspaper photo, Xiang Xiaoqiang saw a thin old man with a mustache, standing at the door of the plane cabin, holding a piece of paper in high spirits, and below it were the arms of many people waving in cheer.

This is that famous moment in history. Chamberlain received assurances from Hitler at the Munich Conference: the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe. Chamberlain was still not at ease, and asked the Prime Minister if he could make a note. Hitler said that there was no problem, and immediately wrote a guarantee, signed it autographed, and handed it to Chamberlain. Chamberlain carefully tucked the pledge in his shirt pocket. He flew back to England after attending the Munich Conference, and as soon as he opened the cabin door, in front of the crowd and reporters, Chamberlain did not hesitate to get off the plane, held up this Hitler pledge, and said loudly to everyone: I have brought back peace from Europe! This is the peace of our whole age!

As a result, Chamberlain became a star and a "hero of peace" in the eyes of the people of Britain, France and other democratic countries.

Xiang Xiaoqiang pondered, if Britain and France really wanted to lead the water to the east and connive at Germany to fight the Soviet Union, how could they force Hitler to guarantee that "the Sudetenland is his last territorial claim in Europe"? How could it be that after Germany broke the treaty and annexed the whole of Czechoslovakia, Britain and France woke up from a dream, annoyed and angry, and immediately provided military guarantees for Poland - once Poland was attacked by Germany, Britain and France immediately declared war on Germany?

Obviously, Germany and the Soviet Union did not share a border, and were separated by Czechoslovakia and Poland. If Germany wanted to attack the Soviet Union, it had to take these two countries first, which could be imagined with the fingers of his feet. If you really want to cause trouble, you must have this awareness: not only the Sudetenland, but also the whole of Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

If Britain and France really had the idea of bringing disaster to the east, it was also after the start of World War II, in the stage of "sit-down warfare". But at this time, it is a kind of passive wishful thinking. Because war had already been declared at this time, Hitler had to fight even if he did not want to go to war with Britain and France. After all, you Britain and France took the initiative to declare war on Germany, and then put hundreds of thousands of troops on the German-French border, with the posture of attacking Germany at any time. It is clear what this means for Germany, which has always tried to avoid a "two-front war". Hitler already wanted to fight the Soviet Union again, and at this time, he borrowed a hundred guts, and he did not dare not get the Western Front first.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang has a feeling that if he wants to create an ideal situation of "Mingde attacking the Soviet Union", it may not be so easy. Britain and France were afraid of the Soviet Union, but after all, the Soviet Union was separated from Britain and France by half of Europe, and at this time it was deeply involved in the Central Asian theater, so it did not pose much threat to Britain and France. Germany is next to France, and if Germany is allowed to grow, then at least France is in danger of being wiped out. At such a time, it is unlikely that Britain and France would risk "self-immolation" to "play with fire". This is equivalent to setting fire to the door of one's own house, and then hoping that the fire will reach the enemy's house two blocks away, and burn the enemy's house while his own house is still intact.

Under normal circumstances, as long as people with normal brains do not play with this kind of fire. There is only one exception, and that is when the wind blows in the direction of the enemy's house. Now, Da Ming is going to fan this wind.

Xiang Xiaoqiang first ran upstairs to find Zhu Yourong and asked her what the current Ming government thinks about this matter and what she thinks. But Zhu Yourong has obviously been thinking about Xiang Xiaoqiang these days, and he has no heart to worry about domestic and foreign affairs, so he leaves all this to the cabinet to worry about. Now she doesn't know anything.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately suggested that she convene a royal council to discuss the Munich Conference. The Munich Conference was held at the end of September, and now it is late December, and there has not yet been a royal council to discuss the matter. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the cabinet itself must have held a lot of meetings, but because His Majesty the Empress had no intention of taking care of national affairs during this time, the cabinet was happy not to report to her and made its own decisions. Now that Xiang Xiaoqiang is back, the empress is in a good mood, and it seems very natural to hold a pre-imperial meeting to listen to the opinions of the ministers on the international situation.

Zhu Yourong felt that it made sense, so he ordered to go down. The next day, on the morning of December 26, the Imperial Council was held in the palace.

Sure enough, the views of the ministers were generally in line with those of the politicians of various countries at this time. That is, Europe has now avoided another major war, and "the peace of an era" has come. Now that the German Chancellor has made a commitment, the situation in Europe has stabilized. The so-called "Mingde attack on the Soviet Union" was originally unrealistic, and now it is even more useless. Germany and the Soviet Union were separated by a Czechoslovakia and a Poland, so Germany would not have annexed these two countries again, right? Isn't that a self-slap in the face? Besides, that's not realistic. Britain and France don't do it either. France is much stronger than Germany, and now it is "the strongest in Europe", saying that if Germany is destroyed, Germany will be destroyed.

After listening to the speeches of some ministers, Xiang Xiaoqiang felt that he couldn't cry or laugh. But when he thought about it, he couldn't blame them. This is the general view of politicians in this era. Even the politicians in Britain and France who are in it see it this way, and the politicians of the Ming Dynasty on the other side of the world are not superhuman, how else can they look at it? is Xiang Xiaoqiang himself, if he didn't come from the afterlife, taking advantage of "hindsight", he could still "take a long-term view", otherwise even these ministers in front of him would be more than ten times smarter than himself. Who knows who Hitler was at the moment? Nobody knows. I'm afraid even Hitler himself didn't know.

Xiang Xiaoqiang thought for a long time, and finally spoke:

"Ladies and gentlemen, when the widow was in Germany, he had a secret conversation with Chancellor Adolf Hitler behind closed doors. No one knows about this conversation except the two of us. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the venue immediately fell silent, and everyone stared at Xiang Xiaoqiang.