Chapter 792: Time of Peace
In the following days, Qingying and her daughter's family, who had been separated for a long time, spent the warmest birthday in recent years. Alexei no longer seems to be the monarch of a country that rules 3 million square kilometers of land, but as an ordinary son and nephew, accompanying the recreated father who has raised him for ten years and married his beloved daughter. The two emperors had a tacit understanding that they did not talk about any state with each other, but only talked freely about each other's past encounters in the years after their separation, and the almost unbreakable solid friendship between the two was also vividly reflected in this situation of getting along with each other.
At the same time as the royal families of the two sides met and gathered, the meeting of dignitaries between the two countries also came to an end. Germany will provide a low-interest loan of 200 million marks to the Imperial Russian government within this year to help the latter initially restore domestic transportation and agricultural production. When the security situation and production order in Imperial Russia returned to normal, capital from the German government and the private sector re-entered Imperial Russia to provide the prime mover for its domestic economic recovery, which was like God's first blow. Although it knew that the other side would inevitably complete all-round economic penetration into itself in the process, the imperial Russian government, which had collapsed in the country after the war, had no choice; On 20 May, an economic aid treaty entered into force with the signature of dignitaries from both sides, and declared the vast Eastern European territory to be a satellite vassal that could no longer deviate from Berlin's will.
After Qingying's birthday, Alexei's family will also return to St. Petersburg, thousands of kilometers away. Although Qingying is slightly reluctant to let go of his children and grandchildren, he is by no means an ordinary elder who is indulged in family life and cannot give up; What's more, during the reunion of Tongguò in the past few days, his state of mind has also changed significantly compared to the cold and solemn in the past. It restored the peace and generosity before ascending to the throne. His beloved wife and young son, who accompanied him day and night, were the first to feel the changes in Qingying. In addition to the surprise. He also began to melt the ice in his heart with more enthusiastic emotions.
Quiet times always pass very quickly, and soon, the time is in the middle of summer in July. A piece of text was presented to Qing Ying as usual, and the situation outlined in it made him feel joyful, peaceful, and happy in the hot and dry environment. A year after the end of the war, Germany was fully on track on all fronts: the national economy and industrial production were back in peacetime, and a new wave of growth was ushered in, facilitated by the acquisition of huge war reparations and the large number of newly occupied overseas colonies.
Tons of gold flowed from the United States, Britain, France and other countries to Central Europe with war reparations and trade surpluses, so that Germany's gold reserves have soared to more than 40% of the world's total. The mark, supported by this backing, has also replaced the stormy pound sterling and the collapsed dollar in the middle lane. It became the new world currency, which gave Germany the same global financing capacity as Britain did 30 years ago. Under the manipulation of the powerful Shacht, the huge results of this advantage are even beyond his own imagination. The administrative costs of Germany were largely passed on abroad, and even regions that were not under Berlin's control were able to use their productive forces for their own use...... Such mysteries really made Qingying feel overjoyed. Now he understands why Britain half a century ago was so hostile and jealous to Germany, which was rising and seizing its overseas markets, and wanted to get rid of it quickly, this exciting world hegemony itself contains economic means that can be called open!
In the military field, a series of measures aimed at reducing the number of elite troops have also been rolled out in an all-round way. A series of new equipment, represented by the Leopard tank, has been continuously improved or finalized. It continued to maintain the absolute superiority of the German armed forces over the countries of the world. If war broke out between Germany and Japan, Qingying could not find any reason for defeat; As long as there is a new round of war in the country. Give him the right to mobilize troops, and this army will sweep half the world like a tsunami and storm, completely submerging the eastern island nation!
The autumn breeze is crisp, the wheat waves are golden, and just when the land of Central Europe is ushering in a gratifying scene of a thousand miles of harvest, a special court trial has also kicked off in the French city of Compiègne in the north. The extraordinarily tall middle-aged man with a hooked nose sat in the dock, followed by several round-hatted generals with equally dull expressions; They all wore black headphones on their heads, and the interpreters on the side used the device to translate the words of the prosecution and the defense into their ears in real time. After more than two years of investigation and evidence collection, the trial of the war criminals who "directly caused this war" began; More than a dozen military and political dignitaries, including former French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle, former army commander-in-chief Gammerin, and former chief of the general staff Weygand, have been prosecuted for war crimes. Although Qing Ying, who was at the height of the temple, had long been aware of the eternal truth of success and defeat, he had no interest in this kind of high-sounding trial; However, as a victor, he had to proclaim the righteousness of the war he was pursuing to the people of his own country and to the people of the occupied territories. What's more, the origin of this world war was originally quite similar to the previous two European wars, both of which were German with Guò who put forward conditions that were difficult for the other side to accept, forcing them to take the lead in tearing their faces under the condition of illusion; And this undoubtedly provides a good opportunity for those litigants who are already interested in finding faults to open fire.
Under the stormy questioning of the prosecution, the lawyer who was tasked with defending the defense quickly became overwhelmed. In the end, with the exception of a handful of ministers and generals who played marginal roles in de Gaulle's government, who effectively defended themselves, the rest were convicted by the Allied jury, which wanted to punish them. Charles de Gaulle, who was the head of the defendants, was sentenced to death by hanging on seven counts of "deliberately sabotaging the 1914 Amsterdam Peace Agreement" and "conspiracy to provoke war with foreign forces." Gan Molin and other generals and aides were sentenced to 10 years to life imprisonment on the basis of the severity of the circumstances of the war crimes.
Although the trial of the former core members of Britain and the United States was slightly delayed due to the difficulty of obtaining evidence, the process was carried out vigorously and vigorously under the vigorous promotion of the German government. The obese former British Admiralty and the wheelchair-ridden former president of the United States were thrust into the dock of the local trial, listening in humiliation to the victors' fierce indignation, half-truth, half-extension. It will not be long before the curtain will come down on this final process, and the world war, which has encompassed all four continents, will be unified under the German caliber and will become a typical example of the triumph of good over evil, which is widely proclaimed by the mainstream of the world and revered by countless mediocre people.
With the advent of the post-autumn reckoning with the heads of the defeated countries, there was a strong wave of over-propaganda in Germany; Since the Qing Dynasty, almost all the important generals in the center of the empire have become the embodiment of wisdom and bravery, as if Germany with them will be the invincible existence of the golden Ou. If it had been a dictator like a loving father, he would have been overjoyed with his deification at this moment; However, Qingying, who felt the warmth of her relatives, was completely unwilling to become a slave of power, and eventually became a real loner, and there was an unprecedented rejection of this kind of propaganda. When he learned that this propaganda campaign was initiated by Goebbels, Qingying, who had been thinking about it for a long time, decided to dismiss him from his propaganda position. This was not only because Goebbels went against the subjective wishes of Qing Ying, but also because his excessively heated rhetoric and style were no longer suitable for the post-war German Empire; Qingying did not want to see the emergence of a belligerent Germany instigated by radical nationalist voices in the future, which would not only be detrimental to the development of this nation's civilization, but would also bring unimaginable ruinous trauma to the human world.
"Your Majesty, the painter who painted your portrait has arrived, can you invite him in now?" One day, when Qingying was admiring the colorful osmanthus and fire maple in the garden outside the window, the old voice of the housekeeper suddenly came from outside the door. Qingying, who heard these words, couldn't help but feel a trace of resistance in his heart: this kind of depiction of the ruler and the biography not only violated his previous negative spirit of Goebbels-style propaganda, but also sat motionless in his seat like a log for hours, which was really meaningless. However, Qingying finally found the time to accept the appointment and invited the artist to join at the current opening. After all, according to European customs, it is normal for the current high-ranking officials to leave a few portraits for future generations to admire, and at present, in the "Lingyan Pavilion" of this palace, there are huge portraits of the previous Prussian kings and marshals.
The purple wood door creaked open, and a skinny man walked into the study with a paint box and a drawing board box in hand. In this solemn and luxurious center of the highest power of the empire, the thin painter was obviously a little nervous; He hurriedly fixed the tablet in place, and then saluted the monarch in front of him in a slightly trembling voice. In the face of this generation of emperors who have made fantastic achievements in cultural and martial arts, almost every German people are in awe and respect from the bottom of their hearts.
Qingying replied lightly, turned her eyes to the painter who had come to the appointment; However, the next moment, he suddenly stayed where he was, even after decades of tempering and Qi cultivation kung fu, he couldn't help but show a look of disbelief in his eyes at this moment. (To be continued......)
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