A few days later, Lin Youde was playing chess with Viola in the study, and Hybert entered the room with a large bulging envelope.

Without waiting for Hybert's report, Chihiro, who was eating on the side, jumped up, snatched the letter and opened it, and then pulled out a large stack of photos from it.

"I'll see...... Wow, it's disgusting. The fox flipped through two pictures and threw them on the table, and ran back to the couch to eat biscuits.

Lin Youde picked up the photo that was scattered after being thrown down by the fox, and the first one made him involuntarily sick to his stomach. Viola, who was sitting across from him, also frowned, and the girl looked up and asked Hybert, "What is this?" ”

"Report to the Speaker, these are the street scenes of Sarajevo that our photographer secretly captured, as well as the ruins of the village suspected to be the Serbian goddess who was found."

Viola fell silent when she heard this, and after a moment she gritted her teeth: "This is shocking. ”

When Viola said this, she still had no intention of touching these photos, and Lin Youde looked at them one by one, asking as she flipped through them: "These people ...... It doesn't look like it's all Muslims, look at this, this body is being stripped of its clothes and obviously not Muslim......"

"Yes, Your Excellency," Hybert said with a solemn expression, "we have confirmed that there was an indiscriminate massacre in Sarajevo, and that the violent Shenji ceased to act after destroying most of the city, and then the Serbian army that surrounded the city slaughtered and sacked the survivors of the city. ”

Lin Youde put down the photo in his hand and stared at the chessboard in front of him silently.

The fox was squeaking on the couch next door eating biscuits, looking indifferent to all this, while Viola stared at Lin Youde's face.

Finally, Lin Youde said: "Withdraw the personnel of all our subordinate institutions in Serbia and freeze Serbian funds in the German Foreign Exchange and Investment Bank." All agreements we have reached with Serbia on the trade in arms and industrial products are null and void. ”

"Huh?" The fox turned his head and squirmed his cheeks stuffed with biscuits, "Who said they wouldn't mind using a slaughterer with blood on their hands?" ”

"I'm using them," Lin Youde glanced at the fox and replied disapprerovingly, "It's obviously more profitable to take advantage of this opportunity to gain prestige than to make that little money by doing business with them, isn't it?" Anyway, when they turned against Austria-Hungary, our main purpose was achieved. ”

"Ah, I see, it makes sense." With that, the fox turned her head and went on eating her things.

Lin Youde turned his gaze to Hybert: "Immediately draft a telegram to criticize the Serbian massacres in the harshest terms in my own name." These photos ......."

Lin Youde pushed the photos on the table in the direction of Hybert and continued: "Choose the most shocking ones, it is best to pick the corpses with children, or those that can show the family affection before they die, and then let all our newspapers spare a full page to print these photos." The headlines of all the newspapers, with the biggest self-title, strongly condemned the demonic deeds of the Serbs, emphasizing that they would be punished with justice...... Wait a minute, I'll write the headlines of the Potsdam ****** myself. That's all. ”

"Yes!" Hybert quickly finished his shorthand and closed the notepad.

"Take this away." Lin Youde pointed to the photo on the table.

After Herbert left, Viola looked at Lin Youde's face and said, "You are really interesting, others are trying their best to cover up their evil intentions with good excuses, but you are the opposite, you have to show your behavior as the result of selfishness. ”

Lin Youde glanced at Viola.

"Do I have one?"

"Your fingers have been trembling slightly since the beginning, I've never seen you like this before." Viola stood up and walked around the table to Lin Youde, reaching out and gently touching Lin Youde's face, "I think it's because it's the first time I've seen your anger." ”

Lin Youde looked at Viola's face, didn't speak, and let the girl touch his cheek.

But he knew Viola was right.

He was indeed extremely angry, this anger came so suddenly, even Lin Youde himself was surprised, and he didn't know what was wrong with his heart.

Not long ago, when he looked at the tragic mirror image of the street fighting in Dessau, he only felt a strong respect for the warriors who fought to the last place, and the belief that they would carry on their legacy and win the victory. But when he picked up the photo from the streets of Sarajevo, intense anger gushed out of his chest. On more than one occasion in the past, he had said that "the one who sent people to war was no different from the slaughterer", but when he saw the photos, those words instantly became a thing of the past.

He, Lin Youde, was very angry.

At this time, Viola gently put her hand on the back of Lin Youde's hand, and Lin Youde immediately reversed her palm and held the girl's little hand tightly in the palm of her hand.

He just held Viola's hand tightly, and it took more than five minutes to calm his mind.

Then he stood up, walked to his desk, picked up the telephone receiver on the desk, and said to the operator: "Connect the line to the entire PA system in Potsdam." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency."

After a short wait, the operator reported from the receiver: "Your Excellency, your voice is now connected to the PA system, and we have confirmed that all PA lines are open. ”

Lin Youde took a deep breath.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Lin Youde. It is my great regret to inform you today that we have confirmed that a horrific massacre took place on the streets of Sarajevo. The massacres killed the entire inhabitants of the city of Sarajevo in a heinous and brutal manner. ”

Outside Sanssouci Palace, the soldiers on duty quietly looked back in the direction of the megaphone, and then exchanged complicated glances with each other.

Lin Youde's voice continued over the loudspeaker: "Defenceless women and children have been slaughtered, hundreds of thousands of lives, dreams and hopes have been ruthlessly deprived, justice and conscience have been completely trampled on. ”

In the new Junkers Aircraft Company's building, south of Sanssouci Palace, workers put down their tools, designers looked up from their drawing boards, and everyone looked in the direction of the megaphone.

"From the moment the bayonets were pointed at the innocent people, there was no glory in this war, and the Serbs, who had fought for national liberation and independence, were no longer on the side of justice. They're demons! They are terrorists who try to challenge the conscience and bottom line of mankind! ”

In the newly completed Institute of Theoretical Physics, the young physicists who are arguing are still in the posture of the debate, their eyes also looking at the megaphone.

At the Center for Radioactive Substances, not far from the institute, Marie Curie, an old lady over half a hundred years old, was holding a test tube containing radioactive materials, forgetting her own laboratory rules that prohibited prolonged contact with test tubes.

Everyone was listening to the deep, suppressed angry voice over the loudspeaker.

"Our purpose at NERV is to create a better tomorrow for all and to create a future where all children can smile happily! It is for this reason that we have come to Serbia's aid in the hope that they will be freed from the oppression of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires and gain real national independence, but now they are repaying our kindness with massacres! They have broken with us with their actions, then, from this moment on, all NERV will become the enemies of the Serbian devil! I will use all the power in my hands to destroy this ****** demon!

"Justice, be with us!"

After Lin Youde's words fell, there were overwhelming roars on the training grounds of several national volunteer divisions.

**

After Lin Youde put down the microphone, Viola asked, "Are you preparing to send troops to Serbia?" ”

"No," Lin Youde shook his head, "I'm just venting the anger in my heart." ”

The fox immediately let out a hearty laugh and said "I like this answer".

Viola tilted her head: "But, if you broadcast such a wide range and then do nothing......"

"Of course I will," Lin Youde sat down behind his desk, "first I will begin to assemble a volunteer expeditionary force, arm it with the best equipment we have at hand, and at the same time approach Austria-Hungary and tell them that we will provide them with moral, interest-free loans so that they will have enough funds for the war." ”

"And then if Austria-Hungary is not stupid, it will not let the volunteers go to war." The fox lying on the sand side said, "They will not let the domestic masses further increase their favorability towards Germany, even the Habsburg fools who can only get married, they should know that if the road continues to improve, Austria should return to the German Confederation." ”

"That's right, so that we don't go straight to the war. First, and second, aren't British diplomats active in Berlin? Lin Youde looked at Viola, "We can reach an agreement with the British Empire, and Britain probably doesn't want Russia's power to expand too much in the Balkans, they should be happy to cooperate with us under the banner of 'for the sake of human justice'." ”

"But before I come here," Viola said, "the opinion of the Foreign Office is that Britain may throw an olive branch to Serbia in order to woo them." ”

Lin Youde spread his hands: "They were indeed likely to do this a few minutes ago. Serbia will not be forever subservient to the protection of Russia, and if the Serbs make any more contact with the British, the-stirring gangsters will probably be happy to see a strong and aggressive Serbia turn the Balkans into a pot of porridge, and Serbia is powerless to influence the Mediterranean routes of the British Empire. But now that our telegram is about to be sent and the public opinion offensive is about to begin, Britain will probably have to consider other ways to stop the penetration of Russian forces in the Balkans. ”

"Is it possible for public opinion alone to make the British Empire change its diplomatic strategy?" The fox wagged his tail and doubted it.

Lin Youde shrugged: "It is impossible for the British to fully trust Serbia, and they only voted for an olive branch because it seems to be the most cost-effective." Originally, the balance of this choice was in a state of microsecond equilibrium, and even if the influence of public opinion was only a feather, it was enough to turn the balance to the other side. ”

"So," Viola said, looking at the Balkan map on Lin Youde's desk, "what other ways would the British have used against Serbia?" ”

"It's probably impossible to send troops directly. But they can get Serbia's neighboring countries moving through diplomacy and assistance. ”

As he spoke, Lin Youde took out a thumbtack from the table and pressed it on Belgrade.

"The Balkans are probably going to be bleeding again."