"Old man. I am back. Accardo barely squeezed out a smile and reached out to support the old man's withered palm. The long-term suffering of illness has made the old man lifeless, and the eyes that are barely open have long lost the brilliance of the past.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back!" Augustus laughed, the wrinkles on his face were like a blooming flower, but Accardo was not in the mood to observe the old man's expression carefully, he just held the old man's palm, and did not speak for a long time.

When the old man saw Accardo come back, he was obviously in much better spirits, so he didn't have the up and down gasp that he had when he spoke yesterday. His mind did not seem to have slowed down because of the rapid aging of his appearance, but rather because he had grown wiser and more sensitive.

He squeezed Accardo's palm with his hand and said, "You know, I have always had a wish, that is, to assist you in ascending to the throne of the Emperor, and now it seems that I do not have this opportunity, it is a great pity. ”

Accardo wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the old man talking to himself: "My aftermath has been explained to Dominis, although he is still a little lacking in adaptability, but he is enough to do the job I left behind, as a transitional prime minister, it is still very good...... At least he won't mess with you, I'm sure of that. ”

"Old man...... Don't say that, I know Dominis would be a good prime minister, but I would like you to see the moment when we will finally win, when the war is over, and when the empire is thriving......," Accardo said to Augustus sincerely: "You can say these things to me at that time, when we have a lot of time to discuss these issues. ”

"It's too late, Your Majesty...... It's too late. Augustus shook his head slightly, and if he hadn't looked closely, he wouldn't have even noticed that his head had moved: "Diplomatic affairs can be left to Ribbentrop, this diplomat is a talent that I have deliberately cultivated in diplomacy, and I know that you have been paying attention to him for a long time, which I am very relieved of." ”

Accardo had to repeat what he had just said: "Old man, I said that the war will soon pass, that peace is coming, that we will have a lot of time to discuss these issues afterwards, and that what you need now is to rest. I promise you, the empire of the future will be very good, you have to see it with your own eyes!"

The old man smiled, and then after closing his eyes for a moment, he suddenly opened them, and his eyes were as bright as they had been when he first met Accardo. He spoke in that very gentlemanly tone, and said what he wanted to say: "Your Majesty, allow me to stubbornly call you that at the last moment. ”

He paused and continued, "I know I don't have much time left for myself, and this may be my last time in this world. So I have a couple of questions that I really care about that I would like to ask you...... Or rather, I want to help you solve it. ”

Augustus stretched out a finger vigorously: "The first question, you and I both know that the current economic situation of the empire will eventually come to an end, and I would like to know how you plan to solve this problem." ”

Without going into details, Accardo knew that the old man was talking about the long-standing problem of the Reich's wartime economy: Accardo was still engaged in the same system that Schacht designed for Hitler, he borrowed money to wage war, and then used the proceeds of the war to pay off part of the debt, and the economic system would eventually collapse because of the end of the war, and the Reich would inevitably pay the price for this act of borrowing chickens and eggs.

To put it bluntly, Accardo didn't have enough money reserves to repay the blank check he had written. Giant chaebols, including his own Bailanhua group and Krupp, were looking forward to the huge dividends of the Soviet Union, but the dividends of the war could not be repaid at all by many capital groups.

Monopolies, annexations, and then behemoths comparable to the state, these conglomerates are sucking the fat and ointment of the entire empire, and they are also feeding the empire's arms and money - as long as the foreign war continues, these interest groups will eventually form an unprecedented "empire of assets".

And Accardo's way of dealing with this problem has actually been thought of by himself a long time ago. Now he had no intention of lying to Augustus, so he replied softly: "Capital will be infinitely concentrated in the monopoly plutocracy, and eventually these people or groups will become enemies of the empire...... If they don't give up their excessive demands, then I can only use the power in my hands to destroy them. ”

Letting the plutocracy collapse and leaving the last dividends of the war to the country and the grassroots people is the last solution to this economic scam by Accardo, who has already failed too many people, so he doesn't care about continuing to disappoint some of the consortia that have helped him.

He had even thought of a specific plan to implement it: that is, to mobilize the most loyal special forces, attack the Reichstag himself, and kill all those who did not agree with his forcible nationalization of the war dividends. Then he used his life's prestige to subdue everyone, and strive to make the empire's economy land smoothly and complete the final transition from war to peace.

It's bloody, but it's very effective: the war dividends of the state are gradually transferred to a few monopoly plutocracy, and when these invisible funds are transferred to a few, the state power is used to brutally wipe out everything, to complete the elimination of this huge loan - borrowing money and then killing the creditor, this method of not paying back the money is both simple and logical.

"I didn't even let go of my own assets, and I really didn't misunderstand you, Your Majesty. Augustus seemed so pleased with this terrible answer that he didn't even argue anything for his friend Krupp, but nodded in agreement: "It's a radical and good way, at least in prestige, and everything you do will be supported by the people." That's why I say you're a valiant emperor, but you never admit it. ”

Then he stretched out a second finger, looked at Accardo with some curiosity, and then asked, "Then, Your Majesty the Emperor, can you tell me what you are doing in Germany, or who are you, where are you, and what do you want to do here?" Would you like to talk to me, an old man who is about to close his eyes?"

Accardo was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly. Sure enough, his birth has never reassured this old man. Even if he far-fetched out some distant and mysterious East, and pulled out the famous Sun Tzu's Art of War, he did not make this wise old man believe even the slightest.

The reason why this lie has not been punctured is because Accardo has been doing things that benefit the whole country. He didn't interfere too much in the economy, and his contribution to the military was obvious to all, so his origins, or the reasons behind his rise, were less important. Probably, Augustus also once hypnotized himself to convince himself that the Führer was a "gift from God."

But as he was about to leave this world, the old man's curiosity overflowed, and he now seemed to wonder if Accardo was a gift from God, or if he was really just a genius. So he looked at Accardo with a pair of bright eyes, waiting for Accardo's answer.

"I'm from the future in 2015, and I don't know how I got into this world, but when I thought I was dead, I opened my eyes and became the Accardo. Accardo thought for a moment, and then told the old man a story that was almost fantastical: "In the history I know, Germany took many wrong detours, so it lost this war......"

"Yes? So we lost. Augustus sighed lonely, and didn't seem to let Accardo explain too much, believing everything he said. He was sentimental for a few seconds, then raised his head slightly, looked at Accardo and asked, "What about this time? Will Germany be defeated this time?"

"I've changed a few things and made Germany a lot less detoured. We are now much stronger than I know about history...... The situation is also more favorable to us. Accardo looked at the old man's expectant expression and replied honestly, "But the history I know has been changed beyond recognition by me, so I don't know if we will win the final victory in this war." ”

"That makes sense...... This makes sense!" Augustus nodded slightly, and then let go of Accardo's hand: "This can explain why you developed so many sophisticated weapons in advance, and why you can discover so many talents in advance......

Then the old man opened his mouth and asked, "How nice it would be if I could go back to the past......

Accardo was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, you will definitely return to the place you want to return to!" he said as he stretched out his palm and stroked the dim eyes of Old Man Augustus, he could not feel the breath of life, he could only feel a slight coolness, which pierced his palm.

Then he approached Augustus's ear and whispered to the old man, "My original name is Gu Changge. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Augustus von Bismarck. ”

On the evening of April 25, 1939, the Prime Minister of the Third Reich, Augustus, died of illness in the ward of the Imperial Hospital in Berlin at the age of 73. At the time of his death, the head of the empire, Accardo, came in person, and the two talked in secret for about an hour, the content of which was unknown.

The next day, Dominis was inaugurated as Prime Minister of the Third Reich, and on the same day the Japanese army was isolated and retreated to the port of Darwin.