March 15, Republic 2766 (1925).

Rome, Italy.

"I really didn't expect that Italy now has a punctual train......" Walking out of the train station in Rome, Li Xiaoren couldn't help but sigh with his companion who came to pick up the train.

The companion who came to pick up the car was called Jinde Steam, and he was the owner of "Star Fruit Co., Ltd." When he heard this, he smiled and said: "Mr. Li, since Mussolini's fascist party came to power, if nothing else, at least the Italian train will be on time." ”

Because the First World War lasted longer, the Fascist Party came to power nearly a year later than the history of the original plane.

On September 10, 1923, Mussolini convened a meeting of more than 30,000 armed fascists in Nablus, declaring that the power of Rome, Italy and the government belonged to them, and announced that he would march on Rome.

On 14 September, more than 70,000 heavily armed fascists in black shirts marched on Rome in four routes, seizing the line of communication from northern Italy to Rome without encountering resistance from government troops and police. On the evening of the 17th, the Falkett government decided to impose martial law, but King Emmanuel III did not agree, and Falket was forced to resign. On the 18th, the fascists marched into Rome.

On the evening of September 20, the king invited Mussolini to Rome to come forward as prime minister and form a cabinet. After Mussolini seized power, he established a fascist autocracy throughout the country. On September 25, Mussolini was appointed prime minister, and the fascist dictatorship was officially established in Italy.

As soon as Mussolini came to power, he gradually established a dictatorship. For more than a year, all opposition parties were eliminated internally, the workers' and pro-democracy movements were suppressed, and chauvinistic and racist ideas were propagated. The new electoral law, adopted at the beginning of this year, guarantees a two-thirds majority of the fascists in the country.

In addition to controlling Congress and the media, the Fascist Party has intensified its assassination campaign against various left-wing parties and progressives. At the same time, Mussolini continued to carry out rectification and purges within the fascist party, expelling the so-called "irresolute elements" and party members who failed to implement the instructions of the party Central Committee or had ambitions. Mussolini also paid great attention to the reform of the schools, which he closely combined with the expansion of armaments.

Mussolini tightened his grip on military power, and he personally served as the commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force, as the supreme commander of Italy. and ordered that all troops in the country must be absolutely at his disposal. On March 1 of this year, he declared the National Fascist Party the only legal party in Italy, thus guaranteeing the dictatorship of Italian fascism.

However, although Mussolini's fascist party is a dictatorship at home, it is undeniable that they have also done a lot of practical things. For example, in order to alleviate social conflicts, the fascist government used the method of large-scale infrastructure construction, and Mussolini declared that he wanted to build Italy into a new Rome.

They developed a very large infrastructure plan, invited many famous architects to participate in the construction projects of the fascist regime, planned to build all kinds of modern infrastructure in Italy, such as new railway stations, large airports, post offices, shopping malls, libraries, universities, factories and sanatoriums, and designed the new towns and villages that Mussolini advocated (the layout was basically a copycat of Chinese rural communities). These beautiful and functional new communities and buildings were indeed very popular, and they also became propaganda exhibitions to glorify fascism to the people.

For example, the mafia, which had been rampant in Italy for many years, was severely banned, and the godfathers who had been coaxed by cowhide were pulled outside the city by wagons and shot, and all kinds of ruffians and hooligans were also escorted by the army to various construction sites for forced labor, and they were generally forced to work until death. So now the public order in Italy has improved dramatically.

In addition to this, Mussolini also launched a nationwide campaign to change customs. As we all know, the Itali people are a very lazy people, for example, their trains are never on time...... How could such a people realize Mussolini's dream of rebuilding the Roman Empire?

However, now that the fascist party's "movement to change customs" has just begun, it is difficult to say what it will look like, but at least now the Italian train is finally on time.

Of course, what satisfied the Italian people the most was the blow of the fascist party to the big capitalists and big landowners. Everyone knows that a country's cake is limited, and when the powerful share more, the people will share less. To be fair, although the fascist party is a right-wing party, it pays more attention to people's livelihood than many parties, and of course there are reasons why Mussolini has built up his prestige. So after they came to power, they began to attack the big capitalists and big landlords.

Italy's consortium is not very strong, because it started relatively young, and its scale and influence are far from being comparable to those of Britain, the United States, France, and Germany. The most unfortunate thing is that many of the nests of these consortia are in the northern industrial zone, and this area was robbed by the Japanese locust army during World War I. Not to mention those landlords, who had nothing to fight back against the fascists, who had mastered the army.

In the more than a year since the fascist party came to power, the economic structure of Italy has undergone tremendous changes, a large number of big capitalists and big landowners have taken to the streets, their means of production and funds have been confiscated, and some of them have been collected into the national treasury to improve people's livelihood and increase welfare. The other part is broken down into small pieces and auctioned to the public. Because the approach of the fascist party is to develop small and medium-sized enterprises and small and medium-sized landowners.

Although the evaluation of Mussolini and the fascist party in the history of the original time and space is one-sided, at least now, they have indeed reversed the decline of Italy, whether it is infrastructure, municipal construction or people's livelihood, it has been greatly improved.

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Jinde drove the car to the "Star Fruit Co., Ltd." located in the southwest of Rome.

"Mr. Li, this is our small shop......" Jin Dezheng said with a smile.

"Boss Jin, you're too humble. If you're still a small shop, your peers won't be allowed to cry and faint in the toilet......" Li Xiaoren looked at the eight-story building and joked.

Star Fruit is currently one of the largest food trading companies in Italy, mainly engaged in the wholesale of all kinds of fruits, dried fruits and further processed products. Its main sources of goods are China, Africa and the Middle East, and its customers are countries and regions around the Mediterranean, and now its business has been done all over Europe.

Star Fruit is ostensibly a Sino-Italian joint venture private enterprise, and the Chinese side is composed of several private companies, accounting for a total of 55% of the shares. The Italian side has 45% of the shares, of which the fascist party holds 30%, of which Mussolini himself is the largest shareholder of the fascist party, in which he has 15% of the shares, and the other 15% is held by many small Italian shareholders. It is precisely because of this background that the development of "Star Fruit" in Italy has been so smooth.

Of course, seeing this share structure, you can also know that the background of this company is not so simple. Indeed, 25 percent of China's 55 percent shares come from a private company called China Resources Industrial Group, and in this China Resources Group, a vest company under the National Intelligence Bureau holds another 30 percent of the shares, and another 30 percent is a vest company owned by the Ministry of State Security.

In fact, it is not just a "star fruit", almost all Chinese companies operating overseas nowadays will be connected with the National Intelligence Bureau, the Ministry of State Security or the Ministry of Social Affairs after such a twist and turn.

After coming to the chairman's office on the eighth floor, Li Xiaoren asked with some curiosity: "Boss Jin, is the fruit business so easy to do?" He just learned that this "star fruit" has more than 20 refrigerated fresh-keeping ships used for transportation alone, as well as hundreds of refrigerated wagons, which is really big enough.

"Hehe, now that the European economy has gradually recovered, Europeans are willing to spend money on food, and now the fruit business is still good. What's the matter? Could it be that your Godzilla Group is also going to develop in this direction?" said Jin Desteam, pouring him a cup of tea, and said with a smile.

"No, no, no, that's it. As you know, the main areas of our Godzilla Group are oil and mining, as well as machinery and electronics, and we are not compatible with the fruit aspect......" Li Xiaoren shook his head.

The two chatted for a while, and then got to business.

"Our company has no direct contact with the German National Socialist Workers' Party, but has a close relationship with the Fascist Party, and this time it is also indirectly connected with them through the Fascist Party. ”

"Well, that's good, I'm sorry for you......" Li Xiaoren nodded,

"Mr. Li, if I remember correctly, your Godzilla Group and the German Fengrui Group also have some business dealings, and the Fengrui Group is in Germany, why don't you just ask them to come forward......" Jin Dexuan asked a little puzzled.

"Hehe, it's not because the relationship between Britain and Germany is not good, if we go directly to Germany, the British side will react too much, so we need to go around Italy......" Li Xiaoren said helplessly.

Although the state of war between Britain and Germany has ended, the relationship has been very bad, and the normal trade between the enterprises of the two countries has been affected. The current situation is that as long as you can trade things with other countries, you will never trade with the Germans, and vice versa.

"Hahaha, then there is no way...... "Jin Dexuan smiled and said, "This time Hitler will come over in person." ”

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Rome Railway Station.

"Woo......" With a whistle, a passenger train from Berlin slowly stopped on the platform.

A group of Germans wearing swastika badges stepped off the train, led by a small mustache in a gray trench coat. When they reached the gate of the station, they were greeted by two young Italians.

One of them asked in German: "Excuse me, is it Mr. Hitler from the German National Socialist Workers' Party?"

The mustache stepped forward and said: "Yes, I am Hitler, you are ......"

"We are employees of Star Fruit, and the boss has ordered us to meet you, please ......come with us," said the Italian.

That's right, that's the mustache. Although Comrade Mustache also succeeded in becoming the leader of the Nazi Party, he did not have the opportunity to carry out the beer hall coup. Because Germany on this plane did not lose in World War I, and there was no "Versailles Treaty" that pulled hatred, and the Mark did not depreciate wildly, the incident of France and Belgium sending troops to occupy the Ruhr naturally would not be even worse, that is to say, the events that aroused the anger and patriotic enthusiasm of the German people against the government in the original time and space were all wooden, and the hatred of the German people was not high, so he naturally did not have that opportunity.

But gold always shines, and after the war, the mustache and the Workers' Party of Germany, the second largest party in Bavaria, entered the Bavarian government, where it occupied several ministerial positions. Of course, the mustache can have such results, which is inseparable from the support of the emerging German chaebol Fengrui Group. Reinhardt, the president of the Fengrui Group, was the vice chairman of the Nazi Party.

Yes, Wen is always really ready to prop up the mustache, and has formulated a "mustache cultivation plan". There is no way, in this era, Germany really can't find a second country leader as powerful as the mustache, and Germany without a mustache is incomplete Germany. Only when the mustache is in power can Germany be more powerful as a-stirring stick and continue to fight Britain and France.

The mustache came to Italy this time for the cooperation between the Nazi Party and the Fascist Party. However, for Mussolini, the current Nazi Party is just a newcomer to the political arena, and as an old man, he will not come forward in person. Besides, it was only an informal meeting, so even the fascists did not come forward, but let the "star fruit" who was close to him come forward to entertain him.

"In addition to Hitler, there are also key players such as Gregel Strassel, Rudolf Hess, and Hermann Goering...... "Kim said.

Li Xiaoren shook his head and said: "Mussolini is too much, he doesn't care about anything, just hangs people like this." ”

"It's not the same. Mussolini is now the leader of the country, and Hitler is now in Bavaria. But that's fine, you can meet with Hitler first and talk about cooperation......"

That night, Li Xiaoren and Hitler met in a restaurant, and the two sides talked and laughed. After eating, the two sides went to a hotel to continue to discuss cooperation. Afterwards, according to both sides, it was about corporate cooperation. What was discussed is not clear to them themselves.

Three months later, Mustache, who was the Minister of Industry of Bavaria, was invited by China's Hebei Iron and Steel Group to visit China......