Chapter 1870 Soldiers and Politics Four
"Mr. Knowles, I have known you for a long time. I had a phone call with Admiral Scheer a week ago. During the phone call, he praised your eloquence and wit, and claimed that you were almost able to persuade him." Looking at the top leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Kiel region in front of him, Admiral Crook said calmly.
"Really, it's a pity. If I had worked harder, we wouldn't be in so much trouble now." Knowles shook his head regretfully and said. "However, no matter what, since General Scheer is about to accept my statement, it has at least proved that my statement does have some truth. What do you think?" Knowles asked back.
"Okay, Mr. Knowles, explain your purpose. If you want the imperial army to support the parliamentary faction to overthrow the Kaiser's rule, don't be speechless. The Kaiser has made many mistakes, but the Social Democratic Party is also in our country. The villain who stabbed the knife in the back." General House said angrily.
"Then what is the military? A bystander, or an arbiter of domestic disputes?" Knowles asked rhetorically. However, this sentence obviously touched the hearts of Crook and others. After all, just yesterday, my former boss had a fierce conflict with everyone present on this issue, although Xiao Maoqi no longer has the decision They have the right to fate, but those words in the conversation still left a very deep impact on Crook and others. In essence, Crook and others are patriots, and they want to make their country a better place. Even better, it's just that the way they choose and their thinking are a little bit off!
"We are the defenders of order! The first priority of the army is to maintain order! The best chaos is not as good as the worst order. Look at what you have done? You have split Prussia! Let the kingdom's majesty disappear! The fruits of victory that the empire has sacrificed millions of lives in vain? Where is your so-called justice and axiom?" Crook was already a little angry in his words. In his opinion, at this time, the parliamentary faction must bear at least 70% of the responsibility. If Crook still maintained respect when facing the representatives of the Kaiser, then for these parliamentarians, Crook Just disdain, even anger.
"This is all a thing of the past. What we need now is to solve the problem. Moreover, we have indeed provided more choices for the future. Some of our actions can also be recognized by Your Excellency, at least we have the respect for the Kaiser Everyone is dissatisfied." Knowles obviously doesn't want to continue entanglement on this kind of issue, and entanglement will have no practical effect except to make both parties feel angry!
"I am here this time, and I have no intention of asking for military help politically. I am here because some of our actions may have caused some misunderstandings with you recently. Your subordinates arrested our army in the west of Hanover. Some people. They didn't do anything wrong, and I hope you can release them," Knowles said.
What the Grand Duke of Baden said was not all false. At least, in the west of Hanover, some Social Democrats who were planning to replace the local government were indeed captured by the local army. This made Albert and others feel very uneasy, not that they were really worried about the safety of these members, but worried about the attitude of the military. After all, the military can "maintain stability" in the west of Hannover. Then maybe at some time they will come to the east of Hannover under the control of the parliament to arrest people. This signal is very dangerous to Albert, so he needs to send someone to test the attitude of the military to see if they are true. I tend to lean towards the Kaiser. As for those colleagues who are currently in prison, let's just fish if you can!
"What I said just now is very clear. The first thing the army needs to do is to maintain order. Even if there is a major political turmoil in the country, we must also ensure the stability of local order. Your actions have clearly violated this principle! You are using illegal means to steal public power!" Admiral Crook said,
On this issue, the admiral thinks that he is doing the right thing, and even, if the current situation is not more sensitive, the admiral would want to pick out the leader and shoot him immediately!
"However, our idea is correct, but the means are somewhat poor." Knowles said: "We have always believed that the power of the government should be directly elected by the voters with their own votes, rather than from the designation of a superior. If If possible, in the future, the German provinces should set up parliaments, and then the voters should choose the members and the head of government through ballots."
"However, this does not conform to the national conditions of Germany, because Germany does not have a complete political party system, and the empire itself is formed by a group of divided states. Your behavior will cause the local governments of the empire to act independently and fight against the central government for their own interests. , so as to further disperse the power of the empire's center. When you use your propaganda to please the voters, have you ever thought about what will happen to the empire as a whole?"
"We are in Europe, where there are many great powers, and it is the most powerful region in the world. Any weakness in the central government will lead to foreign enemies taking advantage of it! And once the central government and the local government are at odds because of interests, the powerful empire is likely to fall apart. "Admiral Crook took a deep breath and said: "So, as long as I am still alive, I will never allow such a system of local elections and local governments to appear in Germany! It is okay if this is just your idea, but thousands Don't put it into practice, otherwise the result is definitely not what you want to see!"
Crook's warning was already quite severe, it was almost a declaration of war. Is there any truth to what Crook said? Of course there are. The German Empire is not very united. If you hold elections for local governments, wouldn’t that push you further on the road to division? This is death! Don’t take the United States as an example, look at the environments in Europe and the United States, they are completely different. Which European power has a lower degree of centralization than Germany?
"It seems that the differences between us cannot be made up." Knowles said with some regrets, but in fact, he was not surprised by this result. If the Kaiser, as an individual, can still compromise on certain issues, Then, as an aristocratic group, it will be more difficult for the Junkers to compromise politically! Just as the Social Democratic Party needs the support of capitalists, the Kaiser also needs the support of the Junker nobles. Knowles’s suggestion hit the nobility even more than it hit the Kaiser. The parliamentarians wanted to change Germany’s social system and sweep the privileges of the nobility into the dustbin of history. And this kind of behavior will naturally lead to dissatisfaction and opposition from the dwarf Crook and others!
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