Chapter 134 Heading to the Far East

"Channel candidate?" Lieutenant General Blomberg glanced at Major General Schleicher. In his mind, this "political general" might have been on his radar for a long time.

Hersman also looked at Schleicher. Although he had been recommending Hitler to this "big brother", he also knew that Schleicher himself was very interested in the position of Chancellor.

In fact, when it comes to the ability to govern the country, Schleicher is no worse than Hitler. The latter had no experience in governance, and the miracle he created after taking office was entirely due to the inherent national socialism in Germany - List and Bismarck had already pointed out a way out for Germany in the Great Depression. At that time, all the politicians on the stage knew how to save Germany, but except for Hitler and the Nazi Party, a workers' party that took the middle and lower-class route, no one else could implement the route of List and Bismarck.

Moreover, no one could deny such a basic fact at that time - the German National Socialist Workers' Party was a socialist workers' party, a party that represented the interests of the broadest working people in Germany, which was also the basis for Hitler's Nazi Party to come to power!

Schleicher and Hirschmann were both members of the Junker elite, representing the interests of officers, nobles and capitalists. The pro-aristocratic stance of the current ruling President Hindenburg and Stresemann Cabinet was very clear. After the German economy improved in 1926, President Hindenburg and the Stresemann Cabinet also issued 3 billion marks in compensation to the German emperor and the great nobles who were exiled because of the November Revolution!

So if Schleicher and Hirschmann relied on the support of the Junker nobles and capitalists to become prime ministers, they would at most become fascists, and would definitely not be able to create national socialism. Without national socialism, the cohesion of the Third Reich would probably not be much stronger than that of the Second Reich.

Therefore, the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party was necessary, but how long Hitler stayed on the stage was another matter.

"Nazi Party!" Schleicher was silent for a long time, and finally nodded, "At present, the only choice is the Nazi Party, so we must also support them... This is also necessary to contain the Bolshevik Party! However, whether Mr. Adolf Hitler can become the future prime minister needs to be carefully considered."

Under the leadership of Thälmann, the German Bolshevik Party changed its previous path of rebellion and began to take the path of legal struggle. It also participated in the 1927 parliamentary elections, but did not gain much. After the resignation of President Ebert, the political situation of the Weimar Republic in this time and space has been much more stable. Stresemann's cabinet served a full four-year term and was successfully re-elected in 1927.

As the main opposition parties, the Social Democratic Party, the Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Party did not achieve any good results in the 1927 election. But the upcoming economic crisis will definitely give these three opposition parties a good opportunity to grow and develop.

As for which of the three opposition parties can make their debut as the ruling party, it depends on who the Junker Group and the Army support.

The Bolshevik Party and the Social Democratic Party were regarded as "November criminals" by the Junker Group because of their anti-war stance in 1918, so the Nazi Party was the only choice.

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In mid-July 1928, the Rome Conference was held as scheduled. As expected by Hirschmann, the conference did not make any progress on the "European Union" or "European Bank".

Although during the Rome Conference, the Bank of England was under great pressure due to the Bank of France's massive selling of pounds, and once threatened to abandon the gold standard (referring to the pound and gold being linked at a fixed price).

However, Britain did not choose to form a European bank with Germany, the Baltic Republic, Austria and other countries-due to the opposition of France and the United States, most European countries had doubts about the European Bank, and only Germany, the Baltic Republic and Austria clearly expressed their support. And Britain itself was also shaken because it was afraid that the "Four-Nation European Bank" and the "Four-Nation Monetary Union" would become a prelude to the Anglo-German alliance, thereby involving Britain in the conflict between Germany and France and Poland and becoming a tool for Germany to grow and develop.

Therefore, at the Rome Conference, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill no longer insisted on the "European Bank".

Of course, the reason why the British backed off on the issue of the "European Bank" was not entirely because they were worried about being dragged into the Second World War by Germany. There was also the factor of the United States actively wooing it - the "Euro" was always a major concern for the US dollar.

In order to prevent the emergence of the "Euro", Owen Young, a US representative attending the Rome Conference, a senior adviser to the US President and a senior adviser to the Bank of France, proposed a "Young Plan" to use US loans to help Britain stabilize the exchange rate of the pound.

This plan is very favorable to Britain. The US government will provide Britain with a large amount of long-term low-interest loans to help Britain stabilize the exchange rate. In exchange, the British government agreed to negotiate with Germany to revise the "Keynes Plan" together with the French government - it is estimated that the British government has now discovered that the "in kind compensation system" in the "Keynes Plan" is very unfavorable to Britain's manufacturing industry.

"I'm afraid it's not that easy to revise the "Keynes Plan". Do they think it's 1923 now?" Hersman heard the final result of the "Rome Conference" on a giant seaplane that was about to take off.

This seaplane is a new product launched by Dornier - Dornier Do-X. This is the largest aircraft in the world today, symbolizing the revival and strength of the German Empire.

Historically, Dornier launched this huge aircraft with a net weight of 40 tons (more solid than the historical Do-X) in July 1929. In this time and space, thanks to the expansion of the scale of Soviet-German cooperation, Claude Dornier, the boss of Dornier, realized his dream more than a year ahead of schedule.

And this Do-X aircraft has more powerful power than the historical aircraft. It is driven by 12 (2 in parallel) Siemens "Neptun" radial engines, which have 880 horsepower and are the most powerful mass-produced aircraft engines in Germany today. The 12 "Neptun" engines rotating at the same time can generate a huge kinetic energy of 10,560 horsepower, which is enough to propel the huge flying object with a total take-off weight of up to 48.2 tons to fly at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour.

The fate of this Do-X seaplane is also different from that in history. Because it was launched more than a year earlier than in history and has a more powerful engine, the fuselage is also built more solidly (it weighs three tons more) and the performance of the aircraft is more reliable.

So Do-X has won a lot of orders now. Lufthansa has purchased 10 for transportation business on the Atlantic and Mediterranean routes. The Soviet Union, Italy and Japan have each purchased one for research. Building the world's largest aircraft is not only face-saving, but the military use of this Do-X aircraft is also worth exploring - this aircraft can stay in the air for a long time, and it seems to be good for anti-submarine. And it can also carry 80 fully armed soldiers and can be used as a transport aircraft. In addition, this aircraft may also be equipped with several 75mm or 105mm caliber cannons to bombard ground and sea targets...

The Do-X that Hessmann is riding now is the one sold to Japan. Now its interior is decorated like a luxury private plane, allegedly for the Japanese emperor to sit on it first to enjoy it.

"Ludwig, what do you think we can do? Do we have to use military force to fight against the Allies?" Karl Haushofer is the nominal head of the delegation to Japan this time - because the Japanese invited him, a "pro-Japanese" German.

This local politician was a professor of artillery at the Japanese Army University from 1908 to 1910, and made friends with many Japanese soldiers. He also wrote two books about Japan and the Pacific, believing that Japan had the potential to be a valuable ally of Germany.

And Hersman held the same view, so he and Karl Haushofer went to the Far East together.

"There is no need for military force at present." Hersman smiled, "The current crisis is a financial and economic problem... If Keynes was the current British finance minister, he would definitely not propose negotiations to revise the plan. Unfortunately, Churchill is not a fiscal and financial expert, and letting him be the finance minister is completely nonsense."

"Why?"

Hersman smiled coldly: "The European financial market is already very fragile, and funds are attracted by the United States. Germany is the only bright spot in Europe... and the attractiveness of the German economy is based on the Keynes Plan and the Soviet-German cooperation. If the Keynes Plan needs to be significantly revised, then the German economy will be very attractive to capital. The attractiveness of gold will be reduced by at least half.

At that time, a large amount of funds will flow out of Germany! And these funds cannot flow to the UK - the fact that the UK accepts US support to stabilize the pound has already shown that the UK cannot maintain such a high exchange rate level, which makes the pound unattractive to investors. So the funds flow back from Europe to the United States! The contraction of the German economy due to lack of funds will soon spread to the UK, and the crisis of the pound will become more serious! "

Just as Hersman and Karl Haushofer were talking, 12 powerful Siemens "Neptune" engines began to roar. As the propeller turned, this huge aircraft, which symbolized Germany's military and technological strength, began to glide quickly on Lake Geneva, then soared into the sky and roared towards the French airspace - it will fly through the French airspace at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, then cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the east coast of the United States. After that, it will fly along the Caribbean coast, cross the airspace of northern Mexico, and finally cross the Pacific Ocean to Japan...

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