Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 274 Royalists
Subtitle of this chapter: I am the illegitimate son of William II
Yuan Yan suddenly ran to the mahjong table without knowing when, and said with joy: "I think of His Majesty William, who is the authentic Brandenburg and the direct descendant of the Hohenzollern. He led the Junkers to pacify France and suppress Britain, and assisted Austria-Hungary in sweeping away Tsarist Russia. This is in accordance with the will of heaven and human nature."
In fact, these are historical facts written in history books.
"But I never expected that Moltke the Younger, the tiger uncle and the dog nephew, would fail in his attempt to change the Schlieffen Plan; Falgenhahn was just a name. He launched the Battle of Verdun and lost countless soldiers."
Well, that's not really wrong. Moltke the Younger's nephew did modify the Schlieffen Plan, and Falkenhayn, who succeeded Moltke the Younger as Chief of the German General Staff (1914-1916), was nicknamed "The Butcher of Verdun".
"And there is Hindenburg, the grey-bearded old villain, and Ludendorff, the white-haired scoundrel! They are in cahoots with each other and act arbitrarily. When these two villains return to Valhalla, how can they face the late Emperor William I and the late Chancellor Bismarck?"
That’s right, during World War I, the third Chief of the German General Staff, Hindenburg, and the First Quartermaster General (equivalent to Deputy Chief of the General Staff), Ludendorff, did join forces to sideline William II so that the second-rate emperor would not cause trouble.
Hindenburg and Wilhelm II had a feud. In an army exercise in 1908, the army under his command performed so well that the referee had to declare the army under the command of the German Emperor Wilhelm II defeated. So he was kicked out of the army by the emperor and went home to drink beer and eat pork knuckles .
In fact, since 1916, the German Empire has been ruled by the military dictatorship Supreme Army Command (Oberste Heeresleitung, abbreviated as OHL) headed by Hindenburg.
Our Master Yuan scolded the four German military commanders with great emotion, leaving the three military experts in the audience dumbfounded.
Oh, if we ignore his yellow appearance and change this passage from classical Chinese...well, English into German, he would definitely be a staunch royalist Junker knight.
"How can I repair it... Well, how hateful!" Yuan Yan sighed dejectedly and gnashed his teeth and said, "My Second Empire will perish at the hands of these incompetent people and the November traitors!"
The November traitors refer to the left and right factions in the November Revolution. On November 3, 1918, the sailors of the Kiel fleet held a demonstration with the dock workers to oppose the order to fight the British fleet and demand the release of the sailors who had been arrested. The demonstration quickly developed into an armed uprising and finally swept across Germany. His Majesty William II was much luckier than his distant cousin Nicholas II. He fled to the Netherlands in a hurry and announced his abdication there.
The right-wing Social Democrats and the OHL then reached an agreement that the government would not attempt to reform the army as long as the army promised to protect the government and was reorganized into the Reichswehr. The reorganized Reichswehr and the Freikorps, a paramilitary organization of volunteer soldiers, suppressed the German Communist Party, which was composed of the left wing of the Social Democratic Party and several left-wing groups of the Spartacist League.
Among the three people in the audience, Mr. Little Chandler was already accustomed to the frequent freak outs of the Fool, and Isoroku Yamamoto was not very surprised because this Chinese man really had the demeanor of a curious person.
Mr. Stauffenberg, who didn't know him well, was shocked. How come Yanshu von Yuan spoke in the same tone as Emperor Wilhelm II? Even the words they spoke were so similar?
"Bang!"
Our Master Yuan jumped off the stage, stepped forward and grabbed Mr. Stauffenberg, stared at him with a sharp gaze and asked: "Now our great German empire... well, the empire is surrounded by powerful enemies and treacherous parties are rampant, resulting in internal and external troubles and people's livelihood is declining. I think the people of the country are like those who look forward to the clouds and rain in a drought, and the children look up to their loving mother. This is the time for us Junkers to work hard..."
"I wonder what I can do for His Majesty the Emperor?"
"Hmm..." Mr. Stauffenberg felt a little embarrassed when he saw Master Yuan's sincere face. Alas, the Chinese were so obsessed with helping William II to restore the throne, while the real Junkers were content with the status quo.
In fact, it was not good for these Junkers to be dissatisfied with the status quo. The reason was that the 33,000 active officers who led the German army when the war was declared in 1914 still basically maintained the color of Prussian aristocracy. Unfortunately, most of the middle and lower-level officers, that is, the battalion and company-level officers, did not survive until the second half of 1915. In other words, there was a big gap among the aristocratic officers.
The rapid expansion of the officer corps during the war inevitably led to the breaking of the family restrictions of the officer corps. Not only were family restrictions broken, but even ethnicity was no longer enforced. Jews even joined the ranks of the imperial officer corps. It was even more difficult to find out about political positions, which could not be labeled. Many Social Democrats became officers. Together with the imperial opposition among senior generals, this group of people contributed to the abdication of the emperor in 1918.
By 1920, Hindenburg still had actual control over the German officer corps. Count Scharnhorst and Mr. Stauffenberg, who followed William II to the Netherlands, and General Schleicher, the later Chancellor of Weimar Germany, were the real royalists.
It was precisely because Hindenburg was unwilling to restore the monarchy, at least during his lifetime, that he was unwilling to accept General Schleicher's suggestion to launch a coup. Otherwise, there would only be William III (son of William II), and there would be no head of state.
Later, Mr. Stauffenberg's brother, the one-eyed colonel, assassinated Hitler with a bomb in the Wolf's Lair and launched a military coup. The July 20 Incident was actually the last struggle of the Prussian conservative officer corps.
In short, unless Hindenburg is killed, these royalists are useless!
But can Yuan Yanshu still engage in arms smuggling business with those useless royalist officers?
So he didn't wait for Mr. Stauffenberg to answer, but slapped his forehead and said, "Damn it, I actually forgot!"
He said in a deep voice: "We Seres have an old saying, 'Before the troops move, the food and grass must be ready.' There is another old saying, 'Money is not everything, but without money, nothing can be done.' I think His Majesty the Emperor must be short of funds for the restoration of his country. Is that right, Mr. Stauffenberg?"
Oh, if only we could send group text messages and emails now, the content would be: Hello, I am the illegitimate son of William II, I have 135 tons of gold frozen in Germany. But since I am abroad recently, I need funds to unfreeze it. After you transfer the money to me, I promise to give you 1 ton of gold and reserve a position as a division commander for you. If you don’t want to be a division commander, I will make you a count. If you don’t want to be a count, I will marry my sister to you.
Oh, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, as long as you are healthy. I have a sister who married into a wealthy family, but her husband lost his fertility. In order to inherit the huge family fortune, he is now looking for a healthy man...
