"In order to properly settle the life of the victims, I have decided to exempt the tax in the disaster area for the next three years, so that the people can recuperate. The Ministry of Agriculture will send a report to the various places, so there is no need to draw up an order."

"Cha." Minister of Agriculture Yang Shenxiu responded.

Guan Xuqing suddenly thought of something, and said to Wu Tongju: "I still remember when you said that you planned to build a dam in the Three Gorges of the Yellow River, right?"

"Yes, I had this intention at the beginning, but now it seems that this matter is too unrealistic. The catastrophe has just passed, and all aspects need money. To build such a dam must be built with the power of the whole country, so... ...The minister temporarily gave up on this idea."

Guan Xuqing waved his hand: "It was unrealistic at the beginning, and it may not be feasible now. This is a major event for the benefit of future generations, and it is also a long-term development plan for the empire. It must be done, and it must be done well. I support this matter, and the people of the empire will also supported."

"Emperor Shengming."

Guan Xuqing paused for a moment and then said: "However, in the next two years, the Water Resources Department will cooperate with various regions to investigate the terrain and water quality of the Yellow River in detail. The dam can be built, but there must be a sufficient research and demonstration in advance. In the future, the Water Resources Department will come up with After the plan, submit it to the cabinet for review and revision, remember, building a dam is not a child's play, it must be safe, I don't want the empire's money to be washed away by the flood."

"twitter."

Rising Clouds: World War II Chapter 5 Twenty Chapters The Birth of a Demon

When the cloud of world war hangs over the world, the devil born in Vienna is quietly rising!This man was Hitler.

Before the red storm swept across Austria, Vienna, the heart of Europe, had a unique cheerful atmosphere and charming charm that no capital in the world had.Not only in terms of architecture, sculpture, music, but also in terms of people's love of culture and pursuit of elegant spiritual life, Vienna can breathe the breath of gorgeous Baroque art that no other city has.

Of course, Vienna, like all other cities, has a large mass of poor, proletarians who are malnourished, ragged, and living in slums.But as the capital of the empire, and as the largest industrial center in Central Europe, Vienna was fairly prosperous.The lower middle class was large and politically active, workers were joining trade unions, and the power of the Social Democratic Party was growing rapidly.The democratic forces are crowding out the long and decadent autocratic forces of the Habsburg dynasty.A penniless young man also has the opportunity to receive higher education, or, like a large number of workers, to work in a factory and become a self-reliant laborer.

However, the young Hitler did not try to realize his ambition of entering the architecture department.He didn't apply for admission at all.Nor did he want to learn any trades.Instead, he preferred to do odd jobs like sweeping snow, beating carpets and carrying luggage at the station.

Hunger drove Hitler from street to street.He often slept on a bench in the park or in the gate of any house at night, and ate cheap food in taverns and waiting rooms during the day.

A vagabond, Hitler showed a preternatural interest in politics, practicing his oratory in Vienna's poor inns, soup kitchens, and audiences on the streets.

At the same time, he also read a large number of anti-Semitic books, which further increased his racial prejudice and hatred of Jews.

In the spring of 1897, Hitler left Vienna for Germany in a mood of pessimism and disappointment.However, after coming to Germany, Hitler's "genius" has not yet been revealed.On the streets of Munich, he is still empty-handed, unaccompanied and without a formal job.

However, the world war that broke out this summer gave him a turning point.

On August 8, he persistently wrote to King Ludwig III of Bavaria, applying to volunteer to join the Bavarian Infantry Regiment, which was approved.

Hitler joined the army in Munich, served as a corporal signalman, and suffered a lot.In autumn, during a battle with Britain, Hitler was temporarily blinded by poisoning and came to an army hospital near Berlin to recuperate.

While Hitler was gloomy and helpless, a pastor came to the hospital one gloomy Sunday to announce a depressing and terrible news to the wounded soldiers.On that Sunday morning, the pastor said, the Kaiser had abdicated and had taken refuge in China.After this, Germany declared the Weimar Republic.The pastor choked up as he spoke, and it was obvious that he admired Kaiser Wilhelm II very much.

When Hitler heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue, his eyes suddenly went dark, he stumbled and groped back to the ward, threw himself on the bed, and buried his feverish head in the blanket.I thought to myself, everything was in vain.All sacrifices and hardships were in vain.What fate will the new German government bring to itself?

Hitler was wounded twice in the war. After medical recovery in Germany, he returned to the Liszt regiment and was promoted to corporal. In the summer of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Aspen and the third Battle of Ypres.

During the war he was twice awarded, an Iron Cross Second Class and an Iron Cross First Class.In the German army at that time, the latter medal was rarely awarded to ordinary soldiers, because he captured fifteen British soldiers alone.

After hearing the news of William's abdication, he could not admit the fact that the Kaiser had always been his spiritual leader, so he stubbornly believed that Germany was stabbed in the back by domestic conspirators.

After that, Hitler decided to devote himself to politics.Since then, Hitler has devoted himself to the criminal activities of anti-communism, anti-socialism, and opposition to the New Republic.It turned out to be a fateful decision not just for Hitler, but for the entire world.

However, this stubborn Austrian has no relatives, no family, no job, no professional skills, no normal job, and no strong political background. It is simply impossible for him to seek political development in Germany.

He returned to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, and found that the city where he lived was almost beyond recognition.There was also a revolution here, and the Wittelsbach king had abdicated.Bavaria is now in the hands of the Social Democrats, who have formed a Bavarian Republic.

Under such circumstances, the ambitious Hitler corporal began his political activities.After returning to Munich, he joined the investigative committee of the Second Corps to provide intelligence for its suppression of the revolutionary left.Apparently, Hitler's contribution in this matter was considered valuable, so the army continued to employ him, sending him to work in the information bureau of the political department of the local military district command.Later, he was sent to a political training class, where Hitler's anti-Semitic fallacies were appreciated by the superior officers, and he was soon promoted to be an instructor in a regiment in Munich. struggle against doctrine.

One day in September 1899, Hitler received an order from the Army Political Department to investigate a small political group in Munich calling itself the German Workers' Party.So he was ordered to attend the party rally.Only twenty-five people attended the meeting, which took place in a gloomy room in the Sternakerbrau beer hall.Hitler sat from the beginning to the end of the meeting, feeling that the meeting was very dull, and he did not have a good impression at all.It was a civil engineer named Feder who spoke at the meeting, "In addition to creative and productive capital, there is also a speculative capital, and this speculative capital is the cause of most of Germany's economic problems."

After Feder's speech, Hitler felt bored, and when he was about to leave, a professor stood up, refuted Feder's arguments, and suggested that Bavaria break away from Prussia and form a South German state with Austria.This was a popular idea in Vienna at the time, but it drew Hitler's ire.He stood up and lashed out at the learned gentleman, causing the professor to slip away with his tail between his legs like a underdog, while the rest of the audience stared dumbfounded at the unknown.

After Hitler left the meeting place, someone suddenly caught up from behind and thrust a pamphlet into his hand.This man was Anton Drexler, the true founder of National Socialism.

Hitler didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and read the pamphlet carefully early the next morning.The title of the pamphlet is "My Political Awareness".To Hitler's surprise, it reflected many of the ideas he himself had established over the past few years.Drexler's main goal was to create a party based on the working class, and these aroused Hitler's great interest.

On that day, Hitler was surprised to receive a postcard, informing him that he had been absorbed as a member of the German Workers' Party and inviting him to a party meeting.The meeting was held in a tavern.Sitting around a table under a dim gas lamp were four young men who first read the minutes of the previous meeting and voted for the secretary.Then the treasurer made a report on the accounts, and also voted for the treasurer.This was also recorded in the minutes of the meeting.Hitler was very tired of watching such a mechanical program one by one.

But there was something about these little people sitting in this dimly lit back room that appealed to him: the party would provide a good shield for his political involvement.

After two days of brain-wrenching thinking, Hitler finally decided to join the party.At the meeting of the Workers' Party, he said, "This is the most decisive decision in my life. After taking this step, there is no way out, and there is no way out." Adolf Hitler became The No.7 member of the German Workers' Party Committee.

The various thoughts that had been boiling in his mind after joining this party now found an outlet.He pushed their formerly timid committees into organizing larger gatherings, but his work often hit a brick wall, and he was not discouraged when he sent out 80 invitations and it was still seven of their own.Then he raised some money and put an announcement in the local paper for the meeting, and the success was nothing short of astonishing, with 7 people present.Hitler was originally scheduled to make his first public speech at this meeting.However, Haller, the nominal head of the party, objected. He believed that Hitler was fine for other tricks, but he was not qualified for speeches.Hitler risked failure and tried to speak for 111 minutes, but had unpredictable results.His provocative eloquence made the audience excited like an electric shock, and the response was unprecedentedly enthusiastic. After the meeting, everyone also donated 30 marks to the organization.

After this meeting, Hitler took over the party's propaganda work.He immediately began organizing one of the largest gatherings, in the ballroom of the Hofbrauhaus beer hall, which could accommodate 2000 people.Hitler's companions on the committee thought he was crazy for doing so.Haller resigned in protest and was succeeded by Drexler, who also expressed doubts.But Hillert was unmoved. He attached great importance to this rally and held it successfully.At this rally, Hitler articulated for the first time the 25-point program of the German Workers Party, which was adopted at the meeting.Since then, the Workers' Party's reputation has been greatly shaken.

On April 1900, 4, the German Workers Party officially changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazi Party for short.

Rise of the Storm: World War II Chapter 521 The Rise of the Demon

On July 7, Hitler held a commemorative meeting in Nuremberg for Germany’s defeat of France in Sedan in 2. He delivered a fierce speech, which was warmly welcomed by all the fascist fanatics. Hitler publicly clamored that the goal of the Nazis was: Overthrow the weak and incompetent Weimar government, and bring down Hindenburg, the conspirator behind it!

The head of the Bavarian administration issued a stern warning to Hitler and the armed groups.Hitler's henchmen demanded action.Lieutenant William Brook, one of his stormtrooper leaders, demanded immediate action.

"The time has come," he reminded. "I can no longer restrain my brethren. If we do not act now, they will leave us."

After Hitler discussed with his cronies, they decided to hijack the Bavarian Big Three and force them to exercise their power at his request.These three giants are the state governor Karl, the commander of the Wehrmacht in Bavaria, General Losov, and the state police chief, Colonel Seiser.Hitler decided to take immediate action.

At nearly 11 o'clock in the evening on November 8, the state president Karl was speaking to an audience of 9 audiences in the Bergbraukeller tavern. Machine guns blocked the entrance and exit of the tavern.In order to attract people's attention, Hitler jumped on a table, took out his pistol and fired a shot at the ceiling.At this moment Karl stopped speaking immediately, and the audience was at a loss.Hitler, surrounded by Hess and Graf the thug, walked to the podium.Karl turned pale with fright at this time, obediently retreated from the podium, and Hitler took his place.

"The national revolution has begun!" cried Hitler. "This place has been occupied by 600 armed men. No one is allowed to leave the hall. Everyone must be silent, or I will set up machine guns in the balcony. The Bavarian government and the national government have Overthrown, the Provisional National Government has been established. Wehrmacht barracks and police barracks have been occupied. The army and police have marched into the city under the flag!"

Pushed and shoved by the SA, the three most senior officials in Bavaria docilely obeyed Hitler while the crowd watched dumbfounded.

However, there were some brave ones, and one shouted to the policeman, "Don't be so timid, shoot!" However, the policemen saw that their chiefs were so tame, and the stormtroopers had occupied the entire hall.

Goering, a Nazi, fiddled with the pistol in his hand and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of, and we have no malicious intentions. Therefore, you have no reason to be dissatisfied. Drink your beer! A new government is being organized in the next room."

A new government was indeed being formed, but under duress at Hitler's pistol.As soon as he drove the three of them into the next room, he told them: "Without my permission, no one can get out alive." Hitler said grimly again: "You three can be in the Bavarian government, or Hold important posts in the national government which I have organized together with General Ludendorff, Chief of the German General Staff."

Ludendorff?All three were stunned.They don't understand such an important person, how did Hitler win over?

In fact, that evening, Hitler had sent someone to Ludwigshaus to fetch the general to the beer hall.

All three bowed their heads in silence, but Hitler was still chattering: "The three of you must join me in declaring a revolution and joining a new government. Whoever doesn't do it will die. Karl will serve as the regent of Bavaria, Lossov will be minister of defense forces and Seyser will be chief of the national police."

Karl replied angrily, "Herr Hitler, you can tell them to shoot me, or you can do it yourself. It doesn't matter if I die or not."

Seisser also spoke: "Herr Hitler, you have not kept your promise not to stage a coup against the police."

General Losov continued to remain silent.

The three men in charge of the Bavarian regime, even with their guns pointed at their chests, did not agree.But Hitler did not stop, and without a word he rushed out into the hall, stepped up to the podium, and announced to the disaffected crowd: "The Big Three in the next room have formed with me a new national government. A new government will be proclaimed today in this place in Munich. The Wehrmacht will be formed immediately. I propose that I take over the policy direction of the national government and that Ludendorff will head the Wehrmacht! Hitler's ingenious lies worked. When The mood of the crowd changed when they heard that General Lossov and Police Chief Seisser had cooperated with Hitler. There were loud cheers, and these cheers moved the three still locked up next door.

At this time, Hitler had sent someone to pick up General Ludendorff.For a long time, Ludendorff, who was under the oppression of Hindenburg, had been looking forward to the emergence of a figure who could turn the tide. The appearance of Hitler made him see hope.Coupled with the expanding power of the Nazi Party in the German country, Ludendorff agreed to the cooperation plan with Hitler very smoothly.

When he came to the beer hall, Ludendorff began to help Hitler persuade the three officials, "Now this has become a major national cause, and I advise the three gentlemen to cooperate. Especially this cause is for the entire German people, and especially It was for the abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II to regain power in Germany."

Ludendorff is a well-known figure in Germany, and his words certainly carry weight. In addition, these three people are loyal followers of William II.So they began to compromise and expressed their willingness to cooperate.

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