Chapter 9 Chapter 2 The emperor invites you to dinner

In 1912 AD, the first year of Dingding in the Republic of China, when the Qing Dynasty was wiped out.In Henan, in Zhangde, and in Huanshang Village, Yuan Shikai's eldest son, Yuan Keding, was galloping with great vigor.Suddenly the broken horse flew upside down in the air, Yuan Keding didn't notice, and fell off the horse with a sound of ah.He fell off the horse, but one leg was still in the stirrup.The broken horse didn't say stop quickly, dragging Yuan Keding all the way wildly, stirring up smoke and dust in the sky. After a while, the horse got tired of running and had enough fun, so he stopped to graze by himself.Yuan Keding desperately wanted to get up, but found that he couldn't do it because his leg was seriously injured.

If you're hurt, let's heal. After a year of treatment, there was no improvement.The current Yuan Keding is limping when he walks, making endless troubles.How to do it?At this time, Liang Dunyan, the Chinese ambassador to Germany, ran over and said, "Xiao Yuan, look at your leg, which is crippled. Do you want to go with me to see a doctor in Germany? Now the Germans have the highest level of medical care." . So Yuan Keding went to Germany and saw a doctor for treatment for a few days, and he really got better.Yuan Keding was overjoyed, and immediately had a strong and favorable impression of Germany.Besides, Yuan Keding is an extremely smart child with a language talent beyond ordinary people. Within a few days after arriving in Germany, he has mastered seven or eight languages ​​in one go, among which German and English are the most fluent, which is easy for foreigners to understand. Very depressed.

Later generations recalled that Yuan Keding, like his father, had no bad habits, neither smoking nor drinking, neither playing cards nor mahjong.I have never had an earth-shattering love for a woman. It was just a little girl crying and asking to be married. If she gets married, she will marry her. It's just adding another concubine to the family. I just like to read and think. So Yuan Keding studied in Germany.He dabbled in a wide range of subjects and read everything, including history, humanities, science and technology, miscellaneous, and read whatever he caught.Just as he was fascinated by the reading, Liang Dunyan, the ambassador to Germany, came: Xiao Yuan, are you busy recently?If you are not busy, there is a dinner tomorrow.

Yuan Keding said: Oh, it's dinner again, who is taking advantage of this time to treat guests? Liang Dunyan replied: This person who has been taken advantage of has a lot of weight. It is the German Emperor Wilhelm II. It turned out that the emperor of Germany was the guest, Yuan Keding was puzzled, so he asked: Serena, why did he invite me to dinner? Liang Dunyan explained: This is what happened.If you look at the international situation, it looks like this. Now the European powers are vying to conquer the world. At present, Germany and the United Kingdom are the most powerful.Germany and the United Kingdom are not dealing with each other. You think I am not pleasing to the eye, and I think you are not right. In short, the hostility is very strong.In this way, both sides have to recruit people to join the gang, and the Germans want to recruit a few horsemen to repair the British.As for the UK, of course, they also need to pull a few horsemen to repair the Germans.The manpower on the European side has been recruited, so both companies went to Asia to recruit people.Japan was the first to rise in Asia, but the British were the first to strike first, and they had pulled Japan over and formed an alliance with Japan.When the Germans came to Asia, they looked around and could only recruit China. Therefore, the German Emperor Wilhelm II was very concerned about China's political situation and invited you to dinner for this reason.

That's right.Yuan Keding said: You tell Serena, I will definitely go when the time comes. On the day of the dinner, Yuan Keding took a classic car and arrived at the German Imperial Palace, where he saw that the guard of honor was lined up in front of him.The salute was fired indiscriminately, and the military band played passionate military music, and then Yuan Keding was invited to mount his horse to review the guard of honor. Speaking of the German guard of honor at that time, it was unique in the world. The guards of honor were all handsome young men, riding tall horses and wearing classical costumes, majestic and royal, which opened Yuan Keding's eyes.

After reviewing the guard of honor, the Kaiser invited Yuan Keding to the main hall, and onions, salads, and potatoes were put on the table like a stream of water... Germans are not very professional in food, so there is no way to deal with it. Yuan Keding had no choice but to bite the bullet and gnaw onions, and then the Kaiser said: Mr. Yuan, look at our Germans, are you very arrogant?Very powerful, right?But let me tell you, Germany was not like this in the past. Germany in the past can be described in two words: miserable!Tragic, really tragic. Is there such a thing?Yuan Keding's eyes widened, expressing doubt.

Have!The Kaiser said: Do you know that there is a great writer in our country named Goethe?Goethe, the one who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther", the one who wrote "Faust" who sold his soul to the devil.He once said sadly: When I think of the German people, I often feel sad.As individuals, they are all precious; as a whole, they are so pitiful.Xiao Yuan, the great writer Goethe meant that we Germans, one person is a dragon, and a group of people is a worm, and a mess is scattered and slaughtered. so poor?Yuan Keding was dumbfounded. Worse than this!The Kaiser continued: Know who is in our country, that Franz Schnabe, the famous historian.Guess what he said, he said: Among all the nations in Europe, the Germans have become the nation with the heaviest burden due to the geographical conditions of their living space.

What about the heavy burden method?Yuan Keding couldn't understand. Want to know how heavy it is?Xiao Yuan, listen to me!Kaiser Wilhelm II stood up and chanted loudly: The French and the Russians took possession of the land, The seas belong to the British. Only in the air kingdom of dreams, The power of the Germans is indisputable. After reciting the poem, the Kaiser sat down slowly with tears in his eyes and trembling body, and explained to Yuan Keding: This poem was written by the great poet Heine. What happened?Why do German poets who write poems and books who write books all express such grief?

This is because of the Thirty Years War.The Kaiser told Yuan Keding: One hundred years ago, that is, in 1414 AD, the Pope held the most terrifying meeting of the gods in history in Constantine, with 75,000 delegates. The meeting lasted for four years, and many representatives did not have their turn to speak. .What if it's not your turn to speak?The delegates were all in a hurry, and they started to make a fuss, saying that with so many delegates, it would be impossible not to let them speak, and it would be impossible to let them all speak. Instead, we should just change the method and see where there is open space and start a war.The representatives looked around, um, Germany is a good place, don't pick and choose, just go to Germany to fight.As a result, European countries swarmed into our Germany, and started fighting. This fight lasted for a full thirty years, and it was called the Thirty Years War in history.

The Thirty Years' War, the Kaiser stood up and said excitedly, these thirty years of long wars have literally crippled our Germany.No matter how strong your country is, no matter how hard you work, it will not be able to stop the neighbors with malicious intentions from throwing and smashing your house for 30 years. Yuan Keding didn't understand: Then why do Europeans come to Germany to fight? The Kaiser glanced at him: Didn't I already tell you?We Germans, one person is a dragon, and a group of people are worms. If we are not united, of course we are at the mercy of others. So why are you united now?Yuan Keding is most concerned about this issue.

monarchy!The Kaiser told Yuan Keding eloquently that it is precisely because Germany has implemented the imperial system, unified thinking, unified understanding, and unified actions, so we Germans have stood up, and the days when Germany was bullied and slaughtered by others are gone forever. Come back!