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Chapter 12 Naval Political Storm (2)

[Forgive me for water, I really don’t know how to deal with the minefield... In front of the river crab killer, I have to consider the writing.]

"Heidi Sileme?" He put the pen he picked up again. The emperor did not look up, picked up the white gloves that never left his body with his back hand, and his loose expression stiffened again.[..com]

William first learned that this name was more than ten years ago. In October 1897, Tirpitz, his former favorite, gave him a copy of less than 6,000 words. The title page marked "On the Asymmetrical Warfare in the Battleship Age" and handed him the paper signed by Heidi Sileme.

To be fair, Heidi Sileme's paper is amazing compared to his nineteen-year-old age. William knew that what the young man expressed was not the inheritance and variation of the Green Water Naval School of Theofele-Ober and Raoul-Cast. Although his views were rough and a little immature, they were more practical than Mahan's theory of sea power. In short, this paper has its due value, but it did not meet the emperor's psychological expectations. He, William Von Hohenzollern, the German Empire, and Huo

What the King of Henzollen's family needs is a high seas fleet that can challenge the imperial imperial army head-on, and can only obtain "the territory under the sun" from the dying imperialism, and will never let down the status of the German Empire as a great power. This fleet should have countless giant ships and giant cannons, rather than wasting resources on the uncertain future, perfect cruisers, large and unscrupulous airships, poor performance submarines and Verne-style aircraft that can airdrop torpedoes

It has to be said that the young people's views are quite inflammatory, which will undoubtedly bring unpredictable resistance to the emperor's plan for the Navy. The emperor tried to suppress the young people, and Tirpitz took action in advance. He used the second-level secret to finish the past.

At the Congressional Appropriation Hearing in 1898, Tirpitz was the young man's passion and a sensation. Heidi Sileme became a naval hero and an assistant to the imperial naval minister. The emperor did not agree with all this. However, after the First Naval Expansion Act, the dispute between the marshal and the lieutenant of the Navy headquarters reached the emperor's ears. The emperor finally had the excuse to transfer the young man from his homeland and let him wander around the world in the Far East, East Prussia, and East Africa.

In 1905, the era of Dreadnought was started by the British. At that time, Tirpitz repeatedly delayed and stopped the number and construction period of Brunswick-class follow-up ships and Prussian-class battleships, and squandered William's trust and patience in him again and again. It was not until the British started construction of the Dreadnought battleship, Tirpitz wielded the big stick of "British Threat Theory" that the emperor realized something: the young man's point of view was correct, and Tirpitz, who took the blame for him, was not indifferent to the asymmetry theory, but it was him, William von Hohenzollern's persistence and unremitting deliberation that led to the start of the British dreadnought, the Ocean Fleet still had a large number of old battleships that were useless and discarded, but unfortunately, when William von Hohenzollern's persistence and unremitting actions led to the start of construction of the British dreadnought, the Ocean Fleet still had a large number of old battleships that were useless and discarded, which was placed on the ship.

The emperor's sensitive and fragile nerves were touched. As a politician, he had a green light for Tirpitz's dreadnought plan, but for Heidi Sileme, the extreme emperor insisted on driving him out of the navy. In 1914, Tirpitz almost moved the young man back to the land at lightning speed. The emperor caught him off guard, but his last favor to Tirpitz also disappeared.

"Looking at all maritime operations since the war began, all the shadow of Heidi Sileme. Rather than saying that Tirpitz, Ingnoll and Marshals Hetsendorf were too radical and always tried to solve everything alone with a fragile navy, it would be better to say that Heidi Sileme's youthful spirit and lack of military discipline." Edward Von Capeler took a step forward, bent down and tried to persuade him without missing the opportunity. His words and expressions were almost the same as George Von Muller, the minister of the Navy Cabinet a few minutes ago. "After all, Heidi Sileme is just a civilian..."

"Maybe..." The emperor finally raised his head from the towering pile of documents and looked at the righteous Capelle with a smile.

Since Capeler took over Marshal Tirpitz's post as Naval Minister, Capeler has not grasped real power. Ingnoll, commander-in-chief of the Ocean Fleet, was timid to the emperor, but ignored Naval Minister Capeler. Chief of Staff Hetsendorf was even more awesome to challenge Tirpitz's authority to share power. Even though the Navy's top leaders were replaced after the Battle of Doger Shark, both the newly appointed commander of the Ocean Fleet Scher and the Fleet General Staff Hugo Von Pol were indifferent to Capeler's instructions, and the arrogant Navy minister was quietly overshadowed by a group of young people.

Emperor William may not be unable to see through Capeler's counterattack, but it is obvious that they have a common topic in suppressing Heidi Sileme, who did not obey orders. It should be noted that every increase in Heidi Sileme's credit book will be a great humiliation for him in his career, and this is something that the proud German Emperor William could not bear. After several slow breaths, the emperor finally spoke:

"Silem can take over Lieutenant General Gustav Bachmann!"

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"In February 1915, the empire's quick battle was nowhere to be achieved, and Germany gradually fell into the quagmire of protracted war: the British and French coalition forces attacked the Western Front with a rainbow of offensives, and the Noiron Outstanding Team was in danger; the British and French Navy launched a massive landing battle in the Dardanelles, and it is still unknown how long the weak Ottoman mine war can last; although the Imperial Army attacked the Eastern Front with a rainbow, the performance of the allies Austria-Hungarian Empire was still bad, and the performance of the Ocean Fleet was eye-catching, but the Navy's assets were weak after all, and the Dogersal Chateau Naval Battle, which lost two main battleships, was a tragic victory in the final analysis. According to the Berlin Chronicle, the Navy also lost an old battleship in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic yesterday."

In February 1915, the German Army, which was fighting on both sides and the Ocean Fleet, which was trapped in a naval political storm, both entered a difficult period. At the same time, the largest party in the German parliament, the Social-Democratic Party, split, and the so-called revisionists and orthodox Marxists were vaguely divided. Carl Liebk continued to act as a pretentious manner and shouted to oppose the war; the core figure of the Social-Democratic Party, Otto, who had vanished enthusiasm.

-Luer joined in with ulterior motives and published a entitled "Letter to Comrades", demanding that the Social Democratic Party give up the cessation of partisan struggle and "launch a battle for peace." Edward Bernstein, Karl Kautsky and party leader Hugo Haze even wrote an article in "Leipzig**", accusing the Military Command of wrongly launching a war against Britain and France on the Western Front. The main enemy of the Germans should be Russia and the evil Tsarist system.

Perhaps word games and contradictions have always been the tradition of Social Democrats, because the MPs who were keen on their minds seemed to have forgotten the war cries that were more fierce than the Junker nobles who were deeply influenced by militarism; the MPs seemed to have forgotten the Congressional vote on August 4, and the only and only issue was whether to hand over the rights of Congress to the army to deal with the European war after the declaration of war in Britain; the MPs seemed to have forgotten that it was with their voting support that the congressional bill that has now been rushing to change its words to "damn" was passed unanimously!

On the night of February 7, the cold wind passed by the repeated monotonous factory buildings and dilapidated gray buildings in the industrialization era of the old district of Kiel Port. An old gray building near the pier was dimly lit. Through the thick door panels and the dark black corridor, the passionate speech of the big man from Berlin, Otto-Lüller, was poured out, and then torn apart by the raging cold winter outside the building.

The war was in full swing in 1915. In addition to the haze of the Baltic Sea blockade fleet, news of victory in German newspapers was long and full of articles. The local officials and trade union leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Schleswig-Helstein who were invited to attend the speech had just sat down. The frozen rough face had not yet rosy, and was immediately shocked by the heretical words of Otto Lule, the core figure of the Social Democratic Party.

"Comrades, for patriotism and humanitarian considerations, the Social-Democratic Party made the decision to terminate the Party-Sections-Fighting in the Congress on August 4, 1914 and handed over all rights to the army. However, this war was never a war of defensive nature, nor was it a war of conquest only to save Russia and overthrow the Tsarist system. It was and is still a war of conquest with imperialist purposes. The imperial government covered up and ended the annexists movement, and allowed this hypocritical freedom to be imposed on Belgium or Russians. Comrades, those people who were promised to be liberated are now enslaved and exploited, and national self-determination is ruthlessly ridiculed, so we should take back the rights belonging to Congress, reject war, and demand peace!"

"Reject war and demand peace?!" Sitting at the old marina of Kiel in a remote corner, Blunt, the head of the union of Schleswig-Helstein, stood up and asked with a sneer: "Well, Comrade Lule, since you oppose the war and think that this war is unjust and anti-human, why not before the war, or before the Congress vote on August 4? If Germany launched a war aimed at exploiting other nations, then the bloody battle of the Allies might be for

Liberate us proletarian elites who are proficient in Marxist theory and are always worried about gains and losses for all mankind! It should be noted that not long ago, our Comrade Luyo Brenta visited Italy and brought back the news that Russian comrade Lenin criticized our patriotic expressions in the war and unfaithful to the class struggle. Comrade Carl Libring's opposition to annexation of territory and imperialism was also criticized as 'opportunism' and 'pragmatism' because this annexation is "harmful to Germany's interests"!"

As an old worker who had been wandering on the dock for many years, Blunt witnessed too much bitterness and shame. He deeply realized that the working class was under oppression, and this group urgently needed to protect its rights. However, Blunt was also a retired soldier in the Kingdom of Prussia. He sacrificed his blood for the unification of this young German empire. He deeply knew that in the industrial era when the strong prey on the weak, Germany went from being in a row to being unified in a complete way, from economic decline to the second job in the world.

The industry has experienced many ups and downs. Otto-Lule leisurely enjoys the benefits and security guarantees brought by his criticized reactionaries and invaders, enjoys the allowances of the imperial government and the treatment of members of parliament, and lives a superior life, but often uses simple aggression and injustice to deny the passion and sacrifice of a generation. Perhaps, internationalism and socialism are just a stopgap in the eyes of these people, and what they value more is rights!

"Comrade Lule, if it weren't for the bloody battle of millions of soldiers on the front line, you who were observing the world from the standpoint of all mankind, and you who 'reject war and demand peace', would never have the chance to be compassionate again, because you will suffer the liberation of Belgium or Russia, or enslavement and exploitation of slavery and exploitation!" Blunt's bitter sarcasm won applause, making Lule's speech unable to continue. Perhaps there are really fighters of lofty people who liberate all mankind, but that will surely be the era of nationalism and nationalism demise. It is by no means Germany in 1915!

The speech ended without success as soon as it started. The gorgeous lofty was transformed into a mess without being exaggerated, accompanied by the country-society-society-nation-theory-nation-received-nation-received-nation-received-nation-received-nation-received-nation-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-received-re

Although it severely refuted Lule's unrealistic view, it is an indisputable fact that this pure internationalist anti-war idea is becoming more and more marketable. As the leader of the local trade union, Blunt can do not do much. Since the war started, the Berlin newspaper that praised the navy for the first time revealed the news of the navy's defeat, and the person who was directly responsible for the direct command of the matter was the young man he knew - the undefeated Arisheidi Sileme of the Navy. Blunt, who was invisible to see through the monsters and monsters outside the scene, could not see through it.

"The storm is coming, Silame, you must hold on!"

【Note】

1. This passage was not fabricated by Xia Yu. The predecessor of Germany-Communist-Communist-Party indeed shouted such deafening words in 1915. Perhaps Nobel** should be awarded to these "fighters".
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