The sun never sets on the empire, the capital is Fog City.
When MI6 put the latest information about the Weimar Republic in front of Prime Minister Lloyd George, the Prime Minister's face was very solemn.
"Was Hindenburg really elected president?"
Just now, information came from Hans. In the presidential election on December 12, Hindenburg, who was a soldier, defeated many opponents and was successfully elected as the president of the Weimar Republic.
This information was not for the Allied Powers. This is not good news. Hindenburg was a famous iron-blooded general of the German army during World War I. He is an old man who has been with Bismarck until now. This guy has the stubbornness of a soldier and the cunning of a fox.
Compared to someone who has resigned! For Albert, it was extremely difficult or even impossible to control Hindenburg!
"Judging from the intelligence, this is indeed the case. The election is now over. Judging from the number of votes, it is certain that Hindenburg was elected!"
The director of MI6 is Navy Captain Mansfield Cumming, who single-handedly founded the espionage department that provided intelligence to the military.
After Mansfield established MI6, he began to expand aggressively around the world. His own intelligence network, on the other hand, regards the intelligence of MI6 as secret, and tries to make this intelligence organization disappear in the world.
From the current point of view, his work is very successful, and the whole world is almost unknown about it! The Sun Never Sets Empire has such an intelligence organization, so they have almost no awareness of MI6's infiltration, let alone any response!
If no one is aware of their existence, then they are not in much danger. Under this situation, the spies of MI6 collected a large amount of intelligence. Every day, important information sent back from all over the world was sent to Director Mansfield. After sorting out the information, he would He selected some of the information that he thought was the most important and brought it to the Prime Minister for review.
At this time, Marshal Hindenburg was elected President of the Weimar Republic. This information was very important to Mansfield.!
Of course, there is another piece of information that deserves more vigilance. This is the main purpose of his coming here today!
"Your Excellency, you must see this!"
While Prime Minister Lloyd George was still worried about the emergence of a strong president in Hans, Mansfield put the second piece of intelligence in front of him.
"This is?"
"Hans announced the list of new cabinet members!"
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Lloyd George heard this, he immediately became interested.
The cabinet members appointed by President Hindenburg included:
Minister of Foreign Education: Gustav Stresemann
Prime Minister of the Government: William Groener
Minister of the Interior: William Marx
...
Lloyd George has heard the names of these people more or less, because there are records of these people in the intelligence files of MI6. It is not too surprising that they were appointed as cabinet members by Hindenburg, and This also proves that Hindenburg was well prepared. Among the people he promoted, except Na, who came from the military, the others were not from the military. This means that Hindenburg was among the politicians and the military. A balance has been struck!
This was a very sophisticated method. He thought Hindenburg wouldn't know it so quickly, but who knew this old guy would know it so well!
Continuing to read, the people on the list were almost all capable and qualified people, nothing outstanding or unexpected, until he saw a name that was somewhat familiar, but also very unfamiliar: Mainz von… Levinsky!
It can be seen from the word 'Feng' in the other party's surname that the other party is from a noble family.
However, the status of Junker nobles is not special in Hans. There are a large number of Junker nobles in the military, all of whom have the word"Feng" in their names!
This person was appointed as the Minister of Defense and in charge of the three armed forces. Naturally he should be a soldier. The German army has always been in the hands of the Junker nobles, so it is natural that the other party is a noble!
These are not the reasons that surprise the Prime Minister. What really surprises him is the age of the other party!
23 years old!
And the military rank is only a major general!
At the age of 23, serving as the Minister of Defense with the rank of Major General, this kind of thing seemed so magical and unreal, so Prime Minister Lloyd George couldn't help turning his head to look at the Director of MI6, with a look that seemed to ask again: Are you sure you're not kidding me? A 23-year-old kid was appointed as Hans' Minister of Defense? Is today April Fool's Day?
"You can't believe this is true, can you?"
When Colonel Mansfield saw the Prime Minister's reaction, he had an expression on his face.
In fact, when he received this information, his reaction was almost exactly the same as that of Prime Minister Lloyd George. He did not I dare to believe this is true!
If he hadn't taken a huge risk to repeatedly confirm with Bolin's insiders and confirm this matter, he probably wouldn't believe it was true until now!
"Well, it is indeed unbelievable!"
The Prime Minister is the Prime Minister after all. After realizing that he had lost his temper, he quickly adjusted himself.
He originally wanted to ask Mansfield if the information was accurate.
But after seeing Mansfield's expression at this time, he even There was no need to ask, and it was confirmed that this information should be accurate. The other party must have suspected it like me and investigated it!
"What was Hindenburg thinking? Why appoint such a young boy as the Minister of Defense?"
Lloyd George couldn't understand it, but Mansfield immediately gave a reasonable explanation.
"Some people say that Hindenburg did this because this man was his nephew and had a very close relationship with him!"
"Nepotism?"
Hearing the words of the Director of MI6, this word suddenly appeared in Prime Minister Lloyd George's mind.
"Well, that's most likely the case!"
"Haha, if I remember correctly, Groner is also his confidant, right? As soon as he took office, he appointed two confidants one after another. This Hindenburg doesn't look very good!"
After getting this answer, Prime Minister The Sun Never Sets's opinion of the newly elected President Hans dropped a lot.
It's hard to imagine how capable a person who only knows nepotism would be.
It's similar to the idea of the Man Who Never Sets, When the leaders of other countries in the world got this information, they almost all thought the same thing.
In the Tower City, the capital of Gaul, when the president and prime minister learned about the new defense minister appointed by Hindenburg, they both grew up. He took a deep breath and couldn't restrain his inner excitement. He even opened a bottle of wine from Chateau Porto to celebrate.
"The German army has been reduced to 100,000 men, and it has been handed over to such a young boy. How can they compete with our army of one million people, and how can they compete with our three famous generals?"
"Haha, Hindenburg, Hindenburg, with a man like him serving as the president of Hans, it seems that I, Gaul, will not have to worry about threats from the east for at least thirty years!"