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Chapter 1497 Internal Disputes

Ruprecht was indeed not wrong. After receiving Ruprecht's guarantee and a large amount of equipment as a deposit, German Emperor William II finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to attack domestic political opponents! Among them, what he did the first thing was to increase the control of the imperial power over the entire country!

The current war situation is generally very good. On the Western Front, even when the German legions were transferred to the east and carried out the Polish Pocket Battle, the remaining Western Front Corps still successfully blocked the British and French allied forces' attacks, and the exchange ratio made Britain and France feel ashamed... And on the Eastern Front? The end of the Russians has become a consensus from Germany from top to bottom. The question people are discussing now is just when the Russians will be finished. To the north, the Germans are expected to reproduce the achievements created by Napoleon, while on the southern front, most of Ukraine and Belarus have fallen into the hands of the Bavarian Legion.

In the Balkan War Zone under Ruprecht's personal command, when the prince defeated the British's deployment of the offensive in Greece, the entire battle situation was stabilized. Therefore, realizing that there was no major threat from the outside, the German Emperor believed that it was time to carry out reforms!

In fact, in this case, whether you are the Social Democratic Party or the Catholic Central Party, whether you are the Spartacus Group on the left or the Motherland Party on the right, when the war situation is very good, domestic civilians can have enough food, and Germany is ready to share the war Manulife from top to bottom, what can these political parties provoke? It is the limit to engage in several strikes based on the treatment issue. In this case, the German government can easily deal with it whether it is peace talks or violent means!

William II's choice was still good. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he began to strengthen the control of imperial power over Germany! First of all, the strengthening of the management of military and military materials. William II knew very well that the capitalists and some of the people within the Junker nobles were already inseparable, and they were also conducting their own small calculations during the war. There were a large number of associations within Germany, and at first they were just political associations, but according to the reports of the intelligence agencies, some of these associations had begun to infiltrate the army!

The intentional delay of the army and police in some places has attracted the attention of the German Emperor, so he needs to clean up the opposition in the army. On the other hand, the German Emperor knew that the materials and equipment produced by some military-industrial enterprises did not flow into the front line, but entered some other places. This made the German Emperor very uneasy. If there were problems with the troops stationed in the local area, and if various associations illegally had armed forces, this posed a serious challenge to the security of the empire! The German Emperor dealt with these people first.

However, William II was a person who was sometimes indecisive, which was reflected in diplomacy, which was unscrupulous when he was whispering, but he chose to retreat when he really encountered something. (For example, the German Emperor's attitude towards the Bourne Republic in history) This problem was reflected in internal affairs. The German Emperor was just dealing with the superficiality, and the bankers were not very touched by the real high-powered officers and large capitalists. You can understand this phenomenon as stable, but at the same time it also made this problem unable to be fundamentally solved.

Secondly, the German Emperor required strict control of the rationing system, which was also what the prince emphasized to the German Emperor repeatedly, to ensure the quality of life of civilians, so as to avoid social turmoil to the greatest extent. Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, the German Emperor re-concentrated the distribution rights of some materials in the hands of people he trusted and strengthened supervision to prevent hoarding and minimize the production of "non-war materials" and "non-necessary necessities"!

The third point is the battle between the Imperial Prime Minister von Bergmann Holwig in the German Parliament. The German Emperor expressed his support for the current three-level electoral system and expressed his absolute protection of the German Emperor's imperial power! This statement led to serious dissatisfaction among the right-wing and centrists of the Social Democratic Party. According to the words of Albert, the right-wing chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, "We lost the results of our struggle in one night! We expressed our anger and disappointment with the German Emperor's repeated!"

The German Emperor's actions seemed very good on the surface. In a very short period of time, the opposition within Germany dropped drastically. Both the senior members of the parliament and ordinary civilians seemed to have accepted what William II called "adjustment". But is this really the case? Just when the German Emperor was proud of his "result", an invisible undercurrent was surging inside Prussia! The most important thing was that the right wing and centrists of the German Social Democratic Party began to cooperate!

In a hotel in Berlin, the right-wing chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Albert, met with Philips Shederman, who had just returned from another place. In this conference room, the content of the conversation between the two sides was like a butterfly flapping their wings, which caused a series of subsequent political turmoil and changes in Germany. The result even made the two people present feel unexpected. Of course, this is not mentioned later. The main content of the conversation between the two sides was actually about how to restrict the imperial power!

"Our counterattack was very little effective. The strike in Hamburg was soon suspended, and our personnel in Cologne were arrested. The only thing I did when I arrived in Cologne was to clear the relationship and let our people come out. And what about the parliament? The aristocrats who were old and should have been swept into the garbage dump trembled again. The centrists were also hesitant. Even if the German Emperor agreed to discuss the issue of direct elections, I felt that our chances of winning were not high." Philips Shederman sighed and said.

"It seems that the war is going too smoothly, it is not a good thing. The Bavarian Legion and Austro-Hungarian Legion are invincible on the Eastern Front. Russia may not last until next year. If the main force of the German Army is concentrated on the Western Front, I feel that the war will end. If the war is over, William II will never make concessions on the issue of imperial power and parliament. This is our last chance." Albert said.

"We cannot make the German Emperor concessions by relying solely on the power of a political party. We can mobilize party members, incite the people, or hold strikes, and the demonstrations are also useless. We have no effect except to make the German Emperor hate us more and then take heavy measures to deal with us. This way of thinking of trying to force the German Emperor to concessions through peaceful means is already problematic." Sheldman said angrily.

"So do you have any ideas?" Albert asked.
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