Conquer the world starting from the Kaiser's driver

Although he has been sighing that he has no money, Lin Shangzhou can't find any better way to get money at present, so he can only choose to wait slowly.

Anyway, the time of the general strike is still early, at least another month or two, in order to make the future strikes go smoothly, Lin Shangzhou also let Lin Wenhua and Huo Wen and others work in the factory in Berlin to learn more about the situation.

After a period of work and understanding, they brought some good news to Lin Shangzhou, the workers in Berlin were already dissatisfied with the status quo, but they did not know what to do because there was no leader, and they did not have much affection for the union.

Lin Shangzhou can understand this.

The so-called workers' associations in Berlin were entirely amusement places for the capitalists, who naturally did not think about the workers.

There was also news from the Strasbourg trade unions, and after their contacts with the trade unions in other parts of Germany, they found that there were a large number of opportunists in the trade unions in other places.

After learning the news, Lin Shangzhou was deeply disturbed, and if they participated in a large-scale strike, it would be difficult to say whether the final result would be victory or defeat.

In reality, however, the failure of the strike was in favour of the SPD, and the defeat of the workers would give full expression to the reactionary nature of the right-wing government, so that people would switch to the SPD or the National Liberal Party.

Moreover, changing the situation of workers after the SPD comes to power in the future will also make the working class more supportive of the SPD, although this defeat will make it difficult for workers to go through a difficult period before the SPD comes to power next year to change the treatment of workers.

He envisioned a complete large-scale strike for a little longer, but the reality turned out beyond Lin Shangzhou's expectations.

At the beginning of September, several factories in Munich went on strike, and when the news reached Lin Shangzhou's ears, factories in other parts of Germany also spontaneously responded to the strike.

When Lin Shangzhou learned about this, he felt extremely surprised and helpless, because the reason for the strike of the workers' union in Munich was very simple: "Women can win protests, why can't we?!"

It was because of the victory of women that the idea of striking came about, and the accumulation of emotions in the past two months, coupled with the bad behavior of a factory owner, finally led them to choose to strike.

Their appearance disrupted Lin Shangzhou's plan, the Free Workers' Federation and the Federation of Trade Unions were not prepared, and he did not prepare the money in place, but the matter has come to this point, it is useless to complain, and the general strike that occurred in an instant made Lin Shangzhou have to bite the bullet.

With the participation of the Free Workers' Federation and the CGT, what was itself a regional strike quickly turned into a nationwide workers' strike in Germany over the course of two days on September 3 and 4.

The German government responded very strongly to this drastic situation, with police and workers confronting each other in the streets, but fortunately both sides restrained themselves and did not lead to violent clashes.

After two days of confrontation, on September 7, Alexandrinne hoped that Lin Shangzhou would act as a mediator between the government and the workers to mediate the conflict between the two sides, hoping that the strike could be quelled as soon as possible.

The Kaiser did this because Cecilia told her that the military's attitude had wavered, and that if the strike continued, the military would intervene to suppress the workers.

Lin Shangzhou didn't want to see the bloodshed, but he knew very well that there could be no perfect solution at this time, whether it was the government looking for the military or the military itself deciding to end up, there was one thing that could not be changed - the military would end sooner or later.

The central government knew about this, so they certainly wouldn't agree to all of the workers' demands.

The workers, on their part, did not know what the military was thinking, and when they saw that their demands were not met, they would most likely insist on continuing the strike.

There has to be a compromise on both sides, and it is clear from reality that it will be the workers who will compromise.

If he intervened to mediate the workers or compromised, then his personal prestige would be hit, and finally after much thought, Lin Shangzhou decided to follow Alexandrin's instructions as a mediator sent by the emperor to mediate the conflict between the government and the workers.

At the same time, in order not to take too much damage to his personal prestige, Lin Shangzhou asked Cecilia to tell the military emperor that he hoped that they would act in moderation.

After receiving the emperor's order, the military began to act "in moderation", only to appear in place of the police to confront the workers and put some pressure on them.

Lin Shangzhou did not really appear until the army came into play, and in the end, the government only agreed to the demand to reduce excessive working hours, and the others did not agree.

The workers were naturally dissatisfied with this, but with the presence of the army, it was clear to them that it was more important to continue the strike or to die, and they were forced to stop the strike and return to their posts.

As for Lin Shangzhou's personal prestige, which he feared, it was not curtailed as he thought, but his prestige was enhanced by the efforts of the "Forward".

After all, the situation was difficult for everyone to deal with, and he still managed to get fewer hours for the workers.

After experiencing this difficult matter, Lin Shangzhou also realized that he had been too lax in the affairs of the workers in the past, and if there could be a unified German trade union, this strike would definitely not be so hasty.

Having learned his lesson, Lin Shangzhou decided to relax the restrictions on the CGT, and at the same time held another meeting within the SPD, at which the revised "New Berlin Declaration" was formally adopted and the position of Lin Shangzhou as leader was recognized.

As soon as such news was released, it attracted huge social attention, and no one expected that the emperor's adviser would actually become the leader of the SPD, so in order to make the right wing not too excited, Lin Shangzhou simply resigned from the position of the emperor's adviser and replaced a SPD member to become a member of the Reichstag.

With just over half a year to go until the general election, it's time for him to make his mark in German politics.