Facing a large pile of newspapers from the past three months, Xiang Xiaoqiang began to browse. According to his request, the servants brought those big newspapers with strong political nature and rigorous style, and they were all only in the political section. That's it, still
It's a lot.
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the first few pictures very carefully, but then he realized that he wouldn't be able to finish them all tomorrow, so he started browsing quickly, only looking for those with the words "Germany", "Czechoslovakia", "Sudetenland" and "Chamberlain"
headlines, and only read those newspapers before and after the Munich Conference. In less than two hours, he had read all the newspapers he should read.
Xiang Xiaoqiang covered his head and pondered, and gradually got a feeling. He felt that the whole thing before and after the Munich Conference was very different from the history textbooks he had learned in elementary school. The most obvious feeling was that he had learned from the history textbooks in junior high school.
His high school history textbooks repeatedly told him that the main purpose of Britain and France's appeasement of Germany was to " divert trouble eastward" and deliberately let Germany attack the Soviet Union.
But now, when Xiang Xiaoqiang is personally in the "Munich Era", looking at the newspapers at this time, from the speeches of those politicians and the words of the commentators, there is no sense that they are trying to "direct trouble eastward".
On the contrary, one can feel a deep fear - the extreme fear of another European war. There is also the strong ostrich mentality and the self-comfort of deceiving others - after all, Chancellor Hitler is a person of status.
Since this is his last territorial claim in Europe, it must be so.
In a newspaper photo, Xiang Xiaoqiang saw a thin old man with a mustache standing at the door of the aircraft cabin, holding up a piece of paper in high spirits, with many people cheering and waving their arms below.
This was that famous historical moment. Chamberlain received Hitler's assurance at the Munich Conference: the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe. Chamberlain was still uneasy and asked the Prime Minister if he could establish a written pledge. Hitler said no problem, right away.
He wrote a letter of guarantee, signed it, and gave it to Chamberlain. Chamberlain felt as if he had found a treasure and carefully kept the letter of guarantee in his shirt pocket. After attending the Munich Conference, he flew back to England, opened the hatch, and faced everyone and everyone.
Reporter, Chamberlain did not bother to get off the plane, held up this Hitler's pledge, and said loudly to everyone: I brought peace from Europe! This is the peace of our entire era!
As a result, Chamberlain became a star and a "hero of peace" in the minds of people in democratic countries such as Britain and France.
Xiang Xiaoqiang pondered, if Britain and France really wanted to divert trouble to the east and allowed Germany to attack the Soviet Union, how could they force Hitler to guarantee that "the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe"? How could Germany break the treaty and annex the entire
After Czechoslovakia, Britain and France woke up from a dream, became angry and immediately provided military guarantees for Poland - once Poland was attacked by Germany, Britain and France immediately declared war on Germany?
Obviously, Germany and the Soviet Union are not bordering each other. They are separated by Czechoslovakia and Poland. If Germany wants to attack the Soviet Union, it must first conquer and merge these two countries. You can think of this with your toes. You really
If you want to divert disaster to the east, you must have this consciousness: not only must you sacrifice the Sudetenland, but you must also sacrifice the entire Czechoslovakia, and you must also sacrifice Poland.
If Britain and France really wanted to divert disaster to the east, it was during the "Sitting War" stage after the start of World War II. But at this time it was just passive wishful thinking. Because war had been declared at this time, even if Hitler did not want to go to war with Britain and France, this
There was no time to fight. After all, Britain and France took the initiative to declare war on Germany, and then arrayed hundreds of thousands of troops on the German-French border, as if they were about to invade Germany at any time. This pair of people who have always tried their best to avoid a "two-front war"
It was very clear what Germany meant. Even if Hitler wanted to attack the Soviet Union again, given his courage, he would not dare to defeat the Western Front first.
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Xiang Xiaoqiang has a feeling that if you want to create the ideal situation of "Mingde attacking the Soviet Union", it may not be that easy. Britain and France are afraid of the Soviet Union, but after all, the Soviet Union is separated from Britain and France by half of Europe, and at this time, they are deeply trapped in Central Asia.
On the battlefield, there is little threat to Britain and France. And Germany is right next to France. If Germany is allowed to become stronger, at least France will be in danger of annihilation. At this time, Britain and France are unlikely to risk "self-immolation"
"Playing with fire" is the same as setting a fire in front of your own house, and then hoping that the fire will reach the enemy's house two streets away and burn down the enemy's house, while your own house is still intact.
Under normal circumstances, no one with a normal mind would play with this kind of fire. There is only one exception, that is, the wind is blowing in the direction of the enemy. Now, Ming Dynasty is going to fan this wind.
Xiang Xiaoqiang first ran upstairs to Zhu Yourong and asked her what the Ming government thought of this matter and what it thought. But Zhu Yourong had obviously been missing Xiang Xiaoqiang these days and had no time to worry about domestic and foreign affairs.
Leave it to the cabinet to worry about. Now she doesn't know anything about it.
Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately suggested that she hold a royal meeting to discuss the Munich Conference. The Munich Conference was held at the end of September, and now it is late December, but there has not yet been a royal meeting to discuss the matter. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that,
The cabinet must have held many meetings, but because Her Majesty the Queen has no time to take care of national affairs during these days, the cabinet is happy not to report to her and make everything on its own. Now that Xiang Xiaoqiang is back, the queen is in a good mood and holds a royal meeting.
, it also seems very natural to listen to the ministers’ opinions on the international situation.
Zhu Yourong thought it made sense, so he ordered it to proceed. The next day, on the morning of December 26, an imperial meeting was held in the palace.
Sure enough, the views of ministers are generally consistent with those of politicians from various countries at this time. That is, Europe has now escaped another war, and "peace for an era" has arrived. Since the German Chancellor has made a promise, the situation in Europe will
It has stabilized. The so-called "Mingde attack on the Soviet Union" was unrealistic in the first place, and it is even more impossible now. Germany and the Soviet Union are still separated by Czechoslovakia and Poland. Germany will not annex these two countries again.
Right? Isn’t that a slap in the face? Besides, that’s unrealistic. Neither Britain nor France will do it. France is much stronger than Germany and is now the “strongest in Europe.” If they say they can destroy Germany, they will destroy Germany.
After listening to the speeches of some ministers, Xiang Xiaoqiang felt dumbfounded. However, he calmed down and thought about it, and he couldn't blame them. This was the common view of politicians in this era. Even those politicians in Britain and France were involved in it.
Looking at it this way, what else can we think of the Ming Dynasty politician who lives on the other side of the earth and is not a superman? If Xiang Xiaoqiang himself had not come from a later generation and took advantage of the benefit of hindsight, he could have been "far-sighted", otherwise he would not have been able to
These ministers in front of me are more than ten times smarter than me. Apart from myself, who else knows who Hitler is? No one knows. I'm afraid even Hitler himself doesn't know.
Xiang Xiaoqiang thought for a long time and finally spoke:
"Everyone, when I was in Germany, I had a secret conversation with German Chancellor Hitler behind closed doors. No one knew about this conversation except the two of us."
As soon as these words came out, the venue immediately fell into silence, and everyone stared at Xiang Xiaoqiang.