Chapter 841 April

   "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, Austria's 'referendum' is over, officially becoming a province of Germany!"

   "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, Britain and France send diplomatic notes to Germany!"

  Lazy sunlight hit Cheng Qianfan's face through the car window, the newsboy outside the car was yelling, Li Hao went to buy newspapers, Cheng Qianfan was thinking about other things.

   "Idiot!" He cursed in his heart.

  He already knew about the raid on the Tang'an Ballroom by the Special High School and the arrest of four Zhongtong agents.

What surprised him the most was that the arrested Zhongtong agents called a meeting. In fact, they set up the Great Wall because of "a rare get together" and "a temporary card addiction" and even called two singers. Qu'er's woman accompanied her.

   It was extremely stupid, and it shocked him inexplicably, and even felt absurd.

  This is Shanghai, where the underground anti-Japanese struggle is the most severe and complicated. What do the Zhongtong gang think of Shanghai? In this case, they don’t even forget to have fun!

   "Brother Fan, I bought the newspaper." Li Hao returned to the car and handed the newspaper to Cheng Qianfan.

   "Let's go." Cheng Qianfan casually put the newspaper aside, and was temporarily out of the mood to read it.

  At the south gate of Xianshi Department Store, Cheng Qianfan received Bai Ruolan and Xiaobao who had been waiting for a long time.

   "Where's Sesame?" Cheng Qianfan asked without seeing his son.

"Master's mother brought it home." Bai Ruolan was wearing a delicate and decent cheongsam with a shawl wrapped around it and a little makeup. , I am willing to follow my teacher's wife."

   "Of course the child kissed grandma." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile.

  He turned his head to look at Xiaobao. Seeing Xiaobao's angry appearance, he couldn't help asking with a smile, "What's wrong? Who made my Xiaobao angry?"

  Xiao Bao hugged his little arm, glanced at him, then bowed his head and said nothing.

  Bai Ruolan winked secretly, and Cheng Qianfan rubbed Xiaobao's little head, "Okay, I won't ask anymore, my little Bao has grown up and has his own secret."

  The motorcade of 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' stopped at the door of a luxury villa in the Betain district.

  Hearing the movement of the convoy, Pete and Linda came down from the second floor of the villa, walked out of the stairs and came to the yard to greet them.

   Today is the 4th anniversary of Pete and Linda's acquaintance.

Bai Ruolan sent a specially prepared exquisite gift, and her own maid took it. She walked and chatted with Linda. The most important friend of the largest city in the Far East.

  Linda took Xiaobao's hand, and would bow her head to speak with the little girl from time to time, and Xiaobao answered proficiently in French.

  The two majors and one novel first went up to the second floor with a smile.

  Cheng Qianfan walked and chatted with Pete and entered the lobby.

  My own maid has already served snacks, fruits, and drinks.

  Cheng Qianfan took a glance, and saw several newspapers on the coffee table, and there were traces of flipping and reading.

   "Did you read today's newspaper?" Pete asked Cheng Qianfan with a glance.

"I haven't watched it yet." Cheng Qianfan shook his head, picked up an apple, took a bite, and said, "However, I heard the newsboy yelling that Germany annexed Austria, and Paris is too indulgent to the Germans." .”

  With three points of puzzlement, two points of joking, three points of suspicion, and two points of sarcasm, he continued, "Since the Munich Agreement, Paris and London seem to have been patient with Germany."

Cheng Qianfan thought that Pete would be very angry when he said this, and then he would start to explain something, but Pete lit a cigarette, crossed his legs, and then spread his hands, "Yes, this is really annoying .”

  Cheng Qianfan's heart moved, but he didn't say anything, but put down the apple he had bitten into, picked up the newspaper and flipped through it, "I'll read the newspaper first."

  …

  The newspaper described in detail the process of Germany's formal annexation of Austria.

  Starting from the arrival of the German head of state in Vienna on March 15th to inspect the troops, it took nearly a month of preparations. On April 10th, Austria held a referendum on whether to join Germany.

  According to the description in the newspaper, in each polling station, two boxes were placed in each polling station, one box was full of votes for the German-Austrian merger, and the other box was full of votes against the German-Austrian merger.

   Sitting next to the ballot box is Na De (not a typo) "voting supervisor".

   These people held pens and notebooks in their hands, and when they saw who voted against it, they wrote down his name.

  Seeing this posture, except for a very few people, who would dare to vote against it?

   Voting results will be announced soon.

  Germany official announcement: 99.08% of Germans and 99.75% of Austrians voted in favour.

   As a result, Austria was officially annexed by Germany.

   "The choice to annex Austria at this time point may be the established plan of Germany, but at the same time, it is also a provocation and response to the British and French Mutual Assistance Treaty with Poland." Cheng Qianfan frowned and said to Pete.

   Just at the beginning of the month, British Prime Minister Chamberlain made a statement of military protection to Poland.

  An official statement from London declared: "If the Polish government feels that her independence is threatened and resistance must be resisted by force, Great Britain and France will side with Poland."

   In response to this, the head of state of Germany delivered an indignant speech to the 100,000 crowd at the launching ceremony of the battleship "General Tirpitz" held in Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany.

   He warned that Germany would not allow Britain to proceed with the "evil plan" to encircle Germany that had been used before the war.

  He announced to the people: "No matter who, if he is going to draw chestnuts from the fire among the great powers, he will eventually play with fire and set himself on fire."

   In this regard, the French side is full of ridicule. Paris believes that this speech is "bland and confused."

   And interpret this as 'the fearful person deliberately pretends to be strong'.

  …

  In fact, not only Germany is annexing Austria, but the Italians are also making tentative moves at this time.

   A few days ago, the Italian army formally invaded Albania, a small Balkan kingdom, with little resistance. King Zogu of Albania was deposed from the throne.

  The Roman side quickly invaded Albania without issuing any warning in advance.

  A spokesman for Rome said that the head of state ordered troops to protect the Italians in Albania, who had been threatened by armed bandits.

   "This can only be said to be a response, not a provocation." Pete shook his head, "The Germans are probing step by step. In fact, they are not very courageous."

  Cheng Qianfan put down the newspaper, "The Italians are fighting in the Balkans, and Germany has annexed Austria."

  He glanced at Pete and sneered, "This is the mighty France? What is she afraid of?"

  "No, no, no." Under Cheng Qianfan's exquisite speech design step by step, Pete's emotions were also mobilized. The most important thing was that he couldn't hear Cheng Qianfan's questioning and sarcasm about the strength of France.

  Pete shook his finger, "My friend, you must know that the French Republic is the most powerful country in Europe. It is extremely powerful. Temporary patience is only for political needs."

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   On the first day of the month, I would like to take a short rest. Everyone, today is just a chapter, and I will organize my thoughts. World War II is about to break out in an all-round way. During this period of time, I searched various historical materials and was busy making detailed outlines and branches.

   An advertisement, Yulongfu "Qin Shi Mingyue Hero Dao Mo Wen"

   Qin Shi's beauties are falling towards me like raindrops!

   I dodged one by one, just for fun! Full level flash!

  

  

  (end of this chapter)