The Third Reich in Desperation

When he was about to leave for a meeting of foreign ministers in Lausanne, Mussolini instructed his confidant Rossi: "During my immediate time, you must try your best to expand the number of black shirts in the National Guard to 50." above people."

At that time, Rossi asked worriedly: "Isn't that more than the king's army?"

"That's right." Mussolini said with a sly smile: "Isn't this bad? My loyal Rossi, you have been with me for so long, and you should understand some things without asking me to say them. "

At the meeting of foreign ministers in Lausanne, Mussolini met the aging French Prime Minister Raymond.After comparing the two, Mussolini felt even more incredible that he had climbed to the position of prime minister at the age of 39.This also strengthened Mussolini's determination to consolidate power after returning home, and he wanted to stay in this position longer!

In this meeting of foreign ministers, Mussolini's tough attitude won the concession of Britain and France, which made Britain and France recognize Italy's jurisdiction over the island of Zozcanis, prompting Italy to further control the Mediterranean.

The lucky diplomatic victory made Mussolini warmly admired by the people after returning home.Look at the Germans who have failed in diplomacy next door, and are still in the shadow of the Treaty of Versailles!

After returning to China, Mussolini took advantage of this opportunity to promote the fascist party and did enough superficial work.

In order to establish himself as the greatest leader in Italian history, Mussolini will personally participate in any event that standardizes economic development.A new building was built in a poor area, a new bridge was erected over a river, and Mussolini cut the ribbon.

On the other hand, the Italian Fascist Party is planning to eliminate domestic dissidents.Many were assassinated in homes, joints, hospitals, prisons and even churches.Those who subscribed to anti-fascist newspapers were beaten, and those who publicly disseminated dissent were thrown straight into prison.For a time, the whole of Italy was in a state of respect and fear of fascism.

However, Mussolini, the secret messenger of these atrocities, strongly condemned such acts of violence in major newspapers and demanded that the police severely punish the relevant personnel as soon as possible.At the same time, Mussolini asked fascist party members in the newspaper to consciously cooperate with the police to jointly maintain domestic stability.

While Zhang Chengtian finally made up his mind to carry out the Night of the Long Knife operation.Mussolini, who was far away in Rome, had the king completely dissolve the parliament.Let his confidant Rossi organize the operation of the National Committee.

Then, Mussolini pretended to re-establish the "Great Council", and he himself served as the chairman of the Great Council.

The members of the Great Council are composed of 3 parts: 1. The meritorious ministers who marched into Rome. 2 Fascist general secretary, deputy secretary, ministers and other cadres. 3 Excellent main members who have served the fascist revolution for more than 3 years, such as Mussolini's confidantes such as Rossi.

In this way, the "big parliament" that replaced the parliament was almost controlled by Mussolini alone.

At this moment, Mussolini is not only the leader of the fascist party, but also the Prime Minister of Italy and the chairman of the Grand Council.It can be said that it has a lot of power in one body.

However, in the face of Mussolini's increasingly authoritarian dictatorship, the assassination of Mussolini by people of insight also appeared.Fortunately, Zhang Chengtian did not encounter this point.

There were four assassinations against Mussolini!

Text Chapter 67 Passion for Italy

Contrary to Mussolini's self-confidence, opposition to him continued to emerge in Italy in reality.In order to calm his anger, Mussolini secretly decided to use his confidant Rossi as a scapegoat to thank the public for their anger.

"Mr. Rossi, you have been betrayed by Mussolini, run away!" A close friend of Rossi quietly informed Rossi who was having dinner at Roma Holiday Hotel during dinner time.

Rossi who received the notification almost subconsciously thought it was a joke.But after thinking about it, it is impossible for my best friend to make fun of the leader's name. I would rather believe it than believe it!

When he thought that he had been working for Mussolini for four years, and had done countless dirty jobs for Mussolini, but was kicked away in the end, Rossi felt extremely sad in his heart.

That night, the Blackshirts surrounded Rossi's home.Rosie's powerful organization ends up capturing their breeders instead.

Rossi, who had already escaped the police with the help of his best friend, wrote a long letter to Mussolini, denouncing his treachery and announcing a complete severance of relations with him.The day before he was due to send a long letter, he was approached by two men in black suits.

"Mr. Rossi, you can't send the letter denouncing Mussolini." The leading man in black said in a calm tone.

Rossi was shocked when he heard the words. Before he sent the letter, the other party guessed his next move.It can be seen from this that the other party's messenger is someone who has a deep understanding of himself.

Taking a long breath, Rossi tried his best to calm himself down and said, "Since you have investigated everything about me, kill or scrape as you please."

The two men in suits looked at each other and smiled, "Mr. Rossi, why did we kill you. We are here to congratulate you!"

"Congratulations?" Rossi was stunned and said, "Are you here to congratulate me on being pushed to the gallows by that bastard Mussolini?!"

"Of course not. We are here to help you return to the pinnacle of power." A man in black smiled and said, "You will receive help from Germany and become the hero to put down this chaos."

"What do I have to pay?" Although Rossi still had doubts, he had made up his mind at the moment, no matter what, he would seize this opportunity and grab the olive branch that God threw at him.

"Join the German Socialist Workers Party, we will seal up your files, absolutely safe. In addition, as a senior cadre, join the Gestapo branch established by Germany in Italy." The man in black calmly issued this almost Rossi's treasonous demands.

Unexpectedly, Rossi agreed without hesitation.

Italy is finished, this is the common conclusion reached by the two Gestapo.

Next, the Gestapo special operations team that had just finished the Night of the Long Knives was liberated, and 300 members were drawn out to sneak into Italy and become Rossi's direct black shirt army.Under the leadership of this force, more and more black shirts joined in inexplicably, launching the white terror in Italy.

Many members of the Black Shirts even saluted this Chief Rossi who remained on the wanted list.By the time Mussolini reacted, the wanted criminal Rossi had already swept away all opponents' voices for him.

In the name of Mussolini, Rossi ordered the black shirts to close and block all clubs and meeting halls in the country, disbanded all the organizations of "troublemakers", and even banned many secret organizations against the government (provided by Zhang Chengtian A list of Italian "revolutionary groups" summarized by later generations)

The Communists in Italy were brutally imprisoned, and under the friendly proposal of Germany, they entered the Soviet Union with the help of Germany.Of course, many of these senior backbones were dealt with by Rossi in Italy, and those who returned to the Soviet Union were all insignificant grassroots personnel.Italy is the bad guy and Germany the good guy.

The ignorant Mussolini, on the contrary, believed that Rossi used his own banner to clean up bad things, to clear obstacles for himself, and to show his loyalty to him.The guilt-ridden leader immediately ordered the withdrawal of Rossi's "unjust sentence" warrant and shot the two persons in charge.At the same time, Rossi, who made great contributions to the fascist regime, was promoted to the deputy prime minister of Italy, and he was regarded as the No. 2 figure after himself.

At the request of the Gestapo, even though he hated Mussolini's shameless face in his heart, Rossi still wrote a letter to Mussolini, praising him as the "heir of the Roman Empire" and "the prophet representing the will of God".

Rossi did for Mussolini what Mussolini had to do in history, and uttered the praises that Mussolini wanted to boast about in history, which made Mussolini regard Rossi as a confidant.In his opinion, this subordinate who has been working with him for nearly five years has finally enlightened.

Subsequently, all of Italy was filled with false passion under the fascist propaganda machine.The number of fascists expanded from 32 when they marched into Rome to 102 million, more than tripling the number.Among the more than 3 million young people in Italy, more than 400 million have joined the Black Shirt Young Pioneers.The National Self-Defense Force, a fascist force, was blindly expanded to 200 million people, far exceeding the sum of the German Wehrmacht and the SS next door, and of course exceeding the government forces in the hands of the Italian king.

During the same period, Rossi exported a large amount of wheat to Germany at polar prices, even affecting the grain reserves of Italy.But as the leader, Mussolini still insisted that his deputy was earning foreign exchange for the fascist regime.At a conference, Mussolini highly praised the loyal and reliable Rossi, which made the Italian Minister of Food, who was about to make comments, wisely choose to shut up.

Amidst the passion, Mussolini, the great leader of Italy, had an idea of ​​dominating the Mediterranean and re-dividing East Africa.A passionate plan was born-occupy Ethiopia and restore the glory of the Roman Empire!

However, Rossi, the loyal and excellent No. [-] figure in Italy, respectfully suggested to Mussolini that it is best to carry out long-term preparations before launching the occupation operation.In the current Italy, preparations should be made in the dark.The Italian people will unite by the sound of the wise and mighty leader, accumulate strength with the silent place, and wait for the future outbreak.For this reason, Rossi also quoted an old saying in the East, "If you don't make a song, you are done, and a blockbuster is amazing."

The arrogant Mussolini liked Rossi's rhetoric very much, which gave him a sense of mastery.As a wise leader, Mussolini adopted this strategy of "secretly" developing himself.

Amidst the passion from top to bottom, Mussolini, the supreme leader of the Italian nation, announced that the future Italy would have the ability to mobilize 800 million troops under one order, and that it would manufacture 3 million bayonets within three years. Rifles, 800 cannons.

Mussolini passionately believed that in the future Italy would surely become the number one military power in Europe.

Text Chapter 68 Sad France

Unlike the enthusiastic Italian leaders.The No.12 President of the French Third Republic, Gaston Dumegue, is extremely sad at the moment.

He took office after the failed French foray into the German Ruhr, taking over the mess of a declining economy in France.

This action outweighed the gains, not only did not demonstrate the strength of France as expected, but instead reflected the tenacity of the Germans.At the same time, France did not receive the indemnity owed by Germany, but instead lost a large amount of military expenditure.

The "large-scale offensive faction" in France was completely suppressed, and all documents calling for an increase in military spending were rejected.Dumegue had to save military spending to maintain the stability of the domestic economy.

Just when Dumegue finally stabilized the economy and was about to consider increasing military spending, Germany had problems with the payment of compensation that should have been made.

This time Germany did not default, but paid off all previous arrears.However, the Germans paid marks like waste paper.Within Germany, almost everyone began to trade in the new currency, the niuk.

Who said that the Germans are rigid and stubborn and don't know how to adapt? How can the Germans in front of you still look rigid? !

This group of German officials who were serious about paying compensation before seems to have changed their appearance now.A guarantee that the two are still dead and shameless, the mark is still the German currency.The New York issued as a commemorative coin is just a "second currency" and will not shake the status of the Mark.

Dumegue has almost no ability to refute the suddenly enlightened Germans.Because what the Germans said is indeed true, the mark is still their currency, but the current tens of millions of marks cannot even afford a toothpick.

Filled with grief, Dumegue submitted an application to the League of Nations, asking Germany to pay Nuuk to France instead.However, the application was rejected by the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries on the grounds that Germany paid the mark compensation in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, which was reasonable.Germany had no obligation to pay France for Newk instead.

In addition, Dumegue also heard.The United Kingdom and the United States reached a consensus with German President Gustav to provide Germany with a loan of more than 7000 million US dollars.