Three Hundred Fifty Five Dinner
Although I have already seen the appearance of the Yuan Mansion from the outside, and the photos in countless newspapers have made the appearance of this building no longer mysterious, but still very few people can enter it, and still very few people can really get in touch with the empire. Core.
Even though she had made all the preparations, even thought of the worst, Wilhelmina still had a lot of curiosity about Yuan of the Second Empire. After all, her Netherlands is now a "sacred and indivisible part of the territory" of Germany. This sentence was said by that Master Yuan, full of unreasonable and arrogant domineering.
After getting out of the beautiful Mercedes-Benz limousine, Wilhelmina walked into the lobby of the building surrounded by waiters, just looking at the Reichstag residence under the night light. When the waiter opened the door and the former Dutch queen entered, she was still too shocked by the sight before her to speak.
In the hall, there is all elegant white marble, the walls are white marble, the floor is also white marble, and even the columns are white marble. On this white background, there is another more luxurious and more crazy color. All the decorations are all golden yellow. From Wilhelmina's eyes, it is natural to see that those golden decorations are all golden. It is affixed with very thin gold leaf made of gold.
On the dome of the hall, hung a huge crystal lamp. It is dotted with the last white light bulb. There are naturally various crystals and other decorations on it, which will emit light like daytime at night. Wilhelmina, who has seen this huge chandelier, naturally knows how much this crystal chandelier is worth, because this chandelier was dismantled and shipped from her palace in the Netherlands.
The huge crystal lamp illuminated the entire hall like daytime. The exquisite velvet curtains and exquisite murals beside the windows are all of great value. The most astonishing thing is the whole set of expensive antique furniture. Wilhelmina has also seen these furniture, because they are the favorite of the King of Denmark. baby. The precious belongings combined with the surrounding fabrics decorated with various colored silks suddenly give people a feeling of entering heaven.
"The great Yuan really knows how to enjoy." Wilhelmina frowned and sarcastically, but at the same time couldn't help but sighed secretly in her heart. Regardless of the snow-white marble wall tiles and floor tiles used in the entire building, the furniture and various decorations scraped from several royal castles in this hall alone are beyond the luxury people imagined. Wilhelmina couldn't even accurately calculate how much money it would cost to complete such a palace of art that gathered royal collections from all over the world.
In fact, Wilhelmina misunderstood Akado. After all, he didn't have the energy to ask how much the furniture and chandeliers decorated the facade were worth, because there were more things waiting for him to decide one by one.
These artistic treasures transported from the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark were all scraped from various places by the SS and some nobles in order to please Yuan or simply "dedicated to the beloved Yuan". Although it is priceless outside, it really didn't take much energy.
Akado is even admonishing Reinhardt and others because of these things, telling them not to do such irrelevant things, although to a certain extent it prevents the continued plundering of other countries' art treasures,
But Akado himself knew that this could only be alleviated slightly, but it could not fundamentally prevent such things from happening.
The honored guests invited today can be described as diverse, including the Italian ambassador to Germany, the Republic of China ambassador to Germany, and various political figures. But compared with the upcoming big shots, these people seem to be of insufficient weight in the core interests of the empire.
The big figures who received the invitation this time include the former Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, His Majesty the former King Christian X of Denmark, the former King Leopold of Belgium, and of course the Norwegian King Haakon VII who has just been sent to Berlin. The battle for Norway is still going on, but Germany's victory is already a certainty.
Of course, in addition to King Leopold, the people from Belgium also included the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian Expeditionary Army who was personally ordered by Akado, the former Belgian major general, and the current general of the Second Empire, General Grudeau. The Belgian anti-German faction who turned against the British and French allied forces to death, has now been promoted and packaged, and has become a pro-German Belgian military representative.
In addition to these captured European royal families, there are also the rulers of Germany's vassal states. The most important ally is the Romanian leader "Leader" Antonescu, who provided more than half of Germany's oil resources. As one of Germany's most important allies, Antonescu's position was arranged beside Yuan Akado? Rudolph.
Along with former Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Mr. Ambassador of the Republic of China to Germany came in. He couldn't believe his eyes, was everything he saw in front of him really tangible? Is such luxury and exquisiteness really produced by a country that was just defeated in World War I? It seems that as a victorious country in the First World War, China's current situation is not as good as one-tenth of the defeated country in front of me, right?
It started when the waiter of the Yuan mansion opened the door. The exclamation of ambassadors and nobles from some small countries never stopped. Even though they have already entered the hall, these people are still like a group of country bumpkins who have never seen the world, and will be amazed by a small detail that suddenly appears from time to time. Apart from admiration, the only thought in everyone's mind was to ask each other which treasure was scraped from a certain seemingly inconspicuous little thing.
On a long table facing the gate, there is a delicate silk table top, on which is a tower of wine glasses stacked with transparent crystal glasses of the same size, and a waiter in full costume. Pouring wine into the wine glass tower. The red wine originating in France is slowly filling up the wine glass tower.
"Gentlemen! Ladies! I believe that no one doubts that Germany can sweep France and finally win the war just like it did back then. Most of you here are already part of the German Empire, so this glory belongs to Every one of you!" Akado raised his glass and began his toast speech: "The empire will be invincible, and you will also become the new nobles of the empire to witness the rise of the empire!"
"For Yuan! Cheers!" Krupp raised his glass and said with a loud laugh, "I wish our Yuan good health!"
"For Yuan! Cheers!" Everyone had to raise their wine glasses. There are not national ambassadors who are begging for Germany, slave countries relying on Germany's breath, and nobles who have subjugated their countries. Yuan noodles?
"Thank you! Distinguished guests!" Accardo raised his wine glass and echoed: "Today is a memorable day. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg and other regions have reached an agreement with the German Empire to merge into the Holy Land. The German Empire. Starting today, this empire will take the world's largest power as its goal, and it will be invincible in our hands."
"Long live Yuan! Long live the Holy Great German Reich!" All the leading figures of the First Reich stood up and raised their right hands to stand at attention and salute. Among them are leaders Bosch and Krupp in the business world, Marshal Brauchitsch, a big man in the military, General Gu Bo, and Reinhardt, the head of the SS who is described as a devil by outsiders. And of course Yuan's diehard Jelin Nike and Foreign Minister Merkel.
what is this? Threatened by force? The army has already controlled the entire territory of these countries, and even the special governors in charge of these occupied areas have been sent out. We prisoners do not agree to sign and merge into the so-called "Holy Great German Empire", you will kill us To make an example to others? The kings and queens who had to stand up to stand at attention and salute all thought bitterly in their hearts.
But thinking about it, I absolutely dare not say it. Even if some areas of these countries still have resistance points, even if there are still a small number of areas in these countries that are still not occupied by the German army, but now they are actually sitting here, they have to think about their own personal safety—this The damned butcher Akado? Rudolph claimed to be Yuanru Pianpian when he was out, but when he turned his face, he didn't shy away from being a royal nobleman. If you don't believe me, the former Kaiser Wilhelm II is a role model.
Just when everyone was promoting glasses and changing glasses, Akado brought Mercedes, Anna and Fanny, a beauty whose aura is strong enough to make people shy away, chatting and laughing with Admiral Grudo at the reception At that moment, an SS officer came over.
He walked to Akado's side and whispered in Akado's ear: "We have found one of the British female spies, and she was killed in the resistance, and the other is still missing."
Akado nodded, and then continued the topic of how to jointly govern Belgium with Admiral Grudeau: "Mr. Grudeau, just tell me what I just said, I decided to arm 00,000 Belgians when conditions permit in the future. Army, to govern the regions of France with the existing army."
Grudo had already thought about it while Akado was listening to the report, so he responded immediately: "I believe that the future French region will develop even better under the management of the Holy Great German Empire."
Akado laughed, very happily, and he raised his glass again: "Let's toast again, the empire has just cracked a British spy case, and the female spy for it has been killed, the empire... ...still impregnable!"
"Cheers!" Everyone willingly or reluctantly raised their glasses.
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