The Third Reich: I Became Emperor

The wars in recent years have produced many wealthy people, but only a few of them can participate in the fundraising.

After all, this represents identity, status, and recognition. As for the benefits they can get, it has been explained that as long as they take over the British Isles, those factories will be theirs, as well as those huge overseas colonies, which are all popular.

It is these huge markets that make them very excited.

With these huge markets, the benefits they will get in the future will be even greater.

"It is an honor for the Empire that you can contribute to the country and the nation."Speer said very politely.

After exchanging a few polite words, Speer continued to talk with the people in front of him and said casually:"I am not familiar with those people. I just found out about them. From their tone, they are also generous. One of them directly raised 100 million."

The people in front looked at each other in surprise. Originally, they thought that 100 million was a big deal. Now an unknown capitalist has raised 100 million. If August knew that they only donated this little, their future life would not necessarily be easy.

Although this emperor is very young, his father is William II, who is famous and has a high prestige in the whole of Germany. Now he is leading the Wehrmacht and is about to destroy the British Isles. This huge success, no one dares to despise him, and Speer's words are very clear. Do you big capitalists have less than others?

"This amount is not small. We can only sit at the third table. It is impossible to sit at the first table."One of them came out to smooth things over.

"It's OK, not too much. You know, a few hundred million, His Majesty the Emperor doesn't care at all."Speer looked relaxed.

This is a fundraising dinner, and it is hosted by August himself. From the moment you receive the invitation, he tells you directly that if you don't have money, don't come. If you come and don't donate tens of millions or hundreds of millions, do you have the nerve to eat and drink with those big guys?

Although there are some forces, don't forget that the guests are at least major generals or department-level officials. No one has a low status.

To put it bluntly, these guests are actually there to accompany you to eat and drink. According to August's words, don't you want to increase military spending? Then drink as much as you can and let these people donate more. Then you will have military spending and there will be no need to quarrel.

Not to mention others, even August is the same. He will sit at the first table, except for In addition to several military and political leaders, there will be about six capitalists from the industrial and commercial circles.

But if you want to sit at the main table, it is absolutely impossible without a billion as a base. Not having a billion is an insult to August. If you offend His Majesty the Emperor, you will definitely suffer no good consequences. If you offend a marshal, maybe you can spend some money to settle it. Offend the emperor? What can you use to settle it?

As for why to raise funds, in the final analysis, any war is not fought with courage or tactics, but with money.

Part of the national debt issued before was purchased by capitalists, and part was underwritten by major banks, and only a small part was purchased by ordinary people.

Don’t look down on these bankers. The capitalists are huge, but they don’t have the ability to swallow it all, because this is not a matter of one person or one company. , but the entire country needs to underwrite it.

After all, a national debt of tens of billions is simply not something that ordinary people or even small and medium-sized capitalists can afford. What is needed is for the people of the whole country to bear it together.

Unfortunately, successive wars have pushed the ordinary people's ability to bear to the limit, so this time August decided not to issue national bonds, but to raise funds instead, auction some cultural relics, and then raise military funds.

Although money cannot kill the enemy, the guns and cannons produced can kill the enemy.

In fact, there is another situation, that is, the large-scale issuance of currency and currency devaluation, but August shook his head and refused directly. The people are the most unlucky ones due to currency devaluation.

The fundraising dinner was held very smoothly. When the guards shouted that His Majesty the Emperor had arrived At that time, everyone present stood up and watched August walk into the banquet hall with a smile on his face.

August seldom showed up in front of the crowd, and speeches were even more rare, because he was deeply traumatized by the assassination. Perhaps after the war was completely over and the world had been peaceful for more than a decade, he would be able to frequently appear in public, but now he had to give a speech, because the people present were core supporters, and they had to be convinced to continue to support the empire.

August, standing on the stage, looked around the audience, and gradually put away his smile. Then he said in a heavy tone:"The last war caused us great pain, and through the efforts of a generation, we have regained our vitality, and the revival of the empire has entered a new stage."

"We used the army that we trained for ten years to sweep across the entire West. Everywhere we passed was surrendered. This is the pride of the empire, your pride, and the pride of the whole country."

After a short speech, everyone present was inevitably driven by the atmosphere of August's speech, especially the phrase"your pride", which boosted the atmosphere of the whole venue. Everyone shouted loudly,"Long live the empire!"

The military personnel looked responsible. No one knew better than them the changes that August had brought to the empire, and no one knew better than them how much benefit August had brought to them.

The fundraising dinner was very successful. This fundraising dinner was different from the previous large-scale issuance of treasury bonds. The previous issuances of treasury bonds were all for financial institutions, mainly underwritten by major banks, and were for ordinary people across the country.

This time, the fundraising was for the super-rich in the empire. None of the rich people present had a net worth less than one billion, and some even had tens of billions.���

Faced with August's ambitious speech, everyone donated generously. The smallest amount was 30 million, 50 million, and the largest was 80 million and 100 million. Those who sat at the same table with August donated more than 1 billion. The seat to August's left was sold for 2 billion.

The rich man who spent 2 billion was called Krupp Jr. As for why he participated, it was because the recent orders for a batch of new weapons made him a lot of money.

In order to thank the great Emperor, Krupp Jr. spent hundreds of millions of gold and won the seat to August's left with the highest price. At the same time, August did not let Krupp Jr. suffer a loss. He immediately threw him an order worth 3 billion marks. The next day, Speer came to the office, with a big smile on his face and said,"Your Majesty the Emperor, the fundraising was very successful. A total of 17.1 billion was raised."

"It seems to be much more than expected, not bad!"

Hearing this, August nodded. With this money, at least the urgent need was solved. As long as the British Isles were taken, there would be no need to worry about military expenses.

"What should we do next?" Speer asked with a smile.

"Then spend it all." August waved his hand and said generously.