Chapter 1239 East German Mark!

Yang Ming's motorcade arrived at a hotel in downtown East Berlin.

Yang Ming and his party will stay here for the time being.

When Yang Ming got off the car, he found that many of East Germany's handling methods were very similar to those of the Soviet Union. Like Yang Ming's arrival now, he felt that East Germany attached great importance to him.

Yang Ming checked into the hotel's luxury suite. He planned to stay here for the next few days.

At noon that day.

Yang Ming and others had lunch at the hotel.

This was not a state banquet, but a normal working meal, which looked pretty good.

In the afternoon, Erich sent someone to be Yang Ming's tour guide.

"Sir Yang, where do you want to visit?"

"I want to see the Berlin Wall."

This Berlin Wall is world-famous.

It is now, and it will be in the future.

However, most of it will be demolished next year, leaving only a small part as a memorial.

At this time, Yang Ming wanted to see the Berlin Wall and also wanted to see this history.

The tour guide immediately made arrangements.

When Yang Ming and others left the hotel, they took a car to one of the places and stopped.

At a glance, this is the famous Berlin Wall in history.

The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, with a total length of 155 kilometers. It was originally a border wall made of barbed wire and bricks, and was later reinforced into a border defense facility consisting of watchtowers, concrete walls, open areas and anti-vehicle trenches.

The Berlin Wall is a symbol of the division of Country D and an important landmark of the Cold War.

Before the construction of the Berlin Wall, about 2.5 million East German residents fled West Germany, and many of them went to West Germany and other Western European countries through West Berlin.

Today, Yang Ming and others have just arrived here.

He saw the Berlin Wall.

In fact, the Berlin Wall is not high, but it is very conspicuous at first glance, and there are many barbed wires on the Berlin Wall.

This first glance made him feel like a prison wall and barbed wire.

In fact, the Berlin Wall is not that simple.

There are really sixteen layers of defense, and there is also a water border.

This is also after the construction of the Berlin Wall, during which only a few thousand people crossed from East Berlin to West Berlin.

However, before the Berlin Wall appeared, more than two million people fled.

The tour guide next to him gave Yang Ming a detailed introduction.

"Sir Yang, that's West Berlin."

You may not be able to see West Berlin from a low place.

However, West Berlin is definitely more prosperous than East Berlin.

Although the capital of West Germany is in another city, West Berlin is still a very important city in West Germany.

Yang Ming walked around the Berlin Wall. In addition to seeing border guards patrolling on both sides, not many people ran here now.

However, Yang Ming knew that under the influence of other Eastern European countries, East Germany would soon become chaotic.

After seeing the Berlin Wall.

Yang Ming did not go to other places, but when passing by a state-owned supermarket, Yang Ming found that although some items were in short supply in East Germany, the necessary items were still available.

"Sir Yang, this is our money mark." The tour guide next to him said.

East German mark?

Yang Ming knew that the current exchange rate between East German mark and West German mark was about 6:1, which means that West German mark was much more valuable than East German mark.

However, in history, in order to merge with East Germany, West Germany had to propose that the West German Mark and the East German Mark be exchanged at a 1:1 exchange rate.

This is equivalent to a substantial concession from West Germany.

Now 1 US dollar is about 1.9 West German Marks, which means that the West German Mark is indeed very valuable.

Yang Ming took this East German Mark. If he hadn't come here, he would have suddenly forgotten this.

Yang Ming bought some items in this state-owned supermarket, left here, and returned to the hotel.

That night.

At 19:00 in the evening of East Berlin time.

East Germany held a grand state banquet with Erich as the main host to entertain Sir Yang and his party.

This East German state banquet still looks very rich, but the food that Germans eat is different from that of the Soviets.

Among them, the most famous are D country beer, D country red sausage, D country ham, etc.

In addition, there are steaks, lamb chops, pork chops, etc.

In addition, there are red wine produced in East Germany.

In order to show his respect for the Imperial Group and Sir Yang, Erich held a grand state banquet that was no less than the previous hosts of the Soviet Union.

The grand state banquet lasted until 21:30 in the evening.

The state banquet ended.

Yang Ming and others left here.

They took a car back to the hotel.

Yang Ming had just drunk beer and wine, so he didn't want to take a shower so quickly.

The Soviet Union had the KGB, and East Germany also had the Stasi.

According to incomplete statistics, during its existence, 600,000 people served the Stasi, which was equivalent to the number of people who served the Gestapo during the Nazi period.

Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi had jurisdiction over 17 prisons, about 91,000 officially employed agents, 175,000 formal reporting collaborators in East Germany, the famous "IM", and another 20,000 "IM" reporting collaborators in West Germany.

So the Stasi had a total of 286,000 cooperating agents, and the intelligence network was dense and effective.

This also looks very scary.

However, compared to the historical KGB, the Stasi is not as well-known.

Moreover, the current Stasi is not as good as the previous Stasi, otherwise Erich's fate would be like that.

Of course, in Yang Ming's view, the situation in East Germany is an inevitable trend, and it seems that the outside world cannot interfere.

As for the hotel in front of him, there must be the presence of the Stasi.

Even if Yang Ming asked Chen Zhenhua and others to search for a lot of monitoring equipment from it.

Until late at night.

Yang Ming took a shower and then went to rest.

Early the next morning.

Yang Ming just got up.

Put on a thick coat, wash up and go out for a walk outside the hotel.

In fact, Yang Ming found that East Germany is much freer than Su Lian, but you can also feel that there may be someone around you secretly watching you behind your back.

Maybe a cleaning staff may come from the Stasi, but these people look no different from ordinary people.

When Yang Ming finished his walk.

When he was about to have breakfast at the hotel, Erich's secretary had come to invite Sir Yang to come over.

Yang Ming just took Lin Xiuzhi and took a special car to Erich's office.

It turned out that Erich and others were having breakfast here.

After Yang Ming and Erich and others finished breakfast, they started to talk about business for the first time.

"Sir Yang, I hope that the Empire Group can invest like it did in Sulian."

East Germany is affected by Sulian in all aspects. Now Sulian has become chaotic under Gore's changes. Now East Germany is also preparing to learn from there.

However, Yang Ming has no plans to invest in East Germany now. What he is doing now is to make plans after the merger of East and West Germany.

One of them is about the East German mark.

Now the East German mark is also very valuable, but after the merger of East and West Germany, the East German mark will be more valuable.

For Yang Ming, this is also a place where he can make a lot of profit.

In addition, after the merger of East and West Germany, many companies in East Germany may be acquired by West German or even European and American capital.

Then this is also a very big investment opportunity for Yang Ming and the Empire Group.