Yes, it is the third volume of Bismarck’s memoirs. Here are some people’s feelings after reading it. I recently read "Thoughts and Memories", Bismarck's memoirs. Written after retiring, it is three thick volumes. It seems that the old man really has time after retirement. When it comes to reading, getting into it is the hardest. After persisting for a few days, I finally entered the gate. And I found this old man very humorous. I flipped through it casually and gave a few examples. Let’s take a look. Isn’t Mr. Bismarck very funny?

1. They knew nothing about politics and had obtained high positions simply because they were familiar with French; even their reports only talked about things they could talk fluently in French. (Foreign languages ??are really important)

2. When he had to be awakened from his slumber for a vote, he always said: "I agree with the opinion of my colleague Tepperhoff," and sometimes he even had to be reminded that Mr. Tepelhoff was not present. (Tepelhoff is so miserable. It seems that he is the first to arrest those who fail to hold meetings, because he has such a loyal ally.)

3. It was unnatural for a police inspector-general to gain prominence as a result of a rebellion. (What does this matter? Heroes don’t care about their origins.)

4. I would like to mention here incidentally that I have not written "Von" in my signature since my youth, and now I started writing it as a protest against the proposals of 1848 to abolish the nobility. (The Russians said in the annotations that Mr. Bismarck's statement here is not entirely consistent with the facts, because when he was young, he wrote "von" in almost every letter.)

5. If the three of us here saw something unfortunate happening on the street outside our windows, Mr. Speaker would take the opportunity to make a witty remark about our lack of faith, the imperfections of our institutions, etc.; and the General would be right. Tell me what you can do to help in this situation, but still sit still; only I will go out to the street or find someone to help. (It seems that Mr. Bismarck does not know how to brag and glare, and even blames people so tactfully. Perhaps it was because his official position was not as high as the other two at the time?)

6. "Austria has 28,254 soldiers and 7,132 horses in Bohemia." The figures above a thousand mentioned in his words were accidentally remembered by me, and The remaining figures are arbitrarily added by me simply to highlight the extreme accuracy of the intelligence provided by the general. (It’s accurate enough. This kind of deceptive courage is really extraordinary. However, the thousand digit is already the highest digit among these numbers. If Mr. Bismarck’s thousand digits and above do not include the thousand digit itself, then the entire number is completely fabricated. , I can only say: admire, admire. )

7. The table was lined with many of his deeds, first of all medals for meritorious service on the battlefield. The customary arrangement of these medals on his chest was interrupted by a new Gold Star, which had just been awarded. After the pleasantries, he and I were not talking about anything about Austria and Prussia, but asking me to judge where this medal should be inserted from the point of view of artistic appreciation. Since childhood, I have had feelings of respect for this general who established great achievements, which made me consider this problem very seriously. Only after solving this problem did we talk about official business. (I sincerely admire Mr. Bismarck’s spirit of being a qualified fan.)

8. I was left alone, not knowing what to do, and not knowing the arrangement of the rooms in the palace. I only remembered that the king said that one of the three doors led to the chamber of the queen who was bedridden with measles. (Mr. Bismarck is such a gossip.)

9. We developed something like a code for this kind of correspondence, using the names of familiar villages to represent the country and Shakespeare's protagonists to represent the tasks. This is not without a sense of humor. (God, please save me, I’m so cold.)

10. One note: waste: an old chemical term for the non-volatile, stable precipitate ("dead heads") left over from distillation. (The Russian who wrote this explanation is really stupid.)

I won’t lift it, not because there are none, but because there are too many and I can’t finish them. It turns out that the life of a powerful diplomatic figure is so fun. Sometimes I think about the theories we have learned. Are we playing with the theory, or is the theory playing with us? Is there a world of difference between reality and books? When facing society, we all have to learn from scratch.

The humorous Mr. Bismarck said that if this book should be used to educate the future, I think one of the principles should be to pay attention to reality and respect reality. Politics is actually an art of humor and spontaneity, so don’t be too academic.

Part 2

The reason why I wrote another note about this book is because this book is so interesting!

I have a characteristic: I like to listen to other people's words, but I don't easily agree with them. Whenever I read a book, I always like to listen to other people's opinions from time to time, and then find some bones to make me feel that I have more truth, at least not unreasonably. The same goes for this hefty set of books.

Naturally, search online. I didn't see Bismarck, but I saw Zhukov. After careful inspection, I found that I had entered the wrong book title. Mr. Bi wrote "Thinking and Memories", I typed it as "Memories and Thinking", which is the title of Mr. Zhu's book. So I started to think about a question - who comes first and who comes last, recalling or thinking.

After a long time, I came to a conclusion: I should think and recall at the same time. But even thinking about it is wrong. After all, thinking and recollection are two different things, and if they are mixed together, things will go wrong. Just like Mr. Bi, I always feel that he is a bit evasive or takes things easy? Forget what you want to forget, don't write what you don't want to write, and spend several pages criticizing anyone you find objectionable. For an old man with outstanding merits, it is only human nature to do so.

I saw a book review with the following text:

If Bismarck had known underground that the Chinese valued his memoirs so much, he would have been moved, and perhaps blushed. Because "I devoted all my energy to writing it after leaving office in 1890" is already a compliment. In the biography "Bismarck" by the famous German historian Ernst Engelberg, we can see this sketch showing Bismarck's writing of his memoirs: Bismarck was lying loosely on the sofa reviewing the first draft, with him lying next to him. His pet dog, and his helpless assistant Lothar Bucher sat across the table. The dictation of the memoirs was probably carried out on this occasion. Engelberg wrote that Bismarck was not very cooperative during the dictation. He often lost his energy, recalled things not in chronological order, and liked to ramble and mix up history. Memories mingle with commentary on current events. He was more concerned about current affairs, because he had just been ousted by William II, and he was angry and unsatisfied with politics. The dictation of the memoirs basically stopped until Bucher's death in 1892, and then only modifications and additions were made.

It’s half cold. He really is an old man. But then I thought about it, it was the old man! There's nothing wrong with being loose, at least it's more authentic.

I remember reading Carson’s biography at that time, and I was surprised that she was still running around despite being physically disabled. I remember that a certain writer wrote an article specifically introducing Carson. I can’t remember the specific words. The general idea is this: Carson is sitting in his home in the south with his body broken, writing something, and so on. This is so different from reality! Many things are actually very casual and not so spectacular. If there are any, they are mostly the result of "people's clouds". Coupled with "Yiyun", the words have long been deformed, and people have lost their truth.

In this sense, Mr. Bi's writing attitude, although he has no sense of self-responsibility, is still very good in my opinion.

I have talked so much and I don’t know what I am writing. To faithfully copy a paragraph of Mr. Bismarck's damaging remarks would avoid straying from the content that should be expressed under the title "The Humorous Mr. Bismarck".

He was talking about feeling tired and wanting to retire, when he said: "As long as I have not chaired even a trivial meeting in Europe, I cannot go to heaven to see St. Peter." Then I (Bismarck) He was asked to preside over a diplomatic conference that was being held at the time, but this meeting was only semi-official, so he went to preside over it. I felt bored listening to his long speech as chairman, so I wrote in pencil: Boast, brag, brag, brag. Lord Odor Russell, who was sitting next to me, took the paper out of my hand and kept it.