One Hundred and Forty-Nine Economic Lifelines

Negotiations with Smith will not make any progress. This is something that all German diplomats know. Even if Akado takes action in person, it cannot be expected that the dozens of destroyers in the German Navy can make the British honestly pay compensation and apologize. (First release) But the British knew that they were at a loss, and sold 100,000 barrels of crude oil to Germany at a 50% discount as a condition for Germany to promise to move eastward.

After the meeting was over, Akado hurried back from the foreign ministry building to his residence of the head of state, because he was going to meet two very important aides there, one was Bosch, the president of Farben, which Germany needed to rely on in the future economically, The other is Krupp, the actual controller of the Krupp factory.

As soon as he arrived at his mansion, Akado threw the coat and gloves on his body to Geer who was walking towards him, and then asked Syndra, the working secretary of the head of state who was following Geer: "How long has Mr. Bosch been waiting? "

"Führer, Mr. Bosch has just arrived." Syndra replied immediately.

Akado nodded. It seems that both parties are the type of people who are pressed for time, obviously unwilling to waste their time for empty etiquette. So under the leadership of Syndra, he went straight to the conference room that had been arranged earlier.

"Long live the Führer!" As soon as Akado entered, Bosch stood up and saluted Akado with a standard German salute.

"How's the progress of the factory?" Akado waved his hand, signaling Bosch to withdraw his courtesy. Seeing that Bosch withdrew his saluting arm, Akado asked immediately.

"Report to the head of state! Farben has started mass production of artificial rubber in various places. Although the quality is slightly inferior to natural rubber raw materials, it is used as parts for production. Now there is no problem." Bosch said proudly, also He couldn't help but be proud of it. These are all the research results of the team he led personally.

"What about the output? Is it enough to supply the troops?" Akado asked with a frown.

"I'm afraid not, my head of state." Bosch said cautiously: "In order to solve the problem of rubber shortage, the entire industrial chain has been improved, but the demand for rubber is still a very large number."

"I know this. In order to use less rubber to produce more equipment, the tire width standard for civilian vehicles has been reduced twice in a row. Some people are even researching urban car tires with smaller diameters." Akado said helplessly. Said: "I even heard that, although there is no explicit regulation, the outer profile and width of military car tires have been secretly cut by 1 centimeter, right?"

"Yeah! The headquarters has no choice. According to your instructions, the number of our army's automobile equipment should be at least doubled. To equip more new infantry divisions. But we really don't have much way to increase production .”

"Is there nothing more to do?" Akado asked.

Bosch nodded helplessly: "There are still a lot of rubber parts in tires that are consumables, my head of state. Unless the inventory of spare parts is reduced to increase the number of rubber products in front-line service. But once there is a need to replenish, it will be stretched .”

"Take out one-tenth of the spare rubber products!" Akado said decisively: "The soldiers must use it first, and then it will be their turn to consume it later, right?"

"In the past two months, the production of cars and tanks can be even higher." Bosch nodded: "The situation on my side can be better, because the British navy only blocked the import of oil from the Middle East, and there is no large-scale Block the raw rubber."

"I thought that by driving away the Coalition Arms Control Committee, we would be free to expand our armaments. It seems that I didn't think it through beforehand." Akado suddenly felt that there was a conservative diplomat Stry who had different opinions. It is not a bad thing for Siman to be in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but it is too late to say anything now.

After seeing off Bosch, Akado saw Krupp rushing to Berlin. The two walked into the meeting room together, and Akado recalled the days when he and Krupp talked and laughed happily back then, and felt a sense of loss as the years passed by and never looked back.

"Recently, the strides have been a bit big, which has led to local chaos in the entire country. There is no large-scale impact on military production, and it is up to you to run up and down. I thank you on behalf of the German people." Akado gave Krupp He poured a glass of wine, handed it over, and said while pouring himself a glass.

"My head of state, I have to say that you have been a little too hasty recently." Krupp sighed and persuaded: "Declared war on the Junker nobles in one breath, and then successively destroyed some extremely huge monopoly Take away the chaebol together. This is a dangerous move that even the German emperor dare not try lightly, why didn't you discuss it with me in advance?"

"This plan is also a last resort." Akado smiled helplessly: "They assassinated the Jews in an attempt to split the Greater German Party. The SS was helpless against this kind of thing, so they had to resort to dangerous tactics and made this bad plan."

He took a sip of wine and continued: "Fortunately, I have maintained a situation that I can control. The monopoly chaebol is not monolithic. For example, you are on my side. Because you have the vision to see the future development prospects of the industrial world, and It’s not about imitating those idiots and resting on their laurels.”

If it is not suitable for you to decisively distribute the benefits to those petty bourgeoisie, and keep a lot of monopoly plutocrats who support you, then Germany is already in chaos now! Not to mention that there are still a group of royalists and Junker nobles fanning the flames inside, while the Nazi Party came out to take advantage of the fire-the only reason for maintaining the "chaos" now is that the Wehrmacht has not made a clear statement.

"At this point, we have nothing to do. This cleaning process has already started, and it will not stop easily." Krupp sighed helplessly: "But the effect is also obvious. Most of the commodity prices It started to go down, and industrial costs continued to fall, because capital was dispersed and the market was more dynamic than before."

"This is what we want to see, Krupp!" Akado said happily: "The Greater German Party serves businessmen like you who have contributed to the strength of Germany!"

"However, our situation in terms of oil has been very bad recently, so these enemies have also begun to take the opportunity to counterattack. There are signs of riots in places that have restored peace." Krupp said angrily: "Once production is delayed , then all our efforts will be in vain.”

"The SS is not a vegetarian! Since I dare to throw 14,000 German parasites into prison, let them produce the tactical vests we urgently need. I don't care about arresting 20,000 more people!" Akado said fiercely : "I think their bones are hard, or our SS bayonets are hard!"

"However, the oil has been reduced by half all of a sudden, which makes us feel a little uncertain! Führer." Krupp said anxiously—it was related to the income of his entire group, so it's no wonder he was so anxious.

"How is the oil exploration in Austria going?" Acado thought for a while and asked, "You also have a lot of shares in the Austrian oil fields, so you should pay more attention to it!"

Krupp came to his senses immediately, he seemed to be able to see piles of banknotes beckoning to him, so he stood up and replied: "My Fuhrer, about 200,000 U.S. dollars of funds have been put in place, and the oil exploration in Austria has also begun." It has fully entered the actual operation stage, but it will wait until a large amount of oil is extracted, which is estimated to be at least 1935. Counting our total oil reserves, we have to wait until our self-produced oil meets production, which is still less 9 full months of oil."

"The key still depends on Romania!" Akado nodded and said: "It seems that our evil success or failure depends on Merkel's gains in Romania."

"By the way." When he said this, he remembered another thing that brought Krupp back this time: "Krupp, how is the improvement of the No. 4 tank going?"

"My head of state, the improvement is very smooth. Most of the newly produced tanks have been installed with a 75mm caliber cannon with an extended barrel. We have tested that it is enough to penetrate the front armor plate of any active tank." When talking about his own products , Krupp began to talk endlessly: "In addition, we improved the observation and aiming system, and set up an independent periscope look-around device for the gunner. We improved the rotation device of the turret-all of these are improved on the basis of simplification. Without complicating the Panzer IV."

"What about the tanks produced in the early stage? Is it difficult to modify?" Akado asked again.

"My head of state, to be honest, what we lack now is the quantity of weapons, not the quality of weapons. We must equip a large number of tanks on both the east and west lines to hold our own defense lines." Krupp began to show off that he had The half-knowledgeable military knowledge heard from the generals of the army.

"It makes sense!" Akado also felt that now is not the time to be busy improving tanks. What he wants is more tanks. Only with more tanks can he fight a more exciting blitzkrieg on the battlefield he had already planned in his mind. Lai: "Then don't modify the No. 4 tanks that have already been produced, and send them directly to the troops! The old tanks are given to the SS, and the new weapons are given to the Wehrmacht! What about the guns? Is it going well?"

"My head of state." Krupp raised the gun with a more relaxed expression, and replied with a smile: "G43 was handed over to Krupp and several subsidiaries of the gun company for production. The production speed is still very fast. We successively About 110,000 of these rifles have been supplied to the Wehrmacht, mainly for the paratroopers of the 1st Division and for the squad leaders of each infantry squad."

Akado nodded and ended the meeting: "Go to Hannover for me. The oil production there has been going on for some time. Although the output and reserves are very small, it is still an income. Go and see If there is anything to improve, come back and give me a report."

"Then I will take my leave. Long live the Führer!" Krupp retreated to the door and stood at attention to salute.

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