Chapter 149

No progress will be made in the negotiation with Smith, which is well known to all German diplomats. Even akkado himself can't expect the German Navy's dozens of destroyers to make the British honestly apologize. However, the British knew that they were wrong and sold 100000 barrels of crude oil to Germany at a 50% discount as a condition for Germany's commitment to move eastward.

After the meeting, akkado rushed back to his head of state's residence from the Foreign Ministry building, because he wanted to meet two very important staff there. One is Bosch, President of Fabens, who Germany needs to rely on in the future in terms of economy, and the other is Krupp, the actual controller of Krupp factory.

As soon as he arrived at his residence, akado threw his overcoat and gloves to Gell, who was walking in front of him. Then he asked the Secretary for the work of the head of state, hindra, who was following Gell: "how long has Mr. boss been waiting?"

"Fuehrer, Mr. boss has just arrived." Cinderella answered at once.

Akado nodded, it seems that both sides are the kind of people who are pressed for time, obviously unwilling to waste their time for the sake of nihilistic etiquette. So under hindra's leadership, he went straight to the conference room that had been arranged for a long time.

"Long live the Fuehrer!" As soon as akkado entered the door, bosh stood up and saluted akkado with a standard German salute.

"How's the factory going?" Akado waved his hand to boss to withdraw his courtesy. Seeing Bosch withdraw his saluting arm, akado asked immediately.

"Report to the head of state! Faben has started mass production of synthetic rubber in various places. Although the quality of synthetic rubber is slightly inferior to that of natural rubber, there is no problem in using it as part production now. " Bosi said with pride, which is the research results of his team.

"What about the output? Is it enough for the army? " Asked akado, frowning.

"I'm afraid not, my Fuehrer." "Now in order to solve the problem of rubber shortage, the whole industrial chain has been improved, but the demand for rubber is still a very large number," he said cautiously

"I know that in order to use less rubber to produce more equipment, the tire width standard for civil cars has been cut twice in a row, and some people are even studying smaller diameter urban car tires." Akkado said helplessly: "I even heard that although there is no explicit regulation, the outer contour and width of military car tires have been secretly reduced by 1cm, right?"

"Yes! The headquarters also has no way. 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 many ways to increase production. "

"There is nothing more to do?" Asked akado.

Bosi nodded helplessly: "tires and many rubber parts are consumables, my head.". Unless we reduce the spare parts inventory to increase the number of rubber products in the first-line service. However, once there is a need to supplement the situation, it will be stretched

"Take out one tenth of the spare rubber products!" Akado said firmly: "it's always the soldiers' turn to use it before it's their turn to consume it, right?"

"In these two months, the production of cars and tanks can be higher." Boss nodded: "my situation is better, because the British Navy only blocked oil imports from the Middle East, not a large-scale blockade of rubber raw materials."

"I thought that we would be able to expand our armaments after the removal of the joint arms control commission. It seems that I didn't think about it in advance." Akkado suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing to have a conservative diplomat with different views in the foreign ministry, but it was too late to say anything.

Seeing off boss, akkado sees Krupp, who has arrived in Berlin with a lot of dust. When they walked into the conference room together, akkado thought of the days when he talked and laughed with Krupp. There was a sense of loss that he did not look back in a hurry.

"Recently, we have taken a big step, which has led to local chaos in the whole country. It doesn't affect military production on a large scale. It's all up and down. I thank you for the German people. " Akkado poured Krupp a glass of wine, handed it to him, and poured himself a glass as he said.

"My head of state, I have to say that you have been acting in a hurry recently." Krupp sighed and advised: "declare war on Juncker nobles at one go, and then take away some extremely large monopoly plutocrats. This is a dangerous move that the German emperors dare not try easily. Why don't you discuss with me in advance? "

"This plan is a last resort." Akado had no choice but to smile: "they assassinated the Jews and attempted to split the great German party. The SS has no idea what to do with this kind of thing, so we have to resort to dangerous tactics. "

He took a sip of wine and then said: "fortunately, I have maintained the situation that I can control. Monopoly plutocrats are not monolithic. For example, you are on my side. Because you have vision, see the future development prospects of the industrial world, rather than learning from those fools

If it's not right for you to decisively distribute the benefits to the petty bourgeoisie and keep a lot of monopoly plutocrats who support you, then Germany will be in a mess now! Not to mention a group of royalists and Juncker nobles who are stirring up the flames, while the Nazis are taking advantage of the fire - the only reason for maintaining the peace is that the national defense forces have not made clear their position.

"Up to now, we have nothing to do. The cleaning process has already started, so it won't stop easily. " Krupp sighed helplessly: "however, the effect is obvious. Most commodity prices begin to fall, and industrial costs continue to drop, because capital is scattered and disrupted, and the market is more dynamic than before."“ That's what we want to see, Krupp! " Akkado is very happy to say: "the greater German Party is for you to make contributions to the strong German businessmen service!"“ However, in terms of oil, our situation has been very bad recently, so these enemies also began to take the opportunity to fight back. There are signs of violence in places where peace has been restored. " "If we delay production, all our efforts will be wasted," Krupp said angrily“ The SS is not a vegetarian either! Now that I dare to put 14000 German parasites in jail and let them produce the tactical vests we badly need. I don't care about catching 20000 more people! " "I think their bones are hard, or our SS bayonets are hard!" said akkado“ However, half of the oil has been lost all of a sudden, which makes us feel at a loss! The head of state. " Krupp said anxiously - concerning the income of his whole group, no wonder he was so anxious“ How's Austrian oil extraction going? " Akkado thought for a while and asked, "you also have a lot of shares in this Austrian oilfield. You usually pay more attention to it!" Krupp immediately came to the spirit, as if he could see piles of money waving to him, so he stood up and answered: "my head of state, about 200000 US dollars have been put in place, Austria's oil exploration has entered the practical operation stage, but it is estimated that it will be at least 1935 until a large amount of oil is extracted. Taking into account the total amount of our oil reserves, we have to wait until the self-produced oil can meet the production demand, and we still have nine months less oil. "“ The key is Romania! " Akado nodded and said: "it seems that our success and failure depends on Merkel's harvest in Romania."“ That's right When he said this, he thought of another thing that had brought Krupp back this time: "Krupp, how is the improvement of tank 4 going?"“ My head, the improvement is very smooth. Most of the newly produced tanks have been equipped with 75mm cannon with extended barrel. We've tested enough to break through the front armor plate of any active tank. " As soon as we talked about our products, Krupp began to talk on and on: "in addition, we improved the observation and aiming system and set up an independent periscope for the gunner. Improved turret rotation - it's all improved on the basis of simplification, we didn't make tank 4 any more complicated. "“ What about the initial tanks? Is it difficult to refit? " Akado asked again“ My head of state, to be honest, what we lack now is the quantity of weapons, not the quality of them. We have to have a lot of tanks on both the East and the west to hold our line Krupp began to show off the little military knowledge he had heard from army generals“ That makes sense Akado also thinks that it's not the time to improve the tanks. He wants more tanks. Only with more tanks can he have a better Blitzkrieg in the battlefield he has already planned in his mind: "let's not refit the No. 4 tank that has been produced, but directly distribute it to the army! Old tanks for the SS, new weapons for the IDF! Where * * guns? How's it going? "“ My head of state. " Krupp was even more relaxed when he mentioned the guns, and replied with a smile: "G43 is given to Krupp, and there are several subsidiaries of the gun company for production, and the production speed is still very fast. We have provided about 110000 such rifles for the national defense forces, mainly equipped with the paratroopers of the first division and distributed to the squad leaders of each infantry squad. " Akado nodded and ended the meeting: "you go to Hanover for me. The oil exploitation there has been for some days. Although the production and reserves are very small, it is also an input. Go and see what needs to be improved, and come back and give me a report. "“ Then I'll leave. Long live the Fuehrer Krupp retreats to the door and stands at attention.