Everyone knows that the most difficult of these people is Bao Zixuan. He wants to exchange the soil for the industrial equipment of the Germans, which is very difficult, and if he is not careful, he will be treated as a fool, and if he is not careful, he will make a big joke.

However, Bao Zixuan knew that if this matter was to be solved perfectly, he could only come forward. Other people don't understand the value of rare earths, and when the time comes, they will definitely not be able to stand it if they exchange the price of cabbage.

Bao Zixuan also understands that it is impossible to achieve his goals by relying on a German steel company. So he set his sights on 3 German companies. Rheinmetall, Thyssen and Krupp, the three most important heavy industry companies in Germany.

Thyssen and Krupp are now two different companies that have not yet merged. However, there is a lot of private communication, and it can be said that the relationship is very good.

This time, through Oliver Lehhard of Rheinmetall, the heads of two other companies were called in to come and negotiate. I don't know what's going on, Bao Zixuan wants to take advantage of Rheinmetall every time he comes to Germany, and this time is no exception. It seems that Rheinmetall owed him in the previous life, and he has come to pay off the debt in this life.

August Thyssen (1842-1926) made his fortune in the steel industry at the end of the 19th century and was known as the "King of the Ruhr". Fritz Thyssen (1873-1951), a German monopoly capitalist, succeeded his father in 1926 and merged seven companies to form Europe's largest United Steel Company, as president. He had been a fan of the ** party since the early twenties and officially joined the party in 1931. After that, he actively arranged and organized the German industrial giants to financially finance and politically support the party, which played a huge role in Hitler's coming to power in 1933. ** After the party came to power, he was a member of the Friends of Himmler and an adviser to the Prussian government. In the late thirties, there was a disagreement with Hitler. Fled to Switzerland in 1939. The following year he moved to France. In 1941, he was arrested by the Vichy government in France, extradited to Germany, and thrown into the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he was tried by the German dehumanization court and sentenced to hand over 15% of his property as a compensation fund for the victims. He moved to Argentina in 1950 and is the author of "I Financed Hitler". Its company is now thyssenkrupp AG, one of the world's top 500 companies.

The current president of Thyssen is Fritz Thyssen's grandson, Rehhagel Thyssen, who is 50 years old this year, which can be said to be the golden age of an entrepreneur.

Alfred Krupp the Elder was born in 1812 into a Jewish family in Essen, and his cannons helped Bismarck defeat Austria and then France in the mid-19th century. Alfred Jr.'s mother, Bertha, was the granddaughter of Alfred Sr., and Bertha's marriage was personally arranged by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who asked the diplomat Gustav to marry Bertha and added "Krupp" to his surname in order to run the illustrious family's business and prevent it from falling into the hands of political enemies.

The Krupp family has always been the pillar of German **** and is favored by the highest authorities of the country. Observing time, following discipline, and carrying out orders are the family's traditions. For example, breakfast is at 7:15 a.m., and those who arrive at 7:16 a.m. will find that the restaurant is closed and someone else has already started eating. In addition, even in the middle of winter, Gustav Krupp refused to turn on the fireplace, deliberately making the office cold so as not to become listless, and Alfried grew up in such an environment. Since he was a child, he has been specially nurtured by his parents and has the right to eat with them.

Germany's defeat in World War I was his first life pain: the Kaiser bid farewell to Essen, the Allies came to dismantle the factories, his father was declared a war criminal (not imprisoned), the Weimar Republic was founded, the workers revolted and occupied Essen, and the French occupied the Ruhr area. These mental insults in his childhood became the reason for his later allegiance to Hitler.

After the war, the Krupp family continued to develop their business. They set up new companies, built new factories, bought new coal mines. The products were mainly sold to the Soviet Union. Soon, at the request of the German General Staff, the Krupp family secretly participated in the rearmament of Germany, creating the first armored vehicles in 1926, and resuming the production of artillery two years later.

By this time, Alfred Krupp the Younger had reached adulthood, and as the eldest son, he had all the rights to the heir to the family. In the Villa Hugel, he lived alone on the first floor, with 5 servants by his side. He studied physics and chemistry at the university and did an apprenticeship at the Bank of Dresdner.

In 1930 he joined the German Party and became a member of the SS the following year. He saw Hitler as a major figure in the revival of Germany after the humiliation of 1918. On October 1, 1936, at the age of 29, Krupp was officially appointed deputy manager in charge of rearmament. In 1939 he succeeded his father at the helm of the Krupp Empire, and the era of Alfred Krupp began.

For the next five years, he devoted himself to the role of an armourer in the Third Reich. At the beginning of the war, he built a small building near Hugel's villa, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed sentinels. Every morning at 9 a.m., he arrives here by car and works until late at night. Portrait of Hitler hung in his office, underneath which reads "With the Führer until Victory!" He worked alone inside, drinking whiskey and smoking Camel brand cigarettes at night. He was accompanied only by servants, and had no friends. When he wasn't working here, he traveled extensively to Germany-occupied France, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and other places. He was in favour of the confiscation of the industrial and mining enterprises of the occupied countries, and thus took control of many mines and blast furnaces. By 1943, the Krupp Reich had directly or indirectly employed 200,000 people to manufacture artillery, armored vehicles, tanks, submarines and various light weapons for the German army.

When the war began, German workers at the Krupp factory went to the front, and in their place were prisoners of war from various European countries, including 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. From 1943 onwards, Krupp began to use exiled Jews in large numbers to build factories near concentration camps, and by the end of the war, there were as many as 100,000 "Krupp slaves". In Essen, they were whipped with a steel whip to work, and even if Allied planes came to bomb them, they could not leave the factory. ”

He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1948 on charges of "inhumanity, plundering of occupied areas, and conspiracy against peace," while his factory was taken over by the British.

After the beginning of the Cold War, the United States and Britain wanted to rearm Germany and "make it a new sword", and Krupp became the beneficiary of this new "realpolitik". On January 31, 1951, Krupp was released along with 60 prisoners. He spent less than four years in prison.

As soon as he returned to Essen, he reorganized the family business. In October 1952, he signed an agreement with the occupation authorities to settle the question of the fate of the Krupp company. All his heavy industry, mining and steel production enterprises were transferred to a company that was responsible for the sale, while Krupp retained equity interests in the shipbuilding, truckbuilding and locomotive manufacturing sectors, and received 250 million francs in compensation for the transfer of his property rights.

Within 10 years, the Krupp empire re-emerged. By the beginning of the 60s, he had 110,000 employees and an annual turnover of $1.5 billion, making it one of the top 10 European companies operating in shipbuilding, plant plants, bridge construction, chemicals, textiles, plastics, water treatment, oil refining and nuclear reactors.

Although Andert Krupp is reluctant to inherit the family business, he and Oliver Lehard are good friends. Hearing that Heiyun Baozixuan wanted to negotiate with several German industrial giants, out of curiosity about this young man, he came to the negotiation site. Although he didn't care about any specific matters in the company, his surname had already decided his fate, and it was impossible to ignore everything.