Chapter Thirty-Eight: Trouble Strikes

"This will not work, the local SS commander has called me several times, and if we cannot restrain the Jews gathered in the shelter ourselves, the SS will immediately send troops over." No matter where it is, as long as there are more people gathered, many bad things and phenomena will appear. Zhuo Fei thus proposed to recruit volunteer militia from among the 20,000 Jews to assist Bauman in strengthening the day-to-day management of the camp.

A large number of skilled workers, engineers, and scholars, along with their families, were given boarding plates, and the remaining young people who had no skills or were about to reach adulthood were drawn out to be trained daily by the guards brought by Zhuo Fei. 500 out of 20,000 people is a no-brainer, and with the gathering in Bremerhaven Harbour not increasing, Zhuo Fei believes that his Jewish militia will continue to expand.

The formation of Jewish troops is Zhuo Fei's ultimate plan, first with the help of Hitler's trust, in the name of weapons smuggling, to send Jews to China, and at the same time gain the trust of the Jews, take the opportunity to transfer the young and strong among the Jews to form a militia force. Only with the army in his own hands, can he effectively resist the Japanese army after returning to China, and during the days when he was stranded in Nanjing, Zhuo Fei pondered this grand plan all day long, and now the opportunity has come, and he has done so much foreshadowing, and it is finally the season to harvest the fruits.

The first weapons that Hitler gave to Zhuo Fei were 100,000 Mauser rifles, but Zhuo Fei actually got 300,000 in his hands, and the antique jade artifacts he brought with him when he left Nanjing finally worked, and even a super tycoon like Gustav couldn't resist the temptation of Chinese antiques, let alone the fat moths in the SS. 300,000 Mauser rifles, more than 100 million Mauser rifle bullets, Gustav also pretended to be generous to add hundreds of Czech light machine guns received from the Czechoslovak arsenal for Zhuo Fei, of course, the supporting bullet production line is also indispensable.

These were the bargaining chips for Zhuo Fei to negotiate terms with the Nationalist Government after returning to China, and I believe that with this batch of weapons and ammunition, Chairman Chiang should agree to set aside a place for Jews far from their homeland to recuperate in the southwestern border. Zhuo Fei has planned this plan to the extreme as much as possible, and the foreshadowing made before also make this plan finally carry out to the harvest season, at such a critical juncture, Zhuo Fei does not want deviations to cause a crisis in the plan.

As the old saying goes, the world is unpredictable, and there are many unpredictable things in the world, but what Zhuo Fei never expected was that the trouble of the crisis to the whole plan would actually come from China. Vivian and Huffmann assisted He Fengshan in issuing visas to the Jews in Austria to go to China, and the three of them cooperated very smoothly, either explicitly or covertly, and their actions had been tacitly approved by the SS and the Gestapo, but some Jews who would sooner or later turn into fertilizer were no more tempting than the money they could get in hand.

Zhuo Fei originally thought that this link would be the least likely to be a problem, but it backfired, and the trouble came from here. In the name of the Nationalist Government, He Fengshan wantonly issued visas to the Jews in Austria to go to China, and the German government only symbolically sent a letter of protest to the Nationalist Government, which was not a big deal in the first place, but some people in the Nationalist Government took it seriously, and there were actually different opinions on He Fengshan's issuance of visas to Jews in China.

Although Germany occupied Qingdao, China, Chiang Kai-shek had a good impression of Germany, especially in many Nationalist troops, and there were a large number of German instructors. Using German instructors and equipped with authentic German-style weapons and equipment, Chiang Kai-shek once relied on the Germans to train several descendant units known as German armourers. In such an environment, He Fengshan's actions were naturally directly threatened by his immediate boss, Ambassador Chen Jie to Germany. Chen Jie adhered to the will of the country, wanted to maintain relations with Germany, and was afraid of offending the other party, so he resolutely opposed He Fengshan's issuance of visas to Jews. But He Fengshan ignored it, and soon someone made a small report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that He Fengshan was selling visas to Jews.

When Zhuo Fei learned of this, Chen Jie had already taken a surprise attack and quietly sent people to Vienna to investigate. With Huffman and Vivian in Austria, He Fengshan naturally had no trouble, but the people sent by Chen Jie still asked some information from the Jews who got the visas. Immediately afterwards, He Fengshan was reprimanded by Chen Jie, and in accordance with domestic instructions, He Fengshan's authority was suspended. A visa was the only valid document for Jews to leave Austria, without which Jews stranded in Austria were imprisoned in concentration camps.

Zhuo Fei was Gustav's guest, and he could find a meeting with Hitler, but he could not take Jews out of Austria or Germany without visas. It is said that the Germans are both strict and rigid, and Zhuo Fei has already learned this, so he worked tirelessly to get He Fengshan to Berlin to meet him, and the plan to transfer the Jews would never have worked without He Fengshan's help.

He Fengshan now faces the threat of stopping his work, and without the power in his hands, He Fengshan cannot continue to issue visas to Jews, but at this time there are at least 100,000 Jews in Austria who are struggling between life and death. "It looks like I'm going to meet this Chen Jie." Zhuo Fei, who received the news, did not dare to delay too much, and took a plane back to Berlin directly from the SS airport in Bremerhaven Port, in order to meet Chen Jie, the ambassador of the Nationalist Government in Berlin, as soon as possible.

With Gustav's help, Zhuo Fei soon had the opportunity to meet Chen Jie when he returned to the event, and a cocktail party specially held for this matter would be held at the Krupp family's manor on the outskirts of Berlin, and Zhuo Fei naturally received an invitation. After the Japanese invasion of China, Chen Jie's life in Berlin was not very good, although the relationship between China and Germany has always been good, but since the Japanese claimed to have secretly formed an alliance with Germany, Chen Jie, who was in Berlin, obviously noticed that he had become difficult in Berlin.

After receiving the invitation to the Krupp family's cocktail party, Chen Jie's first reaction was impossible. The Krupp family can be regarded as the first family in Germany, not to mention that he is only an ambassador, and he has no deep friendship with the Krupp family, why would the other party send him an invitation. With deep doubts, Chen Jie drove with an entourage to the manor where the Krupp family held a drinking party, but his car was forced to stop on the side of the road by three black cars shortly after leaving the city of Berlin.

"Who are you? I am China's ambassador to Germany. At the moment when Chen Jie was forced to stop by the other party in his car, he thought that he had met a kidnapper, but after he saw the person who got out of the car in front of him, Chen Jie changed his mind, and he thought that Zhuo Fei, who got out of the car, was a Japanese.

"I know you are an ambassador, but you are obviously wrong, I am not Japanese, I am a Chinese like Your Excellency." Zhuo Fei walked to Chen Jie's car, stretched out his hand to open the car door and motioned for Chen Jie to get out of the car. Knowing that Zhuo Fei was a Chinese like himself, the fear in Chen Jie's heart immediately dissipated, and Chen Jie's driver and attaché also wanted to get out of the car, but the guards brought by Zhuo Fei forced them to stay in the car honestly with guns.

With the help of the light of the headlights, Zhuo Fei handed Chen Jie a document without saying anything, "Ambassador Chen, this should have been a confidential document, but in order to prove Dr. He Fengshan's innocence, I took it out to show you." I hope that after you have read it, you will never mention it to anyone else, because the Führer does not want this to be known to unrelated people. Zhuo Fei motioned for Chen Jie to open the document, and gave a verbal warning first.

Chen Jie is the ambassador to Germany, and he is naturally familiar with German, and the document in his hand full of German makes Chen Jie a little frightened. "100,000 Mauser rifles with ammunition, all that is true?" Chen Jie pointed to a line of German boys in the document and asked Zhuo Fei who was standing beside him.

"Ambassador Chen, this is naturally true, don't you see that there is the Fuhrer's autograph underneath this document? I don't think anyone in Germany has ever dared to forge the Führer's signature. Zhuo Fei's words made Chen Jie's blood swell in an instant, 100,000 Mauser rifles and ammunition, if these munitions were sent back to China, the chairman of the committee would be able to arm at least 7 more German armor divisions.

"Ambassador Chen, I hope you can read this document carefully, the endorsement of this document clearly stipulates that this batch of arms must be transported back to China by ourselves, do you think that if I don't have to transport Jews as a pretext, can so many arms fly back to China with wings on their own? I hope that you will not interfere with Dr. Ho Fengshan's work anymore, because without the Jews as a pretense, it will be difficult for these arms to be shipped back to China, and I don't think you want to see that kind of situation, Ambassador Chen, right? ”

Zhuo Fei and his entourage appeared very strangely, and they disappeared very quickly, and before Chen Jie could wake up from the whole thing, Zhuo Fei had already driven away with his people. Things were so strange that Chen Jie was no longer in the mood to go to the reception, and he couldn't imagine that a Chinese would come to him with a document signed by Hitler. Returning to the embassy in Berlin, Chen Jie did not send a telegram to China, but first inquired about the truth of the matter through his own connections.

Zhuo Fei's existence is not a secret in the top echelons of the German government, and Chen Jie is not an unknown person, and soon, Chen Jie inquired about some information about Zhuo Fei. Knowing that Zhuo Fei had secretly met with Hitler several times and carried out secret spying, Chen Jie immediately sent a telegram to inform China of the whole matter and Zhuo Fei's existence, and suggested that He Fengshan continue to serve as the Austrian Consul General.