It wasn't until he left the Hansen family's manor that Hansen, who came out to see him off, told Zhuo Fei that the Mr. Krupp he had a good conversation with just now was Gustav, the current head of the Krupp family. Zhuo Fei realized that he had been talking and laughing with the famous Gustav all night, but Zhuo Fei did not show the surprise that Hansen expected, but after saying goodbye to Hansen, Zhuo Fei drove away from the Hansen family manor with Huffman.

What kind of identity the other party is, in Zhuo Fei's view, has nothing to do with the plan he is going to implement in Germany, and the only person who has influence on Zhuo Fei's plan is the madman of the century, Hitler. As long as Gustav, who met with him tonight, reported the new rifle to Hitler and won himself a chance to meet with Hitler, Zhuo Fei thought that he would be able to convince Hitler to become the most crucial part of his plan.

Zhuo Fei in the car slowly closed his eyes, recalling in his mind his every move of meeting with Gustav just now, and finding that he didn't show anything that annoyed Gustav just now, Zhuo Fei couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth. The current strength of the German Army has at least more than 1 million army soldiers, in addition to the necessary logistics arms, and no matter how many armies Hitler will build in the future, the Mauser rifles replaced by these 1 million troops are a lot of wealth.

According to the character of the Germans, they will not sit idly by and watch so many weapons be replaced and abandoned in warehouses, and the German arms giants, large and small, will definitely be in a hurry to sell these replaced Mauser rifles. There is a war going on in the East, so China urgently needs a large number of arms, the relationship between Germany and China is not bad, and German arms have always been very marketable in China, Zhuo Fei knows that once the German army decides to replace the rifles, the locust-like German arms dealers will only be busy with one thing, that is, to buy a large number of Mauser rifles to China.

China needs a large amount of munitions, and Zhuo Fei also plans to sell these weapons to his motherland at a low price, at least to contribute to the motherland's war of resistance. Now that Germany has not started a war, and Japan has not completely blocked China's access to the sea, these rifles that have been replaced by the German army can be sent to Guangzhou, China by sea, and then bring back the much-needed minerals for Germany when they return. However, before that, Zhuo Fei still needs to persuade Hitler like he persuaded Gustav tonight, and only if Hitler agrees, Zhuo Fei's next plan can be implemented.

The Hansen family's trip to the manor has come to an end, and Zhuo Fei has already achieved the effect he wants, at least Gustav, the head of the Krupp family, has been persuaded by himself. For the next two days, Zhuo Fei waited for news from the Krupp family while receiving training from a senior etiquette teacher so that when he met Hitler, nothing would go wrong. At the same time, because of Hansen's departure, Zhuo Fei urgently needed to find a suitable German agent to preside over the various projects in Germany for himself.

Two days is only 40 hours, but for Zhuo Fei, who is racing against time, he doesn't dare to waste it easily. The Hansen family's 10 million transfer fee has been transferred to Zhuo Fei's account in Germany, and with the money in his hand, Zhuo Fei can do more things in Germany, and the first thing he has to do is to send a telegram to Angela and Vivian in Mexico, asking them to immediately prepare an oil exploration team to Germany to standby.

Historically, the reason why Germany lost in the end was not only because the United States had developed a nuclear bomb, but also because of the lack of materials and fuel. If Hitler had had sufficient oil and all kinds of military supplies at that time, Stalin would have raised more Red Army, I am afraid that he would not be the opponent of the German army, and once Germany took the Soviet Union or forced the Soviet Union to surrender, the course of World War II could be rewritten, even if the Americans had nuclear bombs.

Recommending the AK gun family to Hitler was only Zhuo Fei's first step, if you want to catch a big fish, you have to use a matching bait. For industrialized countries, oil is not only used to power the war machine to protect itself, but also to lubricate the industrial machine to strengthen itself. Therefore, the amount of international oil market share often determines whether they are at the top or at the bottom of the international political food chain. The unfair distribution of oil naturally ignites the firestring of war; Oil redistribution was mostly a staple on the post-war negotiating table.

Germany, as the main belligerent in World War II, was accompanied by this black and flammable liquid from the very beginning, and its hegemony began and ended because of it. Britain and Germany, as the two great powers in Europe, had already been in competition as early as the end of the 19th century, and finally decided the temporary victory through the "First World War". The Middle East, where the oil reserves are the richest, was divided by Britain and France, thus weakening Germany's ability to challenge European hegemony. In order to maintain this competitive situation of their own dominance, Britain and France began a trade war with Germany aimed at blocking oil supplies long before Germany launched its war machine again.

The oil-based dispute between Britain and Germany was most intense in Romania. As an oil-poor country, Germany's oil supply problem remained unresolved after the First World War. Before the outbreak of the war, in addition to Venezuela, Mexico, the Dutch East Indies, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries, Romania was also one of its main sources of oil. As tensions between Britain and Germany continued to rise, and most of the oil routes from the Americas to German ports were blocked by the British, Romania's role on Germany's geopolitical map became increasingly important.

At that time, Romania was the largest oil producer in Europe except for the Soviet Union, and was located at the intersection of Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe, which not only provided convenient oil to battlefields throughout Europe, but also was a necessary place for Middle Eastern oil pipelines. Taking control of Romania will undoubtedly change the power of both sides of the war. What's more, Romania is still an agrarian country, with very low capacity to extract and consume oil, and foreign capital is the de facto master of the country's mines.

Among them, the Anglo-Dutch oil company accounted for 39.8%, France accounted for 16.6%, and the United States accounted for In fact, since the "First World War", the Anglo-German oil offensive and defense in Romania has not stopped. In November 1916, the Germans invaded the Wallaqian Plain and seized all the oil facilities in Romania. Britain then sent agents to infiltrate the country and successfully destroyed more than 70 oil refining units and burned more than 800,000 tons of crude oil and petroleum products. Although it took five months for Germany to resume production, production never returned to its original level.

Germany made Romania's oil reserves an important part of its preparations for war, as the latter provided at least a third of Germany's total oil consumption. In order to control Romania economically, the German chemical company Farben Chemical Company bought 17 million marks worth of grain from Romania and supplied 13.6 million marks of industrial products, and the trade volume soared from 1,096,000 marks in 1934 to 300 million marks in 1937.

In exchange, Germany demanded that Romania increase its oil exports to Germany and offered to compensate for the cost of oil with armaments. The following year, Germany also provided Romania with a loan of 250 million marks for the purchase of German arms. In accordance with the German initiative, the two countries also established the Droz United Company, which is mainly engaged in oil business. The British obviously did not want to see cooperation between the two countries, because Romanian oil would not only sharpen the Germanic sword, but also the well-planned economic war against Germany.

In London's view, "if Germany had taken control of Romania, there would have been no damage to Germany from Britain's economic warfare, which was an important part of British strategy". In order to prevent Romania from turning to Germany, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that he would provide all assistance in the event of an invasion of Romania, and gave Romania a loan of 5 million pounds sterling to buy British armaments, and also promised to buy 200,000 tons of wheat as a reward for Romania to give up cooperation with Germany.

Since Romania was strictly neutral and did not want to provoke the great powers, it could only make false promises to London and Berlin, and not offend both. Britain has instead begun to use its economic advantages to induce Romania to move closer to itself through economic and trade means. It united with France and was ready to pay Romania $60 million on the condition that it blow up the Romanian oil fields, but Romania refused. Britain turned to the advantage of its own capital holding most of Romania's oil concessions to raise prices, so that it mainly went to other Western countries with relatively abundant foreign exchange.

All of Romania's oil stocks were snapped up by the British, who also booked the right to supply oil after the contract expired, and rented all the barges and train cars in Romania as much as possible so that they would not be used to sell oil to Germany. Soon, 148 tankers of different types in the Danube River basin were chartered by the British, who even had to set up a special Grande company to centralize the management of these steamers, which were of little use for the time being.

The British blockade in the field of oil supply forced the German staff to exercise restraint in formulating battle plans. Because of the shortage of fuel, in the early days of the war, the German army never even dared to take the initiative to launch large-scale air battles and bombing against Britain and France. In fact, Germany is not a country without oil, and in later generations, 44 oil fields were discovered in Germany, of which northern Germany is the richest.

Hitler's failure to discover oil fields in Germany was mainly due to the low technology of oil exploration at the time, but Zhuo Fei had some memories from later generations, and he still owned the Blackwater Oil Company. Blackwater Oil, which has grown into an upstart in Mexico's oil industry, has the new technology to explore oil and a large number of British and American oil experts, enough to ensure that Blackwater Oil can find and pump oil from Hitler's much-needed fields in northern Germany.