Heinz Axmann, a staff officer of the armed police force in East Germany's Stasi, made tentative contact with the Chinese embassy in Berlin. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The next day, the East German government formally proposed an additional arms purchase order - to purchase 200,000 Phoenix Nest drones from China, as well as related supporting base stations.

To put it simply, after Stasi wanted to establish a drone unit was informed by the army of the East German National People's Army, the army bigwigs also proposed to establish a drone unit.

Eventually, the GDR established three separate drone units – one for the army, one for the navy, and one for the Stasi, each with a balanced strength of 100,000 drones.

This is a super large order with an amount of more than 1.5 billion US dollars, which means that the 1.5 billion US dollars that East Germany has issued before, which means ...... In less than a month, a $3 billion arms export contract has been reached with East Germany.

In fact, East Germany did not have so much foreign exchange to pay, and it was impossible for China to accept the East German mark. Therefore, this transaction continued to follow the barter model. Among them, a lot of the money was directly dismantled from the East German border, and the factory equipment in the cities where the population was evacuated was prepared to be exported, and exported to China in exchange for supplies.

Originally, these factories had to be evacuated and were in a state of shutdown, and even if they were moved to the rear, they would not be able to produce normally due to the lack of raw materials, so exporting to China was the best option.

In addition, there is a huge gap in China's railway locomotives, and the current locomotives in China are too slow, most of the locomotives only run at a speed of about 30~40 kilometers per hour.

And the railway locomotives of East Germany do have great advantages at present. Compared with the high-speed railways in Japan, West Germany, and France, East Germany has a slight technological gap, but the gap is not very large.

For example, the classic model of the 80s in East Germany, the Type 243 electric locomotive, operated at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.

This speed is faster than the speed of high-speed trains before the high-speed rail was operated in the 90s, after the speed of Chinese trains in the origin of the world.

Therefore, China imports a large number of locomotives made in East Germany, and the purchase of East German locomotive production authorizations and the complete introduction of East German train technology can reduce the struggle of the train industry for more than ten years.

The speed of trains in East Germany at 160 km/h is already good. Moreover, all-electric propulsion, and later high-speed rail, is mainly all-electric propulsion locomotives.

Leaving aside the fact that East Germany demolished old factories and sold second-hand equipment to China, the waste was reused in exchange for a much-needed batch of weapons. China's recent orders for railway and train technology in East Germany alone have given East Germany a big mouthful of milk, at least, now the train manufacturing industry in East Germany has entered a boom stage because of China's orders.

The moribund East German economy and high unemployment have been alleviated.

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The economic situation in East Germany in 1982 was actually quite bad. However, due to the implementation of the rationing system, a large number of materials are uniformly rationed by the state, so basically most people can ensure food supply, housing and housing, water and electricity and other infrastructure, although all kinds of welfare have shrunk a little, but people can still live a life.

If it is compared with the living conditions of the people at the bottom, then the bottom of East Germany is far more comfortable than the middle and low-class citizens of Western countries.

Prices in East Germany also remained much lower than in Western countries, but ...... The price is that the goods on the shelves of the mall are always out of stock, and if they are just put on the shelves, they will soon be bought by the people with the mark, whatever they can buy.

If you just walk down the street, you will feel that East Berlin is clean and tidy, the city is very good, and the security is very good.

But when you enter the mall, you will know that the shelves are empty, despite the extremely low price of goods, and you should realize that the East German economy is already in a bad situation.

A large number of East Germany's advantageous industrial products were piled up in warehouses because of the loss of export orders. However, food, textiles and various consumer products were in short supply in East Germany. Because, all of these goods, East Germany had to import them from abroad in foreign currency, and, in order to maintain decency and exchange rates, had to be sold over the counter at a loss.

The same is true of domestic production of household goods, in order to maintain the dignity of the country, the GDR refused to raise prices!

Even if the selling price of these goods is already lower than the cost of production, the more you produce, the more you lose money! It also refused to raise prices, but the factory was gradually forced to stop production because it could not support it and had no money to buy raw materials and maintenance equipment.

The economic depression in East Germany was caused by beta on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was also due to the rigidity of the system, which continued to maintain high welfare and low inflation for the sake of face.

Consumption in East Germany is basically not profitable, but a national welfare. Only exported goods can be sold at market prices, even if they are sold at a lower price than similar goods in West Germany, but still profitable.

In addition, the social problems of East Germany are also increasing!

For example, the issue of immigration!

In the past, migration was a much-needed human resource in East Germany, but now it has become a burden.

During the Cold War, East Germany competed with West Germany for economic competition, because the land area and population were much smaller than West Germany. In particular, West Germany continued to attract East German nationals to flee to West Germany, further contributing to the decline of East Germany's population and competitiveness. During this period, East Germany recruited a large number of immigrants from the Warsaw Pact countries, recruiting about hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and made a great contribution to the economic growth of East Germany.

But with Beta coming to Earth 73 years later, things started to look very different. Especially after 78 years, a large number of Eastern and Central European countries were beta pushed, and refugees poured into East Germany, which once benefited from this, so that its lack of labor was alleviated......

Soon after, Beta began to attack the GDR, which became the front line of the war, and began to fall into material scarcity and economic depression.

Moreover, a large number of Warsaw Pact countries had perished or were in trouble, and a large number of products produced in East Germany had lost their markets, so that there was no longer such a need for so many labor resources.

As a result, a large number of refugees, who were housed in East Germany, did not work and produce, but became a burden for East Germany.

Because East Germany was a socialist country, the refugees were guaranteed the most basic welfare expenses such as housing, food, medical care, and education. And the limited resources of the GDR in the war, therefore, began to lower the standard of welfare of all people in the whole society, because, in average socialism, if the resources are reduced and the population increases, then ...... All will be treated less.

So......

The xenophobia of the East German people has also increased dramatically!

Moreover, the lack of work abroad exacerbated the security problem in East Germany. As a result, the notorious Stasi recruited a large number of people from the immigrants in the name of maintaining law and order. In this way, ordinary people in East Germany, because of their dissatisfaction with Stasi, passed on to the immigrants.

The economic depression, the reduction of welfare, and the deterioration of law and order require a large number of people to go to the front every year to block the beta offensive...... Stasi, on the other hand, blocked the escape routes of East Germans and hunted a large number of fugitives at the border...... People trapped in the GDR, on the one hand, lost hundreds of thousands of people at the front every year. On the other hand, the country has rapidly entered a state of scarcity of materials and economic difficulties.

So the GDR saw neither hope nor a way out.

At present, there are many problems in East Germany, and in fact, many problems can be solved by economic means. For example, if factories are reopened and the market for goods exports recovers, then East Germany can be economically sustained. In turn, you can free up your energy to deal with other problems.

After the trade with China, East Germany tasted the sweetness and further proposed to expand trade cooperation between China and Germany.

There are a lot of heavy industrial products available for sale in East Germany. At the same time, East Germany needed not only weapons, but also light industrial products such as food and clothing.

In this regard, it is the advantage of China, and there is no shortage of ordinary light industrial products, especially clothing. In terms of agriculture, China has an advantage in terms of naturally grown agricultural products.

At present, the synthetic food industry is promoting the technology globally with the encouragement of the United Nations. Countries have acquired the technology to produce cheap synthetic foods. But what East Germany lacked was not synthetic food - this thing would have been fed for any country! What is really lacking is natural food, the current natural food, which has almost disappeared from the homes of ordinary residents.

Therefore, the Republic of China exports natural food products to East Germany, which also has certain market prospects.

In short, this kind of complementary trade, as long as East Germany can hold on, the longer the trade, the better for both sides!

It can not only be mutually beneficial, but also milk a mouthful of East Germany, so that it can support for a longer time, this kind of win-win cooperation, why not? (To be continued.) )