"I think what's good for the Brom Group, it's good for Germany. Vice versa. When Hitler asked how he could manage the relationship between the country's economy and his family, ****** responded.

On September 3, 1936, at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Hitler formally presented the public with a "four-year plan" aimed at all-out preparation for war. The main task of this plan was to ensure the living conditions of the people in a limited area, and at the same time to devote all efforts to the adjustment of the German economy so that it could provide a constant supply of backup for the costly war. Fuel, chemicals, steel, electricity, and agriculture and food will become the top priorities in the future, and it is imperative to basically get rid of the high dependence on raw material imports after four years.

To the surprise of the vast majority, the post was not held by Shacht, Minister of Economy and Governor of the Central Bank of Berlin, nor by Flick, Franck, Ley, and other National Socialist veterans, but by Schacht's deputy, ****** Brom. When Hitler announced the appointment, the entire military and political hierarchy exploded: people watched in amazement as a stocky man over 50 years old walked onto the central platform and shook hands with the Führer, who then delivered an inaugural speech in which he would do his best for the Führer and the country.

For ****** person, the impression of the vast majority of people present is unfamiliar. Because his existence has long been drowned in the bright light of his boss Shacht, almost no one has ever noticed that there is such a number one person in the Ministry of Economy. However, the veteran figures in the Kuomintang were impressed by ******. Throughout the Great Depression, it was he who succeeded Goering, who died suddenly, and helped the opposition National Socialist Party to get in touch with the "big figures" in the country, and finally got the latter to accept Hitler and put him on the throne of chancellor. If it weren't for ******'s late joining of the party, he would have had a place among the government ministers 2 years ago!

In the continuous applause, the smile of the commander-in-chief of the navy, Raeder, was even brighter than Qiu Ju: he knew that the new minister was Fang Yan's uncle, and the other party's brother was also the shipyard owner of Brom-Foss. No matter how you look at it. This minister, who is in charge of the country's trade, production, national economy, and distribution of raw materials, must have the benefits of the navy in the distribution of resources, and may even make the navy the biggest beneficiary! Thinking of this, Raeder was so excited that he couldn't wait to kiss Fang Yan who was far away in the Bay of Biscay, this young major was simply a lucky lottery ticket that could turn him from a poor man to a rich man!

Not far away, the army generals headed by Defense Minister Blomburg also looked satisfied. The Brom family has expanded into the Army, most notably with the construction of mechanized units: if a member of the family were to be in charge of the four-year economic plan, the Army's key arms would also be sufficiently invested. Under Guderian's advocacy, the current mechanized corps has become the favored darling of all the German army tops; They are all eagerly looking forward to the development and growth of this new force, and it is obvious that the ****** will greatly promote the formation of this force into combat effectiveness.

However, except for the military. People in other governments and businesses don't have the slightest enthusiasm.

Minister of Economy Shaht's expression was cold, he really couldn't accept that this deputy, whose talent was far inferior to his own, had climbed to a higher position than himself. What made him even more annoyed was that in order to gain power, the other party completely abandoned the bottom line of his professional position as a doctor of economics and became a soft egg with no bones to speak of. Does he not know that the end result of such an economic policy can only be to decouple Germany from international trade and become the source of an expansion war, otherwise it will usher in the doomsday collapse of the German economy? But not only did he not admonish Hitler for this crazy move. Instead, he tried his best to cater to him in order to seek power, which made Shacht feel disgusted and disgusted from the bottom of his heart!

Schacht's eyes turned to see Frick, Ley and other National Socialists who were currently in important positions, and their faces as they looked at ****** also showed a look of jealousy that could not be concealed. See this. Shacht couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and a look of disdain came out of his eyes with more and more disdain. These National Socialist veterans are ignorant people who don't know anything about economics, and it's ridiculous that they want to chase the position of the head of the four-year plan, which is as ridiculous as the African cannibal leader wants to be the chief engineer of the Empire State Building! Fortunately, Hitler still had half of his sanity left in this appointment. This vital real power was not put in the hands of these idiots, otherwise Hitler would have sounded the death knell for himself and Germany before the end of his four-year term!

Take Alfred? The oligarchic group represented by Krupp and others had a calm face. I don't see anything out of the ordinary, but Shacht, who has dealt with them too much before, is like a mirror to the calculations of these people. The big industrialists, though equally jealous of the Brom family's prominence, would prefer to wait and see for a while whether the new economic leader, who is not a minister and whose power is higher than that of all the current cabinet ministers, will bring them enough to benefit from orders.

If ****** were only interested in letting the Broms feast and take it all in, they would have moved closer to Flick and the others to unite against his rule; And if ****** can achieve an even balance of interests, then the oligarchs who have eaten enough wealth will obviously be happy to maintain the status quo.

As a figure who has been on Wall Street in the United States for nearly 10 years, ****** understands where he is currently on the cusp. However, he did not feel the slightest intimidation, but was extremely excited by the unprecedented power in his hands, and he was eager to try. Although he did not think that Schacht had the ability to dominate international trade, it was not at all a problem to ******** and develop production.

As for the future plundering and expansion, who promised to be satisfied with the status quo on Germany's borders? None of the weakest republics proposed that Germany's eastern borders should be as determined as the western ones. Moreover, Hitler had promised him that the German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact signed in January 1934 was only a timely work, and when the time came, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland were all targets for German conquest and expansion!

Two days later, ****** moved into a new office in the Prime Minister's Office and began his work as the head of the four-year economic plan. Regardless of joy or jealousy, the entrepreneurs who used to surround Shacht are now rushing to the front of the ****** to fight for the necessary benefits that will allow their industry to grow and develop. And the ******, who had been prepared for a long time, used his ability to talk and laugh with those big financiers on Wall Street in the past; For a time, all the methods used by German entrepreneurs were calmly resolved by him, and this also made the outside world no longer have the slightest contempt for him, the newly appointed person in charge.

Under the central planning of the ******, the German economy soon began to operate at a rapid pace in a new way. Huge investments were poured out like flowing water, and in exchange for the establishment of mass production plants and the ordering of war materials. The three largest Qatari giants in Germany, Farben Chemical, United Iron and Steel, and General Power, have undoubtedly benefited greatly from this policy based solely on the development of domestic production, and their attitude towards ****** has changed from skeptical to recognizable and accepting.

For Schacht, the loss of power and the change of course brought about by the ******'s ascension to power made him feel both disappointed and painful when he had worked hard for the National Socialist Party and Hitler to expand the armament war. He could already foresee that the great achievements he had made in international trade in the past would be drastically destroyed by the cruelty of Germany's all-out preparations for war. However, to Schacht's great consternation, his old Wall Street friends, despite their deep concern that the German economy was on a wartime track, were still doing business with Germany in full swing and were not ready to end at all!

After some in-depth thinking, Schacht, who is himself an economist, also understands the emotional trick. In the world of money, people never have the ability to fully decide what is in front of them, and the power of path dependence is often much greater than you think. The characteristic of the integration of Wall Street and German capital is not that his old friends do not know how to raise tigers and have a big tail, but the situation is such that it is far more cost-effective to deepen this cooperative relationship than to destroy it. The British economist John Maynard Maynard Keynes uttered the brutal truth: "In the long run, everybody dies." "The so-called millennium Tian Yi 800 masters, the immediate benefits are irresistible to everyone. And in the financial hub of the world on Wall Street, living is its eternal theme, and the money you can earn today must not be saved for tomorrow!

As for the United Kingdom, which is each other's largest trading partner with Germany, its attitude is also strikingly similar to that of Wall Street in the United States. Seeing that there was still much to be done in international trade, Schacht did not immediately resign from his post as Minister of Economy, but continued to do his job in his current position. At this time, he still had a deep reverence for Hitler, who had won a series of spectacular diplomatic victories, even when the other side was at odds with him in terms of ultimate economic goals. It wasn't until two and a half years later that Schacht really saw Hitler's true nature.

In October of that year, Italian Foreign Minister Ciano Junior was invited to visit Germany. The Brom and Ziano families, who already had a deep cooperation, were ****** to expand to the national level, and the two sides signed large orders for crude oil and machinery. The union of Germany and Italy thus entered a new phase. (To be continued.) )