The sun was rising and the sun was shining, and on the morning of November 4, we arrived at the military port of Kiel as promised. The people of the pen and the www.biquge.info fun and pavilion have woken up from their sleep one after another, full of hope to start a new day's work, so that the originally peaceful land is shrouded in a noisy and busy atmosphere in a blink of an eye, showing the vitality and vitality of this rising nation.

Fang Yan pushed open the bedroom window and breathed in a deep breath of the cool air of early winter, and in an instant, all the residual sleepiness in his mind dissipated, leaving only a keen spirit and abundant energy. As far as the eye can see, the Kiel-Brom shipyard, a few hundred meters away, is already a longing for people; The towering boom whirls in the air with heavy loads, and the roaring trucks on the surface highway form an exhilarating labor scene.

Although the current legal working day in Germany is still eight hours a day, it is clear that this will change depending on the company: even in the Celestial Empire, there are not a few companies that require employees to work 50 hours a week. This time, Fang Yan is also a shipyard owner who hires workers, so it is naturally impossible to tolerate the delay of his aircraft carrier modification project like ordinary factory work. At Fang's request, the workers' working hours suddenly increased to 12 hours a day, and the weekly work was changed to a single day off: managers at all levels drew up detailed work plans accordingly to ensure that these additional hours could eventually be turned into corresponding labor results.

However, Fang Yan's purpose in doing this was not to squeeze the maximum surplus value. In order to improve the enthusiasm of workers and make them willing to sweat more in their hearts, Fang Yan also worked hard from two aspects. The first is to set up overtime allowances, and pay salaries at 1.2 times the normal rate for the extra work done every day; on the other hand, a group of political commissar-like figures are installed in various work teams to carry out brainwashing propaganda for the workers during their noon and evening breaks, and encourage them to work hard from the perspective of the nation and the state.

I have to say that the German workers in this period were really industrious and simple. After the cruel torture of the world economic crisis, they do not want any political freedom and material comforts, but only hope that they can have a full-time job and an income that can provide food and clothing for their families, so they have nothing to think about. In addition, the brilliant victories of the German army and navy in the previous two months of the war also gave the workers a shot of strength in their originally uneasy hearts, and their expectations and thirst for victory in this war became unprecedented.

In the name of the motherland and the nation, the workers warmly welcomed Fang Yan's call for the whole factory to work overtime in the slogan "For the Führer". As for the additional workload allowance that Fang Yan promised them, the workers praised the benevolence of General Brom, Jr., and repeatedly lamented that this was a model that German entrepreneurs should follow.

"With the introduction of the 12-hour workday and the reduction of the weekly compensatory time off to one day, the shipyard is expected to improve its work progress by 60% compared to normal times. As long as supplies can be secured, it is really possible that the refit of the two giant cruise ships, Europa and Bremen, will be completed within a year. After Fang Yan came to the office, Chief Engineer Horner handed him the engineering estimate report on the modification of each ship, and his words were full of shock and emotion. Fang Yan read it carefully, and a faint smile appeared on his face; After such a move, the project finally has a bit of the efficiency and speed that Germany should have.

"Actually, it's far from what I want to do. If possible, I will concentrate three shifts of workers to implement two shifts a day and use every minute instead of working less than half of the time as I do now. Fang Yan sighed softly and said with regret. At present, he is far from having so much labor to sustain the wheel-like work of man and machine, so he can only put this idealized plan on the shelf for the time being. At this stage, there is no way to do this, after all, Germany still has no intention of entering the national mobilization, and the labor force engaged in the production of consumer goods has not been liberated at all.

In the midst of the busy work, a morning has passed in a hurry. Fang Yan struggled with his knife and fork to destroy the bread steak in front of him, and his spirit was finally slightly released. Kankan drank the last bite of potato soup, and the phone on Fang Yan's desk suddenly rang crisply. Fang Yan grabbed the earpiece casually, and the voice that came out of it made his consciousness and face instantly become serious: "Jonas, I'm Raeder. Now you will return from Kiel to the Admiralty in Berlin and in two hours you will go with me to the Chancellery to meet the Führer. ”

Fang Yan, who was in a hurry by this sudden order, only had time to hurriedly make a few arrangements to his subordinates, and then went out to board the car, and went straight to the airport outside the military port under the protection of three guards. With the status of brigadier general, Fang Yan successfully requisitioned a Junkers-52 transport plane that had just landed here this morning. After refueling and inspection by mechanics, the plane took to the skies again from the runway. Sitting in the stable and comfortable back seat, Fang Yan, who had calmed down, had already vaguely guessed what was going on, but what puzzled him was why Raeder pulled himself to meet Hitler.

Seventy minutes later, the fixed landing gear of "Aunt Juncker" made steady contact with the smooth concrete runway of Berlin Airport in the northern suburbs of Berlin. Fang Yan hurried to the city center non-stop, and finally met Raeder who had summoned him in the Admiralty building. After greeting each other, Raeder said in a deep voice: "News came from New York at noon today that the United States has amended the Neutrality Law to allow the belligerents to purchase all arms from them in a 'cash and ship' manner. The Führer is ready to convene a meeting of the High Command to discuss the next steps we will take. Although I do not understand why the Führer insisted on your attendance, it is also a valuable opportunity for you to learn from the sidelines. ”

Fang Yan nodded slowly, and the conjecture in his heart was confirmed. Roosevelt, a politically skilled imperialist careerist, finally tore a gap in the almost monolithic isolationist camp at home, pushing the American chariot to skew towards the British and French camps. For Germany, this is definitely a disturbing signal: the country with its terrible economic and industrial power no longer intends to remain neutral.

The Navy Headquarters building was just one street away from the Prime Minister's Palace, and it wasn't long before Fang Yan followed Raeder to the building with a built-in gate. Walking through the imposing Purple Flower Hall, Fang Yan found that the rest seats on both sides of the marble gallery were already filled with many imperial military and political dignitaries. Relying on the memories of his previous life, Fang Yan has quietly corresponded these faces with historical figures: Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch, Chief of the Army General Staff Halder, Army Aviation Commander Sperler, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Keitel, and Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. In addition, there was the Deputy Führer Hess, who Fang Yan was already very familiar with, Himmler, the SS and national commander-in-chief of the Gestapo, the Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, and his cheap uncle W. Lt.

Seeing Fang Yan appear behind Raeder, Brauchitsch and the others all showed shocked and strange eyes, but Hess and several National Socialists were full of smiles and stepped forward to greet Fang Yan cordially. They were the first people to follow Hitler, and they had long regarded Fang Yan, who had an irreversible relationship with Hitler, as his comrades, and Hess recalled with emotion the scene of his first meeting with Fang Yan in the Munich prison, and sighed at Fang Yan's 50,000 marks. Seeing the scene of Fang Yan getting close to several Kuomintang Socialist Party members, several army generals secretly disdained it in their hearts: even if this kind of person had some skills, he was promoted rapidly by nepotism and family background, and he did not have the slightest qualification to participate in the upcoming meeting.

What made Fang Yan feel a little surprised and numb was that Keitel, who was the honor of the general, actually greeted him with a smile, and his words and demeanor were almost too cordial. Fang Yan was flattered at first, and then came back to his senses: the echo worm of feelings fell in love with his relationship with Hitler, so he wanted to form a good relationship with himself! Fang Yan secretly laughed in his heart, but he responded politely and decently on his face. In any case, the person in front of him is a close confidant of the head of state who holds a lot of power, and he obviously can't offend the other party in such a trivial matter. In addition, Fang Yan also had the intention of using Keitel's power to get involved in the army: Brauchitsch's old stubborn gang was afraid that they would not accept him as an excessively young commodore general, so relying on Keitel obviously became the most ideal choice.

At 2:30 p.m., the door to the cabinet room was opened by the guards. Fang Yan followed everyone into the wide room with golden walls, and then sat at the end of the long table with great interest. A moment later, Hitler's emaciated figure slowly stepped out of another small door, his expression gloomy as a dark cloud, which immediately cast a gray and oppressive layer on the hearts of all the attendees.

"Today, the Americans have abolished their neutrality and are ready to start sending arms to Britain and France." Hitler spoke in a slightly hoarse voice, and anyone could hear the bitter anger that was forced into his words. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "President Roosevelt, I know this man. It was he who jumped like a wild monkey in the US Congress like a wild monkey in March, and constantly made insidious and cunning fireside conversations to the American people, and did everything in his power to slander and slander National Socialism, that finally led to today's situation. He is Delcasse of France, Edward VII of England, and one day he will be judged justly by the German nation! (To be continued.) )