Dotted with greenery, wind chimes shake, church bells ring, and hymns are sung; Christmas Eve in 1936 arrived as scheduled, enveloping the whole of Central Europe in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.

In the warm and opulent dining room, Fang Yan and his family are sitting around a wide long table enjoying dinner, and the brilliant light emanates from the crystal chandelier in the dome, reflecting everyone's smiling faces clearly and truly. For many years, they have not gathered together to celebrate Christmas with their respective burdens. With the continuous touch of the chips, the family affection that belonged to the bloodline began to flow in the hearts of everyone, even Fang Yan, whose soul did not belong to this world, couldn't help but feel the primitive and sincere deep bond.

Rudolph drank the wine from his glass and said with emotion: "After more than 20 years, my father's wish has finally come true. Wati became the supreme leader of the country's economy, and the family was unshakably powerful politically able to pursue its grand goal of building the Qatari Empire. With this unique absolute advantage, it will only be a time before the Brom family becomes a supergiant like Farben Chemical. ”

With a smile on his face, he said hesitantly, "It's all thanks to Jonas's incomparably accurate information." Had it not been for the fact that he had told me about his wish at this year's birthday party, I would not have been able to win the Führer's favor by making adequate preparations in advance at the end of August. Speaking of which, little Jonas is the most crucial cat that brings good fortune to our family; We start counting from 1918 to what he thought and did. How many times has it been brought to the family to make the chrysalis cocoon a butterfly-like fundamental metamorphosis? ”

Freya stared at the young brother in front of her, the light in her eyes getting brighter and brighter. The pyramid scheme proposed by the other party in late 1918 left the family shipyard on the verge of collapse after being ransacked by Allied bandits. access to life-saving funding sources; This not only allowed the shipyard to rejuvenate from its dying, but also allowed it to eat a large number of shares of its peers at a very low price, laying a solid foundation for monopoly mergers in the future. In 1923, he proposed to open a shipyard branch in the Soviet Union, which not only helped the family overcome the impact of the world economic crisis, but also gained valuable experience in the construction of heavy warships during the naval holidays by building capital ships for the Soviet Union.

In addition to these unsolicited proposals, even his personal life. It also has a great boost to the development of the family. Sylvia, who has been in friendship with Fang Yan for more than ten years, is almost a princess-like figure in Italy; Through this in-law, the Brom family was able to cooperate in the fields of oil, machinery, shipbuilding, etc. A key alliance was established with the Ciano family in Milan. Not to mention his friends, who knew that the Munich prisoner, who was still behind bars at the end of 1924, would be able to leap into the dragon gate and become the absolute dictator regarded as the savior by millions of Germans in just eight years?

See the bright eyes of the family. Fang Yan could only make a haha to cover up the past; He didn't want anyone to notice his deliberate achievement. So as not to cause unnecessary trouble for him, even if it is his closest family. If you really want to talk about it, even the performance of many key weapons in the army and navy is inseparable from him, what is the effort of these hands based on the vision of the traverser?

For Fang Yan, however, the ****** of becoming the head of the four-year economic plan was indeed the most exciting news he had received in the whole of 1936. This not only means that he can easily change the allocation of German strategic resources in the future through this level of kinship; It can also take advantage of the ******'s sudden rise in government status. This influenced Germany's strategic decisions. Although his relationship with Hitler was also very close, it was due to the will of the cabinet members. Its weight is obviously more powerful than that of its younger self, which is slightly positioned.

Along with the conversation and laughter and the elimination of food, Fang Yan's thoughts also began to calculate quickly. At present, there is no need to intervene in the allocation of resources in the war of arms expansion: since the German Navy had already started construction of as many as eight large warships in 1935 and 1936, whether it was for the sake of foreign politics or internal trade-offs, no large warships would be pushed onto the slipway in the next two years.

In this case, the tone for the expansion of the army for at least the next two years has been set: the Navy will only build small ships of the armored destroyer class and below, and at the same time purchase a corresponding number of aircraft, and the rest of the military spending can be tilted towards the army. There is no doubt that this is a great opportunity for ****** to sell a favor to the army generals, and Fang Yan, who already has the idea of winning over the army, is even more unlikely to interfere in any form in this fateful situation.

However, in the field of strategic decision-making, Fang Yan really needs to rely on ******'s help at present. Ever since he learned from his brother Freya that the Anti-Comintern Pact had been signed two days earlier, Fang Yan began to think about how Germany could get the most out of this general trend and the Japanese. After careful consideration, at this moment, Fang Yan's heart already had a deep insight into the essence of the problem.

Those who lack a real understanding of the history of World War II always think only on the surface that the biggest drawback of the German-Japanese alliance is that it dragged Germany into the abyss of war against the United States in the form of "obligation bondage". What they didn't know was that from the moment the Lend-Lease Act came into effect in March 1941, the United States officially joined the ranks of the United States as a non-belligerent member against Germany. In order to support Britain, which was in danger of being tortured by wolves, the United States not only brazenly used its own cargo ships to help the British transport free war materials, but also openly trampled on the most basic principles of war, sending warships of its own navy to escort these ships all the way to Britain.

Initially, these U.S. warships escorted a small half of the Atlantic and turned back, but in just six months, the escort area had expanded to almost the entire Atlantic. Roosevelt announced that if an American warship spotted a German submarine on the way to escort it, it would sink it immediately. The armed intervention of the US Navy brought a huge obstacle to the submarine warfare of the German Navy. Anyone with a little common sense will see that this is clearly a move to directly involve the entire US Atlantic Fleet in the war, and the difference is only a trivial declaration of war!

It is precisely for this reason that when the news of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor came, Hitler, who could no longer bear this shameless act of the United States, took the initiative to declare war on the United States three days later and ordered the air-submarine troops to launch an all-out attack on those US ships that had already openly participated in the war. It is conceivable that even if Hitler continued to endure it, the United States would also become the actual guardian of the arsenals of Britain and the Soviet Union, as well as the ocean. In addition to not sending Marines, the United States is no longer any different from direct participation in the war. And because it could not attack the ships flying the Stars and Stripes, Germany would never be able to win the Atlantic Slaughter War, and at the same time would never be able to break through the fortress of the Soviet Union; After the appearance of the nuclear bomb, Germany will be left with only the certainty of defeat!

The seeds of the German-American war had been planted as early as September 3, 1939, when Britain declared war on Germany, and the German-Japanese alliance had only slightly accelerated this inevitable process.

The German-Japanese alliance is not a problem! A sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is not a problem! Even a declaration of war on the United States is no problem! In fact, Hitler only made one serious mistake in his strategy in the East, that is, he estimated the Soviet Union, which had been ugly due to the defeat of the Soviet-Finnish war, and believed that he could conquer it in half a year at most, so he was unwilling to let Japan move north to share this "great feat" with him. The end result was undoubtedly disastrous: with a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union was able to rely on the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok, which Tsarist Russia had seized from the Qing Empire, and received nearly 13 million tons of supplies from the United States in nearly four years under the noses of the Japanese. And these materials accounted for more than 50% of all Allied aid to the Soviet Union!

If there was one shortcoming, it was that business with the Nationalist government was suspended because of the protests in Japan. Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Germany's business with the Nanking government was very lively: Germany needed cheap ore from Nanking to produce armaments, and Nanking needed German weapons and equipment to eliminate civil strife and calm off foreign enemies. However, in the second half of 1937, in the face of repeated Japanese protests, Hitler, fearing the loss of this eastern ally, had to order the withdrawal of all military officers in China and a complete halt to the arms trade. This undoubtedly brought heavy losses to the German economy, but did not benefit in other areas.

In fact, this was almost the only mistake in Hitler's judgment in the early years of his administration. Due to various factors such as the objective economy, domestic politics, and strategic situation, it was impossible for Japan not to embark on the road of anti-British, American, and anti-Soviet Union. Even if Germany continued to trade ores for weapons to the Nationalist government, Japan would eventually stand on the side of Germany's foreign strategy.

Fang Yan, who had already made up his mind, immediately decided to tell Uncle Cheap his plans ****** after dinner. His breakthrough point was to strengthen trade cooperation with the Nanking government -- as long as the trade cooperation between Germany and the Nanking government reached a certain height, it would naturally be difficult for Hitler to make up his mind to cut it off after more than half a year. As for the issue of Vladivostok, Fang Yan is ready to solve it in the future. Although this issue is more critical, after 5 years, Fang Yan has many ways to paralyze it. (To be continued.) )