On the same day that the British submarine was sunk, Ribbentrop, the foreign minister of the Third Reich, was meeting Hoffmann in the office of the head of the Chancellery. The atmosphere in the office was very strange, Ribbentrop's slightly fat body was slightly arched, beads of sweat had already gushed out of his huge head, and he showed a comical glitter under the light of the crystal lamp above his head, and he did not dare to wipe it with a handkerchief, let alone sit down generously in front of the Führer as before, so he could only stand stiffly, his usually vigorous head involuntarily lowered, and he only dared to raise his head every once in a while to look at the situation opposite-Hoffman kept his back to him staring at the map on the wall, as if thoughtful, He didn't turn around for a long time.

"Comrade Ribbentrop, do you know why I called you?" After half an hour of torment, Hoffman finally turned around and opened his mouth.

"Yes, yes!" Finally, when Hoffmann was willing to speak, Ribbentrop was so excited that his voice changed tone, and he said with a slight cry, "I am sorry for the Führer, I have betrayed the Führer's trust." ”

Ribbentrop was so nervous for a reason, because after Baumann cracked the Canaris-Halder treason, he was involved in a number of politicians, and the Foreign Ministry was also in trouble, and even more fatally it was the big names -- the veteran diplomat, the ambassador to Italy, von Hassel, and the state secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Wizsäcker, were prominently listed. After receiving the news of the audience from the adjutant's office, he ran all the way to the house in fear. When he entered the Führer's office, instead of greeting and greeting warmly as before, he only had a cold back, and he knew that it was bad, so he didn't dare to breathe, but only dared to stand so carefully.

"If we fail to crack this clique this time, the power of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the position of our ambassador, which is the most important in dealing with allied relations, will always be in the hands of traitors......" Hoffman did not mean to let Ribbentrop sit at all, and while banging on the table, he said in a voice that seemed casual but actually frightened Ribbentrop, "I don't know how you usually become foreign minister, and I don't know how you select and appoint talents?" ”

Ribbentrop was submissive and did not dare to say anything.

"What's worse is this man, Fritz Kolbe!" Hoffman roared and scolded in a fiery tone, "It's such a mediocre, seemingly harmless low-level bureaucrat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who can take advantage of the opportunity to help his boss sort out telegrams and destroy documents to steal top-secret documents. The General Security Bureau has found more than 1,000 top-secret documents on the military, economic, diplomatic, and political aspects of the Empire in his home, and their number, variety, and completeness are comparable to those in your archives. What about your secrecy rules? What about your security awareness? ”

In fact, Fritz Kolbe did not participate in any of the current traitorous groups, and was not even associated with any of them, but only waited for the opportunity to go abroad to transmit information to the British and American intelligence agencies, but Hoffman took advantage of the traverser and forced the General Security Service to dig out this deeply hidden mole and prevent a disaster in advance.

"Führer, I was wrong, I was really too negligent." Ribbentrop's legs went limp, and he almost burst into tears. If his responsibility for the arrest of the first two bigwigs can be lighter, then he definitely bears an unshirkable responsibility in the matter of Kolbe.

"If it weren't for the fact that you knew that you were an old comrade who joined the party in the early 20s, if it weren't for the face of seeing how much credit you have made for the party and the country over the years, your name should have been on this arrest warrant." Hoffman pointed to his nose and scolded, "You are more confused and incompetent than Goering, the Foreign Office is a joke now." ”

As soon as he heard Göring's words, Ribbentrop immediately remembered that day when Göring was arrested and then soon "committed suicide", and knew that the Führer was really angry, so frightened that he suddenly knelt on the ground, walked over a few steps and hugged Hoffmann's calf and pleaded: "Führer, my most respected Führer, I have always been loyal to you, please give me a chance to correct myself, I dare no more." ”

Hoffman twitched his legs, but he was held still, he looked at the other party in disgust, and shouted, "Get up! At least you are also the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and you are a dignified leader of the Party and the state. ”

Ribbentrop took advantage of the situation to get up, feeling his back soaked, and secretly rejoicing at the thought of having escaped from the ghost door just now.

"And ......"

And what's more...... Ribbentrop's heart rose again, the Führer really settled the old accounts together this time, "You said a lot of things that shouldn't have been said to that little Oriental man?" ”

Oriental little squirt? Ribbentrop was still thinking about who this was referring to, when suddenly the image of Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to Germany, came to mind, and immediately replied: "No, absolutely nothing!" I want to vomit when I see his obscene appearance, and I rarely interact with him. ”

"You've finally been smart again."

Ribbentrop asked tremblingly, "This...... What did Dongfang Xiaozi do? ”

Hoffman sighed: "He sent all the relevant information and intelligence he learned from you to Tokyo by telegram, although it is a bit out of line but it is not a big deal, the bad thing is that the Japanese telegraph code is mastered by the British, and every piece of information he sends is known to the enemy clearly, in a sense he plays the role of a British spy, or the kind that does not cost money." Do you think I will arrest or kill such a person? ”

Ribbentrop was not without slander in his heart: You agreed to share military intelligence with the Japanese at the beginning, and you also meant to take Hiroshi Oshima, a little man, to visit various factories, military facilities and defense systems, hoping to show the majesty of the Third Reich in front of him, why are you blaming me now? However, he only dared to think about these words, and said in a low voice: "Since he has offended the dignity of the empire, he has committed an unforgivable sin, and it is naturally up to us to deal with it, and whether to arrest or kill is all in the Führer's thoughts." ”

"Confused!" Hoffman said dissatisfiedly, "What do you make other countries think about the arrest and killing of the ambassador of a country -- or the ambassador of a country with which we have an alliance treaty?" ”

"That ......" Ribbentrop was speechless, and the Führer's mind was really hard to fathom: he was the one who let the Japanese visit and share secrets; He is also the one who accuses the Japanese of revealing intelligence and acting as a "spy who doesn't want money"; He was the one who shouted and shouted to kill just now, and now he is the one who says that he can't kill or be locked up.

"Strictly supervised, and no further information will be disclosed to them in the future. This is true not only for the ambassadors of Japan, but also for the ambassadors of Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and other countries in the future, don't think that these countries will consider you in alliance treaties with us, some ambassadors are basically open spies. If you look at our ambassador to Italy, he is a vicious dog, and I don't know how much he has revealed about Mussolini for so many years, and we always say that the Italians are unreliable and cannot keep secrets, and to a large extent we ourselves are accomplices. ”

It was only then that it dawned on Ribbentrop why the Italian could not openly demand the arrest of von Basel, but the purpose of recalling the ambassador and then dealing with it - the Führer did not want to get the matter out.

"Although the Japanese are obscene, there are some things you still need to learn. If nothing else, this sense of deception is worth learning from. "Did you know that a few months ago the Japanese suffered a great defeat at Midway, losing 4 aircraft carriers and more than 300 aircraft, all of which were experienced elite troops. ”

"Ahh ......," Ribbentrop was dumbfounded, "Didn't they tell us about a big victory?" The war report said that at least three U.S. aircraft carriers and more than 200 enemy planes had been sunk, and our ambassador said that Tokyo had held a victory parade, and there was a celebratory atmosphere. Is it all deception? I thought it was water at most. ”

"You listen to their nonsense too." Hoffman said disdainfully, "Roosevelt had a total of 3 intact aircraft carriers in his hands, all of which were sunk by the Japanese, and now the aircraft carriers on the surface of the water were conjured up by him out of thin air?" If such a big victory was achieved, why was Midway still in the hands of the Americans? Why are they fighting now on Guadalcanal, which is closer to Japan, and not further? ”

Ribbentrop couldn't remember for a moment where Guadalcanal was, but looking at the way the Führer had just looked at the map, he didn't think it was a lie, and he hated it at the thought that the Japanese had deceived so many people.