"You say, I'm listening." Hoffmann promptly dispelled Speer's concerns.

"This project is located in Calais, France, and it is said that it is a secret project led by the army, but after checking it, General Lief of the Army Weapons Bureau said that he did not know about this project at all, and I later learned that it was personally ordered by you, the Führer. Recently, this project has put forward a large number of resource requirements...... The main purpose of the project is to build a supercannon to fire shells at London, and there is a similar project at the Penemünde base, can they now make it a little less of a priority? According to Speer's original intention, he wanted to cancel one of them, but he was not sure of Hoffmann's attitude, so he decided to hand over the conflict first in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.

As soon as he was reminded by the other party, Hoffmann finally understood what this inexplicable project was - this was Hitler's high-pressure, multi-section, long-range artillery that Hitler had devoted a lot of effort to, codenamed V3 Gun (i.e., Revenge Weapon No. 3), this high-pressure gun with high hopes was simply a whimsical project, which was technically difficult to achieve, and no major country in history had successfully researched it. He waved his hand and said bluntly: "I have been deceived by those scientists, this is simply an unattainable project, there is no need to adjust the priority, all the abort, all the people and resources that serve it are used in other aspects, and the existing project priorities on the Peneminde side remain unchanged." ”

"As you wish." Speer made a fork in the dossier, and from the bottom of his heart he was disgusted with these projects that were independent and not controlled by the Ministry of Armaments, and if it were not for the other party's repeated proclamation of "the will of the Führer," he would have cut it off with one fell swoop, and now the Führer himself has stopped it, which would have saved a lot of trouble.

Hoffman's memory popped up with another fantastical project, that is, "Operation Ulanus": The Air Force set up a secret agency called "Demoman Research Laboratory-13" to research and manufacture secret flying machines, and the main direction of attack was flying saucers.

"Go to the Air Force Technical Bureau to find out the situation, if there is really this project, it can be stopped -- in the future, such as flying saucers, flying wings, asymmetrical, forward-swept wings, catamarans, and other unrealistic fantasy works will not be allowed to be developed, and with this energy and resources, it is better to study the jet plane I gave them last time, and what I need is a new weapon that can guarantee the victory of the war instead of science fantasy." Hoffman reaffirmed the principle.

"The War Institutional Commission should investigate all projects that require the allocation of resources from the Government, and all projects that have not been recorded, with or without my consent, will not be approved, and only two people have the highest authority to approve projects." Hoffman pointed at Speer and then at himself, "You and me." ”

Speer nodded gratefully: "Thank you to the Führer for your trust." ”

"Second question." Although in the Führer's bulletproof Mercedes-Benz 770K, Speer still seemed cautious, he turned his head to look around, to make sure that the soundproofing facilities were working normally and even the driver could not hear the sound, then lowered his voice and said, "The super bomb project you told me about, I had an in-depth communication with Professor Heisenberg not long ago, and he said that for the chain reaction, there must be at least a minimum amount of radioactive material, which he called ......"

"Uranium-235!" Now Hoffman understands why Speer was so careful.

"Yes, that's the term." Speer continued, "The professor thought it would take at least a few tons to build a superbomb, but it was difficult to produce it in a short time for technical reasons, so he thought it was impossible to complete the project during the war, and he insisted that the Reich was still a world leader in research, and if we couldn't build it, the Americans couldn't build it." The professor was sure of this, and he only requested a budget of 350,000 Reichsmarks for theoretical research. ”

"I have accurate information that the Americans are also working on a superbomb, they call it the Manhattan Project, and the chief scientists are Albert Einstein and Fermi." Hoffman thought about the atomic bomb for a long time and said slowly, "The U.S. government has allocated more than $3 billion for project research and uranium-235 refining, and the entire engineering service staff is as high as more than 20,000. Because the research of the Americans shows that the uranium-235 required to make a super bomb is not a few tons, only a few tens of kilograms, and the decelerator they chose is not heavy water but graphite. Let Professor Heisenberg recalculate and argue with the highest degree of scientific rigor, and tell him unambiguously that if we fail to build this super-bomb, the Americans will drop it on our heads in the future, and that our people and future generations will live in this terror for generations to come. ”

Speer smiled bitterly: "Do you know that these scholars are stubborn people, and Professor Heisenberg is even more authoritative, what if they can't listen?" ”

"They'll listen." "For the sake of the great cause of the German nation," said Hoffmann, "they must listen." Of course, you should change your working methods and let other scholars repeat the process separately when you ask Professor Heisenberg to recalculate - it is impossible for everyone to make the same mistake, they are just blindly superstitious about authority. 500 million marks will be allocated to this project, which will be included in the highest secrecy and highest priority, so that they can build a uranium-235 refinery first, regardless of whether it is a few tons or tens of kilograms, we must have it first. ”

"Okay, I will."

"I hope that the professors will correct their mistakes in time. After a while, when the latest information from the United States comes, I can communicate with them again. Hoffman, of course, didn't know how to build an atomic bomb, but at least he had learned it in a middle school physics textbook, and he decided to recall the principles and diagrams described in the textbook and make the most of the traverser's strengths.

Speer's eyes sparkled: "It would be great if that was the case, in any case we cannot fall behind the Americans." ”

Hoffman originally thought that he was finished, and was about to close his eyes and rest for a while, but he didn't expect the other party to ask a big problem.

Speer's face was a little solemn, and he seemed a little sorry, and after carefully considering his words, he said: "Finally, there is one more thing that needs to trouble the Führer. After emergency resource statistics, the resources needed for other wars now have reliable sources or sufficient reserves, but the reserves and subsequent supply of tungsten ore have encountered great challenges, the tungsten ore obtained from the Chinese exchange in the early years has been close to exhaustion, and the supply of tungsten ore recently purchased from Spain and Portugal is very unstable, not only the price has risen sharply, rising to more than 10 times that of last year, but also the quantity has also decreased -- the Americans are rushing to buy a large number of them, can they ask the Führer to personally come forward to communicate with Marshal Franco of Spain, Let him guarantee the supply of tungsten ore to us. Because not only munitions manufacturing, but also a large amount of tungsten is needed for our high-quality machine tool steel, and you are ready to vigorously develop the electronics industry (tungsten is needed for electron tubes), the gap will become more and more serious. ”

The shortage of tungsten ore had been going on for several months, otherwise Hitler would not have personally banned the use of cone guns when the new tanks were designed, because of the need to consume more tungsten ore. The question now was how to negotiate with the Spanish, and the man with whom Franco had the closest and best personal relationship was Canaris, and it was with his friendly persuasion that Franco rejected Hitler's request to capture Gibraltar, and Speer knew this. Although the news of Canaris's arrest was still blocked, it was estimated that Franco, who was very powerful, already knew the situation, and he was unwilling to touch his head at this sensitive moment, and the only way to think about it was to ask the Führer to come forward in person.

"What does Franco say?" Hoffman's face was very bad, and he complained to the Spanish dictator, and reprimanded, "It's a bit too selfish, we provided him so much help during the civil war, whether it was arms, supplies or troops, almost everything he wanted, and his position was jointly held by me and the Italian leader, and now he turned his head and asked for a sky-high price, he thought that a mere blue division would be able to repay us for helping him?" What a bastard! If we were not on the opposite side of Britain and the United States, would he be able to play left and right among these great powers? Neutrality? I don't look at what kind of clown character I am. ”

Speer accompanied Hoffmann to scold Franco, and at the same time carefully beat the side drum around the tungsten mine, anyway, he still hoped that the Führer could put down his body and communicate with the dictator once, he was familiar with the temper of the Führer: at this time, he could only get angry by scolding the other party, and if he could not solve the problem after scolding, he would bow to the Spaniards, and Mussolini, the Italian leader of Italy, also made unrealistic demands when he annexed Austria, which provoked the Führer to be furious, and later after paying the price of compromise, he still succeeded in coordinating.

He waited quietly, waiting for the Führer to get tired of scolding before providing a step that would allow the other party to step down with dignity.

Unexpectedly, Hoffman scolded a few words and then closed his mouth, his eyes flashed, and he waved his hand indifferently: "I will negotiate with the Spanish Führer, but the solution of the tungsten ore problem cannot rely on the Spaniards to do as they wish, otherwise they will always put the noose on our heads, and we must have another solution." ”

Hoffman's solution made Speer stunned.