"If you can't buy it, you can mine it yourself." Hoffmann gave Speer this advice.

"Mining?" Speer, who thought he had heard it wrong, looked embarrassed, "Tungsten ore is mainly concentrated in East Asia, and there are some reserves in the European continent except for Portugal and Spain, and other countries can't find it." ”

"You don't need other countries, you have the Eastern Province (Austria) of the Empire, which is also revealed in the last map of the resources that the British secretly explored, and I only focused on oil last time, but I forgot about it." Hoffmann tried to recall, and used the advantage of the traverser to point out to Speer: The Mitsil tungsten mine is located in the Alps, 350 kilometers southwest of Vienna, and is the second largest tungsten mine in the world, with an annual mining capacity of 400,000 tons of stone and 1,800 tons of tungsten - this output can basically meet the needs of the war.

Speer was overjoyed, which solved his great difficulty, and his originally depressed mood instantly became high. He believed what the Führer said, even if it was false information, it was nothing, it was just a waste of exploration manpower, and besides, the Führer personally promised to talk to Marshal Franco once, and the immediate crisis would naturally be solved - the Führer was really his savior!

Hoffman apparently had more ideas about tungsten development: "Large-scale tungsten mining requires labor, and I think the Polish prisoners of war held by the Air Force can be used, and the Jews ......"

As an intellectual with a conscience, even if he became the Führer, he was opposed to the implementation of the Jewish extermination policy from the bottom of his heart, but since it was the established national policy of the Third Reich, it was impossible to overthrow it all at once, so he decided to gradually reverse it, and after thinking about it, he said: "Let Himmler arrange for the Jews to go to the mines, which is much more ideal than arranging for them to go to concentration camps, so that the Jews can atone for their country." General Schmunt, the quartermaster of the Eastern Front, had complained to me more than once that the train capacity to the East was very tight, and that the SS was constantly pumping Jews into the camps, crowding out valuable capacity—Himmler was so fond of managing the Jews that he used the power of the camps for mine management. ”

Forced labor for Jews was also clearly a violation of human rights, but it was at least more humane than a genocidal policy, and Speer agreed that it would change the perception of some within the empire and ease the labor crunch after the general mobilization was implemented.

The next morning, Hoffmann was in the Chancellery's office studying the map and recalling the distribution of Europe's mineral resources, hoping to alleviate the embarrassment of the Third Reich's overall lack of resources, but Martin Baumann came in with a spring breeze on his face, and said happily as he walked: "Under the wise leadership of the Führer, we achieved a brilliant victory last night. ”

"Brilliant?" Hoffman laughed dumbly, "The Berlin Air Defense Center only shot down 4 Lancasters, even if you add the 19 shot down in the Ruhr area, the total number is only 23, only a fraction of the British bomber group, where can it be called brilliant?" However, it was the fact that the British did not get any valuable results in the Ruhr area. ”

"This ......," Bowman was stunned and said subconsciously, "but I didn't hear the air raid sirens yesterday?" ”

"It's not pulled, but it doesn't mean that there are no enemy planes, and last night I witnessed how they commanded the operation in the air defense command center." Hoffman smiled, "I have faithfully fulfilled my duties as commander-in-chief of the Air Force. ”

Only then did Bowman realize that what the Führer said was obviously not the same thing as what he wanted to say, and suddenly realized: "You went to the Air Force Air Defense Command Center again last night?" I had no idea about it! I thought you'd come back straight from the armored school's technical demonstration. ”

"And what are you going to say?" Hoffman was also stunned, Bowman's expression just now seemed very relaxed - this can't be fake, but there doesn't seem to be a big move in other directions, even if there is news, his adjutants will report it as soon as possible.

"You see, this is the result of last night's arrest and interrogation." Bowman smugly raised the dossier in his hand, "As you might expect, Canaris is the biggest and fattest bait, and even the underground prison of the Imperial Security Service smells of incense, and his minions, mainly his deputies, Major General Hans Oerst and Director Hans von Dunani, have assembled a secret operations team to try to rob the prison, and we have caught them all. Not only did we confiscate a lot of important documents from Dunani's office, but they also confessed a bunch of conspirators, many of them bigwigs. ”

"Big shots?" Hoffman smiled, "Let me guess who there are." ”

"Custody you can't imagine." Bowman laughed, "I was shocked when I saw it, and I still can't believe it's true." ”

"Not necessarily." Hoffman thought for a moment and said, "Canaris can't escape from a few of his right-hand men in the Military Intelligence Bureau—no, they're big guys. Big people, naturally, they must be bold. Well, the Chief of the General Staff, General Halder, must be counted as one, Marshal Loeb is probably too, and the former commander of the Fourth Panzer Army, General Hopner, should also be among them, but he has always opposed me, and was the first to desert during the Battle of Typhoon. Oh, I almost forgot Brauchitsch, the commander-in-chief of the army, without him turning a blind eye, Halder and the army staff did not dare to do this. There should also be two generals, Stuppnagar, the commander-in-chief of the French garrison, and Falkenhauin, the governor of Belgium, who have been carrying me behind my back for the past two years. By the way, there is another very important person, whom Rommel recommended to me two days ago, and that is the newly returned Colonel Stauffenberg. Don't underestimate this colonel, he was the liaison of the Baker-Canaris treasonous group, and he was the one who passed on the 'military advice' order on behalf of Hopner during the September coup......"

"What?" Bowman was startled, and his face looked like he had seen a ghost, because the list of names that Hoffman had just said was almost exactly what he wanted to say. He stammered: "Someone has already reported to the Führer?" ”

"Nope." Hoffman flatly denied it, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you yourself say that the interrogation was just finished at night, and I didn't know that you would have a raid last night." ”

"What about you? ……”

"You don't really think I don't know anything about them, do you?" Hoffman laughed meaningfully, "During the Munich negotiations in 1938, these men were frightened by the British Empire and wanted to give me a September coup, but Mr. Chamberlain agreed to my request, and their plot did not succeed. Since then, I have been observing them, hoping that they will come to their senses, but I did not expect that human nature is so despicable, and that they are submissive to me on the surface, but their activities in the secret have never stopped. The attempted explosion of the Eagle's Nest brought out Canaris, but I did not arrest the others, and even Halder was put back in his old age, because I always wanted to wait and see if anyone would come to me to turn themselves in and repent, and if possible, I could give them another chance to mend their ways, but they flatly rejected my kindness and insisted on going all the way to the dark on the road of betraying Germany. ”

Of course, this is a gold plastering on his face, because Hitler before the crossing knew nothing about these conspiracies, otherwise it would never be a peaceful situation. Although Hoffman clearly denied the speculation that someone had reported in advance, Bowman's head was full of beads of sweat, and he was almost 200 percent sure in his heart: there must have been an eye liner planted by the Führer in yesterday's action team, and it was a dangerous person who he and the General Security Bureau did not know and could report directly to the Führer, and when he thought of the Führer's careful deployment to prevent his subordinates from colluding and making small movements, he felt that the hairs on his back were erected, and the so-called monitoring of conspirators since 1938 said, It made him feel that the Führer was unfathomable, and even his awe of the Führer rose to another level.

"Führer." He stepped forward tremblingly, and said in a complaining tone, "You are the only hope for the party and the country, and you must not take these vital matters lightly, where can you leave the traitors to chance?" ”

"I will take your advice to heart." Hoffman nodded in agreement with Bowman, but he almost laughed in his heart. He stretched out his right hand and said, "Bring it." ”

"What?"

"Arrest warrant." Hoffman asked rhetorically, "Without my signature, could you and the General Security Bureau easily arrest these big shots?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Bowman quickly reacted, originally he wanted Hoffman to read the interrogation file before signing the arrest warrant, but he didn't expect that there was no need to say anything superfluous now. He lamented in his heart: I hurried over early in the morning just to ask for merit and reward in front of the Führer, but I didn't expect that the Führer would have been clear for a long time, and he was led by the nose everywhere, and the whole rhythm had completely changed, and he was like a flown in front of the Führer.

Hoffman glanced at the list, which was basically what he expected, and he only gave an opinion on the handling of one person: "Marshal Bock is not deeply involved in this matter, and his handling has been changed from arrest to residential surveillance......"

Bowman opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say anything, nodding his head to indicate that he understood.

Hoffman quickly signed his name, and finally added: "Keep the bait of Canaris first, and there will be people who will come to act as moths, you can replace the lampshade with a new one......"