1171 Germans with a thirst for profit
The Germans took advantage of the fire to rob within the calculations of the Japanese, but the Germans robbed so blatantly that the Japanese envoy found that he was still too young.
Originally, the price of Germany's ME-109 fighter jets exported to Japan was not cheap, and even if Japan was really wealthy, it could not afford to consume such an expensive price.
What's more, Japan is completely out of touch with its wealth, and His Majesty the Emperor is now hungry and has only saved up some money to import weapons and equipment from Germany.
German weapons can alleviate Japan's dilemma of insufficient manufacturing capacity and low production capacity, which is one of the main reasons why Japan has to come up with more money.
On the other hand, importing steel and oil from Germany is not realistic, and the only option that can be imported is weapons and equipment.
There is another reason - the German weapons are really good, which allows Japan to achieve some partial advantages, and also makes the Japanese top brass think that these weapons are really worth the price.
Now, the German top brass plans to sell the ME-109E fighter to the Raven jet fighter at a price that really makes the Japanese envoy a little depressed.
The money in his hand was saved by His Majesty the Emperor's frugality, not the gold and silver that he had stolen from Southeast Asia and China.
The money is your own, so it's distressing to spend it...... When the Japanese envoy heard the sky-high price offered by Ribbentrop, he couldn't help but want to be annoyed and angry.
But in the end, he swallowed it, suppressed the anger in his heart, and pleaded: "We have done everything to buy these arms...... We really can't afford to offer such a price in your country......"
Of course, you can't afford it, and you can buy a piston fighter at the price of a jet fighter, no matter how rich you are, you will feel that the price is expensive.
However, the base camp on the Japanese mainland had already given him a death order to immediately purchase a batch of German weapons and equipment and transport them to the mainland as soon as possible.
On the one hand, Japan felt that the war was a little tight, and on the other hand, it was also because Japan had the idea of copying it.
After all, Japan, as the country with the weakest technological accumulation in World War II, basically relied on copying and imitation of weapons and equipment.
It is worth noting that part of Japan's technological accumulation comes from Germany, and a considerable part of its technological experience comes from as far away as the United Kingdom.
The First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the subsequent Russo-Japanese Naval War, and even the Pacific War between the United States and Japan, in fact, all had some British shadows in mind.
From this aspect, it can also be seen that in the preparation stage of World War I and World War II, there was no so-called difference between justice and evil.
Even if the Third Reich and the National Socialist Party were really demons, it was the so-called just countries such as Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union that released this demon.
If it weren't for the Soviet Union's help to hide Germany's weapons development and testing, if it weren't for Britain and France's connivance at Germany's invasion of Poland in a vain attempt to bring disaster to the east, if it weren't for the United States to entrap Britain in fulfilling Germany's rise...... Without so many ifs, where did this calamity come about?
"Actually, you want too much, so I suggest you buy less, after all, it can reduce some of the pressure on foreign exchange......," Ribbentrop said kindly, giving his own advice.
Hearing this suggestion, the Japanese envoy's face turned red, and he opened his mouth to argue: "Your Excellency! We are at war with the Americans...... More weapons are needed! It is not in the interests of your country that Japan is defeated by the United States! So I beg you to sell us as many weapons as you can......"
"We can only sell a maximum of 50 fighters! These are all needed for the front line! Ribbentrop held out a hand and said with a shake of five fingers.
"Please! 100 planes! At least 100 planes! We are a gold settlement, your price is already very high, why not do a profitable business? "The Japanese envoy bargained and did not give an inch to the entanglement.
Soon, the number of aircraft was determined, and the Japanese Army Aviation intended to buy another 100 ME-109E fighters.
These fighters are also from the Soviet-German front, and they are also the active weapons and equipment of the Luftwaffe - but the Japanese side does not know that this so-called active weapons and equipment is actually weapons and equipment that are about to be eliminated.
After negotiating the purchase of fighter jets, the Japanese envoy began to entangle the army's weapons and equipment again: because the Leopard tank is too powerful, the Japanese army plans to purchase another 100 in one go!
To be honest, this figure is even more embarrassing, because the Air Force can buy old weapons and equipment, and the Army's Leopard tanks are not old weapons and equipment.
The Leopard tanks sold to the Japanese side earlier were actually repaired products transported back from the front line, and most of them were tanks whose frontal armor had been destroyed and scrapped.
The repair work is time-consuming and labor-intensive, in fact, it is not as good as directly producing new products, so I thought of a way to find a "stupid" buyer Japan and pay for these maintenance tanks.
Now the front line is fighting smoothly, and the frequency of damage to the Leopard tanks is quite low. Especially in the rear factories, where did 100 of the number of seriously injured tanks to be repaired come up with so many 100?
Is it necessary to sell the newly produced Leopard tanks to Japan? The idea had just come to Ribbentrop's mind and he had dispelled it.
The Army's plan to replace the Leopard tank has not yet been fully completed, and the chassis of the Leopard tank is also a good thing that various units are vying for.
If the officers and soldiers at the front knew about it, he Ribbentrop secretly sold the Leopard tanks that were in dire need at the front to the Japanese - no matter how much profit he made, his reputation would have been worse than that of Swedish canned herring......
So, the Leopard tank is really something that cannot be compromised. In the end, Ribbentrop used the excuse of going to the bathroom, and went next door to the Führer's seat, and finally confirmed the number of exits.
"30 cars! That's the limit we can pull out in the short term! Our front-line troops are still using old tanks, how can I sell 100 of them abroad? Ribbentrop finally gave the limit of what could be compromised.
Hearing Ribbentrop say this, the Japanese envoy was a little relieved: he always felt that if the Germans' front-line tanks were all monsters like the Leopard, they should have been hit to the Far East long ago.
Now he knows that the Leopard tank is also very rare in Germany, and it is also the desire of the Germans to sell it to Japan.
What he didn't know was that the Germans, who were hungry for profit, had more than 3,500 Leopard tanks put into battle on the front line......
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