Chapter 408: Trade (I)

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, half of October has passed, and as autumn begins, the temperature gradually begins to get cooler.

The police on the streets of Berlin changed into autumn clothes, and in accordance with the Führer's new orders, the Berlin security police were given the duties of some gendarmes, and the gray geese became more and more vigorous.

When the Führer returned to Berlin, everything was back on track, at least as ordinary German citizens thought, and in those days when the Führer was away from the capital, despite the constant news of victory from the front, there was always a feeling of uncertainty.

The new Chancellery was the heart of the country, and when Hitler was in power, traffic around the government offices was strictly controlled, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter these neighborhoods at all, except for some government-organized activities. Xu Jun understood Hitler's decision very well, because once the area was opened, it would be flooded with tourists from all over the country.

Especially now it is not only German tourists who are flocking to Berlin, but also Berliners joking with each other, and if you put a little effort into it, you can collect all the currencies of all European countries on the streets of Berlin.

Ordinary Germans were extremely proud of this situation, which proved the strength of the Third Reich, and Berlin once again became the center of the European continent.

However, the citizens of Berlin are proud and a little worried, and the large number of foreigners who have flocked to the city has caused many security problems due to differences in language and customs, as well as the racist thinking of some Germans.

Not all of them were wealthy tourists, many of whom were laborers from the occupied territories, who had been placed in cheap apartments close to the industrial zone, and were contracted to work in Germany for five years before returning home until the end of the contract.

These workers were handed over to the Germans as part of the state compensation, and many of them were prisoners of war who were not dragged down by their families, and there were also many grassroots laborers who lost their jobs because of the war. Not only has he taken off a lot of debts, but he has also lost a lot of social baggage, which makes Xu Jun amazed at the discipline of these politicians, these bastards are really good at playing with wishful thinking.

These foreign workers were promised a lot of empty promises by their respective governments, and politicians played the patriotic card, trying to convince the workers that everything they did was for their country, claiming that their work was of great significance and that the motherland would not forget the sacrifices they had made, for fear that these people would be disgruntled and make trouble for each other in Germany, and then the Germans would definitely slap the board back on their faces.

However, there are almost no workers who believe these empty words, and these people are willing to go to Germany to work, more attracted by real salaries, and compared with the fierce competition in the post-war labor market of various countries, the wages offered by the German side are not very high, but they are better than starving with the whole family in the army of unemployed.

Most of these workers have some work experience, and many of them are skilled jobs that are in short supply in Germany, especially all kinds of technicians, welders and machine operators, who can join production with only a little training, which really alleviates the problem of the shortage of skilled workers in Germany at present, and when the new batch of skilled workers in Germany is trained, the industrial output of the Third Reich will increase by leaps and bounds.

As for the management of these personnel, the Germans did not feel any pressure at all, anyway, everything has regulations, and violations will be punished, and the contract is clearly written, and everyone has signed it.

Now European countries are trying to resume production, after the end of the naval blockade between Britain and Germany, a large number of countries in short supply of raw materials and finished products began to flow into Europe.

At this time, it can be seen how thick the foundation of the British Empire was back then, and the suppliers of the British colonies and dependent countries almost contracted almost half of the supply orders for goods and materials in Europe in the next few months.

Originally, for the war on the imperial territory, the suppliers of the British colonies and dependent countries prepared a large number of supplies, but because the German naval blockade was too harsh, most of them were backlogged in various ports.

At that time, no one expected that Britain would lose the war, and when the blockade was lifted, they realized that there was a problem with the next family receiving the goods, and the British government said that with their current financial situation, they could not take over so many supplies for the time being.

At this time, the merchants were dumbfounded, because there were many orders, and the British government only paid part of the deposit, thinking that the golden sign of the British Empire was there, and who would have thought that the invincible sun would not set would also be repaid. These goods take up a lot of working capital, and the daily storage costs are astronomical, and if no one takes over, the suppliers can only jump off the building hand in hand.

At this time, these people never dreamed that it would be the Germans who would save them in the end.

The British government also knew that what it was doing was a little inauthentic, but no matter how capable Chamberlain was, he could not conjure up the pound out of thin air. Some people say that you can print money, and if it was before the war, it would have been a solution, but under the new European order in Germany, the pound and the European currency are linked, and you start printing money today, and believe it or not, the Germans will blow up the mint tomorrow.

So Chamberlain could only tactfully ask Xu Jun if he could provide some financial support to Britain, such as the gold, gold, gold and the like that Germany got in the Low Countries.

Xu Jun didn't understand what was going on at first, but after asking about Odin's Eye, he learned that the British had made such a big oolong. To say that Germany should also bear part of the responsibility for this matter, although this pot was originally Hitler's, but at the moment Führer Xu has to carry it if he does not carry it.

This problem, which was a headache for the British, was put to the Germans, but it was very simple to solve. Xu Jun opened the European market to these supplies, and these goods did not even make a splash in the face of the huge demand in the whole of Europe.

The Germans opened the floodgates, and international trade began to flourish in an instant, and European countries began to export overseas industrial products that had been squeezed by the war within a year, in exchange for industrial raw materials and living materials that were urgently needed at present.

At present, the hottest thing in Europe is the grain trade, because of the war, all the grain-producing countries have a certain reduction in production, because Europe has been peaceful for a long time, the original food savings are not very sufficient, and at this moment the grain reserves of many countries have been on the verge of bottoming out.

At this moment, governments are not only for their own food security, but more importantly, for the future war that cannot be avoided, countries have begun to use all channels and begin to frantically store war materials. The Germans gave them a timetable of only a year and a half, and claimed that they might actually have less time left, and after seeing a lot of evidence, no one dared to take it as a joke.

In the grain trade with Europe, the American agricultural businessmen can be regarded as making a lot of money, because the United States has been in a bumper harvest year after year, and the domestic economy is sluggish, the grain market has been very sluggish, and grain prices and stock prices have fallen together. Arguably, the current grain export trade to Europe has saved most of the American farmers, and the prices of various agricultural and food-related stocks and futures in the New York Stock Exchange have begun to soar.

Every day, tens of thousands of tons of grain and corn and all kinds of food raw materials are loaded onto transport ships from Europe in the major ports on the east coast of the United States, and the large military high-speed transport ships that were once used to carry ammunition and weapons are now piled up with the local products of the United States. Even in order to maximize the efficiency of transportation, European merchants continued to purchase wartime standards, and things such as boneless meat and egg powder became the most popular products at this time.

American oats and black beans are exported to Europe almost at cost price, and the recipients are Danish, Belgian and even German livestock farmers, who need a lot of feed in order to re-fatten their cattle, sheep, horses, chickens, ducks, eggs and poultry, and only the Americans can supply them freely.

Germany has also begun to import large quantities of agricultural products from the United States, and the largest trade commodity is soybeans, with the first batch of 100,000 tons of soybeans already on a ship in Boston and arriving in the German port of Bremerhaven by the end of the month.

As mentioned earlier, Germany lacks oil resources, and the lubricants needed for industry and military use cannot be synthesized by chemical methods, but can only be refined from plants and animals and fossil fuels.

Germany does not have large tracts of arable land to grow this crop and relies almost entirely on imports from abroad. In the past, the only supplier of Germany was China, and Northeast China was the world's largest soybean producer at that time, but when Japan invaded the three eastern provinces, Japanese merchants monopolized more than ninety percent of the soybean trade.

In fact, the best choice for Germany at this time should be to directly import the finished lubricating oil products from the United States, but Xu Jun must consider maintaining the operation of domestic bio-oil enterprises, and not just look at the cheapness in front of him.

However, when it comes to American petroleum products, it is indeed full of temptations for Germany today.

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