With several big wars and years of experience in power, Eric has learned that there is no weapon that cannot be eliminated. As the pillar of Germany, the No. 3 tank not only guarded the vast territory and expanded foreign trade channels, but also trained a large number of excellent crews.

With the development of the No. 4 tank and the smooth launch of the first vehicle off the assembly line, the No. 3 tank had to gradually fade out of the sight of the German Army.

Germany's defense orders for tank No. 3 have always been small, and the penetration rate is not as good as that of its friendly neighbors in the same period. Because the country and enterprises need to recuperate, this is the reason why entrepreneurs give priority to the production of foreign trade orders. However, Germany still added a full 6,061 No. 3 tanks to the army in 10 years. This is only data for normal active tanks, not counting idle due to training and battle damage, as well as other accidents.

The advent of the No. 4 tank has gradually declined the status of the No. 3 tank in Germany's national defense, and their fate will have to go to the "graveyard" of tanks one after another. However, with the outbreak and escalation of the Sino-Japanese War, the replaced No. 3 tank seems to have found a good home. However, there are also problems, first of all, the price problem has not been decided, and secondly, the purchasing power is also a headache.

There are several different voices within the Wehrmacht regarding the fate of the No. 3 tank, the civilian officials are thrifty and want to sell it at a discount, and the military generals are nostalgic for the old and want to leave a strong prestige. Obviously, the attitude of the generals is quite clear, not afraid of bad, afraid of less, as long as it is a weapon, more is also good.

Eric also has his own plans, as the government does not have a lot of money, and hopes to exchange some cash to supplement the research funds for the next generation of improved tanks.

Manstein and Rommel were Eric's most trusted generals, and with the covert signing of top-secret documents and the previous reorganization of the company, the two undoubtedly sided with Eric's position, and then this old thought slowly dissipated.

After all, China's finances at this time were like a blank sheet of paper, even more difficult than that of post-war Germany, and if you want to make China's money, it is like sharpening iron on a nail. In the end, the two parties agreed to take away the goods first by paying an amount ranging from 10% to 50%, and as for the final payment, the repayment period is 10 years, which is equivalent to half selling and half giving away.

No matter how little money is, it is money, and the military can finally purchase tank No. 4 to its heart's content in some military-industrial enterprises. Fortunately, the production capacity of the enterprise has been significantly improved after the benign reorganization, and it used to produce more than 200 No. 4 tanks per month, and the production line had to work overtime, but now it is not difficult to increase to 600 vehicles off the assembly line every month. This efficiency was almost aimed at wartime production, and it impressed the Western powers.

This terrible production efficiency made France, the Soviet Union, and Britain finally unable to sit still and questioned one after another. Germany was clearly not at war, but it was constantly expanding its troops throughout the country, and its troops were clearly well equipped, but they were constantly developing and procuring them. With such a large-scale production of armaments, you can just play with it, so why do you still sell them to the outside world with great fanfare, making the whole world uneasy? As soon as such a voice was raised, the United States also quickly helped out, and there was no agreement.

Britain has always regarded itself as an international leader, and Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald has been squeezed by the opposition parties because of his poor political performance, and at this time, he seems to grasp a lifeline, constantly making irresponsible remarks about Eric's federal government, in order to ease the people's dissatisfaction with him.

At 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister MacDonald made several phone calls to the Hanseatic Palace, but the answer was only one reason, "in order to effectively prevent the westward advance of the Soviet Union".

This reason is also reasonable, and besides, it has always been the aim of Western countries not to allow the Soviet Union to move westward, so it is understandable to say that. However, the fickle MacDonald did not agree with Germany's answer, and affirmed that the obligation to stop the Soviet Union was not a reason for Germany to develop armaments, and that the British could send overseas troops to assist Germany in the task of stopping the Soviet Union's westward advance.

As soon as these words came out, Eric immediately understood MacDonald's intentions. The British wanted to keep troops in Germany under the guise of preventing the Soviet Union's westward advance, so that Germany could lure the wolf into the house. Eric laughed out loud and rejected MacDonald's "kindness" without even thinking about it.

After MacDonald's plan went bankrupt, he once again made remarks about the opacity of the German armed forces, and for a while, other countries followed suit, making Eric always have a fire in his heart.

With regard to the accusations made by Britain, the United States, France, the Soviet Union, and other countries, the spokesmen of the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have repeatedly reiterated at all news conferences that the armed forces are the cornerstone of Germany's security, and will not pose any threat to other countries. But Britain, the United States and other countries do not seem to listen to anything, still talking to themselves, after a long time, the news is no longer news, and reporters feel tired.

Britain, the United States, and other countries have been sparing no effort to increase their own military spending, and their ambition to dominate the world has long been clearly exposed, but instead they have cried out to catch thieves and are accustomed to pointing fingers at the normal development of others. Eric has actually seen this for a long time.

"Let them talk to themselves, our priority now is to work hard and improve themselves." In order to make the country not haste and be patient, Eric promptly admonished Konstantin and Grena.

"Yes, Mr. President. But what I don't like the most is their self-righteous ugly face, so I always want to reveal their true colors to the world, and even really want to kill them directly. Konstantin was still angry.

"I can understand your feelings, Your Excellency. In fact, all countries in the world know their sinister intentions, but now no one dares to stand up and tell the truth. I believe that when truly peace-loving people in the world can unite as one, there will naturally be no market for the hegemonic thinking of the United States, Britain, and other countries. Don't worry, it's sooner or later. Eric picked up his teacup and took a sip.

Britain is the country with the most colonies in the world and is known as the empire on which the sun never sets. Like previous British prime ministers, Macdonald has stationed most of his troops around the world to defend his tyrannical overseas interests. Compared with Germany, the total strength of the British army is not lower than that of Germany, however, their army is scattered all over the world, and if it is attacked, it will face the situation of having no troops at home.

In this case, Britain could have expanded conscription, but, very sorry, the British experienced the attrition of the 1914 world war, especially after a large number of army troops were captured by the Germans, and the impression of young people on the British army was completely contemptuous, but on the contrary, they were very recognizable to the navy.

The Berlin Peace Treaty was a huge collection of treaties with another agreement between Britain and Germany, the Anglo-German Two-Way Naval Treaty, which the British regretted more than a decade later, but it was also embarrassing to talk about it now.

At that time, because Lloyd's and Stresemann could not agree on the defense of Germany's homeland, Lloyd's thought about it, well, since the British Isles were isolated overseas, and the other issues were simply left to France to continue to entangle, Britain only needed to control the German navy, so a new treaty was reached.

As a result, Germany began to invest heavily in the navy as required by the Treaty regulations, but apparently in many ways beyond British imagination. In the face of the rapid rise of the German navy, Britain played the old routine of you build one and I build two, but this road was dragged down by old ships before it went far, so it had to put down its body and re-sign the relevant treaties with Germany.

The rejoicing British later found out that the treaty had turned out to be a joke, as the tonnage required was limited to mainland Europe.

In fact, Lloyd's fault cannot be blamed, because at the time of the signing of the treaty, Germany no longer had any military bases and colonies outside Europe.

And now that Germany has Kuwait, and even has a huge circle of friends in the Arab world, the warships built are sent directly to these areas, not only in large numbers, but also in tonnage continues to grow. As long as Germany did not place its ships in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, in the Mediterranean or other seas, the treaty could not be restricted.

By the time Britain suddenly realized that the situation was wrong and wanted to re-sign the treaty, the eight-year statute of limitations had not yet expired, and the Germans did not want to make any more trouble, so they used this as an excuse to put the issue on hold for the time being.

Eric doesn't want to fall out with Britain now, because this country across the sea may be Germany's best helper when attacking the Soviet Union, so he will try to give in as much as he can.

However, concessions are not without a bottom line, and the basic configuration of the aircraft carrier battle group with four aircraft carriers, two battleships, four heavy cruisers, eighteen destroyers, and six submarines as the template has been completed in three, namely the Baltic Fleet, the High Seas Fleet, and the Mediterranean Fleet.

In addition to the presence of only a few cruisers and destroyers in Kuwait's seaports, the East Asian Fleet has a large aircraft carrier battle group. These were German troops stationed abroad on a permanent basis and were not subject to treaty restrictions.

In sixteen years, Germany almost started from scratch and soon became the second largest navy in the world, leaving Japan in third place far behind. By this time, the German Navy was already capable of competing with the British Royal Navy.

This frightening speed of development simply suffocated the British, and Germany, which had an excellent diplomatic reputation, gave Britain nowhere to go, and the means of "gathering crowds to encircle and pick" and "blockade everywhere" were all resolved by Germany one by one.

The German navy could be seen everywhere in the vast seas of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and even the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time, the German army began to increase military spending, the reason was still to be wary of the westward advance of the Soviet army.

Originally, this incident was not as bad as the British imagined, but because of MacDonald's constant threats and warnings, Eric discovered a key problem, that is, using strong armed forces to force the British to shut up is more effective than protesting 10,000 times.

In the autumn of 1934, on behalf of the German Defense, Zeckert announced to the world through the media that Germany would build a strong national defense army......

Britain, France, and the Soviet Union were silent.

According to Eric's request to the Ministry of Defense, in addition to the navy and air force, the German army will increase to 5.8 million troops in the next three years! In order to achieve local defense without dead ends.

This is a figure that no country can afford to raise unless it deals with a full-scale war!