Chapter 192: Into the Deep Blue (1)

Berlin on September 6 entered a strange atmosphere, because November 5, 1918 was the big day of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, that is, the National Day, because the founding ceremony was not held during the war, in 1919 because of the national infrastructure abandonment, Eric wanted to hold one, but the funds in hand were very limited, for fear that the new government would not be up to the grade, but it would seem that the new government was out of grade.

It is said that it is September 6, but the government has not revealed any intention of holding the National Day.

The Chancellery's office, the political hub of Germany that rotates every day, has ushered in another breakthrough in political achievements, and the operating mileage of the railway in the Federal Republic of Germany has reached 126,500, double the 60,000 kilometers in 1919. The 120,000 kilometers of railways are divided into trunk lines, branch lines and light lines. Austria's accession allowed the Stresemann government to get more than 20,000 kilometers for nothing.

The total of 120,000 kilometers of operating railways, the proportion of state-owned is almost half, for the locomotive requirements, Eric is not static, starting from the previous steam locomotives, with Berlin and the Ruhr area as the two major centers began to improve electrification, and in the inferior such as Schwerin-Hamburg, Dresden-Bavaria and other places used diesel locomotives, the obsolete steam locomotives are sent to the eastern region to undertake more material transportation tasks. Although the steam locomotive is not fast, it is valuable in terms of cost performance, and it can be transported for about 700 kilometers, from the only border of the Baltic Sea to the Ruhr area in only 2 days for the diesel locomotive, 2 days for the electric locomotive, and 4 days for the steam locomotive.

This speed gap also led to an adjustment in Germany, where steam locomotives were to be transported in the surrounding areas when there were no more diesel and electric locomotives in operation, so as not to affect the railway network in the central area too slowly.

Relying on strong domestic transportation capacity and endless demand for raw materials, Miller's time in the United States seemed to be extended indefinitely...

If the upper and lower houses of the German Chamber of Deputies are not generous enough for military spending, then the investment in infrastructure has become the opposite, while the country has already spent a lot of money on construction, major companies and banks will also participate in the investment, and Eric did not refuse, because the controlling stake has always been in the hands of the government.

The rapid development of Germany is not only proud of Europe and the United States in terms of infrastructure, but also ushered in a blowout growth in finance, the domestic super-large financial team with the German foreign mission team opened the German Bundesbank all over the world, and the mushrooming private banks are also competing with other enterprises to take root in Berlin, since 1919, the price of land in the suburbs of Berlin has more than doubled. Instead of stopping this skyrocketing house prices, Stresemann instituted new purchase requirements in early 1920, buying the size of the business to use for offices.

In the face of the increasing demand for office space, Berlin has also begun to increase the construction of high-rise buildings, and the foundation stone of high-rise buildings has begun to be laid in Berlin.

Friedrichstrasse has been expanded to a range of 1,600 meters after several rectifications, with a construction area of 90,000 square meters on both sides, and although the office building of the Eric Group has been on Unter den den Linden, after the war it also purchased a 777-square-meter constructable area numbered No. 1, which was acquired by Krupp AG, No. 3 is Bentz, and No. 4 Fokker is a total of hundreds of companies with strong government relations and economic means, each with the strength of the enterprise to rush to buy up the new planned place.

The 12 lanes of traffic in both directions run the entire length of the street, and this is also an open area of Berlin, because everyone has already demolished the original building and started construction of a new building.

As the head of the Eric Group, Dinah recruited construction teams from all over the world to build a new world-tallest building on this 777-square-meter land, at 412 meters, which is Dinah's birthday, April 12, and the height that Eric personally selected.

As the second largest enterprise after the Eric Group, Krupp is naturally not much inferior, and the design height of 385 meters has also attracted a lot of attention, but some other small enterprises are no longer competing for height, but are unique in architectural shape and material selection.

Eric is a miser, but likes to spend lavishly, and is willing to invest in the capital, which is naturally because he understands the importance of economic circulation, once everyone holds most of the money tightly in their hands, the country's economic artery needs to slow down. Therefore, Eric has never objected to all kinds of spending money, but there are always some people who take a lot of money but dare not use it, and Eric is very angry about this, so he decides to visit it in person.

On September 6, the headquarters of the German Federal Navy welcomed a very important person to visit, German President Erik, but the president was not in a very good mood, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he called Admiral Hipper, who was already in a hurry with gray hair, to the office.

There are few valuables in the office of the spacious commander-in-chief of the navy, but various ship models are thrown on the ground because there are no shelves, and Eric wants to come over and accuse him of it, and it seems too difficult for a man who yearns for big ships and huge guns to fall in love with an aircraft carrier that has not yet experienced actual combat and verification, and this kind of mobile airfield that dominates the earth's oceans.

Eric didn't have the habit of sitting first as soon as he arrived at someone else's house, but sat on the couch and tried to be as calm as possible in a comfortable position.

"My marshal, I won't talk about the consistent prestige of the army, even the Luftwaffe has demonstrated the ability to strike alone in this German-Italian war, is your navy willing to stand still? More than half a year has passed, and there are still a few broken ships that are starting work unhurriedly, and other shipyards are screaming every day to find Minister Brauchitsch crying poor, and you can't bear to watch them go bankrupt and be liquidated? Then who are you going to ship in the future? Eric wasted his words to make himself look less domineering.

Without waiting for Hippert to speak, Eric spoke again.

"Starting tomorrow, you will come to me every night to report on your work, and I also have new arrangements and plans for the Admiralty." Eric was indeed disappointed with the current state of the Navy, not entirely because of the shipbuilding program, but because of academic innovation.

This status quo of the navy's lameness, Eric can't change it for a while, all he can do is set the tone for the development of the navy, although there are certain restrictions on the development of the navy in this fixed mode, but it is much better than the current headless flies.

"Tomorrow I'll ask Ananta to send you a list of personnel, and I want to form a Naval Reform Commission, of which I will personally chair it." Eric got up and left his office, and the admirals stopped to watch the president leave.

Hipper stood in the crowd and muttered, "The German navy may indeed one day go out of the North Sea and into the deep blue." ”