Goering and Goebbels looked at each other, their faces full of unbearable excitement: although they said that they were cooperating with the Youth Union, they were both knowledgeable, and there was no obvious difference in the ideological field between the Youth Union, the Fascist, and the National Socialist Party. This is not the case in parts of the Czech Republic and Poland...... The so-called cooperation is actually a tacit acquiescence to the spread of the National Socialist Party in the troops.

Of course, tacit understanding always complements each other, Italy will not ask the Germans to be loyal to Italy, and the National Society will not ask the Italians to be loyal to Germany, everyone is comrades and brothers, and the level of allegiance is a bit low.

"To carry out the revolution, it is necessary to be armed, judging from the current situation, the spontaneous establishment of the armament of the stormtroopers and the SS cannot replace the Wehrmacht, just as the Black Shirts cannot replace the Wehrmacht, we still have to base ourselves on arming the army with revolutionary ideas, so that they can maintain high spirits and vigorous vigor, and at the same time imperceptibly let them accept the party and the party's ideas, which is the primary prerequisite for your work." Contini paused, "Of course, the two of you are too high-profile to come forward frequently, and you should properly discuss and develop a set of effective methods to promote and disseminate." Don't worry, the tribal armed forces in Libya and Algeria are not so easy to exterminate, maybe it will take 3 years and 5 years, 10 years and 8 years, everyone will fight steadily! ”

"Herman, tomorrow Sickert will come to see the carrier-based aircraft, you have to behave well, if you can get him to recognize your efforts, that little thing in Munich will be easy to turn over......"

"Yes!" Goebbels and Goering replied in unison.

Before the opening of the next day, Sickert sat directly into Contini's car and unexpectedly introduced him to a businessman named Muller.

"You want to ask us to buy oil?"

"Not buying, to be exact, but ......" Müller looked honest and harmless, but the deal was watertight, "Germany lacks crude oil, but it is rich in coal and steel, and Italy lacks both, but now there is oil, and we want to make a package deal with you - similar to the one between you and Russia." ”

"How much?"

"How about 3 million barrels a year? We trade coke, thermal coal, crude steel or other products. ”

"That's fine, but why be so mysterious? I have cooperated with 6 major consortia, so would it be nice to send a telegram or say no to Uncle Antonio about this kind of thing? Contini smiled, "I don't usually care about specific business, and I'll let the president's office implement it for you." ”

Sickert, who had been silent, suddenly added: "He is not from the six major consortia, if the six consortia intervene, what else will happen to them?" ”

"Huh?" Contini wondered, "And who are you?" ”

Mueller's chubby round face squeezed out a little smile: "It has something to do with the palace, and I pulled General Sickert to help." ”

"Oh......" Contini suddenly realized, it turned out that this was the white gloves of the Hohenzollern family, and then suddenly thought about it, and immediately remembered the reason for Sickert's ouster in history - he invited Prince Wilhelm to visit the exercises without official consent, and was knocked out by another royalist Hindenburg, whether Hindenburg had to get rid of Sickert under pressure or Hindenburg itself and Sickert did not like each other, there have always been different opinions. Contini's understanding, however, prefers to believe the latter interpretation.

The reason is very simple, Hindenburg itself is also royalist, and the Weimar Wehrmacht is also full of royalists from above, if Hindenburg wants to protect Sickert, then he can achieve his goal by reprimanding, why insist on getting rid of it? It's an intriguing story. Now that Hindenburg had come to power, he would not be able to bypass the old marshal in dealing with the German government in the future, but Sickert was still a very capable man, and Contini suddenly felt that it would be good to create an atmosphere to recruit him to his staff at that time.

When he thought of this section, he smiled all over his face: "Since it was introduced by General Sickert, and it has a relationship with the Hohenzollern family, I must give face, and I am also a nobleman, why don't I double it for you, 6 million barrels?" ”

"Really?" Mueller immediately rejoiced.

In fact, during this period of time, the German business community was crazy with jealousy to look at United Oil, among the major European powers, Russia has long had oil, Britain also has colonial crude oil, these Germany can barely accept, but now even France, Italy has oil fields, it seems that the scale is not small, poor Europe's most industrially developed Germany actually has no oil fields at all, every time people snort, the mentality is extremely unbalanced.

The importance of oil has become clearer and clearer, ships and warships need oil, aircraft and submarines need oil, vehicles and tanks still need oil, in addition to these, other basic chemical raw materials can be refined from crude oil. It turns out that Germany is proud to have one of the best coal production bases in Europe, the Ruhr area, but God and the Germans played a merciless joke, the coal is enough for Germany, but not a drop of oil. Before the outbreak of the war, Germany might have been able to go to the colonies to look for oil, but now it is good, let alone the colonies, and even the mainland has shrunk a large chunk.

Therefore, finding a source of high-quality and stable crude oil has become a top priority for Germany, and it is best not to pay foreign exchange - Romania's crude oil is close at hand, but the other party insists on receiving pounds or dollars, which makes Germany very helpless - although the German economy began to bottom out after the implementation of the Dawes plan, but after all, the vitality is greatly damaged, how can there be so much money to buy crude oil.

The deal between the United Group and the Soviet Union opened a window for them, and the six major consortia also tried to cooperate with the Soviets in exchanging industrial equipment for crude oil, but this kind of secret and monopoly business, the small forces could not intervene at all, but it was very promising to open the gap from the United Group.

The plan announced by the United Group stated that in 1926 it would produce 400,000 tons of steel (pig iron and steel together), which would require about 200,000 tons of coke, and at least 300,000 tons of coking coal to produce that much coke. In addition to this, the United Group also announced the construction of a power plant with an installed capacity of 2.4 million kilowatts, the equipment can be bought from the United States, but the coal will certainly not be bought from the United States, where nearly 5 million tons of thermal coal will be needed, and there is also a hidden benefit that the United Group can affect the supply of coal to the Italian transportation system, especially the railway system - which is again a consumption of several million tons a year.

There are rumors that Italy will use oil-fired boilers to replace coal-fired boilers for power generation in the future because of the discovery of oil fields, but the German industry believes that it is not credible, the reason is simple, oil-coal co-burning is feasible, can improve operational efficiency, pure oil? The cost will go up all of a sudden, and presumably the United Group will not burn money so much. Besides, whether it is Libya or Algeria, all that is currently being mined is light sweet crude oil of relatively good quality, which is a hot commodity in the oil market, much better than Iranian oil, and such good things are used as fuel? That's a terrible thing, and money doesn't play like that.

The shrewd consortium has long been staring at this piece of fat, and they all know that Contini has reached a coal import agreement with the Soviet Union, but this does not mean that the Soviet Union can meet all the needs of Italy - the Soviet Union actually has a large coal field in Donetsk, and it has to make a lot of steel, and it is also tight for its own use, and it is impossible to export it all, and the United Group is now so big that it is said that it will also start aluminum smelting - these are all big electricity eaters, and sooner or later they will expand their capacity.

So Contini is confident and bold to hand over 6 million barrels - how big it is, less than 1 million tons, drizzle, and the United Group will control at least 30 million barrels of crude oil next year (including production and imports from Baku)!

Hearing that Contini gave himself such a big face, Sickert, who had always been serious and tight-faced, showed a smile: Although the president's mischievous ability is a little too strong, but after all, people's ability is here, as soon as he thinks of the young people in the royal family, he feels that in addition to his identity and title, the gap in ability is too big.

After getting the note approved by Contini, Muller went to the president's office to implement it, while Sickert entered the Milan base with his entourage.

The first manual rifle presented in front of the two is familiar to everyone: the Kar98 prototype!

In fact, Mauser improved on the G98 rifle, the main changes were the length of the gun was shortened from 1.25 meters to 1.11 meters, the barrel was shortened to 600 mm and new sights were introduced.

The new rifle has been shortened in length, and its effective range has also been reduced, so it can only deal with targets at about 800 meters, and its accuracy has also decreased somewhat - compared to the G98. Of course, the benefits are obvious, the shortened length of the rifle is lighter and more convenient to carry, as for the loss of range and accuracy, Sickert is not an antiquity - everyone understood in the last war, 500 meters away unless a specially trained sharpshooter, it is difficult to hit the target, let alone hit, the opponent can not be found with slightly worse eyesight on the battlefield, after all, most of the time it is in a lying position, and the cross-section is very small.

If you can't hit, why insist on hitting a target 800 meters away? In addition, the Mauser company also proposed a solution, which can prepare 4x and 8x optical sights for the top marksman, relying on this sharp weapon to hit 800 meters and cause effective damage.

Sickert had no opinion on the performance of this gun, but wondered why Italy also used the 7.92mm caliber.

Contini said: "Italy's current 6.5mm has proven to be not powerful enough, the War Department is bidding for improvements, many plans have been proposed, there are 7mm, 7.35mm, 7.62mm, 7.92mm and so on, I personally prefer 7.92mm, and with your country can be used for bullets." ”