Chapter 158: Ore
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As relations between the UK and Germany continued to deteriorate, the original trade of importing rare metal tungsten from China was no longer sustainable. In itself, it is an import project that requires a lot of detours, and now coupled with the British naval blockade, it is even more difficult for Germany to import tungsten ore from China.
In fact, Germany in history only imported a part of tungsten ore through cooperation with China before the start of World War II. At the beginning of World War II, this cooperation was completely terminated.
However, Reinhardt knew that in fact, Austria, the eastern province of Germany, has the second largest tungsten mine in the world. It's a pity that Germany, which had no idea about it during World War II, has not been able to excavate and exploit it, and I have to say that this is a bit far away and close at hand.
Now, after Reinhardt sent a geological team to Salzburg, Austria, they finally found the famous Mitsil tungsten mine.
Tungsten mining in Salzburg is classified as a secret project, just as Germany has taken a secret approach to oil in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now, Ross has sent tens of thousands of Jewish prisoners from the Labor Construction Corps to the mining areas to build roads and smelters.
The use of these Jewish prisoners to build the mine's infrastructure was inexpensive and confidential. After all, the state does not need to pay them a penny of wages, and occasionally rewarding them with a pack of low-quality cigarettes will make them happy for a while. As for secrecy, can a group of re-education through labor prisoners whose activity areas are all located in the government's designated factory area still be able to send a message to an enemy country far away?
In order to supervise the prisoners of the Production and Construction Corps, Ross also specially dispatched 1,000 SS soldiers to the detention. The weapons and equipment of these 1,000 SS soldiers were basically the stock of warehouses that had been eliminated from Czechoslovakia, and it was certainly impossible to use them on the front line, but it was still more than enough to symbolically deter a group of labor prisoners.
Tungsten ore has been found in Austria, oil in northern Germany is ready to be extracted, and Hungarian mineral resources such as lignite, uranium, and iron have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Third Reich. Today, Germany under Reinhardt has more confidence than the Third Reich in history.
With the large oil fields of Germany itself, the armored forces of the Third Reich in the future will have more options. With tungsten mines in Austria, the armored forces of the Reich could produce armor-piercing shells equipped with much more. As for the use of coal resources, Germany has improved its energy conversion efficiency and accumulated more technology earlier than in history.
At the same time, in order to pay Germany for renovating its railway and road network, building battleships for it, and selling surplus precision machine tools to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union also continued to send a steady stream of strategic resources such as oil, iron, manganese, copper, lead, and zinc to Germany as a transaction price.
At this moment, Ross, who was involved in the secrecy of the resources of the Third Reich, was visiting the Austrian mines with Reinhardt. He was accompanied by SS General 1st Class and Waffen-SS Commander-in-Chief Steve, who was preparing to form three new Waffen-SS infantry divisions in Austria.
The composition of the SS is more complex, but it can be broadly divided into two categories: Waffen-SS and SS garrisons. The Waffen-SS was the elite unit of the SS and had the ability to fight both offensively and defensively. The SS troops stationed in the cantonment were armed with the SS to select the remaining old and weak personnel, and the function was to garrison and maintain the occupied areas, and there was no great offensive ability.
Naturally, the current Waffen-SS was handed over to Steve, the commander-in-chief of the Waffen-SS, for future warfare. The SS troops stationed in the cantonment were all transferred to the Gestapo minister Ross, and were temporarily used to supervise the construction of the Corps of Labor, and in the near future could also be sent to garrison the rear occupation areas.
When Reinhardt, Steve, and Ross, the three "entrepreneurial partners" who have been along the way, get together again, there will inevitably be more topics.
"My Führer, lately I have often wondered, why have you succeeded in predicting what is to come every time for nearly twenty years? Is there any secret to this for you? Steve knew Reinhardt from the earliest, and the two knew each other well, so they had fewer worries when they talked.
When Steve mentioned this, Rose was also interested, and asked Reinhardt respectfully: "My Führer, and your mastery of the resources contained in various places is simply unbelievable, is there any trick in this?" How exactly do you get to this point? ”
This is simply the most difficult situation for every traverser to explain! How so? Directly said that he had crossed over, who the believed it! Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if everyone believes it, will the prestige that you have built up so hard soon come to naught? At that time, others may say, since you have achieved those miracles by memory, how can you rule us when the future changes?
Reinhardt knew very well that this seemingly ordinary chat actually revealed that Steve and Ross... No, revealing a lot of doubts, including those of the German top brass who were single-handedly promoted by themselves, - how did the Führer achieve so many miracles? If this kind of thing is not handled well, he Reinhardt will definitely face no less trouble in the future.
So many protagonists in the crossing have been mixed up, and Lao Tzu is probably no problem. Who wouldn't beat a snake with a stick?
Reinhardt pondered his emotions for a moment and said slowly, "As you all know, I was in a coma for a while. ”
When Steve and Rose saw that Reinhardt was about to answer the doubts they had suppressed in their hearts for years, they immediately let go of their eyes and turned their heads at Reinhardt.
Reinhardt looked at the two of them, and roughly understood that they were quite concerned about their answers, and it was impossible for him to dismiss the topic at will. Simply thought in his heart and began to say blindly: "It's strange to say, I didn't feel delirious at that time, but realized that I was in another world. It was an amazing continent, adorned with countless amounts of gold and silver, and each mountain produced a sparkling metal. ”
Hearing this, Ross seemed to realize something. Then he stared at Reinhardt with bright eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Führer...... Wouldn't the kind of metal produced on the mountain be a brownish gold with a hint of brown and yellow used to decorate the local palaces and temples? ”
"yes, yes, how do you know." Reinhardt simply followed Ross's words.
Who knew that Rose's expression became even more excited after hearing this, and he actually began to pant like a drug, and said with words in his mouth: "Olihakang....... Could that really be Olihacom........."
However, Steve on the side didn't care what the name of the ore was, his attention was on Reinhardt's story. So he bypassed the nervous Ross and took over: "My Führer, what happened after that? ”