"As for your second question, I can tell you responsibly that your country's contribution is definitely worth it." Reinhardt raised his eyebrows and said, "We hope that your country can take out the technology of the Akagi aircraft carrier and share it with the German Navy." At the same time, Messerschmidt, a subsidiary of China's Rheinland Group, will also cooperate with your country to help you develop new aircraft carrier-based aircraft using the alloy technology we have developed. ”

What is selflessness and what is charcoal in the snow, the German friends did not forget to take advantage of even asking for Japanese aircraft carrier technology. And this benefit is precisely the new light carrier-based aircraft technology that the Japanese Navy urgently needs. You must know that seeking German alloy technology to develop a new type of carrier-based aircraft is an additional task of Hiroshi Oshima in this negotiation. As a result, the German side was so considerate and directly proposed.

The reason why Germany and Japan formed an alliance in history was actually inseparable from the person Hiroshi Oshima. Don't look at the fact that Japan and Germany are only political alliances, not military alliances. Even this political alliance was an unexpected product. Although the Japanese Army was very supportive, the Japanese Navy was opposed by representatives headed by Isoroku Yamamoto.

As a result, Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to Germany who was in charge of negotiations in history, agreed to Germany's request without receiving clear instructions from home. The signatories in Japan also took advantage of the opportunity to suppress the opposition and sign a political alliance with Germany.

Today, the German side has offered much more favorable conditions than in history. Naturally, Hiroshi Oshima was more active in seeking opportunities for unity than in history, and a "Defense Pact" was signed in secret. This agreement was only one part of the famous anti-Comintern agreement in history. But it was more pertinent, detailing the responsibilities of both countries in guarding against the Soviet Union.

Afterwards, Ross, a follower bent on putting Reinhardt on the altar, privately asked Reinhardt: "Führer, why should we abandon the friendly cooperation with China and the Soviet Union in order to win over Japan?" ”

Ross knew very well that Reinhardt looked down on the Asian island nation from the bottom of his heart. Moreover, it is obviously not in Germany's interests to abandon the Soviet Union and China, two customers that provided Germany with a large amount of strategic resources, for the sake of Japan, a new partner.

"Abandoning USSR cooperation with China, did I say that?" Reinhardt turned his face and forgot about the agreement with Japan.

Looking at Ross with a confident face, Reinhardt smiled shamelessly: "Our deal with the Soviet Union, even Britain and France are in the dark, how can Japan know." The only one who needs to take responsibility for defending the Soviet Union is Japan. ”

"As for the military industry development plan with China," Reinhardt smiled even brighter: "The weapons and equipment of the four German armament divisions in the early stage have already been transported to China, and there is no plan to transport follow-up arms in the past few years." Promising that Japan would no longer transport arms to China was just a favor. ”

Suddenly realized, Ross remembered and asked again: "The reason why the Führer agreed not to expand the scale of non-military transactions is not because our transportation capacity cannot support larger-scale transportation." ”

After listening to Rose's words, Reinhardt laughed and said: "That's right, the capacity we plan to invest in the Far East has reached saturation. So far, we have to send 200,000 M35 steel helmets and 80,000 Type 1930 gas masks to the Far East. That's enough for us to take our time, and we don't have to increase the scale. Of course, when these transport ships return, they will also bring back a large amount of strategic materials provided for us by our Chinese friends, and they will not lose anything at all. ”

Speaking of which, Ross's respect for Reinhardt cannot be overstated. Every condition that did not exist in the first place was given to Japan by the Führer as a favor. In the end, Japan spent its own national strength to contain the Soviet Union and Britain and the United States for Germany, thanks to the technology provided by Germany. Originally, Japan assisted Germany in researching aircraft carrier strategy, but it was Germany that helped Japan improve its aircraft carrier technology.

This is simply that Germany bought Japan at a good price, but on the surface it is enthusiastic to help Japan develop its military industry.

Dare to be unashamed to claim to be enthusiastic German?

Germany, which has always been old-fashioned and upright and dead-headed, doesn't know what's going on, and such a demon was born.

Fortunately, he was his own leader and not someone else's, and Rose was secretly glad.

Until bidding farewell to Hiroshi Oshima, Reinhardt also vowed to propose a new cipher to be jointly developed with the Japanese Navy.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before the famous cryptographic victory in history, the Battle of Midway.

The Japanese Navy has not yet come up with the JN-25-style code that is claimed to be "never decipherable" but has been cracked by the United States.

Therefore, Reinhardt did not rush to pull Japan to make a new password.

In fact, it is impossible for Japan to share their cryptographic information with Germany today. Military passwords are top secret in every country.

Hiroshi Oshima, who boarded the plane back home, would not have known that no matter how much naval technology he asked for from the Germans, he would only drink to quench his thirst.

Even if the Japanese Navy has a more modern aircraft carrier fleet and a larger submarine cluster, it will have a negligible advantage in the face of the industrial and manufacturing capacity of the United States, which is several times that of Japan.

Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the strength of the Japanese navy was roughly 70% that of the United States. Considering that the United States is a two-ocean navy, the two countries are almost evenly matched in the Pacific direction.

The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor allowed Japan in history to seize a short-term local advantage in the Pacific.

However, it is clear to everyone that from the time of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which triggered the Pacific War, to Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, the United States' naval power was getting bigger and bigger.

In four years, the United States has launched a total of 24 heavy fleet aircraft carriers, 10 light aircraft carriers, and 113 escort aircraft carriers, a total of 147 aircraft carriers!

Compared to the entire Second World War, the Third Reich did not even put a single aircraft carrier into operation. The United States, which has overcapacity for aircraft carriers, has even provided a large number of Borg-class escort aircraft carriers to Britain to assist the Allies in anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic. This is an exaggeration, but it is a fact!

Because of this, even though Reinhardt was disgusted with the Japanese Empire, he was still hospitable on the surface. Because he knew that without Japan's containment of the United States, even if Germany won the whole of Europe, it would not become the victor of history.

As long as there is still a little strength left in the United States, Germany's war against Britain will be obstructed by the United States, and Germany's further rise will be suppressed.

Historically, the United States, in order to let Germany break the balance of power in Europe, lent Germany 33 billion marks back and forth. Later, in order to make Britain resist the rise of the Third Reich, he continued to send weapons to Britain.

This country, which was once a British colony, has applied Britain's "balance of power on the European continent" idea perfectly, even surpassing the British teacher!

Today, Reinhardt's military cooperation with Japan was based on a simple principle, like playing cards against landlords.

In order to defeat the landlords, now the two families will form an alliance. But in the next game, the two may "turn against each other". There are no eternal enemies, and there are no eternal friends! Only forever good!

In the future, Germany needs to take advantage of the common interests of Japan and itself to jointly defeat the United States, which is a more "landlord" with the United States.