Chapter 385: Destiny Gate
People die for money, and birds die for food, describing those who are blindly greedy for money.
Most of the arms dealers in Germany finally woke up to this series of joint actions of the political, commercial, and military circles, and began to show goodwill to the government one after another, and took the initiative to give priority to the completion of their own defense orders.
However, there are always some stunned young people who are not afraid of things, in their eyes, the federal government with the emperor far away can't help them at all. Some even think that they have their hands and eyes and rely on their local states to protest directly to the federal government.
In fact, in a federal state, there are indeed a few remote state capitals that think that they should make their own decisions in their own acres of land, and are even prepared to protect local enterprises in a high-profile manner to stabilize their local fiscal revenues. Although this situation objectively exists, everyone also understands that risky policy speculation is not something that everyone dares to play, unless they are a little brainless. Such state protection can only be said to be vulnerable to a more serious president.
In addition, there are some companies that are even pressing treasures, and they are sure that President Eric, who is also a businessman, will not kill them for the time being, and at best it is just a formality. Although there are only a few companies that have this idea, they can only be said to be in a race against time, because Eric even dares to move himself, and they are not old at all.
However, there are also companies that do not use the federal government as a dish at all, and most of them have a very similar characteristic, that is, foreign-owned, joint ventures or foreign-controlled companies. They firmly believe that if things get into trouble, it will be an international trade dispute, and with this trump card alone, they can have the confidence to go their own way.
However, if such a situation had been put in previous years, Eric would have endured it, but the current Germany is far from being comparable to ten years ago, and after 12 years of hard work, the projection of forces in the east, south, and north directions, as well as overseas infiltration, it can be said that Germany has no opponents to fear on the European map, and at best it is only a problem of the size of the trouble and how to solve it.
At this moment, Britain is riddled with troubles at home, and France cannot withstand the temptation of the "European Union", which has long been half-pushed and half-done, and the United States and the Soviet Union, which really worried Eric, are now just tigers on paper and are gradually under control.
The Soviet Union was highly dependent on and obsessed with German technology during the transition period, however, in reality it was only given a piece of the pie that Germany drew on paper. Although Germany's technology was good, its high-tech technology could not be applied to the Soviet Union, where its basic industry was underdeveloped. As soon as Germany leaves, many seemingly advanced technologies will soon become a piece of waste paper.
At the same time, harsh environmental factors made high-tech equipment and products very expensive to maintain, and it was difficult for the Soviet Union to independently conquer those seemingly beautiful cutting-edge technologies in a short period of time, which was like letting the Soviets run around in circles, but never had a head. secondly, the embarrassing situation of the people cannot be broken through immediately; The high-spending crowd preferred high-end goods produced in Germany, while the Soviets themselves did not have the capacity to produce them. Low-end practical products because the cost is higher than that of Germany, and even the quality is not so bad, it is difficult to find a way out for such products, and there is no market in China at all.
The Germans now finally understand why Eric exported technology to the Soviet Union back then, to put it bluntly, to control the brains of the Soviets and make the Soviets have a dependency that cannot disappear. Even if the Soviets wake up now, it will be too late, and without ten or eight years of layout and investment, this equation will not be solved.
There are no shortcuts to science, it takes time and money to tackle key problems, was the USSR ready? The answer is yes, no!
In terms of national size, the Soviet Union does not seem to be afraid of Germany, but when some high-tech science and technology are in the hands of others, the problem is not so simple.
At present, the Soviet Union could not completely produce a car with independent intellectual property rights, except for some coarse, heavy, non-technical large components that have been produced in the Soviet Union, all the spare parts on the car need to be imported from Germany. In the event that the two countries break off diplomatic relations, the Soviet Union will be left with nothing but a mirror.
Although the Soviet leadership also identified such problems, the question was how to resolve them. The subject was so esoteric that the Soviets had to pay the tuition first and work hard from scratch.
The seemingly powerful Soviet Union simply did not have the strength to compete with Germany, so it was not known who else in the east would be worthy of Germany's fear. However, Eric also knew that the Soviet Union was like a big man, reckless and belligerent. Once there is a chain reaction between the East and the West, Germany may also be beaten with chickens and eggs, and it will not be able to pay off.
Now, as the British stirred up the situation, Japan began to withdraw from the Far East, completely relieving the pressure on the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union's attention was completely returned to Europe, and the war was directed at Germany. Germany and the Soviet Union, you have me, I have you, love and hate, I really don't know how to clean up this mess.
The hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops on the Soviet-Finnish border seemed to have decided to take root here, and even though Eric was very annoyed, he had to worry about what the British attitude was. It's easy to fire, but no one can grasp the cracks of the war, and Germany, which has just had a good life, doesn't want to play this risky game for the time being, so Eric tries to control the situation and make it develop according to his own routine.
Because Britain and the United States are the best at playing balancing act, sometimes they don't care whether other countries live or die for the sake of their own national interests. The more worried things are, the more likely they are to happen, sooner or later the European continent will fight, and now Eric can only expand his armaments and use his strength to negotiate with his opponents in order to break free from the shackles, so the dovish concerns of the chief counsel Max are gradually ignored by him.
At that time, the reason why Eric invited Max out of the mountain in a sedan chair was because Germany needed to recuperate and maintain a relatively stable surrounding environment, and the doves could contribute a lot to these conditions during that time. Now it is different, and the neighbors who used to be eyeing each other seem to be suffering from Trouble Syndrome, and there is also a lack of "hematopoietic function".
The financial crisis at the end of 1929 was like a mirror, allowing Eric to see the essence of Westerners, especially the mainstream countries of the world such as Britain and the United States after the economy was hit hard.
Max, who was also respected and loved by the British, was not as tactful as Andreas, and as chief counsel, he believed that he had the right to correct the president's wrongdoing for the sake of the country's security. Since the spring draft, Max has been openly opposed to the massive expansion of the army, at least not with such fanfare, much to the displeasure of Eric, and the two have had a lot of unpleasant arguments on several occasions. However, the loyal and honest Max is a tendon and likes to compete.
Max found that the surrounding countries were already starting to get nervous, and Britain was a little nervous. If it weren't for the fact that the two countries signed a series of bilateral trade treaties under Andreas's cooperation, Britain would have felt that Germany was going to war with a foreign country.
In Eric's eyes, those companies that play with luck are nothing more than trying to take advantage of the loopholes of national policies, and if they want to break this situation, they have to hit the sore spots of these people. Starting with the Eric Group, the ultimate confrontation between government and business can only have one outcome, that is, enterprises must obey the needs of the state for a specific period. Maybe foreign capital and joint ventures think that they do not have such obligations, so good, how you make money can spit out.
In fact, Eric does not want to beat people to death with a stick, and companies must make money when they should make money, but only if they must first obey the interests of the state.
The dignified defense ministers were replaced on the spot, and if the small state capital was used as a car, the price would be even more painful, and those companies that had threatened to resolutely resist the government surrendered one after another. While the nationwide rectification work was in full swing, Max had already received countless diplomatic protests from all over the world in his office, and many embassy and consulate personnel even directly approached him to complain.
It has to be said that Eric's movements are indeed very large, and almost all the National Guard forces in various states and states have been dispatched to clean up and rectify enterprises across the country without any scruples with joint investigators in the name of inspection. The "privacy" of the businessmen has basically been investigated.
In fact, there are valid reasons why Eric is so aggressive, first of all, because of national security considerations, which is a large-scale phenomenon that many countries have had, and it is by no means a maverick in Germany. The second is that there is no indiscriminate inspection across the country, and no one can play any privileges. Even if many countries protest, it will only be for the sake of their own nationals.
Whether it is foreign capital or joint ventures, the first thing to do is to obey the laws of the host country, if you only want to make money and ignore the legal management of the host country, even if you find the "mother's family" to cry and break off, it will not help.
Although there were many voices from abroad asking for explanations from Germany, most of them began to persuade and educate their own nationals. Over time, local enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, including joint ventures, have learned the routine of the Eric Group, that is, everyone has to be soft in the face of the law of impartiality.
The situation of smooth national decrees, stable incomes of ordinary people, and enterprises in their own places gradually emerged, and Eric's generosity was finally widely recognized by the society.
In fact, there are also a few foreign-funded enterprises that are not simply to make money, but to carry out a series of illegal and criminal activities in Germany under the guise of enterprises, especially those countries with the largest protest voices, which are even more incomprehensible. Eric is the leader of the secret alliance and military intelligence, of course, he knows this well, so he just took advantage of the great opportunity to clean up and clean up these suspected objects to make a big unveiling and thorough understanding.
The nationwide campaign also dealt a heavy blow to companies that brutally oppressed front-line workers, with people applauding and many taking to the streets to set off firecrackers and fireworks in celebration.
The longer he has been in politics, the more he looks ahead and thinks about the future, fearing the dragon and the tiger, and blindly keeping his throne. Today, more than ten years later, Prime Minister Hans Luther once again saw Eric's flamboyance and pungency, and while admiring it, he also began to learn to be cautious and try to avoid direct confrontation with Eric. The former had Stresemann as an example, and Hans Luther felt that he had to play it safe and not gamble with Eric with his political life.
Foreign-funded and joint ventures have also become much more well-behaved, making money in their own right. Live a safe and stable life, after all, Eric is a more real master, if there is any more mistakes, it may not be someone from the FBI who investigates, but someone from the Joint Intelligence Agency and the Military Intelligence Agency who comes to the door.