Reinhardt's great victory in the North Sea made Reinhardt so happy that he immediately ordered a large number of canned luncheon meat to be collected from warehouses and supplied and sold in unlimited quantities in major cities across the country for three days.

Yes, it's not free, but you need to spend money to buy it, and you only have 3 days to buy it in unlimited quantities.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the food ration system that has been issued by Reinhardt himself since the Polish campaign.

Because of the war with Britain and France, it became more and more difficult for Germany to import food, especially the British naval blockade, which almost blocked Germany's route for importing supplies from the sea.

At the same time, the Soviet government, on its part, has recently made frequent small moves, delaying or canceling the delivery of supplies to Germany several times.

In this case, on the one hand, it is estimated that Germany's repeated delay in the delivery of battleships caused dissatisfaction with the Soviet government.

On the other hand, it is also inextricably linked to Stalin's recent growing ambitions.

The end of the Finnish campaign allowed him to consolidate the defensive front of Leelinggrad, gain territory east and south of the Curzon Line, which was formerly controlled by Finland, and obtain a lease on the Hanko Peninsula.

Romania ceded two provinces without a fight, which allowed the Soviet Union to advance bloodlessly on the southern front, garrisoning Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.

And now, the footsteps of the Soviet Red Army are moving closer to the three Baltic states. After sending separate notes to the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, the Soviet government put forward in the note the demands of reorganizing the government, holding general elections, and allowing the Soviet Red Army to pass freely.

As a result of the successive actions, the Soviet Union increased its territory by more than 460,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 22 million, and advanced its western border to the west by about 300 to 400 kilometers, thus increasing its defense space and improving its strategic position to a certain extent.

What the? Against whom is the strategic position to fight?

Of course, it was the strategic position of the war against Germany!

And if you think about it, the overthrown regimes of the three Baltic states were all pro-German regimes that came to power under the control of the Third Reich.

On Romania's newly established Russo-Romanian border, the Soviets only needed an armored charge to threaten the valuable oil fields that Germany needed to import oil from Romania.

Everything the Soviet government did was aimed at Germany and threatened its interests. Now that they have stopped exporting grain and oil to Germany, they have become even more suspicious.

What the hell did the Soviets want to do?!

"In the East, there used to be a famous old saying...... Reinhardt once again flaunted his oriental knowledge in front of a group of German generals.

To be honest, many people may have a kind of doubt, since they have traveled to the Western world, why there is an old saying in the East. Honestly, isn't it good to say that the ancient sayings of the West are bad?!

But Reinhardt just thinks this is very meaningful, and to put it bluntly, there is a kind of pleasure of pretending to succeed.

You Westerners haven't heard of it, have you? If you haven't heard of it, listen to the Führer, let you see how knowledgeable the learned Führer is, and then bow down.

"Mr. Sima's thoughts, passers-by know." Reinhardt said this classic afterword born in the late Three Kingdoms with a smile on his face.

Of course, because the mouth was not very sharp after crossing, Reinhardt was too lazy to pronounce the Chinese name "zhao, sima", and simply changed his name to Mr. Sima.

Anyway, few Europeans have heard of it, and in this era, it is estimated that there are not many people in Europe who watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?

Sure enough, Bo Lao Xiqi on the side asked with a puzzled face: "My Führer, who is this Mr. Sima, and what does his mind mean?" ”

Because he had just received the victory report from the navy, Reinhardt was also in a good mood and patiently explained the allusion of "Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by" for Bo Laoshitch and others.

"Now you understand, today's Soviet Union, just like Mr. Sima back then, has undoubtedly exposed ambitions, and anyone can easily understand what they are thinking." After some explanation, Reinhardt stretched out his right hand, patted Boulhitch on the shoulder, and smiled: "They have continuously violated the interests of our country and have begun to prepare for war with us. ”

"But the Führer......." Ross, who knew a lot of inside information, couldn't help but ask: "What the Soviets are doing now, isn't what we agreed to in the treaty before?" ”

In the secret terms of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, the Soviet Union did mention its territorial claims to small Western states, and Germany agreed not to interfere. How can it be said that someone else is now targeting Germany?

"And what about their stop supplying us with oil and food?" Reinhardt withdrew his hand from Blahitch's shoulder and thrust it back into his waist: "This already shows that they don't want to continue to feed our future enemy. ”

Britain dominated Germany's western imports, and the Soviet Union cut off Germany's eastern imports.

In other words, in addition to the grain imports from the south of Italy, a certain amount of wheat can be guaranteed to enter Germany every month. In addition, Germany has to rely on almost all of its own food supply.

How else to say "cannons, not butter"? If there is really the ability to ensure that the military industry and food production go hand in hand at the same time, who does not want to have artillery and butter.

In fact, because Reinhardt had the advantage of being a prophet, the Third Reich in this life enjoyed a natural advantage in terms of the reserves of war materials. In order to avoid demoralization, Reinhardt repeatedly stressed the need to ensure the standard of living of the German people.

It can be said that before the outbreak of the war, Germany's preparations for war in the field of agriculture were thorough throughout Europe.

Reinhardt learned the lesson of the Allied blockade during World War I, which made Germany, which supplied agricultural products overseas, miserable. On the one hand, to increase domestic food production capacity, and on the other hand, to redirect foreign trade as much as possible to those countries with which Germany counted on to maintain contacts, such as Italy, and even the Soviet Union.

The benefit of this is that the amount of food stored in Germany has increased and the institutions that manage agriculture have been strengthened. The effect of these measures was also evident, reducing Germany's dependence on external supplies from 25 percent during World War I to 15 percent. By the time the Polish campaign began, Germany was in fact self-sufficient in bread, potatoes, sugar, dairy, meat, and vegetables in general, although it was still deficient in fats and oils, and about 10 percent of the protein feed had to be imported. But it is much better than Germany at the same time in history.

To this day, the stocks of the Third Reich still have enough grain and sugar for the whole country for more than two years, 270,000 tons of lard, cured meat and butter, as well as a large amount of oats and corn for feed. In addition to this, Reinhardt also stockpiled a large inventory of leather, cloth, and silk for his empire, which could be used to make parachutes and other war materials.

Had it not been for the unpredictable outcome of the war against the British, and the growing ambitions of the Soviets, Reinhardt would not have had to use food rationing so intensely.