Chapter 293: The Iron Treaty
"When was the oil from Libya discovered?" Sure enough, the fears were justified, and just a day later, Mussolini hurried to Berlin, somewhat inquiring. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As soon as he arrived, Mussolini immediately asked everyone about Libya's oil.
At the beginning, after promising to hand over Libyan oil to the Germans and set up a Munich oil company, Mussolini never thought that it would be able to produce oil from it, so he only charged a nominal fee.
"It's hard to put into words." "We spent tens of millions of marks on decades of exploration, and we thought it would end in failure, but last year, we suddenly found a large oil field," said Ciric. ”
A fiery gaze quickly appeared in Mussolini's eyes, large oil fields! How big is it?
"We found a large oil field near Amal. The estimated reserves are more than 580 million tons. Now, we are in the process of installing drilling equipment, and when it matures, it will produce about 3.5 million tons of oil per year. ”
Reserves of 580 million tons! Annual output of 3.5 million tons! These data made Mussolini quite excited! Libya is an Italian colony, and the oil there should be Italy's!
Thinking of this, his face darkened: "Since this is the case, then we need the right to exploit this oil field." ”
"I'm sorry, at the beginning, we have signed an agreement, the entire Libyan oil exploitation rights belong to our Munich company, and now, we have invested tens of millions of marks, and it is easy to see the benefits, Mussolini, your request, we can't agree."
Ciric spoke quickly, without waiting for Mussolini to reply, and continued: "We will honor the agreement, according to our original agreement, you will enjoy 20 percent of the profits, you will have to enjoy it automatically without any investment or hiring." According to the agreement..."
"At the beginning, I thought that there could be no oil in Libya, so that you could use it for military training." Mussolini said: "Now, now that there is oil, of course the agreement is nullified, and we have to redraw it." ”
Mussolini, as the leader of the party and the leader of the whole world FXS, said nothing but easily regretted it.
The atmosphere of the scene instantly cooled down.
Hitler never spoke, in his eyes, Mussolini was his teacher, and he very much did not want to draw a sword against his teacher, but now, the teacher's approach made it difficult for him to accept.
Germany also needs oil, Libyan oil is Hitler's most important lifeblood, the original agreement has been signed, and now, as soon as Mussolini comes up and opens his mouth, he will tear up the agreement!
Although Hitler often did the matter of tearing up the agreement, but it was tearing up other people's agreements, and it was extremely refreshing to do it, and now, it was others who tore up his agreement, which made him extremely depressed.
What to do? If Mussolini's appetite is not enough, then, according to Ciric, it is better to find a new man to be the head of Italy! Although this matter is difficult to do, or even impossible to do, but at least it can make Italy riot, and no one will continue to pursue the Libyan oil matter, and when Germany occupies the whole of Europe, Italy will dare to fart indiscriminately!
Hitler didn't want to go that far, but, if Mussolini pushed too hard...
"Party leader, your joke is so funny." At this moment, Ciric broke this oppressive atmosphere, "Didn't we sign the Axis treaties before?" We, Germany and Italy, are one axis, and we have the same interests. ”
"Our goal is very long-term, the whole of Europe, will be subjugated to our feet, we are quite sincere between us, there should be no such thing as not keeping our promises, right? Originally, we had planned to sign a more strategic agreement. Ciric said.
A more strategic agreement? Mussolini looked at Ciric and didn't know what Ciric wanted to say, but the goal was the whole of Europe, and this statement was very much in line with Mussolini's psychology.
Remembering that Germany was closely behind Italy on the African and Spanish issues, Mussolini felt that it would indeed be a bit too much for him to take over the mining rights.
"We are preparing to work on a new agreement called the Steel Treaty." "We in Germany and Italy have a military alliance. ”
Steel Treaty! There are three main contents of this agreement:
1. Political and diplomatic support will be given by one of the States Parties in the event of an external threat to the security or vital interests of the other Party;
2. If one side is involved in a war, the other side will provide military support by land, sea and air;
3. Establish a standing committee to enhance mutual coordination.
What is the use of this treaty? Of course, it marked the formal establishment of the German-Italian military alliance, which clearly stipulated the mutual assumption of military obligations in order to overthrow the existing international system and seize hegemony in Europe and the world.
Mussolini coveted oil, but he coveted world hegemony even more! After several annexations, Germany is no longer the weak defeated country, and now Germany, in terms of comprehensive strength, has ranked among the top three in the world, leaving Britain and France behind!
In fact, Mussolini came to ask for the guilt this time, isn't it showing his identity, don't look at Germany now that it is strong, I am your revolutionary mentor, you have to listen to me!
And now, the new ideas put forward by Germany have made Mussolini extremely important.
As a result, Mussolini's attention has been removed from oil, which is only a small problem, and strategy is the big one! Occupy all of Europe! It's a big strategy!
"So, should we pull in Japan? Forming the Triple Alliance? Mussolini asked.
Pull up Japan? That is tantamount to early death and early superbirth, and the group of dwarves in the island country don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick!
Historically, it was because of Japan's drag that Japan suddenly ran to fight the United States, and as a result, Hitler was forced to declare war on the United States because of his alliance, and as a result, the United States was dragged in and Germany's future was buried.
Now, Hitler has accepted Hillek's sober analysis, whether to pull Japan or not, in fact, it is of little use to Germany, after all, Japan's battlefield is in Asia, and some military exchanges can be carried out in private, but it cannot rise to the level of war.
Now, hearing Mussolini's question, Hitler hurriedly replied: "On the issue of China, we have serious differences with Japan, so we need to go through repeated consultations to form an alliance with Japan, but now, our interests with Italy are completely identical, so it is better for us to sign this military agreement first, and as for Japan, we will wait until the differences between China are resolved later." ”