The shortcomings of Germany's fuel reserves were formed before the war. www.biquge.info If you want to change this shortcoming, Li Le doesn't have a good way to change it.

He could only let his generals wait patiently, waiting for the Libyan oil fields under construction to start gaining momentum.

Of course, he also has a good solution, and that is to replace. After saying this, he announced to all the generals: "This is the end of this combat meeting, and I will fight for your share of oil." ”

Goering, as well as Brauchitsch and Raeder, quickly straightened up, raised their arms and said, "Victory, Führer!" ”

Li Le waved his hand casually, and walked out of the door of the conference room with Keitel behind him.

Kesselring glanced at Goering in front of him, wondering what the Führer could do to increase the country's reserves.

But Goering was also confused, glanced at Kesselring behind him, and walked out of the conference room without speaking.

Brauchitsch and Raeder glanced at each other, the two of them had just been digging holes with each other, and of course they would not be friendly for a while.

So they just turned away, and they didn't even have the idea of getting together and talking. A huge conference room was empty for a while.

Führer Li Le walked down the corridor and entered another conference room at the end of the corridor. Everyone who had been waiting there for a long time stood up.

"Victory! Monarch! Everyone present raised their arms and saluted Li Leli with their chin held high.

Similarly, Li Le waved his hand casually, signaling that everyone didn't have to be so restrained. Then he walked to the position of the head and sat down.

Then, Yuan Xiansheng pressed his palms like the chairman, and everyone sat down respectfully, and after a short noise in the conference room, silence returned.

"This time, what we want to discuss is how to ease the pressure on domestic oil reserves." Li Le said as he motioned to his secretary Bowman to put a stack of papers on the conference table.

As he spoke, he pointed to a stack of documents, and said to Speer, who was looking at him at hand: "Listen to your report, the national reserves that are beginning to be tight have begun to affect production?" ”

"That's right...... My Führer, derivatives are very dependent on oil. Speer nodded and said, "Especially the substitutes for rubber products, we are in great demand. ”

Germany itself does not produce any rubber, and in fact there is no rubber production area in the United States. The British relied on regions such as Burma for rubber for their country, while the Americans relied on South America.

Germany, which had no overseas colonies, was heavily dependent on imports for rubber products. This is not the era when synthetic rubber was very common in later generations, synthetic rubber is still a new thing, a very valuable and low-yield petroleum derivative.

As a poor country, Germany relied on the Norwegian occupation zone for steel, Romania and Africa for oil, and rubber had to rely on its own reserves and synthetics.

The quality of synthetic rubber products in 1940 could not be compared with natural rubber, which was another fatal reason why the performance of German engines was becoming more and more backward.

At the same time, the lack of high-quality gasoline also makes the overall performance of German engines inferior to similar products of competitors such as Britain and the United States.

These are all digressions, and Germany is currently short of oil, let alone using it to make derivatives such as synthetic rubber.

If you are familiar with Germany's weapons and equipment during World War II, you will find that many German cars have very narrow wheels, and this practice of weakening off-road performance seems difficult to understand.

The reason for this is actually a helpless trade-off. In most areas of Europe with good roads, such wheels can save a lot of rubber, and they can also save some fuel to some extent......

However, when such a car entered the Russian plains, where the roads were in poor condition, they could only barely make do with it.

"The army has added more than 2,000 vehicles and half-track armored vehicles, and these equipment have consumed a lot of rubber and other materials." Speer is the undersecretary for production and knows his job very well.

In November, Germany is expected to produce twice as many cars as it did in October. In this case, the pressure on the material consumption side of production is indeed amazing.

"On the Air Force's side, just the increase in engine production is enough of a headache. At your request, several design companies are also working on new aircraft, which makes the pressure on the future even greater. Speer began to gush about what he was responsible for.

The Führer put him in charge of industrial production, and of course he had to do his best to fulfill the tasks assigned to him by the Führer.

The so-called scholar died for his confidant, and the Führer promoted him from a favorite of the architectural hobby to an official who grasped the real power of one side, and he had to repay his kindness.

Li Le is very, very satisfied with Speer's performance. First of all, the loyalty shown by him in the training of workers, and the talent shown by him in the organization of industrial production, are outstanding.

"Industrial capacity, you continue to hurry up and prepare! I'll give you a chance to add a lathe performance! Li Le asked Speer to stop talking first and spoke a word of comfort.

Then he turned to the other side and looked at Ribbentrop, who was sitting beside him. His plan to replace oil requires the cooperation and efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Mr. Foreign Minister, there may be some difficulties in negotiations with the Italians. This time we don't have to compromise too much, as long as we complete a part, we can relieve our own pressure. Li Le said to Ribbentrop, who had already looked up at him.

The German foreign minister nodded, and then began to report on his recent work: "My recent work is leaning towards this aspect. ”

"The negotiations with the Italians, although difficult, achieved some results." As he spoke, he pointed to his notebook, which recorded parts of the negotiations between the two sides.

"The Italians agreed with our plan, but were unwilling to accept the total amount we demanded, and this was the main disagreement between the two sides." After Ribbentrop finished speaking, he handed the notebook with important information to Li Le.

The matter was completely within the scope of Li Le's conjecture, and what troubled Germany and Italy was the trouble of transporting oil from the Libyan oil fields back and forth.

There is a good way to solve this trouble, to say the least, most of the trouble of transporting oil from different countries.

Li Le's plan was to replace Italy's share of oil in Romania's oil fields with Libyan oil.

The whole process is simply a process of cutting the loop. In this way, everyone can save a lot of time and capacity.

The original shipping route, Libyan oil, had to be transported by sea to the south of Italy, and then by train to Germany in the north.

And part of the crude oil pumped from the Romanian oil fields has to be sent to Italy, after all, Italy also buys oil produced in Romania.

Li Le's plan is to let Libya ship to Italy, and the crude oil that originally belonged to Germany will be directly replaced with Italy, so that Italy will not have to bother to transport this oil north.

At the same time, the same amount of oil produced by Romania that originally belonged to Italy was directly sent to Germany, which is equivalent to liberating Italy's capacity and shortening the fuel arrival cycle in Germany.

A simple substitution can make Germany's oil more timely and Italy will save itself the trouble of turning over oil.

While this is a win-win solution, it is not so convenient to implement. First of all, one of the most important differences is that oil extraction in Romania is much more convenient than in Libya.

After all, Romania is a mature oil field, and the speed of crude oil extraction and infrastructure construction are already perfect.

Libya's oil fields, the safety of sea transportation, and the inadequate infrastructure, are also very worrying for the Italian side.

The focus of the negotiations was that the German side wanted to directly replace it, and then each of them would be responsible for transportation; Italy, on the other hand, wants to replace it with the amount of oil it actually receives.

Although the two sides are at odds on this issue, this exchange is indeed in everyone's interest, so Italy and Germany have begun to use payment methods to reduce their own oil shipments in private.

"Because Italy paid for part of Libya's oil production with Romanian oil, we have increased by a significant percentage compared to the planned total oil production." The official in charge of oil reserves opened his mouth to give a brief introduction to the situation of oil reserves.

Compared to last month, Germany's consumption of oil reserves is actually starting to decrease. The increase in oil shipments from Romania gave a little hope to Germany's oil reserves.

"In general, everything is still developing in a good direction......" Li Le, who heard the good news, was also relieved.

Under his constant overdraft, the German military is living a life of food and food, and if the oil is cut off, it will be a fatal problem.

Li Le rejoiced in his mind at this time: Fortunately, Britain is now attacking, or the United States, which is behind Britain, to attack German oil......

Thinking of this, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind - no! Now is not the time to sit back and relax! The British still have a place where they can threaten Libya, or even Romania!

So, he stood up suddenly, hurriedly left only the sentence "This is the end of the meeting", and then turned and walked out of the conference room, leaving everyone looking at each other.