In the beginning, Reinhardt wanted to give Italy and Egypt benefits first.

Anyway, Egypt is still in the British sphere of influence, and if you give it, you will give it.

In addition, Reinhardt was also mentally prepared not to interfere with Mussolini's dream of a "new Roman Empire".

In other words, he could not interfere in the actions of Italy in the Balkans. The premise was that the Italians did not infringe on German interests.

Anyway, Reinhardt also knows Italy's ability. Their army is simply the despair of all Italian allies.

If Mussolini wants to show his skills in the Balkans, he will be nothing more than a self-righteous attack on Greece, as in history.

Unlike in the Battle of France, where 32 Italian divisions were defeated by 5 French divisions.

In the incredible Italian-Greek War in history, the performance of the Italian Army was even more breathtaking!

In the Italo-Greek War in the original time and space, the main force of the Italian side was the 25th Main Army under the command of Bollasca, under the support of the 23rd and 51st Infantry Divisions, the 131st Armored Division, as well as the Littoral Combat Brigade and the 3rd Alpine Mountain Division, with a total strength of about 85,000 people, equipped with 163 tanks, more than 600 artillery pieces and 187 aircraft.

On the Greek front, there is only the Eighth Infantry Division under the command of Major General Simitros, and the West Macedonian cluster (division-level troops) and Bandus regiment-level troops are responsible for the support and flank cover tasks, with a total strength of only 30,000 troops, and a lack of tanks, howitzers and other heavy weapons, as for the air force, it is basically just a decoration.

But the result? Obviously, Italy invaded Greece on a large scale, bullying the weak and attacking the Kingdom of Greece with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

But as it fought, it turned into a counteroffensive by the Greek Army, forcing Italy to retreat. Then the Greeks occupied a quarter of Albania, which belonged to Italian territory, besieging almost 500,000 Italian troops!

Hung and beaten by a small country!

When he thought of Mussolini's future embarrassment, Reinhardt felt sympathy for him.

It's so embarrassing, it's like rubbing the Italian face on the ground!

How else to say that Greece was only willing to surrender to the Germans in World War II?

Surrendering to the Italians also seems to be a bit embarrassing.

What's the joke about? Because Greece was only willing to surrender to the Germans, and there were no soldiers of German origin in the Italian army that fought there. Eventually, the Italians stumbled upon a local prostitute of German descent and accepted the surrender of the Greek army on their behalf.

The Greeks preferred to admit defeat to German prostitutes than to Italian men.......

Damn it! Who made this good story, Reinhardt simply admired.

"Führer Reinhardt, are you listening to me?"

Opposite Reinhardt, Mussolini, who noticed that something seemed wrong with him, asked in his fluent German.

"Oh? Oh! Listening, listening, you please go on. Realizing that he was thinking out of his mind, Reinhardt quickly put away his inner laughter and looked at Mussolini with what he thought was the most serious look.

Because Mussolini himself knew German, he did not need an interpreter for every meeting with Reinhardt. As a result, few people in Italy knew how their leader had been pretentious in front of the German Führer.

"Okay, I'll move on." Mussolini paused, confirmed that Reinhardt was serious, at least, and that he was listening to himself very seriously, and continued his declaration.

"The French oil fields in Algeria, we, the Kingdom of Italy, must take 49%." Mussolini was not in the slightest politeness, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he set his eyes on the Algerian oil fields, which had recently been newly developed by the French.

This was the most important step in Reinhat's plan to bring together France, and if it weren't for the French Algeria first, he would have developed Libya, the real largest oil reserve area in Africa.

Algeria, which was deliberately boasted by Reinhardt as "the largest oil field in pseudo-Africa", was used to seduce Britain and make Churchill sleep.

The British would not let the Vichy government, which was a puppet of Germany, develop a huge oil field. In this case, it would mean that Germany would be able to obtain a huge amount of oil from Vichy France, which would continue to supply the powerful war machine of the Third Reich.

The task of the Algerian oil fields is to make an irreparable bond between Britain and France. This was part of a huge plan that Reinhardt had been planning for a long time, and it was impossible to tolerate Italy breaking it.

Even Germany did not make much of the fingers at the Algerian oil fields, but the Rhine consortium had a 30% stake and left most of the shares in the hands of the French to give them hope.

You Italians, why do you ask for 49% of the shares?!

And listening to Mussolini's tone, not taking 50% of the shares, has already saved enough face for Reinhardt!

Co-authored you Mussolini thought that Germany 51 percent, Italy 49 percent, Italy is a little more modest?

But before Reinhardt could stop Mussolini, the Italian leader spoke again.

"After the end of the French campaign, Italy should receive 40% of its reparations to compensate for Italy's losses in the war."

Reinhardt only felt a burst of dizziness, and you stinked and suffered a lot of losses, so you have to be responsible for the French?

Looking at the stunned Reinhardt, thinking that the other party was dissatisfied with being displeased with the reparations taken away by Italy, Mussolini suggested "intimately": "If the German side feels that it is not satisfied with the loss of part of the funds, it can increase the reparations of the French side by 40% and give the increased part to Italy." ”

Interesting, really interesting! Reinhatpi raised his lips without smiling: "What else does the leader want, even if he puts it forward, I will agree to all of them?" ”

"Very good, very good, then I'm welcome." Mussolini was delighted.

Next, Mussolini unceremoniously put forward one of his requests one after another:

Italy needed part of France's African colonies, including French Tunisia.

Italy demanded compensation from France for 20 warships of various types in the Italian Navy.

Italy demanded that Germany give part of the territory to the east of France.

Italy demanded that Germany allow Italy ownership of the Suez Canal.

Italy also demanded absolute dominance of the Balkans.

Of course, Mussolini considered himself the Kingdom of Italy to be very sincere.

In return, Italy would guarantee German interests in the Mediterranean, as well as German dominance in France.

At the same time, Italy would heroically help Germany and eliminate the main British force in Egypt. And guarantees that no more demands will be made until the complete occupation of the Balkans.