The dinner was very richly prepared, and everyone who attended the dinner, except for the deputy foreign minister, who had left for some reason, was very happy. Agricultural products from the United States are entering Europe in large quantities, filling the food gap caused by the war.

With agriculture in several major producing countries severely damaged, it is expected that such imports will continue for some time until Europe recovers its total food production compared to the 40th century.

The standard of living of the upper echelons of the Third Reich was not affected, and the generals and marshals could still drink the fine red wine produced in Bordeaux, France, and taste the ham meat cured in Parma, Italy.

Imported food enriched the German table, giving German civilians a wider variety of options than potatoes and sauerkraue. Germany was still rationing, but these imported foods were not included in the restricted list, and people could use cash to buy them at designated food stores.

The salaries of ordinary industrial workers in Germany were not low, and the salaries of company employees were even more at the middle and upper European levels, but under the wartime mechanism, even money could not buy good things, so it once contributed to the prosperity of the underground black market in German towns. (Historically, the Nazi authorities did not fail to try to curb the black market, the problem is that the black market often involves a bunch of local Nazi officials.) You must remember the famous movie "Schindler's List", which quite bluntly exposed the corruption of the Nazis. ）

Now any German citizen with a legal document can buy agricultural products imported from the Americas in cash in the shops of the community where they live, and the taste of American cured meats may not be comparable to the traditional Germanic flavors, but they are very popular with many German children and housewives.

The second effect of food abundance is that it has dealt a severe blow to the underground trading networks throughout Germany, and the profiteers who have hoarded large quantities of food supplies since the outbreak of the war are now desperately trying to sell off their stocks, just because there are rumors in the market that countries will also liberalize the demand for grain imports next year, and the existing food prices will continue to fall.

It is not known how many black marketeers in Germany went bankrupt during this time, and this was especially common in the Jewish community, and in some places even changed the seats of the presbyterian church in the entire community.

The elders of the Jewish community, who control a lot of resources and have huge connections in addition to money, tend to opt for speculative business, and are best at hoarding goods for short-term profit. They thought that the war would last at least a few years like it did at the beginning of the century, but they did not expect that they would look away and Germany would be out of Reinhardt. Feng. A demon like Stadler has overturned most of the European world in half a year. Historically, German Jews were able to create an underground black market in concentration camps, but the Nazi authorities naively thought that a community wall would stop the nation's desire for money.

After the dinner, the marshals and generals bid farewell to the Führer, and many of them had work to do the next day and had to drive back to their accommodation in Berlin overnight. Jodl and Guderian stayed, and they were to observe a weapons experiment tomorrow, which the Führer had specifically requested, and he needed to listen to the two experts.

Germany is carrying out research on a new generation of tank guns, which is seen as the Führer's foresight, this plan is no longer by the military industrial units to bid, but the selection of experts from each unit to form a special project team, this research and development model has never been seen in Germany, and only at this time the Third Reich can happen.

The Führer already wielded enough power that he no longer had to scare the opinions of the military-industrial complex, and had no choice but to obey the arrangement, but to hope that the Führer would be able to make a considerable profit from it afterwards, as the Führer had assured.

The project, named "Spaghetti", aimed to develop an advanced smoothbore gun with an unprecedentedly high muzzle velocity. This technology was not very difficult at the time, to put it bluntly, it was to pierce a layer of window paper, this idea did not appear in the past, but the public was blinded by the edge of the rifled gun, and the smoothbore gun was regarded as an outdated and backward technology, which has been eliminated by human history.

Experts in the German military industry also hold this idea, smoothbore guns may allow the shell to obtain a higher muzzle velocity, but the lack of rifling means that the cannon cannot rotate stably after ejecting the chamber, it is difficult to ensure the flight attitude of the shell in the air, and this situation will deteriorate rapidly as the distance increases, so for tank guns with high accuracy requirements, the choice of smoothbore is like a joke.

"Is it difficult to make a stable flight of shells?" The Führer just replied indifferently, and then threw a stack of drawings on the conference table. The project team, codenamed "Neapolitan Kitchen", was born in the conference room of the Berlin High Command, and the German Army's "Spaghetti" project was successfully launched at the same time.

If it weren't for the limited technology in Xu Jun's hands, he wouldn't want to talk nonsense with those people at all, he didn't have any drawings of modern smoothbore guns in his arsenal, but he had seen the actual objects of advanced smoothbore guns and the ammunition used in later generations, and when he was working in the museum, he once came into contact with a German retired initial model "Leopard II", and at the same time consulted the technical maintenance documents attached to the car.

Xu Jun knew that someone was already developing a shell-piercing projectile. Brandt's company has even made samples, because of the defeat of France, the company's research and development personnel all fled to England, based on the French technology, British technicians carried out a series of improvements, and finally developed the APDA (shelling armor piercing bullet) that can be used in actual combat at the end of the war.

Xu Jun threw out detailed drawings of this shell, as well as sketches of APFSDS (tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing shells) that spanned the ages. The advanced concept of the latter, as a tailor-made ammunition for smoothbore guns, immediately shocked all the ordnance experts present, and the Führer created an invention that was enough to change the world, and as a participant in the project and a witness to history, everyone present felt blood rushing in their chests.

Although Xu Jun's drawings can save the time of detours in research and development, but the improvement of materials and casting processes alone may take a year and a half.

Germany first needs to manufacture key electroslag remelting equipment, which is not a confidential technology for the steel industry, but the initial investment is large, the production process is complex, and there is a lack of sufficient profit margins for capitalists, and the performance of ordinary steel is enough, and no country has yet put into industrial production. The United States and the Soviet Union were only in the initial period of exploration at this time, and historically this technology was not really put into real production until the fifties and sixties.

Krupp was not very interested in this technology at first, but after getting the Führer's production plan, Krupp's equipment research and development department immediately began to work in overdrive. Krupp's chest was immediately filled with a sense of "mission".

Since the development of a smoothbore gun has just begun, Guderian will certainly not be looking at this kind of artillery tomorrow. In the middle of the night, the tank expert was still sitting at his desk in his bedroom, reading the technical documents he needed to know before the next day's experiment, and the general had a photograph of a strange-looking armored vehicle in his hand.

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