Next to the town square in the small town of Roermond stands a very old Renaissance building, known to the inhabitants of the small town of Roermond as the "Bishop's Residence", which was built by an ancestor of the Heinsberg family who was once bishop of Limburg.

Hersman and Chloe spent their first night in this old house. And this house will go down in history in the future, and the Roermond Armaments Conference, which was later called one of the "100 major events that affected the course of world history", was held in this house. And not only once, but from 1919 to 1923, five meetings were held in a row.

On August 3, 1919, just three days after Hirschman and Chloe's wedding. The first Rulmond Armaments Conference was held in a large but gloomy room in the "Bishop's Residence", with paintings on religious subjects on the walls.

The meeting was chaired by Carl Brown of the Industrial Promotion Council. HAUSHOFER -- Today's "Armaments Conference" is actually a plenary meeting of the Industrial Promotion Council. After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the Industrial Promotion Council was decoupled from the government of the Weimar Republic and became a veritable civil institution.

Moreover, the activities of this "civil organization" also violated the Treaty of Versailles, so it was inconvenient to hold meetings in Germany, so the headquarters of the Industrial Promotion Council was simply moved to the Netherlands, which is close to the Rhine region.

In addition, due to the chaos in Germany after the November Revolution, the operations of the Industrial Promotion Committee were suspended for several months, and it was not until March 1919 that it resumed its activities.

However, from March to the present, this committee has not done much, except for the creation of the FK-BF consortium, which is to revise the previous "Darksaber Plan" and draw up a work plan for 1920.

Hersmann sits at Karl. At the head of the right side of Haushofer was a seat, and another representative of the army, Colonel Schleicher, sat opposite him.

Next to the two sat Anthony. Falk and Gustav. Krupp. Dr. Schacht of the National Bank, Otto of BMW. Richard of the Benz company of Jistan, Bentz. Bentz, representative of Rheinmetall Harald and others. These were old acquaintances of Hersmann, who had met them at past meetings of the Industrial Promotion Committee.

In addition, the famous firearms manufacturer Mauser Company, the four major German shipbuilding companies Bremen Wieser Shipyard, Kilgermania Shipyard, Hamburg Volken Shipyard and Danzig Kaiser the Great Shipyard, as well as the famous German chemical manufacturers BASF AG and Bayer Chemicals AG, as well as the German electrical industry giant Siemens AG were represented.

In addition, there was a representative from the German Navy, Erich, who had just been promoted to colonel. Raeder.

In front of everyone present, including Hersman, there was a copy of Karl. Haushofer's handwritten non-disclosure agreement. From now on, the Industrial Promotion Committee will have to operate in the utmost secrecy.

Therefore, everyone involved in it must sign a confidentiality agreement. If the agreement is violated, it is not as simple as a court case.

"We all have to sign this agreement." Hersman was the first to pick up the pen on the table and sign the agreement. "Because what we are going to do now is something that the enemy will not tolerate, and even some people in the government will be afraid. If you are scared, then quit now. ”

No one withdrew, and everyone signed the same document as Hersman. The secretaries of the two committees for the promotion of industry entered the conference room and took away the papers that had been placed in front of each of them, and at the same time replaced them with a copy of the "Work Plan for 1920".

When the "Work Plan" was opened, Hersman said: "Now that we are all united, we are ready to devote our energy and financial resources to the revival of our homeland." Then as a representative of the Wehrmacht (now the name of the German army is the German Wehrmacht), I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you. At the same time, I would like to make a promise to you: the Defence Force will do everything in its power to help the company you represent grow and grow! ”

This can be regarded as a reassuring pill, but today's defense forces are not the German army that used to have a country.

"Lieutenant Colonel, can our Julius Caesar Shipyard also grow and grow?" Questioning Hersmann's words was Dr. Eisenberg, the general manager of Julius Caesar's shipyards, an elderly Junker aristocrat who had built ships for the German Navy all his life.

Julius Caesar's shipyard was an industry of Prussia and an important naval yard. But now the city of Danzig, although claimed to be "free" (its inhabitants were all Germans), was under Polish control for both foreign affairs and defense. Representatives of the Polish government also appeared in the shipyards of Julius Caesar.

"It is possible to move to Courland," says Hersmann, "and as mentioned in the 1920 Work Plan, all the state-owned shipbuilding and ship repair facilities in the ports of Riga, Vandava and Liepaja will be taken over by the Caesar the Great shipyard." The Industrial Promotion Council will provide a loan to support the project. ”

The ports of Riga, Vandava and Liepaja were all military ports of the Russian Baltic Fleet, and there were many shipbuilding and ship repair factories that originally belonged to the Russian Navy. Although it is not large, it has a large dock that can repair Gangut-class battleships (displacement 23,360 tons).

"We hope that the shipyard of Julius Caesar will be relocated in 1920, that shipbuilding and ship repair operations will be resumed in 1921, and that in 1923 or 1924 you will complete the construction of an aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of about 7,500 tons!"

"Hang, aircraft carrier?" Eisenberg was taken aback, "Can we build a ship like this?" ...... Entente side"

"There is no need to worry about the Entente," said Hersman, "and the United Duchy of the Baltic is not our territory...... Now the Entente have recognized the status of Empress Olga. And there was hope that the Baltic would achieve independence from Russia in 1920 or 1921. At that time, the country will be part of the 'anti-epidemic belt' that separates the spread of Bolshevism. ”

The Baltic Republic, although it did not appear in another time and space, was not because of the opposition of the Entente. In fact, the historical Admiral Golz had already laid down Latvia, and he also had the support of the British. However, the admiral was not greedy enough and marched to Estonia, as a result of which his "Iron Division" was crushed by the combined Estonian and White Russian forces. Even Latvia was not saved.

And in this time and space, because of Hersman, the Courland Plan was formulated very reasonably, taking into account the most difficult problems. So now it's getting to the point where it's hard to shake.

Moreover, Britain and France turned to Courland - now to betray White Russia, and in the future to resist Red Russia. Asking so much, it is natural to give the Germans of Courland a little sweetness.

After the defeat of White Russia by the Bolsheviks, the Baltic republics would be able to swing between the USSR and the West, and then there would be even more freedom.

Hersman continued: "You Caesar the Great shipyard should start designing now. The intelligence department will give you some information on foreign aircraft carriers under construction and those that have already been built for your reference. In addition, the aircraft carrier is a verification ship, a training ship and an advertising ship......"

"Advertising ship?"

Hersman smiled and nodded, "Yes, so you don't have to think about armor, you don't need to equip naval guns, you don't need to be seaworthy, you don't need to think about the wind and waves in the North Atlantic...... However, the speed should not be lower than 25 knots, and it is necessary to have a deck that can take off and land aircraft and a hangar that can accommodate more than 20 carrier-based aircraft. ”

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