The French really rejected Datang's request, although the French islands in the Central and South Pacific did not have much economic benefit to France, but the French had been cheated by Zhang Meng for a lot of money, and the Paul government couldn't swallow this breath, so they deliberately closed the door on the issue of buying the island, so that Datang was closed.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng had already been mentally prepared, most of those French islands were located in the South Pacific Ocean, which belonged to the strategic rear of the Tang Dynasty. The threat to the Tang Dynasty currently comes only from Japan in the North Pacific and potentially from the U.S. Pacific Fleet, so it doesn't matter whether France transfers those French islands or not.

At this time, it was already the summer of 1933, which was also the year of the worst global economic crisis, Hitler in Germany came to power and officially embarked on the road of fascist dictatorship, and Europe was clouded and the future was bleak.

After Hitler came to power, he politically purged the internal one-party dictatorship and brought the entire economy into the orbit of being controlled by the state, adapting to political needs, and implementing forced production, so as to be more conducive to the expansion of arms warfare.

The only person who knew Hitler's thoughts was Zhang Meng, but Zhang Meng did not try to stop this fascist leader from the past and the present, but wished that Hitler would stir up a bigger storm in Europe.

At the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, no leader of any country sent a message of condolence to congratulate him, and all European countries were dissatisfied with Hitler's way of coming to power. Only Zhang Meng immediately sent a congratulatory telegram to Hitler, actively echoed Hitler's reform policies, and took the initiative to fully cooperate with Germany in all aspects.

Hitler had a special affection for Zhang Meng, and he also heard the legendary story of Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire and admired it very much. Looking forward to a meeting with Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng also agreed.

At this time, Germany was most in need of funds for economic development and political help to get rid of the shackles of the Versailles Treaty. Therefore, when Zhang Meng came out to offer full cooperation with Hitler, he agreed without even thinking about it.

Zhang Meng values Germany's science and technology and talent team, and hopes to obtain Germany's advanced science with the help of cooperation with the Germans. At the same time, Hitler was bound to expand his armaments after coming to power, but he did not dare to be blatant in the first few years, so it was a huge potential source of arms.

Zhang Meng hopes to cooperate with the Germans. Research and development of advanced weapons and equipment, help the Tang Empire improve the scientific and technological content of weapons and equipment, and increase arms exports.

The German army was subject to the restrictions of the Versailles Pact. Many weapons and equipment could not be developed and produced, and when the Tang military proposed cooperation, the German army was immediately very happy and cooperated with the Tang army.

Datang provides R&D funds and R&D sites. The Versailles Treaty stipulated that the Germans were not allowed to develop weapons and equipment in their own country. Therefore, the German army sent a large number of top scientists and engineers to Datang to conduct research and shiyan on new weapons and equipment at the Weapons Research and Development Institute of the Yanjing Military Base in Datang.

In this way, the Tang Army has virtually received the help of a large number of top weapons experts, and with abundant financial support, various weapons and equipment have been put on the agenda.

Under his instructions, the research and development of some unnecessary weapons and equipment was cancelled, focusing on the development of main battle tanks, fighters, bombers, submarines, etc. Of course. The weapons and equipment jointly developed by the Tang and German countries were mainly supplied to the future German army, and the Tang army actually had a separate research and development laboratory. There, they focused on using the help of Germany's top scientists, such as jet aero engines, highly silent diesel-electric submarine engines, etc., which were the key magic weapons for the Tang Army to win on the battlefield in the future.

"Your Highness, the time for the meeting with Hitler has been set, on the first of next month."

In the Chongde Hall of Daming Palace, next to a huge sand table, Zhang Meng carefully placed an architectural model of Haode on it.

The entire Chongde Hall is huge, and there is nothing but this sand table. And on this sand table is the mountain model of the entire Tang Empire, and Zhang Meng is just placing the model on it according to the design drawings.

It can be seen that the entire sand table is planned haode architectural model, high-rise buildings are lined up one after another, highways, railways are crisscrossed, factory areas, green areas are scattered, all the patterns are formulated in accordance with the development needs of the future metropolis, everything seems to be the perfect atmosphere of modernization.

All the layout and facilities on this sand table correspond to the construction of the entire Tang Empire outside, and only the Tang Empire, a country that starts from scratch, can plan everything from the beginning, and only a country with money like the Tang Empire can build on such a large scale.

Zhang Meng rarely had time to plan the whole country by himself, and he was very committed for a while.

After a long time, Zhang Meng got down from the beam frame and asked, "Is he coming or am I coming?" ”

Liu Kaiwei said with a smile: "Of course Hitler came here in person, Your Highness doesn't know how happy Hitler was when he learned that you planned to meet him face to face." ”

Zhang Meng nodded, thinking that Hitler had not yet fully controlled Germany, so his spectrum was not so big, and his personal visit to Datang showed the importance of Datang to Germany.

Zhang Meng wanted Hitler's nervousness, so that he could take advantage of the talent and jishu that Hitler needed to rise from Germany to the Tang Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhang Meng smiled slightly and asked, "Did Hitler say he was going to talk about something?" ”

Liu Kaiwei replied: "Hitler's envoy conveyed to us that first, he wanted to borrow money from the Reich, second, he hoped that the Reich would give priority to helping the German army produce a large number of weapons and equipment, and third, he hoped to form an alliance with the Reich. ”

The first and second were already expected by Zhang Meng, but the third made Zhang Meng a little surprised, he didn't expect Hitler to have such an idea.

"It's okay to lend money to Hitler, but only for a short period of time. The production of weapons and equipment for the German army was ours, but the price had to be negotiated. As for the third alliance, there is no urgency, but don't refuse, just drag it out first. ”

Zhang Meng then set the tone, and Liu Kaiwei remembered them one by one.

At this time, Liu Kaiwei said again: "Your Highness, Ma Zhanshan in the northeast is anti-Japanese again, and is currently fighting a bloody battle with the Japanese Kwantung Army, should we support it." ”

Zhang Meng thought for a while and said: "You can support it, but he can't support it alone, and he won't be able to support it for long, let's see which talents are among his subordinates, and send a plane to get it back." ”

Zhang Meng never makes loss-making transactions, which Liu Kaiwei knows very well.

He smiled, and then asked: "Jiang Guangnai of Fujian has signs of rebellion, he has already sent someone to contact us, hoping to seek the protection of the Tang Dynasty, willing to lead tens of thousands of troops under his command to change the banner to the Tang Dynasty, and hope to establish a foothold for the Tang Dynasty in Fujian." ”

Zhang Meng was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, and secretly criticized this Jiang Guangnai for planning to fight, knowing that he couldn't beat Lao Jiang, so he wanted to lean on the big tree of Datang. (To be continued......)