Chapter 171: Science and Technology Create Strength (5)
It's just in time-_-!!
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"Yes, gradually strive for the initiative in the National Bank. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info: "The person Li Qi faced was Hans. Luther, he said, "We make way in business in order to take back control of the banks." ”
They were on their way to Nuremberg, where they met with people from all walks of life, mainly industrial representatives.
This time the meeting in Nuremberg was of the public type, under the banner of commercial cooperation between Germany and the United States, but in fact it was only superficial, and more of a need for Li Qi to appease many old industrial families who seemed to be on the verge of moving.
Nuremberg was a former industrial region of Germany, and it is located in the very center of Germany, with the Rhine region for metals and coal burning to the west and good transportation of products to the east. The industry here is so dense that it used to be the site of the chimneys, which emitted black smoke that almost obscured the sky during the production spree.
Of course, the German economy is in a very bad situation, and the industry is basically stagnant, and the chimneys still exist, but there is basically no black smoke coming out.
In later generations, it was known that industrial emissions were an act of environmental destruction, but today they are not seen as such. Anyone who has been to London knows one thing, the industrial area there emits huge amounts of black smoke day and night, and other people's noses smell the uncomfortable air, but inside their mouths are admiring the industrial strength of Britain, and their faces cannot hide their envy.
Riding in a car and looking at the roadside scenery through the window, you can see from the faces of pedestrians what stage a country is in.
As a politician, Richie has no less contact with the people, and he knows deeply what the people want. The people of Germany are not asking much now, a job that will bring food and clothing, nothing more.
Every country is formed by a collective, so there are many classes, ordinary people want to have food and clothing, the capitalist class needs to generate profits, the army wants to grow stronger, and politicians need to get as much support as possible.
This time Litchie came to Nuremberg, and what he wanted to bring to some industrial classes was the benefits. This benefit is not large, it is only the distribution of the share that can be started, and then the help in funds and raw materials.
The factory owners needed to give Richie what he deserved in return, not much, that is, to cooperate with the government's arrangements at work, and then to cooperate with the goods in lieu of the indemnity for the defeat.
In fact, if the operation is done well, Li Qi is convinced that even if he suffers a big loss at present, he will inevitably get unimaginable returns in the future, after all, it is equivalent to opening up the market made in Germany!
People will always have a habit of using products, and if they think that the products produced by a certain company are easy to use and reliable, then they will easily become the supporters of a certain company. There are very few people who have this "foreknowledge" now, and according to what Richie knows, it seems that similar views have become popular in the United States, but few people on the European continent have snooped on this secret.
People who know the effect of the product are not in the industrial business, but a family that sells "diamonds", that is, a family that sells diamonds, and their slogan is to make every woman aspire to have at least one diamond ring for at least a hundred years, and they are working hard for this goal. They have a good commercial slogan, called "Diamonds are eternal, one lasts forever", don't you think it's very beautiful when you hear it? The question is...... Diamonds are really diamonds!
The family fought hard in the diamond industry, and Li Qi knew that they would succeed in the end, but after the diamonds were valued, their operations were in trouble, and then they created a certification body to exclude other diamonds that were not certified by professional bodies as blood diamonds, illegal diamonds, etc. What does it mean to be deliberate? It is estimated that there are only families in Europe and the United States who will spend a hundred years planning a thing.
There are a lot of things that Li Qi wants to plan, but he has only a dozen years at most, and he can only do everything at a fast pace.
In the face of business talks, there is really nothing complicated about the whole meeting process, it is nothing more than delineating the fields, and then the companies try their best to fight for quotas.
Germany was a country with narrow terrain, and especially after being cut off a tenth of its land after the last defeat, a large part of its resources were restricted. There are other resources, such as the mines of the Rhine region and the coal mines of the Ruhr region, and even if they are produced, the resources of these two regions are basically taken by France and Belgium, and very few can really be allocated to Germany.
"Your Excellency, does the Cabinet have detailed distribution figures for the import of resources from abroad?" 55-year-old Gustav. Krupp looked a little old, and his face looked calm, but anyone could see longing in their eyes. He asked: "What kind of tilt will be made regarding the resources of non-ferrous metals?" ”
What happened to Krupp after the First World War was very bad, very bad, Gustav. Krupp was declared a war criminal, but he was not imprisoned. Then, the Krupp company was first sacked by various rebel armies, and then demolished by the armies of the Allies, not only suffering an almost devastating economic blow, but also an incalculable mental blow.
Today would have been there Gustav. Krupp's son Alfred. Krupp came over, but the meeting chaired by Li Qi today was really too important, important enough to be able to decide the life and death of a company, even if it was a little inappropriate for Gustav. Krupp still came in person.
Now Alfred. Krupp sat right on his father Gustav. Next to Krupp, the young man who had just come of age, he looked at Li Qi with something wrong. It's not that he's hostile or what, it's with an inexplicable dazedness, and there seems to be a hint of worship?
I have to say that the situation of the Krupp family in the past six years has been very bad, after all, the patriarch of a family has been sentenced to become a war criminal, and the impact will certainly not be low. They also faced a lot of restrictions and political pressure after the war, and some Socialists did not lack trouble, and if it were not for the Junkers behind them, Krupp really needed to consider whether to emigrate to some small country in South America.
Many of the families participating in today's meeting are in little difference from the Krupp family in their post-war situation, and many of them have been so bad even in the past two months that they have not been able to maintain even the most basic levels of decency.
The National Socialist Workers' Party became the ruling party in Germany, and then all kinds of small parties began to be banned, and several large political parties began to cooperate under pressure.
The lack of order in a country is equivalent to the absence of a future, and the state of law and order is also related to whether a country can develop or not. It is a very real problem, there is no order to make people panic, poor law and order will not have a good social environment, only the restoration of order and the maintenance of law and order, other things can be said, that is the reason why some countries once they are in chaos, and then they cannot stop the chaos and then sink.
Germany had been in turmoil for six years, and most people had had enough of that kind of life, and Rich's first day in office was to start the martial law bill, which passed without any pressure, because the National Socialist Workers' Party held 52 percent of the seats in parliament.
New President Erich. Feng. Falkingham could have directly declared martial law, and the passage of the bill by a vote in Congress only gave the bill a democratic basis, but in fact, it also silenced the mouths of several major parties.
Martial law nationwide was accompanied by the march of the National Defense Forces into major cities, city after city, where unregistered illegal political parties were banned, and then some registered political parties were re-registered and their guns were confiscated.
When it comes to the seizure of guns, the German parties are actually very unconvinced, and they are clamoring for the National Socialist Workers' Party to disband the Freikorps if they want to confiscate the guns, because the Freikorps are the largest armed party in Germany.
Those clamoring parties thought that they would gain support, but what they did not expect happened in the next moment, the German people had not yet happened, and France was the first to jump to their feet, knowing that the weight of the Freikorps in the intervention army was not clear, and who would be commanded by the French generals who were disbanding the Freikorps and collecting debts in Soviet Russia?
Germany is now a weak diplomatic country, and the great powers exert political pressure, not to mention small parties, and even the ruling party has to kneel every minute. France was the first to speak, then Britain, and finally the United States also intervened, and those clamoring parties, those who have a little brain, immediately shut up, and those who have no brains to continue to shout are waiting to be in prison, or the kind of situation where they have to squat regardless of right or wrong.
Britain believed that Germany needed a limited recovery, and Richie took a pro-British line, and when it came to purchasing resources from abroad, he purchased the most from Britain.
In fact, Li Qi purchased a huge amount from Britain and did not get any preferential treatment, he gave up normal business practices, and ignored the American companies with cheap quotations, which are all taking sides!
With limited funds and limited resources, then don't think about how generous it can be, there will definitely be a tilt in internal distribution.
Rich knew what Krupp was doing recently, and Krupp was hinted at by some senior generals of the Wehrmacht to secretly engage in the research of armored weapons, and even did more things before that, such as quietly studying submarines in the Netherlands, and then engaged in artillery research or something.
In the past, most of the military industrial families or enterprises were secretly doing something, some did not want to give up their business, and some were commissioned by the Wehrmacht like Krupp. It is precisely because of this that it is impossible for Li Qi to completely ignore those old military industrial families or enterprises, and once he does so, not to mention the waste of military industrial heritage belonging to Germany, the generals of the military should also have a hostile attitude.
Litch replied with a smile to Gustav. In Krupp's words, he did not go into too much detail, first giving a general idea, and then suggesting that more specific details could be discussed in detail later on other occasions.
That hint was enthusiastically responded, and not only Krupp, but all the veteran military industry rejoiced. Richie was willing to negotiate in secret, and they believed that his influence was working.
In today's world, there are not many industries that can be built, and there can be no market for many things to be produced.
The Yankees meant something similar, they were willing to invest in some light industry, and they were not interested in some heavy industry.
What is heavy industry? At present, heavy industry is almost linked to the military industry, and then in the automobile, shipbuilding, steel and other industries, does the United States need to invest in Germany? The Yankees themselves are the world's first industrial power, and the products they produce can be sold for most of the world, and their own things are unsalable, and they will invest in Germany's heavy industry when they are sick.
The United States hopes that some German companies can transfer some patents, such as some steel formulas, and some patents in the field of chemistry. In this regard, Li Qi needs to reach a consensus with the relevant German authorities, and his private opinion is that some patents can be transferred, but ...... It's hard to convince.
For some of the quotas that have been formulated, Li Qi has gradually revealed at the meeting that the companies and enterprises that can obtain the shares are naturally extremely happy, and some companies and enterprises that have not obtained the shares are disappointed and angry.
"Believe me, as Chancellor of Germany, I am eager for each and every one of your company's requests to be met." Rich is as sincere as he wants: "I need political achievements, and political achievements come from meeting the needs of you and the people." The fact that your factories are open means that you can create more jobs and allow the government to meet its commitment to employment. ”
Great truth, isn't it? Richie said a lot, and he promised those who did not get a share that he would do his best to find a way out for them.
In fact, it is a very mutually beneficial thing, purchasing resources from abroad and distributing them to German factories, the distribution here is not for nothing, they need to repay the products they produce, and the government will hand them over to the countries, and the mortgage defeat compensation accounts for most of it, and some of them belong to normal exports.
"Your Excellency, how long can the money invested by your party be turned into a debt from the state to your party?"
"I don't want to say what a great person I am. I still have a long political career, and my party needs to remain the ruling party of Germany. The country owes a huge debt, and who would dare to ...... except for my party as the ruling party Or who wants to be the ruling party? ”
"Your idea is different. With this in mind, you already have a full set of development plans. I'm looking forward to your career in office. ”
Richie was very friendly to Gustav. After Krupp shook hands, the next one was a representative from Rheinmetall...... (To be continued.) )