Chapter 482: Mediterranean Situation (39)
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Hitler stood in front of the huge map of the world that hung on the front wall of the Führer's office, with his elbows folded in front of his chest, and no one knew what was going on in his head at the moment.
In the Pacific, Oceania, the Indian Ocean, Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic, the territory and sphere of influence controlled by the Donghua Empire are really getting bigger and bigger.
Except for South America, the entire southern hemisphere was almost completely controlled by the Donghua Empire. It is said that the Donghua Empire even sent people to land on the icy and snowy Antarctic continent and erected national monuments and boundary monuments.
As for Cheng Gong's political wisdom, Hitler was really not convinced.
Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy and other European countries have been tossing and turning in Africa for hundreds of years, why did no one think of forming an African Union organization in Africa and moving the vast majority of Africa's population to African Union member states, thus controlling the overall pattern of North Africa, East Africa, Central Africa and West Africa in one fell swoop?
Thinking of the Donghua Empire's investment in the African Union, Hitler couldn't help but feel envious.
It is estimated that only the Donghua Empire has such strong financial resources to solve the problem of clothing, food, housing and transportation for all African people under the AU in a package.
From the establishment of the African Union, Hitler came up with the idea of establishing an EU in Europe.
What Xitegong didn't expect was that when he communicated with Cheng Gong on Crescent Island, his idea was highly affirmed and approved by the emperor of the Donghua Empire.
I don't know if Cheng Gong will try to get involved in Europe's interests in the future.
Hitler clearly lacked confidence in this.
It controls the AU, controls the Mediterranean, and the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal are also under the control of the Donghua Empire. This seems to have completely clamped down on several strategic channels for Europe's development to Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia.
It seems that Europe is left with only half of the Middle East looking west at the Atlantic.
The problem is that Iran and Iraq are now being infiltrated and controlled by the Soviet Union intensified. Europe's eastward expansion was first and foremost confronted by the Soviet Union, not the Donghua Empire.
Cheng Gong, this guy really played a good game of chess!
It's not an exaggeration to call him the world's top strategist.
In terms of strategic layout, he Adolf Hitler is clearly inferior to Cheng Gong.
I remember that three years ago, Cheng Gong once said to him that after the outbreak of the European war, it is better not to start a war with the Soviet Union until Britain is completely defeated. But Hitler didn't seem to take Cheng Gong's advice seriously.
Germany's glorious record of defeating the Anglo-French alliance and forcing France to surrender and sweeping Europe made Hitler's confidence burst unprecedentedly. As long as the Soviet Union was defeated again, Germany would never have any rivals on the European continent.
As for the British, they waited for Germany to unify Europe before resorting to a strategy of combining military strikes and political inducements.
The English Channel prevented the German Army from landing on the British Isles, but it also blocked the opportunity for Britain to return to Europe.
Facts have proved that Cheng Gong's prediction three years ago was correct.
Germany's war against the Soviet Union not only did not reap any war dividends, but instead consumed huge war resources and seriously affected Germany's domestic economic development.
Hitler remembered that Cheng Gong had made a judgment at that time. If Germany could not defeat the Soviet Union within half a year, then the Soviet Union would inevitably become a quagmire of war for Germany, which would exhaust Germany's war resources and eventually drag Germany into a sinister precarious situation of defeat.
Hitler had always thought that Germany's military might could completely crush the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Red Army, with their terrible will and faith, made up for the lack of military quality and weaponry, and soon built a strong defensive line in Ukraine and Belarus, firmly blocking more than three million elite German troops from this defensive line.
Hitler now finally understood why Cheng Gong and Stalin had come up with the Paradise Island Cooperative Organization.
Obviously, with the strategic depth formed by the vast territory possessed by the Soviet Union, coupled with the population, industrial base, and abundant industrial resources of the Soviet Union, it is impossible to completely use military means to deal with the Soviet Union. The best policy is to use economic means and political strategy.
Judging from the military conflict between the Donghua Royal Navy and the Soviet Red Navy in the Arabian Sea, Stalin immediately flew to Nairobi to explain this incident to Cheng Gong in person, and Cheng Gong's method of calculating the Soviet Union was obviously much more clever than Germany's war invasion of the Soviet Union.
To deal with communism, there can only be two parts military and eight parts politics.
Although it is still impossible to determine whether the strategy proposed by Cheng Gong is completely correct, at the very least, the Donghua Empire has successfully used economic means to knock on the door of the Soviet Union, which has always been closed to the outside world.
The southern hemisphere was shared by the Eastern Chinese Empire, while the northern hemisphere was shared by Germany and the Soviet Union, with the exception of Africa.
This was a secret agreement between Hitler, Cheng Gong and Stalin during the Crescent Island Conference.
As for the interests of the Americas, everyone depends on their abilities and skills. After all, Japan and the United States are not so easy to deal with.
Since Africa is now demarcated as the sphere of influence of the Donghua Empire. Therefore, Hitler took German South Africa very seriously.
Obviously, Cheng Gong is a wise person who knows how to grasp proportions. He knew that Germany would never give up South Africa again after giving up North Africa on its own initiative.
German South Africa was snatched by Germany from the British and French. It is also the richest in Africa. Whoever wanted to take away Germany's only colony abroad, Hitler would fight it with all his might.
If Germany wants to plan its interests in South America in the future, German South Africa will undoubtedly be the most suitable springboard.
It was precisely on the basis of this consideration that Hitler acquiesced to Rommel, the governor of South Africa, gradually becoming a "native emperor" in South Africa.
The presence of the British Navy created an ocean-going chain between Germany and German South Africa that was even more troublesome than the English Channel. But after the Donghua Empire replaced British control in the Mediterranean, the chain became irrelevant.
Germany, German South Africa, the African Union and the East China Empire have agreed on the construction of a high-speed railway around Africa to connect North Africa, West Africa, South Africa and East Africa into a resource-sharing economic community.
A large rail and road network covering the entire coastal and inland regions of Africa will be completed over the next 15 years in parallel construction in a point-by-point and segmented manner, until the entire line will be connected.
Although the AU was part of the East China Empire's sphere of influence, Africa's mineral resources were not only completely open to German and German-owned companies. We are equally open to all commercial enterprises around the world.
Open door has always been Cheng Gong's philosophy of governance. Hitler sometimes did not understand this.
Could it be that Cheng Gong is confident that the industrial products of the Donghua Empire will always maintain a cost-effective competitive advantage in the global market competition?
As the Donghua Empire expanded at a greater pace around the world, Hitler became more and more convinced of the indisputable fact that the Donghua Empire could only be friends and not enemies.
Perhaps, the outbreak of a full-scale war between Japan and the Donghua Empire is the most strategic direction in Germany's global interests.
In fact, Hitler always looked down on the Japanese. However, Japan's landing on the North American continent and sweeping the combined forces of the United States and Canada made Hitler have to look at the Japanese Empire differently.
How strong the United States is, the Germans have the most say. Because the reason why Germany was able to re-emerge in Europe after the defeat in World War I was largely inseparable from the large investment of American consortiums in Germany. (To be continued.) )