Chapter 50: Buying People's Hearts
"Your Excellency, what do you like to drink?"
In the living room of the head of state of the Ming Empire, Yang Feng sat on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, took the juice from the maid and said.
Less than a month after its completion, the Führer's Mansion is a three-storey European-style building built on a hillside facing the sea, and is also vividly called the Red House because it is decorated red with a lot of modern materials.
"Whatever!"
Manstein said with a smile.
"Let's have an ice bar!"
Yang Feng snapped his fingers very casually, and the maid beside him hurriedly poured a glass of Blue Ice King and sent it to Manstein.
"Very pure Falz taste!"
After tasting the wine of the motherland, Manstein said with a little sadness.
"I'm afraid the people of Palz won't be able to make wine this year, and just cleaning up the ruins of their homes will keep them busy."
Yang Feng said lightly.
Manstein sighed slightly.
"Marshal, I have no intention of judging the rights and wrongs of this war, you are the losers, this is already a fact, the king is defeated, and the end of the loser does not need me to describe it to you. The most important thing for the people of your country now is to rebuild their homes as soon as possible, so that those women and children who have been through the war will no longer sleep on the streets at night and will no longer endure the suffering of hunger. I have prepared a batch of foodstuffs, and another hundred thousand sets of down jackets, which are in my warehouse, and tomorrow the officers and men of the navy you brought with you can be sent directly to your country in the cruiser Hongwu, together with my soldiers. ”
Yang Feng said.
"Are you telling the truth?"
Manstein said incredulously.
"Of course it is true, even if it is my gratitude to Admiral Falkenhausen and his officers for their contribution to our resistance against the Japanese! Although you were helping Minhua at the beginning, since you are Chinese, it is all the same for me. In addition, you and everyone who came this time, I can pay a year's salary in advance, you don't need money here, no matter food, clothing, housing and transportation are free, but your relatives in your hometown definitely need it. ”
Yang Feng said with a smile.
Of course, he will not miss this kind of good opportunity to buy people's hearts, the icing on the cake is useless, and the truth can only be seen when charcoal is sent in the snow, this can be said to be the most difficult time for Prussia, even a little help is easy to be remembered, Prussia is an important link in his future plans. And it was just right to advertise his instant noodles and down jackets in Europe, although the former was never popular in Europe, but it was in Europe after a good life again, and the Prussians ate well at this time, not looking at the Prussian women in the fury pitifully cutting the flesh of dead horses in the mud.
"Thank you so much."
Manstein said with some emotion.
"It's just a small thing, although we used to belong to different camps, but now everything is over, you helped us before, now we help you, friends need to help each other like this."
Yang Feng waved his hand and said.
"What does Your Excellency need us to do?"
Manstein didn't say more, of course he understood that what Yang Feng wanted, but that he and those Prussian officers could do their best to help the Ming Empire build an army, so he simply went straight to the point.
"It's very simple, first of all, I need a general staff that can train, deploy, and command my army according to my intentions, and then I need a military academy for the army, navy and air force, which can continuously train reserve talents for me, and then I need my army, navy and air force to be able to reach the level of your ** team in the shortest possible time, to put it simply, you and those officers need to give me here, a miniature version of the Prussian army, a complete military machine."
Yang Feng said.
"There is no problem with this, we will do our best to work for you, but there is a problem, such a huge army, your logistics pressure will be very large, but here I don't see the arsenal, if you need, I can help you contact some of my country's military talents, for you to build a military system."
Manstein wanted to give the Prussian military industry a chance to survive.
"Yes, I will give them a reasonable remuneration, including equipment can also be purchased from your country, I need tanks, artillery, guns production plants."
Of course Yang Feng wants it, he is worried that he has no way to get on the line with those Prussian military giants, for example, a group of people from Mauser first built the G3, saying that although the 64 automatic rifle is okay, it is more reassuring than the golden sign of the G3.
Another example is to put Henschel, Porsche, Rheinmetall, ZF these messy guys together to see if they can save the Leopard 1 first, as for the problem of poor protection of the Leopard 1, this is not worth mentioning, and it is not a matter of copying the original, it is a big deal to thicken it, it is really not good to have additional armor, but the firepower and mobility of this thing are the best choice in the environment of Southeast Asia.
In this way, when these things are developed, the army military industrial system of the Ming Empire will be built, and in the process of development, its own talents will be cultivated, and the Prussians will cooperate to develop and build their own army military industrial system, and the British will cooperate to develop and build their own air force military industrial system, so what about the navy?
Ah, the Navy can cooperate with the Gauls, for example, to develop Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers, or even to study nuclear reactors and build nuclear submarines or something.
"But in that case, Your Excellency, you also need a lot of factories with the steel plant as the core, and your land area is obviously a little too small, including your population, which is not enough to support this level of industry." Manstein on the side kindly interrupted Yang Feng's imagination.
"You don't have to worry about this, the land will have it, and the people will have it, as for making do with it now, anyway, no matter what raw materials I buy here, it is very convenient, and when the time comes, everything will be there."
Yang Feng said with a sinister smile.
At this time, Evelyn came back with a group of guests, and they went to the cinema after the dinner to watch Yang Feng's two animated movies, looking at the excited expressions on the girls' faces, Yang Feng could basically rest assured.
Also reassuring is Rank, these aristocratic ladies with tricky tastes are fascinated by Cinderella and Alice, and it is obvious that the girls in the United States will do the same in the future, which means that his business is very safe, and the rest is only a matter of interest distribution with Yang Feng.
"I will register a production company in London, not in my name, of course, but in the name of Miss Taylor, and this company will be responsible for cooperating with you, as for the final distribution of benefits, it is very simple, I am in charge of production, you are responsible for promotion and distribution, and the box office in Britain and Europe will be divided according to your current standards, and I will have 30% of the box office in the United States, and it is none of what I do with you and your collaborators."
After sending Manstein back to the villa specially equipped for him, and sending Evelyn and the girls to the beach to listen to music and drink all kinds of drinks he made, Yang Feng, Ranke and Lu Yuntao sat together.
"Yes."
Ranke didn't bargain, in fact he had already negotiated this ratio with Miss Taylor in London, but it was just confirmed by Yang Feng.
At this time, Miss Taylor was a celebrity in Britain and even in the world, in addition to her tearful background, more importantly, she obtained a number of patents for inventions, including a new transistor that caused a sensation in the scientific community. This is considered to be an epoch-making invention, and the Bell Labs, which is also doing research in this area, was directly stunned, although the United States has not yet granted the patent to this little girl, but Britain and Western European countries have given her the patent as quickly as possible.
The aura of a genius girl has been shrouded on the head of this girl who is said to have escaped from the Japanese army Xing slave camp.
Sadly, however, there seem to be more talented girls in Europe lately, such as Miss Rainier of the Netherlands, who invented the cassette recorder and a new type of light bulb. Then there is Miss Sophie Marceau of Gaul, who invented a new type of automatic transmission, and...
In short, more than a dozen genius girls with various nationalities appeared at once, and these genius girls greatly diluted the sensational effect of Miss Taylor, of course, people will not know that under the human appearance of these genius girls, what is hidden is a mechanical mind, they are all subordinates of Yang Yuan, as for their genuine version, they have long been thrown into the crusher by this guy and fed to the fish.
This evil guy has found the best way to infiltrate the countries of his robot subordinates without a word.
"But what I want to know, Your Excellency, is, how long will it take for your production company to release a film of the same calibre?"
Ranke continued.
"Half a year, at most one in half a year, and the next step I will not only make animated films, but also invest in live-action films, and I am also looking forward to working with you on this point, I have strong production capabilities and new film technologies that you can't imagine, and you have the same strong distribution channels and contacts in this industry, we can work together to build a film empire that is on a par with MGM, the top Hollywood predators, and use our films to conquer the Americas, just like Hollywood movies dominate your homeland."
Yang Feng said.
"Well, happy cooperation!"
Ranke smiled and raised his glass to say that this was also what he had always dreamed of.
"Happy working together!"
Yang Feng said, but he couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Sister Hepburn, wait for me." ”
Whether Sister Hepburn will fall into his clutches or not, it's hard to say yet, but Sister Evelyn can't escape.
An hour later, all the guests were gone.
Looking at the empty living room, Evelyn said a little nervously, "I, I'll go to the hotel!" ”
After saying that, she grabbed the small bag and was about to go out, but then she screamed and was carried by Yang Feng to her shoulder.
"Do you want to leave when you're here?"
Yang Yuan, who has been a vegetarian for more than half a year, said viciously.
(Thank you book friend Sassa immediately, cold-hearted J, Xia Fei's cheeks rewarded, uh, actually messed into a great god.) )