Rommel, together with Manstein and Guderian, began to discuss how to use the huge sum of money in the Führer's Guard Rommel's office, and the three of them meant to use the money on the cutting edge and in what could best help Germany become stronger.

Rommel was the first to give a simple explanation of the current assets of the Veterans Fund:

"Two brothers, we have $1.8 billion in the account of the veterans' fund, countless works of art are still being sold in secret, the valuation of the Swiss bank is $5 billion, this sales process may be relatively long, it will take about a year, because the money has not arrived, so it will not be discussed for the time being, now let's discuss how to use the $1.8 billion that has arrived."

After listening to Rommel's simple explanation, Manstein and Guderian couldn't believe their ears, which was 1.8 billion dollars, which could buy more than 50,000 No. 4 tanks. The German blitzkrieg was all about using tanks as fists, and the role of tanks in blitzkrieg was crucial.

Of course, Rommel and they didn't dare to take out the money directly to buy tanks, Hitler knew that it was terrible, if Rommel wanted to buy tanks, they could only secretly give the money to the tank manufacturers, and then let the tank manufacturers donate the tanks to Hitler, otherwise Rommel and they would be looking for death.

Neither Manstein nor Guderian were greedy people, they were not deceived by such a large sum of money. Manstein was the first to get involved, so after pondering for a while, he said:

"Brother Rommel, you created the Veterans Fund, you should first talk about your plan, and then we will discuss it."

"Brother Guderian, what is your opinion?"

Guderian was brought into the veterans' fund by Manstein, so Guderian meant the same thing.

"So be it!"

In this case, Rommel was not polite, and he immediately took out three copies of the same plan from his briefcase, which Rommel had worked overtime to draw up while he was in Switzerland.

Rommel distributed the plan to Manstein and Guderian, and then began to explain:

"Brothers, I intend to divide the $1.8 billion into three parts:

The first part is the veterans' assistance fund of 500 million US dollars, which is specifically for those veterans who participated in the war to provide assistance, we can't let the veterans shed blood and bleed, so this money must not be misappropriated.

The second part is the part of arms donations, since the First World War, other victorious countries have had many restrictions on Germany, and our heavy weapons are seriously insufficient, especially after the expansion of the army, the contradiction of the lack of heavy weapons in the Wehrmacht has become more prominent.

For example, tanks, airplanes, ships, heavy artillery, trucks, etc., so I plan to donate $500 million in weapons and equipment to the Führer through various arms manufacturers, including 2,000 tanks, 1,000 airplanes, 10,000 trucks, 100 JU89 long-range bombers, and a number of other weapons and equipment.

In addition, a separate allocation will be allocated to complete the construction of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and if you add the carrier-based aircraft equipped with the Zeppelin, I think 100 million dollars is enough. Why buy Zeppelin to buy carrier-based aircraft, I think the two brothers should understand, because it is impossible for that dead fat man of Goering to send planes to the aircraft carrier Zeppelin.

The third part is to support the research and development of new weapons, two brothers, you should know that Britain and the United States have strong industrial manufacturing capabilities and research and development capabilities, if the war starts in full swing, our Germany's weapons advantage will soon be lost.

Once our Germany loses its superiority in weapons, Britain and the United States can completely consume Germany with their endless resources, and I don't need to say more.

In order to cope with this situation, Germany should invest heavily in the research and development of new weapons, which is a major matter related to the life and death of our Germany, so I think that our Germany should be in the research and development of weapons -- production generation, research and development generation, and reserve generation.

In this way, our Germany's weapons superiority will always be maintained, and only when we lack resources can we defeat the old colonial countries such as Britain and the United States.

At this stage, the investment in supporting the research and development of new weapons is $800 million, $100 million for new tanks, $100 million for engines, $100 million for new radar and communications equipment, and $200 million for new aircraft.

Talking about this new aircraft, the new aircraft includes fighters, strategic bombers, helicopters and other aircraft, in fact, 200 million US dollars is far from enough, especially the research and development of strategic bombers, the amount of money spent is absolutely sky-high, but now we only have this money, we can only invest slowly.

In addition, there are 200 million US dollars, of which 100 million US dollars are invested in the research and development of missiles, and the head of state has invested a relatively large amount in missiles, but the head of state is presiding over the research of tactical missiles, and what we need is small missiles that can attack aircraft, such as ground-to-air missiles and air-to-air missiles.

The last billion dollars I intend to invest in the research and development of atomic weapons, and the two brothers may not be familiar with atomic weapons, but I can simply say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the destruction of a city with an atomic bomb weighing hundreds of kilograms.

However, the research and development of atomic weapons requires a huge amount of funds and scientific researchers, and the head of state is not very concerned about the research and development of atomic weapons, and only 10 million German marks have been allocated so far, and the $100 million we support is actually a drop in the bucket, and we will do our best to support the research and development of atomic weapons in the later stage. ”

After Rommel finished speaking, Guderian and Manstein did not ask anything else, and they said in unison:

"Atomic weapons, really that powerful?"

"Of course, it is so powerful, an atomic bomb can easily release tens of thousands to hundreds of tons of TNT energy, and the most terrifying thing is the nuclear radiation after the explosion of the atomic weapon, which can kill all living things."

As for atomic weapons, Manstein and Guderian must have heard about it, and they did not expect that atomic weapons were so powerful, and Germany was also researching atomic weapons, but Hitler did not invest much in atomic weapons.

"It seems that we not only want to support Germany's atomic weapons research, but also ask the Führer to increase investment in atomic weapons, otherwise our investment will be a drop in the bucket, or the three of us will jointly suggest to the Führer!"

Manstein naively suggested that Rommel was almost not scared to death when he heard this, and the most taboo thing for Hitler was the tandem of his generals, and Manstein's suggestion was not equivalent to telling the Führer that the three of them were wearing a pair of pants?

Rommel hurriedly vetoed:

"No, what the Führer hates the most is that his generals are in the same breath, the three of us jointly requested, it is no different from looking for death, so I'll go and tell the Führer alone! As for whether the Führer will follow my advice, it is not known, as far as I know, the Führer is more fond of missiles. ”

Then the three of them carefully discussed Rommel's distribution plan, and everyone agreed that Rommel's distribution was extremely reasonable, so Rommel's distribution plan of 1.8 billion US dollars was approved. Neither Manstein nor Guderian had a holiday, and Rommel had a week to go, so Rommel was left alone to get the money into the hands of the people involved.