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Although An Yi repeatedly asked the brothers to go home for the New Year, to use this rare holiday to accompany their families, and not to go to Chunxiang City to congratulate themselves on the New Year, there are still many generals and officials who have made their homes in Chunxiang all year round, especially those graduates of the Boy Scout Academy who serve in the government and the army and have no tasks on their shoulders, and they specially come to congratulate their father-in-law An Yi on the New Year, and the Chunxiang Palace has become more and more lively. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because there are too many guests, even adding seats can't meet the demand, and it is not appropriate to snub any guest in this case, in desperation, An Yi waved his hand and simply changed the lunch to an outdoor buffet.

At half past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, canned beef and mutton, luncheon meat, braised pork, seafood, and fruits drawn from the army's logistics department were heated and packed in delicate iron basins, heated with alcohol lamps underneath, and placed in a row on iron shelves on the grass by the lake.

Hot steamed buns, steamed buns, fried rice, fried noodles, fried shredded potatoes, etc. were served in turn, plus pre-heated ham sausages, bacon, bacon, sausages and various seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as quick-frozen dumplings, hand-screwed dumplings, glutinous rice balls and various pasta dishes cooked on the spot.

As for the drinks, including juice, cola, champagne, white wine, red wine, and wine, all of them are military supplies, although the quality is average, but enough!

No one cares about the food of the visiting guests, the most important reason for leaving the family to appear here in the Chinese New Year's Eve is to accumulate contacts and close relationships, people are holding wine glasses, standing together in groups of three or five, businessmen talk about what is naturally a good money-making project, government officials discuss current affairs and provincial news, now most of the provinces are still in a state of military control, once the military management is over, a large number of officials are needed, many good positions are really eye-catching, and the soldiers are more direct, they simply squat on the ground, Simply draw some battle maps and express different opinions on certain battles.

Things gather like people in groups, but I don't have to worry about not having a circle that suits me.

Although An Yi, who was full of depression, didn't want to pay attention to these uninvited guests, Lao Dao and Gong Qian both persuaded An Yi to show a high posture and be polite and virtuous to calm people's hearts. Not to mention anything else, many of the guests here today are representatives of the emerging chaebols in China, who have a large amount of money in their hands, and if they can invest it, it will be enough to increase a certain amount of industrial output value.

Moreover, among the guests, there are also An Yi's core forces in charge of the government and the army - the students who graduated from the Boy Scout Academy, An Yi's nominal righteous sons and daughters, who can't chill the hearts of these young people. (--net.)

So, An Yi had no choice but to pick up the wine, circulate between various circles, and stop to chat for a while from time to time, making people feel like a spring breeze.

However, at this time, An Yi had already made up his mind in his heart, next year he would either stay in Xiaonanhai, where the security was so heavily guarded that ordinary people couldn't get in at all, or simply take his family out to travel, anyway, there are countless places of interest and resorts in the country, as long as people don't know their whereabouts, this kind of tossing situation can definitely be avoided this year.

Busy until three o'clock in the afternoon, the guests dispersed one after another, and the righteous sons and daughters helped the service staff clean up the mess, An Yi could finally come down, but he didn't have time to go to the backyard to visit Lao Shoudao and his family, Foreign Minister Wu Dinh Yan, and Minister of State Security Du Yi had come together.

Knowing that at this time, unless there was something important, the two subordinates would not bother themselves, so An Yi took the two of them to the study on the second floor of the White Building behind and sat down.

"The Portuguese government has agreed to our request to sell Goa, Madeira, and Cape Verde Islands to us for 50 million Chinese dollars, but requires us to use arms, food, supplies and fuel as a means of payment, and at the same time guarantee that the Kingdom of Portugal will not be invaded by foreign forces......

"The attitude of the Spanish government, after our army's great victory over the German army in West Asia, has also begun to soften, and it has agreed to start negotiations on our purchase of the Canary Islands, and it is now progressing extremely well!"

An Yi was very happy to hear this: "Although the Goa region of the subcontinent is actually owned by us, it was a Portuguese colony before the war. At that time, Sheng Shicai's army slaughtered the Goan colonists, and then suffered from the baptism of plague, and even a hundred percent of the population remained, and we also took it from a humanitarian standpoint, and the Portuguese government did not protest against it after that, but in the end the name is not right.

"In order to avoid unnecessary entanglements after the war, it is naturally better to be able to buy it once and for all! In addition, these islands located in the eastern Atlantic Ocean are very geographically critical, choking Europe, Africa and the Americas, and holding these islands in our hands is equivalent to having a springboard to set foot in Europe, and we must not give up lightly! ”

The former colonial empires of Spain and Portugal have been in serious decline since the beginning of the 20th century, and until the outbreak of World War II, they have been playing the role of a wall-to-wall grass.

When the world war broke out, the Franco government had a deep-seated hostility towards Britain, France, the United States and other countries, mainly because Spain had fierce territorial disputes with British Gibraltar and French Morocco, and had a huge conflict of interest with the United States in Latin America, and there was always anti-statist sentiment in these three countries. --Net.

As a result, Franco's regime had been trying to develop cooperation with fellow nationalist governments in Germany and Italy, especially when Germany had easily taken out France and pushed its sphere of influence into the Pyrenees, which was exacerbated by Franco's fear that the German army would invade Spain.

However, the shrewd Franco was not willing to bet too early, when Hitler visited Madrid, Franco said that Spain, which was in ruins after the war, not only needed external supplies of food, but also needed to import steel and fuel oil, and in the current situation, it was necessary to maintain at least five years of peacetime industry and agriculture in order to relieve the air, and the apparent neutrality and access to the materials urgently needed by the Axis countries through trade were more in line with the interests of the Axis countries, otherwise, Germany and Italy also needed to feed back to Spain and reduce the national strength of the two countries. Privately, of course, Franco promised to send troops to fight with the German and Italian armies in the name of volunteers.

Although Hitler and Mussolini were dissatisfied with Franco's attitude, they also believed that Spain was indeed weakened and expected that a nationalist Spain, although nominally neutral, would still make a useful contribution to the Axis powers, so they acquiesced in this neutrality.

On the part of the Central Powers, due to the rapid defeat of France, in order to avoid Germany's annexation of Spain and Portugal and complete unification of Europe, Britain and the United States began to actively woo Spain, promised various promises, and granted loans and concessions to purchase goods, so that Spain and Portugal became an important channel for the import of German goods, and once again increased Hitler's judgment that maintaining Spain's neutral status would help Germany to engage with foreign countries and start trade.

As for Portugal, soon after the German invasion of Poland, the Salazar government expressed their determination to remain neutral, believing that the real accusation of the Europeans was not to throw the entire European continent into the melting pot, but to create and consolidate a zone of peace that would be of decisive importance to Ili, so Spain's declaration of neutrality and Franco's efforts to keep the war away from its homeland were the basis for the Portuguese statehood.

However, the attitude of these two countries was extremely vacillating and, to some extent, they became accomplices of Nazi Germany. Britain and the United States have seen all this in their eyes and kept it in their hearts, and have been waiting for the opportunity to settle accounts after the autumn.

After the unprecedented defeat of the German army in West Asia was exposed, Britain and the United States jointly put pressure on the Spanish and Portuguese governments, demanding that the islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean adjacent to West Africa be unconditionally handed over to Britain and the United States. The governments of Spain and Portugal have been trying to survive in the cracks, and Portugal's handing over the Azores to the United States has already aroused Hitler's thunderous anger, and if it is found that the two countries have handed over the eastern Atlantic Islands to Britain and the United States as a springboard for attacking North Africa, I am afraid that they will immediately turn their faces, and it will be unknown whether Portugal and Spain exist at that time.

Under these circumstances, the two countries, which no one wants to offend, may feel a sense of relief after facing the proposal of the government of the Democratic Republic of China to buy islands. Judging from Wu Tingyan's report, An Yi's gambling was once again successful.

Du Yi said with a smile: "Since the end of last year, after the armed 100,000 ** troops, the British and French Equatorial Africa's free French ** team intend to open up the North African battlefield, and urgently need to find a foothold in the coastal waters of Northwest Africa.

"The emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the German army had two million troops in Western Europe, which was not at all something that the weak Spanish and Portuguese armies could resist. In the event that nothing can be gained and even a German invasion of the homeland is possible, we can use the islands in exchange for a good deal, and we can put all the blame on us. As long as you are a smart person, you should be able to make the right choice. ”

Wu Tingyan was greatly impressed: "No wonder the Spanish diplomatic department has acted with rare speed, and in the past two days, it has repeatedly approached our Consulate General in Madrid for consultation...... By the way, they not only want to sell the Canary Islands, but also want to sell us a piece of Spanish West Africa......"

An Yi said without hesitation: "Agree to their request, many people will not worry about debts, and no one will be willing to sell the land at any time." There, together with the islands of the eastern Atlantic, will form the Atlantic province of our republic! ”

Wu Tingyan was a little puzzled: "Most of Spanish West Africa is barren land, almost all of which are deserts and semi-deserts, with a territory of nearly 300,000 square kilometers and a total population of less than 50,000, so there is not much use for such a place!" ”

Du Yi shook his head: "The coastline there is nearly 1,000 kilometers, and the fishery resources are still quite rich, it is said that there are phosphate, potassium, copper, oil, iron, zinc and other resources, as long as there is enough fresh water, it can completely migrate more than 300,000 people, plus the surrounding islands can be developed into tourist attractions in the future, and it is absolutely safe to buy it!" ”

Wu Tingyan saw An Yi's thoughtful look, so she had to nod: "Okay, I will keep an eye on this matter, coordinate with various departments, and strive to sign the transfer agreement with the two countries as soon as possible!" ”

After negotiating the matter, Wu Tingyan whispered again: "The German diplomatic department has sent people to make secret contact with us, and we want to restore the previous harmonious relations between the two countries!" ”

An Yi was surprised, Huo Ran stood up, paced back and forth a few steps, turned his head and asked, "Who is the person who came to contact?" ”

"State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Ernst, whose father served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Kaiser Wilhelm II, belonged to a German diplomatic family and had great influence in the diplomatic system of the Third Reich. Hearing that his son Weizsäcker was missing on the Western Front, he stopped by to see if he had been captured by us. Wu Tingyan replied.

An Yi pondered: "You can talk, but in principle, you will never give in." If the Germans wanted to ransom their officers and soldiers, they exchanged real money for ...... Or exchange machinery and mining equipment, precision lathes, experimental instruments, important chemical catalysts and additives from the occupied zone! Even high-ranking teachers, doctors and scientific researchers in the occupied territories! ”

Wu Tingyan asked worriedly: "What if it is discovered by allies such as Britain and the United States?" ”

Du Yi replied disdainfully: "What if you find out?" Now they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they have been beaten to the ground, and it is too late to beg us, do they dare to turn their faces? ”

An Yi shook his head: "No, we can't be morally honest...... Well, don't we have a few entrepot trading companies in Europe and the United States? These transactions can be left to them! We openly announced to the outside world that we would escort people to Siberia to build a railway, and then escort the captives to Central Asia, and they could be exchanged through the Caspian Sea, without knowing it. However, all this is not hosted by our government, but the handiwork of the trading company of the middleman, and all transactions are made in the spot, not through the bank's account, so that there will be no future troubles! ”

Wu Tingyan was extremely impressed, nodded again and again, and Du Yi was also thoughtful, smiling without saying a word.

After setting the tone of diplomacy with Germany, Wu Tingyan got up to say goodbye, An Yi personally sent Wu Tingyan to the door, and before getting into the car, An Yi whispered that he could help Ernst find his son, and if it was confirmed that he was in the prisoner camp, let Ernst take it back, and let the father and son do their best.

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