Chapter 140 Cooperation with Germany
The welcome was brief and solemn, and with the German style of doing things, it quickly moved on to the real topic of the meeting.
First of all, the War Department, Chief of Staff Hoffmann, hopes that Li Tie's company will recruit more German Army officers, because just earlier this year they reached a secret agreement with warlords from all over China, and they will arrange for a large number of German officers to serve these warlords in the form of private advisory groups every year.
Each of these German officials was the main one who transmitted Germany's advanced army theory to China. Every employer has no need to worry about their loyalty. Because these advisory groups will only work on a contract basis.
As for the War Department's great importance to Li Tie, it is because Li Tie had previously asked people to bring the German side an advanced theoretical report on armored group operations, which was very valuable after being appraised by the War Department's personnel, and the War Department wanted to have a more in-depth exchange with Li Tie on armored group operations.
Li Tie did not hesitate to hand over to the German War Department all the armored assault combat theories and the latest tank design drawings obtained from later generations, and his request was very simple, as long as the German War Department helped him train 1,000 armored cadets. There are 200 people in each phase, and one batch is every two years.
As for the Admiralty, it was not surprising that Li Tie handed over the wolf pack submarine tactics of later generations to the German Admiralty in advance, and pulled out a thick map of the improvement of the German U-boat from the suitcase he carried with him.
Seeing these submarine drawings carefully designed by the Huaxing Laboratory under the guidance of Li Tie, the experts of the Admiralty were intoxicated. I held these drawings in my arms on the spot and held them for a long time.
Seeing that even his own naval experts admired the submarine design of Huaxing Laboratory so much, the representative of the Admiralty agreed to Li Tie's request, but this time it was not for Li Tie to train submarine trainees, but after the successful production of the latest U-shaped submarines, Li Tie had the right of first refusal to purchase at the factory price, and the number was unlimited.
After World War I, although the German Air Force was disbanded, the Ministry of Air Force in charge was renamed the Ministry of Aviation, and vigorously developed civil aviation. Originally, the Ministry of the Air Force did not think of what it wanted from Li Tie, but originally heard that the Huaxing Company was going to buy a large number of passenger planes, and originally wanted to sell Li Tie German-made Junkers transport planes.
However, after seeing the US Ford IV at the airport today, the representatives of the Air Department also rested their thoughts.
It's just that when Li Tie heard that there was a famous representative of the Air Force whose name was Goering, Li Tie's eyes lit up, and a fox couldn't help but look at Goering when he saw the old hen, staring at Goering uncomfortable.
In the end, Li Tie laughed: "Mr. Goering, come on, let's imagine that if you have thousands of giant planes that can fly to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and drop dozens of tons of bombs, do you think there are still fortresses in this world that you can't break?" ”
Although he was only a small staff member sent by the Air Ministry, Goering's eyes lit up as a hero of the First World War and a war maniac.
Li Tie stayed in Germany for three days before he set off for France again.
In the past three days, Li Tie has reached a package agreement with the German side and the arms dealers, Li Tie has the technology and capital, and Germany has an industrial base and a formed military industrial enterprise, and the two sides are very complementary.
Although Germany is still being suppressed by Western society, the more this happens, the more it can arouse the strong desire of Germany from top to bottom to turn over.
And Li Tie just gave them the much-needed technology and funds, although it was not much, but it was something to be grateful for.
Therefore, in just three days, many middle- and lower-level officers of the German ** Department already knew about Huaxing Company and the character of Li Tie.
On the evening of the second day after Li Tie arrived in Berlin, Goering of the Luftwaffe Department came to Li Tie's residence with several people and had a cordial and friendly conversation with Li Tie.
In particular, a man named Adolf Hitler was very talkative, and Li Tie hated to meet Hitler late. Li Tie was very supportive of Hitler's idea of a Greater Germanic nation, and even more supportive of Hitler's idea of how to revitalize the German economy, but unfortunately their party had just gained some size, and now most of them are only playing small errands in government departments.
However, Li Tie did tell Hitler not to be discouraged, that all difficulties were temporary, and that although his party had not yet entered the upper echelons, it was the grassroots work that could best win the hearts and minds of the people. Li Tie instructed him to arrange for a large number of elite figures within the party to join the government, and as long as the cadres at the grassroots level are people from their own party, their party will also make a difference.
Li Tie encouraged them not to be arrogant or bored, and to wait for the opportunity, Li Tie believed that the wise German people would live a prosperous and powerful life sooner or later under the leadership of the party led by Hitler.
Considering that this party was still in urgent need of a large amount of funds for political activities, Li Tie very generously gave Hitler 500,000 Deutsche marks as funds for their activities.
The evening's exchange was very successful, and Hitler was convinced that Li Tie was their most loyal ally. As long as their party comes to power, Germany will be Li Tie's strong backing in the future.
Everyone talked until late at night, and when Li Tie saw off Hitler and Goering, he couldn't help wiping the sweat on his head, this Hitler was too good, but fortunately he knew that he was actually a paranoid madman. Otherwise, I really don't know how to follow his words.
The value of these 500,000 marks is worth it, as long as Hitler comes to power, then whatever artillery, tanks, and warships in the future will not be bought as much as you want.
It is estimated that with Hitler's unique character, maybe when the time comes, he will give him Li Tie for nothing.
After sending off Hitler and his entourage, Li Tie's work was not yet completed, because he still had to design the arms procurement plan for the next three years overnight, and he would hand it over to Chief of Staff Hoffmann early tomorrow morning.
Considering that in the next ten years, except for the imminent Central Plains War, China's next ten years will be relatively stable. Therefore, Li Tie did not purchase too much arms. It is enough to ensure that you maintain your own arms reserves that can easily arm 100,000 people.
However, considering that in the future war, the constant introduction of arms from Germany may not be able to quench the thirst of the near, so Li Tie also focused on introducing two bullet production lines, two rifle production lines and one artillery shell production line at this time. There is no doubt that these ordnance factories will be produced at a secret base in Lingshui, Hainan.
As for the production line of artillery, Li Tie does not want to introduce it for the time being, after all, the artillery produced in Germany is of good quality and cheap, and the artillery will still be mainly purchased within ten years.
Moreover, after communicating with the people in the War Department, Li Tie learned that there were still 3,000 artillery pieces in some secret warehouses in their Germany. Although many of them are outdated old guns, there are also some very classic small and medium-sized guns such as the Qiwu Mountain Cannon.
In addition to nearly 1,000 Qiwu mountain guns, Li Tie purchased them at a finished price of 3,000 silver dollars, and Li Tie negotiated with the War Department to purchase all the old guns at the price of steel. It is then shipped back to the steel mill in Hong Kong in batches for reconstruction.
As for the procurement project of the Navy, ten thousand-ton freighters, ten modifications of U-boats, plus the corresponding supporting maintenance equipment. Li Tie carefully calculated that his trip to Germany would cost nearly 10 million silver dollars at one time. Even he himself was taken aback.
This has not yet raised the army, the expenses are so large, and if you want to contribute to the war of resistance in the future. It's really not okay to grow your own economic strength quickly.
On the third day in Germany, Li Tie came to the German War Department again, and this time he met with Li Tie all the big names, in addition to Hoffmann's chief of staff, a deputy minister of the military department, and a deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce, they all came to sign contracts with Li Tie on behalf of these German military enterprises.
Seeing the purchase lists issued by Li Tie, the two deputy ministers present and the representatives of a number of military enterprises and shipyards smiled happily. After many years, they finally have a decent export trade in Germany.
Everyone is in the spirit of honest business, happy cooperation to negotiate business. So apart from a little careful discussion, the two sides quickly signed at the conference table.
Li Tie paid a deposit of 100,000 marks on the spot, and Li Tie immediately sent a telegram to Huaxing Foreign Bank in Shanghai, asking China to send a sum of money according to the contract.
As for Li Tie's statement that he wanted to open up a route from China to Berlin, so many bigwigs present immediately gave an affirmative answer. Soon a letter of authorization for Huaxing Airlines in Germany was approved.
Since then, Huaxing company can not only open up routes from China to Germany, but also directly open up routes between cities in Germany. It can be seen how the German government is now short of money, and even the domestic aviation industry can be handed over to foreign companies.
After signing the contract, Li Tie and Hoffman and his party had a brief working meal at the War Department. In the afternoon, Li Tie left the German War Department and rode in a military vehicle to visit Mike's father-in-law.
When Mike took Li Tie to his father-in-law's machinery factory, his father-in-law learned that Mike and Li Tie had come to Germany. The two sides hugged each other for a long time, and under Li Tie's strong persuasion, Mike's father-in-law also decided to relocate the entire machinery factory, which may not be a large factory in Germany. However, if you move to China, you will have one of the largest number of machine processing plants.
It just so happened that Li Tie had always felt that the machinery processing factories in Hong Kong were not producing enough capacity. Now with the addition of this machinery factory, Hong Kong Huaxing Machinery Factory can be regarded as a large-scale enterprise.
At the same time, Mike's father-in-law also agreed to go to China for development, and their family was reunited, Li Tie couldn't help but think in his heart: "Maybe Mike won't have to be beaten by his wife anymore." ”
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