459 Economic extortion of Switzerland

Premier Yuan's visit to the country has a series of action plans. The landline flew in a very dangerous direction, and he was not going south, but north. The huge airliner had to cross the war zone in northern Italy and land in Switzerland, which was ostensibly neutral and in essence heavily influenced by Germany.

What's even more dangerous is that there was no fighter escort for this flight. All those in the know were sweating about it, although Premier Yuan also analyzed the risks of the trip, and he was sure that the Swiss would never dare to attack the plane.

But analysis is analysis after all, and flying over a war zone carries countless uncertainties.

As for Switzerland, Li Guang's evaluation is: This is a country that has made money in the name of neutrality. Extremely shameless, extremely filthy.

In June 1940, half of France fell, and little Switzerland was surrounded on all sides by its strong neighbors and their annexed or occupied territories. Faced with the annexation ambitions of the German fascists, the Swiss authorities finally chose the path of subservient pandering.

In its own interests, shortly after the outbreak of the war, Sweden provided a loan of 150 million Swiss francs to Germany, and Germany allowed Swiss goods to be re-exported through Germany. Italy has also benefited from its economic and trade relations with Switzerland. Switzerland also sells electricity to Germany to keep German factories in production.

If the above behaviors are helpless, some other behaviors are definitely aiding and abetting. The Swiss watchmakers are actively supplying precision parts to Germany. The 40 mm anti-aircraft guns supplied by the military factory in Zurich were an important defensive weapon for Germany to deal with Allied air raids.

Switzerland is ostensibly neutral, but it has always opened the strategically important 15-kilometre-long Gotta Tunnel through the Alps, the longest road tunnel in the world, to Germany and Italy. Trains laden with strategic goods constantly pass through Switzerland and travel between the two countries.

To add insult to injury, Jews had about six billion dollars in Swiss banks, but when many German Jews were in exile, the Swiss authorities made it clear that "Jews should not be considered political refugees."

By the time the war officially began. Switzerland has stopped more than 100,000 Jews at its borders. Switzerland sometimes even handed them directly into the hands of the notorious SS.

As a result, the owner of the money died, and the money became the pocket of Switzerland.

In addition to this, Switzerland was also the main location for Nazi Germany to trade gold in exchange for the hard currency Swiss franc. Swiss banks, on the other hand, don't care where the gold comes from, and blindly make a huge difference in the price of it. As a result, Germany also receives a large amount of foreign exchange.

The fact that the Swiss franc miraculously became a hard currency during the war and became one of the reserve currencies of various countries after the war shows that Switzerland benefited from the world war.

And Yuan Ye, the prime minister of Haitang State, ventured to Switzerland, and he didn't have many chips on hand, and the core of this trip was only one point: blackmail. Li Guang's original words are very explicit: If you are cheap, you don't take advantage of the king-bastard. Seeing that the turtle didn't catch three points.

Early in the morning, the passenger plane arrived over Zurich Airport without danger. However, this adventurous flight is not yet over.

The Swiss already knew the purpose of the Prime Minister's visit from the diplomats of the Haitang State who had made the front stop. The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the visit of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Haitang on the grounds of neutrality.

Other words. Hai Tangguo's visit this time was purely a bad visitor.

Since you are a villain, the strength of the Haitang Kingdom is not something you can refuse. Premier Haitang and his entourage went their own way. Take your time in the air over Zurich Airport.

The Swiss really didn't want to receive it, but they didn't dare to send fighters to intercept it, so they played a trick and even arranged two small planes on the runway and did not allow the passenger planes to land.

Since the purpose of Premier Yuan's trip is to extort, it is naturally domineering. At the sound of an order, the passenger plane forcibly landed. The Swiss watched in amazement as the huge plane forced its way to land, braking successfully in front of the two small planes, and the airport personnel were at a loss for a moment.

Due to prior notification. The Swiss did not dare to send military police. It was only a young diplomat who came out.

Switzerland, a young official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, chirped and pointed his fingers for a long time after coming out, but it was just a protest against the intrusion of the Haitang plane's airspace into Swiss airspace, oh, and even into the airport.

Minister Yan Huiqing listened with a smile and said, "Do you want to declare war?" Welcome. ”

The diplomat almost choked to death. He just let off his mouth and used diplomatic rhetoric to find some face, but the other side directly used the last diplomatic rhetoric between countries. This is naked-naked-naked intimidation, there is no such bullying ha, the little diplomat almost cried, how dare he declare war. How dare Switzerland declare war.

Switzerland claims to have half a million troops, and the weapons are not bad. However, the other side is the Haitang Kingdom, an ally recognized by the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China. Declaring war with Haitang is declaring war with allies, and the Swiss government will declare war when it is kicked in the head by a donkey.

It is also extremely important that Switzerland is a landlocked country and cannot pose a threat to the Haitang State at all. The Haitang Kingdom has a powerful navy, and the aircraft carrier is also famous in the world. The aircraft carrier is known as a moving country, and in four or three years it has become a prestigious place, and the Swiss are very shrewd and know what the aircraft carrier is for.

Although Switzerland is a landlocked country, its territory is only two or three hundred kilometers away from the Mediterranean Sea, and if the Haitang Kingdom dispatches fighter planes to attack it, Switzerland will hardly have any tricks to deal with it, and it can only be beaten in vain.

Being beaten in vain is terrifying to think about.

Minister Yan saw that the Swiss diplomat's face changed back and forth, so he kindly told the young man a little fable: Once upon a time, there was an uninhabited house on the side of the road, and the doors and windows were kept intact for many years. But one day, someone threw a stone and the window broke. Soon, not only the windows but also the doors were broken, the contents of the house were looted, and the house was set on fire and became a pile of ruins. Minister Yan finally gave this little story a name - the broken window effect.

The young Swiss diplomat was dazed, and for a moment he felt unclear but acute.

The scene was deadlocked for more than an hour, and some of the Europeans present did not know the inside story and did not know the plight of Switzerland at all, and even began to sneer at Haitang and his party.

Premier Yuan looked at his watch and said, "It's almost, let's go." ”

The group actually boarded the plane in a gloomy manner, and Foreign Minister Yan Huiqing said to the Swiss petty official: "There is a saying in Haitang - there is no regret medicine in the world. ”。

When the young Swiss diplomat was in a daze trying to understand this Haitang proverb. The prime minister's plane of Haitang has taken off.

There is a good thing that the reporter has already thought of the topic; The yellow-skinned monkey brought humiliation upon himself. But he didn't send it out at all.

An hour later, a miracle happened, the Swiss Prime Minister, the Swiss Foreign Minister, hurriedly took a plane into the air, and the target was Rome, Italy. Because the plane of Haitang was going to land at the airport in Rome, Italy.

The young Swiss diplomat did not understand what the broken window effect was, but there were many old foxes in Swiss diplomacy, and they quickly tasted the threat.

On the plane, Foreign Minister Yuan Yan and two old foxes smiled. I really didn't expect the Swiss to be so cooperative, and the role was very good. If you don't have a face, then it's no wonder that the lion of the Haitang Kingdom opened his mouth.

As for whether the Swiss will chase after them to negotiate, both are confident. Haitangguo's clear attitude on this trip is: I just want to force you. Diplomacy does not lead to the use of force.

If at the beginning of the war, the Allies were not willing to push some neutral countries too hard. for fear of pushing them to the side of the Axis powers.

But. Today, the situation is very different, especially after the surrender of Italy. There is no need to deliberately win over at all, and these wall grasses will not be thrown at the Axis powers. Even if they were forced, these countries would not throw themselves into the Axis.

Over the past year, this experience has been verified many times in Portugal. The tentacles of the Haitang Kingdom had reached into the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. The Portuguese colonial authorities and the Portuguese government do not dare to put a fart now. The Haitang Kingdom enclosed a piece of land in Mozambique, felled wood, planted, and built earthen buildings. The Portuguese could only look at it, and they didn't dare to say anything about the invasion, and they didn't mention anything about taxes or anything.

The Portuguese were well aware that the Haitang State was occupied by force under the pretext that the French colonial authorities in Madagascar had facilitated the Axis powers. If the same excuse was found, the Portuguese would not be able to stand it. Moreover, the Portuguese colonial authorities regretted it very much, they were secretly helping the French against the Haitang Kingdom. And the evidence is conclusive, a group of Portuguese captives are now building roads on Datang Island, and there are several Portuguese nobles who are not worried.

In short, the Haitang State dared to deal with Portugal and Switzerland with tough means, and the signboard of the allies was indispensable. The last time the Naval Resistance Army sent troops to the Pacific Ocean to participate in the Battle of Saipan, although it was only a false name, it also had substantial power.

"In diplomacy, there are no conditions to create conditions."

"Seize the death hole of Switzerland, and he can't afford to give in."

"If there is a stain on Switzerland, then it is infinitely magnified. Since Switzerland did not want to fall to the Axis powers, then force him. ”

That's called diplomacy. This is a quote from Minister Yan.

In the plan discussed by Li Guang and Premier Yuan, the use of aircraft carriers to bomb Switzerland is definitely not intimidation.

Switzerland has a lot of diplomacy and can bring in a group of friends who can speak for him. However, Hai Tangguo is sure that he can't win over the Soviet Union, and it is difficult to block countless pairs of golden eyes. Switzerland's fault is that he is so fat that even his Swiss friends want to pounce on it and take a bite.

Once the Haitang Kingdom really used force against Switzerland, it was like a hole in a window. The broken window effect is very effective, there is no justice, for the sake of wealth, all countries will pounce. Perhaps in this competition, Haitang will not get the most benefits, but it will be Switzerland that will lose. The so-called harm to others is not beneficial to oneself, which is such a trick. The trick is scoundrel, but it works.

As soon as the rogue killer came out, the Swiss wilted on the spot. It's working, it's working.

In just three days, Haitang Kingdom got everything he wanted. One billion Swiss francs (equivalent to more than 200 million US dollars) for a ten-year low-interest loan, a complete set of precision machine tools for processing three-axis gyroscopes, a complete set of process technology, more than 20 technical elites.

One billion Swiss francs played a pivotal role in the trade plan between Haitang and Italy. And a complete set of three-axis gyroscope processing machine tools for Haitang Kingdom, but to solve the urgent need.

Gyroscopes, whether torpedoes or dexterity bombs, are used. Previously, Haitang had been buying from the United States. But the accuracy that can be bought is not high, and it is often limited.

Switzerland is not only capable of making clocks and watches, but also has a very high level of precision instrument manufacturing, which is almost unique in the world.

Among them, the most advanced masterpiece is the three-axis gyroscope, which was the world's first in accuracy in the era of World War II. Without this thing, Haitang's missile program could only come to a halt. Didn't look at the V1 of the Germans, V2 missiles also want to buy Swiss three-axis gyroscopes.

This was beyond Haitang's expectations, and before the visit, he only planned to extort a batch of three-axis gyroscopes in Switzerland. Unexpectedly, Switzerland's diplomatic response mistakes gave Haitang an excellent excuse.

It is not a matter of three or two days to teach the skilled workers of Haitang to use those precision machine tools, and the fitters can finish by hand. It is estimated that the more than 20 technicians in Switzerland will stay in Haitang for ten or eight years.

With this technology, Li Guang's missile plan once again embarked on the fast track. (To be continued......)