On a sunny afternoon, a second group of personnel from the "Shelter" base arrived in Neiva, led by two Rudolphs from the base's staff. Colonel Dortmann and Hans of the Gendarmerie Department. Colonel Wab.

Whether these two colonels were hand-picked by the Führer, whether their uniform rank of colonel had a special purpose, Lynn was not interested in these for the time being, he was most concerned about one issue, funding.

After this period of operation, all aspects of the work incorporated into the adjustment plan are being carried out in an orderly manner. Waldman led the negotiation of a price with a cold, half-dead semiconductor factory, and once the funds were in place and the contract was valid, the relevant formalities could be completed to merge it into the Pifair family business; The Pifil Electric Research Center has applied for registration, and Swiss officials have agreed to come to inspect the site, equipment and related personnel in a week, and obtain formal operational approval within half a month at the earliest. Feng. Berning ordered a batch of German-made radar equipment captured by the Allies through the underground black market; Schar personally made a trip to Italy, hired several unemployed radio experts from Florence, and embarked on a journey to Switzerland with these Italians with their families...... All of this needed to be financed, but until the gendarmes and the base staff men arrived, Lynn and his wife could not use the huge sums of money stored in the Swiss National Bank and several local banks, respectively, and the cash they carried with them was enough to spend money on entertainment, but they could not do great things. Fortunately, Baron Pat contacted several entrepreneurs who were former German aristocrats or military officers, who, although they had limited financial resources, were still willing to do something for their country. Berning also diverted part of the funds for the operation of the German intelligence network in Switzerland, so that the planned projects that had already been carried out were carried out smoothly.

Dotman of the Base Staff and Warb of the Gendarmerie were very unfamiliar to Lynn, but Andriy and Courtland had more dealings with them. Relatively speaking, these are two middle-aged officers with conservative surnames, who rarely participate in the planning of war tactics, carry out orders more than make suggestions, and are calm, calm, and somewhat stubborn. According to Andri, they are not the kind of people to be fooled, and once they have decided on something, it may take time and effort to convince them.

The need for funds for the plan had reached such an imminent point that Lynn, as the supreme direct commander of the operation, actually received these two special people who had been shoehorned into the plan at the last minute with a mixture of apprehension and prayer. After a sensible, smooth, and emotional explanation, he turned his earnest gaze to the colonels.

In the suffocating silence, Colonel Dotman and Colonel Waub spent a quarter of an hour pondering the simple written report that Lynn had provided in conjunction with the explanation—they had been sent back to the "Vault" base for the Führer's review through confidential channels, and if nothing else, when the two colonels arrived in Neva, they had almost arrived at the base in northern Europe, but the Führer's thoughts were usually elusive, and he might have activated his secret communication machine at the first time to give a reply, or perhaps passed by silence, Or put it on hand and leave it unintent.

The two colonels discussed privately, and gave a reply that made Lynn, Andry, and Courtland all breathe a sigh of relief: only ten per cent of the funds, or £4,150,000, could be used at most, until the Führer's explicit approval was obtained.

The release of the 4.15 million pounds of funds means that every project involved at present will not be postponed because of the problem of money, but looking back, especially after the analysis of the two economic and financial staff officers, Courtland and Dickfield, Lynn and Andriy can't help but feel indignant: according to the original plan, as long as the chief and deputy operational commanders all agree, without the approval of the head of state again, a maximum of 20% of the total funds of the plan can be used at a time, and the maximum limit is 50%. Exceeding this limit requires the approval of the Führer. Now, as soon as the two special commissioners who seemed to be like Qincha came, 50 percent was immediately cut to 10 percent.

This is a shrinkage of trust, and even more so, a shrinkage of command.

At this point, Lynn is no longer the unwary soldier in the field, and he knows that financial constraints are likely to have a negative impact on the follow-up plan. In this context, he remembered Lawrentz, who runs the intelligence network in North America. Bach, after the war, the United States obviously has more surplus production lines than Europe, so the introduction of technology and equipment from the United States is also the main way to construct the economic and industrial circles of Northern Europe, plus to buy large quantities of food supplies from the Americas, the imperial top has allocated 80 million US dollars, equivalent to nearly 20 million pounds of funds, to Bach, and until Lynn's departure, I have not heard the news that the Führer is preparing to send overseers to North America. Of course, even if the Führer did not change his mind later, Mrs. Bach had to stay at the base and become quite a hostage. The lack of trust was not a one's own sorrow, and in wartime this strange phenomenon was also the sorrow of the vast majority of German generals.

Anger didn't help, and Lynn kept her emotions to the bottom of her heart for the time being, and put her main energy into the first important project of the trip. Under the auspices of Courtland and Dickfield, the first 20 million Swiss francs (£1.15 million) in deposits were quickly transferred out of UBS's operations in Neiva. In just one week, the Pifil Research Center has transformed from a dilapidated semiconductor factory on the outskirts of Nevasi into a radio research institute with more than 30 scientific researchers and dozens of professional instruments and equipment, and then successfully passed the qualification examination of the Swiss government. Brought to Andri's painstaking journey from Bavaria to the forged certificate of inheritance in April 1945, which was officially stamped by Germany before the end of the war, a second deposit worth 60.2 million Swiss francs was transferred from Credit Suisse in Anton. With the use of his personal connections, Fassen finally passed the official Swiss inheritance determination, and the huge inheritance, which was nominally left to his son by the elder Pifil, was successfully transferred to the von Fernandes. Baron Pifil is obvious, and because of the confidential application submitted in advance, this inheritance has not been made public, so it will not cause a public sensation.

Overnight, his assets multiplied sixfold, and the rich Feng. Baron Pifil ostensibly embarked on his ambitious business. The increase in the registered capital of the company from a small and medium-sized enterprise with a net worth of just over 9 million Swiss francs to a large manufacturing enterprise with a total value of nearly 4 million pounds was followed, followed by the acquisition of two other metal casting factories of similar types in Neva, the acquisition of the semiconductor manufacturing company "Dhakagut" in northern Italy with more than 500 workers at a low price, and then the rapid and abrupt announcement of the acquisition of the company Gema, whose main equipment had been emptied by the allies. The largest radar manufacturer in Germany during the Third Reich. After the defeat of Germany, although its main factory was located in the occupied area of the Western Allies, according to the agreement reached at the Potsdam Conference between the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, 20 percent of the industrial equipment in the occupied areas of the Western Allies would be shipped to the Soviet Union as war reparations from Germany against the Soviet Union. Despite this, Piffil's acquisition application at the end of 1945 was rejected by the Allied occupation authorities on the grounds that Gemma had provided war equipment to Hitler's regime during the war and that the remaining equipment was still for military purposes.

After all, the failure of the acquisition of Gemar could not stop the continued expansion of Pifil Enterprises, and in the environment of reduced supply and demand of industrial products and tight funds due to the end of the war, it was God who could wield a lot of cash. As a local company with a strong reputation in Switzerland for more than 20 years and has never been questioned by the outside world, Pifil has entered the shortlist of Erlikon companies for cooperation. In the stage of dialogue and negotiation, in addition to demonstrating the company's active and abundant cash flow, Feng. Baron Pifil also relied on the support of a strong behind-the-scenes team to transform from a mere foundry entrepreneur to a long-term integrated investor. His electrical research center has only been open for a long time, but it has already been purchased with four patents, and has a number of Ph.D. researchers (although the application of electrical technology in Italy was the last of the great powers during the war, their theoretical research still occupies a place in the field of European research), and the "anonymous German researcher" has aroused great curiosity on the part of the Erlikon company. After a few delays, when the Erikon negotiators and technicians visited the Pifair Electrical Research Center, a "replica" of the Fumo 240 centimeter-wave radar had been placed – the most advanced radar installed on German night fighters during the war.

With capital, technology, and personnel, the originally unknown Pifil Enterprise finally appeared in front of the decision-makers of the Erlikon Company in development difficulties as a unicorn, but it was not only this emerging company that entered the substantive negotiation. Out of the yearning for the famous name of Ericon, many industrialists with official backgrounds are interested in stepping in, but there are very few people like Pifil who are willing to endure "trading at a loss". Fears of corporate control, Erlikon are willing to sell only 20 percent of the shares, which are valued at just 25 million Swiss francs, but they want cash and a free share of radar technology. After several rounds of negotiations, Pifil won the approval of Erlikon's decision-makers with great sincerity. The two sides took what they wanted, and Erikon received a huge cash investment of 42 million Swiss francs and the right to use the Pifil Electric Research Center, and in a concession, Erlikon not only sold a fifth of the shares, but also changed its name to Erlikon-Pifil Defense after the agreement came into effect.

(To be continued)