Chapter IX Cooperation
Compared with everyone's scrutiny of Zhao Zhi at lunch, after Old Rod showed his family attitude, the atmosphere at the dinner table, which had almost dropped to freezing, was somewhat eased, and even Baker, who had been keeping a straight face, eased his face and talked to Zhao Zhi a few words. Rowling, who is in a good mood, no longer has to stare at Zhao Zhi nervously, for fear that he will get angry at the table, Lao Rod's attitude is almost the attitude of the family, which shows that at least the helmsman of the family, Lao Rod, has accepted Zhao Zhi.
"How sure are you that you will convince the Germans?" After dinner, Lao Luo took Zhao Zhi for a walk in the manor, the bodyguard and the rest of the family were driven back by Lao Rod, there were only two people in the empty garden, he and Zhao Zhi were the only two people in the empty garden, and they just talked about it in the study in the afternoon, and Lao Rod needed to know the details of the whole plan. As the helmsman of the Lockman family, old Rhodes can't rashly take the whole family to accompany Zhao Zhi to play games.
"Take out what interests them and let them take the initiative to cooperate, only in this way can I get the initiative and not suffer in the cooperation" and the cooperation with the Germans, Zhao Zhi did not dare to pack a ticket to definitely work. But Zhao Zhi believed that the plans he brought, the Germans, especially the extremely ambitious Hitler, would definitely be interested, and Hitler, who did not hesitate to transfer all German men in order to expand his strength, was simply a war maniac, and Zhao Zhi believed that his bait was fragrant enough and big enough.
Zhao Zhi smiled, what could he tell this stubborn old man, tell him that he was from the next generation, or tell him that he even knew that the United States was about to be involved in this war. "China had a long-term cooperation with Germany, and many of China's armies used German training methods and weaponry, and this cooperation did not end until after the outbreak of war. So far, Chairman Chiang's son is still serving in the German army, and I was invited by him to go to Germany, and I guess it has something to do with a military operation that Germany is about to carry out."
Germany was going to attack Poland, which Jiang Weiguo vaguely told Zhao Zhi in the telegram, and Zhao Zhi did not know the specific time of action, he only knew that Jiang Weiguo told the German high-level about what he had said about the blitzkrieg of armored forces in the villa on the south bank, and it was expected that this trip to Germany must be related to this matter. Poland is only a small country, under the attack of the powerful German armored forces, it is only a matter of time before it is destroyed, but if the German armored forces really follow their own set of blitzkrieg theories, and can achieve the expected results, then their meeting with the Germans this time will be an extremely advantageous bargaining chip, at least let the German military look down on themselves.
"You mean that little man in Germany is going to start a war?" Old Rod's expression was a bit like a philanthropist who rescued the suffering, but Zhao Zhi knew that what was hidden under this face was the concept of interests, the concept of interests that was deeply rooted in his bones, which was the vested interest that every big family needed to consider. Unlike the big families in Europe and the United States and the Chinese families, the Chinese families accumulate benefits by means of consolidation and political means, while the established families in Europe and the United States will smell the breath of interests from the war and use their influence in the parliament to obtain benefits for their own families in the war.
"Yes, according to my analysis, the Germans will do something to Poland in the near future, that's why I rushed to Germany immediately, the Germans have always rejected Jews, but there are millions of Jews in Germany and Poland, this is a huge fortune, this is the purpose of my trip to Germany, I need these Jews to serve me" Zhao Zhi's eyes flashed with brilliance, which made old Rhodes look sideways. More than a million Jews, the Rockman family accumulated for several generations did not dare to make such a big breath, this young Chinese actually has such a big courage, the Rockman family is afraid that this time on the thief ship.
"You've talked about all this in the study in the afternoon, and I'm just asking you, what exactly do you need from the Rockman family?" Old Rhodes sat on the bench with a low body, and he had been observing since the young man entered the manor, but he had never really seen through this young man, and he really didn't know what he had in his head? How can there be so many strange plans and ideas, and it is incredible that he, as the helmsman of the Lockman family, would accompany a hairy boy to bet on his own family.
"I need the Lockman family's right to use the dock and all the ocean-going fleet, and I also need the Lockman family to provide me with a guarantee, I want to buy planes from the United States, a large number of fighters and transport planes, I need to have enough strength to protect my base" At present, the United States' aid to China has not begun, and it is simply impossible to buy aircraft, especially fighters and transport aircraft, and Zhao Zhi needs the Lockman family to use their influence in Congress to help him fulfill this wish.
Hans's early recruitment operation went very smoothly, a total of more than 500 guys with experience in aircraft piloting, as well as a large number of technicians and retired unemployed people, as long as Zhao Zhi had enough planes, he would be able to pull out more than 4 aircraft formations immediately. Only with a flight formation in hand, can the Jews who cross half of China from Burma be protected and can they enter Xinjiang smoothly, otherwise the troops of Erma in Shaanxi and Gansu alone will be enough to give Zhao Zhi a headache.
"I'm afraid this is not easy to do, but I can try it" Old Rod is not impossible, he just doesn't want Zhao Zhi to get carried away, this is pouring cold water on Zhao Zhi, lest this young boy be happy and sad. Although the United States has not yet passed a draft of aid to China, Chinese government lobbyists have been lobbying those congressmen in Washington, and the Lockman family only needs to mobilize their pawns in Congress to support it a little, and I believe that Roosevelt will agree to this draft. Moreover, Zhao Zhi, who owns the Thunder Weapons Laboratory, can completely exchange the output of his own weapons production factory and the military for fighter jets and transport aircraft, which can not only avoid the exploitation of aircraft manufacturers, but also obtain a certain number of ground crew personnel from the military.
"I also need a steel mill to be relocated to China as a whole to provide enough steel for the weapons factory I am about to build in China" Zhao Zhi did not tell Lao Rhodes, just when he left Xi'an, Yan Wudao and the Japanese geology and mining experts who had been captured by him had entered the vast Qinling Mountains and were heading towards the desolate Xinjiang. They were Zhao Zhi's advance team, tasked with finding minerals for the base, and only when a suitable source was found could Zhao Zhi determine the location of the Jewish gathering point, and also build a weapons manufacturing plant next to the gathering place.
Old Rhodes pondered for a while, and promised to find a way to solve the matter for Zhao Zhi, the war is about to start, all countries in the world, especially the United States, are still waiting, and now what is provided to Japan is scrap steel, most of the military's orders are small weapons, but the country's steel reserves have been going on, and Old Rhodes is now not thinking about relocating the steel mill, but to privately recruit those skilled workers in the steel mill. As long as there are enough skilled workers, no matter how big a steel mill can be built, Zhao Zhi is ready to treat those millions of Jews as laborers anyway.
"I've talked to the CIA guys in Washington, they're going to provide me with some ocean-going freighters, and I hope the Rockman family can help me rebuild these freighters, and I'm going to use them to transport Jews from Burma ashore to China, and I'm going to need a lot of food and medicine to supply these Jews as supplies along the way" The CIA people did promise to help Zhao Zhi, including hiring ocean-going freighters from France and England for Zhao Zhi, after all, Zhao Zhi was just a little-known Chinese kid, Those shipping chaebols will not sell Zhao Zhi's account at all.
"Food and medicine are not a problem, the Rockman family has their own food processing plant and pharmacy company, and our warehouse is full of stock," said old Rod smiling like a profiteer. He expected that the war was about to happen, so he ordered the food processing factory to make a large number of canned food in advance, and also stockpiled a large number of first-aid medicines, which Zhao Zhi needed, of course, had to come up with enough dollars to buy them. The Rockman family chose to cooperate with Zhao Zhi, but it does not mean that this help is free, and Old Rhodes has long coveted the Thunder Weapons Laboratory.
Of course, Zhao Zhi also knows the truth that he can't be reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, even if he and Rowling finally get together, the relationship between him and the Rockman family is purely a relationship of interest, which is a fact that cannot be changed. After some bargaining, Old Rhodes finally obtained 20% of the shares of the Thunder Weapons Laboratory from Zhao Zhi, and the cheap Old Rhodes also shouted that Zhao Zhi was bullying the elderly, and resolutely would not marry Rowling to Zhao Zhi, a stingy Chinese.
Lao Luo, who consciously took advantage, never thought that he would be swept away by Zhao Zhi, and he was busy bargaining with Zhao Zhi at all, and he didn't even notice that what he got was only the shares of the district party committee's laboratory, and what really generated huge benefits was the weapon manufacturing factory that was divided separately. The laboratory that Lao Rhodes got is just a research institute that needs a lot of investment, but it is the manufacturing plant that quantifies the research results, and the Lockman family, which occupies 2 percent of the shares, cannot control the fact that the laboratory will hand over the research results to the manufacturing plant, on the contrary, the Lockman family has to invest a large amount of money into the laboratory every year, otherwise Zhao Zhi, the actual owner of the laboratory, will take back the 2 percent of the shares they hold.
Zhao Zhi's several problems have been supported by old Rod, after all, the cake that Zhao Zhi painted for the Rockman family is too big, so big that everyone in the Rockman family is dumbfounded, if Zhao Zhi's plan is really implemented, the Lockman family will become an invisible family that can influence American politics, and become a real chaebol family in the United States. Those people in the family who were not optimistic about Zhao Zhi obviously had a much better attitude towards Zhao Zhi after Lao Rhodes communicated with them privately one by one, especially the young people of Rowling's generation, who admired Zhao Zhi to the extreme, and shouted that they wanted to follow Zhao Zhi to China to have a look.