Chapter 537: Franco
- The Crimean region
Ukraine has slowly calmed down, and the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia has gradually been accepted by everyone, of course, the countries of the Western world are unwilling to accept it, and they continue to send troops to the border of the Crimean Peninsula. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
It is worth mentioning that for Jiang Cheng's investment, the Crimean regional government is a hundred willing, and even held a large celebration to celebrate this event, Kou Ko pointed to the distance and said to Jiang Cheng, "Look, that is our industrial zone, and the walls are all ours, it's big, right?" β
It's not very big, Jiang Cheng looked at the prison-like place with high walls, and asked suspiciously, "Is this necessary?" Isn't that an exaggeration? β
Kou shook her head and said, "It's not an exaggeration at all, although most of the people in the Crimean Peninsula are pro-Russian, but there are still some people who want to leave Russia, and after we set up a factory here, it immediately made many people feel panicked, they were afraid that because we made the Crimean Peninsula region better, so they tried every means to sabotage, hoping to make our factories close, we even suffered rocket attacks at the beginning, and as for the kidnapping of workers, there are many messes, In the end, my brother and I took people to them, and they relented a bit. β
Jiang Cheng looked at Kou Kokou, he didn't know that so many things had happened here when he was away.
The door opened, and Coco introduced herself and said, "To put it simply, there is the tank production area in front, the aircraft production area in the back, the production area for your high-tech products in the middle, and there is a lot of open space to expand production at any time." β
Jiang Cheng asked while visiting, "When will the finished product come out?" β
Kou Ko thought for a while and said, "The first batch of finished products can come out in two months at most, and your new energy ones will come out quickly, and it will take time for my heavy machinery to be produced." β
Jiang Cheng smiled, "I'm not urging you, by the way, how is our new energy being promoted here?" β
Speaking of it, Coco felt funny and said, "Ukraine probably doesn't know who said it, and then cut off the supply of electricity and water power to the Crimean Peninsula, which just gave us an opportunity, we immediately began to implement new energy equipment, and now more than forty percent of households in the Crimean Peninsula have begun to use our equipment to ensure power supply, and we are building a large-scale new energy power plant in the Crimean Peninsula. It was an iconic plant requested by the Russian leadership, so it was built quickly. I believe that in another six months, the entire Crimean peninsula will use our new energy for electricity, and even feed back some Russia. β
Jiang Cheng said with a smile, "There is no place to use Russia's energy, where is this needed, I am also going to set up a mobile phone factory and a computer factory here this time as a base for our exports to Europe." β
Coco didn't know the news of artificial intelligence yet, and asked curiously, "What?" Are you going to dabble in mobile phones and computers again? β
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Yes, of course, the main production base is still domestic, but the transportation from domestic production to Europe is really inconvenient, it is not as close as it is to Western Europe, and the Russian leadership has also agreed." β
In fact, where is the Russian leadership agreeing, to be precise, the Chinese leadership agreeing, and it is not known how many interest transactions there are.
Coco touched her chin and said, "These computers and mobile phones don't have much to do with our current business, what do you want to sell at?" β
Jiang Cheng took out his mobile phone and said, "Artificial intelligence!" β
As he spoke, a little Lori wearing dinosaur pajamas jumped out of Jiang Cheng's mobile phone, and shouted to Coco, "Hello! You're Sister Coco, right? I'm my father's daughter, the queen of red! β
"Daughter??" Kou looked at Jiang Cheng with disdain, and took two steps away from Jiang Cheng by the way.
Jiang Cheng hurriedly explained, "This is mainly because I developed this program, so the red queen called me Dad, and she wanted to call it herself... She's an artificial intelligence, not forced by me. β
"Ahh The red queen tilted her head and asked Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng covered his face, yes, he couldn't explain it clearly.
But Kou Ko found that the red queen was not ordinary, and she said to the red queen, "Red queen, are you an artificial intelligence?" What will you be? β
The red queen hugged her chest and said, "I'm a doppelganger here now, but I will also have a lot, don't talk about the skills of those mobile phone butlers, for example, if someone steals me, I will call the police myself and let the police arrest him, and if there is a beautiful big sister to call or text the owner, other beautiful sisters can't see it, and... Woowoooooooo
Jiang Cheng snatched the phone and blocked the speaker of the phone, and the red queen was also extremely anthropomorphic as if she had blocked her mouth and couldn't make a sound, she kept opening her teeth and claws, Jiang Cheng said hehehe, "This... Yes, the most important thing for him is that he can chat with people, similar to an electronic pet, and can also arrange schedules, clean up mobile phone garbage, and do a lot of things, what he just said about big sister's, just incidental, incidental!! β
Kou looked at Jiang Cheng with a look at the garbage, and said in her mouth, "Why do I think this is the main thing?" β
Jiang Cheng tilted his head and couldn't speak for a long time.
"Ahem, to be serious, you're really powerful as a red queen, if you can really use it on your mobile phone, you can really sell it, I now know why you're getting involved in computers and mobile phones, what are you going to call this thing?"
Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "I call her Honghou, if she has a new mobile phone, she will be called Red Star, and the computer will be called Hongyue." β
Kou Ko shook her head and said, "Red is a little cheesy, it's better to call it the Blood Moon Demon Star, how domineering!" β
.... It's definitely a computer game that I play too much.
Jiang Cheng changed the subject and asked, "How are our tanks and aircraft factories doing?" β
Coco introduced and said, "The machinery and equipment of the tank factory and aircraft factory you want are packaged, you can pull them away at any time, our tank factory here is mainly to refurbish the T-54, these tanks are piled up everywhere in Russia and Ukraine, the price is still over, you can start refurbishment production next month, as for the Rolls Las Merlin engine has begun to be produced, you can come and pick up the goods at any time, and the ammunition you want began to be produced as early as last week, which is said to be due to the mass production of weapons here It's been noticed by some people, but don't worry, we've got it all done. β
Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes and touched his mobile phone and said, "Don't worry, they won't find anything." β
The Czech magic changed the 38T to a light tank, the T-43 to a medium tank, and the T-54 to an ace tank, which is the tank layout of the Republic of China.
-- Republic of China Time and Space Italy
Mussolini looked at the report in his hand and put it aside unhappily.
"Leader, now that the war situation in Africa has gradually tilted towards us, we believe that Britain will be kicked out of Egypt by us in half a year at the earliest, or a year at the slatest."
Mussolini looked at the debriefing man and asked with half-open eyes, "Yes, we?" I ask you, did this Egypt belong to our Kingdom of Italy or to their Third Reich after it was taken? β
The person who spoke was stunned by the question.
Mussolini slowly stood up, looked at the map on the wall and said, "These things must be explained clearly, otherwise..."
It is impossible to say that Mussolini did not taste Hitler, you know, Mussolini is the real advocate of fascism, Hitler used to see him as a salute and call a teacher, but now? Hitler not only became the head of Germany, but also led Germany to slaughter in all directions, France was defeated, Britain fled, and no one bowed their heads wherever the swastika flag arrived.
And, to this day, there is one last obstacle to cooperation between Italy and Germany - South Tyrol, which belongs to the German cultural sphere.
At this time, a man came in and said to Mussolini, "Report to the leader, Ziano is back!" β
"Oh?" Mussolini happily said, "Let him in!" β
Ziano was Mussolini's son-in-law and foreign secretary.
Ziano came in and saluted Mussolini and said, "Dear leader, the German FΓΌhrer Hitler wants us to conclude a military alliance agreement with Japan as soon as possible, and Germany has made it clear that it will renounce its territorial claims to South Tyrol." β
Mussolini's eyes rolled and he asked, "What about North Africa?" β
Ziano replied: "Hitler said that they were willing to trade Egyptian interests for the distribution of oil in Libya, and that Germany would defend the rights and interests of the Kingdom of Italy in the surrounding discourse in the Middle East, including the rights and interests of Greece." β
Mussolini hesitated, Villa was no longer the barren desert land, but the place rich in oil, but what about Egypt, Egypt had the fateful canal, it was a canal flowing with gold, and it wanted its own Italian army to take Egypt alone - Mussolini was really a little weak-minded.
Why does Germany suddenly value Libya so much? It's all for the oil! Although Hitler began to make up his mind to deal with his evil neighbor to the east, he wanted resources to fight a war, and Germany always felt that the resources were not enough to fight, so Hitler naturally took a fancy to Libya's oil, and if all Libyan oil was supplied to Germany, then Germany could breathe a sigh of relief.
Mussolini thought about it and felt that this business was still worth doing, if Germany helped Italy to take Egypt, Britain's power would basically be completely eliminated in North Africa, and Italy would only need to pay attention to the Balkans and Greece, which are all small countries, and Mussolini is still very easy to bully in his heart, and as for oil, there is oil in the Balkans.
While Mussolini was thinking about it in Italy, the ruler of Spain, Franco, was also meeting with Hitler's envoys.
Franco looked at Hitler's handwritten letter and was extremely conflicted, the current situation in Spain is not good at all.
As we all know, Franco's regime was established in the civil war, and his Falangist party succeeded in ousting the republican government in the civil war that began in 1936 with the strong support of Germany and Italy.
According to the admits of the weekly Spanish Upward of July 29, 1939, many areas were left in ruins. Nearly 60 per cent of houses were destroyed, 40 per cent of railway rolling stock was damaged, and many bridges and road facilities were damaged. More than 500,000 people were imprisoned for various political reasons, the Franco government was more like an occupying country at this time, and the level of industry in Spain was not high, the only thing that mattered was Spain's important geographical location - the Strait of Gibraltar!
Franco naturally knew what Hitler valued, he looked at the envoy opposite and asked, "It is our honor that our beloved FΓΌhrer Hitler wants us Spain to join the Axis powers, but it is a pity that our economic situation in Spain at this time is extremely difficult, and we do not have much strength to take care of foreign countries now, and we hope to maintain a special kind of neutrality, that is, the neutrality close to Germany." β
The envoy shook his head and said, "Peace in Europe is now only one step away, and that is that Britain is willing to accept a new European order, and if your country wishes to join us, it is only necessary to allow one of our army groups to enter Spain and block the Strait of Gibraltar." β
I have to say that Franco is a nationalist, as soon as he heard that Germany wanted to garrison troops, he was a hundred unwilling, he shook his head and said, "This is very difficult, our people have just experienced war, they are familiar with war, if your country enters our country, I cannot guarantee the safety of your army, your country can refer to what happened to Japan in North China, I am afraid that the guerrillas will make you and me unable to step down." β
The envoy frowned and asked, "So what kind of conditions does your country need to be willing to join us?" β
Spain was in real difficulty at this time, compared to 1933, when the wheat production in Spain was reduced from 3.762 million tons to 2.16 million tons, potatoes from 4.882 million tons to 3.58 million tons, the daily rationing system was adopted, and there were less than 180 grams of bread.
So, for Franco at this time, the most important thing was to solve the problem of food, and the German ambassador to Spain at the time, Stolrell, wrote in his report to Berlin: "The situation in Spain has become more acute in the last three weeks, hunger and commotion have been occurring, and even the army is not getting enough food." There are fears that some of the soldiers are uniting with the Red Party and other bandits and have begun to equip them with weapons. Churchill, on the other side, told the British Parliament: "As far as I know, the situation in Spain is gradually deteriorating, and the country is on the verge of starvation. β
Franco thought for a long time and said to the envoy: "In this case, I make two demands, 1. Expand the territory of Spain in the colonies of North Africa, and cede French Morocco and part of Algeria, including Oran, to Spain.
2. Expand the Spanish mainland, modify the Franco-Spanish border in the Pyrenees, cede Catalonia to France, and give Gibraltar to Spain.
3. Germany gave military and economic aid to Spain. In particular, the 15-inch howitzers that Spain needed to face the batteries in Gibraltar and the oil and food that Spain desperately lacked. β
Hearing this condition, the veins on his head jumped, and he sighed and said, "I will report to our FΓΌhrer, please wait for our reply." β