Zhao Ke and Yang Yuwei didn't ask where Xie Niancheng went that night, a smart woman wouldn't ask anything that shouldn't be asked.

From Xie Niancheng hurriedly assigning work to the two of them, the two girls could guess the approximation: it was going to rain over Europe.

There is not a day to waste.

Zhao Ke and Yang Yuwei took active action.

What they need to do is not complicated: contact the students receiving the Hsieh Grant and inform them to return to China together. At the same time, all the lab equipment, medicines, and books that these students need are purchased.

Xie Niancheng's arrangements for these students after returning to China are: those who are willing to continue to engage in scientific research will be paid salaries and provided with experimental sites and equipment; Those who are willing to engage in industry directly serve as engineers.

Xie Niancheng also gave these students a task, that is, to recruit relevant talents in Germany as much as possible, regardless of age, race, gender, and occupation, as long as they have the ability and willingness to go to the East.

The students who received the Xie Scholarship were all in Germany and were usually closely connected with the organization, so it only took Zhao Ke and Yang Yuwei three days to notify all the students in Germany.

Next, Zhao Ke went to the United Kingdom, and Yang Yuwei went to France, and they wanted to go to these two countries to contact the international students from Dahan, as much as possible to recruit international students to return to China, and also strive to recruit some workers in the United Kingdom and France.

Xie Niancheng's conditions for recruiting foreigners are very simple, that is, a one-time salary for ten years in his current position in Europe. At the same time, after arriving in Sichuan, the salary was paid three times that of working in Europe. I believe that with such preferential conditions, some people can be recruited more or less.

There is no way to give such a generous treatment. I learned from Zhao Ke's mouth. The international students study very hard, but after all, they have only studied for less than two years, and they will be on their own when they go back. That's absolutely impossible.

Dozens of basic heavy industry and energy projects will never be completed and put into operation in a short period of time without experienced engineers and skilled workers.

After sending Zhao Ke and Yang Yuwei out, Xie Niancheng himself took William and went everywhere to receive supplies and equipment.

That night at Prince Eugen's house, Xie Niancheng attended the Supreme Council of the German Empire.

The meeting was attended by His Majesty the Emperor, the three princes, and the seven marshals of the army, navy, and air force, as well as Mandrian and William.

A meeting of this level, so to speak. It was mainly held for the sake of Xie Niancheng.

In the first half of the meeting, several marshals of the three armed services took turns asking questions, asking Xie Niancheng about tank group operations and torpedo planes attacking battleships.

After being shocked by Xie Niancheng. His Majesty the Emperor personally asked Xie Niancheng what strategy would be the best for Germany if a war broke out in Europe.

Xie Niancheng remembered the First World War in that time and space. Germany was defeated. But how exactly did it fail. He couldn't remember it very clearly, so he could only emphasize the two most important factors in his memory:

"Your Majesty, Princes, Marshals: I believe that if war breaks out in Europe, Germany should concentrate all its main forces and strive to defeat France in the shortest possible time, and then defeat Russia with its allies. After a decisive victory on the mainland, the search for opportunities used torpedo tactics to annihilate the main force of the British Navy in one fell swoop. ”

Prince Eugen asked, "What do you think?" Is it highly likely that Germany will win all of them? ”

Xie Niancheng hesitated for a moment and decided to tell the truth.

"Frankly. I think Germany will be victorious if it can achieve favorable armistice terms. ”

As soon as Xie Niancheng's words came out, the Germans were a little out of business.

Mandrian asked, "General Xie, could you please tell me why our German Empire could not achieve a complete victory?" Can't we defeat Britain, France, Russia, and Italy? ”

Xie Niancheng said: "I have no doubt about the ability of the German army, but if Germany cannot completely defeat France and force France to surrender in one year's time, Germany will not be able to achieve a complete victory." ”

"General Xie, you are a genius soldier, and you can prove it from the ideas of tanks, incendiary bombs, and torpedo machines, and you yourself should know the power of these advanced weapons...... Could it be that we have such a great advantage in weapons that we are not able to completely defeat the enemy? ”

Xie Niancheng said: "I think you may have not considered it. ”

"What? What didn't we take into account? Prince Eugen wondered.

Xie Niancheng didn't even know their battle plan, so he couldn't help but be surprised when he said that they didn't think it through.

Xie Niancheng quickly expressed his opinion: "I think your country should not take into account the United States and Japan, if these two countries participate in the war, then Germany's advantage will not be great." ”

"The United States? Do the people of this country go to war? Did the Japanese dare to participate in the war in Europe? Manderian was incredulous.

At this time, Japan and Russia did not go to war, so in the eyes of European countries, the Japanese were just a group of monkeys who liked to jump up and down supported by the British.

Seeing that the Germans didn't believe their speculation, Xie Niancheng naturally didn't say anything.

After talking with the prince and marshal for a while, the German emperor said: "General Xie, the main reason for inviting you here today is to talk about cooperation with your country. ”

Hearing this, Xie Niancheng was excited.

If you really buy it according to the market price, you can buy 565 tons of gold, which is really not much.

The German emperor's next words did not disappoint Xie Niancheng.

"General Xie, the gold you brought has fully demonstrated your sincerity, and the marshals have just decided to give you equipment for twenty infantry divisions, hoping that these equipment will help you unify your motherland as soon as possible."

"Thank you so much, Your Majesty the Emperor!"

The German Emperor's words were not finished: "If you need industrial equipment, you can talk to the Minister of Industry and the President of Deutsche Bank, and they should be able to give you some help." ”

With the words of the German emperor, and the help of Freeman and Hausenbruck, who were already interested in Xie Niancheng's financial and industrial development plans, Xie Niancheng would have access to far more industrial equipment than he had previously planned.

What makes Xie Niancheng even happier is that under the arrangement of Freeman and Hausenbruck, each complete set of equipment will be equipped with several engineers to ensure that the equipment can be installed and used smoothly.

What Xie Niancheng and William needed to do was to transport the equipment and personnel from all over the country to Hamburg, and then send them from Hamburg to the ship and transport them back to China.

A few days later, Xie Xinyong also came, with a large fleet.

All the ocean-going vessels of Hsieh's Shipping came, and the combined capacity was 250,000 tons.

After hearing Xie Niancheng say that the capacity may not be enough, Xie Xinyong relied on all the relationships that could be supported, and leased a total of 600,000 tons of capacity from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and finally had a total capacity of 850,000 tons.

According to estimates, it should be possible to repatriate all equipment and arms to the country at one time.

Since the end of May, various personnel and materials have been transported to Hamburg one after another.

Looking at the longer and longer list of equipment, Xie Niancheng became more and more excited:

There are 4 500 cubic blast furnaces, 2 large steelmaking furnaces, supporting rolling equipment, rail beam equipment, sintering equipment, coking equipment, iron ore processing equipment, coal mine operation equipment, and coal washing equipment.

In addition, thermal power generation units, substation equipment, wires and cables, engine production equipment, rubber processing equipment, train production equipment, automobile production lines, oil refining equipment, ...... so many that Xie Niancheng's eyes are dazzled.

It can be said that all the heavy industrial equipment used in Germany twenty years ago, this time was given.

Although these devices are obsolete in Germany, they can definitely be used for decades with a little maintenance!

As long as all these facilities are put into use, Sichuan will be able to establish a complete heavy industry system that lacks only crude oil production, and Sichuan's heavy industry products will surpass the current output of the whole of China.

At present, there are very few industrial products in the whole of China:

In 2014, the country's steel output was only 130,000 tons, iron output was 500,000 tons, and power generation was 1.2 billion kWh.

In terms of military industry, the annual output is less than 100,000 rifles, 50 million rounds of ammunition, and 40 or 50 anti-aircraft guns of the 37th War.

In addition to the above-mentioned major factory equipment, there are also equipment for smelting copper, tungsten, tin, and aluminum, chemical plants for manufacturing three acids and two alkalis, alcohol factories, electrical equipment factories, radio equipment factories, aircraft factories, automobile factories, shipyards, pharmaceutical factories, and so on.

If all the equipment is put into operation normally, the output of steel will reach 5 million tons and the output of coal will reach 120 million tons......

According to Zhao Ke's painstaking planning, 302 large and small heavy industry projects will be built! Just counting the value of these equipment, the freight and installation costs, it is as high as 2 billion gold marks!

The 565 tons of gold paid by the Chinese Federation are only equivalent to 1.15 billion gold marks! For these 302 projects, the German government has also officially sent 2,966 engineers to participate in the construction and operation of these projects. These engineers and the materials they carry are things that money can't buy.

On 7 June, Mandrian personally delivered military production equipment to Hamburg.

Watching countless equipment on the ship at the dock, Xie Niancheng said to Mandrian: "Your Excellency Mandrian, this time, we owe too much to Germany. ”

Mandrian said: "We in Germany have never shown mercy to the weak, and it is also in our interests that we are helping you today. I believe that the eight or nine billion gold marks we pay today will be rewarded tenfold or even a hundredfold in the future. ”

Xie Niancheng couldn't say anything more in words, but just gave Mandrian a warm hug.

In mid-June, Zhao Ke, Yang Yuwei, and more than 800 Chinese students studying in European countries came to Hamburg one after another, purchasing a large number of books and hiring more than 9,000 engineers and workers from various countries.

Zhou Xintong bought the most books, she bought 100 copies of all the textbooks in Germany from kindergarten to university! With this one thing, she will be able to leave her name forever in the history of Chinese education.

On June 20, 2015, the "Sino-German 302 Plan" officially began to be implemented, and a huge fleet set sail from Hamburg! (To be continued......)