Poland surrendered, and the Eastern European military power, which had dared to go to war with Germany and the Soviet Union ten years earlier, perished, and only a month before the German attack on Poland was launched.

But what is incredible is that although Britain and France were well aware of the threat of Germany, they did not move on the Western Front when Poland was attacked by Germany, especially France, which had the most powerful army in the world at that time, and millions of troops quietly looked at the 26 German divisions facing it. The Quijote valiant allies were thus wiped out by the Germans.

The inaction of Britain and France made the countries of Eastern Europe extremely alarmed, their national strength was not as good as Poland, and the army was even less pitiful, if Germany did something to them, then it was possible to predict what the result would be, so before Germany had any new moves, some small countries in Eastern Europe and southern Europe threw olive branches to Germany one after another.

In fact, not only those small countries in Eastern Europe are panicking, but Britain and France are also scared now, don't look at them at this time They seem to be very powerful, but in fact, they know the situation of their own family, especially France, which claims to have the first army in the world. Prior to this, the French government had explicitly assured the Polish government in the Franco-Polish military agreement that in the event that Poland was captured by Germany and other countries, the French side would "gradually launch an offensive against limited targets within three days after the general mobilization order was issued." The treaty further stated: "In the event of a German attack on Poland with the main forces. France will launch an offensive against Germany with its main forces from the 15th day after the start of the French general mobilization".

When Colonel Jacquelinz, the Polish Deputy Chief of Staff, asked how many troops France could send to participate in such a massive offensive, General Gammelin of France told him that France would be able to send about 35 to 38 divisions by then.

But in fact, France was not prepared for war at all. Or that Britain and France, and especially France, were militarily unprepared. This is not unfounded, first of all, at the time of the German attack on Poland, the French military industry, as an ally of Poland, simply did not keep up with the pace of the times. Not even economically transferred to the wartime track. Material lack of preparation.

At that time, France could only produce 38 aircraft per month, while Germany produced more than 1,000 aircraft per month. Anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns on the French front at the beginning of the war. Light machine guns are lacking. Even the pistols worn by the generals were hard to come by. Confronted with a formidable foe. Many skilled workers in the munitions factories were transferred out of the factories to "clean the garden or peel potatoes" to do some handymen; In the factory, they also "work at the pace of peacetime" and do not work overtime. All arms orders and the establishment of new factories were carried out according to the plan of the war in 1942. But the war finally broke out early instead of according to their subjective wishes, and the soldiers and civilians were reluctantly drawn into the war, but they lacked the passion to fight. Some people didn't even know where Danzig was, and felt the need to "die for Danzig." To a certain extent, these chaotic circumstances reflect the reality that France was both entering the war and lacking material and spiritual preparation.

However, Germany's clean occupation of Poland created a big opportunity for Chen Feng. As the largest member of the British Commonwealth, Australia of course also received a request from the British government, according to the British government's intentions, Australia should provide Britain with at least 3 billion pounds of funds and more than 50,000 troops.

After all, Australia now has 90,000 troops, and although only 10,000 of these 90,000 troops are regular troops, and the rest are irregular troops, the Australian government believes that as long as it has a period of intensive training, it will be no problem to gather 50,000 or 60,000 troops.

But this £3 billion is not a small number, you must know that 3 billion pounds is equivalent to $13.5 billion. At this time, Australia has a population of less than 7 million, and the country's annual fiscal revenue is less than $15 billion, which is not counting the government's normal budget, and the annual balance of the century is less than $2.5 billion. It is certainly impossible to say that the whole of Australia will not be able to scrape together 3 billion pounds, but once such a large amount of money is handed over to the British government, then Australia will face a very serious financial crisis.

At a time when the Australian government is in crisis, its Treasurer Arthur Murphy. Gaidar suggested to the government that it could consider resuming negotiations with China's big warlord Chen Feng, and that if an agreement was reached, the Australian government would receive a large amount of money in the short term, which would help the mother country survive the crisis while saving itself from a financial crisis.

More importantly, Arthur believed that the world war was inevitable, so penicillin drugs that can treat knife and gun wounds would definitely become a war resource that countries were vying for, and the price of penicillin drugs would definitely increase again, so if the formula and production process of penicillin drugs were obtained before the war broke out on a large scale, this would undoubtedly be the same as getting a cash cow, and the government could get more money in addition to a lot of financial revenue.

Arthur's proposal was endorsed by then-Australian Prime Minister Menzies, and soon an emergency meeting was called in the cabinet, with 96% of cabinet members in favor of restarting negotiations with Chen Feng.

Soon the Australian government got in touch with Chen Feng's fourth aunt, Yan Changxi, hoping that the two sides would reopen negotiations on the purchase of the island, Yan Changxi was not very positive about this, and the news from the United States made the Australian government very frustrated, and the US government seemed to be negotiating with Chen Feng, intending to sell several large islands near the Philippines, including Luzon, to Chen Feng, and the price was less than 10 billion US dollars.

Fortunately, no final agreement was reached between them, and the Australian government was still very confident in the island of New Guinea and Tasmania, after all, the huge area advantage of the island of New Guinea is not comparable to any island in any country, so Menzies hurriedly sent a negotiating team led by the finance minister to the United States.

Their efforts paid off, Yan Changxi agreed to formally resume negotiations between the two sides, and Australia also knew that the situation was unfavorable for them this time, so they took the initiative to reduce the sale price, and were willing to sell New Guinea and Tasmania for $20 billion in cash and a patent license for penicillin drugs.

However, this price was not accepted by Yan Changxi's negotiation team, the reason is, of course, that although Australia has the sovereignty of New Guinea Island and Tasmania, it has hardly carried out any infrastructure construction on the island, and now the two islands are almost barren and barren land, even if the Chen family buys these two islands, they still need a lot of money for basic transformation, and the money spent will be an astronomical amount, so it is better to buy an island with a smaller area but has been fully constructed and developed. In the end, Yan's negotiating team offered a purchase price of $10 billion and a patent license for the penicillin drug, or $20 billion in cash.

Of course, the Australian government can't accept this price at all, this is a third of the price from a month ago, although they also know that even this price they have doubled, but they also know that this is definitely not the Chen family's price bottom line, so they do not agree with this price.

It was not until October 8 that the two sides finalized the amount of the deal, and the Chen family finally bought the Australian islands of New Guinea and Tasmania for $14 billion and the price of the patent license for the penicillin drug, but like those ancillary conditions before Australia sold the islands, Chen Feng also put forward four ancillary conditions before buying the islands.

: Penicillin drugs produced in Australia cannot be sold to Japan, nor can they be sold to Japan under the pretense of other countries.

: Before the mineral resources of the island of New Guinea are not developed, Australia should establish a peaceful and friendly trade relationship with the Chen family to provide the necessary resources for the development of the island of New Guinea, such as iron ore and copper ore.

After the completion of the transaction, the Chen family's escort team will be stationed on the island of New Guinea, and Australia has the responsibility and obligation to protect the island of New Guinea and Tasmania within 3 years.

Since the signing of the agreement, all the assets on the island have been sealed, and all the properties originally belonging to Australia belong to the Chen family, and all private property on the island cannot include land, mines, forests, rivers and lakes, etc., except for the normal housing land of residents, all land resources on the two islands are all owned by the Chen family.

The first two Australia agreed without even thinking about it, knowing the relationship between China and Japan, and also knowing the rules of it, and of course such important war materials could not be obtained by the hostile countries.

However, it is very difficult for the Australian government to ask Australia to protect the two islands. Chen Feng, as a famous anti-Japanese general in China, the hatred between him and Japan can be imagined, and more importantly, they can imagine that after Chen Feng buys these two big islands, he will definitely build some military facilities, and if Japan uses this as an excuse to attack these two islands, then it is also justified, after all, the two sides are still in a state of war!

However, thinking that there is still the Philippines and many islands in the middle of the United States, the Australian government believes that Japan should not send troops to attack these two islands in order to avoid a stalemate with the countries in the world, and this transaction is very important to them, so the Australian government still agreed to Chen Feng's four conditions after careful consideration! (To be continued......)