The Germans were indeed very rich now, and of course this was only in the sense of hard currency such as gold, and in the last few hundred years, with the opening of new shipping routes, the European colonists explored the whole world except Europe, and when they found that both China, which they once thought was powerful, and the Native Americans, who were still in the wilderness, were far behind in terms of productivity, the plundering began.

The colonists, with the support of the monarchs of their respective countries, began to carry out bloody oppression and plundering of the weak and small countries and tribes in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and in addition to plundering a large number of precious metals such as gold and silver in the Americas, they also transported gold, silver and precious stones from Latin America back to Europe.

In the first 100 years, European colonizers plundered precious metal minerals in addition to the unique tropical agricultural products from there. For example, around 1550, Mexico provided one-third of the total amount of silver used in the world.

European colonial conquests began with the acquisition of wealth through trade. It's not just the British, it's the Europeans. However, when precious metals such as gold and silver flowed to Europe in large quantities, the profits of the colonists began to decline, so they had to find new sources of profit growth, so the bloodier black slave trade began.

Selling black slaves to the colonies is a disguised export of labor, after all, wealth is created by labor, whether it is Europeans, Asians, or those blacks, they can become the labor force to create wealth. It took a lot of labor for Europeans to go to the colonies to develop their careers. The Indians were not physically good, so they imported blacks. The state or private organization of blacks to sell to European immigrants in the colonies to make money. Those European immigrants got rich by exploiting the labor of blacks, and don't Europeans make money?

Colonization can be seen as a disgraceful process of primitive capital accumulation, but it is undeniable that it did play a role in promoting the development of capitalism. For Europe, it accelerated the accumulation of capital, promoted the development of the bourgeoisie in various countries, and laid a solid material foundation for the bourgeois revolution. to the Americas. Aboriginal peoples, local cultures have been devastated; Quickly integrate the Americas into the world.

"Capitalism came into the world. Blood and filth are oozing in every pore! ”。 We will leave aside how filthy capitalism really is, but we must see that it is through this glamorous plundering that Europe has quickly become the richest region in the world. And even until now. Even after the devastation of the First World War. Europe is already the richest region in the world.

But. The accumulation of hundreds of years of accumulation of major European countries because of a war all went into the hands of one country, and this country is Germany, so you can imagine how rich Germany was at this time. Let's be honest. For the past few decades and hundreds of years, Germany has not been a great power or rich country in the traditional sense, even if it has exploded the whole of Europe, and even opposed most of the world.

Before Kaiser Wilhelm, there was no unified Germany at all, there was only a fragmented German region, and in the 19th century, when other countries were busy with the Industrial Revolution, Germany began their path to unification, and it has only been more than 70 years so far.

70 years may be a long time for a person, even longer than a person's life. But for a country or a people, 70 years is too short. Moreover, after the fiasco of World War I, all the wealth accumulated by Germany for hundreds of years was turned into ashes, and for nearly 20 years after the war, Germany has been oppressed and plundered by Britain and France as a defeated country. Add to that the blow of the world-wide economic crisis more than a decade ago, and Germany has in fact been wiped out.

In this way, Germany simply could not afford to fight such a larger war. However, more than a year after the war, the Germans were still so vigorous that they even forced the Americans to change their isolationist stance and participate in the war semi-openly!

What is this for? In fact, many people do not understand that the reason why the Germans still fought against Britain and France, and even had the spare strength to plot against the Soviet Union, was entirely because the German government had targeted the treasury of other European countries from the beginning. As the war machine accelerated, the German price became so high that the meagre gold reserves of the German treasury were soon nearly depleted.

But war has an iron law of war, and during the war, especially before the outcome is completely clear, no country will risk selling goods to Germany, so almost all trade is forced to be carried out in the form of spot barter.

In order to continue the war, the German government had to rely on systematic and organized looting and plundering of other countries' national treasuries. Wherever the fascists went, lives were destroyed and property looted. No one can calculate how much wealth Germany has plundered from the occupied territories in the past year, but we can make a simple inference from the volume of trade between the German government and neutral countries in the past year.

It's like trying to know how much money a person made in the last year, if people don't want to tell you, you just need to briefly understand how much money that person spent. If you want to estimate the value of the wealth plundered by the Nazis, you can use the gold reserves of the Nazi trading partners during World War II as a reference. During the war, a number of countries continued to trade with the Nazis under the umbrella of neutral countries, which was quite large.

According to incomplete statistics, last year alone, Germany's trade with Spain, Switzerland and other countries reached a total of 96.4 billion marks, and the vast majority of these were Germany's purchase of war materials from those neutral countries.

Although this does not accurately reflect how much money Germany has robbed from Britain and France, it provides Chen Feng with a good reference. At least trade with Germany, he didn't need to worry about being cheated by that mustache.

But Chen Feng has another concern, that is, whether trading with the mustache will cause dissatisfaction among the Americans. There are even bigger hidden dangers. Chen Feng is very clear about the United States, don't look at the country's superficial benevolence, righteousness and morality, which talks about democracy and law all day long, but in fact it is full of bad water. And one of the biggest characteristics of Americans is that they hold grudges, as long as you violate their interests, maybe you won't do anything at that time, but you will definitely take revenge at that time.

It is like the trial of Japanese Army General Masaharu Honma after the war, two weeks after the end of the war, Japanese Army General Masaharu Honma was imprisoned by the U.S. 8th Army and subsequently tried as a war criminal in Manila. He was charged with ordering the Bataan Death March. As a result, 40,000 Allied prisoners were tortured to death.

But. All evidence suggests that this order was made by the base camp Masanobu Tsuji with extreme contempt for him, the soon-to-be-dismissed commander, but Douglas? MacArthur, in revenge for his defeat in the Philippines, ordered his execution outside Manila on April 3, 1946. Even American defense lawyers believe. The verdict against Honma was unjust.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Frank? Murphy protests against the verdict against Honma. It was seen as a danger of reducing the court's verdict to a bloody purge of revenge – driving people into madness in the aftermath of the war. However, the U.S. government executed Masaharu Honma anyway. Because he was the only person in the world to defeat MacArthur, the principal of West Point, before the outbreak of the Korean War.

After the war, the Americans took this kind of revenge to the extreme, and we can see some clues from the wars launched by the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was attacked by the United States. There is only one reason, and that is that the Taliban let bin Laden hide in Afghanistan.

Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was destroyed precisely because Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. And what is the truth? Osama bin Laden was killed by American special forces in Pakistan, and the so-called weapons of mass destruction have not been found in Iraq until now. Both Afghanistan and Iraq are places for countries led by the United States to flex their muscles with advanced weapons, and their purpose is to fight for oil and for their own interests.

It can be said that the United States is a country that must be avenged. As we all know, the United States did not lose many dead in World War II, and a large part of them were killed by the Germans. After the war, all the countries with which the country had relations with the state were dealt a terrible blow by the Allies, including Japan and Italy.

Now that the United States has begun to implement its aid policy toward China, the United States is essentially an ally of China. And penicillin drugs are an extremely important war resource, such a large-scale transaction, this is undoubtedly an enemy in the eyes of a large part of the Chinese people, this kind of behavior is no different from a traitor, so as early as a few months ago, someone attacked Chen Feng with this matter.

However, because the transaction between Chen Feng and Germany is relatively secret, except for the parties concerned, no one else knows the content and quantity of the transaction between each other, and the Eighth War Zone has always been making great progress, and it will give the Chinese people a big surprise from time to time, so although those with ulterior motives jumped up and down, they did not pose much threat to Chen Feng, and the Nationalist Government did not talk about this matter.

But now it is different, on the one hand, because the number of transactions between the two sides this time is really large, the value of 10 billion US dollars is more terrifying than the hundreds of billions in later generations, and 10 billion US dollars of drugs are enough for three years of drug consumption of Germany's five million troops, and it may be difficult to hide it from the Nationalist Government. The second is that the Americans are now also involved, and they will definitely not agree with Chen Feng to sell so many penicillin drugs to the Germans.

Because for every extra bottle of penicillin that the Germans have, their wounded have an extra chance to be reborn. For both warring sides, the death and rebirth of a soldier is not as simple as one plus one.

What is most precious on the battlefield is not those aircraft artillery, but veterans, especially those who have survived the wounds, those who are the real elite. Maybe all 5 recruits are dead, but the wounded soldiers who return to the battlefield can survive intact.

Moreover, a person's life and death can be ignored and ignored. However, tens of billions of dollars of drugs can not only determine the life and death of one person, but can determine the life and death of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, and the combined effect of these people is extremely amazing.

Chen Feng is really not afraid of the current United States, because Chen Feng knows that the current United States has no way to deal with him, but he is worried that the Americans will settle accounts after the fall.

In a few years, the Americans will develop an atomic bomb, and if they don't, they will detonate it in Japan. Before the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb, the United States would be the only country in the world that possessed nuclear weapons, and even the Soviet Union, which had 15 million troops, would have to bow its head in front of the Americans, let alone him.

Most importantly, Chen Feng is well aware that his relationship with the United States is fundamentally different from that between Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and Japan, because the United States has always been a closed American country, and domestic isolationism is rife, so the United States does not have too many colonies overseas, and there is no other territory in Asia except for the Philippines.

And because China has always been regarded as private property by the Japanese and the British, Americans have always been excluded from these countries in China. This also contributed to a result. That is, the United States does not have much interest in China, except for a few small concessions in a few areas, and this does not conflict with Chen Feng, so Chen Feng does not want to have a fierce conflict with the Americans.

Now Chen Feng's heart is very conflicted. He wanted to trade with the Germans. Make a fortune before penicillin becomes a popular drug. But I don't want to offend the Americans because of this.

After thinking about it, Chen Feng still decided to trade with the United States and Germany at the same time, don't the Americans want to get the production formula of penicillin drugs, yes. The Chen family invested in technology and production equipment, and the United States invested in factory capital and land, and the two sides set up a large penicillin drug production company in the United States, but in order not to affect the sales of penicillin in the world, the drugs produced by this company were mainly supplied to China, the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries that were at war, and were not sold in the market.

In this way, the United States will be very satisfied, even though the factory will share the penicillin market and huge profits with the Americans. But the factory also has its own considerations, on the one hand, because the profit of penicillin drugs is not long-lasting; The second reason is that the Pacific War is about to break out, and the Japanese dwarf will definitely blockade the shipping of the Pacific Ocean at that time.

Coupled with the crazy performance of the mustache now, Chen Fengfang concluded that the war maniac couldn't wait, and the Soviet-German war was about to break out, and the Soviets would definitely not let Chen Feng deliver products to Europe through the Trans-Siberian Railway, that is to say, as long as the Soviet-German War and the Pacific War broke out, in addition to the drugs produced by Chen Feng could be used by his own troops, there was only one big customer left in the Nationalist Government, and it was impossible for other countries to ship the goods away even if they wanted to.

But the United States is different, the United States has a powerful fleet, and the American mainland is far from the battlefield. If you get a penicillin drug production plant somewhere, then you can send drugs to the allies at any time, and with the guarantee of the United States, I am afraid that no country will dare to repay the debt.

More importantly, through such means, Chen Feng can completely make the US government shut up on some things, such as the post-war handling of Japanese war criminals, and the dispute over Hong Kong and other issues, as well as the deal with the Germans.

Some time ago, according to the agreement between the two parties, Chen Feng's department will sell penicillin drugs to the United States at a very low price and unlimited quantities, although the price given by Chen Feng's department is indeed very low, but the US government still feels that the price of penicillin drugs is unbearable.

Penicillin is a consumable, the amount used in war is quite large, it is okay for a short time, and if it is used for a long time, it is a major burden that is difficult for any country to bear. The most important thing is that although the U.S. government has not figured out the production technology and formula of penicillin drugs in recent years, they have figured out one thing, that is, the cost price of penicillin drugs is not high, and it is low compared to its expensive sales price!

Every year, Americans spend so much money to buy drugs that are so cheap to produce, and they feel that they are losing money, and it is a huge loss, so they will do everything possible to get their hands on the production technology of penicillin.

However, Chen Feng looked at this very strictly, and no matter how the US government coerced and lured, he would not let go. Although the U.S. government is very itchy about this, it has no choice but to bear it silently.

However, the surprise came so suddenly, the Chen family took the initiative to find the U.S. government, saying that they were willing to cooperate with the U.S. government to produce penicillin drugs. Of course, this level of cooperation will certainly have some additional conditions attached.

The conditions of the Chen family were not strict at all, but there were only three: the first was that until the end of the war, all member states with penicillin in circulation, including the United States, could not sell penicillin drugs to Japan.

The second is that the equity of the company formed belongs to both parties, with both parties holding 50% of the shares, and the Chen family is responsible for production and the U.S. government is responsible for sales. But no matter to which country the U.S. government sells the drugs, the Chen family must get their share of the profits, which must be guaranteed by the U.S. government.

The implication is that it doesn't matter which country the U.S. government wants to help, as long as you sell a box of penicillin, the Chen family will get half of the profits, and there will be no arrears.

The third is that the price must be the same, and the sales price can be adjusted during the war, but the penicillin drugs produced in the United States must be sold at the same price as the penicillin produced in China.

With regard to these three conditions, the US Government agreed after a little consideration. In return, the U.S. government quickly issued a series of preferential policies to Huaxia, and the cooperation between the two sides was further deepened. (To be continued......)