Chapter 24 24 Blue Sky and Blue Sea

Accardo, who had a large sum of money, returned to Berlin and deceived his superiors to obtain a large amount of money again, which he transferred to many of his small companies, which grew and then made more money.

No one would believe that a business group called Bai Lanhua Group used bank loans and money from unknown sources to buy a lesser-known beverage company in the United States, and the beverage company launched a product that is slightly famous in the United States, called Coca-Cola.

And the group acquired a little-known manufacturer of car engines in Germany called BMW AG.

At the beginning of 1921, the group led to the union of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, and in 1922 the two companies were combined to form a new car-making giant called Daimler-Benz AG.

In the middle of 1922, this mysterious Bailanhua group generously donated $1.5 million to fund the Krupp factory, an arms magnate that was struggling with the breaking of the financial chain. It is rumored that Gustave Krupp, who is the de facto owner of the Krupp factory, is very grateful to the Blazer Group and has personally set up a permanent room for the owners of the Blanca Group in his mountain villa.

And the group also went crazy in the Far East, buying a little-known synthetic metal company in Japan, Sumitomo Steel, a branch of the Sumitomo Consortium, and renamed this Sumitomo Steel Co., Ltd. Rhine Metal Co., Ltd.

And the group has a factory in southern China to produce rubber and other products.

Of course, these products were secretly shipped to Germany, some of which were hoarded as strategic materials for the Wehrmacht, and some of which were sold in commercial terms in exchange for more funds to support the Wehrmacht's overstretched expenditures.

This huge asset management plan, as it is known within the Wehrmacht, is an important part of Accardo's secret plan to expand the Wehrmacht, and this plan can be said to be the foundation.

These companies also provided ample funding for Accardo's private program, and with a large amount of capital investment, Accardo's private project has made leaps and bounds, the practical application of liquid-fueled rockets is nearing completion, the ballistic missile is being carried out secretly in the mountains of southern Germany, and the atomic energy research that Einstein was responsible for has also made some progress.

Some of the technical cooperation with German factories is also close to success, artificial rubber synthesis technology is becoming more and more perfect, Germany is most lacking in rubber and other industrial raw materials will soon be self-sufficient, although Germany's domestic financial environment is already very bad, but Accardo can still earn a lot of money from the United States, the Soviet Union and China to support his secret and huge industrial technology empire.

In 1922, the United States, Britain, Italy, France, and Japan signed a famous agreement in Washington, D.C., to limit the displacement of battleships and cruisers to 35,000 tons and 8,000 tons, which gave the German Navy, which had been using old World War I battleships, a glimmer of light.

Seeing a series of diplomatic victories of the General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht in the USSR and China, the generals of the Navy pinned their hopes on the General Command.

"Since it's called the Commander-in-Chief, it should at least include the Navy, right?" said the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in Sickert's office, and after hearing this, Sickert immediately agreed to the Commander-in-Chief's request, and without even much hesitation, he sacrificed his big killer weapon, Colonel Accardo.

And the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy also made his own promise to Sickert that the Navy would become an integral part of the forces under the command of the General Command of the Wehrmacht, and not an independent military force.

Having received this assurance, Sickert immediately sent Accardo to the British Embassy, where Accardo met with the British ambassador on the recommendation of his old British friend, Lieutenant Colonel Smith. Accardo promised Germany that he would not challenge the supremacy of the British navy, and he poured out his bitterness to the British ambassador, convincing Smith and the friendly British ambassador with facts.

Only three months later, the German Navy's ship renewal program, which had been approved only in 1925, was approved by the British in 1922, and the construction of new warships began on the dockyards that Germany had long prepared.

Although the Entente allowed the construction of new ships by Germany to be no more than 10,000 tons of tonnage after discussing and accommodating the French situation, the German Navy still cheered, and many senior admirals also met the representative of the Wehrmacht's young faction, Lieutenant Colonel Accardo Rudolph, a powerful figure.

Accardo seized the opportunity to propose a new shipbuilding plan of his own, which he submitted to German Admiral Erich Dreyer, who immediately regarded the report as a treasure and presented it to the shipyards under the admiralty.

This new type of shipbuilding was unprecedented, as it was invented by the Americans in the mid-to-late World War II and used to build ships such as the Liberty Wheel in large quantities. This method is to divide the ship into several parts, produce them together, and finally stitch them together, most of the parts on the ship are pre-produced standardized parts, and when it comes to wartime, warships can be produced at dozens of times the speed.

The Navy began to use this method to stock destroyer parts for the mass production of destroyers and merchant ships in the future. Because in Accardo's plan, the destroyer is responsible for air defense and anti-submarine, and most of the other equipment is common to civilian merchant ships. Although this will reduce the combat effectiveness of some destroyers, it will allow for a more standard and faster formation of naval fleets.

At the end of 1922, the German standard transport ship "Hercules-class" was launched, with a full load displacement of 7,000 tons, which became the standard configuration of German merchant ships, troop carriers, transport ships and passenger ships.

Similarly, the construction of the 20,000-ton super-merchant ship, which had very few superstructures, very large cargo holds, and large lifts to transport cargo from the hold to the deck, was also being built, and the German Navy was stocking up on the construction of aircraft carriers.

In the vision of Accardo and Admiral Erich Dreyer, the German navy of the future would consist of aircraft carriers and destroyers, as well as large cruisers and submarines, equipped with fighters as a long-range strike force, and would not engage enemy battleships head-on.

Admiral Erich Dreyer was not optimistic about aircraft carriers and submarines, and did not trust the destroyers' capabilities, but after taking Erich Dreher to a private estate on the outskirts of Berlin, where he showed him the technology of using liquid-fueled rockets for long-range attacks, the German Navy's supreme commander lost interest in the large battleships he had been pursuing.

As a result, in the future composition plan of the German Navy at the end of 1922, the composition of the German Navy was similar to that of the US Navy in 2014: naval aviation, marines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines.

However, in order to compromise with the old admirals, the original design of the three navy pocket battleships Spee-class was still under construction, and Accardo used them to confuse the British Navy, and to confuse the German naval conservatives and domestic spies.

Accardo worked day and night, and in the second month after returning home, he sent his hand-picked men to the Soviet Union to secretly build a German training base in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet engineers and workers had already selected the site and began to lay the airport runway and other infrastructure, so the instructors and trainees promised by the Germans boarded the train to Moscow.

The Air Force School, which was agreed upon by Accardo and Sickert and founded by Accardo, is located about 220 kilometers southeast of Moscow and is called Ripatsk. The school was nominally a training school for the Soviet Air Force, but in fact it was run by the Germans.

Originally, the school was supposed to be established in 1925, but thanks to Accardo's efforts, it began teaching in 1922, training about 450 air force pilots and commanders for Germany every six months - more than twice the actual number in history.

More than 1,000 air crews and managers were also trained to conduct secret military exercises in the forests of Germany's Great Plains to explore the air-ground integrated offensive tactics taught to them by Accardo and to prove their destructive power in actual combat.

However, the factors restricting the development of the Wehrmacht still existed, and the financial crisis did not disappear because of the arrival of Accardo, but broke out more violently, and the fragile economy of Germany was close to collapse, and the head of government, Ebert, had to summon General Sickert frequently to try to persuade the Wehrmacht to cut spending, but the effect was not obvious.

"Bell, bell, bell. "It's still late at night, it's still the Coalition Arms Control Committee, and the phone in the office is ringing again.

A British officer on duty grabbed the phone and asked in a somewhat sluggish voice: "This is the Allied Arms Control Committee!" ”

"Your last operation was discovered! So the death of the four judicial officers is unknown! A great opportunity has been wasted! This time I hope you will not fail my kindness! Write it down! Colonel Accardo Rudolph, General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Special Affairs Office! Keep an eye on him! You will reap the rewards!" The man said this, and hung up the phone.

In the office of the Commission, more than a dozen officers sat in a circle, and since the accident of the four judicial officers, there have been more officers on duty here, from all countries, acting as protection and witnesses for each other.

"What do you think?" asked the oldest Belgian officer in the room, a colonel with the highest rank here.

"At the very least, we can't let four French colleagues die in vain!" said a young English* officer.

The Belgian colonel looked around and saw that no one objected, so he nodded: "Since everyone agrees! Then arrange manpower! Keep an eye on this German colonel named Accardo Rudolph! As soon as he finds something, report it immediately!"