"Take refuge in me? Accardo said with a smile, and Gel opened the door and let the visitor into Accardo's house, and he himself walked out and closed the door.

"Indeed, I have come to you, and I feel that I should find myself a reliable ally, or a strong leader. Gustav Streismann said politely: "You may not know me well, I am only a small man compared to your reputation in the Wehrmacht ranks. ”

"Little people?" said Accardo with a smile, "If the most powerful diplomat in the German Foreign Office, who also happens to be the German Foreign Minister, Gustav Streesmann, is a small person, then my little colonel is even more inappropriate in the role." Why did you find me?"

Gustav Streismann shook his head and said in a very sincere tone: "German diplomacy has always been conservative, and we are helpless to suppress the joint efforts of Britain and France, and we can even say that German diplomacy has actually failed. Now that we have lost the support of the army on which we depend, our situation is even worse. ”

He walked to a sofa and sat down, put his hands on the armrests, and looked calm: "I saw in the Ruhr crisis that it is not feasible to have a country without defense, and the so-called efforts to defend Germany by diplomacy are also futile, and there is no doubt that diplomacy needs strong military support, so at least at this stage our position is the same, that is, to find a way to build a strong national defense force." ”

"Minister Gustav Streismán, you still haven't said why you came to me. You can go to General Sickert, or you can go to the new leader of the government, Field Marshal Hindenburg, but you bet your chips on me, a little colonel, and I really can't figure it out. Accardo walked from the door to the kitchen, poured two cups of brewed coffee into it, and then returned to the living room, placed a cup in front of Gustav Streismán, and then asked with another cup.

"Field Marshal Hindenburg is in crisis, and with all due respect, whether he can secure his presidency will require the support of effective policies, which I suspect will most likely come from his staff, that is, you. Gustav Streismann smiled and took a sip of his coffee.

He put the coffee cup back on the coffee table in front of the sofa and said, "As for General Sickett, although he is still the supreme leader of the Wehrmacht, you can already compete with him - don't be presumptuous, you already have this strength. ”

Accardo smiled and didn't speak.

Gustav Streismann continued: "I know that President Ebert died in revenge for the Wehrmacht, and that he did betray the Wehrmacht for the sake of the fragile economy and the internal distribution of power, which, whatever his motives, made the German situation worse. So I think he is innocent of death, and I think about it, only you have the ability and courage to kill the former president of the country. ”

He stretched out his hand to stop Accardo's argument and continued: "So, I am here to show your loyalty, and I will do everything I can to help you and support you, because our purpose is exactly the same, and that is to make Germany stronger! ”

So, that's the next question. Accardo put down his coffee cup, the smile on his face vanished, and he looked sternly at Gustav Streisman and asked, "How do you prove your loyalty to me?"

"How about a guarantee?" Gustav Streismann smiled and took out a document from his jacket pocket and spread it out to show Accardo: "This is a document with my signature and handprint, on which it is written that I myself unconditionally obey any orders of Mr. Accardo Rudolph. There is also a detailed description of my personal network, friends, relatives, and the power I can use. ”

"What do you need me to promise you?" Accardo asked, after a moment's thought, "and that's the last question we're talking about today." ”

"Take us to victory. Gustav Streismann put down the text, stood up and said.

"Then you have to follow me, don't hold me back. Accardo said with a smile.

Gustav Streismann laughed along: "What do you need me to do?"

"Carry it through. Accardo said.

......

In a conference room next to the president's office, a group of people were holding the first impromptu emergency meeting of Field Marshal Hindenburg after he was elected president of Germany. However, it seems that the atmosphere in the venue is not so harmonious, and even has a bit of gunpowder.

"Another 30 percent increase in the Wehrmacht's military spending? What are you kidding? Everyone in Germany goes to eat brown bread and margarine, and the money saved can't fill such a big gap. The Treasury official shook his head.

Hindenburg also threw Wen Jiàn on the table helplessly, sighed and said: "This is the condition for the Wehrmacht to support me to become president, and I can't help but think about it carefully." ”

"Since 1920 Germany has not invested more than 200,000 marks in infrastructure, and it seems that we have not developed since then. A bearded politician in a suit also complained.

"General Sickt didn't come to the meeting because he was sick! Where did he put the new president and us?" a middle-aged politician snapped up: "Did he treat the Wehrmacht as his personal mercenary?"

"Defy off, Mr. Dumke. General Sickert supported Field Marshal Hindenburg as president, but he didn't want to see me now. Accardo smiled at the end of the table and said that he was not high enough to attend such a high-level meeting, and that President Hindenburg had called him as a staff member.

"That's not a good idea. Apparently the politician named Dumke had no intention of treating the Wehrmacht as an enemy, and gave up the attack on Sickert as soon as he saw it.

"What do you think? Colonel Accardo Rudolph, you now represent the Wehrmacht, and you have a close relationship with the government. If you have to take care of both, what can you do?" Hindenburg's beard moved as he spoke, revealing the majesty and momentum of a man who had been in power for a long time.

"We can't afford to reduce our investment at all, otherwise we won't be able to deal with the Ruhr crisis again," said Accardo: "It's a fact that the Wehrmacht needs more money, and we need a lot of money to continue." ”

"Is this your opinion?" a politician snorted coldly, eager to show himself in front of the new president of Hindenburg: "You are trying to oust our president of Hindenburg!"

"Shut up, wait until he's done, or I'll throw you out!" Hindenburg said fiercely, glancing at the young man who was speaking. One is the wall-grass who has just come forward to show goodwill, and the other is the staff who helped him get to the presidency, and the two of them are not at all a level of trust in Hindenburg's mind.

"Maybe you only read the first seven pages of the Hades project and don't have much interest in reading it, it says how much the Wehrmacht will cost to research new weapons, and there it will say how many warhorse machine guns the Wehrmacht will buy, and there are places that ask for money, so you definitely don't like it very much. Accardo said with a smile.

His humor made a few young people laugh, but most of the old politicians still looked at him sternly and told him to keep talking.

Accardo was also happy to continue, so he continued: "There is a sub-plan called the White Dove in the Hades Project, and everyone may not have read it carefully or understood it carefully, and this plan is the key to resolving the differences between the government and the Wehrmacht. ”

"Oh, what do you say?" Hindenburg only vaguely remembered the general contents of the White Dove Project, but could not remember the details of it.

"Our army needs railways, highways, inland ports, and other transportation lines; our navy needs large-scale ports; our air force that we don't yet have needs airports; the new-style army needs a large amount of gasoline and diesel reserves, and war needs to consume a large amount of grain and steel resources; and the production of new-style weapons requires advanced workers and advanced industrial technology, and these things need to be cultivated in schools. Accardo stretched out one finger for each word, and at last he filled all ten fingers, still rambling on and on.

"What do you mean?" asked President Hindenburg, narrowing his eyes.

"Building up the National Defense Force is not contrary to the development of the country, on the contrary, these efforts are mutually reinforcing!" Acardo, standing up, said, "I think the new president should order it to start immediately." ”

"The short-term part of the plan will build 100 new railways and roads, add new dockyards to Germany's port cities, build 79 airports for peacetime air transport and wartime reserves, and the long-term part of this plan will build 20 new factories, 50 assembly halls, and three schools for the training of high-tech personnel." ”

"The program, once launched, is expected to provide 500,000 jobs across Germany, and this time, the Wehrmacht will earmark $2 million for the program, while the government will only have to pay $700,000. With that, Accardo sat back in his seat.

If this plan is implemented, then the German Wehrmacht will pay for Germany's infrastructure, and the new government will get 500,000 jobs for nothing, which can be said to be the greatest support of the Wehrmacht for President Hindenburg to take office.

Everyone was talking, excited about the concession of this exciting Wehrmacht, except that in the corner, a pockmarked bearded man sighed softly.

Half an hour later, President Hindenburg received a message from President Hindenburg, and interestingly, it was Foreign Minister Gustav Streismann who had been opposed to Accardo a few days earlier.