Stalin has not been in a very good mood these days, or it can be considered very bad. The Soviet Red Army had lost troops on the front line, and he had already executed several front-line commanders, until Marshal Voroshilov arrived at the front and sent his two most powerful henchmen, Khrushchev and Yezhov, to stabilize the situation.

However, this only stabilized the situation, and these two men did not bring new hope to the chaotic front, and Stalin still received one report after another of the rout of the front-line troops. Compared with the German army on the Western Front in Poland, which was smooth sailing, the Soviet Red Army, which made no progress, gave him all face.

Immediately after that, he received the news of a great victory at the front, which calmed his anger a little. But then I got the news that they were defeated one after another. He received a report from the Ministry of Supplies and Transport, claiming that the loss of guns and ammunition at the front was enough to arm half of Poland, but the result was only a pitiful hill in the wilderness of Poland.

Stalin was so dissatisfied with this result that his attempt to prove his abilities to the world was frustrated, and instead he was humiliated by a bunch of rice buckets. He felt it was time to end the farce, and he felt that it was time to find a fig leaf for his embarrassed self.

So after getting the report given to him by Yezhov, Khrushchev and others, and seeing the envoy sent to Germany to renegotiate, he finally couldn't help but drop his cherished pipe and shut himself in his room for a whole day. The next morning, a Soviet diplomat hurriedly set off with Stalin's letter of assignment for Romania and from there to Berlin, Germany.

The envoy received Yezhov's instructions, rushed to the Soviet-Polish front first, and discussed with Khrushchev, Yezhov, and Voroshilov for a long time, and then rushed all the way to Berlin and met with German Foreign Minister Angela Merkel.

Without saying a word, the Soviet envoy confessed his intentions to Merkel and took out a list of supplies given by Stalin: "Dear Mr. Merkel, I think that the conditions offered by our great leader, Comrade Stalin, are very generous, including a series of supplies such as oil and food......"

Merkel interrupted the Soviet diplomat with a very rude wave of her hand, raised her chin and said: "According to the treaty signed between you and me before, we declared war on Poland a month later, and after paying a heavy price, our army has now achieved an advantage over the Polish army...... At this time, the redrawing of the future Soviet-German border with the Soviet Union is not at all beneficial to our country. ”

"We have come up with all the supplies we can! The Soviet envoy said in a hurry: "You should report back to Yuan Xiansheng and let him decide such an important matter!"

Merkel laughed, glanced at the Soviet envoy, and replied: "The Führer has entrusted me with full responsibility for such a trivial matter." To be honest, I'm not optimistic about these deals, because we seem to have more to gain in Poland. ”

"Ask for Germany and see if we can accept it. The Soviet envoy was also very single, and he was not angry, and he was ready to be slaughtered by others, and he amused Merkel by doing so.

"Of course we need these supplies. Merkel pressed his hand to his chin, as if thinking about what he should offer, and after a moment he continued: "But this time we want people more." ”

"People?" the Soviet envoy was stunned for a moment, then looked at Merkel: "Who do you want us to exchange?"

"It's not anyone. Merkel waved her hand and said, "We want human resources! We want all the Polish prisoners of war that the Soviet Union has acquired, a total of 850,000 people." ”

"We simply can't have so many Polish prisoners of war! Mr. Merkel! We can't do that. The Soviet envoy shook his head and sighed: "If we can capture 850,000 Polish prisoners, I will not rush here to see you." ”

Merkel laughed again, like a naughty child who had succeeded in her prank: "In fact, if we had completed the encirclement of Warsaw by Germany, Poland would have collapsed in an instant, and you would have months to take the 'prisoners', wouldn't you?"

"But we can't guarantee that we will have enough captives of this size. The Soviet envoy thought for a moment before saying, "If you want the population of Poland, I think I can go back and figure it out, but if it is not enough, then what should I do?"

"Replenish it with the healthy men in your concentration camps!" Merkel said at once, remembering what Accardo had told him.

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"Population! I want population! Population who can work for Germany without being paid at once!" said Accardo, pointing to Poland and Slovakia and East Prussia next to Poland, "and I will make these regions one of the best industrial regions in the world within a year." ”

He pointed to the materials on the table and motioned for the dignitaries of the Greater German Party to pick them up and take a look. Bosch, Krupp, Augustus, Jelinike, Schacht and others all opened the text and began to look through it.

The plan laid out in great detail the bloody development of light industry and handicrafts in Germany: in Frankfurt, Schwedt, Eisenhüttenstadt and other regions, Germany would build 21 concentration camps for the textile industry and 17 camps for manual clothing, producing cheap products at almost no cost to workers for the whole of Germany.

In the Polish occupation zone, Accardo vigorously promoted farm cultivation and prepared to build Poland into the breadbasket of the whole of Germany, and he pinned all the supplies of the German citizens for next year, that is, in 1938, on this plan, which is why he repeatedly promised the German people that part of the rationing system would be abolished in 1938.

The country's 57 mines will replenish 20,000 prisoners and cooperate with the original workers to increase ore production by more than 30% within six months. In addition, 3,000 skilled workers were selected from among the prisoners of war to be used in various factories for the production of industrial supplies.

Augustus's plan for the Führer was to replenish Germany with at least 1,600,000 fresh and cheap laborers, and to free up more of the original skilled workers for supervision, control, and inspection—which not only reduced the work intensity of the former German workers, but also increased the output and quality of industrial products.

Now that the program was already working, most of the approximately 700,000 Polish soldiers captured by Germany at the front were scattered and sent to various parts of Germany to serve their sentences in labor camps, and the Polish officers who had commanded them were disrupted and assigned to the foremen of these laborers. The business tycoons laughed at the war's victory, quietly carved up the labor force, and then sharpened their knives to grab the increased raw material production.

The Wehrmacht generously gave 10 per cent of mine production and 80 per cent of the prisoners to repay the arrears owed to the major arms manufacturers, and hundreds of millions of rice vouchers were redeemed by the government with materials and distributed to these factories for a new round of weapons production...... These newly-born arms manufacturers don't have a penny of cash in their hands, but they have a lot of money in their pockets.

Every German can find a job, and in some places there are even vacancies that are never filled. The war did not bring Germany to a depression, but to a thriving scene everywhere. It's just that people are not used to the rationing system of some goods, for example, many times you have money but you may not be able to buy a brand new Mercedes-Benz car.

The German economy inherited by Accardo was in fact a mess: Germany had been saddled with a huge war reparations debt since 1919 and had suffered heavy losses in the ensuing international capitalist economic crisis. He relied on his experience in his previous life to speculate on the US stock market, and it was only by reluctantly pulling the German economy from the brink of collapse back to a kneon of surviving itself.

Schacht was a financial genius, relying on the raw capital provided by Accardo, he slowly saved the German economy, and gradually put such a nearly ruined financial environment on the way forward. However, this qiē was just the beginning, and the British and French sanctions and the war against Poland made the whole country even more scarce, which has already caused some discontent among the people.

It's all up to Accardo to deal with, but with the addition of Augustus, it seems to be a little more efficient. However, this mess still makes everyone anxious, although it is much stronger than before, but it is still not the most ideal state in Accardo's mind.

There was a knock on the door of the conference room, and then Merkel walked in from the outside, and he proudly placed the new treaty in front of Accardo: "My Führer." After some hard negotiations, the Soviets promised to hand over to us 600,000 healthy Polish prisoners, as well as 200,000 women. In addition, we have been given land that has to be extended 50 kilometers further east. The USSR provided us with an additional 3 million barrels of oil as compensation. ”

"That's right!" Augustus took the text that had been circulated to him and looked at it a few times, then nodded and said: "Our scarce human resources can be all in place by the end of this year, so that we can take out some money to invest in infrastructure construction, and more money will flow into the market and revitalize our economy." ”

"It's better than expected!" Schacht said with a smile, "at least our economy is slightly better off than in France." ”

Accardo glanced at everyone in the meeting, and raised the corners of his confident mouth: "Gentlemen, now that the problem is at least partially solved, please help me govern this country well! I can concentrate more on leading everyone to expand the territory of the Third Reich and let our swastika cover the whole world." ”

"Führer!" shouted everyone to their feet, standing in a German salute.