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Washington, White House.

The news of the discovery of oil fields by Britain and France in Libya has not been kept secret for long, they have not been covering it for long, and everything that should be known is known.

Banazal, president of the Zenith Consortium, ran to the White House early this morning, and he excitedly shouted to the cactus president: "Mr. President, we have received definite news that Britain and France have discovered a large oil field in Libya......"

Everyone in the United States knows that the Zenith Consortium may not have the most oil fields, but their related technology is the most advanced in the United States, and even the veteran chaebol Rockefeller Consortium, which started with oil, has to pinch its nose to import their technology and equipment. The same is true of exploration technology, and everyone will not forget the discovery of the Mexican oil fields back then.

The high-yield oil wells that Zenith started with were bought from Rockefeller, because Rockefeller also spent a lot of money to drill wells, but Mao found them, and their experts thought that there could be no oil in that place. In order not to smash it in his hands, he transferred those plots of land and oil extraction rights to Zenith. As a result, as soon as the Zenith took over, he found a large oil well, which swelled Rockefeller's face.

Therefore, if the US government wants to find oil to provoke a war in Europe, it cannot avoid the Zenith group. The Zenith Star Group also participated in the whole process because it had this technology in its hands. Originally, they found an offshore oil field in the North Sea, but Ghana was worried that the temptation was not too big, after all, the offshore oil production technology was not perfect at this time, and of course he speculated on the level of the United States. So he wanted to continue looking for an onshore oil field, and it didn't take long for Banazar to bring such good news.

Cactus Garner only felt that happiness had come too suddenly, and he took a few deep breaths before he could barely suppress the urge to laugh wildly, and asked eagerly, "Is the news accurate?"

"Very accurately, you know, we still have some connections in Libya. This was sent back by our pawn in Libya, who was involved in the entire Anglo-French exploration operation. And we received the same information from another source, where our intelligence officers bought BP technicians to get their original exploration records. Banazar said proudly.

As he spoke, he patted the suitcase next to him, pushed it in front of Garner, and said with a smile: "Look, this is it, you can ask the experts to verify it again......"

"Thank you so much, Mr. Sith, for your great service to the United States!" Garner gripped the other's hand tightly, and a smile turned into a flower on his face. "The North Sea, plus Libya, these two super oil fields, will definitely make the Europeans fight!"

"Mr. President, I hope that after the war, we at the Zenith Group will have priority in these two oil fields," Banazal said. ”

"Of course, Mr. Sith, this is what you deserve. Garner agreed without hesitation, of course he knew that these chaebol predators were all unprofitable and unobtrusive early urine, and they wouldn't do anything good for you.

"In addition, I hope that the renovation project of the West African Railway will also give us the Zenith Group. As you know, we at the Zenith have the most advanced technology, and if we have joined us, the West African Railway will definitely be completed faster and better. Banazal continued.

Since the launch of China's broad gauge, the major powers have expressed concern about it, and later saw that this broad gauge is really easy to use, so the major powers, especially the powers on the mainland, have also launched the broad gauge. First of all, Germany, for convenience, they use the same 2500 mm gauge as China, so that it is easy to connect to the Asia-Europe railway network. With the intervention of Germany, the younger brothers of the Allied bloc also adopted this gauge. Therefore, the countries of the Allied bloc were the first countries to adopt the 2,500 mm gauge in addition to the UHR countries.

Then there was the Soviet Union, but they were worried that after the complete integration of the railroad with the People's Revolutionary Union, it would pose a hidden danger to strategic security, and in addition this was a revisionist gauge, how could the great Soviet follow the revisionism?

Then there is France, their opinions are very unanimous, some say that 2,500 mm is needed in order to merge with the Eurasian railway, some say that 2,000 mm is enough, and some put satellites, 3,000 mm...... Everyone came up with a dozen plans and quarreled in the parliament for several years. In the end, it was decided to use the 2500 mm gauge, mainly to use the ready-made design on the Chinese side.

Yes, the Gallic chickens originally wanted to be arrogant and make a new gauge to show the demeanor of a great country, but when they combined, they found that the cost of doing this was too high. Whether you want face or lining, this is a question. In the end, their tsundere succumbed to reality, because they spent too much money to repair the Maginot Line, and the landlord's family had no surplus food.

The British are actually very entangled in this issue, and they are also short of silver now. This is not the time before the First World War, when the British Empire was in full swing. After the First World War, there were more than ten years of colonial rebellions, and now Niu Niu has become a sick cow. Besides, after detailed discussion, their experts believe that there is no such wide railway built on the British mainland, and it is really necessary to take the sea route if the transportation capacity is really needed, anyway, Britain is surrounded by the sea, and the sea is very convenient, and it is not those continental countries.

So the British decided to use 2140 mm on their homeland, and this gauge is the Metropolitan Railway that they had planned before and later disembarked halfway through. It's called a 7-foot gauge (actually 7 and 1/4 feet, or about 2140 mm). However, the colonies on the continents of Australia, Canada and India are free of their own and do not interfere with the mainland. As soon as Australia and Canada combined, they decided to use China's ready-made standard, the 2500 mm rule, which is very convenient. As for India, it is chaotic, and each autonomous state has its own way, and there is no unified standard.

Finally, there is the United States, which was the world's largest railway country before the economic crisis, with a railway operation of 420,000 kilometers until 1929, when China caught up with it. However, these more than 400,000 kilometers of railways are not the same kind of gauge, ranging from 600 mm gauge to 2,800 mm gauge, and there are as many as 20 types. In fact, this is also a common thing in this era, even in the same country, each railway company has its own set of standards, and it will be hellish if it can be unified.

After seeing the benefits of the Chinese-style gauge, the U.S. government is also preparing to reunify the gauge at home and change it to broad gauge. But there is a problem here, at this time the railroads in the United States are all privately owned, and they do not belong to the state. Yes, broad gauge is indeed good, and it is certainly possible to change the gauge now, but who will pay for it? The change of more than 400,000 kilometers of railways is not a small number, and over the question of who will pay for this, the old men are arguing in the Congress.

They raised this issue in 1916, but from 1916 to 1928, they quarreled for more than ten years without a result. It was not until the outbreak of the economic crisis that many railroad companies closed down and went bankrupt, and the U.S. government had the opportunity to buy these railroads at a low price and implement a plan to unify and replace the national gauge, which is their "Pan-American Railroad Plan".

This is also one of the achievements of Ghana's New Deal. I have to say that taking advantage of the economic crisis to unify the national railway is indeed a clever plan, investing in the railway is a huge profit growth point, but also can create a large number of jobs, for the government, for the consortium, for the ordinary people are good, where to find such a good thing?

Originally, they wanted to choose the eight-foot scheme (about 2440 mm), but then they learned that Canada next door directly adopted the 2500 mm gauge, so they immediately changed to the same gauge for some reason. Anyway, 2440 mm and 2500 mm are not much different, and you can also use China's ready-made experience, and it takes too much effort and time to make another set of standards.

Many large American conglomerates have expressed their support for the government's plan. You must know that if the entire United States changes the track gauge, there will be 400,000 kilometers, and even if some repetitive railways will be merged, at least 300,000 kilometers, what kind of business this should be? Not to mention that there are still three states in West Africa, where there is a blank slate, and it really makes people's blood boil when they think about it.

Now that the cake in the United States has been carved up by the predators, the three states in West Africa have not yet begun to move, and now the major consortia are active in the White House, and they all want to share a little more. The Zenith Consortium is no exception, and they also want to get a bigger slice of the cake.

Garner smiled and said, "Okay, the Zenith Group is indeed very skilled, and you are welcome to join." However, the specific share still needs to be discussed, you know, many people are staring at it now, and one family will definitely not be able to eat it......"

Building railroads is certainly a good thing, especially for the United States in an economic crisis. However, it is precisely because of the unified gauge and other increased public spending that the US government has incurred a huge debt. It is impossible to repay this huge amount of money in normal times, and if Europe does not fight, it will not be a few years before the US government will declare financial bankruptcy.

Fortunately, now two giant oil fields have been thrown, and I am not afraid that the Europeans will not fight. Sure enough, God bless the United States! Ghana couldn't help but think proudly.

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Hankyung, presidential palace.

"Chiefs, the latest information. Germany and Italy began to prepare for the war in secret......" Huo Jinsi, director of the National Intelligence Agency, said excitedly.

"At the moment, the German-Italian Navy has stopped going on vacation in the name of joint exercises, and the ships are undergoing overhaul...... Allied air forces are currently massing in Germany and Italy...... The Army is moving towards southern Italy and northern Germany...... Now a secret mobilization has begun within the Allies......"

Foreign Minister Cavour also said with a grin: "Today Germany claims that the North Sea is the high seas, its sovereignty does not belong to any country, and that the private division of the North Sea oil fields by Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway is intolerable to Germany." ”

"What was their reaction in the UK?" Zhang Lizheng asked.

The British claim that this is a reasonable and legal division according to the principle of the extension of the continental shelf, so the North Sea oil fields should be shared by the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway. The implication is that although you Germany are also a coastal country in the North Sea, according to the law of the extension of the continental shelf, you don't have your share here, hahahaha......" Cavour explained with a laugh.

"This is the map of the North Sea oil and gas fields that we got in the UK, and according to the above distribution, the Germans really have no share. Huo Jinsi immediately took out a map of the distribution of oil and gas fields in the North Sea and put it on the table for everyone to see. Sure enough, the oil and gas fields were far from the German coast and not close to the German continental shelf at all.

"The Germans were really unlucky, you see, the nearest oil field was also off the coast of Denmark, and the mustache certainly couldn't stand it. Yes, yes, it looks like it's really going to be a fight......" Wen Deji smiled happily.

Zhang Lizheng smiled: "Hehehe, it seems that those oil and gas fields make Germany unable to sit still......

Wen Desi nodded: "No way, natural gas is fine, anyway, they have coal, but the Germans are too short of oil." Their own oil can only meet 12 percent of their demand, and even with the coal-to-oil technology, it can only meet about a quarter, after all, their coal-to-oil technology is immature, and the cost and energy consumption are too high to be produced on a large scale. ”

"There is also the fact that Italy has offered Britain and France an invitation to return the Libyan colony, and there is no doubt that their demands have been rejected by Britain and France. ”

Zhang Lizheng said with a smile: "Of course, if before this, Britain and France were out of appeasement, maybe they would have agreed." But now that the Libyan oil fields are about to be exploited, not to mention that the British and French governments cannot agree, even if they do, those big capitalists will not agree. ”

It is very obvious, intelligence from all sides suggests. An unprecedented war is about to break out, and it will be the first war on earth to break out because of oil resources.

"In that case, let's wait and see. Oh, the aero-engine technology and rocket technology that Germany proposed last time can be sold to them. Also, the cloudburst bombs they hope to get can also be sold, but the technology is not given for the time being, and they can't beat the Maginot Line without this...... "Wen Deji didn't forget to add fire."

Some time ago, when the mustache visited China, Wen Desi invited him to watch the exercises of the People's Liberation Army. In this exercise, the PLA showed how to crack open the shell of a turtle, and this time instead of using those traditional methods, they used a new weapon that had never been seen before -- the cloudburst bomb! The seemingly impregnable defensive fortress was as fragile as tofu in the face of this new bomb. It's not that the fortifications themselves were destroyed, but that all the people and weapons inside were burping. If the people are gone, the strongest fortress will become an ornament.

Sure enough, when the mustache saw it, his eyes immediately lit up. The French Maginot Line was a thorn in the hearts of the Germans, a super turtle shell that could not be gnawed at unless it was extremely costly according to conventional means. And the price was too high for the Germans to bear. Because according to the deduction of the German General Staff, in order to open a gap in the Maginot Line, at least 300,000 to 500,000 people and thousands of aircraft would need to be lost......

In the history of the original plane, the Germans did not touch the Maginot Line of the French, but bypassed Belgium. But the plane is different, the French have directly connected the defense line to the coast of Belgium, and there is no way to bypass it, and if you want to brush the French copy, you must directly gnaw the Maginot or land from the coast.

And the landing operation, the Germans did not think about it at all, not to mention the North Sea side, the opium cows are not fools, their navy is not a decoration, unless the British navy is annihilated again, don't think about it. It is also unlikely that the Mediterranean side can think of it, and the French can naturally think of it, because with the Maginot Line, the North Sea is watched by the British, and now their focus is on the Mediterranean coast. The French have deployed 30 divisions on the front line of the Mediterranean, and they have also arranged all kinds of permanent fortifications in places suitable for landing, while Germany's current troop projection capacity can only send three divisions at a time at most. No matter how crazy the Germans are, they don't think they can fight 10 at a time.

And the appearance of the cloud burst bomb is undoubtedly another village for the Germans. Therefore, the mustache was eager to get this kind of thing, but at that time Wen Deji directly refused, claiming that it was a weapon that was still being tested, and China itself was not equipped with it, so it was impossible to sell it. This reaction tickled the mustache, and they had brought it up several times.

Now Mr. Wen has finally relented.

Soon after, the German ambassador to China, Taudemann, was summoned by Foreign Minister Cavour. Cavour told him that in view of the traditional friendship between China and Germany, China is willing to work with Germany to develop a new weapon, the cloud burst bomb, as part of the military cooperation between the two sides. In addition, the aero-engine technology and rocket technology that Germany wants to acquire, as well as the technology of high-temperature resistant alloys, can also be transferred.

Todman was overjoyed and hurriedly notified the country to send someone to negotiate. The mustache was also overjoyed when he heard that things had taken a turn for the better, and hurriedly sent someone to take a plane overnight to talk in detail.

Because of Mr. Wen's approval, the negotiation went very smoothly. A week later, a train full of cargo departed from China to Germany, carrying 3,000 cloudburst bombs of various specifications, including 300 heavy drills specially prepared by Mr. Wen for the mustache. At the same time, a train with real money is also departing from Germany to China.

"Only one hundred and twenty tons of gold, three thousand tons of silver, and so many good things, it's really a cheap mustache. When receiving this batch of gold and silver, Liu Yang, chairman of the Finance Federation, couldn't help muttering.

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Moscow, Kremlin.

After seeing off the German ambassador, Plenyakov pretended to be puzzled and asked: "Comrade Stalin, what are the Germans trying to do......?

"Hahahaha, do they want to do something to the French......" Stalin happily lit his pipe and explained to General Ai with a smile: "They signed a non-aggression pact with us again this time, just to free up their hands against the Entente." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Very well, let's just watch these capitalist countries eat dogs. It is intolerable that Sweden, an odious country, should dare to aid the Finnish puppet government against the great Soviets. It's long overdue for Scandinavia to plant a red flag!" Stalin said with a smile. The aero-engine technology and rocket technology, as well as the high-temperature alloy technology, can also be transferred.

Todman was overjoyed and hurriedly notified the country to send someone to negotiate. The mustache was also overjoyed when he heard that things had taken a turn for the better, and hurriedly sent someone to take a plane overnight to talk in detail.

Because of Mr. Wen's approval, the negotiation went very smoothly. A week later, a train full of cargo departed from China to Germany, carrying 3,000 cloudburst bombs of various specifications, including 300 heavy drills specially prepared by Mr. Wen for the mustache. At the same time, a train with real money is also departing from Germany to China.

"Only one hundred and twenty tons of gold, three thousand tons of silver, and so many good things, it's really a cheap mustache. When receiving this batch of gold and silver, Liu Yang, chairman of the Finance Federation, couldn't help muttering.

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Moscow, Kremlin.

After seeing off the German ambassador, Plenyakov pretended to be puzzled and asked: "Comrade Stalin, what are the Germans trying to do......?

"Hahahaha, do they want to do something to the French......" Stalin happily lit his pipe and explained to General Ai with a smile: "They signed a non-aggression pact with us again this time, just to free up their hands against the Entente." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Very well, let's just watch these capitalist countries eat dogs. It is intolerable that Sweden, an odious country, should dare to aid the Finnish puppet government against the great Soviets. It's long overdue for Scandinavia to plant a red flag!" Stalin said with a smile.