Now Great Britain has access to raw material supplies from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and the import of agricultural products from Eastern Europe and South America, and its well-established industrial machinery can be smoothly started and transformed, factories producing armor steel can switch to rails, companies producing aircraft engines can switch to automobiles, and companies such as Rolls-Royce can produce not only Merlin engines, but also Rolls-Royce.

By December, the British industrial economy was undergoing a slow but continuous transformation, and the best performance was the shipbuilding industry, because the departure of 300,000 shipyard workers made the British famous shipbuilding industry for the first time have a labor shortage, and at this time it is difficult for women to fill the position, and now the demobilized army, returned prisoners of war can fill this line at once, most of the ships and oil tankers built now are low-standard freighters, and unskilled workers will not cause much trouble;

The second is the construction and steel industry, domestic roads, bridges, buildings, culverts need a lot of building materials and steel, just in order to repair the greater London area must invest at least 1 million tons of steel and more than 5 times the cement, Attlee government even plans to use the opportunity to repair the two subway lines that have long wanted to be repaired, but have not had the time and funds to complete the construction;

There are also secondary and higher vocational and technical colleges that have opened a large number of crash courses to help those officers and soldiers who have just been demobilized from the army and have not yet had a skill in vocational training, welders, mechanics, plumbers, electrical maintenance workers and even cooks are very popular courses, and this kind of training course is also a content that the British government is very concerned about, he can make soldiers forget blood, fighting, and the sound of guns and cannons and return to peace;

Finally, there are some equipment manufacturers, which, according to the drawings provided by Germany, produce European standard trucks, Merlin engines, Spitfires, etc. for export (delivered to Japan), Gryphon engines, and Sea Fangs fighters (both delivered to Germany), although the overall number is decreasing sharply. At the height of the war, Britain was able to produce more than 3,000 aircraft a month on the eve of the armistice, and production also exceeded 2,000 planes per month, and now it has been reduced to just over 1,000 planes per month.

The British are more interested in equipping them with new jets, and the Gloucester Meteor is obviously obsolete now, but other companies are not without new Spitfires, and the Hugh Popmarin company has introduced the "Attacker" design, which is not only a more advanced jet design, but also considers carrier-based and attack mechanization (i.e., dual-use), and jet attempts also include the 3V strategic bomber and medium bomber fields.

Germany's failure to limit Britain's armament development capability in the armistice agreement was generally regarded in Britain as a favor for the existing armaments, which were obviously outdated, and everything from aircraft to tanks, from aircraft carriers to artillery, and even rockets needed to be replaced and reinvented.

Attlee and the military triumvirate reported to Black Cat on the development plan of Britain's next-generation strategic forces, and Edward VIII considered that conventional projects such as aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, and artillery could be disclosed to Germany, and the use of V2 rockets for imitation should be accelerated, but don't disclose the rumors for the time being, at least after France's purchase of rocket technology is completed and the finished product is built, Britain can only announce it,

As for the development of nuclear weapons, he considered it too dangerous, too costly, and had little hope of success, and recommended that it be suspended.

For the attitude of the black cat, several heavyweight bigwigs are relieved: the reason why they consult and report in advance is also to have a tentative mind, what they are most afraid of is that the black cat is unprincipled, has no bottom line and compromises with Germany, and does not dare to do anything and becomes a puppet of Germany, now it seems that the black cat at least attaches great importance to and maintains the interests of the United Kingdom, and is willing to maintain the independence of their national defense forces, which makes them willing to continue to support the black cat. Other black cats are more forward-thinking and forward-thinking than King George many times.

As for the close relationship between the Black Cat and the British fascist leader Moseley, everyone pretends not to see it, anyway, the Black Cat does not reveal the intention of replacing the Attlee government with Moseley, let's just think that it is perfunctory to the Germans.

For Edward VIII himself, he also had a painful choice: although he was a monarch favored and willing to associate with the Axis, and in a sense he was inclined to the theory of national society, he knew that his power base was still within Great Britain, and he had to realize the exchange of interests with the Axis from the fundamental interests rooted in the British Empire in order to consolidate his rule, and unprincipled obedience to Berlin would inevitably lead to the loss of popular support and collapse, and the uncompromising emphasis on autonomy, isolation, or even hostility to the European continent would not be truly accepted by the Axis.

So he sang with Attlee and the heads of the three major armies about national defense independence, economic independence, and internal political independence, saying that he was the king of Great Britain, and everything naturally took Great Britain as his consideration and belonging; On the other hand, he and Ribbentrop played the tune of Anglo-German reconciliation, European coordination, and accelerated integration, saying that he was reinstated with the help of various Axis allies, and at the same time sincerely agreed with the concept of the National Society, and would consider the stability and unity of the entire Axis camp in everything, and all his policies were like walking a tightrope, swaying left and right to balance and swaying forward.

It was against this background that Hoffman decided to visit Britain, firstly, to heal the wounds of the war in Britain, and to make some gestures and apologize if necessary. The second is to encourage Britain to accelerate its progress in the direction of European integration and axis unity, although he has arranged three nooses for Britain in Iceland, Ireland, and the Faroe Islands on the periphery, and can put John Bull back into it at any time, but if it is really forced to this step, both Britain and Germany will be losers; The third is to give Edward VIII a platform, showing that this is the only British monarch that the Axis can accept, so that the political forces that are about to move in Great Britain can be more relaxed.

He didn't pay so much attention to Moseley and the British fascist movement, because the British fascists were not the relatives of the European Continental Society, but developed completely independently, just like the Anglican Church, although it is also religious, it does not necessarily belong to the Lutheran sect, the base camp of the European religion.

From October to November, and from November to December, as relations between the two sides advanced and warmed up, he believed that the time was ripe for a visit to the UK. After Edward VIII and the German garrison settled in, the security situation in Great Britain was very good, I thought there would be assassinations and other subversive actions against the black cat, and the German side also specially sent the Skolkzny commando, but they had nothing to do in Britain for nearly 3 months, and the biggest threat to the black cat was just a letter mixed with 3 bullets.

Britain and France are also different, after the fall of France, de Gaulle formed the "Free France" operation, including Paris, there are underground resistance organizations in action, and the partisans have done a lot of sabotage, after the British split, Churchill took his supporters and flew away, no one has heard of "Free Britain", and the partisans have never heard of the German army was invited by the British government "on its own initiative" to settle in rather than occupy and conquer, although this is a bit self-deceptive, but it gives people a different feeling.

At such a time, it is impossible to talk about the threat posed to the Führer's visit to Britain by the poor law and order in Britain and the "making waves" of the resistance forces, so there was no fierce opposition to Hoffman's second proposal within the National Society, but a bunch of preconditions were raised:

It is necessary to bring sufficient strength of the guard flag team;

The Skorzny commandos had to be brought in to protect them in England for 3 months, and they were fully integrated;

It is necessary to reduce the opportunity to appear in public, even in the Houses of Parliament;

12 press conferences can be organized, but individual interviews are not allowed;

It is possible to visit certain locations, but it is not allowed to tell the other party the destination in advance;

There were 15 general opinions, and Hoffman took the trouble to respond to them one by one.

Even so, the others were not at ease, and agreed that Ribbentrop would go first again, that Himmler would then go to check the security situation, that Baumann would accompany the Führer to follow him, and that Goebbels would accompany the Führer to various receptions and, if necessary, make separate speeches and statements, which was more solemn than the Danish referendum.

So for the sake of safety and communication, Hoffman's travel date has been postponed, from the 9th to the 11th, and from the 11th to the 14th, and finally the real trip has been on December 17, accompanied by Hoffman's visit, in addition to the early days, there are a full 1800 guard flag team, all by warships and cruise ships.

Just as Hoffmann had just left the German docks, in an inconspicuous tavern in the eastern suburbs of London, two middle-aged men were already meeting: "The exact news has come out, the demon king has left"

"Kill him?"

Another nodded: "Pick a dramatic occasion"

"Good!"

"Don't you think about the difficulties?"

"No matter how difficult it is, I have to accomplish it, isn't that what I'm lurking for?"