Rubbing his somewhat swollen forehead, Xu Jun picked up the teacup on the table.

"Dogen, what's on the agenda for the afternoon."

Xu Jun took a sip of tea and frowned.

"My Führer, your afternoon schedule is to receive General Keitel and General Manstein at two o'clock. At 3:30 p.m., he received the Japanese envoy. At five o'clock, he attended the regular meeting of the High Command. At 7 p.m., he met with the French envoy and had dinner with him. ”

Dougan replied respectfully and loudly.

"Hmm...... To reverse the order and postpone the meeting with General Keitel and General Manstein, I would like to meet the Japanese envoy first. ”

Xu Jun poured the cold tea in the cup into the spittoon next to the desk, and then pressed the electric bell on the table.

"Get me a pot of hot tea, Eric."

The handsome Imperial Ducái shook his teacup at the young lieutenant who had entered in response.

"Wait a minute, my Führer."

Major Tysenhofen walked briskly to the front and walked over the tray beside his desk.

"Alright, let's deal with this matter like this. Tell Himmler that I am very satisfied with his work. The troops have arrived in the Dutch East Indies, and as soon as Field Marshal Bloomberg arrives, they will begin to take up the responsibility of protecting the Mission, and in the event of a mistake, I will first hold the SS accountable. ”

Xu Jun signed his name at the bottom of a document and handed it to Dogan.

"Yes, my Führer. His Excellency Himmler was confident in this plan, and I hope that the SS will change the impression of him in the minds of the people. And, I can assure you, the SS commandos sent to Asia this time will be the most elite and loyal. ”

Dogan replied with excitement on his face.

"I believe in you, Dogan. The reorganization of the SS should be accelerated, and Himmler did a good job in this regard. He's done more than I expected from him and he's going to get the reward he deserves. And this expedition will be a formidable test for the SS, and I am sure that they will live up to the inscription on the SS sabre. ”

Xu Jun stood up and walked to the window, looked at the Paris city scene outside the office window, and said indifferently.

"Our honor is loyalty, my Führer."

Dougan bowed his head respectfully.

Long before the purge in Germany began, Xu Jun had already launched a large-scale purge in the SS.

Himmler has now become Xu Jun's most effective helper and murder weapon in ensuring Germany's domestic stability and the implementation of Germany's strategic adjustment plan. The SS national leader, with his terrible instincts in some respects, knew that this was the only chance to hold on to his already somewhat shaky throne. If he can't grasp it, Xu Jun will send him to hell without hesitation, and if he grasps it, then he may be able to gain the trust of that God's apostle. Moreover, he admired Xu Jun's performance on the battlefield and in the political arena very much, and when Xu Jun knocked Hitler to the ground, Himmler, who was accustomed to respecting the strong, immediately replaced the idol on the altar in his heart from Hitler to Reinhardt. He was convinced that if he served the apostle faithfully, he would gain more from the young Führer than he had now lost.

Himmler's obedience to orders was the most resolute and thorough among German officials, and he would try to complete it whenever he received it, even by the most stupid means. Once the order for the reorganization and reorganization of the SS had been given, it had to be obeyed unconditionally and carried out.

Himmler, the most ruthless thug in history, did not hesitate to reach out his butcher's knife to his men in this plane. In just half a month, the scum of the SS was purged again and again, and in the process the usual bloody and efficient style of the SS was maintained.

Xu Jun did not have a good impression of the German Nazi SS, and was even full of disgust. All the glamorous aura of history about the SS comes from its branch, the Waffen-SS, which was known for its bravery, tenacity, and toughness. The ordinary SS was of no use at all, except to spread terror and crime on German and occupied territory, to discredit Germany, and to commit a great deal of war and civil crimes. Moreover, as soon as one thing is mixed into the SS, the proportion of problems will increase exponentially, and it is purely a typical representative of what is not enough to achieve and more to lose.

Now, Xu Jun would not allow that bad situation to happen right under his nose, and if the SS couldn't play his part against Germany, then Xu Jun didn't mind picking out this rat and throwing it away before it completely spoiled a pot of soup. However, the almost religious spirit of loyalty and sacrifice of the SS, and the strong cohesion and strength that it evokes, is something that every person in power wants to be able to grasp, and it is a force that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

Xu Jun was also unwilling to give up this force that could strengthen his rule at this stage. As a result, how to control the SS, which had begun to decay, and how to use it, became an important issue for Xu Jun.

After all, the SS is theoretically a personal guard directly under him, and it has not penetrated as widely in all fields of Germany as it has in the future, causing such serious damage to Germany. However, the premise is that Xu Jun must completely control this force.

The historically suspicious Hitler did not fully trust the SS, and he was always worried that the SS would turn into another stormtrooper force, so he never loosened his grip on the SS from beginning to end. Himmler did not understand the Führer's thoughts at first, and was immediately severely admonished by Hitler after a private act. Thinking of Rohm's fate, Himmler put back his ambition to take charge of the SS alone, and the subsequent performance of the SS did indeed satisfy the Führer.

As one of the violent institutions of the state, the SS was unusually ambiguous, and in addition to Hitler's deliberate indulgence of his own personal guard, Himmler's personal ambitions also played a very large role.

Historically, the SS became synonymous with terror, with Hitler's approval, it enjoyed all legitimate rights to use violence, its tentacles reached every corner of the Third Reich, and any field that it considered to have interests would be ruthlessly invaded by it, political, economic, productive, diplomatic, and even scientific research. The SS even had its own ordnance research institute, which designed weapons and equipment for them. As a paramilitary unit, it is extremely rare in the history of the world. The SS enjoyed the privileges of the highest rank in the violent apparatus of the Third Reich, and it was accountable only to the German Führer, except for the German Führer and their national commander-in-chief, who refused to accept anyone's command. They had absolute discretion to arrest any German citizen they considered criminal, and they could even arrest active military personnel, even if it was a general-laden medal. They have their own prisons, their own concentration camps, their own legal systems, and even their own courts and judges.

In the Third Reich, the SS and the State Secret Inspectorate worked together to forge the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all German citizens, and any German who dared to cross the thunder pool would be taught the iron fist of these two violent organs. The only institution of state violence in the history of the world that can be compared to them is the Cheka, which was known for its bloody brutality, and is now known as the NKVD of the Soviet Union, which later became known as KGB.

Now, Xu Jun is not ready to let the SS develop as it has historically, he must reposition the SS. Xu Jun's goal was to transform the SS into a German national internal guard force, so that the SS would become a key force in maintaining German social stability, rather than a destroyer of social order as it had been in history.

The SS could not be a privileged institution, he could only serve the regime. Xu Jun decided to limit the authority of the SS, depriving them of some of their powers of inspection and all privileges unrelated to their duties, and limiting their influence to what was necessary to defend the country's security. The SS will be thoroughly militarized, rather than the semi-political and semi-military model of management. That model was too chaotic and created too many opportunities for the black sheep of the SS to use their power for personal gain and embezzle the wealth of the German nation.

The SS must also purify the composition of the SS by streamlining its existing personnel and purging those who did not meet the standards. Because Himmler had been so eager to expand the SS, a large number of social idlers were recruited into this organization. The records of these years show that the origin of SS members was extremely complex, from peddlers to ruffians, as long as Germanic people who were considered loyal to the Nazi Party and willing to swear allegiance to the Führer, and who could prove to be of pure Aryan race. Moreover, nepotism was rampant in the SS, and often one person ascended to heaven, and the first thing some people did once they took power was to pull their entire family into the SS.

As a result, bribery in the SS became more and more serious, and everyone saw the benefits of joining the SS, so that the SS chieftains, who had the power to recruit, became the first targets of bribes for those who wanted to get into the SS with various aims. Xu Jun saw a record of such an incident, a certain butcher shop owner gave a basket of sausages to a certain SS captain of the third level, and the next day people were shocked to find out that this guy who was still chopping meat in the store yesterday was actually walking around the streets in a straight SS black uniform today, and the collar of the first SS squad leader was still hanging on the collar. It can be seen from this that the work of cleaning up and rectifying the internal personnel of the SS has reached a point where there is no time to delay.

The order sent by Xu Jun to Himmler specifically stated that anyone who did not meet the criteria for SS membership was to be dismissed. If it is discovered that there is also a suspicion of bribery or false public welfare or personal gain, they will be arrested on the spot and interrogated strictly, and if the situation is found to be true, they must be punished immediately.

The SS will truly become one of the armed units of the state, and all funds will be provided by the state, instead of the previous SS itself. Some SS sponsors used SS power to attack their opponents, which had a serious impact on the stability of the German economy. The SS will carry out complete military training, and the Wehrmacht will send professional instructors to give the most systematic and comprehensive military training to the SS soldiers, and SS officers at all levels will also receive systematic military command education, and the SS ranks will be linked to the Wehrmacht ranks, but the original rank identification will be retained. The SS will be a light armed force recognized by the state, responsible for the maintenance of internal security and order in the country. Before that, the SS had to restructure its leadership and structure and establish a more systematic and efficient command structure modelled on the Wehrmacht. The SS also had to establish new rules and regulations, strictly abide by German law, and establish a strict monitoring body to prevent violations from occurring.

Moreover, Xu Jun also specifically asked Himmler to try to downplay the ideological dominance of Nazi racial ideology in the SS, and at the same time put the focus of ideological guidance on patriotism and loyalty education, and the most crucial point was to establish Xu Jun's personal supreme leadership position in the eyes of the SS. The SS will become an armed internal affairs reconnaissance force loyal to the state but accountable only to the head of state, which is the new identity that Xu Jun has customized for this black army.

Himmler deeply understood the spirit of Xu Jun, the Führer was slowly erasing the traces of Hitler's existence in Germany, and taking the opportunity to increase the strength in his hands. For this, he was very able to understand that after so many years of intrigue and deceit for power, Himmler also saw clearly the essence of the Nazi Party, and it did not matter whether the belief was firm or not, but only the strength in his hands.

Xu Jun now has a huge power that Hitler could not grasp at that time, he has won the support and allegiance of all the violent apparatus of the state, he has successfully completed the task that Hitler could not accomplish, and completely controlled the entire power of the country in his personal hands.

Hitler was not able to fully manage the war at the beginning of the war, and most of his power was divided among his comrades, for which he had to devote a lot of energy every month to balancing the relationship between his comrades. At the same time, he had to balance the Nazi Party's relationship with the country's other powerful institutions, balancing the conflicting interests of both sides. The most important thing is that he has not yet fully mastered the German army, although on the surface he is the only leader of the German army, but in fact, the German officers still have the strength to obstruct his orders, and he does not have the strength to directly confront the military.

And now Xu Jun, not only won the full support of the military, but also used Hitler's death to eliminate all the Nazi high-ranking Nazis who could threaten him and share power with him, and concentrated all the power in the hands of him and his subordinates.

Himmler now knew very well what his role was to play under this apostle of God. He also saw what he would gain from Xu Jun. Although the SS was outwardly weakened, in reality the SS would be stronger than before.

For the first time, the SS was politically recognized by the military, which meant that the internal friction and confrontation between the SS and the military would no longer exist, and the biggest obstacle to the development of the SS would disappear. Himmler was even happier that Xu Jun gave the SS a legal status, which meant that the SS would henceforth be able to enter the political arena as the official administrative unit of the German state, without having to carry the Hitler brand in everything, as was the case before. The SS ceased to be a rabble, but a regular state force.

And what excites Himmler the most is that Xu Jun actually gave him an important mission, and it is related to the foreign affairs activities that Himmler is most interested in, and Himmler can see from this that Xu Jun's trust in him has reached a level of optimism.

Xu Jun asked him to select the most elite fighters of the SS to form a battalion combat team, which then accompanied the German mission to China, where he was stationed to protect the foreign affairs agencies of Germany and its allies. Himmler was so enthusiastic about this that 1,200 German SS soldiers were drawn from various units. All of them were veterans of the Wehrmacht or strong young men, and they were fanatical patriots, and they admired and admired the current Reich Führer, and were eager to offer their loyalty to the Führer.

All of them had undergone rigorous eighteen weeks of infantry training, and many of them also held various special technical certificates. After personally inspecting and watching the unit's live-fire exercises, Himmler felt that the SS fighters were even more effective than the Waffen-SS on the French front.

He is now confident that he will accomplish this task, and these fighters will not disappoint his Führer, and will certainly be able to win him more admiration and favor from the Führer.

Moreover, after watching the soldiers' tactical drills, the head of the Asian Intelligence Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs privately assured him that these soldiers would be invincible in Asia, except that they would not use chopsticks.