Stalin's request was soon brought back to Berlin by the German ambassador to the Soviet Union, Count Schulenburg, and was brought to a meeting of the High Command for discussion.

"What? What the? He didn't participate in the world war, but he wanted to participate in the division of the world? "Hitler almost didn't jump when he heard Stalin's conditions.

"Leader, we are not trying to divide the world, but to liberate all mankind!" Marshal Hersman reminded that "the time for the partition of the world has passed, and the time has come to use the word 'liberation.'" ”

How reactionary does "carving up" sound? Where is the "liberation" that wins the hearts of the people?

"Liberation?" Hitler looked at Hersmann and half-jokingly asked, "Is that the kind of emancipation that costs a fee?" ”

Hersman shrugged his shoulders and said seriously, "The charge is for sure!" Emancipation is a fee-based service, but it is not necessary to pay the full fee at once, but to allow for payment in installments. ”

Hearing this, a group of Nazis and militarists in Conference Room No. 1 of the Ministry of Defense almost did not laugh out loud. A dignified marshal, or the chief of the General Staff, how can he speak with such humor?

Liberation is a fee-based service, and you can actually pay in installments, just like buying a car and a property......

Seeing that everyone was holding back their laughter, Hersman said in a very serious tone: "I'm not joking! There is no such thing as a free lunch, let alone a free liberation!

When a serf is emancipated, he most likely has to pay a large ransom, and then other exploitation is added to him. If he wants to live the same life as a free man, he must work harder! Many of the people in this room had ancestors who were serf owners, right? Whose ancestors freed the serfs and did not exploit them in any other way? ”

Hearing this explanation, the Junkers in the conference room all nodded their heads in agreement - the Junkers were all aristocratic landowners, so they naturally knew what was going on with the emancipation of serfs.

Hersman went on to say: "And an enslaved nation must pay the blood of generations of revolutionaries for its own liberation, and finally water the flower of freedom." Then the nation must fight hard to preserve their hard-won freedom!

If this emancipation comes from the boon of others, then there can be no doubt that this people will have to pay for its own emancipation with the hard work of generation after generation. ”

Of course, this view of his also comes from the experience of later generations. There have been two "liberation service providers" in history, one is called the American Liberation Corporation; One is called the Soviet Socialist Liberation Company.

However, Hersmann does not have much of an impression of the "Soviet Liberation Company", which closed down in 1991 due to poor management. But he knows something about how the "American Liberation Corporation" charges. Those countries that "bought" the liberation services of the United States, such as Japan, South Korea, European countries, and the local tyrants of the Middle East, which one was not sheared over and over again? Even those countries that did not buy the liberation services of the United States could not escape the fate of being sheared by the United States!

And in this time and space, Hersmann, as the field marshal and chief of the general staff of the German Empire, was of course obliged to make Germany the largest service provider for emancipation in the world.

"And how are we going to charge for liberation?" Adolph. Hitler asked.

This is probably where Germany is not comparable to the three world empires of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union! After all, Germany was only a "middle power", and although it once owned a colony, it did not operate for a long time and did not make any big money from the colony. Inexperienced in the exploitation and control of foreign countries, Hersman had heard many wise sayings of liberators in later generations.

"Seas, oil, food, and currency!" Hersman said, "Whoever controls these four things controls the whole world, and whoever taxes the whole world, in disguise or directly." ”

He paused, staring at Adolf. Hitler, he said, "If the cause of human emancipation is regarded as a business, then now is the time to compete for the market...... Compete for the market for liberation services! And Germany must master the most valuable market in this competition.

The first is the control of the seas, which is not about how many battleships and aircraft carriers there are, but about controlling the hubs of maritime navigation, such as Suez, such as Gibraltar, the Panama Canal, Singapore, Hawaii and, of course, the English Channel! We must control these key points as much as possible, either directly or by supporting a pro-German regime to liberate them.

The second is oil, the next few decades to a hundred years will inevitably be the era of oil, oil will become a necessity in the world, whoever has the world's largest amount of oil available for export, who can turn their own currency into the world's currency! As things stand, the Middle East is the only place to export oil that Germany controls...... That was the territory that Germany had to liberate!

Again, there is food, no one can survive without food, so food is always a necessity, so Germany must have a territory that can export large quantities of food. I think that Germany should provide all possible assistance to the liberation of the South American peoples from the control of American imperialism.

Finally, there is money, the value of the right to issue world money is unquestionable, and we are already working in the direction of seizing it. As long as we can liberate the Middle East and South America in the future, we can use European marks to price oil and grain trade. Then there is no doubt that the right to issue the world's currency is ours! ”

Hersmann was for German expansion, no, it was Germany that was engaged in the cause of human liberation that determined the way forward.

This must also be determined before the Riga meeting. For at the Riga Conference, apart from issuing a lofty emancipation proclamation, the main task was to determine the respective market share of the Deutsche Liberation Company and the Soviet Liberation Company - the reason for the eventual bankruptcy of the Soviet Liberation Company was, in Hersmann's view, a small market share, and a lack of control over the most lucrative markets in the Middle East and South America!

"The Middle East?" Adolph. Hitler's brow furrowed, "I'm afraid Stalin won't give us that place, right?" The Russians have always wanted to take Constantinople and then go south! ”

"The Russians don't just want the Middle East," Hirschman added, "and the Balkans have always been the direction of Russian expansion." In addition, Stalin must have been very unhappy with the loss of Finland, Russian Poland and the Baltic coastal provinces. ”

"The Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East?" Hitler snorted coldly, "No one can satisfy the ambitions of the Russians!" ”

"Of course it can't be," Hersman smiled wryly, "but we still have to maintain relations with the Soviet Union, because there is no chance of winning a war on two fronts." ”

"But we can't satisfy the USSR!" Adolph. Hitler noted solemnly. "Even if we give Stalin the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East, he will betray!"

"Yes," Hirschman smiled, "but we can maintain relations with the Soviet Union until we defeat Britain and France." ”

"Is that possible?" Adolph. Hitler shook his head in disbelief.

"Absolutely!" Hersmann affirmed, "Stalin, the Red Tsar, was actually a very cautious man." The fundamental reason why he was able to defeat Trotsky and become the leader of the Bolsheviks was not because of his great courage, but because he pursued a cautious line that was embraced by the majority of the Bolshevik cadres - Trotsky's line at that time was a world revolution, which would have brought with it the risk of the destruction of the nascent Soviet state. Stalin's one-country socialism, on the other hand, allowed the Bolshevik cadres to enjoy the fruits of the victory of the revolution with peace of mind...... At least that's what they thought at the time. ”

"But I think Stalin will betray us in the end," Hitler said gloomily, "and in fact he betrayed us once in the Polish campaign!" ”

"Perhaps," Hirschman smiled indifferently, "but it will not depend on how much we give to the Soviet Union, but on how much Anglo-American law can give to the Soviet Union, and how much risk the Soviet Union will betray us." If Anglo-American France had given enough, and the chances of winning after the betrayal of the USSR were big enough, then Stalin would have betrayed. Because the distance between the Soviet Union and Germany was too close, there were too many benefits to be gained from defeating our Soviet Union. ”

This analysis is based on Hersmann's knowledge of the rise and fall of the Red Empire, which once made the Western world tremble, but which did not provoke the fearless spirit of world revolution to liberate all mankind. Instead, it followed a Cold War confrontation line that appeared to be safe, but in fact was bound to be defeated -- the economy, industry, population, and resources of the Warsaw Pact camp led by the Soviet Union could not be compared with that of the capitalist camp led by the United States. Therefore, the Cold War was quite unfavorable for the Soviet Union, and it can be said that it was a slow suicide strategy, but the Soviet Union still carried out it unswervingly for decades.

"So we just have to stick to our principles at the Riga conference and don't have to make any concessions on the Baltics, the Balkans, Poland, Finland and the Middle East." Hersman said. "And we should make clear our firm position on the liberation of the Middle East! The Soviet Union can liberate India, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, but not the Middle East, that belongs to Germany! ”

"But what if Stalin sent troops to Turkey and the Middle East at the same time as we defeated Britain and France?" Adolph. Hitler suddenly asked, "It's quite possible, isn't it?" ”

"Leader," Hirschman smiled, "the only thing we can defeat at the moment is France. After defeating France, we will unite Italy to go south to the Balkans and the Middle East to liberate that land before the Soviet Union! (To be continued.) )