Chapter Twenty-Nine: Darkness (1)
The Portsmouth shipyard is Zhao Zhi's current foothold, and the fixed assets of the Rockman family in Britain have been sold, and those that cannot be sold have become the property of the Krim gangsters. The Southampton counterfeit banknote factory has increased its equipment, and the pounds sterling of various denominations printed every day has been continuously flowing into various parts of the United Kingdom, and has been turned into various materials and hoarded by Kerim's men. The speed of development of the Krim gang can be described as a thousand miles in a day, and in just half a month, the Krim gang has changed from the original dock union to a big family with more than 2,000 subordinates.
"Sir, according to your instructions, I bought a few estates in Southampton, and commissioned reliable people to build large underground bunkers, it is estimated that after completion, I can hide about 5,000 people at a time, if you count those mountains and forests, it is no problem to hide tens of thousands of people in a short time" Kerim was not carried away by the rapid development of the family, or according to the time agreed with Zhao Zhi, he called Zhao Zhi once a day to report the information, but he used the public telephone booth every time, And the place where Zhao Zhi answers the phone is also a public phone booth, and the mystery and order of it are only known to Zhao Zhihe and the mercenaries who stayed with Krim.
Zhao Zhi had already received the news that Britain would open its ports to Jewish refugees, so his immediate need was to open up an advance base for the upcoming German elite, and once the Anglo-French forces really went to war with the Germans, the places adjacent to the coastline would become the key defensive areas of the British army. Before the war began, Zhao Zhi wanted to smuggle the prepared German troops into Britain in ships transporting refugees, and he also wanted to provide these German troops with a concealed forward base. As a result, Southampton, controlled by the Krim gangs, became his first choice, and the Krem gangs had several smuggling routes to London, which would be a magic weapon for victory in the event of a surprise attack on London by German troops hidden in Southampton.
"Let's start preparing food in advance, I need enough food and warm clothes for tens of thousands of people to eat for three months" It is now the end of September, and the temperature is slowly decreasing, and the food and accommodation of more than 10,000 people has become a problem that Zhao Zhi needs to consider. Food hoarding during the war was not too noticeable, many merchants did it, and the Krim gang's network was so large that buying it in pieces was not a problem at all.
"Tens of thousands of people eat for three months?" Kerim's heart chuckled, since he swore allegiance to Zhao Zhi to participate in the counterfeit money plan, Kerim knew that Zhao Zhi was not a simple person, he was young and rich and had a group of ruthless subordinates. Kerim doesn't know what Zhao Zhi a Chinese wants to do in Britain, he has already boarded Zhao Zhi's ship, I'm afraid it's impossible to think about it, from the first counterfeit money deposited in the bank, he can only follow Zhao Zhi's footsteps all the way forward, otherwise the group of murderous guys will uproot the Krim gang.
"Then tell your subordinates to start buying chemical products and some small things in small quantities through the black market, and I will send someone to find you later, and the purchase order will also be brought over and handed over to you" Zhao Zhi really needs to order a batch of chemical raw materials, because he wants to make incendiary bombs and time bombs, and the quantity is very large. The Gestapo worked with the SS to find many soldiers who had lived abroad in their direct units, and these German soldiers who were fluent in English and familiar with life abroad would become the early infiltrators who entered the UK, and they would receive a large number of incendiary bombs and custom bombs from Zhao Zhi, which would be used by the German troops hidden in the UK mainland to attack London in the event of a surprise attack on London.
"Yes sir, I'll do these things right away, do you have any other orders?" Kerim, the underground king of Southampton, was very respectful to Zhao Zhi like a schoolboy, even into the microphone. When Zhao Zhi left Southampton, he left a 10-member mercenary team around Krim, on the surface, this team was to help Krim deal with rival gangs, but in fact, they were all used by Zhao Zhi to supervise counterfeit money factories and monitor Krim, once the carried away Krim did something harmful to Zhao Zhi, these mercenaries did not mind changing the Krim gang to a family member.
Krim, who hung up the phone, leaned against the wall of the phone booth and remained motionless, and Zhao Zhi's last sentence made him a little incredulous - do you want to be a mafia for the rest of your life? Kerim was not born a gangster, and if it weren't for his mother and two younger sisters, Kerim wouldn't have crossed the ocean to become a mafia in England. Krim's brain is not stupid, he has vaguely guessed that Zhao Zhi and Germany are inextricably linked, otherwise how could the Germans hand over those Jews to Zhao Zhi's control, Kerim doesn't care who fights with whom, he only knows that he can get greater benefits by following Zhao Zhi.
"Let's go, let's go back, Mr. told me that there is something to do" I don't know when it began, and Kerim also began to call Zhao Zhi Mr. like the mercenaries. The food that Zhao Zhi explained was easier to handle, but Kerim didn't know anything about those chemical raw materials, and he wanted to find a guy who knew chemistry to ask before Zhao Zhi's messenger came to Southampton.
Like Kerim, Zhao Zhi, who hung up the phone, also stayed in the phone booth for a while before coming out, from now until the German troops infiltrated the British mainland, until the German army began to launch a surprise attack on London, this period will be Zhao Zhi's busiest time, and he must not have any problems. The renovation of the Portsmouth shipyard has come to an end, and the participation of thousands of skilled workers has made Zhao Zhi's renovation plan very smooth, and Zhao Zhi has once again seen the extraordinary industrial capacity of the old power.
In order to meet the approaching German troops and some heavy equipment, Zhao Zhi ordered the workers in the shipyard to build a plank road with steel, and the steel plank road with a length of more than 20 meters and a width of more than 10 meters was placed on the dock of the shipyard. This is a plank road specially made by Zhao Zhi for German tank armored vehicles, and the heavy equipment on the cargo ship is lifted to the plank road by a loader on the deck, through which the heavy equipment can be driven all the way into the huge pits in the shipyard.
In order to build this plank road and the pits in those factories, Zhao Zhi's first batch of skilled workers selected among the Polish Jews were transferred to the Portsmouth shipyard, and Zhao Zhi did not dare to use the British local workers, once the news leaked, all Zhao Zhi's plans would be in vain. Zhao Zhi paid a lot of compensation in order to dismiss the original workers of those shipyards, and of course, Zhao Zhi, who was holding a lot of counterfeit banknotes, would not be short of money for the time being.
When Zhao Zhi formulated this plan, Goering and others did not agree very much, as orthodox soldiers, the German military top brass was more inclined to fight with the opponent on the battlefield, and they were quite unimpressed with Zhao Zhi's tricky behavior. Only the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich? Himmler strongly recommended Zhao Zhi's plan to Hitler, and in order to cooperate with Zhao Zhi's plan, Heinrich? Himmler chose suitable candidates for the role of lurkers in the SS and Gestapo throughout Germany. Himmler was also an unscrupulous figure, and in his mind, as long as the final victory can be achieved, the process of struggle does not matter.
With the implementation of Zhao Zhi's plan step by step, the German high-level gradually changed their opinion of him, until the British authorities were ready to open the port to Jewish refugees as Zhao Zhi expected, and the German high-level reluctantly agreed to Zhao Zhi's battle plan for a surprise attack on London, and selected an integrated division to conduct urban combat training in Poland. Excluding the integrated division with large-caliber artillery, the number reached about 12,000 people, and the number of German soldiers who raided London would reach 15,000 with the infiltrators prepared by the SS in the early stage.
Krim, who was born in the mafia, is obviously a very good subordinate, and he just does what Zhao Zhi wants him to do, but he never asks why. With the backing of counterfeit money factories, the Krim gang used large sums of counterfeit money and luxury goods to send the lurkers along their smuggling routes to the dens controlled by the Krim gang in the city of London after the first lurkers mixed with Jewish refugees into the British port of Southampton.
Zhao Zhi has his own understanding of this passage, and these lurkers selected by the SS have lived abroad, and they all speak fluent English. The best way to lurk in London is to blend in with them, and even the experts of German customs cannot distinguish between the fake passports created by the Jewish forgers under the guidance of Molun, and the lurkers with fake passports can only stand in the sun in the guise of Krim gangsters to avoid attracting the attention of British intelligence.
The influx of 3,000 people is nothing to London that is still singing and dancing, originally Zhao Zhi thought that the British intelligence agencies would be more or less vigilant, and for this reason, he also formulated a special plan to deal with it, but until all the lurkers gradually became active in the streets and alleys of London, the British intelligence agencies expected by Zhao Zhi still did not move. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain advocated the Jingbian policy, and although Britain and France had declared war on Germany, the combined forces of the two countries were only gathering in the border areas and had not yet engaged the German army.