Chapter 334: Kristallnacht
"She's really great!" Meng Xiang looked at the Count Zeppelin, which was staying in the air in the distance, and for a moment realized how pale the words he expressed. Its 236-meter-long body, with a maximum diameter of about 30 meters, floats in the sky like an aircraft carrier.
Like a dark cloud pressing down on the sky, the Count Zeppelin attracted the attention of almost everyone in Qidu.
"I suddenly realized that it must be nice to use this thing for propaganda!" Wei Hanchao said beside him. Most of North China had fallen into the hands of the vanguard army, and the mission of his Reading Brigade was coming to an end.
When he returned, he was pushed to the position of Minister of Propaganda at the suggestion of Pharmacist Tang.
"He's far better at doing this than he is at war!" Pharmacist Tang's reason for recommending it was very simple, and Meng Xiang agreed with a smile. In order to pursue the emperor in his mind, this Wei Hanchao was not stable even when he was in the Reading Brigade, Shaanxi and Puppet Manchurian both went to meet, Wang Kemin and other Han Jian, he also went to meet, but in the end he ran back. The two personal guards who followed him, the most loyal henchmen he had developed from the ranks, came to join the army themselves, but in the list of Tiger Warriors and Ox Warriors, there was another name.
However, Wei Hanchao's eloquence and agitation surname are really good, otherwise there would not be a reading brigade of various small groups together.
The mission of the Reading Brigade is basically over, and after Wei Hanchao is transferred, Rat Eight slowly takes over the leadership of the Reading Brigade, and the next step is to start the reorganization. Wei Hanchao's original method was to balance the relationship between many small groups with the help of skillful scheming and interest lure. But in the vanguard army, these hills were not needed.
When Meng Xiang heard Wei Hanchao's words, he couldn't help but think of those airship advertisements in later generations. The sheer size of the airship is really eye-catching. The 110,000 cubic meters of volume of the Count Zeppelin also makes it as impressive as a mountain floating in the air. But that huge body also means that there are 110,000 cubic meters of hydrogen in it that could ignite and explode at any time. Last year's Hindenburg was a pile of scrap metal in less than a minute.
Either way, its insecurity that even the little flower warned about led to the airship's decline. But Meng Xiang needed it to open a door that was set up to be closed.
"2 million, you can build 6 B-29s and fill them with bombs. How did she know the difference between buying and renting? Meng Xiang is still a little puzzled by Zhinao's judgment on property rights, it seems that it can only be owned completely by himself, and it is not possible to rent it.
But Meng Xiang soon left the money behind.
"This is a Mercedes 770K?" Meng Xiang was a little excited. To be precise, the black car driving down from the Count Zeppelin in front of you is a Mercedes-Benz 770K, who would have thought that the surface of the shell is 4 mm thick special steel plate, and the crystal clear window thickness reaches 50 mm? The door looks like a wall from the inside out, 200 mm thick, with a 25 mm steel plate sandwiched inside.
The car was expensive to build, and only 17 cars were produced in history, each of which required Hitler's personal approval to be produced, which was unique to him.
He gave Stalin a car, Mussolini a car, and today Meng Xiang did not expect to receive this gift from Hitler.
"This thing can be sold for $14 million in the future, it's worth it!" Although Meng Xiang still had a smile on his face, he couldn't wait to kick away the gushing German Ambassador to China in front of him, Toddmann, and drive out for a ride.
The base produces only military vehicles, not limousines. Usually Meng Xiang doesn't go out much, and when he goes out, he also takes a bucket car. But as an otaku, I have a dream of galloping in my heart. The feeling of driving a car at a galloping speed and having to break free from the shackles of the earth at any time is the most exciting.
It stands to reason that his rank is not up to the standard of Hitler's sending this. But the barrel car technology he traded with the Germans greatly benefited the Germans, and also prompted the Germans to improve the technology of Volkswagen's new Beetle, which was newly produced by the Germans. Meng Xiang also praised the German Mercedes-Benz cars, and asked the Germans to buy equipment related to automobile technology and build a car factory.
Because of the huge cost of building an automobile factory, Meng Xiang proposed to the Germans the idea of selling super battleships. It's nothing more than ordering a super battleship, which requires capital turnover and sells it at a low price.
The Yamato had not yet been built, and Meng Xiang could only provide a vague data from memory, and the German had acquiesced in his integrity in several of his transactions, and even more so with the low price he had said. This low price is basically the cost price.
The subsistence allowance system proposed by the vanguard army once made Hitler a little excited, but after research, it was found that the vast majority of Germans lived above the subsistence allowance line proposed by Meng Xiang, which was not very attractive, but if the standard was raised, the huge costs that might be brought were not something that the current political axe could afford. Now military spending has accounted for the largest expenditure of the political axe.
It can be seen from this that the vanguard army must have to maintain a large and well-equipped army, but also maintain a subsistence allowance, and the finances must have been stretched, and the Germans had just received information that the vanguard army had sold their Nagato-class battleship to the Russians.
"Lack of money, the vanguard army has financial problems, lack of money!" The lack of money in the vanguard meant that the super battleship had a chance. Although the Germans had a plan for the H-class, the thought that they would be able to get a super battleship in three months made Hitler, who was already unable to withstand the war, very tempted.
Time, he lacks time, and it will take two years for the H-class to start work even now. Although he was also short of money, all the vanguard needed was technology and equipment, and this German did not lack it.
This time, whether it is the cheap Count Zeppelin airship or the Mercedes-Benz 770K, it is a good signal. And what Meng Xiang said about the car factory, he also approved.
The name of Volkswagen's automobile company proposed by Meng Xiang is also somewhat similar to the name of Volkswagen in Germany, which also mistook Hitler for the vanguard army's overture to the Germans. This time, they had already been recalled to Germany, and Todmann came over in person, which also meant that the Germans attached great importance to the relationship with the Vanguard Army.
In May, Goering banned the delivery of war materials to China, and that same month, Germany's new foreign minister, Ribbentrop, came to power. As soon as he came to power, he withdrew his German advisers in China. Although the contracts of these consultants would not end until '39 and '40, Ribbentrop still insisted that Falkenhausen and others withdraw it, and it was at this time that Todman was recalled to China.
But Meng Xiang intervened at this time to take over the contract that the central government was about to give up, and used this as an excuse to keep these German consultants and stuff them into the military academy. It will take time for the Vanguard to build their own unique military system, and it is worth learning from the experience of the Germans.
After Zhou Bai led Taodeman to other places, Meng Xiang did not immediately go to drive, but began to explore the unit production of the base.
When he saw that the name of the Kirov airship had brightened up in front of his eyes as if it were glowing, he was unexpectedly apprehensive for a moment.
In military operations, airships have long been replaced by airplanes. When the bombing load of the B-17 was similar to that of the airship, the advantage of the airship's large load seemed to have passed.
What can be the surname of the Kirov airship, Meng Xiang doesn't know, and he doesn't know if it will become another torch because he can't stop the white phosphorus bomb.
Everything can only depend on the effect of the finished product.
"I order, build a Kirov airship!" As one of the ultimate forces in the Red Alert sky, the Kirov airship alone will have 1 million, which is comparable to 3 B-29s, but Meng Xiang still gave the order for production. Whether it's worth it or not, it depends on the effect of production.
The main base's covert tank factory, which used to produce all kinds of airships, began to operate, and the production of airships had to occupy all the production lines again.
"Seven days? Sure enough, it's long enough, and it's worthy of being one of the ultimate weapons! Meng Xiang looked at the progress bar, shook his head, and could only wait slowly.
Todman stayed in the D.C. and had no intention of leaving. The Germans set up a consulate in Qingdao to regulate relations with the Vanguard.
"There is also a lot of chaos in Germany, and a Jewish incident is in an uproar." Zhou Bai sighed.
"Shards of crystal glass all over the ground, this is Kristallnacht." Meng Xiang also sighed. On the night of the 9th, the actions of the whole Germans against the Jews began. Jewish churches were burned, Jewish shops were destroyed, Jewish homes were harassed, more than 7,000 Jewish shops were looted, nearly 100 Jews were killed, and thousands were humiliated. This is the appalling and condemned Kristallnacht of later generations.
But Meng Xiang sighed, and his heart was more bitter.
At one point in his memory, the Chinese had suffered similar behavior. According to incomplete statistics released by the Indonesians themselves, at least 1,188 people died in the three-day "scramble", and 168 Chinese women were forced or wheeled, of which more than 20 Chinese women died of serious injuries, including a 9-year-old and an 11-year-old girl. In Jakarta alone, 40 shopping malls, 12 markets, more than 4,000 shops, 66 banks, more than 2,400 residences and offices, and a number of other restaurants and hotels were looted. Similar "turmoil" occurred in other large and medium-sized cities.
The scale of this is even greater than the chaos of that Kristallnacht. But...... Meng Xiang's heart was depressed for a while, and he sat there with his hands pinched white.
"Retribution! In this life, I will take retribution. I'm going to let them not even make sperm, so let their parents disappear into this plane first! ”