The fronts of the Wehrmacht and the Japanese in Southeast Asia were once again in an eerie calm. Separated by the Weijiang River, neither side took the initiative to attack.

Only the sporadic sound of artillery and gunfire proves that this is still a battlefield, otherwise a stranger who does not know anything will arrive and think that this is just the border between the two countries.

In order to stop the Wehrmacht attack, Sugiyama Gen did not hesitate to lay a large number of mines in front of the position. At the same time, the hidden forts and pillboxes were built along the Weijiang River step by step.

With a sad face, Hoda agreed to Sugiyama Motokai to form three more divisions of the Annam National Army to assist the Japanese army in the defense of Weijiang. On the Thai and Indian sides, more than 10 divisions have been formed to help the Japanese army defend their positions.

Compared with Baoda, which had suffered losses, the leadership of these two countries was still optimistic about the Japanese army. After all, the Japanese army did not have the experience of a crushing defeat in front of them.

In their view, the sun defeated the proud, invincible whites. This was admirable, and Japan's ally, Germany, directly occupied all of England in Europe.

Now they are about to embark on the conquest of the Soviet Union. It won't be long before even his own troops can step into the Americas with Japan and Germany and jointly create a new world order.

"Nope! Your Excellency Ribbentrop, what we need is a lot of machines, technical support and weapons. Without these, we cannot arm our own troops. Not to mention the inability to fulfill their tasks in the war......"

Negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany were going on in secret. Kalinin and Ribbentrop were constantly fighting each other in order to gain more benefits for their homeland.

"You know, Chairman Kalinin. Now Germany is also preparing for war, and our opponent is the incomparably powerful United States. Despite the great strength of the British and the enormous power that we have consumed, they still have a certain industrial base in Canada......"

Ribbentrop said to Kalinin: "As for industrial machine tools and technicians, in fact, we are also short of them in Germany. Perhaps we can provide you with some of the occupation Power's technicians. Like the French, British and Dutch, who were captured by us, what do you think?! ”

"It's not enough to have only one part, especially in terms of machine tools, and we need Germany to provide us with high-quality, state-of-the-art machine tools." Kalinin shook his head and said, "If we want to fulfill our combat responsibilities, we need more weapons and ammunition to arm our troops......"

"We need it ourselves, Chairman Kalinin." Ribbentrop stressed: "The main obligation of the Soviet Union is to provide us with resources and manpower, and we will do our best to provide the Soviet Union with the machine tools you need." But in terms of weapons and technicians, there really can't be anything we can do. You need to understand this. ”

Understandable. But unacceptable. This is Kalinin's attitude.

Because the United States and Britain have promised that as long as the Soviet Union and Germany go to war, they will send technicians from other countries to help the Soviet Union build arsenals, aircraft factories, automobile production lines...... and a host of other facilities.

Even Ford, Boeing, and other companies are already conducting inspections of the Soviet Union at the request of the US government. By contrast, the Germans had too little to give.

"We also need to coordinate resources, Mr. Ribbentrop." Kalinin sighed and said, "It's impossible for us to hand over all those oil wells and mines to Germany. The two parties jointly operate. And it is acceptable for Germany to produce machinery to help us increase production......"

"Nope! We have to take full responsibility for the minerals, and we can't push up the production of wells and mines. Ribbentrop shook his head, this was the condition of death that Hitler had laid down.

The Soviets' repossession of those mines and oil wells during the European War made the Germans feel uneasy. What they desperately want now is to be able to fully regain control of these resources themselves.

Even if the Soviets eventually took it back, at least as best they could be exploited while Germany was in possession of these resources.

"Your Excellency Ribbentrop, it was an extraordinary time for the Soviet Union. That's why there are mortgages for mines and oil wells. But then we didn't pay off Germany's debt?! ”

Kalinin was very dissatisfied, and he was extremely angry about this matter. Including Stalin's sale of Vladivostok, it was a decision that made his heart ache.

Even now, no one dared to mention these two things in front of him.

"We were in a mess. It is also helpless for the upper echelons to make some wrong decisions. But we didn't admit it afterwards, on the contrary, we repaid all the loans in Germany, didn't we?! Kalinin lit the table and said, "And, why did we make such a decision at that time, I guess Your Excellency Ribbentrop knew it in his heart, right?!" ”

"This is an internal affair belonging to the Soviets, and we never interfere in your ideas." Ribbentrop shrugged. "We were just doing business, and it wasn't the German government that bought the oil wells and mines with the Soviet Union at that time. Rather, it is German business. ”

Ribbentrop is talking nonsense with his eyes open. At that time, he was a pioneer when he was in the Soviet Union! It was him and the intelligence officers of the time who started it, of course! The name is a company in Germany.

Of course, Kalinin also heard the meaning of Ribbentrop's words. At that time, you Soviet infighting, that was your Soviet problem. We're just doing business, can't we make it impossible to open a business if there's a business?!

Kalinin was speechless. Even if he knew that Germany was involved in the internal strife in the Soviet Union, and even played a decisive role, at least on the surface, Kalinin could not find evidence.

And if this matter is involved, the first unlucky one will definitely be the Soviet Union itself. The group of people who followed Trotsky at that time had more or less inexplicable relations with Germany.

This one pulls up, and it's endless.

"Mr. Ribbentrop, I think we also need to coordinate with the top level on resource cooperation and technical support." Kalinin sighed and said, "So today's negotiations should end here, let's go back and coordinate before continuing the talks." ”

"Chairman Kalinin, I very much agree with you." Ribbentrop said sincerely: "In fact, I extremely hope that the Soviet Union and Germany can reach a cooperation agreement. I can even tell you that I raised this point to His Excellency the Führer about the negotiations with the Soviet Union. ”

"I have a deep affection for the Soviet Union, and I hope that Germany and the Soviet Union will be the best partners. The new world order needs to be built together. I'm sure we'll have a lot in common......"

Ribbentrop did hope that the Soviets and Germans would establish cooperation, but not because he had any feelings for the Soviet Union. Rather, it is because he is extremely sensitive to the economy, and he has already perceived the crisis in Germany under the current prosperity.

The war had dragged Germany's economy to a halt and Germany urgently needed to devote a lot of resources to its own self-cultivation. But the war must continue, because the American threat is not a joke.

Manpower is needed for the integration of occupied territories, as well as for the resumption of production and access to resources. Germany has a limited population, a large number of adult males are in the army, where is there so many manpower?!

The greatest advantage of the Soviet Union was to be able to share part of Germany's needs. From natural resources to human resources, they can all share a part.

"Honorable Führer, I still hope that you will consider some cooperation with the Soviet Union. Even if the cooperation is temporary. At least cooperation will allow us to get support from the Soviet Union. ”

"Although Germany has occupied all of Europe, our rivalry with the United States in the Atlantic has caused us to lose blood. It will take time for the occupied territories to become productive and we will need a lot of resources and manpower to complete our preparations for war......"

"The United States has seen little compromise until now. Only by hitting their soil can we force them to sit at the negotiating table. But it is necessary to maintain order in Europe, restore domestic production, and ensure social stability. What we need is in too much ......."

Hitler frowned and looked at the telegram sent by Ribbentrop, which Hitler did not like. But Ribbentrop's views are exactly the same as those of the current German Minister of Economy: Dr. Almar Horace Greericht.

"Shacht, what do you think?!" Hitler threw the telegram to Schacht and asked: "Has Germany reached such a point?!" Didn't we already win the war, why would this still be the case?! ”

"Führer, we have indeed won the war. But the dividends of the war have not yet been fully enjoyed. Shacht said with a wry smile. Schacht is a well-known economist who can say that the entire Nazis were able to strip Germany out of the environment of the global economic crisis. At the same time, he was able to prepare for war on a large scale and was inseparable from his economic plan.

He drafted a detailed plan for the mobilization of industry and the integration of the Wehrmacht with wartime industry, and the planning and implementation of the system of stockpiling strategic raw materials and controlling foreign exchange, which played a major role in the early expansion of Germany's armament war and the organization of the war economy.

During his tenure, the German Foundation eliminated the unemployment that was prevalent in the nations at the time.

"Cooking oil over fire. Flowers! Shacht suddenly said something he had taught him from the diplomats of the coalition government with whom he had spoken.

"Führer, this sentence explains our current situation. Until the dividends of the war were shared, Germany was actually depleting itself in large quantities. ”

There was a pause. Schacht continued: "We need a lot of money, a lot of resources, before we can win the war completely. and a lot of manpower. None of this is available in Germany ......"

"So, we need an ally who can provide that. Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was right that in some respects the Soviet Union was indeed a partner of choice...... Or rather, one of the occupied places. ”

Hitler groaned and did not answer directly. To be honest, Hitler did not trust the Soviet Union, and it was the sex of the Slavs to go back on their word. There are not too many such examples in history.

"That's it! Your and Ribbentrop's opinions, I will take into account. Hitler nodded, indicating that he understood. At the same time, let Shacht leave on his own.

Shacht didn't say much, nodded and got up to leave. He knew that the Führer, when he was thinking, did not like the idea of being offered so-called "opinions" without authorization. This would be seen as an offense by him.

While Hitler hesitated, Churchill was once again confronted with the roar of the parliamentarians. This time, their rants were driven by China's demand that they recognize the independent status of Southeast Asian countries.

"These damned, greedy yellow-skinned monkeys! They don't even want to take an inch of land from us, from India to Xiangjiang! We won't give them anything, let these idiots know that the British Empire is not something they can play with!! ”

Lord Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the British Empire, roared at a cabinet meeting: "Come! If anything, they will take those places and try it! When the time comes, our warships ......"

"Our warships have sunk in the English Channel, my honorable lord!" Churchill could not bear it any longer, and sneered at the lord: "Our warships were either sunk by the Germans or sunk by the Japanese." Do you think the Wehrmacht will be able to repel the Japanese. Can we defeat them?! ”

"Or, our cabinet authorized you to go to Southeast Asia to clean up the Wehrmacht, okay?!" Personally, I would like you to take your army to regain those places, and I will ask the finest painters of the British Empire to paint your heroic figure and hang it in the halls of the Cabinet Council for posterity to see. ”

Halifax was dazed by Churchill's words with guns and sticks, and he did not dare to admit it.

"Lord Prime Minister, Lord Halifax is just too excited...... "Arthur Greenwood, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, found a step for the foreign minister, and said, "After all, India is the brightest jewel in the crown of our British Empire, if they are allowed to go out independently......"

"The fact now is that they are independent, and our army has been driven to the Middle East by the Japanese. And even now facing the pursuit of Italian and German troops! Churchill snorted coldly: "All right! Who wants to lead our forces in the Middle East?! I can show my support right now. ”

There is no difference between going to the Middle East and going to die. Now the Germans in the Middle East, although not much, are enough to clean up those remnants of the British forces.

There is no doubt that now no one in the Cabinet will mention the troops in the Middle East. They were more concerned about the current Soviet Union, because the situation in the Soviet Union would directly threaten the Canada in which they were now located.

And the troops in the Middle East ?! Let's wait until the British Empire is no longer threatened. As for whether those remnants of the army can hold out until that time, who cares?!

"What I can tell you is. The U.S. Congress has now passed the coalition proposal. Now President Roosevelt is asking about our attitude. Churchill looked coldly at the MPs and snorted.

"What I can tell you is that it is better to imagine that China coordinated Germany and Japan to start a war against the Soviet Union. Think about it, and you'll be incredibly sober. Don't be blinded by the immediate benefits! ”

It is good to say that it is a small country mentality, or it is good to say that it is a rat's eye. If you look at the foreign policies of European and American countries, you will find that they seem to have only cared about short-term interests from the beginning to the end.

They are almost completely distracted from long-term interests. Sinicization, on the other hand, is a completely different concept. What is taught to the Chinese people in the traditional is more about the persistence of long-term interests.

For example, the policies of European and American companies and European and American countries in Africa and the strategies they implement, they are only engaged in frenzied predatory harvesting for the sake of the short term.

And completely ignore the anger that Africans have left behind as a result. For example, the policy of their trip to the Middle East, in many cases, they think about how to plunder better and more efficiently. And I don't care what happens afterwards.

This has led to a long-term, stable implementation that will gradually prevail in later generations. China, with its focus on long-term benefits, is beginning to make its mark, including in Africa and the Middle East.

And those European and American companies that once surprised themselves had to be excluded from these countries.

This is constantly chasing after the wind in the European and American media, commenting with sour anger that China is going to colonize Africa. At the same time, we will find some African "public knowledge" to try to find out what China is.

It's a pity that Africans don't seem to be eating it. It's still cooperation that should be cooperated. It's time to participate. This makes Europe and the United States and other countries both helpless and jealous.

Actually, in the end. There is nothing too special about what China has done. The first is absolutely non-interference in the internal affairs of the other side, I am only in business. Not the international police, those things are naturally decided by the people of your country.

Second, no matter what country China enters to do business, it will make certain economic loans to this country more often. There are no political strings attached, and most of these loans are premised on infrastructure development.

In this kind of cooperation, China is communicating with each other on an equal footing. But even so, European and American countries still make headlines in the media: China's plundering of Africa is neocolonialism.

It's a pity that these white people never tell everyone bluntly that their ancestors started by selling black people. From resources to population, they have committed heinous sins. But they never apologized for it, but instead blamed others with words.

"Prime Minister, I don't think it's an immediate benefit! This is at stake in the post-war development of the British Empire, and we must ensure our interests in Southeast Asia......"

"If these were not conceded, the British Empire would not have been able to hold out even after the war!" Churchill almost smashed the teacup in his hand and scolded the idiot.

"What does the attitude of the Americans say ?! Don't you understand?! Now we must hold China and the USSR, otherwise we will be the ones who will be defeated! Churchill resisted the urge to rush up and strangle the idiot to death: "If the war is lost, we are a defeated country!" Not to mention those interests, even Turkey and the current Canada can't be kept! You idiot! ”