Chapter 546: France Surrenders
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According to the terms of the armistice agreement, Germany will occupy the northern half of France, including the French capital Paris, and the Atlantic coast of France, and the south-central part of France, which is equivalent to about three-fifths of the original French mainland, will be administered by the Vichy government, and the capital will be in Vichy, so this self-proclaimed "French state" regime is commonly known as "Vichy France".
It is worth mentioning that some seemingly casual discussions between Hu Weidong and some German officers in China at the beginning also had a certain impact on the terms of this armistice agreement, such as the fact that Vichy France was still allowed to retain 300,000 army, 100,000 navy and 100,000 air force, which would not only help the Vichy French government suppress the resistance to Liliang, but also weaken the will of the French people, especially the soldiers, to resist, and at the same time could use the French army, especially the French navy and air force, to deal with the German enemy. The British now and the Soviets in the future.
In addition, all the banks, hospitals, and key industries in France, including Vichy France (and the munitions factories, of course, were taken over by the Germans), and the "armor-protection" system, learned from the old Chinese regime and the Japanese, further strengthened the German control over France, and the plundering of the wealth of the French government and the propertied classes somewhat reduced the resentment of the French people against the German invaders, but the gains were only a little more, partly because the French government and the propertied class owned more than 90% of the wealth of France. On the other hand, it was because the ordinary French workers and peasants who had not been plundered were able to work with greater enthusiasm, which allowed Germany to obtain more tax revenues. These means are compared to history. are obviously more sophisticated
It must be noted that after the surrender of France, Germany not only received a lot of wealth, industrial and military assistance, but also obtained quite rich mineral resources. When Zhongfu International was engaged in oil exploration in Europe, it was not only looking for oil fields in Germany and Austria, but they were also in France (in fact, there are other countries, but France is the most). More recoverable oil reserves were discovered than Germany and Austria combined (the total historical reserves of French oil were about twice that of Germany and Austria combined), most of which were later exploited by the French. After the defeat of France, these fields and their supporting refineries fell into German hands, and Nazi Germany's annual crude oil production surged to more than 10 million tons. If the total recovery rate is reduced. It can even exceed 15 million tons per year per year.
If other sources of oil such as coal-to-liquids are included, Germany can produce more than 18 million tons of refined oil products a year, which is already second only to the United States and the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union's refining capacity is much stronger than in history in this time and space), and leaps to the third place in Shijie. Theoretically, Germany could even fight a protracted war with the United States for a while (although even 18 million tons. It is still far from being compared with the United States. But so much oil production in the United States is actually overflowing, and it won't be used that much if you save a little)
In addition, the explorers of Chuzhongfu International also discovered tungsten ore (the largest tungsten mine discovered in Europe after World War II) in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees on the French side of the border between France and Spain. Although the reserves are far from being comparable to China's southern Gannan, the value is still quite large in Europe, where tungsten ore is extremely scarce. In order to avoid impacting the price of tungsten in the international market, Zhongfu International has been keeping this secret, but after the United States and Britain began the naval blockade, China's tungsten export trade has been seriously affected, and it can't make money anyway
Although the Soviet Union and Germany are currently in the honeymoon period, the relationship between the Soviet Union and China is not bad on the surface, but whether it is jishu exchanges or commodity trade between China and Germany, it is very inconvenient to pass through the Soviet Union after all, during which not only some strategically important materials were secretly intercepted by Lao Maozi, jishu leaked more than once, after suffering several losses, China and Germany had to reduce exchanges, and there are some irreconcilable fundamental contradictions between China and Germany, so since 1941, There will be no new jishu cooperation between the two countries, but the old agreements will be completed from the beginning to the end
It is worth mentioning that Germany tasted the sweetness of "human trafficking" at the beginning, and after the annexation of Poland, the mustache originally wanted to do it again, but those technicians were intercepted by the Soviets first, and they were all those with better quality, because the Soviet Union was between the two countries, it was impossible to bypass it, so Germany Zuihou could only admit it, and China, which was weaker, was naturally even more difficult to turn around. However, because the Soviet Union was different from China and would become Germany's great enemy in the future, the mustache naturally did not dare to over-fund the enemy, and now that China already had a certain industrial base and first obtained a million high-quality Czech workers, it was naturally very dissatisfied with the goods that the Soviet Union had picked up leftover, so this promising business was terminated, and German concentration camps began to be built one after another
In the process of the German army sweeping through the Western European continent, the air force undoubtedly made outstanding achievements, but the British "mosquitoes" that used their own characteristics to frequently launch night attacks have always been their heart disease, and in order to deal with these nasty "mosquitoes", the Germans have tried all kinds of methods, but they have always achieved little success.
Although it is not completely impossible to detect the "Mosquito" at night, it is not as simple and convenient as the "Mosquito" using airborne radar to detect and lock on to German aircraft, and although the Germans also tried to make aircraft out of wood, they simply could not create an aircraft with enough performance to match the "Mosquito" in a short period of time (the consequence of premature elimination of wooden aircraft), so the exchange ratio of air combat was always difficult to reverse, and as the production of "Mosquitoes" increased, the losses of the Luftwaffe began to rise, As for the losses of ground targets and even naval ships in air strikes, it is even greater. In desperation, Mustache accepted the proposal of a German instructor in China and urgently ordered 800 J-1s from China to deal with the British "Mosquitoes"
Due to the particularity of the J-1, there is no possibility of imitation of the fuselage, so Hu Weidong is naturally happy to agree, but he opened his mouth to mark the price of 100,000 US dollars per "bare machine" that has neither engines, nor radars, and even weapons, which is almost four or five times that of FW190, anyway, now Germany has just occupied so many countries, and what it has in its hands is hard currency, and it will not be slaughtered (to be continued......