Chapter 32 The Big Brother-in-Law from Sweden
On the morning of October 13, Chen Dao visited the Skoda Arsenal accompanied by Arnault. At noon, it was a sumptuous farewell lunch. After the lunch, the drunken Lieutenant Chen Dao and Lieutenant Bach were sent into a car and set off for Germany.
At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Chen Dao had just walked into Karin Manor, and the old housekeeper came up and said happily: "Earl Folk and his wife are here, and are chatting with the Marshal."
Chen Dao's eyes quickly rolled around his sockets for a few times, and then he remembered who the Countess Falk was. It turned out that his elder sister and brother-in-law came to the door.
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Thinking of the identity of Countess Fok, Chen Dao immediately knew what attitude should be treated with.
Chen Dao threw his suitcase and coat to the old housekeeper, strode into the living room, and saw a strange woman and Amy playing with Ada, while Gorene spoke with a handsome old man in a suit.
"Dear Gillie, you finally come to Berlin to see me." Chen Dao opened his arms and rushed towards Gillie.
Gillie was also very excited. She put down Ada in her hand and threw herself into Chen Dao's arms and started crying. "Heinz, I heard that you were seriously injured. I have to worry about death. Don't fight again. Come back to Sweden with me."
Chen Dao looked at Goring and Earl Folk who were surrounded by laughing, and lowered his head to Gilly and said, "The duty of a soldier is to win the war. After the war is won, I will go to Sweden to see you."
Gillie was letting go of tears, Chen Dao and his elder brother-in-law Earl Folk hugged each other enthusiastically. Everyone sat down and chatted. After a while of interesting stories from all over the world, Gorein suggested that three men go to his study room upstairs to smoke cigars. Chen Dao knew that Gorein had something to say, so he went upstairs together.
In Goring's study, the three of them talked about business while sucking in the clouds and mist.
After Earl Folk explained, Chen Dao understood the purpose of Earl Folk. Earl Folk came with a heavy trust from the Swedish industry.
Swedish industrial giants have confirmed that the war between Germany and Britain and France will continue and will last for a long time. Germany must need a large amount of industrial products and industrial raw materials, such as arms, iron ore, etc., so they entrusted Earl Fok to negotiate with Gorene, who is responsible for the development of Germany's industrial, in an attempt to increase Sweden's market share in German industrial procurement.
"In two days I will arrange for Eric to meet with the German industrial representative. Heinz, please check first, is there any Swedish weapons that we can use?"
Chen Dao felt very embarrassed when he heard this, and thought that Germany is a major industrial power with complete military industry and a powerful country. From a bullet to a battleship and aircraft carrier, everything can be self-sufficient. How could he need Sweden's arms? Chen Dao thought for a long time but didn't expect that he needed weapons to buy in Sweden.
But after all, relatives are relatives. The elder brother-in-law and his wife came from afar and had to give some face, and they could not refuse directly. Chen Dao asked in a hurry: "Is there any 75mm cannon, cannon or anti-aircraft cannon, or more than 45 times the diameter."
Chen Dao thought of tank guns of the No. 4 tank and No. 4 assault gun. If there are ready-made artillery in Sweden to be modified, it will save a lot of research and development time, and it also gives Earl Folk face, which can be considered a killing of two birds with one stone.
Earl Folk thought for a moment and said something that made Chen Dao ecstatic.
"I remember that Bofos Arsenal once sold a batch of 75mm anti-aircraft guns to China, with the model M1929. Although I don't know what the diameter is? But I can be sure that it is above 45 diameters. If you need it, I will send a telegram back to Sweden tomorrow and ask them to send specific weapon parameters."
"Yes," Chen Dao didn't expect that he could find the artillery he urgently needed in a small Sweden. He nodded and said hurriedly: "I urgently need such artillery now, and I must let them send the weapon parameters tomorrow."
Seeing that Chen Dao really had the intention to purchase, Earl Folk couldn't help but increase his interest a little, and asked, "What other weapons do you need?"
Chen Dao frowned and thought hard, suddenly remembered the business that Albert talked to him, and thought that maybe he could discuss it with this elder brother-in-law, but before discussing, he needed to have a good time with his second brother-in-law Golin.
"If that cannon really meets my requirements, this business alone will be enough for you to make a fortune." Chen Dao said with a smile, "I have no other needs for the time being. If there are other weapons needs, I will contact you again."
The three of them chatted for a while, and Goring promised to introduce Earl Folk to the German industrial representative the day after tomorrow, and the three of them left the study...
The next day, Chen Dao took Goring's car to the Air Force Headquarters. When passing by the Herman Goring's station, Chen Dao did not get off the car, but went to Goring's office.
"I saw Albert in the Czech Republic the day before yesterday." Chen Dao sat opposite Goring's desk, consciously opened Goring's cigar box and took out two cigars, lit one by himself, and stuffed the other into his left chest pocket.
Goring turned his body sideways and pretended not to see it, "What did he say to you?"
"He said there was a big business to do. He asked me if I would like to invest in it. I would like to hear your suggestions." Chen Dao said.
When Golin heard that there was business to do, he turned around and looked at Chen Dao, waiting for Chen Dao's following.
"After we annexed the Czech Republic, we disarmed the troops of 38 reorganized divisions of the Czech army. In addition to the inventory, we seized equipment from at least sixty divisions, less than half of which were requisitioned by us, and a large part of them were piled up in the warehouse. There were also many in the warehouse of the Skoda factory. Albert said he could not watch these weapons rust in the warehouse and asked me if I could find a way to deal with them."
"Those weapons have been requisitioned by the Army, so I can't interfere," said Gorene.
"The Army is just using them to charge the numbers for the time being. When our weapons output increases, the Army will definitely eliminate those equipment. After all, the Czech equipment and the Army's standard equipment parts are not universal, and it is very troublesome to maintain. And not only the Czech equipment, the Polish weapons we seized recently are enough to arm more than one million people. Also, after the French Battle in the future, I estimate that the number of French weapons we seized will be able to arm two million people. Unfortunately, these equipment are not universal with our standard equipment. At most, they can only use a small part. It also requires a large amount of manpower and warehouses to preserve them. Don't you think it's a pity? I think Albert is right. We should deal with them and replace them with some foreign exchange or materials that we urgently need."
"Czech Republic·Poland·France." Gorin turned sideways again, knocking his left index finger on the desk.
After a few minutes of rhythmic knock, Goreen suddenly turned around and looked at Chen Dao, leaned forward, and said to Chen Dao with a serious face: "France will not talk about it first. The Czech equipment has been requisitioned by the army, nor will it talk about it. We will only talk about Poland. As you said, it is enough to arm millions of people to make these weapons and equipment piled up in the warehouse. This is a huge waste of national resources and an act that is very irresponsible to the interests of Germany. I think we should stop this behavior."
"Waste is shameful, saving is glorious, not to mention that Germany itself is not rich, we should save every resource." Chen Dao was also infected by Gorene's "worrying about the country and the people" and said seriously.
"I am very pleased that your thoughts can reach this level." Goren looked like a sagely sensible expression.
"There are only two problems. One is how to transport it out? Germany has been blocked by the Royal Navy, and our merchant ships cannot sail." Goring said with his hands spreading.
"Another question, which region or country in the world now needs millions of people's equipment?"
"The transportation problem is easy to deal with. We all know that Earl Folk is a very kind person. What do you think?" Chen Dao snapped his fingers in a daze and solved the first problem Goring said.
"As for the second question, it's even simpler. China and Japan are fighting in the Far East. China is the most populous agricultural country in the world. Their weapons output cannot meet the needs of war with Japan at all. And according to my judgment, the war between China and Japan will take at least five years, and the weapons China needs are definitely astronomical."
"China? No, no." Golin shook his head repeatedly, "The Head of State does not want us to trade with China again, especially arms trade. We need Japan to restrain the Russians in the Far East and not to anger the Japanese."
"You are wrong. It's not that Germany and China do trade, but that we do trade with Sweden, and then Sweden does trade with China. Germany and China have no intersection at all. What can the Japanese say?"
"Heinz, what you said makes sense." Goering slowly leaned onto the chair with a cigar in his mouth, then said with a smile: "I'll think about it again."
Chapter completed!