Twenty-Four Blue Sky and Blue Sea

Accardo, who had a large amount of money, returned to Berlin, deceived and deceived and obtained a large amount of money again. He transferred the money to many small companies in his hands, making these companies continue to grow, and then earning more money.

No one would believe that a business group called Bai Lanhua Group purchased a less-known beverage company in the United States with bank loans and funds that did not know where it came from. The products launched by this beverage company are well-known in the United States. , called Coca-Cola.

And the group acquired a little-known car engine manufacturer in Germany called BMW Motors.

This group facilitated the union of Daimler and Mercedes-Benz in early 1921, and in 1922 brought the two companies together to form a brand-new car production giant named Daim Le? Benz car company.

In the middle of 1922, the mysterious Bai Lanhua Group generously donated 1.5 million US dollars to support the Krupp factory, the arms king, which was struggling because of the broken capital chain. There are rumors that the actual master of the Krupp factory, Mr. Gustav Krupp, is very grateful to the Bai Lanhua Group, and personally arranged it in his mountain villa to permanently reserve a guest room for the owner of the Bai Lanhua Group.

And this group is also crazy in the Far East, buying a little-known synthetic metal company in Japan, a subsidiary of the Sumitomo Consortium, Sumitomo Steel Works, and renamed this Sumitomo Steel Works Rheinhe Metals Co., Ltd.

And the group is building factories in southern China to produce products such as rubber.

Of course, these products were secretly shipped to Germany, some were hoarded as strategic materials for the Wehrmacht, and some were sold in a commercial name in exchange for more funds to support the Wehrmacht's stretched expenses.

This huge asset management plan is known as the "Irrigation Plan" within the National Defense Forces, and is an important part of Accardo's secret plan to expand the National Defense Forces. This plan can be said to be the foundation of the "Pluto Plan".

These companies have also provided sufficient funds for Acado's private program. With a large amount of capital investment, Accador's private project has made leaps in progress. The practical application of liquid fuel rockets is nearly complete, and ballistic missile experiments have also been completed. It was carried out secretly in the mountains of southern Germany, and the atomic energy research in charge of Einstein has also made some progress. Once the data on paper is processed, the time is ripe to carry out simulation experiments.

Some technical cooperation with German factories is also close to success. The artificial rubber synthesis technology is becoming more and more perfect. The most scarce industrial raw materials such as rubber in Germany will be self-sufficient immediately. Although the domestic financial environment in Germany is already very bad, Accardo can still be purchased from the United States. Soviet China made huge sums of money to prop up its secretive and sprawling industrial tech empire.

In 1922, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Japan signed the famous "Washington Naval Convention" in Washington, the United States, and agreed to limit the displacement of battleships and cruisers to 35,000 tons and 8,000 tons. The German navy of old World War I battleships sees a ray of light.

Having seen a series of diplomatic victories by the Wehrmacht headquarters in the Soviet Union and China, the generals of the navy pinned their hopes on the headquarters.

"Since it's called the commander-in-chief, it should at least include the navy, right?" the commander-in-chief of the navy said in Sickert's office. After hearing this, Sickert immediately agreed with the commander of the navy, and even Without much hesitation, he sacrificed his own big killer, Colonel Arkado.

And the commander-in-chief of the Navy made his own promise to Sickert,

That is, the navy will be under the leadership of the General Command and become an integral part of the forces under the Wehrmacht General Command, rather than an independent military force.

Having received this guarantee, Sickert immediately sent Arcador to the British Embassy. Arcador met with the British ambassador under the recommendation of Lieutenant Colonel Smith, an old British friend. Accardo promised that Germany would not challenge the hegemony of the British navy, and complained to the British ambassador, thoroughly persuading Smith and the friendly British ambassador with facts.

Only three months later, the German naval ship renewal plan, which was originally approved in 1925, was approved by the British in 1922, and then the construction of the new warships began on the German shipyards that were already ready.

Although the Allied Powers, after discussions and taking care of France's sentiments, allowed Germany to build new ships with a tonnage of no more than 10,000 tons, the German navy was still cheering, and many high-ranking admirals also met the representatives of the Wehrmacht's young soldiers and powerful figures during this negotiation. Lieutenant Colonel Arcador Rudolph.

And Arcardo also seized the opportunity and proposed a new shipbuilding plan of his own, which was submitted to the German Admiral Erich Dreyer, who was close to him, and the admiral immediately put the report As a treasure, it was provided to the shipyard under the navy.

This new type of shipbuilding was unprecedented, as it was invented by Americans in the middle and late WWII to mass-build ships such as the Liberty. This method is to divide the ship into several parts, produce them together, and finally splicing them together. Most of the parts on the ship are pre-produced standardized parts. Once the war comes, warships can be produced dozens of times faster.

The Navy began using this method to stockpile destroyer parts for future mass production of destroyers and merchant ships. Because in Accardo's plan, the destroyer is responsible for air defense and anti-submarine, and most of the other equipment is common to civilian merchant ships. Although this will reduce the combat effectiveness of some destroyers, it will allow for a more standard and faster formation of naval fleets.

At the end of 1922, the German standard transport ship "Hercules-class" was launched, with a full-load displacement of 7,000 tons, and became the standard configuration of German merchant ships, troop carriers, transport ships and passenger ships.

Similarly, the construction of 20,000-ton super merchant ships, which have very few superstructures, very large cargo holds, and large elevators to transport cargo from the cargo hold to the deck, is the German Navy's reserve technology for the construction of aircraft carriers. and data.

In the vision of Arcador and Admiral Erich Dreyer, the future German navy would be composed of aircraft carriers and destroyers, as well as large cruisers and submarines, equipped with fighter jets as long-range strike forces, without engaging enemy battleships head-on. .

Originally, Admiral Erich Dreyer was not optimistic about aircraft carriers and submarines, and did not trust the capabilities of destroyers, but Arkado took Erich Dreyer to a private estate on the outskirts of Berlin, where After showing him the technique of long-range attack using liquid-fueled rockets, the German navy's supreme commander lost interest in the great battleship he had been chasing.

Therefore, in the future composition plan of the German Navy in late 1922, the composition of the German Navy was similar to that of the US Navy in 2014: naval aviation, marines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines.

However, in order to compromise with the old-fashioned admirals, the three originally designed Navy pocket battleships, the Spey-class, were still under construction. Arkado used them to confuse the British Navy, as well as the German Navy conservatives and domestic spies from various countries.

Akado worked day and night, and in the second month after returning to China, he sent his carefully selected personnel to the Soviet Union to secretly build a German training base in the Soviet Union. The Soviet engineers and workers had already selected the site and began to lay it out. Airport runways and other infrastructure, so the instructors and students promised by the Germans also boarded the train to Moscow.

The Air Force School, which was agreed upon by Arkado and Sickert and founded by Arkado, is located about 220 kilometers southeast of Moscow and is called Ripatsk. The school was nominally a training school for the Soviet Air Force, but was actually run by the Germans.

Originally this school should have been established in 1925, but because of Arcado's efforts, it began to teach in 1922, training about 450 air force pilots and commanders for Germany every six months - twice the actual number in history more.

At the same time, more than 1,000 air crews and management personnel were also trained. These people also held secret military exercises on the Great Plains of Germany and in the forests to explore the air-ground integrated offensive combat tactics taught to them by Arcador, to verify The destructive power of this tactic in actual combat.

However, the factors restricting the development of the Wehrmacht still exist. The financial crisis did not disappear because of the arrival of Accardo. Instead, it erupted more violently. Germany’s fragile economy was close to collapse. The Wehrmacht was persuaded to cut spending, but the effect was not obvious.

"Bell, bell, bell." It was still late at night, it was still the Coalition Arms Control Commission, and the office phone rang again.

A British officer on duty picked up the phone and asked in a sullen voice, "This is the Coalition Arms Control Commission! Who are you looking for?"

"Your last action was discovered! So the four French officers died for no apparent reason! A great opportunity wasted! This time I hope you don't let me down on my good intentions! Write it down! Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht Department, Office of Special Affairs, Colonel Arcador Rudolph! Keep an eye on him! You will reap the rewards!" The man finished the sentence and hung up the phone.

In the committee's office, more than a dozen officers were sitting in a group. Since the accident of the four French officers, there have been more officers on duty here, from various countries, serving as mutual protection and witnesses.

"What do you think?" asked the oldest Belgian officer in the room. He was a colonel and had the highest rank here.

"At least, we can't let four French colleagues die in vain! Are you right?" said a young British officer.

The Belgian colonel looked around and found that there was no objection, so he nodded: "Since everyone agrees! Then arrange the personnel! Keep an eye on this German colonel named Arkado Rudolph! As soon as you find out, report it immediately!"