Chapter 295 Iron and Steel Treaty

"When exactly was the oil in Libya discovered?" Sure enough, everyone's worries were justified. Just one day later, Mussolini hurried to Berlin, more or less asking for guilt.

As soon as he arrived here, Mussolini immediately asked everyone about Libya's oil.

At the beginning, after promising to hand over Libyan oil to the Germans and establishing a Munich Oil Company, Mussolini never thought that oil could be produced in it, so he only charged a nominal fee of one lari. .

"It's hard to say." Cyric said on the side: "We have been exploring for decades and spent tens of millions of marks. We thought it would end in failure. As a result, last year, we suddenly found a large oilfield."

Mussolini's eyes quickly burst into a fiery look, large oil field! How big is the scale?

"We discovered a large oil field near Amal. The estimated reserves are more than 580 million tons. Now, we are installing drilling equipment, and when it matures, it will produce about 3.5 million tons of oil per year."

Reserves of 580 million tons! Annual output of 3.5 million tons! These data made Mussolini quite excited! Libya is an Italian colony, and the oil there should be Italian!

Thinking of this, his face darkened: "If this is the case, then we need the exploitation rights of this oil field."

"I'm sorry, at the time, we had already signed an agreement, and the entire Libyan oil exploration rights belonged to our Munich company. Now, we have invested tens of millions of marks, and it is easy to see the benefits. Mussolini's party leader , your request makes us unable to agree."

Cyric spoke very fast, and without waiting for Mussolini to reply, he continued: "We will fulfill the agreement, according to our original agreement, you will enjoy 20% of the income, you do not need to invest Any funds can be enjoyed automatically without hiring personnel. According to the agreement…”

"At the beginning, I thought that Libya could not have oil, it was for you to train troops." Mussolini said: "Now, now that there is oil, the agreement is of course invalid, and we have to re-draw the agreement."

As the leader of the party, as the leader of the fxs of the whole world, Mussolini said it was the same, and it was very easy to go back on it.

The atmosphere at the scene instantly cooled down.

Hitler has never spoken. In his eyes, Mussolini is his teacher. He very much does not want to draw a knife against his teacher, but now, the teacher's behavior makes it difficult for him to accept.

Germany also needs oil. Libya's oil is Hitler's most important lifeline. The original agreement has been signed. Now, when Mussolini comes up, he will tear up the agreement!

Although Hitler often did to tear up the agreement, it was to tear up other people's agreements, and it was extremely refreshing, and now, it was others tearing up his agreement, which made him extremely depressed.

How to do? If Mussolini's appetite is not enough, then according to Cyric, it is better to find a new man to be the head of Italy! Although this matter is difficult or even impossible to do, at least it can make Italy unrest, and no one will continue to pursue the matter of Libyan oil. When Germany has occupied the whole of Europe, Italy will dare to give a shit!

Hitler didn't want to go that far, but, if Mussolini pushes too hard...

"Party leader, your joke is really funny." Cyric broke the repressed atmosphere at this moment, "Didn't we sign an Axis treaty before? We Germany and Italy are an axis. , we have the same interests.”

"Our goal is very long-term, and the whole of Europe will surrender to our feet. We are quite sincere, and there should be no broken promises, right? Originally, we also planned to sign a more strategic agreement. agreement," Cyric said.

A more strategic deal? Mussolini looked at Cyric and didn't know what Cyric wanted to say. However, the goal was the whole of Europe. This statement was very consistent with Mussolini's psychology.

Recalling that on the African issue and the Spanish issue, Germany was closely following Italy, Mussolini felt that it would be a bit too much to ask for the mining rights.

"We are preparing a new agreement, called the Steel Treaty." Cyric said: "We Germany and Italy, to establish a military alliance."

Steel Pact! There are three main contents of this agreement:

1. When the security or vital interests of one of the contracting states are threatened from outside, the other party will give political and diplomatic support;

2. If one side is involved in the war, the other side shall provide military support by land, sea and air;

3. Establish a standing committee to strengthen mutual coordination.

What is the use of this treaty? Of course, it marks the official establishment of the German-Italian military alliance, which clearly stipulates mutual military obligations to overthrow the existing international system and seize European and world hegemony.

Mussolini coveted oil, but he coveted world hegemony even more! After several annexations, Germany is no longer the weak and defeated country. Now Germany, in terms of comprehensive strength, has ranked among the top three in the world, and has left Britain and France behind!

In fact, Mussolini came to ask a lot of people to ask his guilt this time. Why didn't he show his identity? Don't look at the fact that Germany is strong now, I am your revolutionary mentor, you must listen to me!

And now, the new proposition put forward by Germany has made Mussolini extremely valued.

So, Mussolini's attention has been removed from oil, oil is only a small problem, strategy is the big problem! Occupy the whole of Europe! This is a big strategy!

"So, should we pull Japan together? Form a three-nation alliance?" Mussolini asked.

Pull up on Japan? That is equivalent to early death and early birth. Those dwarfs in the island country simply do not know that the sky is high and the earth is thick!

Historically, it was because of Japan's drag that Japan suddenly ran to fight the United States. As a result, Hitler was forced to declare war on the United States because of the alliance. As a result, the United States was dragged in and the future of Germany was ruined.

Now, Hitler has accepted Cyric's calm analysis. Pulling Japan aside is actually useless to Germany. After all, Japan's battlefield is in Asia, and some military exchanges can be conducted in private, but it cannot rise to the level of war.

Now, after hearing Mussolini's question, Hitler quickly replied: "On the issue of China, we have serious differences with Japan, so to form an alliance with Japan, we need to go through repeated consultations, but Now, our interests with Italy are completely the same, it is better for us to sign this military agreement first, and as for Japan, we will wait until the differences between China and China are resolved later."