As the relationship between Britain and Germany continues to deteriorate, the original transaction of importing rare metal tungsten from China has become difficult to maintain. It is an import project that requires many detours. Now coupled with the British naval blockade, it is even more difficult for Germany.
Imported tungsten ore from China.
In fact, Germany in history only imported some tungsten ore through cooperation with China before the beginning of World War II. When World War II began, this cooperation was completely terminated.
However, Reinhard knew that there was actually the second largest tungsten mine in the world in Germany's Eastern Province, Austria. Unfortunately, Germany, which had no idea about it during World War II, had never been able to discover and mine it. It has to be said that this
It feels like it's far away and right in front of you.
Now, after Reinhard specially dispatched one geological team after another to the Austrian state of Salzburg, they finally found the famous Mittersill tungsten mine.
Just like Germany's secretive work on oil in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, tungsten mining in Salzburg has also been classified as a secret project. Now, Ross has transferred senior personnel from the Labor and Construction Corps.
Thousands of Jewish labor reform prisoners went to the mining areas to build external roads and build smelting plants.
Using these Jewish labor camp prisoners to build infrastructure projects in the mining area is not only low-cost but also convenient for keeping secrets. After all, the state does not need to pay them a penny of salary. The occasional reward of a pack of low-quality cigarettes will make them happy for a while.
As for keeping secrets secret, can a group of reform-through-labor prisoners whose activities are all located in government-designated factory areas still be able to send messages to enemy countries far away?
In order to supervise the reform-through-labor prisoners of these production and construction corps, Ross also specially dispatched 1,000 SS soldiers to go to the custody. The weapons and equipment of these 1,000 SS soldiers were basically the warehouse stocks that were eliminated from the original Czechoslovakia and were used on the front line.
It is definitely impossible, but it is still more than enough to symbolically deter a group of reform-through-labor prisoners.
Austria's tungsten mines have been found, oil in northern Germany can be mined at any time, and Hungary's lignite, uranium, iron and other mineral resources have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Third Reich. Now Germany under the leadership of Reinhardt has
It has more confidence than the Third Reich in history.
With the large oil fields in Germany, the armored forces of the Third Reich will have more choices in the future. With the tungsten mines in Austria, the armored forces of the empire can produce and equip more armor-piercing projectiles. As for the utilization of coal resources, Germany
Energy conversion efficiency has been improved earlier than in history and more technologies have been accumulated.
At the same time, in order to pay Germany to renovate its railway and road networks, build battleships for it, and sell surplus precision machine tools to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union continued to ship strategic oil, iron, manganese, copper, lead, zinc, etc. to Germany.
Resources as transaction consideration.
At this moment, Roth, who was involved in the confidentiality of resources throughout the Third Reich, was heading to the Austrian mining area with Reinhardt. Also going with him was the party who was preparing to form three new armed SS infantry divisions in Austria.
SS-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Waffen-SS Steve.
The composition of the current SS is relatively complex, but it can be roughly divided into two categories: the armed SS and the garrisoned SS. The armed SS is an elite unit of the SS and has the ability to integrate offensive and defensive operations. The garrisoned SS
The Waffen SS selected the remaining old and weak personnel to station and maintain the occupied areas, and did not have much offensive capability.
Naturally, all the current armed SS troops will be handed over to Steve, the commander-in-chief of the armed SS, for future wars. The garrisoned SS troops will all be transferred to the Gestapo Minister Ross, and will be temporarily used to supervise the construction.
Those Jews in the Labor Corps can also be sent to garrison the rear occupied areas in the near future.
When Reinhardt, Steve, and Ross, the three "entrepreneurial partners" along the way, get together again, there will inevitably be more topics to talk about.
"My head of state, I have often been thinking recently, why have you been able to successfully predict what is about to happen every time in the past twenty years? Is there any secret to help you determine this?" Steve knew Reinhardt.
From the beginning, the two of them understood each other very well, and they had less worries when talking.
When Steve mentioned this, Ross also became interested and respectfully asked Reinhardt: "My head of state, and your mastery of the resources contained in various places is simply incredible. What's the secret to this?"
? How on earth can we achieve this step?"
This is simply the most difficult situation for every time-traveler to explain! How to put it? Who the hell would believe it if he just said that he had time-traveled? Taking a step back, even if everyone believed it, the prestige he had finally built up would soon be gone.
Did it come to naught? At that time, others may say, since you relied on memory to achieve those miracles, then why do you lead us when the future changes?
Reinhard knew very well that this seemingly ordinary chat actually revealed the doubts of Steve and Ross... no, it revealed many doubts including those of the German senior officials he single-handedly promoted - what on earth does the head of state rely on?
How come there are so many miracles? If this kind of thing is not handled well, Reinhard will definitely face a lot of trouble in the future.
So many protagonists in time-travel novels have gotten through it, so I'm probably fine with it. If you hit a snake and follow it with a stick, who can't?
Reinhard gathered his emotions for a while and said slowly: "You should all know that I was in a coma for a while."
When Steve and Rose saw that Reinhardt was about to answer the doubts they had suppressed for many years, they immediately relaxed their eyes and nodded to Reinhardt.
Reinhard looked at the two people's faces and roughly understood that they were very concerned about his answer, so he couldn't casually drop this topic. He simply felt upset and started to talk nonsense: "It's strange to say it."
, I didn’t feel delirious at that time, but realized that I was in another world. It was an amazing continent, decorated with countless gold and silver, and every mountain could produce a sparkling metal.
.”
Hearing this, Ross seemed to realize something. Then he stared at Reinhardt with bright eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Head of State... the metal produced in the mountain will not be a little brown.
Gold was used to decorate local palaces and temples, right?"
"Yes, yes, how do you know?" Reinhard simply followed Rose's words and continued.
Unexpectedly, Ross's expression became even more excited after hearing this. He actually began to pant as if he had taken medicine, and muttered something in his mouth: "Olihacon...could that really be Olihacon?"
..."
But Steve on the side didn't care what the name of this ore was. His attention was on Reinhardt's story. So he bypassed the nervous Rose and took over: "My head of state, what happened after that?"