Reinhardt was overjoyed by the Navy's victory in the North Sea. He immediately ordered a large number of canned luncheon meats to be collected from the warehouse and sold in unlimited quantities in major cities across the country for three days.
Yes, it is not given out for free, but you need to spend money to buy it, and you can buy it in unlimited quantities for only 3 days.
At this point, we have to mention the limited food rationing system that Reinhard personally ordered and issued since the Battle of Poland.
Due to the war with Britain and France, it became increasingly difficult for Germany to import food, especially the British naval blockade, which almost blocked Germany's routes for importing supplies from the sea.
At the same time, the Soviet government has been making frequent small moves recently, delaying or canceling supplies shipped to Germany several times.
In this matter, on the one hand, it is estimated that Germany's repeated delay in the delivery of battleships caused dissatisfaction with the Soviet government.
On the other hand, it is also closely related to Stalin's recent growing ambitions.
The end of the Finnish Campaign allowed him to consolidate the defensive front in Lelingrad, obtain the territory east and south of the Curzon Line originally controlled by Finland, and obtain the lease of the Hanko Peninsula.
Romania gave up the territory of the two provinces without fighting, which allowed the Soviet Union to take a big step forward without bloodshed on the southern front, garrisoning Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.
Now, the Soviet Red Army is moving closer to the three Baltic countries. After sending notes to the three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, the Soviet government proposed in the note to reorganize the government, conduct elections, and allow the Soviet Red Army free passage. However, the three governments failed to agree.
It had already been put into action by the Soviet army.
Successive actions enabled the Soviet Union to increase its territory by more than 460,000 square kilometers and its population to more than 22 million. Its western border was pushed westward by about 300-400 kilometers, which to a certain extent increased its defense space and improved its strategic position.
What? Strategic position to fight against whom?
Of course it is a strategic position in the war against Germany!
And if you think about it carefully, the overthrown regimes in the three Baltic countries were all pro-German regimes supported by the Third Reich.
On Romania's newly determined Russo-Su border, the Soviet army only needed an armored charge to threaten the precious oil fields that Germany needed to import oil in Romania.
Everything the Soviet government did was aimed at Germany and threatening German interests. Now, they have stopped exporting grain and oil to Germany, which makes people even more suspicious.
What on earth do the Soviets want?!
"In the East, there was a famous old saying..." Reinhard once again showed off his Eastern knowledge in front of a group of German generals.
To be honest, many people may have a doubt. Since they have traveled to the Western world, why is there an ancient saying about the East with every mouthful? Honestly speaking, is it not good to say ancient Western famous sayings?!
But Reinhard just thinks this is very artistic. To put it bluntly, it gives him the pleasure of pretending to be successful.
You Westerners have never heard of it, right? If you haven't heard of it, just listen to what this head of state has to say. Let you see how well-informed this erudite head of state is, and then bow your head.
"Mr. Sima's thoughts are known to passers-by." Reinhardt said this classic saying that originated from the late Three Kingdoms with a smile on his face.
Of course, because his speech was not very sharp after time travel, Reinhardt was too lazy to pronounce the Chinese name "zhao, sima" and simply changed his name to Mr. Sima.
Anyway, not many Europeans have heard of it. In this era, there are probably not many Europeans who have read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?
Sure enough, Brahchi on the side asked with a puzzled look on his face: "My head of state, who is this Mr. Sima, and what does he mean?"
Because he had just received the victory report from the Navy, Reinhard was in a good mood and patiently explained to Brahchi and others the allusion of "Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone".
"Now you understand, today's Soviet Union is just like Mr. Sima back then. Their ambitions are clearly exposed, and anyone can easily understand what they are thinking." After explaining, Reinhard stretched out his right hand and patted his forehead.
He looked at Xiqi's shoulder and said with a smile: "They have continuously violated our country's interests and have begun to prepare for war with us."
"But the head of state..." Ross, who knew a lot of inside information, couldn't help but ask: "Isn't what the Soviets are doing now what we agreed to in the treaty before?"
In the secret terms of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", the Soviet Union did mention that they had territorial claims against small Western countries, and Germany also agreed not to interfere. How can it be said that others are now targeting Germany?
"Then what if they stop supplying us with oil and food?" Reinhard took his hand away from Brahchi's shoulder and put it back on his waist: "This already shows that they don't want to continue to feed us.
This future enemy."
The United Kingdom blocked Germany's western imports, and the Soviet Union blocked Germany's eastern imports.
In other words, except for the southern grain imports from Italy, a certain amount of wheat can be guaranteed to enter Germany every month. In addition, Germany has to rely on itself to provide almost all of its grain supply.
How else to say "cannons but not butter"? If we really have the ability to ensure that military industry and food production go hand in hand, who wouldn't want to have cannons and butter.
In fact, because Reinhard had the prophetic advantage, the Third Reich in this generation enjoyed a natural advantage in the reserve of war materials. In order to avoid a low public morale, Reinhard repeatedly emphasized the need to ensure the living standards of the German people.
It can be said that before the war broke out, Germany's preparations for the war in the agricultural field were the most thorough in Europe.
Reinhard learned the lessons of the Allied blockade during World War I, which made Germany suffer from overseas supplies of agricultural products. On the one hand, it improved its domestic food production capacity, and on the other hand, it shifted foreign trade to Germany as much as possible in the hope that it could
Countries that maintain contact with it, such as Italy and even the Soviet Union.
The advantage of this is that the amount of food stored in Germany has increased, and the institutions that manage agriculture have also been strengthened. The effect of these measures is also obvious, reducing Germany's dependence on external supplies from 2% during World War I.
Fifteen was directly reduced to 15%. By the beginning of the Polish campaign, Germany was actually self-sufficient in bread, potatoes, sugar, dairy products, meat and general vegetables, although it was still insufficient in fats and cooking oil.
About 10% of the protein feed must be imported. But compared to Germany at the same period in history, it is much better.
To this day, the Third Reich still has in its inventory enough grain, sugar, 270,000 tons of lard, cured fat, and butter for the country to feed the country for more than two years, as well as a large amount of oats and corn for feed. In addition, Lai
Inhardt also stockpiled a large amount of leather, cloth, and silk for his empire, which could be used to make parachutes and other war supplies.
If it weren't for the uncertain outcome of the war against Britain and the growing ambitions of the Soviets, Reinhardt wouldn't have had to use the food rationing system so nervously.
