The next morning, William II asked Wilhelm to have breakfast together which was very rare.
After eating a few bites of bread, William II asked suddenly. "I heard that you asked Mauser's representative for 12% of their shares?"
"..." Now this old guy wants to complain?
Then I thought about it again and asked. "Grandpa, how did you know about this? Did Mauser tell you or did my secretaries report it to you?" He had already guessed the pupose of the four beautiful flowers sent by William II. The secretaries will definitely have the task of monitoring him. After all, not long ago, he was still a dude who was ignorant and inexperienced, so his grandfather wouldn't be secured handing over the empire to him.
William II chewed on the ham with his joyful beard shaking, and then spoke. "Is there any difference?"
Sure enough, the four secretaries monitored him secretly. "Of course there is a difference. If Mauser is the one who told you, then I will find a way to kill them. If it is the ones you sent to report to you, I have nothing to hide. I just want to have a trade with Mauser. It's just a deal. I didn't want their 12% shares for nothing. I traded them for the firearm design drawings."
William II couldn't help but curiously ask. "The firearm design? Who designed it?"
Wilhelm pointed to his nose. "Me."
"You?" The weird expression on William II's face seemed to almost laugh. "When did you learn about firearms design? You still want a 12% stake from somthing like this? You don't want to blackmail them? A friend called last night and asked if you were short of money."
Wilhelm sighed helplessly and had to tell the truth. "Grandpa, let's not hide from you, uh, it is really impossible to hide from you. You should know that I exchanged three design drawings for 12% of Walter's shares yesterday. I didn't see Walter come to tell you that I was blackmailing them. I saw him waltz with excitement when he left."
"Really?" William II still didn't believe it.
"If You don't believe me you can send someone to ask. The design of firearms is nothing more than taking the best of each family and adding a little bit of innovation. It's not difficult." The easiest way is to plagiarize directly with the knowledge of later generations. "Grandpa, don't you care about this matter? I think Mauser is very proud to be the main supplier of the Wehrmacht. I want to reduce the army's Kar.98 purchase by 30%, and I will replace them with the new rifle."
William II was a little disapproving. "The new rifle is so good?" His reaction is also natural. After all, Mauser was a royal arsenal established during the time of Frederick I, with a history of more than 100 years. The company has gathered all kinds of top talents in firearms, how can the things that my grandson came up with with his own head can be compared. As for Walter, maybe he considered Wilhelm's identity as the future emperor of the empire and flattered him.
"No matter how bad it is, it is better than the kar.98 style, right? I think the kar.98 style design is nothing more than that. You should also know that the Mauser type with end locking is not as fast as the Lee-Enfield type with rear locking.Our soldiers must move their entire arms to eject and load the shells, while British soldiers only need to move their wrist joints to achieve this. The kar.98 type has a rate of fire of only 10 rounds per minute, while Lee Enfield can achieve 15 rounds. /Minute." This is just the rate of fire of ordinary soldiers. On video websites, there are even gun masters who fired the Lee Enfield rifle at a rate of 10 rounds in 6.5 seconds. The most amazing thing is that a British shooting instructor set a record in 1914 that fired 38 rounds in one minute and hit a target with a diameter of 30 cm 210 meters away.
"I gave them a chance, but they didn't want it, so don't blame me for being ruthless. Not only will I reduce my purchase by 30%, I will buy another rifle like the kar.98 style after I find a new partner. The amount has to be reduced to less than 40%. Uh, I don't need to find a partner. I can start an arms company myself. Then my arms company will supply the army's arms."
Seeing Wilhelm's resentment towards Mauser, plus "boasting", William II said. "My boy, I can't make this kind of decision rashly. I'll wait until Walter Company builds the gun and sends it to the army for trial. Let's talk about it after evaluating it."
Wilhelm nodded. "All right. Grandpa, I want to...borrow some more money."
William II raised his eyebrows slightly. "How much do you want to borrow?"
"I'm afraid to scare you by speaking out. But first I want to say that I will pay off the money I borrowed around 1930 with interest." Wilhelm then stretched out five fingers.
"Five hundred thousand?"
"five million?"
"Fifty million?"
Seeing Wilhelm still shaking his head, William II almost cursed. If it weren't for the fact that he has made some progress these days, he really wants to drive this bastard grandson out of the palace and let him be a beggar on the street for a few days.
William II held back the anger in his heart and asked. "Then you must at least tell me where the money will be used?"
"This matter is confidential for the time being." Wilhelm certainly couldn't tell him that the US stock market would crash by the end of next year.
Such a pity, he crossed it a little late. If several billion or even tens of billions of capital were prepared to invest a few years earlier, it would definitely cause a major bleeding in the United States. But now even if William II can embezzle 10 billion dollars for him, he dare not invest all of it.
After all, he is only acting with experience of his later life, but the financial predators on Wall Street are real experts. In case the capital old foxes could see any signs, it would be him who had lost his money. Not only him, I am afraid it will affect the whole of Germany.
So he can only set a small goal first, invest 500 million US dollars and make two or three times the principal, he is more satisfied.
William II sullenly said. "Keep it secret to me? Do you know that the domestic economy is in a mess, and the foreign exchange reserves are not large. Five hundred million US dollars is not a small amount."
Seeing that William II was really angry, Wilhelm quickly took out a document and handed it over. "Grandpa, this is a follow-up to the Elite Soldiers plan I mentioned to you last time. The 'Invisible Forces' plan."
On June 22, 1941, in the original time and space, Hitler completely tore up the "Soviet-German non-aggression pact" and blitzed the bearded Soviet Union.
In the first few hours, thousands of German aircraft violently bombarded the Soviet airport, and countless Soviet tanks and artillery were destroyed before they were even transported out of the warehouse. In the first few days of the war, the Soviet army's divisions and entire army were surrounded and wiped out by the Germans, and even the entire group army was not unharmed.
The bell of victory seems to have sounded for the Germans.
However, facing the countless Soviet soldiers, the sober German generals began to feel helpless.
A German general even wrote in his diary: "We underestimated their strength. After careful screening of the captives, we have now discovered and identified 360 divisions!" The German army has 153 divisions. There are only 190 divisions including the 37 divisions attached to the country. Even when the battle situation is most favorable to them, they cannot eliminate all the Soviet Red Army. Moreover, the German general was only talking about the Soviet divisions who were part of the first echelon fighting in the western region. How many divisions are there in the second tier? How many divisions are there in the third tier? After several large-scale battles, why didn't the number of Soviet troops decrease, but miraculously increased?
In fact, the reason why the German generals were puzzled was that they only mechanically calculated the troops in the Soviet army's organization sequence, and knew nothing about the existence of the Soviet "stealth troops". The Soviet army secretly adopted the "stealth force" system as early as the early 1930s. It is efficient, reliable, and almost uses no material resources. This system can turn one division into two divisions overnight, and it enables the Soviet General Staff to double the number of divisions in a very short time.
The formation of troops during World War II mainly depends on personnel and equipment, of which the formation of command institutions is the most critical.
Take an ordinary Soviet infantry division as an example. Usually this division has two deputy commanders, one performs daily duties, and the other, in addition to participating in normal training and combat readiness work, has a secret title-"commander of the invisible force"; the division deputy chief of staff rank is also two, of which One also has a secret title, that is, "the chief of staff of the invisible unit"; and so on, this is true for each regiment, battalion, company, and even small shifts. It can be seen that each division has another complete command organization as a backup.
When the war broke out and the infantry division received the order to go to the front line immediately, the division brought only one deputy commander, that is, the deputy commander who performed daily duties, while the other "invisible unit commander" remained on standby. Similarly, from regiment to platoon, the entire division-level backup command organization has also been retained. Their secret titles are now public, and the "stealth troops" have finally surfaced. This newly formed division can be supplemented by 18,000 reserve soldiers within 24 hours.
Of course, this newly established division is definitely not as good as the one that just went to the front in terms of combat effectiveness, but it is a division after all. This new division commander is still a well-trained and experienced officer, and has been working on the front line of the army for many years, acting as a replacement for a real combat division commander. Those officers serving as regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and company commanders are also active combat officers, not reserve personnel. These officers usually deal with active-duty soldiers and new weapons and equipment, have participated in rigorous military training and exercises, have excellent personal military skills, and have extensive management experience. In addition, all officers of this newly formed division, from the division commander to the company commander, have worked with each other for many years and are very familiar with each other, ensuring the efficiency of operations under the new command structure.
The personnel problem has been solved. Where did the newly formed division's weapons and equipment come from?
In fact, this question is very simple. These "stealth troops" use old-fashioned weapons. For example, when the Soviet artillery began to modify self-propelled artillery, the old towed artillery that was replaced would certainly not be melted down as scrap steel. They would be sealed up for use by "stealth troops." These "stealth units" are all units that use old-fashioned equipment. They do not have sophisticated weapons and equipment, and their maintenance costs are extremely low. However, at critical moments, they can reinforce those divisions equipped with new weapons in an astonishing amount. It can be said that it was this system that saved the Soviet Union and kept it as a continuous source of force during World War II.
William II nodded frequently and asked in disbelief. "You came up with this?" He could not believe that his grandson who is not educated in military matters and has no skill would come up with such a fantastic idea.
"Of course." Wilhelm naturally wouldn't admit that this idea was also plagiarized and asked. "Grandpa, you see that everything I do is for Germany. Just tell me, how much money can you give?"
William II spoke after reading the contents of the document carefully. "Up to two hundred million."
Looking at the serious expression of William II, Wilhelm understood that it was impossible for him to increase the amount. "Well, 200 million it is then. Grandpa, I plan to visit the Soviet Union informally in a few days. You ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform them."
"Why?" Wilhelm had never shown interest in going abroad before, and even rarely showed up in public. Now he suddenly offered to visit other countries, which really surprised William II.
why?
Of course it is for the future!
Although the Soviets and Germany in the original time and space signed the "mutual non-aggression treaty",Hitler tore up the agreement , mobilizing a large number of troops and tanks and aircraft to the Soviet Union.
In the first six months, the Germans occupied a large area of land, killed and injured a million, and captured more than 2 million people. At that time, only the Soviet Union had so many people.
Although the two countries had gone through war, until Germany implemented "Operation Barbarossa", the relationship between the two countries was good and they could cooperate with each other. Before the invasion of Poland, certain Stalin and certain Hitler also wished each other birthdays.
Now both the Soviet Union and Germany feel isolated by the mainstream world. Germany needs a huge supply of raw materials and new military technology test sites; and the Soviets need a technology provider and military collaborator.
After all, the Soviet Union is still relatively poor and its industrial base is quite poor. They must be in urgent need of outside support.
Wilhelm is very sure that there is no need to spend much time, and the two countries will hit it off. The Soviet Union provided Germany with a large amount of food, oil, metal and other materials. Germany provided a large amount of technical equipment and established a tactical base in the Soviet Union, secretly training its own air force and armored forces, everything is the same as the original time and space! !
Moreover, the Soviet industry was too backward. Even if the technology and equipment eliminated in Germany were handed over to the Soviet Union, for the Soviets it seemed to be quite advanced.
The most important thing is that the flow of various technical personnel also facilitates the placement of more agents in the Soviet Union, laying a good foundation for the future!
After listening to Wilhelm's plan, William II could not help but nod his head. "Thanks for your hard work, boy."
Wilhelm shrugged and said nothing. "What's this bitterness, who made me be born in the emperor's house?" In my heart, I was fortunate that I passed through to the emperor's house! Otherwise, if you pass through and become some unknown pawn. Maybe in one of the battles he would have been killed by a bullet.
"Grandpa, I think I can send a special envoy to the United Kingdom to talk about amending the treaty. Let's talk more about the threat from France. Those people will certainly not want to see a strong France. Battleships, battle cruisers, they will not let us build but we don't have a problem, it's okay to first build a few destroyers. And we guarantee that the caliber of destroyer naval guns will never exceed 90 mm. This caliber is tickling battleships and is not a threat at all."
Because the Versailles treaty stipulates that the construction of the replacement ship of the German Navy's battleship must not start 20 years after the target ship was launched, all warships that started after 1913 must be dismantled regardless of whether they were in service or not. At present, the German Navy has only 8 remaining high seas fleets. Old former dreadnoughts, 8 old-fashioned small cruisers in dilapidated conditions.(Versailles treaty signed after WW 1)
Britain has been pursuing a balanced continental policy, and in accordance with the historical process of the original time and space, even if the British do not agree to his proposal on the surface, they are likely to turn a blind eye.
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