The French indeed rejected the Tang Dynasty's request. Although the French islands in the Central and South Pacific did not have much economic benefits to France, the French had been cheated by Zhang Meng before, and the Paul government could not swallow this, so they deliberately closed the door on the issue of island purchase, which turned the Tang Dynasty away.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng was prepared for a long time. Most of the French islands are located in the South Pacific and belong to the strategic rear of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty's threats only come from Japan in the North Pacific and potentially threaten the US Pacific Fleet. Therefore, it is not important whether France transfers those French islands for the time being.

It was already the summer of 1933, and it was also the year of the worst global economic crisis. Hitler of Germany came to power and officially embarked on the path of fascist dictatorship. Europe was shrouded in darkness and the future was dark.

After Hitler came to power, he purged the internal one-party dictatorship politically, and put all the economy into control by the state, adapted to political needs, and implemented a track of forced production, which was more conducive to expanding the army and preparing for war.

The only person in the world who knows Hitler's idea was Zhang Meng, but Zhang Meng did not try to stop this fascist leader from the past and present. Instead, he wished that Hitler would stir up a bigger storm in Europe.

When Hitler first came to power, no leader of any country in the world sent a message of condolences to congratulate him. European countries were dissatisfied with Hitler's way of coming to power. Only Zhang Meng immediately sent a message of congratulations to Hitler, actively agreed with Hitler's various reform policies, and took the initiative to cooperate comprehensively with Germany in all aspects.

Hitler had a particularly good impression of Zhang Meng. He also heard of the legendary story of Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire and admired him very much. He looked forward to a meeting with Zhang Meng, and Zhang Meng also agreed to this.

Germany lacked the most economic development funds and political help to get rid of the shackles of the Versailles contract, but Zhang Meng had both. Therefore, when Zhang Meng came out to propose a comprehensive cooperation with Hitler, he agreed without thinking.

Zhang Meng valued Germany's science and technology and talent team, hoping to obtain Germany's advanced science and technology through cooperation with the Germans. At the same time, Hitler would inevitably expand his army and prepare for war after he came to power, but he did not dare to blatantly in the first few years, so it was a huge potential customer of arms.

Zhang Meng hopes to develop advanced weapons and equipment through cooperation with the Germans, helping the Tang Empire improve the technological content of weapons and equipment and increase arms exports.

The German army was restricted by the Versailles contract. Many weapons and equipment could not be developed or produced. When the Tang army proposed cooperation, the German army was very happy and cooperated with the Tang army.

The Tang Dynasty provided R&D funds and R&D venues. The Versailles contract stipulated that the Germans were not allowed to develop weapons and equipment in their country. Therefore, the German army sent a large number of top scientists and engineers to the Tang Dynasty to conduct research and experiments on new weapons and equipment at the Weapons Research and Development Institute of the Yanjing Military Base of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the Tang army invisibly received help from a large number of top weapons experts. With the support of sufficient funds, various weapons and equipment were put on the agenda.

Of course, Zhang Meng would not let the top weapons experts of Tang and Germany take detours. Under his instructions, some unnecessary weapons and equipment research and development plans were cancelled, focusing on the development of main battle tanks, fighters, bombers, submarines, etc. Of course, the weapons and equipment jointly developed by Tang and Germany mainly supply the future German army, and the Tang army actually has a separate R&D laboratory. There, they focused on using the technical help of top German scientists to achieve such as jet aircraft engines, high-silent diesel-electric submarine engines, etc., which are all key magic weapons for the Tang army to win in the future battlefield.

"Your Highness, the meeting time with Hitler has been set, and it will be the first day of next month."

In the Chongde Hall of the Daming Palace, next to an extremely huge sand table, Zhang Meng carefully placed a newly made architectural model on it.

The entire Chongde Hall is extremely huge, with nothing but this sand table. On this sand table is a mountain model of the entire Tang Empire. Zhang Meng was just placing the model made on it according to the design drawings.

It can be seen that the entire sand table is full of planned architectural models, with tall buildings lined up, highways and railways intersecting, factory areas and green areas staggered, all patterns are formulated according to the needs of the development of the future metropolis, and everything appears to be modern and perfect.

All the layout and facilities on this sand table correspond to the construction of the entire Tang Empire outside. Only the Tang Empire, a country that started from scratch, can plan everything from the beginning, and only the Tang Empire, a country with money, can be built on a large scale.

Zhang Meng had a rare time to plan the entire country by himself, and was very devoted for a while.

After a long time, Zhang Meng got off the Liangjiao and asked, "Is he coming or I going?"

Liu Kaiwei smiled and said, "Of course, Hitler came here in person. Your Highness doesn't know how happy Hitler was when he learned that you were planning to meet him in person."

Zhang Meng nodded, thinking that Hitler has not fully controlled Germany yet, so his spectrum is not that big. He came to the Tang Dynasty in person to see the importance of the Tang Dynasty to Germany.

Zhang Meng wanted Hitler's nervousness, so that he could use the talents and technology that Hitler needed to rise to the Tang Dynasty from Germany.

Thinking of this, Zhang Meng smiled slightly and asked, "Does Hitler say he is going to talk about something?"

Liu Kaiwei replied: "Hitler's special envoy conveyed to us that he wanted to borrow money from the empire, and he hoped that the empire could give priority to helping the German army produce a large number of weapons and equipment, and he hoped to form an alliance with the empire."

The first and the second were long as Zhang Meng expected, but the third one surprised Zhang Meng. Unexpectedly, Hitler had such an idea.

"It's okay to lend Hitler, but you can only have a short-term loan. It was our plan to produce weapons and equipment for the German army, but the price must be negotiated. As for the third alliance, there is no hurry to do so, but don't refuse, just drag it on first."

Zhang Meng then set the tone and Liu Kaiwei remembered it one by one in his heart.

At this time, Liu Kaiwei said again: "Your Highness, Ma Zhanshan in the northeast has re-anti-Japanese. He is currently fighting with the Japanese Kwantung Army. Should we support it?"

Zhang Meng thought for a while and said, "I can support it, but he can't support it alone, and it won't be long. See what talents are among his subordinates and send a plane to get it back."

Zhang Meng never makes a loss, and Liu Kaiwei is very clear about this.

He smiled and then asked: "Jiang Guangnai from Fujian has signs of rebellion. He has sent people to contact us, hoping to seek the protection of the Tang Dynasty, and willing to lead tens of thousands of troops under his command to change the flag and devote themselves to the Tang Dynasty, and hope to establish a foothold for the Tang Dynasty in Fujian."
Chapter completed!