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Chapter 134 Sell AK to you

The Tang Empire issued a public statement condemning the German army for brutal massacre of Jews, and used this as an excuse to announce sanctions against Germany and Italy, and to stop exporting all strategic materials to Germany and Italy.

Germany can produce steel slowly by itself, but Europe does not produce oil. The German army's oil supply depends entirely on the Tang Empire. It was previously trying to get rid of the Tang Empire's oil supply and sent troops to Stalingrad twice to cover up the German military operations in the Caucasus oil zone, but both failed. It was impossible for the German army to obtain oil from the Soviet Union.

The Tang Empire's embargo on German oil was undoubtedly equivalent to tightening the German army's neck, making Hitler angry, and immediately declared war on the Tang Empire.

The United States was very happy that this would greatly speed up the process of World War II. Hoover delivered a speech, affirming the practice of the Tang Empire. The Soviet Union was the same, believing that more advanced weapons and equipment could be imported from the Tang Empire from now on. The Soviet army has always been salivating for the Tang Army's Raptor fighter jets, Big White Crane strategic bombers, Tiger King main battle tanks and other advanced weapons. Stalin immediately delivered a speech, expressing his gratitude to the Tang Empire, and at the same time sent a special envoy to the Tang Empire, looking forward to a breakthrough.

The exiled governments of Britain and France were gritting their teeth and cursing the Tang Empire for being shameless. Seeing the United States and the Soviet Union entered a strategic counterattack, they abandoned Germany and Italy at this time, obviously wanting to get a share of the results of World War II.

However, the exiled governments of Britain and France had no choice but to say anything. They had no power to speak out and completely rely on the United States to support them. The United States obviously did not want to offend the Tang Empire because of military security considerations in the Pacific, and did not want to go to war with the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Hoover government issued a telegram to invite the Tang Empire to join the Allied Forces. Although Britain and France were unhappy, they were not able to stop it.

Zhang Meng delivered a television broadcast speech the next day, accusing Germany of shamelessly declaring war on the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Empire was not afraid of it and would join the Allied camps of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union and declare war on Germany.

Although the Tang Empire declared war on Germany, the Tang army did not take action immediately. This was a strategic deployment of Zhang Meng, in order to break away from the German-Italy alliance and join the US-Soviet alliance, whitewash some of its own "aggression" stains, so that it can be legalized after the war.

The Tang Empire negotiated with the United States and the Soviet Union. It mainly focused on the issue of post-war order. The Tang Empire only cared about the territorial issues they currently occupy. In response, the Soviet Union expressed its recognition of the current territory of the Tang Empire. It would no longer make claims on the territory of the Far Eastern region. This was a transaction between the Tang and the Soviet Union, and the transaction was fair.

The United States is more cautious, after all, it involves the issue of territorial sovereignty between Britain and France. However, the United States has not closed its doors. After all, Britain and France have lost their country. In fact, Britain and France cannot speak for themselves, and they have to listen to the United States.

In order to show sincerity, the Tang Empire first proposed that Ireland Island, Cyprus and Gibraltar could be provided to the Allies as bases to counterattack the European continent.

Although the US military chose the Italian Peninsula to land, it was still too far across the Mediterranean and had many crises. After all, there were too many German submarines. If it could land in Europe with the actual control area of ​​the Tang Empire, it would undoubtedly be the safest and fastest way.

The US military was moved. If you want to agree, you need to recognize the Tang Empire's occupation of these areas. You have to stop the claims of sovereignty over these areas after the war.

The Hoover administration held a meeting to study, and most of the U.S. lawmakers agreed to this exchange, so the Hoover administration also announced that it would recognize the existing territorial and colonial ownership of the Tang Empire and persuade Britain and France to abandon relevant sovereignty claims.

The exiled governments of Britain and France have to act completely based on the United States' expression. Faced with such unreasonable requests, they can only agree.

After all these negotiations ended, three months had passed. The Soviet army had already obtained advanced weapons and equipment from the Tang Empire. The first batch of 300 Tiger main battle tanks were delivered to the Soviet army. The Soviet army immediately put them on the battlefield to fight against the German Leopard tanks. At the same time, the Tang army's land-based Raptor fighters, Hellfire bombers, etc. also began to export to the Soviet Union. The price was relatively low and it was actually not profitable. A group of them were free of charge to the Soviet army, mainly to strengthen the friendly alliance between the Tang and the Soviet Union.

The US military does not really care about the Tang army's Tiger tanks, Raptor fighters, Hellfire bombers, etc., because the US military has purchased production and use patents from the Tang Empire before, and the US military is already equipped with these weapons on a large scale.

However, the US military is very interested in the new generation of weapons and equipment that the Tang army is changing, and hopes to introduce and equip it to the US military.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty Royal Army had eliminated the original M1 submachine gun and instead equipped with the more advanced TM16 assault rifle. This TM16 assault rifle had long been developed according to Zhang Meng's instructions, but it was not officially equipped for use by the Tang army. Until the Tang Empire sold more than 80,000 M1 submachine guns to the world to make a fortune, when all countries were preparing to imitate the local counterfeit model submachine gun, Zhang Meng believed that the M1 submachine gun had no export profit value, so he ordered the military factory to start mass production of the TM16 assault rifle and the AK47 assault rifle.

Among them, the tm16 assault rifle was used by the Tang army and was not exported. The AK47 assault rifle was listed as one of the weapons exported on a large scale from the very beginning.

After the first batch of AK47 assault rifles were delivered to the Soviet army, the Soviet army was very good at using it and loved this assault rifle, which was tailor-made for the Soviet army. The Soviet Union ordered 500,000 AK47 assault rifles and 1 billion rounds of bullets from the Tang Empire, and asked the Tang Empire to provide production lines to allow the Soviet Union to produce AK47 assault rifles.

The Soviet Union needed millions of AK47 assault rifles, and it was impossible for them to be imported from the Tang Empire. That was too expensive because each AK47 was priced at 200 Tang yuan, so local production of the Soviet Union was inevitable. Even if the Tang Dynasty did not agree, the Soviets would copy it.

Therefore, the Tang Empire agreed, but signed an intellectual property and patent protection treaty with the Soviet Union, which made it possible for every ak47 assault rifle produced by the Soviet Union to give the Tang Empire a patent fee of 100 Tang yuan. However, all ak47 uses stamping parts, and the production cost is less than 50 Tang yuan. The local production of the Soviet Union only costs 150 Tang yuan, which is very cost-effective, and after large-scale production, the cost will be reduced.

However, each AK47 assault rifle was snatched away by the Tang Empire for 100 Tang Yuan. The Soviets were still very distressed, but they endured it. After all, it was an extraordinary period. But there were still many small moves. The Soviets often lie about production quantity and reduce the payment of patent fees to the Tang Empire.

The US military was jealous of the Soviet army's equipment AK47, so it also put forward corresponding requirements to the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire happily agreed that the AK47 was to export and earn foreign exchange, and wanted the US military to purchase it on a large scale, so it immediately agreed.

Compared with the poor Soviets, the Americans had legal restrictions. The Tang Empire directly exported 300,000 AK47s to the US military in advance, and later allowed the US military to produce only patent fees. Compared with the Soviets concealing the production quantity, the Americans were not short of money. The number of pieces produced was as many as they could, and even a penny would be given to the Tang Dynasty.
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