"What we hope is to strengthen cooperation in military industry and resources. As our allies, Japan will persuade them to abandon their confrontation with the Defense Forces in Southeast Asia. At the same time, recognize the Defense Forces' control over the existing areas and jointly develop all resources in the current Soviet occupied areas..."

The one who entertained Gerhart was one of the members of the coalition government: Yang Yuting. Yang Yuting has not seen his old age in recent years, but instead he is becoming younger and younger.

Although he no longer holds military power, he has a lot of power now. It can even be said that it is even better than the supervision of the three northeastern provinces in the past. His son is also promising and is now in the Qin Dynasty.

Although he is just a mayor, he can pass the performance assessments of more than fifty items. After a few years of experience, he will be transferred back to the imperial capital to serve as a practical position.

Then he was transferred to a province to serve as a chief official, and there was no chance to win the position of a member of the Supreme Committee in the future. Therefore, Yang Yuting is naturally getting younger and younger now.

"Mr. Gerhart, I will report your conditions to the Supreme Committee truthfully." Yang Yuting smiled warmly and said to Gerhart: "Of course, the final decision depends on the vote of the Supreme Committee."

"We can understand this. We just want to strengthen cooperation between China and Germany and achieve greater success in a wider field." Gerha nodded and said, "Now we have gained a huge advantage in the war in the Soviet Union. We not only occupied most of the Soviet Union's resources, but also destroyed almost all of their industrial facilities..."

"And more than 300,000 Soviet troops have become our prisoners. I believe that we will be able to complete the war against the Soviet Union by next year. Then, we will consider crossing the Bering Strait and carrying out the next step of war..."

Yang Yuting still smiled, but there was a bit of sternness in his eyes. Although Gerhardt's words were not clear, the subtext was already very clear: if Germany conquers the Soviet Union, China will not become a ally of Germany.

Then in the next step, Germany may not be unable to attack China first for its allies and its own security choice. Even if it is unwilling to do so, China will face the difficulties of going to war on two or even three lines.

From the establishment of the National Defense Forces to the present, the navy has been the weakness of the National Defense Forces. If with the assistance of Germany, Japan would launch a landing war against China, and millions of German troops rushed down from Siberia.

The situation is very bad, and Yang Yuting himself is not sure that China can still hold on under such circumstances. Perhaps, the good situation in Southeast Asia will collapse overall by then.

"Mr. Gerhart, our National Defense Forces was established when the Japanese launched the September 18th Incident in 1931. But before that, we had fought with two major Far East powers, including Japan and the Soviet Union."

Yang Yuting slowly closed the notebook and still maintained his gentle smile. He said: "When our Northeast Army was forced to evacuate from the Northeast, we were fighting tens of thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army."

"When our vanguard was defeated by the Soviet Union, we personally defeated the Soviet Far East Legion in Harbin. The Soviet Union was forced to admit that Outer Mongolia had owned it for us. Japan never dared to hold us responsible for annihilation of their Kwantung Army."

Yang Yuting paused and said, "The reason why our National Defense Forces can reach this day is to be fought every step. Since its establishment, there have been no less than a thousand major battles. The opponents have ranged from domestic warlords to powerful countries in the Far East."

"The Soviets recognized our strength because we forced them to sit at the negotiating table. The Japanese recognized our strength with practical actions because they had more than one million troops lost to the Chinese battlefield." Yang Yuting said with a smile.

"At the same time, their troops in the Southeast Asian theater are just surviving. If we want, their southern army will fall into a complete collapse for up to three months."

Gerhardt seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, and the cold sweat fell down his face. He opened his mouth, and he was about to explain something, but Yang Yuting waved his hand and said, "At the beginning of our declaration of war on Japan, New York Times reporter Edgar Snow once asked our commander-in-chief about the enemy."

"Our commander-in-chief answered only one sentence: Have they ever beat me?!" Yang Yuting said, packed up the notebook in his hand, and stood up and said, "Our commander-in-chief also has a very favorite saying: If you say it, you have no choice, and you will find the truth behind you!"

After saying that, Yang Yuting said goodbye and then turned around and left, leaving Gerhart and Franz with a changeable face in front of him.

More than an hour later, the conditions put forward by the Axis and Allies in the conference room of the United Government were placed before the bigwigs of the United Government and the National Defense Forces.

Figures appearing in the Defense Forces include the Navy Commander-in-Chief Shen Honglie, the Air Force Commander-in-Chief Chen Haihua, the Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces General Staff Su Zongzhe and the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Forces Tu Mengben. At the same time, the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Forces Southeast Asian Theater Tu Sanpao.

In terms of the coalition government, in addition to Yan Zhengqing and Yang Yuting who represented the government in attending the negotiations, top people from all aspects also participated.

The United Government and the Defense Forces must conduct a comprehensive assessment of the cooperation plans of the Axis and Allied countries. These assessments include a comprehensive assessment of the cooperation technology, machinery, resources, etc.

"From the information they provided, we basically have the technology provided by the Germans. If we continue to cooperate, we and the Germans have improved these technologies." Jia Xiaohou wore glasses and read the introduction of the technical cooperation between the two parties.

"On the contrary, allies will provide more in this technology. These include design drawings, design ideas, and a large amount of research materials. I personally think that these are the most important. These can not only be used to learn from, but also allow us to avoid many detours when we develop them on our own..."

After Jia Xiaohou finished speaking, he kept silent. Jia Xiaohou's personality is like this. He never adapts to the point of being stern. He will say more about technology. But if you have nothing to do with technology, you can ask him to say it, and he is lazy to say it.

"Tin: 1500 tons per month, lead: 7000 tons per month, nickel: 800 tons per month, molybdenum: 300 tons per month, cobalt: 10 tons per month... Copper tubes and other copper products: 300 tons per month..."

Minister of Industry Fan Xudong kept reciting the supply of various materials promised by the allies in the contract, and couldn't help but laugh. Every time he thought of the supply of materials, Fan Xudong's eyes would light up a little.

"Everyone, if we supply it like this, it will definitely be enough even if we go to the horizon!" Fan Xudong laughed: "We are short of materials now, mainly these rare minerals. Although all regions are exploring and mining, it will take time to form output..."

"If the allies can provide these temporarily, we can arm all the remaining reserves and directly crush the Japanese!"

Fan Xudong laughed and laughed: "I haven't counted the output of the minerals they said they jointly developed. If it were counted, it would be even more scary!"

"There are also the machine tools, machinery, and several of them that they promise to provide assistance and loans to us are the most advanced now. Our people don't give it to each other if they want to take a look. It's good now! It's like giving it for free. These white-skinned guys are bleeding!"

Seeing Fan Xudong dancing, everyone couldn't help but laugh. Fan Xudong had gone to various countries to try to buy machinery, but he didn't even look at him.

He also said that Chinese people can’t understand these machines, and it would be useless to see them. So Lao Fan has been hating white people for this matter until now.

"I didn't expect... I, Fan Xudong, can still see these white-skinned guys delivering machines to us in a low voice. Hehehe... My old Fan is worth it!"

As he spoke, Fan Xudong's eyes turned red. He remembered the words of the British people mocking him when he visited the headquarters of the British Bunemen Company.

"You native-eating people don't understand the alkali-making process, so just look at the boiler room..."

This sentence deeply hurt Fan Xudong's heart. Since then, Fan Xudong secretly vowed that he must let the Chinese get rid of the title of "Tu-eating Nation"!

He made up his mind to develop the soda ash belonging to the Chinese in his lifetime. Yes, Fan Xudong finally succeeded. But the road to success was so twists and turns.

Several major international companies that monopolize alkali-making technology strictly keep it confidential. They can hardly purchase complete sets of machinery and equipment, and everything needs to be redesigned and self-made. In order to stop Fan Xudong from developing soda ash, Bunemen Company lobbied the Beiyang government's Ministry of Finance, and tried to pass the "Regulations on Taxation of Industrial Salts" to stipulate that "each industrial salt is paid 2 cents of tax per ton of". This will increase the cost of each ton of alkali by 8 yuan out of thin air, making it difficult for Wynn in the experiment to bear.

Fan Xudong invested 2 million yuan at that time and finally produced the first batch of alkali products. However, what was disappointing was that the red and black inferior alkali still produced. The news came out, and the British-funded company made a burst of ridicule. At this time, all four boat-type calciners were burned out and could no longer be used. The entire factory was forced to stop production. The shareholders who had been waiting for several years had lost their patience...

Bunemen Company took the opportunity to ask for a meeting with Fan Xudong, hoping to acquire a stake in Wynn. At the same time, some shareholders who were forgiving their interests began to get ready to try to sell their shares to withdraw cash...

However, Fan Xudong finally withstood this series of hardships. He eventually produced Chinese soda ash that belongs to the Chinese people, from process, technology to products.

"If China does not have a group of people, it is willing to calm down: not to be hot, not to be worried about the fame and wealth of the world, and to be sincerely converted to create new academic skills for China, China will never produce new life!"

As the Minister of Industry of the United Government, Fan Xudong was also invited to give a speech at the Imperial Capital University of Technology. Standing on the podium and looking at the students below, Fan Xudong burst into tears.

"The future of China is in your hands! The future of the Chinese nation is in your hands! Every minute of your efforts and sweat will forge a ladder for this country to move forward. We have suffered too much, bullying, ridicule and oppression, all because we do not have our own industry."

"And this is a shame for us industrialists! If we want our future generations to avoid being humiliated by the guns and cannons, we need to work hard at this moment! For our motherland, prosperity!"

Fan Xudong said this and did it. This Hunan boy was stubborn by nature and refused to surrender even if he was pointed at the head by a gun. But he was crying at this moment.

"Mr. Lin, I have dreamed countless times that we can get the most advanced machine tools and machinery in the world. But I didn't expect this day to come so quickly..."

Fan Xudong lowered his head and took out his handkerchief to wipe the corners of his eyes. If he had not been mocked unforgettably in those foreign companies, no one could imagine the pressure of Fan Xudong as the Minister of Industry.

Indeed, China's industry has made obvious and significant progress since the start of the three eastern provinces. But this is still far from enough. The output value of the entire industry is incomparable, not to mention that compared with major countries such as Europe and the United States, even compared with Japan in Asia.

Although European and American companies are cooperating with the coalition government, the technology blockade is still very tight. Only technology that is behind at least one generation will they consider selling it to the coalition government.

And the price is not low every time, and they like to teach the operation and principles of some machine tools. They all rely on the workers in the factory to grit their teeth and experiment over and over again...

In terms of the use of some special processes, they are even more careful. They are not allowed to approach anyone even when operating, and they are allowed to come in only after they are finished.

Many times, the coalition government and the Ministry of Industry have to grit their teeth to accept these harsh conditions. Nothing else, these technologies themselves do not. They have to rely on these people to complete the production of their products.

Of course, Fan Xudong is not a fool. He has done a lot of things in various ways, including bribery, even taking advantage of the economic recession in Europe and the United States to hire skilled workers to obtain skills.

But in the end, there is no such reality as getting technology directly from European and American countries.

"Old Fan, we finally got through for so many years..." Jia Xiaohou empathized with Fan Xudong's current feelings.

He also studied technology outside, and as a Chinese, he was often discredited. But in order to learn technology, Jia Xiaohou had to grit his teeth and hold on.

"We two old bones work harder to leave a good foundation for our subsequent descendants. In the future, those white-skinned guys are asking us for technology!"

Jia Xiaohou's words made Fan Xudong feel energetic suddenly and replied loudly: "Yes! Even if we blow this old bones dry up, we have to leave things for our future generations! In the future, there will be some white-skinned guys beg us!"

Seeing that Fan Xudong had come to his senses, everyone couldn't help but smile and comfort him. Then, Lin Sen tapped the table with his finger and said, "Now the conditions for the Germans and allies have been set. Let's talk about which company we are working with?!"

As soon as Lin Sen's words came out, everyone immediately started a buzzing discussion. If it were just from a technical perspective, the Germans promised to share and study comprehensive technology with China.

Although many technologies overlapped in China and Germany's previous joint research and development, Germany also took into account that some of the material test materials and technologies were not taken out and shared with the National Defense Forces.

In this regard, the allies gave relatively poorly. Although they agreed to give high-end machine tools, they also sent personnel to train and use them.

But in terms of the attitude of comprehensive cooperation, they are not as sincere as the Germans.

Secondly, in terms of resources, Germany is 10% short of the allies. The allies first agreed to supply a large amount of ready-made materials to the coalition government, and also agreed to loans and jointly develop a large amount of minerals including the Soviet Union and Canada.

Germany really has no choice in this regard. They are all short of resources themselves. Being able to separate some of them to cooperate with the coalition government is already a huge concession.

In the final territorial aspect, Churchill and Hull have already vaguely stated that the allies recognize China's ownership in Southeast Asia. As long as it is a Southeast Asian government decided to recognize it, the allies will choose to recognize it.

In this regard, Germany lost again. They even proposed to use the current occupation land as the boundary and demanded that the National Defense Forces no longer attack Japan's occupied areas. Of course, they also recognized China's control over these places.

This made the coalition government and the defense force extremely dissatisfied. If we were to take down the land in the hands of Japan, we would take it down. Why should we give it to Japan now?!

In addition, Japan is now a direct enemy of China. Either they die tragically or the National Defense Forces are defeated. There is no third way to go, and the entire coalition government has never considered the third way.

Requesting the National Defense Army to let Japan go has become the most unlikely condition in the Sino-German negotiations. Drinking Tokyo Bay has become the goal of the entire coalition government and even the National Defense Army.

Moreover, there can only be one powerful country in the whole of Asia. If Japan lets him survive now, the venomous snake that cannot be killed will sooner or later jump and bite people.

"If we reject Germany, then we have to consider the threats that Germany suffered when it attacked Siberia, our Mongolian, the three eastern provinces and other places..." Chief of General Staff Su Zongzhe said worriedly: "I originally thought that the Soviets could fight for at least one or two years. But now look..."

As Su Zongzhe said, everyone smiled bitterly. The Soviet Union's defeat was too sudden and too fast. It was even so fast that it was dazzling. In just over half a month, they had almost lost all the barriers they could rely on.

At least 300,000 Soviet troops became prisoners of the German army. More than 80% of the fighter jets, tanks and cars in the entire Soviet Union were destroyed, and a large amount of military supplies were seized by the German army.
Chapter completed!