After Emperor William's restoration, Germany's national economy gradually turned to quasi-militarization. Arms production began to become the center of the entire national economy, and what followed was the reorganization of the entire national management system.

First of all, the establishment of the Arms Bureau of the Ministry of Defense and the Arms Bureau of the Army, Navy and Air Forces. The Arms Bureau of the Ministry of Defense is responsible for the military's arms procurement, reserves and trade. The Arms Bureau of the Army, Navy and Air Forces each manages one. Because the Army does not have its own headquarters, the Arms Bureau of the Army is managed by the General Staff. A close confidant of Hessman, Major General Paulus, who once served as his adjutant, became the first Army Arms Bureau.

In addition, in addition to an Arms Bureau, the General Staff also has a Resource Reserve Bureau, which is specifically responsible for the reserve of various important strategic resources. The Russian-German Economic Promotion Company founded by Hessman is now managed by this Resource Reserve Bureau. The director of the Resource Reserve Bureau is Hessman's early friend Oscar von Etel.

The second is the integration between the military's arms department and the government's economic department. Unlike the Soviet model, Germany's arms industry is mainly the private sector, and there are few arms production enterprises controlled by the Ministry of Defense, except for a few state-owned shipyards, the former Czechoslovak arsenals and aircraft manufacturing plants. Therefore, it is a very complicated task to fully integrate Germany's huge military production capacity. It is necessary to coordinate the Ministry of Economics, the Imperial Economic Commission and the Arms Bureau of the Ministry of Defense.

The land, navy and air forces within the national defense system also need to bargain on the issue of arms production. After all, Germany's industrial strength and resources are limited, and the army's demand for advanced weapons seems to be unable to meet it forever.

Therefore, a joint meeting of the Ministry of Defense, attended by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the General Committee of the Economic Affairs Bureau, the Arms Bureau of the Ministry of Defense, the Arms Bureau of the Army, Navy and Air Forces, and major armaments manufacturers, has now become an important decision-making meeting for German production.

The decision of the Emperor's meeting can be included in the annual economic plan as long as it is approved by the leader and Prime Minister Adolf Hitler.

When Hessman, Faulk and Hans Spidal walked into a spacious and luxurious conference room, most of the officials or business owners who attended the conference had arrived. However, the meeting had not yet begun, people were whispering, and some were discussing something quickly and urgently.

"General. You are here." Lieutenant General Grame, the commander of the Navy Air Force, was talking to General Michel, the Air Force Director of the Air Force. Seeing Hessman coming, he immediately went forward to greet him.

"What?" Hessman shook his hand with him, "had you talked to Witzel?"

Lieutenant General Carl Witzer is the director of the Navy's Arms Bureau. He is the representative of the German Navy's "decisive battle faction". He believes that only by relying on large battleships can one fight with the British Navy and seize sea control. His opinions were supported by Lieutenant General Otto Schnewind, commander of the Baltic Fleet, and Major General Kurt Flick, the Minister of Navy Operations.

In addition, leader and Prime Minister of the Empire, Hitler himself was also a supporter of the Navy's "decisive battle faction".

Corresponding to the "decisive battle faction" of the Navy is the "decisive battle faction", including Navy Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gentle Guze, and Major General Denitz, the commander of the submarine force, are all supporters of the "decisive battle faction". Their proposal is to use submarines and decisive battleships to block Britain, just like in World War I.

In addition to these two factions, there is also a very strange naval "aircraft faction". Since the German Navy has not had an aircraft carrier for a long time, the naval aviation has not been paid much attention to even in the German Navy's plan, it does not have much share of aircraft carriers, and the aircraft carrier is not a main strike force but a guard of the battleship troops in the navy's plan.

Therefore, Hessman had to use the power of the General Staff to directly divide part of the Air Force into the Naval Aviation Corps. The Naval Aviation Command, with Lieutenant General Robert Ritter von Grame as the commander.

The German Navy officers who have transformed from the army into the air force and then from the air force into the naval aviation have become more maverick figures in the German Navy. They are not "aircraft carrier factions", but advocate the development of shore-based aviation forces as a way to attack the British naval surface fleet.

According to the Navy Air Force Command, what the Navy needs is to be able to perform dive bombing, be able to mount torpedo after simple modification, and have a larger range and higher speed twin-engine bomber (shore-based) and a single-engine escort fighter with a large range (Fock Zero is what they want).

In their opinion, as long as an aviation team with a combat radius of 1,000 kilometers can be established, which calls the 1,000 kilometers of combat radius of "Scapa Bay Distance" and has 1,000 aircraft at the same time, it can overthrow the British Navy... The Navy Aviation Command even proposed an adventure plan of "not declared battle. Thousands of sneak attacks on Scapa Bay"!

However, their opinions were jointly opposed by the naval "warship faction" and "submarine faction".

In the eyes of the German Navy's great men, the only one who can destroy one fleet in battle is the other! The plan to sneak attack the British Royal Navy anchorage with 1,000 planes is both risky and unrealistic.

Because there is no air-optimal fighter jet in the world with a combat radius of 1,000 kilometers. Because large ranges often mean large aircraft, clumsy and inflexible, and difficult to defeat small ranges.

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"Admiral Witzel believes that the sneak attack plan will never be successful," Lieutenant General Grame shook his head. "He believes that the large-range escort aircraft will not be able to beat the UK's latest Hurricane fighter, which have excellent performance and are enough to fight our b-109."

The British Hurricane fighter and Spitfire fighter were successfully tested in November 1935 and March 1936, and now they have begun to equip the British Air Force in large quantities. Germany attaches great importance to these two aircraft. It has tried every means to find out their general performance and came to the conclusion that it is comparable to the B-109.

To this end, in June 1937, the Luftwaffe Armed Forces Bureau urgently drafted a combat technical requirement manual for the development of new fighter jets and issued it to aircraft manufacturers.

At the same time, considering that Germany does not have an overwhelming advantage in the field of inline liquid-cooled engines, the Air Force Armed Service also issued a task to BM and Siemens for the development of a high-power air-cooled engine with a "small windward area".

"Anthony," Hessman looked back at his fat brother-in-law, "What do you think?"

"It's hard to say now," Folk shook his head, "and wait for the plane to be built to simulate the b-109. If we can fight against the b-109, then we will be lucky, after all, this is a large-range aircraft."

"Okay." Hessman nodded. The plan of a thousand aircraft to attack Scapa Bay was indeed very attractive, as if it was a reappearance of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. However, even the Zero fighter jets did not come out, and it was impossible to really make a plan.

"But I will still support the Navy Air Force's 'Thousand Aircraft Plan'," said Hessman. "Before the end of March 1940, I will try to equip you with 1,000 latest medium-sized long-range bombers and single-engine long-range fighters. But you must also be prepared to support ground combat at any time."

"Okay, general!" Lieutenant General Grame nodded with a smile. In fact, "Thousand Aircraft Hit Strikes Scapa Bay" was just a plan proposed by some aviation staff who had been in Japan. Even Lieutenant General Grame felt that he was taking risks, so he took it out for the "Thousand Aircraft Plan". As long as the Navy Air Force could be expanded, he would be satisfied.

"General, what do you think of our Z plan?"

Hessman had just separated from Grame and before he could get to his seat, Arctic Marshal Redell came over.

"Marson!" Hessman raised his hand to Radell, then pulled out two more chairs and asked Radell to sit down on one of the chairs and sit on the other chair.

"I support your Z plan." Hessmann's answer was shocked even Redel himself. He was a lion and waited for Hessmann to cut off half of the latest revised Z plan. Hessmann was preparing to spend 33 billion Empire Marks to build more than 700 ships of various types. Even in Redel's view, it has far exceeded Germany's current shipbuilding capabilities.

"But the part about aircraft carriers in the z plan is too conservative, and the eight aircraft carriers cannot complete the mission anyway," said Hessman. "We also need to add some aircraft carriers... including fleet carriers, cruise carriers and light escort aircraft carriers."

"General," Raidel's brow frowned again, "I certainly don't object to adding aircraft carriers, but can we Germany complete the construction of so many ships?"

Hessman smiled and patted Raidel's arm, "Marson, the Navy will get all the ships you want, I promise. But we cannot rely solely on the power of Germany to complete it. We must use the power of the European continent to build these ships... What we will build in the future is the European Combined Fleet, not the German High Seas Fleet. But before that, Germany must first become the leader of Europe."
Chapter completed!