"...The General Staff has already had a preliminary idea. After the difficult times come, Germany's military industry will definitely be subject to many restrictions. It has been mentioned in Woodrow Johnson's "Four-point Peace Conditions". The fourth article is to reduce the military provisions to the minimum level to ensure the security of the country. We believe that this is a restriction on our side! Because Britain, France and the United States will not set limits on themselves."

Karl Househofer put his hands on his legs and looked at the Krupp and his wife seriously. Then he said: "Preliminary estimates that tanks, aircraft, submarines, large warships with displacement of more than 10,000 tons and poisonous gas will be prohibited from production. The scale of the army will be greatly compressed, even to the point where it is difficult to defend itself! For an excellent military industrial enterprise like Krupp, there will be a very difficult period... If there are not enough orders, the company's survival may be seriously affected, and naturally there will be no sufficient funds for research and development. Ten to twenty years later, Krupp and other outstanding representatives of the German military industry will lose their current leading position. Germany's military industry will become backward compared to Britain, the United States and France. At that time, our empire will become a lamb at slaughter, and it will be even more difficult to get back."

Listening to Hessman's words, Gustav Krupp did not stop nodding. Krupp is a very large enterprise with many factories and workers. Once the order support is lost, it can only shrink. From the perspective of operation, it can only give up the military industry department that cannot make profits and concentrate limited resources on the civilian department... Over time, it will lose the ability to produce advanced weapons.

He coughed dryly, exchanged glances with his wife, and said, "We will lose the lead for 10 years at most. Although the civil industry and the military industry have similarities, there are still differences between the two."

Krupp's main business is arms and steel. Arms are mainly cannons and also involve shipbuilding. If military products (cannons and warships) are lost, Krupp will become an ordinary steel manufacturer. Moreover, the production capacity of special steel for military purposes will be idle and backward, losing the lead for ten years, and in twenty or thirty years, I am afraid that even the ability to produce military products will be lost.

However, in the original history, the Krupp Company survived the crisis after the war because of "fuze patents" (Arsenals in Britain, France and other countries used Krupp's patent technology to produce shells. After the war, it paid the usage fee to ensure the effectiveness of the intellectual property system and paid money based on the casualties of the German army). It then participated in the Soviet-German cooperation project (in the original history), and secretly participated in the plan to re-arm Germany at the request of the National Defense Forces. In fact, everything Hessman did was to make some historical events happen earlier or have greater strength...

Hessman interrupted: "Mr. Krupp, in order for our country to stand up again in the future and become the world's first-class power, the General Staff ordered our Industrial Promotion Committee to formulate a top-secret military industrial export plan!"

"Military industrial output?" Gustav Krupp was stunned, "Are you going to move the German arsenal abroad?"

"This is one way, but not all," said Hessman. "Moving the production sectors of certain restricted military-industrial enterprises in Germany to friendly countries is an effective way to maintain their vitality. As for the destination of export, the first choice is of course the United Principality of Polo... There are currently 700,000 to 800,000 Germans, which are where we can control."

In the process of formulating the Gray Plan, Hessman asked the Polo authorities to report the current situation of the country's industrial resources. The country's industrial resources are relatively poor, and the Kurish Autonomous State has basically no important industrial resources except for its abundant forest resources.

The situation in the Estonian autonomous state is slightly better. In addition to the forests, there are also very abundant and easy-to-mix oil shale, phosphate and limestone.

Among them, Estonian oil shale was very famous in later generations. During the former Soviet Union, the annual mining volume even exceeded 31 million tons! Historically, mining began in 1918, and the first oil shale distillation plant was built in 1924.

But now it is 1918, not 1958. Although the dry distillation method of extracting oil from oil shale has long appeared - industrial utilization has existed in the 19th century, and even earlier than the industrial utilization of oil - due to technical limitations, the refined oil extracted from oil shale is of poor quality and has a relatively high cost.

Therefore, until the 21st century, the oil shale in Estonia was mainly used for power generation and heating, replacing low-calorie coal, and of course a small part was also used to produce phenolic chemicals. Historically, in 1940, the production of shale oil in Estonia reached 174,000 tons, mainly used to produce chemical products (because the phenol content is high).

In addition, Estonia has a very rich reserve of phosphate ore and limestone. The former is the main raw material for phosphate chemical industry, the latter can produce cement, and oil shale can also be used as fuel for producing cement.

In other words, as long as the Estonian autonomous state is not lost, the United Principality of Polo still has some industrial conditions. It is not lacking in electricity - it can use oil shale to generate electricity; it can develop phenol chemicals and phosphine chemicals. It can develop industries related to wood - it can produce furniture, pencils, aircraft shells, etc. It can also produce a lot of cement. It also has 700,000 Germans with very good qualities, and many Belarusian intellectuals and capitalists also went exile there - they will bring manpower and some capital.

Moreover, the transportation there is very convenient, close to the Baltic Sea, with four major ports including Wendava, Liepaya, Tallinn and Riga. Among them, Wendava, Liepaya and Tallinn are all unfreezing ports. In addition, the United Principality of Polo also has a railway connecting the Soviet Union, Poland and East Prussia.

"In addition to the United Principality of Polo," Hessmann introduced the United Principality of Polo and turned the conversation to other countries. "European countries friendly to us, such as Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands, can all become our destinations for transferring military production capacity. Especially Sweden, which has rich iron ore resources, has a very good foundation in the military industry, and has long adhered to the neutral national policy. I think Krupp can transfer an important military department to Sweden."

Gustav Krupp nodded: "In fact, we are already considering moving some factories to the Netherlands and Sweden."

The Netherlands and Sweden have historically undertaken part of the military production capacity transferred from Germany, and the Krupp Company actually began to conduct research on this aspect before its defeat.

"Is it a Boro United Principality added?" Big Beta seemed a little disappointed, "Gustav, I think I can send someone to investigate first."

Hessman shook his head: "No, Madam, transferring some of the factories to Polo, Sweden and the Netherlands is only part of the industrialization of the output."

If it were just for this matter, just hold a meeting of the Industrial Promotion Committee, and Hessmann and Karl Househofer would not have to go to Krupp's house to seek advice.

"Part?" asked Big Beta, "what is the other part?"

"It is to export complete sets of industrial technology and equipment to improve a country's industrialization level, or to make an agricultural country lagging behind the times an industrialized country with the lowest industrialization system, or to make a country that has initially achieved industrialization progress into a relatively advanced and developed industrialized country. This is the real export of industrialization!"

"What?" Gustav and Big Beta were stunned at the same time. Big Beta frowned: "Lieutenant Colonel, then which country do you want to export industrialization in a complete set?"

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Chapter completed!