The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Coming out of the Forbidden City, there was also good news from the side in charge of negotiations.

Originally, the Beiyang government had misgivings about the import of Hans's industrial products and the purchase of Hans's weapons and equipment, but when he heard that Hans could transfer the production drawings of the Mauser 98 rifle, Guo Songling suddenly couldn't sit still.

After he reported this information, Zhang Zuolin couldn't sit still!

The Mauser 98 rifle is currently the active rifle of the German army, one of the most advanced rifles in the world, and the performance of the Mauser 98 rifle is a big step ahead compared to the old rifles used by other warlords in China.

Originally, in Zhang Zuolin's opinion, it was already very good for the German army to sell some of the equipment in service, and he was very content, but he didn't expect Hans to directly take out the design drawings and be willing to transfer production technology, and the price was just to sell the exploration and exploitation rights of minerals in the Northeast to Hans!

30 years of mining rights, in exchange for the most advanced rifle drawings and production technology at the moment, this deal is really a bargain!

After all, oil or something is meaningless to the current Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire basically does not need these in the country, and there is no shortage of coal in the Celestial Empire, even if the Northeast region is mined by the Hans, the loss to them is not great!

Moreover, the Hans also promised that they could establish a cooperation mechanism with the Northeast Army, and the German army could help the Northeast Army train young generals, let them study in Hans, and let them return to China after completing their studies.

These terms of cooperation made Zhang Zuolin excited, and he felt that there was no more suitable deal in the world!

So with little hesitation, Zhang Zuolin agreed to Hans's request, and in order to avoid Hans's remorse, he also asked Hans to sign an agreement in the shortest possible time, so as not to have long nights and dreams.

"In that case, let's sign an agreement with the other party!"

Mainz was very satisfied with this result, for the Beiyang government, this agreement was of course a traitorous agreement, but most of them did not care, because many of the contents of the agreement did not have much impact on the Celestial Empire at this time.

For example, even if they do not import Hans's industrial products, they must also be imported from countries such as Sunset, Gaul, Eagle Sauce and Foot Basin, which cannot be produced by the Celestial Empire itself, so it can only rely on foreign imports to meet its needs.

Anyway, they have to import it, so if they use this thing as a bargaining chip to trade it, they think it's a lot of money!

As for the right to exploit oil, these are even more indifferent, in their opinion, the Northeast region is sparsely populated, the environment is harsh, if it is not for the Hans to mine, but for their own mining, they have neither technology nor capital, so those things can only be buried in the ground, nothing can be exchanged.

It was a good deal to be able to trade what they didn't need for some of the most scarce equipment, because the oil didn't bring them any profit underground, but the weapons and equipment they could get stronger and more profitable in the warlords against other warlords.

In the opinion of Zhang Zuolin and others, the agreement with the Hans is much better than the 21 articles signed by Yuan Shikai and the footbasin people, at least Hans is far away in Europe, and he can't be as ambitious about the Celestial Empire as the footbasin, and he always wants to invade the Celestial Empire, so they are much less vigilant and repulsive about cooperating with the Hans!

Both sides thought they had earned it, so the agreement went smoothly.

After the agreement was signed, this group of Hans engineers who came with them went directly to the northeast region and began to explore the Daqing oilfield.

Daqing Oilfield is the largest field in the Far East, and mining here is of great significance to Yuanyan.

"General, I don't understand, the Far East is so far away from us, even if oil is extracted here, it will be difficult to transport it back to our homeland, why do you have to extract oil here?"

That's a good question from Goebbels!

Indeed, Mainz's insistence is a bit unusual.

In the agreement with the Beiyang government, other terms seem normal, such as investment in the Celestial Empire, the establishment of factories, the start of war on trade with China, and the expansion of sales channels for Hanse products.

All these are conducive to Hans's economic development and to solving the problems that Hans is currently facing.

If this is successful, then Hans will be able to find a huge dumping market for its own products, and the factories established by the Celestial Empire will also be able to process cheap raw materials purchased from the Celestial Empire on the spot, and then generate higher-value products to be processed into final products in Hans homeland, in the process, the Celestial Empire will be able to undertake projects that provide raw materials and primary processing at low returns, high costs, and also cause a lot of pollution.

Hans, on the other hand, accepted the last process, and was able to easily reap the most profits, which belonged to the kind of division of labor that was easy to work with, lightly polluted, and extremely profitable.

This kind of international division of labor is a model of global trade in later generations, Western European countries have mastered the core technology, so they use the technology in their hands to control the last pass, and easily harvest the value of the hard work of the labor force of other Asian, African and Latin American countries, they have earned a large amount, so the life is prosperous, the economy is developed, the people are rich, the social welfare is extremely high, and it has become a country that everyone yearns for!

And those countries that have undertaken low-grade industries, people can only earn a small part of the cake through hard work, low wages, poor environment, high labor intensity, government taxes are not high, and there is no money to implement a high welfare system like Western countries, so people generally feel that happiness is very low, and a large number of outstanding talents will run abroad because of the pursuit of high-quality life, and as a result, the outstanding talents of their own countries continue to flee, and they also take away a lot of money, making backward countries become leeks of developed countries, and they can't turn over for a lifetime!

The agreement that Mainz has reached with the Celestial Empire now has such a rudimentary form, the bulk of the profits fell into the hands of Hans, and a small part fell into the hands of the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire got investment and established industry, which could gradually get rid of the status of a backward agricultural country and begin to move towards industrialization.

This model is for the Celestial Empire, which has nothing at the moment, and is poor and white, there are countries that are willing to exploit themselves in this way, which is really their blessing, and what they are most afraid of is like the foot basin and the sun does not set, Eagle sauce, not only to exploit you, but also not to give you any benefits!

Therefore, the people of the Celestial Empire cooperate with Hans, not only will they not resent Hans, but they will also be grateful, this kind of cooperation model that not only earns the other party's money, but also makes the other party grateful to Dade, Goebbels and others have never heard of it when they are so old, which has to make them admire Major General Mainz.

After all, a young general who is talented in military affairs can actually have such achievements in the economy, this kind of person is really amazing!

However, the exploration and exploitation of the Daqing oil field is not necessarily very wise, so everyone is puzzled by the decision of Major General Mainz.

Mainz stepped on the black soil under his feet, glanced at the endless plain, and glanced back at everyone: "You should not only be curious about why I care so much about this oil field, but also why I insist on handing over the design drawings and even production technology of the Mauser 98 rifle to the Celestial Empire, right?"

Everyone glanced at each other, and they were quite shocked in their hearts, they thought they had covered it up well, but they didn't expect to be seen through by General Mainz!

"General, I am indeed a little puzzled, since the people of the Celestial Empire are now using Mauser 888 rifles, wouldn't it be better for us to give them this kind of rifle? Why do we give them the Mauser 98 rifle that our army is equipped with?"

Mainz glanced at it, and the person who spoke was Captain Paulus, a staff officer of the General Staff.

The deepest impression of this person in later generations is probably that during the Battle of Stalingrad, he refused to accept the order of the mustache and refused to commit suicide and insisted on surrendering!

Because of such a black history, Mainz's attitude towards Paulus is not particularly good, not very hateful, not very likely, just like treating ordinary soldiers equally.

However, Mainz did not shy away from Paulus's question, because he knew that many people, like Paulus, did not understand his decision.

"Captain, do you know what rifles were used by the footbasin army during the Russo-Japanese War?"

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