Although An Yi has repeatedly asked his friends to go home for the New Year and use this rare holiday to accompany his family. You don't have to go to Chunxiang City to pay himself a New Year to Hexi, but there are still many generals and Chunxiang generals and Chunxiang of the four seasons.
Officials came to congratulate, especially those graduates who worked in the government and the army and had no task in shoulders. They also deliberately gave the righteous father Anyi and New Year. The Chunxiang Palace became more and more lively.
Because there are too many guests who come, even if they add a seat, they cannot meet the needs. In this case, it is not appropriate to neglect which guest. In desperation, An Yi waved his hand and simply changed the lunch to the outdoor cold dinner party.
At 12:30 noon, beef and mutton, lunch, red -roasted meat, seafood, fruits and other cans from the military logistics department heated it in the exquisite iron basin, heat it with alcohol lamps below, and arrange it in a word.
Put on the iron frame on the grass by the lake.
Hot buns, steamed buns, fried rice, fried noodles, fried potato shreds, etc., plus preheating ham sausage, bacon, bacon, sausage, and various seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as fast -frozen dumplings on -site, copy hand
, Dumplings and various pasta, a variety of meals, a variety of cold meals, ready to be prepared.
As for wine, including fruit juice, cola, champagne, liquor, red wine, wine, all of them are military supplies. Although the quality is average, it is enough!
No one cares about the guests who visit. The most important reason why the family who appeared here in the thirties of the New Year is to accumulate people's connections and close relationships. People hold wine glasses and stand together in groups.
There are any good money -making projects, and government officials discuss current politics and the provinces. Now most of the provinces are still in the state of military management. Once the military management is completed, a large number of officials need to be a lot of good positions.
They simply squatted on the ground, simply draw some combat maps, and expressed different views on certain battles.
The things are divided into groups by classes, and they don't worry about the circle that is not suitable for them.
Although An Yi, who was full of depression, did not want to ignore these unexplained guests, both old Tao and Gong Qian advised An Yi to show a high posture, Li Xian, to stabilize people's hearts. Not to mention anything else.
Representative, mastering a large amount of funds, if you can invest, it is enough to increase a certain industrial output value.
Moreover, the guests are the core power of Anyi in charge of the government and the army-students who graduated from the Boy Military Academy, and the nominal righteous girls, the hearts of these young people cannot be chilling. (- -Wang.)
Therefore, An Yi had to start with the wine and wound between the circles, and stopped from time to time to talk about the sky for a while, so that people were like a spring breeze.
However, at this time, An Yi had made up his mind, and he would not stay in the small South China Sea next year. There were strict alerts there. Most people couldn't get in at all, or they simply took the family out to travel. Anyway
As long as people do not know their whereabouts, this year's tossing situation can definitely be avoided.
Busy until three in the afternoon, the guests have dispersed, and the righteous daughters help the service staff to clean up the disabled. An Yi can finally come down easily, but he has not had time to visit Labor Road and his family, Foreign Minister Wu Tingyan and National Security.
Minister Du Yi has come together.
Knowing that at this time, unless there was important business, the two subordinates would not disturb him, so An Yi took them to the study on the second floor of the white building at the back and sat down.
Diem said excitedly: "The Portuguese government has agreed to our request and sold Goa, Madeira Islands and Cape Verde Islands to us for 50 million yuan, but it requires us to pay with arms, food supplies and fuel oil.
Means, while ensuring that the Kingdom of Portugal is not subject to external armed aggression...
"After our army achieved great victory over the German army in West Asia, the attitude of the Spanish government also began to relax, and it agreed to start negotiations on our purchase of the Canary Islands. The current progress is extremely smooth!"
An Yi was very happy when he heard this: "Although we actually own the Goa area of the subcontinent, it was a Portuguese colony before the war. At that time, Sheng Shicai's army slaughtered all the Goa colonists, and later suffered a plague that wiped out 10% of the population.
None of them were left. We only took it out of humanitarianism. The Portuguese government did not protest after that, but the name was not justified.
"In order to avoid unnecessary disputes after the war, it would be great to be able to buy them once and for all! In addition, the geographical location of these islands in the eastern Atlantic is very critical. They strangle the throats of Europe, Africa and the Americas, and control these islands
Having it in our hands means that we have a springboard to set foot in Europe, and we must not give up lightly!"
The former colonial empires of Spain and Portugal saw their national power decline severely after entering the 20th century, and until the outbreak of World War II, they had always been in the background.
A fierce civil war broke out in Spain in 1936. The victorious Franco regime was a nationalist regime. When the world war broke out, the Franco government had deep-rooted hostility towards Britain, France, the United States and other countries. This was mainly because
Because Spain has fierce territorial disputes with British Gibraltar and French Morocco, and has huge conflicts of interest with the United States in Latin America. At the same time, there are always anti-nationalist sentiments in these three countries. - < Shuhaige > - Net.
Therefore, the Franco regime has been trying its best to develop cooperation with Germany and Italy, which are also governed by nationalists. Especially when Germany easily killed France and pushed its sphere of influence into the Pyrenees, Franco was worried
The German army would take advantage of the situation to invade Spain, which further intensified this tendency.
However, the shrewd Franco was unwilling to make a premature bet. When Hitler visited Madrid, Franco said that Spain, which was in dire straits after the war, not only needed external supplies of food, but also needed to import steel and fuel. Under the current situation
Next, a period of peace must be maintained for at least five years before industry and agriculture can recover.
, it is more in line with the interests of the Axis powers to be neutral on the surface and obtain urgently needed materials from the Axis countries through trade. Otherwise, Germany and Italy will need to feed Spain back and reduce the national strength of the two countries. Of course, privately, Franco promised to send
Army, fighting with the German and Italian armies in the name of volunteers.
Although Hitler and Mussolini were dissatisfied with Franco's attitude, they also believed that Spain was indeed weak now, and expected that although Spain in power was nominally neutral, it would still make useful contributions to the Axis powers.
contribution, thus acquiescing to this neutrality.
Looking at the Allies, due to the rapid defeat of France, in order to prevent Germany from annexing Spain and Portugal and completely unifying Europe, Britain and the United States began to actively win over Spain, making various promises, and granting loans and concessions to purchase goods, so that Spain and Portugal could
It became an important input channel for German supplies, which once again strengthened Hitler's judgment that maintaining Spain's neutral status would help Germany contact and expand trade with foreign countries.
As for Portugal, shortly after the German invasion of Poland, the Salazar government expressed their determination to remain neutral, arguing that the real charge of the Europeans was not to plunge the entire continent into the melting pot, but to create and consolidate a zone of peace, a Pax Iberia
The Ili region would be of decisive importance, so Spain's declaration of neutrality and Franco's efforts to keep the war away from homeland were the foundation of Portugal's founding.
However, the attitudes of these two countries were extremely vacillating, and to a certain extent, they became accomplices of Nazi Germany. Britain and the United States saw all this in their eyes and kept it in their hearts, and have been waiting for the opportunity to settle their scores in the future.
After the unprecedented defeat of the German army in West Asia was exposed, Britain and the United States jointly put pressure on the Spanish and Portuguese governments, demanding that the archipelago in the eastern Atlantic Ocean adjacent to West Africa be unconditionally handed over to British and American jurisdiction. The Spanish and Portuguese governments have been trying to survive in the cracks.
Portugal's handing over the Azores Islands to the United States has triggered Hitler's wrath. If it is discovered that the two countries have handed over the eastern Atlantic Islands to the United Kingdom and the United States as a springboard to attack North Africa, they may immediately fall out. Will Portugal and Spain then?
Existence will be an unknown.
Under such circumstances, the two countries, which no one wants to offend, may feel a sense of relief after facing the proposal from the government of the Democratic Republic of China to purchase the island. Judging from Diem's report, An Ng's gamble has once again succeeded.
Du Yi said with a smile: "After arming 100,000 Japanese troops at the end of last year, the British and French Free French forces in Equatorial Africa intend to open up the North African battlefield and urgently need to find a foothold in the offshore northwest Africa. These islands are sold to
It's better for us to shirk, otherwise Hitler might mobilize his troops and invade the Iberian Peninsula.
"A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The German army still has two million troops in Western Europe. It is simply not something that the weak Spanish and Portuguese armies can resist. When we can get nothing and may even invite Germany to invade our homeland, we provide help in times of need.
These islands can be exchanged for something affordable, and all the responsibility can be put on us. As long as you are a smart person, you should make the right choice."
Ngo Dinh Diem was greatly impressed: "No wonder the Spanish diplomatic department acted so quickly and came to our Consulate General in Madrid for consultations in the past two days... By the way, the other party not only wants to sell the Canary Islands, but also wants to take Spanish West Africa.
Pack it up and sell it to us..."
An Yi said without hesitation: "If you agree to their request, you will not have to worry about many debtors. Not everyone is willing to sell the land at any time. Together with the islands in the east of the Atlantic Ocean, it will form the Atlantic Province of our republic!"
Diem was a little puzzled: "Spanish West Africa is mostly barren land, almost all desert and semi-desert areas, with a territory of nearly 300,000 square kilometers and a total population of less than 50,000. There is not much available for such a place.
usefulness!"
Du Yi shook his head: "The coastline there is nearly a thousand kilometers, and the fishery resources are quite rich. It is said that there are also phosphate, potassium, copper, oil, iron, zinc and other resources there. As long as there is enough fresh water, it is completely possible to migrate the three
With a population of more than 100,000, and the surrounding islands, it can be developed into a tourist attraction in the future, and you will definitely make a profit if you buy it!"
Wu Dinh Diem saw An Yi's deeply convinced look and could only nod: "Okay, I will keep an eye on this matter, coordinate with various departments, and strive to sign the transfer agreement with the two countries as soon as possible!"
After the matter was settled, Diem whispered again: "The German foreign affairs department sent people to contact us secretly, hoping to restore the harmonious relations between the two countries!"
An Yi was surprised. He suddenly stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, turned his head and asked, "Who is the person who came to contact me?"
"Ernst, State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry, whose father served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kaiser Wilhelm II, belongs to a German diplomatic family and has great influence in the diplomatic system of the Third Reich. I heard that he
My son Weizsäcker disappeared on the Western Front, and he stopped by to see if he was captured by us." Diem replied.
An Yi pondered for a moment: "We can talk, but in principle we will never give in. If the Germans want to redeem their officers and soldiers, they can exchange them for real money and silver...or use machinery and mining equipment from the occupied areas.
You can exchange them for precision lathes, experimental instruments, important chemical catalysts and additives! You can even exchange them for senior teachers, doctors and scientific researchers from the occupied areas!"
Diem asked worriedly: "What if we are discovered by Britain, the United States and other allies?"
Du Yi replied disdainfully: "So what if they find out? Now they have too much time to take care of themselves and have been beaten into disgrace. It's too late to beg us, so why would they dare to fall out?"
An Yi shook his head: "No, we can't give people excuses morally... Well, don't we have several entrepot trading companies in Europe and the United States? These transactions can be left to them! We publicly announce to the outside world,
Take people to Siberia to build railways and then take them prisoner
After being escorted to Central Asia, they can be exchanged through the Caspian Sea without anyone noticing. However, all this is not hosted by our government, but is the work of the middlemen's trading companies. All transactions are in spot goods and do not go through bank accounts.
, so that there won’t be any trouble in the future!”
Diem admired him very much and nodded repeatedly. Du Yi also looked thoughtful and smiled without saying a word.
After setting the tone of diplomacy with Germany, Diem stood up to leave. An Yi personally walked Diem to the door. Before getting in the car, An Yi whispered that he could help Ernst find his son. If it was confirmed that he was in the prisoner camp, he would let Ernst.
Ste took him back and asked the father and son to do their best.
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