stonecrandall Chapter 304
Chapter 304
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“The British are coming so fast!”
Ribbentrop had just received a diplomatic note from the British, asking Hans to publish the specific parameters of their latest battleships and hand them over to the Six-Nation Arms Control Committee for verification and investigation.
After the signing of the Fog City Naval Treaty, in order to prevent countries from secretly violating the treaty, a Six-Nation Naval Arms Control Committee was formed by all countries to verify and review the tonnage and main gun parameters of the newly built warships of each country to ensure that the naval treaty would not be trampled on.
“After all, we didn’t keep it secret, and there was no way to keep it secret, unless we continued to build our warships in sections as before. Otherwise, the moment these warships were sent to the slipway, it meant that they would be open to the world.”
Mainz was not surprised by this result. After all, the British Empire was an old world power, and there must be many spies all over the world. In addition, the confidentiality of the Scharnhorst-class battleships was not high, and he was not prepared to keep it secret, so it was only a matter of time before they were discovered!
“How should we respond to the telegram from the British?”
Seeing that Mainz didn’t seem to care about this matter, Ribbentrop was relieved.
Hans’ navy was too weak and needed to accumulate strength. If the British invaders interrupted and destroyed it at the critical moment of their development, it would be very fatal to Hans’ navy.
“Just ignore them!”
Mainz did not take the British telegram seriously, nor did he intend to pay attention to it.
“Would this be a good idea? We set up a trap in North America and cheated them out of $500 million. They must be very angry and are looking for an opportunity to vent their anger on us! If we directly reject their telegram, it will be like giving them an excuse!”
Ribbentrop had his own thoughts. He felt that Mainz’s decision to directly reject the telegram was too tough.
“We will submit information on tonnage and main guns to the Six-Nation Naval Arms Control Committee and allow them to come and verify it, but that is also the duty and obligation of the Six-Nation Naval Arms Control Committee, not the obligation to the British Empire. We have no obligation to provide them with any detailed information on the development of our own military!”
Mainz stopped what he was doing, glanced at Ribbentrop, his expression very serious:”This kind of thing often has traps. The British Empire is testing our bottom line. If we give in this time, then they will have more excessive demands. Instead of being so passive, it is better to make our red line clear at the beginning: international sovereignty must not be violated, and national internal affairs must not be interfered with!”
Mainz said so. If Ribbentrop still doesn’t realize the seriousness of the matter, then he is not a qualified Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After Ribbentrop left, the little mustache ran excitedly to Mainz’s office.
“General, good news, great news!”
Seeing the little mustache’s excited look, Mainz couldn’t help but be amused by him.
“What good news! Look how happy you are!”
“Hehehe, I told you not to get too excited, this news is really extraordinary!”
The little mustache laughed, and the joy in his heart could not be suppressed.
“Speak, I am mentally prepared!”
Mainz felt the mustache and became curious. What kind of good news could make the mustache so excited?
“General, we have discovered a large oil field in the Shilesui area. It is conservatively estimated that there are at least 50 million tons of oil in this oil field!”
Huh?
There are oil fields in Hans?
Mainz was stunned!
The news reported by the mustache was really beyond his cognition. In Mainz’s impression, Hans has always been short of oil. During World War II, they were so short of oil that even tanks and planes could not be driven in the later stages of the war.
If Hans really has oil, why didn’t the mustache of the Third Reich in history exploit it?
“Really?”
However, looking at the mustache, it didn’t seem like he was lying, so Mainz also felt happy.
“It is absolutely true, our people have already drilled the first oil well on the West Coast, and can produce 2,000 tons of oil every day!”
After hearing what the mustache said, Mainz completely believed him. After all, this guy even drilled an oil well, so how could he fake it?
“”Come on, take me to see it!”
Mainz was very curious and couldn’t wait to go to Schleswig to have a look.
He didn’t remember any oil fields in Hans, but the man with a mustache said that they had discovered oil fields and even extracted oil. This made Mainz feel very puzzled. Was there something wrong with his memory, or was there something wrong with this world?
After arriving in Schleswig by plane, Mainz suddenly realized
“It turns out to be the North Sea oil field! No wonder there is oil!”
After arriving in Schleswig, Mainz realized that the oil field that the mustache was talking about was actually the North Sea oil field in the North Sea area near North Schleswig.
The reason why the oil field in this place is not recorded in Hans’ history is because the oil field in this place does not belong to Hans at all, but to the Fairy Tale Kingdom!
In the original history, after World War I, North Schleswig voted to join the Fairy Tale Kingdom, and Hans lost control of it. In this world line, because of Mainz’s butterfly effect after the end of World War I, the German army still has strong combat effectiveness.
This kind of combat effectiveness has caused a great deterrent to the Fairy Tale Kingdom, which is small and weak. The Fairy Tale Kingdom did not dare to annex North Schleswig, but returned it to Hans.
After Hans got this place, it originally belonged to The oil fields in the North Sea of the Fairyland became Hans’s!
Because the area of North Schleswig-Herzegovina is not large, the location is not very critical, and the Fairyland in the north has always been very honest, so Mainz did not think about it before, and never thought that oil could be found in the North Sea.
Although Hans itself is an oil-poor country, the Fairyland still has a lot of oil. Just on the North Sea continental shelf, they have at least 300 million tons of oil reserves!
Although this oil cannot be compared with the oil storage countries such as the Bear and the Eagle Sauce, after all, the oil reserves of these countries are tens of billions or even tens of billions of tons, but 300 million tons of oil is extremely precious to Hans. With this oil, they probably don’t have to worry about the use of oil in the war!
“Well done, little mustache. From now on, step up the oil exploration here. Don’t rush to exploit it. First explore the approximate scope of this oil field!”
Good steel should be used on the blade. Even with the hundreds of millions of tons of oil reserves in North Schleswig, Hans’s oil is still in short supply. It would be a waste to exploit this oil in peacetime. After all, they can purchase oil from abroad in peacetime.
This oil must be kept to prepare for future wars!
If a war breaks out in the future, Hans’ enemies are likely to impose a naval blockade on Hans, cutting off Hans’ access to oil from overseas, trying to���To control and paralyze Hans’ war machine.
In order to deal with this situation, Mainz had already allocated 1 billion marks to build a large number of coal-to-oil refineries to liquefy coal into gasoline and diesel during the war, so that Hans’s planes and tanks could operate normally.
However, coal-to-oil refining is highly polluting, energy-intensive, and very costly, and it is not cost-effective. If there is sufficient oil supply, there is no need to spend so much trouble on coal-to-oil refining!
“Got it, don’t worry, I know what to do!”
The mustache guy was also very smart, he understood immediately, he knew what Mainz meant, it was going to use the oil as a strategic reserve!
“By the way, there is a natural gas mine in Saxony. You can take people to explore it. The natural gas in this place is very rich. If it can be mined, it will greatly promote our economy!”I don’t remember the oil Mainz, but I still remember the natural gas field in Hans very clearly. After all, the natural gas reserves in Hans are still very rich. There are tens of billions of cubic meters of natural gas that can be mined in Lower Saxony alone!
PS: The urging ticket is added, and the numbers in the previous chapter have a bug again…_
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