stonecrandall Chapter 527
Chapter 527
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: 0.066s Scan: 0.062sAfter accepting Gaul’s surrender, Hans also held a meeting to discuss the post-war treatment of Gaul.
“I think it would be better to destroy Gaul, so that they won’t harbor hatred and want to take revenge on us. If that happens, we will be leaving ourselves with a security risk!”
“Moreover, Gaul has a good industrial base and a large number of factories. If we destroy Gaul, we can completely take over these factories, which will be of great benefit to improving our industrial strength and comprehensive national strength!”
As the third largest country in Europe, Gaul must be very strong. Although Gaul’s industry began to fall behind after the Second Industrial Revolution, their foundation is very strong. Compared with countries such as Czech and Poland, Gaul’s industrial strength is obviously a level higher. If we annex Gaul and incorporate Gaul’s factories into Hans’ industrial system, Hans’ industrial strength will increase by at least 50%!
In this way, Hans’ industrial advantage in Europe will be more obvious. Once they thoroughly integrate the industries of Czech, Poland, Gaul and the Benelux countries, the population controlled by Hans will exceed 160 million, the total population will exceed that of the Russian bear, and the industrial strength will exceed that of the Eagle Sauce, becoming the world’s first country in name and reality!
However, all this has a prerequisite, that is It is to digest it smoothly!
If they are just occupied but cannot be digested, then these factories will not mean much to Hans.
And to digest these factories, it is impossible to do it with Hans’ current population alone!
Industry requires a large number of workers and a large number of labor.
The local labor force in Hans is not very sufficient, so Mainz encourages overseas German immigrants to return to their homeland and contribute to Hans.
At this time, Hans must vigorously expand its army and expand the size of the German army to prepare for future battles against the British Empire and the Russian Bear.
On the other hand, they must actively absorb and digest the industries in the occupied areas, mine minerals from these countries, and restore the operation of their factories, all of which require a large amount of labor.
The army can only recruit local Hans people, not… He can only recruit from the areas of the occupied countries, because those who are not of our race must have different hearts. Mainz himself cannot feel at ease recruiting people from these defeated countries to serve in Hans’ army.
Therefore, Hans’s labor shortage problem will only become more and more serious, and there is no solution in the short term!
Mainz can understand the mustache’s vigilance against Gaul. If conditions permit, he also hopes to wipe out Gaul and completely destroy this country to prevent them from making a comeback and taking revenge on Hans.
However, Hans cannot do this at the moment. If they want to forcibly destroy Gaul, it will inevitably arouse strong resistance from the Gauls. In that case, the German army will definitely have to withdraw a large number of troops to suppress these rebels in order to maintain their rule. In this way, the
German army’s manpower will be consumed in large quantities on these trivial matters, and there will be no way to deal with them. It is impossible to implement the Sunset Plan and Operation Barbarossa!
Therefore, Hans cannot destroy Gaul now. Instead, he has to preserve Gaul and make Gaul his vassal state. With the help of Gaul, he can let Gaul help Hans stabilize the social order in their occupied areas and restore industrial production as soon as possible so that these factories can be used by Hans!
Historically, Vichy Gaul has been of great help to Hans.
After the Battle of Gallic, Hans signed a peace treaty with Vichy, making Vichy Gaul a vassal state of Hans. Hans himself controlled the coastal areas in the north of Gaul and handed over the inner Mediterranean area to the Vichy regime.
The Vichy regime still represents Gaul on the surface, but they only control half of Gaul’s territory, an area of about 300,000 square kilometers, and the capital is not in the Eiffel Tower City, but in the small place of Vichy.
By supporting the Vichy regime, the Gauls retained the concept of the country, which reduced the resistance of the Gauls to the occupation of Hans. The people of Gaul even supported the Vichy regime very much, believing that signing a peace treaty with Hans and compromising to preserve the country in the event of defeat was a necessary choice.
Therefore, they did not resist the German army much, and honestly entered the major factories under the management of the Vichy government to help Hans produce weapons and equipment and various industrial products needed by the German army.
It was not until 1944, when General De Gaulle led his troops back to Gaul, that the Gauls had another choice. They began to spurn the Vichy regime and regarded it as a puppet regime supported by the Hans. As a result, all over Gaul, there was a resistance movement against the German army and the Vichy regime.
According to this period of history, a lot of useful information can actually be obtained.
First of all, the Gauls are good and obedient people!
This country was scared by the German army in the war, so it didn’t want to fight at all!
Since they couldn’t fight, they couldn’t overthrow the German rule, so the Gauls became content with their lot and lived from hand to mouth. As long as life was okay, the Hans didn’t raise their butcher knives against them, and their country didn’t actually perish, they could accept it even if they became Hans’s puppets and only maintained nominal independence.
In this case, Hans didn’t need to maintain too many troops, he only needed to keep garrisons in some key places, and the rest of the security and governance work could all be thrown to the Vichy regime, letting them govern on his behalf.
This would not only reduce the cost of Hans’ rule, but also reduce the resistance of the Gauls as much as possible, improve their labor productivity, and create more products for Hans.
As long as Hans continued to remain strong on the battlefield and didn’t suffer a decisive defeat, especially if the Allies couldn’t land in Gaul and let the Gauls see the hope of restoring their country, then these Gauls would always be their obedient subjects and wouldn’t think of rising up to resist Hans’ rule!
So Mainz was inclined to maintain the existence of Gaul and rule Gaul at a lower cost.
Without investing too much energy in operating Gaul, you can also enjoy the benefits of Gaul’s industrial capacity. This is much more cost-effective than directly destroying Gaul.
Of course, in the long run, whether Gaul will be destroyed depends on the population growth of Hans.
If Hans’ population grows rapidly and there are surplus people to immigrate to the occupied areas, then Hans can slowly implement their plan of replacing birds with cages, and achieve the goal of gradually controlling this place by constantly immigrating and expanding to the occupied areas.
This is much milder than directly raising the butcher knife to massacre, and the resistance will be much smaller, and the cost and price will be much smaller!
During the war, this method is undoubtedly the most reasonable choice!
After hearing Mainz’s plan, Ribbentrop, Goebbels and others all stood on the side of Mainz.
“I agree with the president’s approach. We have already defeated Gaul. There is no need to beat them to death and force them to stand up and resist us. After all, our main enemy now is not Gaul, but other European countries that have not been conquered, including the Soviet Union and the British Empire. So we must concentrate our forces to deal with these two countries first!”
“When we unify the whole of Europe in the future, there will be no external enemies, and we can calmly digest these internal occupied areas. At that time, whether we use moderate or radical methods, the initiative is on our side!”Goebbels had a clear mind and knew the priorities of the matter.
Now that Gaul has surrendered, they can no longer waste time on Gaul. They must concentrate their forces to deal with the remaining enemies!
“I also agree with the president’s proposal. I think it is in our interest for Marshal Pétain to be the head of the Vichy regime. I think we should support him to take over the position of prime minister!”
Ribbentrop has observed Marshal Pétain. He can see that this man has certain ambitions and is very awed by the German army. If he is made the head of state in Gaul, he will most likely be intimidated by Hans’s military power and dare not resist Hans. He will also use Hans’s power to eliminate dissidents and maintain his own rule!
In this way, Marshal Pétain will only listen to Hans and do whatever he asks him to do!
“Prime Minister? That’s not enough!”
“We have to praise him even more, so that he can’t do without our support. This will make it easier for us to control him!”_