Chapter 36 Bowman being led by the nose
"If you can't buy it, mine it yourself." Hoffman gave Sperer this suggestion.
"Mining?" Sper, who thought he had heard it wrong, looked embarrassed. "Tungsten ore is mainly concentrated in East Asia. In the European continent, Spain has some reserves except Portugal, and other countries cannot find them."
"No other country is needed, the Imperial Eastern Province (Austria). This is also revealed in the resource map of the last time that the British secretly explored. I only focused on oil the time before, but I forgot this point." Hoffman recalled hard and pointed out to Sperer: the Mitsil tungsten mine is located in the Alps, 350 kilometers southwest of Vienna. It is the second largest tungsten mine in the world. It can mine 400,000 tons of ore annually and produce 1,800 tons of tungsten - this output can basically meet the needs of war.
Sper was overjoyed, which solved the great difficulties for him. His originally depressed mood suddenly became high. He believed what the Head of State said, even if it was false information, it would be nothing, just wasting a little exploration worker. Besides, the Head of State personally promised to chat with Marshal Franco, and the crisis in front of him would naturally be solved - the Head of State is really his own savior!
Hoffman obviously had more ideas about tungsten mine development: "Large-scale tungsten mine mining requires labor. I think the Polish prisoners of war imprisoned by the Air Force can be used, and the Jews..."
As an intellectual with conscience, even if he traveled through time and became the head of state, he opposed the implementation of the Jewish extermination policy from the bottom of his heart. However, since it was the established national policy of the Third Reich, it was impossible to overturn it completely. He decided to gradually turn it over. After thinking about it, he said: "Let Himmler arrange Jews to mining, which is much more ideal than arrange for them to go to concentration camps, and it can allow the Jews to atone for the country. General Schmont, the military commander of the Eastern Front, has complained to me more than once that the train transported to the East is very tight, and the SS is still transporting Jews to the concentration camps for a while, squeezing valuable transport capacity - Himmler likes to manage Jews so much, so he lets him use the power of the concentration camps to mine management."
Forced Jews to serve labor obviously violates human rights, but compared with genocide policies, Spel deeply agrees with this, believing that this can reverse the perception of some people in the empire and alleviate the problem of labor tension after the general mobilization.
The next morning, Hoffman was studying the map in the office of the Prime Minister's Office, recalling the distribution of European mineral resources, hoping to alleviate the embarrassment of insufficient resources in the Third Reich. Unexpectedly, Martin Bowman came in with a spring breeze on his face, and said happily while walking: "Under the wise leadership of the head of state, we achieved a brilliant victory last night."
"Glorious?" Hoffman laughed in silence. "The Berlin Air Defense Center only shot down 4 Lancaster. Even if the 19 shot down in the Ruhr area were added, the total number was only 23. Only a fraction of the British bomber group, how can it be called brilliant? It is worthy of delight in the Ruhr area."
"This..." Bauman was stunned and said subconsciously, "But I didn't hear the air defense alarm yesterday?"
"It's not a problem, but it doesn't mean there are no enemy planes. Last night, I witnessed how they commanded the battle at the Air Defense Command Center." Hoffman smiled, "I loyally fulfilled the duties of the Air Force Commander-in-Chief."
Only then did Bauman realize that what the head of state said was obviously not the same thing as what he wanted to say, and suddenly realized: "You went to the Air Force Air Defense Command Center again last night? I had no idea about this! I thought you came back directly after the technical argumentation meeting from the Armor School."
"What are you going to say?" Hoffman was also stunned. Bauman's expression just now seemed very relaxed - this was not fake, but there seemed to be no big moves in other directions. Even if there was news, his adjutants would report it as soon as possible.
"Look, this is the result of the arrest and interrogation last night." Bauman proudly raised the file in his hand. "As you expected, Canaris was the largest and fattest bait. Even in the underground prison of the Imperial Security Bureau, it smelled fragrant. His minions - mainly his deputy Major General Hans Oster and Director Hans von Dunane gathered a secret operation team to attempt to rob the prison, but we were all beaten up. Not only did we confiscate a large number of important documents from Dunane's office, but they also confessed to a bunch of conspirators, many of which were big names."
"Big man?" Hoffman smiled, "Let me guess who there are."
"You can't imagine it." Bowman smiled, "I was shocked after seeing it. I still couldn't believe it's true."
"This is not necessarily." Hoffman thought about it and said, "Carnaris must not escape the powerful subordinates of the Military Intelligence Bureau - no, what are the big men? They must have a great spirit. Well, General Halde, Chief of the General Staff, must be one, and Marshal Leb, probably too. And General Hopner, the former commander of the Fourth Armored Army, should also be among them-he has always opposed me, and was the first to be a deserter during the Typhoon Battle. Oh, I almost forgot that Boluoxiche, the commander-in-chief of the Army, and he turned a blind eye without him.
With one eye, the group of people from Harder and the Army General Staff did not dare to do this at the beginning. There should be the commander-in-chief of the French garrison Stupnagel and the governor of Belgium Falkenhoyin, the two generals, who have been doing small things behind me in the past two years. By the way, there is another very important person. Rommel recommended me two days ago, that is the newly returned Colonel Stauffenberg. Don't underestimate this colonel, he is the liaison officer of the Baker-Carnaris Traitor Group. When the coup in September was the one who delivered the order of "war revelation" on behalf of Hopner..."
"What?" Bauman was startled, and his face looked like a ghost, because the string of names Hoffman had just said were almost exactly the same as what he wanted to say. He stammered: "Have someone reported to the Head of State?"
"No." Hoffman denied it and asked in confusion, "You don't say that the interrogation was just completed at night, and I don't know that you would have a raid last night."
"Then you?..."
"You don't really think I know nothing about their affairs, do you?" Hoffman smiled meaningfully. "During the Munich negotiations in 1938, these people were frightened by the British Empire, who were scattered in the tumbling and clawed. They wanted to give me a September coup. Later, Mr. Chamberlain agreed to my request, but their conspiracy failed. Since then, I have been observing them, hoping that they can wake up. I didn't expect that human nature is so despicable. On the surface, they are timid with me, but their activities in secret have never stopped. The Eagle Nest attempted to find Canaris, but I did not arrest anyone else, and even Halde was put back for retirement, because I always wanted to wait and see if anyone would come to me to confess. If possible, I could give them another chance to reform. Unexpectedly, they flatly rejected my kindness and insisted on going all the way to betray Germany."
Of course, this was to put a gold on his face, because Hitler knew nothing about these conspiracies before traveling, otherwise it would have been a peaceful situation. Although Hoffman clearly denied the speculation that some people reported in advance, Bauman's forehead was covered with sweat, and he could almost certainly be 200% in his heart: yesterday's operation team must have had the eyeliner buried by the head of state, and he and the General Security Bureau had no grasp of the carriages, and they could report directly to the head of state. When he thought of the head of state to prevent his subordinates from hooking up and making small moves, he felt that the hair on his back was erected. The so-called surveillance of conspirators since 1938 made him feel that the head of state was unfathomable, and the awe of the head of state increased a little.
"First of the People's Republic of China." He walked forward tremblingly and said in a complaining tone, "You are the only hope of the Party and the country. You can't take these crucial matters lightly. How can you take chances against the treason?"
"I will keep your advice in mind." Hoffman nodded in agreement with Bauman's point of view, but almost burst into laughter. He stretched out his right hand and said, "Take it."
"What?"
"A warrant," Hoffman asked, "Without my signature, can these big names be easily arrested by you and the General Security Bureau?"
"Yes!" Baumann quickly reacted. He originally wanted Hoffman to read the interrogation file and sign the arrest warrant, but he didn't expect that there was no need to say anything redundant. He lamented in his heart: he came over in a hurry early in the morning to seek credit and reward in front of the head of state. Unexpectedly, the head of state had already known that he was led by the nose everywhere, and the whole rhythm had completely changed. He was like a show-off clown in front of the head of state.
Hoffman glanced at the list and was basically as expected. He only made comments on the handling of one person: "Master Bock was not involved in this matter, and his handling of him was changed from arrest to residence surveillance..."
Bauman opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, nodding to show that he knew.
Hoffman quickly signed the autograph and added: "Karnaris is the bait first, and someone will come to act as a moth without hesitation. You can change the lampshade..."
Chapter completed!