Chapter 129 Villa Hugel

The prominent feature of the Ruhr industrial zone was that it was centered on heavy industries such as coal mining, iron and steel, chemistry, and machinery manufacturing, forming a regional industrial complex with a complex sectoral structure, close internal connections, and a high degree of concentration.

The industries of the Ruhr area were the material basis for Germany’s launching of the two world wars. Combined with the Ruhr area’s geographic location and the convenience of water and land transportation, it made this area the most economically developed Golden Triangle in Europe.

Here is also the future of the Federal Republic of Germany re-emerged capital, although Germany has lost the recent dragon rise of East Prussia, but as long as the Ruhr area is still there, Germany is still the continent of Europe resounding power.

The Ruhr area as the heart of Germany is true to its name, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, this piece is simply the spine and heart of the Germans, want to live and to live well, depending on how to stimulate the potential of the Ruhr area.

This is where Britain currently holds an advantage over the United States and the Soviet Union, and there is really no particular reason for Alan Wilson to bring Mihailovich to visit the arms king.

If there was a selfish reason, it was to deepen the powerful impression of the British Empire in the mind before the other party left Europe.

Once in Africa, it was a different world, and the impression of Europe was limited to this period of displacement. Deepening the powerful impression of the British Empire in these refugees during this time period could result in a beneficial favor.

“Mr. Mihailovich, I almost forgot, if you are able to get food in Rhodesia, the London side will surely be grateful, so that the support for you refugees will also be more logical.” Leaving the prison where the Arms King was held, Alan Wilson raised his wrist and looked at the time and continued, “The local side wants to end the rationing system as soon as possible, of course the British Occupied Area side may be a little later, if you can help London overcome the predicament as soon as possible, I believe that in the eyes of London, the value of your survivors will be a little higher.”

Alan Wilson remembered that Rhodesia served as a British colony. Due to the fertile land and favorable climate, a large number of white people moved here to cultivate farmland and establish large agricultural estates.

The rich agricultural products earned Zimbabwe the reputation of “African Breadbasket” and “African Breadbasket”. The season in the southern hemisphere is opposite to the northern hemisphere, and Mihailovich and his people went to Rhodesia just in time for the planting season.

All that was needed was someone to organize it, and Alan Wilson was convinced that there was no lack of organization in the refugee community, which was itself an armed force, and that it was at least easier to produce than to fight.

It did not even require much assistance from Britain or from the British Occupied Territories, and Rhodesia was not far from South Africa. It was a breeze for South African industry to produce some agricultural machinery, and the current Governor of South Africa was Nicholas Jacobs de Wet.

The British Empire still had control over South Africa at this time, and it was believed that the other side would not turn down such an opportunity.

This has been somewhat accustomed to, Allen Wilson blew Rhodesia to the sky and the ground Mihailovich, painfully agreed, the British have a need rather reassuring him.

The most worrying thing for him is that if the British really have no desire to do good deeds, this only shows that they are in trouble.

Immediately after the two went to the Krupp family’s factory, the local people have been surveying the production line without damage.

Over the next few days, Allen Wilson took Mihailovich on a series of visits to several businesses that had been seized, while working with the British civil servants who had taken over the businesses to determine which production lines used for people’s livelihoods could be restarted.

Finally Alan Wilson took the personal letter of the King of Arms and began to go door-to-door in accordance with the list of door to door, to call the well-known large enterprises in the Ruhr area, especially the head of the head of the enterprise has not yet been taken into custody, and met with the representatives of these enterprises in the villa Eisenhügel, the headquarters of this Krupp family.

Of course this was all done after getting London’s approval, and after the meeting was over he had to write a report, make a report on the process of this meeting, and give it to London for review.

The London side also knows, as soon as possible to restore the economy of the British-occupied areas can not be separated from the assistance of these pre-war Germany’s well-known enterprises.

Before coming back, Alan Wilson had already been authorized to have a good talk with the heads of these enterprises.

The representatives of the enterprises that came even had representatives of Rheinmetall, even if the production line of the Rheinmetall Arsenal in Düsseldorf had already been sealed by Britain.

“The war is over!” Alan Wilson used this opening sentence as the first line of communication with the German business representatives.

The first layer of meaning was the literal meaning, and the second layer of meaning was that the victor was already very obvious, Britain was the victor, as for Germany the defeat was even more miserable than the First World War, and the whole country had been occupied.

Looking at the subtle expression of the head of the major enterprises, Alan Wilson took out the letter of the King of Arms, displayed in front of the crowd, as for the English translation of the version he has long been familiar with, in these people read the letter explained, “Mr. Alfred is currently in Dusseldorf incarcerated, oh yes, Rheinmetall’s Dusseldorf production line has also been sealed and stopped production, is that I am too much to talk about! .”

“Things are bad in Germany right now, and I can say it very directly, there will not be a central government existing in Germany in a short time, because the French are very much against this, according to the information we got from Paris, the French are very direct at the moment, and would like to see Germany return to a loose confederation, such as in the time of the Holy Roman Empire. ”

The faces of some of the representatives of the German companies have become ironic, the history of Germany can be divided into two parts, before the unification of Germany and after the unification of Germany, the history of Germany before the unification of Germany is like what Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, said, “It is the sorrow of Germany to be a neighbor of the very aggressive France, the countless invasions of France over the past eight hundred years have brought profound suffering to Germany. ”

As for the history of Germany after reunification, it fits very well with the thoughts of the French up and down the country in 1945, “Germany has shown extreme aggressiveness after reunification, and has invaded France three times in one hundred years, and such a very aggressive country should not exist in this world.”

Upon hearing that the French were opposed to Germany having a central government again, the German stalwarts present were naturally filled with righteous indignation.

Forgetting the history of the three German invasions of France in the last hundred years, all that was in their minds was the eight hundred years of French bullying of the Germans.

History is a bad account, and it is not fair to every country, just as if British India had only 40 million people instead of 400 million, the British Empire would have spent two hundred years replacing South Asia with a new species, and would have had to wait until today’s native Indian elite to become independent?

First with the French pulled a wave of hatred, successfully provoked the German dignitaries in front of the antipathy, Allen Wilson is a turn of phrase, “but we do not think so in the British Empire, the British Empire nine hundred years in pursuit of the concept of Europe is nothing more than a balance, only a balance of the war will not break out. Of course certain countries with ambition always report this balanced policy with a stigmatizing attitude.”

“The British Empire has never actually contained Germany, and to this day London still believes that Germany is the balance of Europe’s balance, and is very much opposed to this endless revenge and humiliation, except that we are, after all, only one of the occupying powers, and there are also Americans who are far away in the Americas and don’t care about what the Germans think, the Soviets, who have a deep hatred for Germany, and four occupying powers, and all that the British Empire can do is also very limited.”

“We are very grateful for the efforts made by Britain, Commissioner Allen, and you can tell us bluntly what is wanted from us.” After several representatives of German companies made small talk with each other, Wagner, the chief engineer of Rheinmetall, spoke up, “Do the British want us to obey …… and help the administrators of the British institutions to resume production in the British occupied territories?”

“The civilian side to be precise!” Alan Wilson was very satisfied with Wagner’s answer, but did not forget to add this more fully, “The French will now be very defensive about any German moves to try to restart weapons, and again, this is not the British aim. Our aim is reconciliation, not to have another war in Europe in the future, and to avoid the hatred caused by Germany’s predicament after World War I.”

As for supporting Germany against the Soviets, it goes without saying that the two camps of the Cold War are currently on good terms and both need some time to recuperate.

“The restoration of production becomes a top priority! And how early prosperity can be restored in the British-occupied areas depends on the enterprises of the representatives, whether they can play an exemplary role or not.”

“Can we find a way to resume production?” The representative of Mercedes-Benz spoke up to confirm.

“Of course we can, but the prerequisite is that the factory that resumes production must have a British representative in it.” Alan Wilson relayed the instructions from the London telegram, “The production aspects of the plant must be transparent to the British incoming representative. This includes, but is not limited to, personnel adjustments, raw material extraction, and transportation links.”

“We’ll need some time to discuss this.” Wagner, Rheinmetall’s chief engineer, eventually spoke up on behalf of the companies here, “I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”

“Very much not excessive, I’ll be waiting for news at Villa Hugel for the next few days.” Allen Wilson pointed to the Krupp family headquarters at his feet, “I hope I’ll receive good news.”

Waiting for these representatives to leave, Alan Wilson quickly took out the telegraph and sent telegrams to Hamburg, Hanover, and London, recounting the talks that had just taken place, and whether or not they would be able to straddle the Ruhr area depended on whether or not the representatives of these German companies would be able to figure it out.

Then waiting for the news of the time, listening to the radio to relieve his boredom, listening to the radio in the middle of the radio to hear the broadcast, “Japan formally announced the unconditional surrender ……”

“What a shame, where’s the Bushido? Where’s the victory of the spirit?” Alan Wilson cracked, “Why don’t we just keep fighting.”