Chapter 72
"From now on, the empire will begin to secretly build a national strategic reserve. Relevant cabinet agencies, the military and intelligence agencies must all start secretly purchasing relevant materials. The priority is rubber, non-ferrous metals, oil and food!" Hess said
"Yes, Your Majesty the Governor!" everyone replied
"During this process, confidentiality should be maintained as much as possible. Once our enemies know about it, they will definitely do everything possible to thwart us. Apart from anything else, price gouging alone is enough to damage our plans."Hess reminded.
In another time and space, in order to prevent the Third Reich from obtaining oil from Romania, the Gallic Kingdom and the Empire of the Sun Never Set not only warned them not to sell oil to the Third Reich, they even directly bought out Romania at a high price. Niya's oil reserves.
With relatively sufficient funds, they are richer and richer than the Third Reich.
All the senior officials nodded. They are very aware of their disadvantages.
"Your Excellency, are rubber and non-ferrous metals prioritized before oil?"Admiral Bromberg has questions.
After all, today's tanks, aircraft, trucks, armored divisions and warships all need to consume oil. Coupled with civilian vehicles, the annual oil consumption will be calculated in millions of tons.
"Compared with oil, rubber and non-ferrous metals are more difficult for us to obtain. We have dispatched experts to Libya to start exploring for oil there. Not surprisingly, success will be achieved soon. At that time, oil can be extracted from Libya. Even because of the war, it may not be possible to transport oil back to the country for a long time. However, before the war broke out, it was enough for us to transport a large amount of oil back.
Plus, we can buy oil from the Furry Bear Alliance. Oil has become the flagship product exported by the Furry Bear Alliance. They urgently need our machinery and equipment. We can trade mechanical equipment with woolly bears for oil. In addition to this, we can also get a lot of oil from Romania. Romania's oil production capacity is far from being released. If we can invest in it and ask Romania to expand its oil production capacity, it will be enough to obtain millions of tons or more of oil every year."
Hess explained.
Regarding these issues, Hess has already considered them and figured out how to deal with them.
"Your Excellency, will Ramania cooperate with us? They were our enemies in the last world war. Moreover, a large area of territory was obtained from the war."Admiral Bromberg said.
Hess nodded. In the last world war, Romania was an enemy of the Second Empire. After the war, as a victorious country, it participated in the carving up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. , gained a large territory. He even cut a piece of fat from the collapsed Woolly Bear Empire, doubling the land area in one fell swoop.
This time, he wanted to make Romania fall to the Third Reich, Naturally, the difficulty is also very high.
"Find ways to expand our influence in Romania and support our people to come to power. If that doesn't work, send troops to attack. By then, nothing will be a problem!"Hess said.
Although Romania now has a population of 18 million, it can be regarded as a medium-sized country that is not weak.
But in terms of combat effectiveness, it is absolutely impossible to withstand the attack of the Third Reich.
"Yes, Your Majesty the Governor!"Admiral Bromberg replied.
Directly launching a military invasion is undoubtedly a very simple and crude but very effective method.
"In addition, the Third Reich’s local oil will also begin to be secretly exploited. Although our homeland does not have much oil resources. However, if it is mined, it will also be quite a lot. For example, there is oil in Bazhou, southern Bolin, along the North Coast, Lower Saxony, etc. However, it is buried relatively deep and the cost of mining is relatively high. However, in order to win the war, the oil must be extracted no matter how high the cost."Hess's attitude was very firm.
Although the Third Reich did not have much local oil reserves, there were still 500-600 million tons.
However, they were buried relatively deep.
With the existing scientific and technological strength and technology, although it cannot be exploited in large quantities , but if investment is increased, there is still no problem in extracting two million tons per year.
Although this output is far from enough for consumption, it is undoubtedly a powerful supplement.
At least, these oils are much better than synthetic fuels.
If possible, Hess does not want the Third Reich in this time and space to use synthetic fuel for frontline tanks again. This will greatly weaken the performance of the tanks and even affect their service life.
"Yes, Your Excellency."Everyone answered.
Since there is oil locally, no matter how high the cost of extraction is, it is very necessary in wartime.
Through various other means, the future oil consumption of the Third Reich should be guaranteed. As for the gap that is too big.
