The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"Your Excellency Minister, the Krupp Group is almost unable to hold on now!"

Gustav began to complain as soon as they met, and he was not hypocritical, the current situation was indeed an existential juncture for the Krupp Group.

If it weren't for the fact that they acquired the Kirgermania shipyard before, and could still receive some orders for the production of civilian ships at this time, the Krupp Group might really be bankrupt!

Mainz had a certain understanding of the current situation of the Krupp group before coming, after the end of the First World War, orders from the military were immediately terminated, and when the German army was in large-scale layoffs, the troops were rich in weapons, and it was impossible to order arms from Krupp again, and during that time, Essen's side happened to encounter a workers' uprising, and then the Allied troops began to attack the Ruhr industrial area.

Although the Germans under the command of Field Marshal Hindenburg thwarted the attack and did not allow the Allied troops to enter the Ruhr industrial area, the workers' uprising still caused great trouble for Krupp, and Mainz also specially took out a sum of money to fund Krupp, if it were not for his original funds, Krupp might not have survived this difficulty.

However, the money given by Mainz at the beginning was not very much, at this time a year has passed, this money has already been spent, if Krupp is not out of the predicament now, then they may really go bankrupt and die, and this is what the Entente wants to see the most!

"I've got a design drawing here, let's see if you can produce this!"

After Mainz finished speaking, Himmler immediately took out a design drawing from the briefcase he was carrying.

Gustav was a diplomat, so he immediately looked at the blueprints with his wife, Bertha Krupp.

"General, isn't this, isn't this a tractor? are you going to make us produce this?"

Berta was very surprised when she saw this design drawing, and couldn't understand why Mainz showed them such a design drawing, which was completely different from what they were currently producing!

"Yes, this thing is a tractor, but it's not your average tractor!"

The tractor is not new, it was invented by the Gauls as early as 1856.

At the beginning, the tractor was a locomotive, and it also used a steam engine as power, so it was huge, very bulky, and not very powerful, mainly used to pull heavy objects or pull goods, and assumed the role of a part of the truck.

But the design drawings given to them by Mainz are completely different from the tractors currently used in other countries on the market.

This is a miniaturized tractor that uses an internal combustion engine as an engine, and its main purpose is no longer to dry some groceries as before, but is produced specifically for agricultural use!

As soon as Mainz said this, the two immediately discovered that the tractor on the design drawings was much smaller than the one they had seen so far.

"General, the size of this car is so much smaller than the tractors on the market, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the power of the gasoline engine to move it, right?"

Berta quickly saw the problem and asked her own questions.

"Hehe, your vision is indeed very accurate, if you continue to use the gasoline engine, it will definitely be impossible to move this tractor, so we don't use the gasoline engine, we use the motive!"

"Ahh

Both Berta and Gustav Inz were surprised and even a little skeptical after the words.

"Why, don't you believe me, if so, then I can't help you!"

Mainz had a cold face, very dissatisfied with the questioning of the two, and seeing that Mainz was angry, the two immediately stopped talking.

They know very well that the person in front of them cannot be offended, after all, the Krupp Group is mainly engaged in arms production, and their main partner is Hans's military, so in the face of the military bosses, they must please each other as much as possible, so that they can get orders, and with orders, they can live!

"I will ask the Bavarian Maschinenbau to provide you with the diesel engine, you only need to produce this tractor according to this design drawing, by the way, this tractor needs to use tracks, and you can test the load-bearing capacity and climbing ability of the tracks when you are producing. "

Both of them are human spirits, and when they heard Mainz's hint, their eyes lit up and they said excitedly: "Do you mean, let's study that thing secretly?"

Seeing that the other party understood what he meant, Mainz smiled and said: "You just need to understand it in your own hearts, but externally, in the name of manufacturing and testing tractors, don't let the Allied arms control committee catch the handle, understand?"

The two immediately nodded, indicating that they would obey the arrangement!

What they are most worried about is that the army has abandoned them, and now it seems that the army not only did not abandon them, but also entrusted them with a heavy task and accepted this task, both of them are at ease in their hearts, at least for a long time in the future, they don't have to worry about the fate of the Krupp Group!

"However, we are really ...... now."

Just after the excitement, the two of them immediately turned into bitter gourd faces again!

"In this way, you don't have to worry about me, I will invest in the Krupp Group in my private name and buy half of the group's equity, so that you will have the money to resume production!"

For three days in a row, Mainz visited several major military factories in the country, and he used the advanced technology and design drawings purchased from the system to provide these military factories with civilian products suitable for their production, so that they could survive the current crisis.

After dealing with the military factory, Mainz returned to Hamburg and went specifically to a newly established company, this company called penicillin, as the name suggests, this is a biopharmaceutical company, and it is a pharmaceutical company with antibiotics!

In World War I, the fatality rate and disability rate of the wounded in various countries are very high, the war caused a large number of casualties in a short period of time, and these wounded overwhelmed the field hospital, due to the lack of antibiotics and other drugs that can inhibit the growth of bacteria, the cross-infection in the field hospital and the wounded barracks is very serious, many soldiers died because of wound infection, which makes excessive blood loss and wound infection become the two main causes of wounded death.

In World War II, this situation has been greatly alleviated, as long as the soldiers can be treated, unless they suffer fatal injuries, otherwise most of them can be saved, the first major cause of injury and death of soldiers in World War II is excessive blood loss, as long as they can do a good job of hemostatic measures on the early battlefield, and complete the rehydration in time, and later transported back to the field hospital, after treatment, most of them can save their lives.

The main reason for this dramatic change is that before the outbreak of World War II, antibiotics were discovered and began to be used on a large scale in the medical field.

Walking into the penicillin plant, Mainz saw a large number of workers assembling the purified penicillin, packing it and putting it together.

The amount of these penicillins is not large, far less terrifying than the millions of units of penicillin in later generations, and the current technology has not reached that level, and the current bacteria are not resistant, so they do not need such a high concentration of penicillin, and they can still easily kill bacteria.

So the specifications of penicillin they produce are almost 200,000 units, of course, there are a small number of 500,000 units.

And the pricing of these penicillins was directly set by Mainz at the sky-high standard!

A 200,000-unit penicillin is priced at $400, and a 500,000-unit penicillin is $1,000!

At this price, 99% of the world's people at this time cannot afford it!

So this thing is destined to be a luxury!_

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