Three hundred and fifty second each take what they need
Germany's labor shortage sounds like a joke, but in fact, after the end of the European War, this issue has been plaguing Xu Jun and the top leaders of the Nazi government.
After the French Battle ended, a large gap in labor force appeared in European countries, because a large number of skilled workers and peasants were either sent to prisoners of war camps or brought their families to war refugees.
The identification and release of prisoners of war seems to be an extremely time-consuming project. Many people do not know that the top leaders of Europe have reached certain agreements. Even if the prisoners of war are released, most of them will not be allowed to be discharged. Not only that, the * teams are also strengthening the construction of armed forces and preparing to deal with the possible attack by the violent and powerful enemy of the East.
War is bound to happen, and no one in the top leaders of various countries will doubt this, because the recent signs have become increasingly clear that the powerful comrade of steel is not as passionate as he claims to be peace. He is currently crazily establishing his authority in the country. He tries to make his people regard him as his father like a Tsar. The specific effect of the people is still unknown, but most of his subordinates now regard him as gods, and almost all of the guys who have questions about this issue have lost their lives.
The progress of Europe's economic recovery plan is somewhat delayed. At the current speed, it is likely that it will not be completed within the time expected by Xu Jun. If it is a peacetime period, it would be irrelevant. However, under the current situation, any mistake may disrupt the scheduled plan, and at the same time, a series of subsequent problems will arise. When these problems accumulate, it may completely lead to the collapse of the entire war system.
The history of the German Nazi Party after occupying Europe was a super-explosive story. If you want to write a memoir for Hitler, Xu Jun felt that the title could be designated as "Guide to the Destruction of the Empire" or "The Complete Collection of Leaders' Death". In history, Germany was confidently embarked on the road of self-destruction, committed to making up for another mistake. In the end, the Third Reich was knocked down from the top of Europe. Not only was it torn apart by its fearful enemies, but it was also shattered by them. The national soul that the German ancestors spent a hundred years to cultivate.
The whole of Europe needs labor, but this issue has always been ignored by the Nazi Party. They only care about production and construction in Germany, and use the blood and sweat of the people in the occupied areas to fill the loopholes artificially created due to their reckless actions regardless of reality. Some people asked the survivors of Europe who had experienced World War II what their deepest memory of this war was, and most people proposed a similar answer, that is, the scarcity of daily necessities and almost endless poverty and hunger.
Xu Jun will not repeat the mistakes of the Nazis back then. If it cannot be solved, it is a problem that will inevitably occur. The resources that Europe has at present cannot be solved at all, so he can only find another way and seek solutions from the outside.
The military industrial production in Europe requires a large amount of qualified labor to enter factories, and the expansion of the army also requires a large number of men of appropriate age to be conquered and served. Large roads and fortifications built in Europe for war preparations require a large number of construction workers, and hundreds of "newly discovered" mineral mining requires a large number of miners and coolies to complete it.
There is a shortage of people everywhere, especially in agriculture, and the gap in this area is even more serious. German farmers are the main source of the army. They have good physical fitness and excellent obedience, and have always been the backbone of the German Wehrmacht.
The expansion of the German Defense Forces will inevitably have a serious impact on German agricultural production. Although Germany has established rural collective organizations similar to agricultural cooperatives and collective farms, the decline in the actual number of working people cannot be compensated by some scientific production models. Historically, Germany's food supply has gone from roughly self-sufficiency, but eventually more than 90% of it needs to be plundered from various occupied areas, resulting in a general shortage of food in the occupied countries, which further shook the ruling system established by the Nazis. In fact, the common people around the world are the same, and hunger has always been the biggest cause of resistance to tyranny.
The problem facing Xu Jun is very practical. If he wants to complete the first phase goal, he needs to obtain at least another 200,000 strong labor force. This is the data calculated after calculating all the existing spare labor force that can be mobilized in Europe. As the production activities in the occupied areas resume, the current spare labor force will be quickly digested by the self-growth of various countries, and then the gap in European labor force will become even larger.
Hitler once was worried about the German population issue, but his perspective was different from Xu Jun. What he was worried about was that as a ruling nation that dominated Europe, Germany's current population might not be enough. Xu Jun was reluctant to even think about Hitler's strange thinking.
However, he led to a new idea for Xu Jun. At that time, in order to increase the population of Germany, Hitler not only encouraged the people to have children, but also vigorously promoted and attracted German expatriates who had moved abroad, calling on them to contribute to the rejuvenation of the German nation. This high-sounding slogan deceived many passionate German people at that time. Countless German expatriates around the world abandoned their originally comfortable and comfortable life with their families and returned to their motherland.
As a result, after returning to China, many people discovered that the Nazi Party had not seriously considered how to resettle these returning expatriates, and they did not even dare to admit the decision made by the head of state.
Compared with the increase in population, Hitler actually paid more attention to the political interests hidden behind it. These expatriates became his capital to show the politics of the Nazi party. They were willing to abandon the country where they originally lived and returned to the Nazi rule. This was obviously a proof that the Nazi system was superior to the other side and another great victory of the Third Reich.
In the end, these returned compatriots who were full of German resurgence were placed on the land of Poland and Czech Republic occupied by Germany. Most of them became farmers and worked hard to cultivate for the Third Reich. When the Soviet army began a large-scale counterattack in the late war in history, these people were the first to be the target of the Soviet army's cleansing of civilians in the occupying country. I wonder if these people would regret the decision they made back then in front of the blood-stained butcher knife.
Now that Hitler is dead, all this matter was thrown to Xu Jun. The new head of state had a very straightforward solution. He stopped accepting the return of the expatriates and ordered the Imperial Propaganda Department to carry out vigorous publicity overseas, so that the expatriates believed that their stay in other countries would be of greater help to Germany. After the war, Germany needed to re-establish a mutual trust relationship with countries around the world. The expatriates in the local area were Germany's natural peace envoys. They were Germany's bond to the world and convey Germany's good-willed peace expectations to the world. As for whether the Germans believed these words, Goebbels himself believed them.
In Xu Jun's view, it is extremely foolish to reduce the influence and voice of Germans in various immigrant countries by themselves.
However, the labor problem still needs Xu Jun to solve it. In history, Germany drove a large number of civilians in occupied areas, prisoners of war and Jews to carry out free labor. Not only was the work efficiency amazing, but it also caused great waste of resources. In order to improve work efficiency, the Nazis adopted extraordinary brutal management methods, which made Germany notorious in Europe. It made people beat people in later generations, and it was almost inauspicious.
Now Xu Jun has only a few concentration camps and labor camps to use. Compared with the gaps currently facing, these people are not even a drop in the bucket. French prisoners of war will be released sooner or later, and British prisoners of war can only carry out some basic manual labor and cannot join the production system. This is an agreement signed with the British.
So the difficulties Xu Jun faces now are actually much greater than in history. Hitler's policy of replenishing national strength gave Xu Jun an inspiration. He remembered that when the Beiyang government participated in the war during World War I, China sent a large army of laborers. These hard-working Chinese workers left a very good impression on the French. It is said that many French women were rushing to marry hard-working Chinese workers at that time.
Now China lacks everything, but it is not short of labor that can work. The national strength of the government is close to the bottom line, and the resources in the existing controlled areas are no longer enough to support all the people.
The gap between the rich and the poor in society has increased, and the large number of land and industries have been merged. The national resources have been concentrated in the hands of the gentry, landlords, officials and businessmen. The people rely on their own labor to barely survive. In many areas, civilians cannot even be guaranteed due to war.
Especially after the war broke out, famines occurred in various places year after year, and each time it brought a large number of casualties to civilians, part of which was due to natural disasters and more because of *. For example, many local governments were unable to defend their territory and were quite proficient in fleeing. Often, as soon as the Japanese army appeared at one end of the horizon, civilians from the whole village and village were competing to escape under the command of local officials. Due to the haste, many people abandoned all their property in panic, and many people eventually became hungry and died miserably on the side of the road.
At that time, the survival of Chinese farmers was all dependent on land, and once farmers left the land, they mean death. Therefore, many farmers were unwilling to escape from their hometowns and determined to live and die with their homes. These people eventually stayed in the Japanese occupied area and became the targets of exploitation by the Japanese.
The finances of the Kuomintang-controlled areas are on the verge of bankruptcy, and a large number of war refugees are pouring into the southwestern provinces. This is not 100,000 or 200,000, but measured in millions. The prices of various daily necessities in the southwestern provinces are soaring sharply, inflation is deteriorating, and the financial and material resources in the hands of the government are simply unable to interfere with this. Although tough administrative measures have been adopted to force the price to stabilize, it has actually contributed to the rampant development of the underground black market. Because many black market merchants themselves have government officials, and the government wants to ban it is basically empty talk.
The plan proposed by Xu Jun at this moment can be said to be the perfect solution of the Chinese government. It can not only reduce the burden on the government's shoulders, but also receive the support urgently needed by the government.
After the end of the European War, countries have accumulated a large number of weapons that are preparing to be updated and replaced. France and Britain are discussing an agreement with Germany on the unification of the caliber of European infantry weapons. Once this agreement is issued, all weapons that do not meet the specifications will be eliminated. Of course, this process will not be very fast, and there will definitely be a transition time, but the outcome of these weapons has become inevitable.
In the past, such eliminated weapons were either stored or simply destroyed and recycled. Few countries could eat products of this size unless the other party was experiencing a grand war.
Now it is equivalent to Germany smashing a large piece of pie in front of the government, and Chiang Kai-shek has no position to refuse. His brother-in-law has been struggling in the United States for a whole year, but has only received a loan of 20 million US dollars. As a result, the government still needs to use minerals and tariffs to mortgage it. No matter how you look at it, the United States has not taken the predicament of the government in mind.
In contrast, the generosity shown by the Germans now made Chiang Kai-shek almost think that he was dreaming that the goods on the long list of trades could make the equipment of the national government army no less than any Japanese army. Several of the heavy equipment even surpassed the existing Japanese weapons. If they appeared on the battlefield, they could easily crush the Japanese army. When they thought of the scene where the soldiers of the country broke through the Japanese positions like a destruction and chased the Japanese invaders to the sky without a way out, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't stop feeling a burst of pleasure.
So when Chiang Kai-shek saw the transaction list and related cooperation intentions, he immediately made up his mind that the government would reach this agreement with Germany at all costs.
The most valuable thing in the national government is now, and it is hard to find a three-legged toad, and the number of living people with two legs is as much as possible. Although Germany has requirements for the quality of personnel, for the national government, where is the huge population base, this is not a problem. Even if the Germans want to choose one in a hundred, there is no pressure.
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