Construction is underway in a corner of the Prime Minister's Palace Garden. At Xu Jun's request, the construction site was surrounded by willow walls covered with green camouflage nets. In addition to blocking noise, it can also prevent dust from being flown due to construction.

The first phase of the Prime Minister's Office air raid shelter construction project, a plan that was originally started in 1943, was placed on the timetable in advance by Xu Jun.

In Xu Jun's plan, this will be a comprehensive underground bunker with three-layer structures. In addition to the basic air raid shelter, it can also be used as a backup command center for the central theater at critical moments. At the same time, the vault on the ground floor will also be used to preserve the most important and secret confidential archives of the German government.

"How was you having fun yesterday? Daogen, I heard you took Mercedes to the zoo." Xu Jun closed the thick curtains and turned back to his desk.

The head of the empire was still wearing his arrogant marshal's uniform, with two rows of medals hanging on his chest, gold decorations hanging on his shoulders, and the cross of the oak leaf knight on the collar was shiny.

After returning to Berlin, many people suggested that the young head of the empire should replace the army uniform with the imperial administrative officer uniform, just like the yellow-brown uniform that Hitler often wore, which was more in line with the identity of the empire's head of state as the leader of a country. However, everyone's suggestions were rejected by Xu Jun at the first time. How could they think that the head of the empire would be an extremely fanatical uniform control?

"It's not bad, my head of state. The zoo recently imported a batch of Southeast Asian wild animals, which was impressive." The SS colonel replied with his chest out.

"Melcetes was very happy. She also wanted to bring the bear from the zoo back and raise it." Randolph interrupted, and was immediately cut back and forth by the boss's eyes like a blade.

"It's so good. I want to go to the zoo, too." The head of empire supported his chin with one hand and his fingers with the other hand drew circles on the table, cursing these subordinates who didn't take him to play.

After all, I was the head of state, but since I returned to Berlin, I felt that I had lost most of my freedom. When Jack was still the deputy head of state, he was so high that he could fly high and fly wide by the sea and jump around. He could wander around Europe without any scruples, and never have to worry about anyone coming out to stop him.

But when he arrived at Xu Jun, it was completely different. Once he had the idea of ​​going out for a trip, he would immediately be persuaded by his subordinates.

This is not because the subordinates are unkind. It is because the head of the empire has a special physique and is really too attractive.

When I was on a battlefield patrol, I crashed directly on the battlefield. After finally having a vacation, I took a group of division commanders to Warsaw and fought a battle with the local SS. I would be sniped by someone squatting in an armored vehicle through the armored board. I would encounter an entire British fleet when I took a submarine. It would be better to become the head of state. As a result, I would go out for lunch in a secluded manner and was attacked by a group of Japanese.

Now the number of "believers" loyal to the head of state is almost impossible to measure. They are waiting for his orders at any time in various positions across the country and exercising power in his name. In their eyes, they are all one with the head of state honor and disgrace. When the head of state has not yet determined its successor, it will be a disaster for everyone. I don’t know how many people will lose everything they have in front of me, nor do I know how many people will be buried with this leader.

Colonel Daogen has always been loyal. He never refuses any orders from the head of state. In this matter, he also said that he would stand on the head of state. It is only necessary to meet one of his conditions. It is not impossible to go to the zoo to play, but he must bring the entire head of state guard. Then he must make an appointment in advance so that they can organize the army to clear the field completely and let the head of state play alone in a safe environment.

Xu Jun almost squirted his old blood on the ground, clearing all the tourists. The head of the empire was wandering around the zoo alone. It was better to say that a large group of animals were watching him than that.

In the end, the head of state gave up that idea. What he never expected was that his thoughts reminded the group of unreliable subordinates that the group of people actually organized an autumn outing to the zoo while they were free on Sunday holidays.

What makes Xu Jun even more depressed is that they deliberately missed a few sentences during work conversations, making the head of the empire envious and jealous.

"My head of state, the food problem is still the biggest difficulty we are facing at present. Although the German local cereals have achieved a bumper harvest this year, the total output in non-staple foods has shrunk significantly." Seeing that the head of state was a little sluggish, Weirle hurriedly turned the topic back to normal official business.

"Yesterday I talked to an ordinary farmer I met and learned about the real situation in the German countryside. After returning to the base camp, I drew up relevant information collected by the Eye of Odin in the past few weeks and found that the current situation is a bit unoptimistic."

"I know what you mean, and it has been discussed many times at the ministerial meeting, and in a short period of time we have no way to adjust. Germany, no, should be the whole of Europe faces the issue of food security, which requires organizing a professional expert group for research. I have agreed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' proposal to the UK and French cabinets on forming an expert group, and I believe that they will respond within a week, and I don't think there will be any problems.

The biggest difficulty this year should be in Denmark. All their livestock feed needs to be imported from overseas. The maritime blockade in the past few months has caused an extremely shortage of feed. In order to prevent large-scale starvation from killing livestock, they had to slaughter in advance. This war has had a huge blow to Denmark's agriculture and animal husbandry. They have begun to use their previous strategic reserves. If they cannot receive additional food from outside, some parts of northern Denmark may face famine by the end of the year.

The situation along the Rhine River is similar. After hundreds of years of repeated cultivation, the land along the coast has been severely degraded. Now only by using a large amount of fertilizer can we barely ensure the output. Peddy told me that France's total grain output this year is less than half of last year, but some of the farmland has been replanted, and with the savings in previous years, there should be no problems.

Although the situation in Belgium and the Netherlands is a little better than Denmark, the difference is not too far. Belgium can get support from France for the time being, so the Netherlands will be in trouble. They used to rely mainly on grain trade with the UK, but the UK now has big problems. Now we can only mobilize some funds to help Denmark and the Netherlands first, import a batch of grain from the United States and Canada, and find a way to solve this year's problems first." Xu Jun leaned softly on the back of the chair, stroked the short hair on his forehead, and said expressionlessly.

"And Italy, my head of state, has obtained information from Italy, and they are discussing whether to buy a batch of food from us at a low price. What they need is mainly wheat, pickled meat and various canned foods." Kirsten reported respectfully.

"How is the situation there now? Are there any signs of Mussolini changing his intentions?" Xu Jun immediately became energetic when he heard the news from Italy.

"It is exactly as you expected. Italy is secretly mobilizing the whole country, and now it has mobilized more than 200,000 troops. The previous proposal of the Italian General Staff to "launch a short and limited-scale attack" was not adopted. Mussolini's attitude was very firm and there was no sign of changing his intentions. It seems that he is determined to make a big move." Kirsten replied.

"Continue to pay close attention to their every move. If they send a purchasing group, they will sell the materials they want to them, but they must trade in cash. They are absolutely not allowed to pay on credit as before. They owe too much debt to Germany. Given the current economic situation in Italy, I am worried that they may go bankrupt before repaying it." After Xu Jun said that, he stood up and walked to the wall on the side of the office.

Dieshenhofen ran over quickly and pulled open the tapestries covering the wall for him, revealing a huge European map behind him in front of Xu Jun.

"The preparation work of [Aldridge Plan] is to be accelerated. The two mountain infantry divisions in the Austrian cluster must be prepared to enter Serbia at any time. We cannot delay these problems and must solve all hidden dangers before the end of this year. We do not have enough time, and we must make more efficient use of the resources we have mastered. We cannot waste precious manpower and material resources on these countries that will only drag our backs." Xu Jun stretched out his hand and drew a circle in the air. Everyone present knew what burdens he was referring to.

"The Italian side also wants us to supply their fuel urgently, all the fuel needed by aircraft and ships." Weirle continued: "My head of state, it will not be of any benefit to Germany for the continued ally with them. Your decision is obviously extremely correct, and all the generals of the command agree with this."

Italy's current situation is very interesting. This Mediterranean country is still in a state of war with Britain and France. Neither Britain nor France obviously have the idea of ​​unconditional surrendering to Mussolini. The French kept harassing Italy's borders and launched air strikes from time to time, dropping several bombs on the passes of the Alps. The fleet of the British Royal Navy continued to intercept Italian tankers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, causing Italy's oil reserves to almost drop to the bottom line.

When facing these difficulties of friendly countries, the so-called steel ally, the Third Reich chose to stand by and watch, not only turned a blind eye to the brutal acts of Britain and France, but also fanned the flames and fueled the flames, which made the great leader feel that he had suffered tons of humiliation and harm.
Chapter completed!