Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 319 Caspian Transaction

The supplies will be traded in a few days, so Hou Xiaoge immediately began to take inventory of the supplies produced by the food factory during this period.

As expected, after Hou Xiaoge indicated that the main focus should be on coarse grains, the output of fried noodles was far ahead. More than half a month in the outside world and more than a month in the space, the output of fried noodles directly exceeded 8,000 tons.

Including noodles, biscuits, and bread stored in the sky warehouse, the quantity directly exceeded 10,000 tons.

Of course, what followed was that all the supplies that Hou Xiaoge had originally stored in the space, as well as the food produced in the space this season, were consumed.

Now most of the daily food for the more than 10,000 people living in the space has been replaced by sweet potatoes, and only a small half of the food is normal crops. Fortunately, meat and eggs are enough for the time being.

After a final statistics, there are now a total of 23,000 tons of various materials in the space, including meat, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, tea, etc.

These materials are enough for two months of trading. After two months in the outside world, the space will produce tens of thousands of tons of sweet potatoes, which are enough for recycling and trading.

The items to be traded this time were divided into a separate warehouse, including 5,000 tons of fried noodles, 2,000 tons of meat and eggs, 1,100 tons of noodles, biscuits, bread and other foods, 2,000 tons of tobacco and alcohol, 500 tons of tea, 500 tons of fruit, and 50,000 doses of medicine for injuries.

After finishing all this, Hou Xiaoge prepared to temporarily end his trip to Ukraine and go home to replenish supplies.

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"Mr. Andre, as far as I know, what Germany needs most right now is not food or other supplies. The military also has meat to supplement their meals every day.

I heard that there are countless newly produced planes and warships parked in your country's ports that cannot take off due to lack of fuel. What you lack most now is oil, right?" In a hotel, Hou Xiaoge was talking with the German lieutenant general he had established a relationship with.

“It goes without saying that everyone in the world knows that Germany is in urgent need of oil.

Why, can your company provide us with large quantities of oil?

I don't think your company has such strength. American planes and British warships should not allow an oil tanker to sail to the port of the German Alliance area." The German lieutenant general shrugged and said.

“Our company really can’t provide too much oil, only 3,000 to 4,000 tons per month at most.

But our company knows a place that is rich in oil, which contains 70 to 80 percent of the world's oil." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.

"There?" Andre opened his eyes wide.

"I'll tell you for free! This news is not worth much to us, just consider it as buying friendship.

This place is the Persian Empire and the Middle East, which has more than 80% of the world's oil.

It's just that the news is now covered up by the British and American consortiums because they are afraid that you Germans will change your war strategy after knowing it." Hou Xiaoge said this information lightly.

In fact, he had thought about this for a long time and had planned to tell Prussia last year.

But I am worried that they are all fascist countries, and Germany and the Japanese will cooperate with each other at that time.

Just imagine, the Japanese navy plus the German navy, plus the world's best German army and air force, the sum of the two makes people's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Now the United States is completely defeated, and the Russians, John Bull, and Germany have also been defeated.

Now tell the other side that with luck, the Western war can last longer, and the biggest beneficiary is actually the country.

It’s okay if you’re unlucky, it’s just following normal history.

Besides, the Germans are not fools. In fact, they know that there is oil in Persia and the Middle East, especially in Persia now, where there is plenty of oil.

However, the door to the Middle East is blocked by Türkiye, and the grievances between Persia, Türkiye and Germany are relatively complicated.

In addition, Germany did not know how much oil there was, so it did not attack.

Now Hou Xiaoge said that Persia and the Middle East account for 80% of the world's oil, which aroused the German general's heartstrings.

Germany is in a difficult situation! If it weren't for the lack of oil and many of its equipment being grounded and unable to move, the Russians would have been defeated long ago, and Europe would have been ruled by Germany long ago.

"Mr. Watt, are you kidding me?" Andre said tentatively with a frown.

"It shouldn't be difficult for you German forces to verify the truth! Send a team of experts to the Persian Gulf to investigate and you'll know.

There are many places where you can dig a pit and find oil, but it is blocked by the United States and Britain, and you and the Russians are fighting each other to the death. "Hou Xiaoge smiled and shook his head, looking like he didn't believe it.

"Okay, we will send someone to check it out. If it is true, no matter what your reason is, you will gain the friendship of the German military." Andre stood up and said.

"Very good. I hope we can meet again after you get the answers you deserve. I have an even more explosive news." Hou Xiaoge decided to muddy the waters a little more.

"Can't you tell me now?" Andre stared.

"You are not of sufficient rank, I wish to meet your leader.

I heard that your leader likes to smoke, so I'll give you one of these two boxes of the nobles' favorite refreshing cigarettes, and the other box will be given to your leader. I hope you like them." Before leaving, Hou Xiaoge took out two boxes of primary refreshing cigarettes and handed them over.

"Okay, thank you for the noble cigarettes." Andre was just a fighting animal, so he had naturally never heard of the wake-up cigarettes and didn't care much about it.

After leaving the hotel, Hou Xiaoge became more interested in the future world situation.

Now with the blessing of the wake-up smoke, regardless of other things, President Ronaldinho of the United States will not meet their God so early, and he can at least live a few more years.

This is the first variable created by Hou Xiaoge when he came to this era. The other is the oil issue just mentioned. If the Germans are serious and change their war strategy, it will be more interesting.

As for the variables in the domestic and Southeast Asian layouts, these are small changes.

After all, whether it is the Chinese in Southeast Asia or China, they are now just victims of World War II and cannot influence the overall situation.

Of course, what Hou Xiaoge is most looking forward to is Germany changing its strategy. However, considering the overall situation of the war, it is very difficult to change this war strategy, and Germany’s defeat is almost doomed.

However, if we add another explosive news from Hou Xiaoge, Germany might fail more gracefully, and the division of the world would make it more interesting.

After leaving Ukraine, Hou Xiaoge flew directly to Russia, the big lake mentioned by Iranians, which is the Caspian Sea.

The Caspian Sea covers an area of nearly 400,000 square kilometers and is the largest saltwater lake in the world.

As for why the locals call it a lake instead of a sea, it is naturally because a lake can be owned by a country, while the ocean belongs to the whole world and everyone can go there to fish and mine.

The locals are not fools, so the Caspian Sea is just a name given by the world. The locals do not acknowledge it and call it a lake instead.

Now during World War II, the countries around the Caspian Sea were controlled by the Allies, and it was a strategic place for the United States, Britain and other countries to transport supplies to the Russians.

There is also a large area of the Caspian Sea that borders Kazakhstan, so Hou Xiaoge can use the excuse that the goods are transported from the Caspian Sea when trading near the Caspian Sea.

After all, the area of nearly 400,000 square kilometers is still very large. In that era, technology was not very advanced, so it was still very simple to obtain supplies.

Moreover, for large corporations, the military is just serving them. Take the United States for example, many large corporations can even mobilize the military to help.

The plane explored the area bordering Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea for a while, and finally chose a remote group of small islands.

After Hou Xiaoge found several small islands and released some of the supplies, he brought out two hundred mercenaries by plane to guard them.

This time, the mercenaries were equipped with much better equipment. In addition to ordinary light weapons, they also brought artillery.

After finishing, Hou Xiaoge went directly to the place agreed with Alman.

"Mr. Hunter, I've been waiting for you for several days. How are the supplies going?" Alman saw Hou Xiaoge's excited face.

"No, the most important thing in doing business is integrity. We have asked people to prepare the things, but why can't I see Colonel Baoerjiang?" Hou Xiaoge asked in confusion when he saw Alman and a strange major general coming to pick him up.

“The colonel was currently attending the Senior Commanders School and couldn’t leave, but he contacted my oldest brother, Bowerman.

This is my big brother Bowerman. This transaction is handled by me and my big brother Bowerman." Arman introduced Hou Xiaoge with a smile.

After some introduction, Bowerman took Hou Xiaoge to visit the items of this transaction.

More than 10 million rubles of supplies are neither too little nor too much. If you buy warships, you can probably only buy a small Karami. But if you buy army weapons, that would be a lot.

A machine gun costs only four or five thousand rubles, and an old one can be bought at a 50% to 60% discount, so it can be bought for 2,300. If you don’t buy one, it will cost 5,000.

It doesn't sound like much, but let's change it to an ordinary rifle. An ordinary bolt-action rifle is no more than 100 rubles, and after depreciation, it is 40 or 50, and you can buy more than 100,000.

If Hou Xiaoge could exchange so many weapons for just over two thousand bottles of liquor, it could no longer be described as a bargain. In this era, cheap was definitely the best adjective.

Of course, Hou Xiaoge couldn't just ask for rifles, he asked for a whole maintenance regiment.

This time, in addition to five tanks, Kazakhstan also brought Hou Xiaoge equipment equivalent to three regiments, including various artillery and firearms.

Without looking at other things, just looking at the first five tanks is enough to make people excited, two Type 5 tanks, two Type 1 tanks, and one Type 2 tank.

Especially the two Type 5 tanks, which are the famous Black Panther tanks, are really lovable.

After visiting the things, Hou Xiaoge then took the Alman brothers on a boat to the island area to visit the supplies they brought.

A total of one thousand tons of liquor, twenty tons of medicinal liquor, two hundred tons of tea, two hundred boxes of cigarettes, and five thousand doses of medicine.

These things are enough to exchange for those arms, and the two brothers are drooling at the sight.