It doesn't matter whether Berlin's defense is broken or not.
Switzerland... must go there, after all, Germany needs those tungsten ore.
Of course, the price is not cheap, George offers a high price of 20,000 US dollars!
Although the price is high, there is a delivery guarantee. Guarantee to provide 5,000 tons of tungsten ore within a month.
"Are you sure you can transport the tungsten ore to Switzerland within a month?"
Faced with Berlin's doubts, George shrugged his shoulders and said.
"Don't be too confident in your army. After all, Germany is no longer the Germany of four years ago!"
The current Third Reich is on its last legs, and no one can stop its demise.
Thinking of its demise, George can't help but feel a little sorry. It's been more than a year since he came here, and he just got on this line, but the Third Reich was destroyed.
What a pity!
In fact, he doesn't care about the Third Reich at all. Compared with the Third Reich, he prefers gold, but it's a bit late now.
The transaction with the Third Reich can only last for a few months at most.
It's just a one-time deal!
No, we have to urge the uncle-in-law to organize the supply as soon as possible and try to make another deal with the Germans before Germany's total defeat.
After all, the opportunity is rare!
In the end, George did not forget to remind Berlin to help him search for technicians. The gold of the Third Reich is important, but the technicians are more important. That is the priceless treasure.
Although excellent technicians from Germany, Italy and other countries are important, it is most important to train our own technicians. In order to train our own people, after acquiring several Italian companies, we carefully selected two hundred employees and flew to Italy. They will be trained in many companies including Alfa Romeo and Savoia-Marchetti.
However, for them, the most important thing is the language barrier. Like other comrades, after arriving in Italy, Zhang Tingpeng first had to learn Italian. Even the engineers of Savoia-Marchetti Aircraft Company can speak English, but they can't speak Italian, which is obviously not conducive to the subsequent learning.
Although this is not studying abroad, Zhang Tingpeng still seems very excited. After all, being able to intern at an aircraft manufacturing company is a rare opportunity.
"Zhang, look, this is the SM.95 designed by our company. At present, it is one of the best four-engine aircraft in the world. It is not worse than Douglas' DC4, but it is a little slower..."
Batista took out a model and said regretfully.
"It uses four Alfa Romeo 128RC.18 engines, with a wingspan of 34.28 meters and a length of 24.77 meters. It can carry 12,800 kilograms of cargo or 44 passengers. It can even fly to New York. When the test flight was successful two years ago, Mussolini even wanted to use it to bomb the United States..."
Looking at the model in the engineer's hand, Zhang Tingpeng asked curiously.
"Mr. Batista, why haven't I seen it in the hangar?"
"We built two, but they were both taken away by the Germans..."
Shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and then Batista said.
"But it's no big deal. The drawings are still there, the technicians are still there, and soon we will rebuild it, maybe in North Borneo..."
"North Borneo?"
Zhang Tingpeng was surprised,
"Where is that?"
"It's Asia,"
Battista glanced at the young man next to him and said.
"Aren't you from there? In the future, we will all work there. After all, our boss is the chairman of North Borneo Company. Do you know? He owns a piece of land of 75,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of three Sicilies. He is the king of that land, and all of us work for him!"
King?
North Borneo Company?
What's going on?
Although a little confused, Zhang Tingpeng soon forgot about it. Like other alumni and classmates, he learned English from engineers during the day, learning aircraft design and manufacturing. At night, he also needed to learn Italian in training classes.
For them, learning is more important.
Shortly after Zhang Tingpeng and others arrived in Italy, North Borneo Company reached a technical cooperation agreement with more than a dozen American companies including Boeing, Ford, Westinghouse, etc. These companies will train technical talents for North Borneo Company.
The reason why those large American companies are willing to sign an agreement with North Borneo Company is not only for the orders of Borneo's post-war reconstruction, but more importantly, Truman has said hello. Those large companies are naturally willing to sell Truman a favor. After all, their companies are often investigated by the Truman Committee, and this favor must be sold.
After the signing of the agreement, in addition to 300 international students who need to study in the United States, George selected 600 team members from the technical team to enter the American company for training. They all embarked on the journey to the United States from Tunisia. The aircraft they took was the SM.75 manufactured by Savoia-Marchetti Company. Although this aircraft is a three-engine transport aircraft developed before the war and looks old, it has a long range and can fly directly from North Africa to New York.
As for the SM.75 they took, they all came from the Italian military, or rather the former military. After all, the Italians had long since retired, leaving thousands of planes rusting at the airport. So George spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy these transport planes, further expanding the scale of North Borneo Airlines. As for the pilots, they were naturally those unemployed Italian pilots.
However, while using Italian pilots, George also set up a pilot training class in the airline to train pilots. The pilots were of course selected from the task force members, and even on the ship, there were task force members doing internships.
It is precisely because of people that everything is possible.
After the rapid transfer of personnel, the 5,000-person team was reduced by more than 20% in just one month.
In the eyes of Zhao Xiyong and others, George's actions were somewhat "unprofessional", but he had no right to intervene, because now those task force members were no longer soldiers, but employees of the North Borneo Company. The only thing that could make him feel a little relieved was that the weapons search was going smoothly, and the repair speed in Tunisia was also very fast, and materials such as guns and ammunition were shipped directly from Marseilles to China.
Just when the first batch of people going to the United States took a plane to the United States, the merchant ship on which the second batch of people took a flight had also passed through the Suez Canal and soon arrived in Marseille. The number of people in the task force finally broke through five digits and reached 10,000...