Chapter 8 Borrowing Money 1

Early the next morning, William II made a rare move and called Yannick over to have breakfast with him.

Before taking a few bites of bread, William II suddenly asked. "I heard that you asked the Mauser representative for 12% of the shares?"

"..." Not only does this damn guy not know how to appreciate others, but he dares to file a complaint?

Then he thought again and asked. "Grandpa, how did you know about this? Did Mauser's people tell you or did my secretaries report it to you?" He had already guessed the four beautiful women sent by William II. The secretary will definitely still have the task of monitoring him. After all, not long ago he was an ignorant playboy who spent all his time drinking and drinking. If it were him, he would not trust the empire to himself.

William II shook his happy beard and chewed the ham sausage. After swallowing it, he spoke. "What's the difference?"

Sure enough, those four secretaries were watching him by the way. "Of course there is a difference. If Mauser told you, then I will find a way to kill them. If it is the few people you sent to report to you, I have nothing to hide. I just want to do what Mauser did It’s just a transaction, I don’t want their 12% shares for nothing, I’m getting the gun design in exchange.”

William II couldn't help but wonder. "Firearm design drawing? Who designed it?"

Yannick pointed to his nose. "I."

"You?" The strange expression on William II's face seemed to almost make him laugh. "When did you learn firearms design? Are you so bold as to ask others for 12% of their shares? You don't want to blackmail them, do you? A friend called last night and asked if you were short of money."

Yannick sighed helplessly and had no choice but to tell the truth. "Grandpa, I can't hide it from you. Well, I can't hide it from you. You should know that I used three design drawings to exchange 12% of the shares with Walter Company yesterday. I didn't see Walter come to complain to you and accuse me of blackmail. They. I saw him waltzing with excitement when he left."

"Really?" William II still didn't believe it.

"If you don't believe it, you can send someone to ask. Firearm design is just taking the strengths of each company and adding a little innovation. It's not difficult." The easiest way is to directly plagiarize using the knowledge of later generations. "Grandpa, can you just leave this matter alone? I think Mauser is getting carried away because he is the main supplier to the Wehrmacht. I want to reduce the army's purchase of Type 98 by 30% and use me to give Walter Company replaced by a new rifle."

William II said somewhat disapprovingly. "Is the new rifle really that good?" His reaction was natural. After all, Mauser was a royal arsenal established during the reign of Frederick I and has a history of more than 100 years. The company has gathered top talents in various fields of firearms. How could it be possible to compare with what my grandson came up with in a flash. As for Walter, maybe he just flattered Yannick because of his status as the future emperor of the empire.

"No matter how bad it is, it's better than the Type 98, right? I think the design of the Type 98 is just that. You should also know that the end-locked Mauser bolt is not as fast as the rear-locked Lee-Enfield bolt. Ours The soldier must move his entire arm to eject the shell and load the gun, while the British soldier only needs to move his wrist joint to achieve the firing rate of only 10 rounds per minute, while the Lee-Enfield can reach 15 rounds per minute. It is just the rate of fire of ordinary soldiers. On foreign video websites, there is even a video owner who shoots a Lee-Enfield rifle at a speed of 10 rounds in 5 seconds. The most impressive one is a British army shooting instructor who set a record in 1914 by firing 38 bullets in one minute, and all of them hit a 30 cm diameter target 210 meters away.

"I gave them a chance, but they didn't want it, so don't blame me for being ruthless. Not only will I reduce my purchases by 30%, but when I find a new partner and come up with another rifle, they will have to purchase more Type 98s. Reduced to more than 60%. Well, I don’t need to find a partner, I can open an arms company myself. Then my arms company will supply the army’s arms, Mauser is nothing.”

Seeing Yannick's resentment towards Mauser and his "boasting words", Wilhelm II Yaoyaotou said. "Son, I can't make such a decision hastily. I'd better wait until Walter Company makes the gun and get it to the army for trial and evaluate it before making any decision."

Yannick nodded. "Okay. Grandpa, I want to... borrow some more money."

William II raised his eyebrows slightly. "How much more do you want to borrow?"

"I'm afraid I'll scare you by saying it. But let me say it beforehand, I will repay the borrowed money with interest around 1930." Yannick held out five fingers as he spoke.

"Five million?"

"five million?"

"Fifty million?"

Seeing Yannick still shaking his head, William II almost cursed. If it weren't for the fact that he had made some progress these days, he would have really wanted to drive this bastard grandson out of the palace and let him live on the streets as a beggar for a few days.

William II suppressed the anger in his heart and asked. "Then you have to at least tell me what the money is going to be used for?"

"This matter is being kept secret for the time being." Yannick certainly couldn't tell him that the U.S. stock market would collapse at the end of next year.

It's a pity that he traveled through time a little late. If we had planned to invest billions or even tens of billions a few years earlier, it would definitely cause the United States to suffer a massive hemorrhage. But now even if William II could misappropriate 10 billion US dollars for him, he would not dare to invest all of it.

After all, he was only acting based on his experience in the future, but the financial tycoons on Wall Street were real experts. If those old foxes of capital saw any signs, he would be the one who lost everything. Not only him, but also the whole of Germany.

So he could only set a small goal first, invest 500 million US dollars, and be satisfied with making two or three times the money.

William II said angrily. "Keep it secret from me too? Do you know that the domestic economy is in a mess now, and the foreign exchange reserves are not much. 500 million US dollars is not a small amount."

Seeing that William II was really angry, Yannick quickly took out a document and handed it over. "Grandpa, this is the follow-up to the elite troops plan I mentioned to you last time. The 'Invisible Force' plan."

On June 22, 1941 in the original time and space, the little mustache completely tore up the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Treaty" and blitzed the Soviet Union with a big mustache.

In the first few hours, thousands of German planes fiercely bombed Soviet airports, and countless Soviet tanks and artillery were destroyed before they could even be transported out of the warehouses. In the first few days of the war, entire Soviet divisions and armies were surrounded and destroyed by the Germans, and even entire army groups were not spared.

The bell of victory seemed to have rung for the Germans.

However, facing the endless Soviet prisoners, the clear-headed German generals began to feel helpless.

A German general even wrote in his diary: "We underestimated their strength. After careful screening of the prisoners, we have now discovered and identified 360 divisions!" The German army had 153 divisions plus 37 divisions from dependent countries, a total of only 190 divisions. Even if the situation was most favorable to them, they could not destroy all the Soviet Red Army. Moreover, the German general was only talking about the Soviet divisions that were in the first echelon fighting in the western region at that time. How many divisions were there in the second echelon? How many divisions were there in the third echelon? After several large-scale battles, why did the number of Soviet troops not decrease but instead miraculously recovered?