The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 917

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: 0.209s Scan: 0.083sOf course, this demand cannot be expressed by oneself, otherwise the Colombian side will also take the opportunity to put forward its own requirements, so Ribbentrop can attack indirectly, or he can constantly deny the other party’s proposal until the other party realizes this.

Mendes talked to Ribbentrop carefully with sweat all over his head. He couldn’t guess Ribbentrop’s mind, but he didn’t dare to not meet the other party’s requirements, so he told all the resources he knew about Samba and South America, and tried Ribbentrop’s reaction little by little.

South America is extremely rich in resources, and the reserves of various mineral resources are the highest in the world. Among them, phosphate, iron and copper are the world’s main production areas. These things are also the few products that South America can show in foreign trade in the future.

Because of its own development problems and the interference of the United States, South America has not been able to catch up with the process of industrialization. After missing the last train of the third industrial revolution, South America’s industry can be said to be a mess. Even the strongest country in the region, Samba, needs to earn foreign exchange by selling oil, natural gas, iron ore, soybeans and other products.

Other countries in South America are even worse. Venezuela in the north also relies on exporting oil, while Colombia is relatively short of oil, so it relies on exporting drugs.

Chile and Miluo in the west rely on exporting copper, cherries and other minerals and agricultural products.

In general, South America’s position in the global industrial division of labor is very low. It basically focuses on exporting various production raw materials and agricultural products. The added value of such products is very low, the profit is not rich, and it is easily affected by the price of bulk commodities.

When the market is good, exporting these things can naturally make a lot of money, but if the market is not good, the price of these things will plummet, and even if they are sold at a low price, no one will buy them, and the seller will lose so much that his mother will not recognize him!

In later times, Samba took advantage of the rapid rise of the Celestial Empire, which stimulated the demand for oil and iron ore, and earned a lot of income from these products.

At that time, Samba was ambitious and felt like restoring the glory of the empire.

But the good times didn’t last long. With the slowdown of the Celestial Empire’s own economy, the demand for oil and iron ore began to decline. In addition, Samba had previously been too harsh on the Celestial Empire in trade, forcing the Celestial Empire to expand its import channels and not dare to put all its eggs in one basket.

This made the competition faced by Samba even more intense when the economy was down and demand was falling. As a result, the seller’s market became a buyer’s market, and the price was no longer determined by the exporting country, but by the importing country, that is, the Celestial Empire. If the price was too high, the Celestial Empire would not want it, and it would not make a penny!

As a result, the good days of Samba were gone forever. Since 2016, life in Samba has become difficult. The government is financially tight and civil servants cannot be paid, which has led to domestic turmoil. They held an Olympic Games, but it became a world joke and made them lose face in front of the whole world!

Neither Mendes nor Ribbentrop cared about the life and death of Samba. One of them cared about the dominance of South America, and the other cared about the resources of South America!

So, both sides took what they needed and soon reached an agreement.

This agreement signed in the capital of Colombia is called the Bogota Agreement.

The contents of the agreement mainly include the following points:

1. Comprehensive strategic partnership between the Third Reich and Colombia.

2. Under the protection of the German Navy, Colombia sent 100,000 troops to attack Cuba.

3. The Third Reich supports the interests of Colombia in South America and opposes isolationism in South America.

4. The Third Reich will start close economic and military cooperation with Colombia. The first cooperation project is that Colombia will order two 5,000-ton cruisers from the Third Reich.

5. The Third Reich will provide Colombia with 100,000 weapons and equipment. In exchange, Colombia will hand over the control of the Panama Canal it has occupied to the Third Reich!

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After the signing of this agreement, it immediately attracted the attention of South American countries.

Ribbentrop came in a high-profile airship. In fact, this news had already spread throughout South America under the intentional dissemination of the Third Reich. The countries in South America, especially several countries with interests at stake, such as Samba and Argentina, did not dare to blink their eyes, and kept staring at the meeting between the two countries, anxiously waiting for the results of the meeting between the two countries.

In the process of waiting, the Samba people went from being angry when they first heard the news, to being confused and panicked when waiting, to being ashamed after the agreement came out, all of which took only a few days!

Unlike Samba, other countries in South America do not have the ability to interfere with the throne of the overlord of South America, so they don’t really have any feelings about who will be the overlord. As long as this overlord can bring them tangible benefits, they will be willing to follow the other party!

The reason why they bought into Samba was because Samba was powerful and had great influence. If they followed Samba, it was obviously the best choice among several options.

But all this changed fundamentally after the Third Reich entered the scene!

No matter how strong Samba was, it was not as strong as the Third Reich. If they continued to follow Samba, it would obviously greatly offend Colombia and the Third Reich. If it was just Colombia, they could still ignore it. After all, Colombia was not strong, and Samba could solve it alone.

But once the Third Reich entered the scene, things became complicated. Even if they and Samba were added together, they were not the opponent of the Third Reich. So should they choose to stand on the side of Samba and fight against an enemy that they could not defeat?

Or stand on the side of Colombia and follow the most powerful country in the world? The answer is obvious!

Therefore, the leaders of various countries who had received the invitation from Samba and were going to Samba to attend the South American Conference began to decline at this time. They found all kinds of strange excuses in a short time. Some people said that they were busy with official duties at home and could not spare time to attend the meeting. Some said that they were ill and could not attend the meeting.

Others simply pretended that nothing had happened and ignored the telegrams from the Samba people.

Seeing this, Colombia immediately took the opportunity to send out its own invitation letter, inviting South American countries to come to its country to discuss national affairs! What made the Samba people most angry was that Colombia even invited them!