Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

As the first person in charge of the empire's intelligence department, Reinhard has many unknown secret intelligence channels. At this moment, he is standing in front of Yannick's desk, reporting the latest intelligence. "As you might expect, just yesterday, the Spanish colonial troops stationed in Morocco and the Canary Islands launched a rebellion instigated by Generals Franco, Emilio Mora and others."

"What is supposed to come has come." Yannick couldn't help but muttered in a low voice. The Spanish Civil War, known as the "Little World War II", broke out.

"Miss Anne, I want to convene a military meeting." After giving the order, Yannick remembered something. "Reinhard, I remember asking you to pay attention to the people around Franco a few years ago, right? Is there any progress?"

Reinhard said respectfully. "Yes, Your Highness, you gave me full responsibility after you gave the order. There is no need to report to you anymore. In fact, we have successfully placed our people beside Franco as early as two years ago. Now Franco is His right-hand man."

Yannick suddenly became interested. "Oh, tell me?"

Reinhard reported in detail. "At that time, when I was investigating Franco's cronies, I found that one of them, Arias, looked very much like an agent of our intelligence department. Whether it was his expression, behavior or appearance, he was almost carved from the same mold. Our intelligence The department secretly observed Arias, trying to grasp as many details as possible. In the end, our fake Arias even deceived the real Arias's mistress.

Then we caused a small car accident, switched Arias with our agents, and tortured Arias. The guy was a softie and quickly confessed all the information he had. Coupled with the secret help of our intelligence department, the fake Arias has been rising step by step in recent years and has become Franco's right-hand man. "

Damn it, this kind of operation is still possible? His original intention was to bribe Franco's cronies at most, but the result far exceeded his expectations. He directly replaced the prince with a civet cat. It couldn't be better. "If that's the case, then you continue your efforts and take advantage of this time to kill Franco and let the fake Arias officially take over. However, you must seize the opportunity and make sure that no one suspects that we are responsible. That will affect us and the Spanish people. Feelings."

The first impression that Franco gave him was that of a white-eyed wolf and an opportunist.

In the original time and space of World War II, Spain, led by Franco, was just a faggot. Because Spain has abundant tungsten ore resources, and tungsten ore is crucial to the military industry, Spain sold tungsten ore to the Axis and Allied Powers at the same time and made a lot of money. It was not until the Allies gained a comprehensive advantage in the later period that Spain Under pressure from Britain and the United States, the supply of tungsten ore to Germany was stopped.

Because Germany and Italy had supported Franco in the civil war, especially when the Axis powers gained overall supremacy at the beginning, Franco also put Spanish soldiers in German uniforms and participated in the Battle of Leningrad. This unit consisted of two or three Thousands of people, with decent combat effectiveness, this is the famous Spanish "Blue Division". But when the defeat of the Axis powers was revealed, Franco recalled the "Blue Division", saying that these people were volunteers and the Spanish government was not responsible for their actions.

Of course, Franco's contribution to the Spanish country cannot be denied. At least he did not involve his country in the disaster of war. Moreover, he was experienced in diplomacy. After the war, he defected to Laos and laid the foundation for Spain's economic take-off. It made his regime the longest-lasting Fascist regime in the world, and finally achieved the peaceful transition of national power.

Despite this, Mustache still recognized this "little brother" very much. On the eve of the Soviet-German War in 1941, he specially issued a decree: All foreign soldiers serving Naz should be regarded as German citizens and enjoy equal rights in Germany. Military pension rights.

But what worries Yannick the most is the tungsten mine in Spain.

As mentioned earlier, Spain made huge war profits by selling tungsten ore to both the Axis and Allied Powers. Spain is rich in tungsten ore. In order to cut off Spain's supply of tungsten ore to Germany, Britain and the United States began to gradually buy out tungsten ore. The price soared from US$70 per ton to US$17,000, making Spain a huge profit. Britain even promised to supply Spain with grain, oil and fertilizers at preferential prices in exchange for oranges, lemons and minerals.

Secretly, Britain spent 10 million pounds a year (an absolutely huge amount of money at the 1940 exchange rate, a Joe V-class battleship cost only 7.39 million pounds) to bribe senior Spanish military and political officials, as well as those officers who opposed Franco's alliance with Mustache. . Later, David Stafford, a history professor at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, discovered this while studying Churchill's letters. By the end of 1940, he said, almost all the money was in the pockets of Spanish officers. At that time, General Antonio Aranda, the director of the Spanish Military Academy, received US$2 million. Churchill believed that although this was a large sum of money for wartime Britain, it was well worth it for stabilizing Spain.

When he took control of Spain, he ostensibly asked Spain to declare neutrality. When Britain and the United States want to buy out the tungsten mines in Spain, they will ask for high prices and let them exchange for gold! According to the current exchange ratio between gold and US dollars, one ton of tungsten sand can be exchanged for 10 kilograms of gold! !

When Britain and the United States discover the truth, I wonder if Roosevelt and Churchill will be so angry that they vomit blood? !

"clear."

"Uh, how is the production of goods in Andrew's factory?" Reinhard reported last time that the imitation of pounds sterling had been successful. Moreover, it has been authenticated by a Swiss bank, and the reply was that "only 20% of the banknotes are counterfeit." However, Reinhard was still dissatisfied and ordered the workers to continue improving. After the second batch of counterfeit banknotes was produced, they were sent directly to the British Empire Head Office for identification. As a result, only one counterfeit banknote out of 100 was found.

"Your Highness, the production work is going smoothly. So far, the Andrew factory has printed 10 tons of white pounds. 2 tons of which were taken to the UK by our intelligence department and developed intelligence personnel." The so-called white pounds are first printed on large snow-white paper The watermark is printed on it, and then the text is printed on the copper plate, and then the image, denomination, signature and date are printed separately. Banknotes are made individually, and there is no concept of "whole banknotes" as later generations would call them.

Anti-counterfeiting basically relies on watermarking throughout the document, and only one side is printed, while the other side is blank. As a result, it is not uncommon to use the back as writing paper for grocery shopping, letter paper, notes, memos, and even as a love letter...

This design lasted from 1860 to 1956. But the famous "Andrew" appeared among them. In the original time and space, from 1934 to 1938, Germany forged a large number of highly imitated white pound banknotes. The first discovery of counterfeit banknotes in the UK was when a female bank receptionist discovered two of her own banknotes - both with the same serial number!

ha! Yannick almost laughed out loud, actually producing pounds by the ton. It seems that pounds will be no different from toilet paper in the near future.

Of course, there are problems, and they are not small. If Germany can actually land in Britain and occupy it in the future, the harm of these counterfeit coins will be fed back to Germany.

However, Yannick decided not to care about all that. The most important thing was to defeat and occupy Britain by any means necessary. As long as it can hold this European bridgehead, it is impossible for the United States to attack Germany across the Atlantic, so it is worth spending no matter how high the price is.