The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 333

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Gaul was shocked by his own inference. He was already shocked by Mainz’s decisive and fierce measures in this coup. Now thinking that this incident was planned and led by Mainz himself from beginning to end, he was shocked beyond words and felt a chill in his heart.

If he was unfortunately right, then this Mainz was really too scary, right?

“This man will become a major threat to Gaul in the future. If we cannot completely eliminate him, we must never make him our enemy!”

After careful consideration, President Gaul made this inference.

“But, Mr. President, we don’t want to be enemies with Hans, but Hans may not let us go. You know, we have bullied Hans a lot in the past few years!”

The President of Gaul had a good idea in his mind, but his subordinates poured a bucket of cold water on him.

Yes, the initiative is not in their hands now. They don’t want to start a war with Hans, but Hans may not let them go. After all, the current situation is that Hans is getting stronger and stronger, while Gaul is declining. After the strength of both sides has been overturned, the offensive and defensive situation of both sides has also changed completely!

At the beginning, the Gauls took advantage of Hans’s inability to extricate himself from the quagmire he was standing in, but they attacked Hans several times, intending to weaken Hans’ strength by beating him when he was down, or even completely eliminate Hans, the biggest worry in their hearts!

At this time, when their strength was not dominant or even at a disadvantage, they wanted to ease the relationship with Hans, hoping that Hans would not retaliate against them. Isn’t this wishful thinking and daydreaming?

So the words of his subordinates made the President of Gaul speechless for a while. He was really unable to refute the other party’s words, because the other party was so right!

“In this case, we can only go down this path to the end!”

President Gaul sighed and said to his subordinates

“Mr. President, what do you mean?”

The subordinates did not quite understand what this meant, so they looked at their president curiously.

“What I mean is that from now on, we must regard Hans as our imaginary enemy and pay close attention to Hans’ every move, especially the actions of Hans’ military. Even if our national strength is not as good as Hans, we must strive to maintain a balance with Hans in military strength. Then, relying on the solid defense line we have built, we will keep the enemy out of the country, keep Hans out, and prevent the war from spreading to our homeland!”

The President of Gaul is now extremely grateful that he supported the construction of the Maginot Line!

If he had not insisted on allocating funds for the costly Maginot Line, then Gaul would not have such an impregnable line of defense at this time!

With the protection of this indestructible line of defense, even if Gaul is weaker than Hans, as long as they hide behind the line of defense and wait for the opportunity, relying on this indestructible line of defense, they are still confident that they can keep Hans’ army out and prevent them from invading Gaul!

However, this line of defense alone is not enough. If you want to strengthen the defense on the line of defense, you must expand the army and expand the size of the army. In this way, the manpower on the Maginot Line will be more sufficient to calmly resist the enemy’s attack.

Hans has more than 2 million troops, and this is only the size of their army in peacetime. Once a war breaks out, according to the experience of World War I, Hans’ army can rise sharply within a short period of time. At that time, relying on the population of more than 80 million people in Hans, their army may expand to 0 or even 8 million people!

Faced with such a terrible number of enemy attacks, Gaul will definitely find it difficult to resist the invasion of the enemy with only its current army, so they must also expand their army.

However, compared with Hans’s massive population, Gaul’s total population is only more than 39 million, less than 40 million. With such a small population, it is a bit difficult to form a million-strong army like Hans. Even if all the young and middle-aged men in the country are mobilized, this number is probably difficult to exceed 4 million!

400 against 8 million. Even though Gaul has the protection of the Maginot Line, the President of Gaul still feels a little uncertain.

After thinking about it, he feels that it is necessary to further increase the total population of Gaul!

There are two ways to increase the population. The first is to encourage childbirth. This method can increase the country’s population in the long run, but the effect of this method is relatively slow. It will take at least 18-20 years for the population born now to reach adulthood. If the war does not break out during this period of time, then the problem is not very big.

But if a war breaks out during this period of time, then these young people born now will not be able to be used.

Therefore, it is not enough to have a policy of encouraging childbirth. There must be other ways that can be more effective faster!

This method is the second way to expand the population. The way is to introduce immigrants!

In fact, Hans had already started this kind of thing after World War I.

Although Hans was defeated in World War I, Hans was able to fight on both the east and west fronts, and defeated the arrogant bear on the east front, which still brought a great shock to the Gauls.

And they thought about it and believed that they were not as good as Hans in terms of population size and industrial strength, and the improvement of industrial strength also requires the support of a large number of labor force population, so it comes down to population!

So, after the war, in order to increase their own population and close the gap with Hans, the Gauls began to absorb immigrants from various countries in Europe.

Although these European immigrants have certain differences from the Gauls in religious beliefs and culture, the difference is not very large, so they have the ability to digest and absorb these people.

Since 1918, Gaul has gradually absorbed millions of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. By the end of 1924, they had successfully absorbed about 1.6 million European immigrants. Among these immigrants, the majority were from the Polish, Balkan, Southern European Banya people, and the three Nordic countries. There was also a part of the nobles who escaped from the Russian Bear after the demise of the Russian Bear.

For Gaul, 100,000 immigrants are about 4% of their total population, which is definitely not a small number.

However, in the same era, the number of births in Hans has risen sharply, and now it has reached more than 2 million births per year, while the number of deaths in Hans is less than 1 million per year, which means that the net increase in the population of Hans has exceeded one million per year.

What’s more, when the Gauls absorbed immigrants, the Hans also absorbed immigrants, and the immigrants absorbed by the Hans were basically Germans who had originally immigrated from Hans. Compared with the foreign population introduced by the Gauls from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, it was easier and cheaper for Hans to absorb and assimilate these Germans who left their own ethnic group!

So, when Gaul spent several years and finally absorbed less than 200,000 people, the total population of Hans had increased by more than 5 million. The population gap between the two sides not only did not narrow, but widened further!

This news is definitely not good news for Gaul, so they must make changes!

“President, the number of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe has begun to decline.

Most of the people who can immigrate to these places, or those who have the idea of immigrating, have already immigrated.

We are not their first choice for immigration.

The place they most want to go is the United States in North America, because the United States is vast, the land resources are very rich, and the income level is very high.

Compared with Europe, they can get higher treatment in North America, and their life will be rich and easy!

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The official in charge of immigration management complained to the President of Gaul. Not only were they competing for immigrants, but even the Eagle Sauce in North America was also competing for them. Compared with the Eagle Sauce, their competitiveness was too small. The Eagle Sauce not only absorbed a large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, but even many Gaul natives went to the Eagle Sauce to make a living!

They really couldn’t compete with such Eagle Sauce!

After hearing this, the President of Gaul fell silent.

The First World War had beaten Europe to pieces, proving that Europe was not safe, and the Eagle Sauce in North America was not affected by the war at all, which made the Eagle Sauce side a paradise.

In addition, the land and products in the Eagle Sauce were very rich.

Immigrants going there would not only be safer, but also greatly improve their quality of life.

As workers, the income of Gaul workers was only about 50% of that of the Eagle Sauce, but the cost of living was almost the same or even higher.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that a large number of Europeans went to North America!