In accordance with Adolf's demand, the Red Sea shipping lanes would no longer be monopolized by Britain, France, and East Africa; Germany and Italy would also be able to get a hand in.
This still could not fully satisfy Adolf's ambitions, but it was already the limit of what Britain and France could accept. Chamberlain could only grit his teeth and take another step back.
In the end, the two fixed the number of German bases along the Red Sea shipping lanes at three.
Next came negotiations over places such as Persia and Kuwait. On this matter, Chamberlain still wanted to fight for something.
"Chancellor Adolf, through the Ottoman Empire, your country has in fact already extended its sphere of influence across the Persian Gulf coast. At this point, Kuwait is no longer a necessary choice for your country."
"Therefore, we cannot hand over Kuwait in its entirety. How about continuing as before? We can also use economic interests as an exchange and allow German capital to enter the area."
"However, building military bases or stationing troops there is impossible."
Germany and the Ottoman Empire had coveted Kuwait for a long time, but in 1938, one event directly prompted Germany to attach even greater and more direct importance to Kuwait.
On February 22, 1938, Kuwait Oil Company, a joint venture between Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Gulf Oil Company, drilled its first oil well in Kuwait's Burgan region.
This was the renowned Burgan oilfield from his previous life. Its total oil reserves accounted for more than seventy percent of Kuwait's reserves in his previous life. The field had not yet officially begun production, so its total reserves might exceed one hundred billion barrels.
Although Germany did not know the enormous potential of Kuwait's oil resources, for a country as desperately deficient