Looking at such a powerful new Russia, how can Finland not be afraid? And if nothing unexpected happens, the United States must be pro-Russia! In this case, whether for its own safety or political considerations, Finland can only continue to sign fuel supply contracts with Germany!

"10 years?" Starberg said with a frown. He felt that the conditions were a bit harsh.

"If your country is willing to lower the tax rate of my country's industrial products, we can give your country an equal tax rate on wood and other imported materials." Ruprecht continued. Since a simple agreement makes the other party feel a little difficult to accept, then there is a solution to it to tie a agreement that is not so difficult for the other party to receive, and then package it to the other party. When dealing with non-performing assets in the future, the division of non-performing assets will also be packaged with better assets. The reason is the same!

"The second requirement can be accepted." Starberg said that Finland is a famous wood exporter. If Germany is willing to lower the tax rate, it will be beneficial to Finland. As for the same reduction of the tax rate of German industrial products, the Finns are willing to accept it because German industrial products are indeed good and competitive. Moreover, it is impossible for Finland to develop a complete industrial system.

"The two agreements are tied up," Ruprecht said.

"This makes us embarrassed." Starberg did not say no, but just wanted to seek other benefits tentatively.

"If you are willing to reduce the tariffs on import and export goods between the two sides to half of the current tariffs, then we can provide your country with some convenience! An opportunity to fundamentally significantly enhance your country's national strength!" Ruprecht said.

"I would like to hear it carefully," said Starberg.

"There is chaos in Russia now, and a large number of refugees have moved to the German-Russian border area. If your country needs it, we can hand over some of the people to your country. Of course, you can also directly choose some people." Ruprecht said.

"We need to think about this issue carefully." Starberg said with a frown. Obviously, Ruprecht gave Finns an opportunity to quickly increase their population! Perhaps in later generations, some countries need to limit the number of immigrants, but this definitely does not include Finland today, because there are too few Finns and they are also facing potential war threats!

In the Russian Civil War, too many people chose to leave Russia. These people had a title called Belarus in later generations. Some of the more NB people went to the United States and started a career, such as the famous Sikorsky. Most of them were scattered to Europe. If a country like Finland can attract these people to join, at least their human resources will be better, and they also said that Finns can choose! Since that is the case, there is no need to worry about the quality of personnel being too low. Of course, some top talents must have been taken away by the Germans!

"We need some officers and technicians who were once in the old Russian army. Your country should have captured a lot of people on the battlefield. I think some of them can come to Finland." Mannheim said.

"Why?" Starberg looked at Mannahem, his eyes full of doubts.

"I have served as the commander of the old Russian army. My army was destroyed by your country's previous attacks. Many of them were still in prison camps. If possible, I hope to give them a fairly good future." Mannahem actually agreed with the crown prince's idea. Choosing directly from the old Russian army can obviously quickly improve Finland's self-defense ability. The Finnish population is indeed too small, and an overly low population is not good news for national development and possible future wars.

"Okay, considering this condition, I think we can accept the package requests made by your country." Starberg nodded and said. Today's talks only reached an intention. As for how to operate it, it depends on the negotiations below. Anyway, Ruprecht has no time to discuss these issues again and again.

"Although there are some misunderstandings between us, we finally have a pretty good start. Do you think it's Crown Prince Ruprecht?" said Starberg.

"That's right, we have met our respective needs for trade at least under relatively equal circumstances." The Crown Prince nodded, agreeing with Starberg's statement.

"Your Highness, you just said that as allies, we must assume obligations. I want to know what the so-called standard for taking obligations is." As the meeting was about to end, Mannheim asked. He vaguely felt that in the future war, Finland would be difficult to avoid, and standing with Germany was an inevitable trend. In this case, Mannheim wanted to know what the Germans wanted to do!

"We will consider your country's basic national conditions. We will not ask your country to dispatch too many direct combat personnel. I can set a proportion. As long as your country's participating troops can reach 80% of the imperial mobilization rate during the war," the crown prince said after thinking about it.

It is obviously unrealistic for you to let Finland squeeze out 500,000 combat troops directly. If this request is made, the talk will probably collapse directly. Germany is not lacking Finland's military power. In fact, what Germany needs more is Finland's cooperation and attitude! Only when the Finns fully cooperate can Germany have the opportunity to cut off the Murmansk railway line in a short time after the outbreak of the future war!

"This condition is not too much." Mannheim thought for a while and said. After all, this guy is an officer with a systematic military education. He quickly estimated the possible mobilization ratio of the German army in the future. Germany now has a population of more than 70 million, plus the newly added territory and the population above. Including the increase in the population in the next few years, Germany's local population is very likely to reach about 120 million in the future.

If all the logistics departments and the troops participating in the war combined with 12 million troops, then according to this proportion, Finland only uses 8% of the population to mobilize as the army. If calculated based on the population of 4 million, it is 320,000! You should know that these 320,000 are the number of all Finland troops, including frontline, logistics and auxiliary personnel. The actual troops participating in the war may only be 200,000, and this is still acceptable in Mannaheim's view! Of course, these 200,000 front-line troops must work hard. If they hit the original border like in history, they will directly paddle and stop fighting, which is definitely not possible.

After the talks with the Finns, Ruprecht had more important things to do, because King Gustav V of Sweden was about to arrive!
Chapter completed!