Conquer the world starting from the Kaiser's driver

On April 1, after the construction of the institute began, Lin Shangzhou's assets were instantly reduced by more than half, and if it weren't for Louis to bear the cost of establishing the institute with him, he would probably have directly become negative equity.

The construction of the entire institute cost millions of marks, and after the construction began, Louis jokingly said to Lin Shangzhou that he hoped Havart would lower his requirements next, otherwise even he would be emptied of his wallet.

Louis said this to Lin Shangzhou with a smile, and Lin Shangzhou also knew another meaning of him: the institute is indeed very good, but don't have a next time.

However, even if Lin Shangzhou lost more than half of his assets, he still had hundreds of thousands of marks, which was more than enough to provide funds for newspapers and branches, and two days after the construction of the institute began, Lin Shangzhou received a second telegram from Hamburg, in which Kevin said that their development in Hamburg was going well and they had completely stabilized, and he suggested that Lin Shangzhou start the next plan.

After learning of the development of the branch in Hamburg, Lin Shangzhou sent two teams to Leipzig and Dresden on April 6 and 8.

After sending the second and third batches of teams, Lin Shangzhou estimated that it would take about a month for the branch to stabilize based on Kevin's development in Hamburg

, and so on, it would take at least three months to completely complete his plan, and the time was okay, but it was only July in three months, and there was still more than half a year before the general election.

He was troubled by the lack of manpower at the newspaper, which was not a problem due to the long interval of expatriate work, but if too many people were dispatched in a short period of time, the operation system of the Berlin headquarters would be problematic.

The Forward's recruitment standards have always been relatively high, which has led to a high overall quality of staff, which has also led to a low hiring rate, where two or three out of 10 people may be hired.

Lin Shangzhou can use lowering the standard to expand the number of recruits to meet the problem of lack of manpower, but he personally does not want to do this, of course, he knows that it is both unrealistic and unrealistic, so if it really can't work, Lin Shangzhou will also choose to expand the recruitment to solve the problem.

He contacted Louis over the communicator and told him about his troubles, and Louis said he had a solution to the problem.

Two days later, on April 10, Lin Shangzhou arrived at the newspaper office to find that Louis had brought with him some employees of the SPD newspaper and some former members of other left-wing organizations in Germany, all of whom also had experience working in the newspaper.

After some exchanges, Lin Shangzhou learned that they volunteered to help after knowing their difficulties, which made Lin Shangzhou very grateful to them and to Louis.

With the help of such a large group of comrades, Lin Shangzhou hired them on the same day and allocated funds on the 11th for them to go to Breslau and Cologne respectively.

Two days later, Louis brought Lin Shangzhou a group of former members of the German Left Wing Organization and several employees of the SPD newspaper, so Lin Shangzhou repeated what he had done a few days earlier, hired, appropriated, and set off.

This time, they went to Munich and Frankfurt.

On April 14th, Lin Shangzhou helped Louis... It should be said that with the help of the SPD, he completed his branch project, and after the matter was resolved, he began to work on another project of his own - to contact the German aircraft manufacturers.

On April 15, he paid a visit to Falbeck and asked the veteran army general, who fought mainly in Africa, a few things about the flying troops.

When Lin Shangzhou asked him this question, Folbeck looked at him with strange eyes, as if to say, "Are you sure you want to ask me this question?"

but in the end, he told Lin Shangzhou everything he knew.

In the conversation with Falbeck, Lin Shangzhou learned about the specific situation of the world's air force.

In Germany, for example, the main role of aircraft in World War I was not as early as that of OTL's First World War, and it was gradually emphasized later, in a world where aircraft were entrusted with the important task of strategic and tactical bombing from the beginning.

Therefore, at first, the development of bombers was much better than other models, but later, after the development of special explosives and high-explosive grenades for the magic force, the bomber gradually disappeared.

The special explosives and high-explosive grenades used by the Magic Force can achieve some of the destructive effects of aerial bombs with the blessing of the Aether element, and replace the bombers in this way.

After the bombers were replaced, the flying units were completely useless, and after that they only appeared when the magic forces were not well manned.

Although the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen led the proud Iron Cross Eagle to prevent the bombing of Germany by the Allied magic forces in this unappreciated situation, such a victory over man by machine did not make the military refocus on the aircraft as a tool of warfare.

Lin Shangzhou knows the reasons for this situation, and there are many reasons for this, the most important of which he believes are two points, one is the performance of aircraft, whether it is an aircraft or a tank, their development is inseparable from their performance in war, and the more outstanding the performance, the more attention can be paid by the military.

The performance of the aircraft limits the performance of the aircraft, and if the aircraft wants to be developed and improve its performance, it needs to be taken seriously by the military, and only then can the investment be obtained.

OTL is like this, aircraft and tanks and other technologies have been further developed in the deepening of the war, but in this world, this way of development has fallen into the aircraft performance is not good, →the performance is not good, the aircraft does not get the attention of the military→ how to increase the degree of attention→ need to invest in research and development to improve the performance, so that the performance of the flight unit is more excellent→ how to get the funding → the aircraft needs to get the attention of the military→ how to get attention→ need excellent performance→, the aircraft performance is not good, the performance is not good, such an endless cycle.

And there is no need for such a cumbersome infrastructure as an airport, and the magic force that can take off anytime and anywhere is obviously more convenient and faster than an airplane.

Although the bombing mission was initially reserved for bombers, the Magic Force took it on their shoulders and used their special explosives and high-explosive grenades to bombard enemy targets.

Lin Shangzhou did not think that these two kinds of explosives could be more powerful than high-quality aerial bombs, but it is a pity that the more powerful aerial bombs appeared under the premise that the military needed them, and the military did not attach importance to aircraft, so naturally there would be no more powerful aerial bombs.

In addition to performance issues, another major reason is people's hearts.

The magic force will not watch the aircraft develop and take its place in the end, so the magic force that appeared earlier and has a stronger voice in the army will naturally crowd out the living space of the flying force.

Forbeck told Lin Shangzhou that the limit of the flight altitude of the normal magic force is between two and three thousand meters, while the flight altitude of the German bombers at that time was about five thousand meters, which means that the magic force itself does not need to rob the bombers, but they still do this kind of almost scoundrel behavior.

That's enough to show how crowded out the Flying Troop is.

The fact that Germany does not attach importance to the air force can show that the attitude of other countries in the world towards the air force is also very different, and they do not attach much importance to it.

They didn't pay attention to it, but Lin Shangzhou knew the importance of the air force, so after inquiring from Falbeck about the location of the flight unit, he decided to meet with the German aircraft designers and take the time to go there.

On the one hand, he wanted to meet the Red Baron, and on the other hand, he wanted to draw this group of unappreciated pilots to his side.

If you want to develop an aircraft, you have to have a lot of aircraft designers, and even fewer good pilots.

After learning what he wanted to know, he said goodbye to Falbeck and returned to the newspaper, and after returning to the newspaper, Lin Shangzhou gave Bowman a list and asked him to check the people and companies on the list.

Lin Shangzhou did not know much about the German aircraft manufacturers and aircraft designers during the First World War and before the thirties of the century, only those who were famous, such as Junkers, Messerschmidt, and Henschel.

And Bowman did not disappoint Lin Shangzhou, and two days later brought him the results he wanted.

On April 18, Baumann put all the information he found on Lin Shangzhou's desk, and Lin Shangzhou learned through the information found by Baumann that after the end of the war, the Junkers company had planned to design and produce civil aircraft and hoped to put them into the civilian field, but later the research was interrupted due to financial problems, and the Junkers company had to change direction and focus on the mechanical aspects and the production of engines.

Of the remaining two companies, Messerschmidt was not found, but Baumann found the Bavarian Aircraft Factory, which produced aircraft for Prussia and Bavaria before and during the Great War for a short time.

As for Messerschmidt, it is clear from the information obtained by Bowman that Messerschmitt is working for this company.

In the early days of its establishment, Henschel was engaged in the production of aircraft, but later interrupted his research due to financial problems, and changed direction to produce mechanical products like Junkers, and Henschel himself was in his own company.

Lin Shangzhou wanted to go to them immediately, but unfortunately, none of the three companies had their headquarters in Berlin, Junkers in Dessau, Bavaria in Augsburg, and Henschel in Varnamünde.

Lin Shangzhou wanted to see the three of them at once, but now he can only meet them one by one.

After some consideration, Lin Shangzhou decided to ask Alexandrine to help him with this, he wanted Alexandrine to invite Junkers, Messerschmidt, and Henschel, three aircraft designers, to come to Berlin, for the reason he had all figured out: His Majesty the Emperor of Germany was very envious of his sister being able to fly freely in the sky, so he became interested in the tool of airplanes.

The reason is very reasonable, and Alexandrine will not refuse, but Lin Shangzhou is very hesitant in his heart, because Cecilia is a member of the magic force.

He didn't know what Cecilia thought of the Flying Troops, or if she would crowd out the Flying Troops.

After much consideration, Lin Shangzhou decided to try his luck and if it went well, he asked Alexandrine to do him a favor, and invited the three designers to Berlin in the name of the emperor's adviser on behalf of the emperor.

But if progress is hindered, then Lin Shangzhou can only go to see them one by one.

It's much better to spend some time than to make Cecilia hate herself.