Lord of Industrialization

“Woo hoo hoo, the whistle is singing to the sky.

The boat floats on the green water, and the paddle wheel plows the clear waves. "

Many years later, there was a legal dispute between the East and the West over Frederick's "The Steamboat", and finally Psyche took the blame.

Frederick took the Flying Tulip back to Weissenburg, intending to stay with Liluni in the cabin along the way and listen to her tell stories about the sea.

The ship docked at the dock outside Cologne. Frederick did not enter the city. He went to the manor outside the city to visit His Majesty King William, who was bedridden. That night, he had dinner with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Rudolf and Crown Princess Antonia. There are a lot of clichés.

When the Flying Tulip set off again, there were many guests on board. The trade delegation from the Kingdom of Gaul to Wesson postponed its trip for a while because of the tulip incident. They happened to meet Frederick passing by, and everyone was interested in this ship. Interested, Frederick agreed to give them a ride.

Steamships are high-tech, high-value-added products of this era. They are highly profitable and can drive the entire industrial chain. They are a powerful tool for exporting money.

The Kingdom of Gaul has a unique geographical location, developed agriculture, and high food production. If you don't rob them, you won't be able to rob them, and if you don't rob them, you won't have the money to build a garden.

The Gallic trade group did not know what Frederick was thinking. Prince Louis was relieved when he learned that Frederick agreed, thinking that he would be rejected.

Not long after the group of people boarded the ship, Armand, Louis' confidant and old friend who had sent money to Frederick ten years ago, couldn't wait to pull Frederick into the nearby cabin.

In less than half a minute, many onlookers gathered outside the cabin door. Lilu and Little Louis even put their ears against the door panel.

Little Louis asked Lilu: "I never heard that Wesson also has such a hobby, do you know?"

Lilu answered a little uncertainly: "I...I have never heard of it either."

After so many years, no one has mentioned anything about Frederick's special hobbies, and there were no similar rumors in the city of Wien.

The nobles of the Kingdom of Gaul were also very surprised and discussed among themselves. Many of them had known Armand since childhood, and they had never heard of him being so good.

Within a few minutes, little Louis turned around with a disappointed face and said to everyone: "Now that we're done, Armand asked Wesson if he had any special relationship with his sister. It's boring."

The surrounding Gallic nobles immediately dispersed in boos. Armand's sister Françoise was Frederick's pen pal and the general agent of Wesson Paper in the Kingdom of Gaul. Frederick was in Vienna. After Cheng Chong gained such a great reputation, something made sense between the two.

In the following time, Little Louis and the others asked Lilu to take them on a tour of the ship, leaving those two guys alone.

In the power cabin, little Louis pretended to be casual and asked Lilu: "How much did you pay for this boat?"

The Flying Tulip stopped at the southern and northern ports of the Kingdom of Gaul last year and not long ago. Many ship owners saw the advantage of not having to wait for the wind at sea. There were many people interested in purchasing it, but they were worried about the high price.

Little Louis also had this plan. Next, the Kingdom of Gaul would develop in the inland sea, and it would be much more convenient to form a fleet with such ships.

Lilu shook her head and replied: "I don't know, it was given to me by the Duke."

Little Louis' mouth twitched slightly, thinking that Duke Wesson was so generous.

Lilu knew that Frederick would sell the ship in the future and continued: "This ship is the first steam engine ship. I heard that thousands of florins were invested in it."

"But in the future, if more buildings are built, the price will be cheaper. I guess it will be around a thousand florins."

Now the price of a three-masted sailing ship without weapons is about 100 florins. One steam ship is equal to 10 three-masted sailing ships, which exceeds many people's expectations.

Little Louis thought that this might be Frederick's extortionate price, and he would have a good talk with him then.

Don't be too eager when talking about business, or you will get ripped off, especially if you just suffered heavy losses in the tulip market, so save when you can.

Little Louis decided to start a relationship with Frederick and asked him during dinner: "I don't know which is the largest theater in Weissenburg. This time we have a troupe accompanying us and we plan to perform several operas."

The opera level of the Kingdom of Gaul is very high, and they brought the troupe here to improve the relationship between the two parties.

Unexpectedly, Frederick said very depressedly: "There is no grand theater in Weissenburg, only a few small theaters that can seat more than 200 people. The nearest grand theater is in Nuremberg, which takes more than an hour by train." arrive."

"If there is a higher theater, it can only be the theater of the former Archduke Legens, but it will take a long time to walk."

"How is that possible?!" Little Louis seemed to have heard something incredible, "Didn't you build the Grand Theater?"

In his opinion, every great noble must build a large theater that can accommodate at least 500 people. Weissenburg City is building the largest church and library in the world, so there is no reason not to build a theater.

Although Frederick valued the educational role of drama and music, he did not like the operas of this era very much, and he put this matter on hold after he no longer had the need to watch operas and listen to music.

He also thought that many people are improving musical instruments now, and maybe the orchestra will undergo revolutionary changes in a short period of time, and someone will point out the symphony. At the same time, people were getting richer, there were no movies now, and opera was becoming more popular.

Just to build a large theater worthy of one's own status, the theaters of the Archduke Regens and the Archduke Franken required about 80,000 florins, most of which was spent on fine decoration.

And when he thought about it, the place where a symphony was performed was different from the place where an opera was performed. The former could be a huge rectangular space, while the latter required semicircular seats.

Calculated in this way, including land acquisition, each of the two theaters will cost about 200,000 florins. Based on a five-year construction period, it will cost 40,000 florins per year, which is life-threatening.

"No money." Frederick was helpless.

Little Louis found this answer very strange. Who doesn't know that the Duke of Wesson is rich, but he would say that he has no money?

But when I think about it carefully, I feel relieved. Wesson has just finished a war, and then it has to pay a huge sum of money because of the fire in Amstel City. For this reason, it has issued bonds twice, and it will not be able to get the money for a while. Not surprising either.

Frederick thought about ways to make money quickly, and it seemed that he had no choice but to kidnap little Louis and Fatih to extort the Kingdom of Gaul and the Ghazi Empire, so he had to give up.

Little Louis thought in his mind that he had no money, which meant that he was in urgent need of new trading partners, so he could have some advantages in the subsequent negotiations.

The prince from the Kingdom of Gaul thought that this business negotiation was for them to give Frederick a list of the goods they wanted to buy. Frederick marked the price and returned it, and a group of people on his side discussed it and gave it. The new price is handed over again, and so on until the negotiation is finally concluded.

For this reason, the nobles in the Gallic delegation are all powerful families in a certain field in the domestic business circle. In the fleet behind the Flying Tulip, the professionals they bring will evaluate the quality, price, and quality of certain commodities. Have a deep understanding of the market.

In addition, there are several negotiators in the delegation. They are all strong in business negotiations, and even their opponents admire them.

Many people believe that they will definitely gain huge benefits at the negotiation table this time.

As a result, the confident Gallic delegation fainted as soon as they arrived at Weissenburg.

Trade fair?

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