Lord of Industrialization

《Grand Duke Wesson visited the 10th Pig Beauty Contest》

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[Grand Duke Wesson (second from the left) took a photo with the top three contestants]

Wesson Daily Zhutou Town, June 18th. On the afternoon of the 18th, Grand Duke Wesson visited Zhutou Town to participate in the annual pig beauty contest and served as a judge.

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The world's first newspaper with photos made Frederick's hands and feet cold. The photos were relatively clear, and the faces and clothes of the people could not be mistaken by comparing them with the existing portraits.

This newspaper was to be passed down through the ages, and it would not be a problem to keep it until the space age, and it would not be a problem to replace it with a good car.

Among the scholars who studied photography technology, some coated the photosensitive material on the iron sheet, and some converted the dark box used by painters to project the scenery into a camera. After the iron base film was exposed, the unexposed photosensitive material was washed away with concentrated ammonia, and then the negative film with the image was made by etching.

Then after a transfer, the image will appear on the paper.

Frederick thought that this method was just one of many unsuccessful explorations, so he agreed to let them follow him to take pictures as an encouragement to the scholars.

But he didn't expect that those scholars would give him a surprise.

This time it was more than a surprise, it was a shock.

The protagonists of the world's first public photo were Frederick and three breeding pigs with an average weight of nearly 200 kilograms. This was unacceptable.

Frederick wanted to fight back to Weissenburg, but there was no way. This was a newspaper from two days ago.

He had just left Brannburg at the border between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Osmaga Empire.

There was a train station to the north of the castle and the town, and to the south was a trade route that went south through the White Mountains to the north of the Kingdom of Sardinia, a total of about 350 kilometers.

This trade route is an important channel between the southern Rhine Union and the northern Kingdom of Sardinia. Bramble has also become an important trade center. The town has developed traditional commerce and handicrafts, and the emerging small hardware industrial zone and the industrial products market of the Principality of Wessen on both sides of the train station outside the town are also bustling.

However, due to the limited carrying capacity of horse-drawn carriages on mountain roads, the goods transported on the trade route are currently mainly small and light industrial products, and bulk commodities are still transported by ship.

According to the plan of the Principality of Bavaria, the railway to the Kingdom of Sardinia will be laid along this mature trade route and reach the export city of Bern on the other side.

The waterway from Wessenburg to the Kingdom of Sardinia needs to go down the Danube and make a big circle to the Dark Sea. If it is about 4,700 kilometers to the southern Citrus Island, it is about 5,400 kilometers to Venice in the north.

If this railway is completed, the railway from Wessenburg to Bramble is about 230 kilometers. After the train arrives in Bern after 350 kilometers of mountain railway, it is still about 120 kilometers away from Venice, with a total mileage of about 700 kilometers.

When the railway is opened, bulk commodities can travel faster between the inland sea and the Rhine Alliance.

However, in recent years, Venice has been very rich, causing dissatisfaction among its neighbors, so the railway network of the Kingdom of Sardinia does not allow them to play and bypasses them.

If the goods from Venice are to be transported by rail, they can be unloaded at the nearby Ferdinand Port of the Osmaga Empire, a new port built by Mary in her territory, and the railway here bypasses the White Mountains to reach the Duchy of Wessen, a distance of about 1,000 kilometers.

Frederick needs to discuss financing and building railways with the Kingdom of Sardinia on this trip. He has to go through it himself to know the specific situation along the way, otherwise he will be a joke if he doesn't know anything when investors ask.

In addition, in the past, road transportation was strangled by the White Mountains. To dispel investors' doubts, a solution needs to be put forward first.

Today, the White Mountains are occupied by the Osmaga Empire, separated by the Rhine Alliance and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The entire mountain road is the territory of the Osmaga Empire, and most of the merchants running this road are local mountain people.

These mountain people grew up in the White Mountains and are familiar with the climate and environment. Some of them are related to the bandits in the mountains and can pass through by paying a bribe.

Frederick was on an official visit this time, and he brought a pomp that matched his status.

However, these people and things followed the 3rd Division to the Kingdom of Tarago, first taking a boat to Ferdinand City in the Osmaga Empire - a new city built by Frederick to support Queen Anna - and then took the newly built railway to Ferdinand Port, where the 3rd Division would board the ship to the destination.

Frederick once again changed his name and acted alone, intending to take a good look at the situation along the way.

This time he pretended to be a scholar and was going to the Kingdom of Sardinia to find a job, so he found a large fleet.

The owner of the fleet was a middle-aged man named Fontana. His grandfather was a nobleman in Berne. After losing power in the family's internal struggle, he ran to the White Mountains and became the son-in-law of the local nobles.

Now the two families have established a relationship again and started a transportation business in the White Mountains.

This team has forty steel-framed four-wheeled power-assisted carriages, with a small implosion engine under the carriage, which can save a lot of horsepower when starting uphill.

There are nearly a hundred drivers and bodyguards in the team, all of whom are equipped with a double-barreled shotgun and two revolvers.

Most of the customers are small businessmen, each of whom rents one or two carriages to load goods and transports them to the Kingdom of Sardinia for sale.

In the past, there were some warriors and magicians who went to the mountains to hone their martial arts, scholars who went to various cities, and individual priests. This time, there were only Frederick and a nun who was going to the Holy City to pay homage to the saint.

Frederick listened to the nun preaching the scriptures for more than an hour in the coach. After listening to her preaching the benefits of fasting for half an hour, he felt dizzy and could only sneak out to chat with Fontana.

Fontana repeatedly emphasized during the chat that the family title should have belonged to him. It was because the maid at home made a mistake when he was one year old that his twin brother inherited the family business and he lived outside in the open.

Frederick smiled and said, "You are making money outside now, and your life is not as comfortable as your brother's life on the top of the mountain."

He had previously browsed the information of the nobles along the way. The castle of Fontana's family was on the top of a small hill, and it happened to be a wind outlet, so the wind was not small.

Fontana shook his head and said, "It's not that easy to make money. If I had money, I would buy a house in Bern."

"The risk of doing business is too great. It's more economical to do transportation."

Frederick asked him again, "Is it safe for us to walk in the mountains?"

Now they have entered the mountains. The mountain road is in the valley. There are four or five hundred meters high mountains on both sides. In the distance, the peaks over a thousand meters are covered with snow.

The mountains on both sides are full of pine trees, fir trees and other big trees. From time to time, the calls of wild beasts can be heard in the forest.

Fontana patted the hunting rifle beside him and replied, "It was quite dangerous before. Now with this, we don't have to worry about wild beasts."

Frederick asked worriedly again, "What about the bandits?"

Fontana smiled and said, "You will know later."

Then he pointed to a few piles of stones on the roadside in front and said, "Look at those piles of stones. They are the marks of the bandits here. They are waiting for us in front."