Lord of Industrialization

"I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"

After Frederick came to La Cobriga and met Archduke Suarez, he hurriedly denied that he had anything to do with the conspiracy to plot against old Louis.

Archduke Suarez said doubtfully: "Is it really not you who did it?"

"I didn't make such a plan either. When the spy sent back this news, I thought it was you who did it."

"I have to say, this is really feasible."

He hinted to Frederick with his eyes, why don't we make a big deal.

Frederick just smiled and carefully admired the decorations in the living room.

He didn't want to get too involved in these things. The market of the Kingdom of Gaul was too big, so he didn't make too many statements.

Archduke Suarez saw Frederick's evasion and didn't continue on this matter, and started the next topic.

"I want to build a railway." He said something that Frederick was not surprised about, and then snapped his fingers, and someone moved the sand table tables one by one to form a 2m×2m Tarago Kingdom sand table.

Archduke Suarez pointed to the location near the center of the Tarraco Kingdom and said, "This is the Bull City, one of the territories of my family."

After that, he took out a red flag half the size of a palm from a box beside him and stuck it there.

"These are important cities and ports."

He said and inserted smaller flags into the sand table. The yellow flags represent inland cities, and the blue flags are ports.

Then he took out a green ball of thread and spread it out from the Bull City as the center, connecting one city after another.

After doing this, Archduke Suarez said, "I plan to set up the capital in the Bull City in the future."

Frederick did not comment too much on his plan, and said calmly, "The railway itself cannot create wealth, it is only responsible for transporting resources."

"The cost of building railways in the mountains is very high."

"Because of the war, I have no money."

What he meant was simple. It is costly to build railways here, and the plateau area may lose money due to the lack of products, so don't ask him for money.

Archduke Suarez said: "There is little rainfall in the plateau area, and the yield of farmland is low, but this is not unsolvable."

"Two years ago, Richard Nall sent me a ship of flame grass. He said it was drought-resistant. I arranged for some familiar families to try it out."

"In a year, 1 hectare of farmland can harvest almost 1 ton of seeds, and there are stalks and leaves taller than people, which is twice that of wheat."

"People eat seeds, and cows eat leaves and stalks to fill their stomachs."

"The most important thing is that arid land, sandy land, and saline-alkali land that originally did not grow grain can still be used for planting, but the yield is lower, which is better than nothing."

"I gave the seeds and planting methods to the nobles on the plateau. Many people tried to plant them. According to the feedback, the harvest was very good and everyone was very happy."

Frederick was a little surprised that he gave away sorghum seeds, but he soon figured it out. This was mainly a political account.

Although sorghum doesn't taste very good, that's the farmers and livestock's business. The masters continue to eat wheat.

Economically, when these nobles tasted the sweetness in the first two or three years and began to expand the scale of planting, they would find that the seeds began to degenerate.

Next, Frederick made a lot of money, while Grand Duke Suarez made a little money, and he could also use this as a handle to exert political influence.

In addition to seeds, there are also agricultural machinery, fertilizers, etc.

Frederick scratched his head and recalled one thing. When he and Psyche went for a walk in the lounge, they talked about how to control the landlords by controlling the upstream and downstream circulation links of agriculture. It seemed that Richardnar was also fishing there.

Grand Duke Suarez continued: "It's not that there are no good things in the plateau area, but it's inconvenient to transport, so no one buys them."

"How about I use the foreign trade tariffs of the principality as collateral?"

Grand Duke Suarez looked into Frederick's eyes and said seriously: "Richardnar taught me a way to give you the customs as collateral, and the money can be used to build railways and some factories."

"If I ascend the throne, the customs of the entire kingdom can be mortgaged to you."

Frederick frowned, wondering how many conversations Richardnar had overheard between him and Psyche.

He said: "This matter is very troublesome. I can't make a sufficient judgment in a short time. I need to go back and send an investigation team to conduct on-site investigation before I can give a reply."

He had no preparation for this matter in advance. Unlike the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Duchy of Bavaria had conducted a detailed investigation. There was too little detailed economic and political information about this place, making it difficult to make a judgment.

Archduke Suarez felt sorry that he did not give a clear answer. He could only comfort himself that at least he did not refuse and there was still room for maneuver.

The next thing was what Eugene had agreed on before.

Archduke Suarez said: "There was originally a whaling town to the west of La Cobriga, but it was destroyed by a fire that lasted for five days more than a hundred years ago, and it has been abandoned since then."

"The terrain and coast there are good, what do you think?"

Frederick received the content of the negotiation from Eugene's telegram earlier.

Eugene made a big deal and asked for a large area of ​​coastal mudflats back.

There is sea surface at high tide and swamp after low tide, where only salt-tolerant reeds survive.

Fortunately, the original town was a few kilometers upstream from the river mouth.

According to Eugene, the hills here could be flattened with a bulldozer, and the swamps could be filled with the soil, and land would be created.

His casual words frightened Luis and Archduke Suarez, father and son.

Now, for the world, Frederick's transformation of the swamp into treasure is as normal as cows eating grass and wolves eating meat. Eugene and Grand Duke Suarez both looked as if it should be so.

Frederick didn't care and said, "It's OK there. I can also build a railway to Fort St. George, which can be connected to the Kingdom of Lisenburg in the future."

Grand Duke Suarez breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, one thing was settled.

"Then the matter of training the army..." he asked cautiously, "What do you think?"

According to his idea, after the arrival of the Wesson Army and the Osmaga New Army, a large number of main forces can be freed up, but these troops will not go to the battlefield first, but will receive training from the Wesson Army to become a strong fighter army.

Previously, he recruited translators to serve as officers of this army, but just released false information by the way.

But he told Eugene about this matter, but Eugene could not make the decision.

This matter cannot be sloppy. Frederick said seriously: "I suggest you recruit a new army from scratch."

"My army is different from the traditional army in its bones. It emphasizes discipline."

"Those old soldiers are not afraid of death in battle, but it is more painful to ask them to obey military discipline than to kill them."

"In the past ten years, there have been dozens of people hanged for violating military discipline in my army, but it has not been publicly reported."

Suarez nodded. He knew the morals of those old soldiers best.

They set the tone for these major events, and the details were left to others.

Before leaving, Archduke Suarez said: "I give you this manor. You will have a place to stay when you have time to come and play in the future."

Frederick smiled and said: "I asked the shipyard to make a sea boat for you for tourism. It does not need sails. It will come as soon as it is built."

The two walked out of the living room, talking and laughing, and then said goodbye at the door.

Frederick sat back on the sofa and took a deep breath. It seemed that this trip would not be easy.

At this time, a pair of hands were placed on his temples and massaged him.