My Italy

Time passed quickly and everything returned to its original track.

After the Prime Minister softened his attitude, all the turmoil calmed down. Especially after the two attended a public meeting together and made an intimate gesture, people with strange thoughts pressed their thoughts. For a time, the city of Rome was calm and peaceful.

On Carlo's side, life is still going on. In addition to studying courses every day, he is still in contact with Garibaldi. However, with little progress, Carlo clearly felt that Garibaldi was resistant to the royal family's wooing. It seemed that it would take a lot of energy and time to embrace this national hero, but he had enough time to wait. Go down.

So time slipped away quietly in such an environment, and the situation in Rome was calm again. In addition to the above things, Carlo is also paying attention to the scientific research center built by Marino.

This is good news. Under Carlo's attention, the electrical R\u0026D center in Marino has made rapid progress and completed the construction task within three months. It has now entered the debugging period of the equipment. As long as the equipment is debugged, it can be used at any time. for use.

This news is really good for Carlo, and it heralds his first step in intervening in Italy.

It was able to be built so quickly, of course, in addition to Carlo's urging, money played a greater role. With the royal family's guarantee, all funds were properly arranged, so the motivated workers quickly repaired the research institute. center.

This also shows that the power of money can make people progress, even for people who are lazy by nature. Of course, the cost is not low. The cost list of 12 million lire was placed in front of Carlo.

After taking a look at the list, Carlo said with satisfaction to the tall and thin old man in front of him. "Thank you Sir."

"Your Majesty, you're welcome. This is just what I should do."

The knight Carlo refers to is Alejard, the palace steward. This person who is usually very inconspicuous in the palace and is easily ignored has the financial power of the royal family. This shows his status in the heart of the royal family.

This Alejard has worked for the royal family for decades, assisted three generations of the family, and can be trusted to control the royal family's finances. This shows his ability.

Although Alejard didn't have many outstanding financial achievements, he was tight-lipped and willing to be lonely. Who wouldn't want someone who can quietly take care of the royal family's assets when he is not needed, and who can always have money ready when needed. And on these two points, Alejard did an especially good job, so he became one of the most trusted people by his grandfather and father.

And now Carlo is also very satisfied with him. He always only obeys the king's orders, does not ask, gives advice when needed, and does things silently when not needed. He is simply the perfect financial power holder.

"Your Majesty, will you still need funds in the near future?"

"No need, thank you."

"Then let me allocate funds to do other things."

"Go ahead."

Looking at the palace steward leaving, Carlo looked at the captain of the guard beside him and asked, "By the way, when will the research center be opened?"

Yes, now Carlo can't wait to see the Electrical Experimental Center start working on the electrification of Italy.

"Your Majesty, it will take at least seven days to move in." "Well, let the recruited scientific researchers start working in seven days."

At present, the Electrical R\u0026D Experiment Center has recruited more than 200 people, including not only Italian technical personnel, but also electrical R\u0026D talents recruited from various European countries.

That’s right, Carlo will not only recruit Italian electrical R\u0026D personnel. Currently, any well-known European electrification research personnel will receive an invitation from Italy. Moreover, the remuneration is favorable, generally 50% higher than their current salary, which makes many people excited. At present, dozens of such people have been recruited from various countries, and half of the reasons are for the generous salary.

Of course, this trick was also learned by Carlo from well-known companies in later generations. This approach is still effective in later generations, and it is naturally unfavorable now.

Of course, Carlo still feels a little slow in the R\u0026D center alone. The main reason is that now is a great time for electrification research. He is not willing to let Italy miss the opportunity to get to the top position, so he needs to speed up. Therefore, Carlo also prepared a way, which is to use Italy's currently relatively good universities to conduct electrification research and development.

He plans to fund well-known science and engineering universities such as the University of Rome and the University of Bologna to conduct in-depth research on electrification. Wait until you have results before sharing them with the school. Of course, the royal family who sponsors them gets the lion's share, but this is also very beneficial to the school, and I believe no one will refuse.

This kind of experience is not uncommon in later generations, it has already been ruined, but now I believe these universities have not experienced it. But these are all successful experiences. I believe no one will have trouble with money.

In Carlo's view, this kind of advanced scientific research experience is very necessary for Italy, which is currently lagging behind.

In previous surveys, Italy's investment in scientific research was far from sufficient. At present, most of the investment in scientific research comes from the government, and private investment is very rare. This has a lot to do with the weak strength of Italian capitalists. For them, survival and growth are currently the first priority. Only when they have grown to a certain level will they have enough energy to shift funds to scientific research.

But for Carlo, he couldn't afford to wait, and the capitalists' urinary nature made him afraid to put his hope in them.

Apart from capitalists, the only thing left is government funding.

However, everyone knows the financial situation of the Italian government. It is very difficult to expect them to spend large sums of money to support scientific research. The small amount of funds is like sprinkling pepper noodles. It is not enough to cover everything, so the funds can only be invested in more visible areas. place.

Now that neither private individuals nor the government can rely on it, Carlo can only use royal funds to find a solution, so he attaches great importance to this. After all, only by making a good start can the situation be opened up later.

"By the way, Your Majesty, what do I need to prepare for then?"

Carlo was stunned by the words of the captain of the guard, and then he realized that he was asking who he invited to the opening ceremony of the R\u0026D center.

Carlo originally didn't want to invite people to participate, he just wanted to keep it simple, but now that the captain of the guard mentioned it, he felt that it was too low-key. After thinking about it, he replied, "Then just invite people from the government." ”

"Okay, Your Majesty."

The Baron responded to Carlo's words, but since only people from the government were invited, then His Majesty did not want to make a big fuss, so at least ministers of various levels could participate. Thinking of this, he had an idea.

The next day, invitation letters regarding the opening of the R\u0026D test center in six days were handed to ministers and senior officials. Faced with the king's invitation, unless they really couldn't get away, they basically agreed.

In the Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Cairoli looked at the invitation letter in front of him, was silent for a moment, and then answered to the secretary in front of him. "Reply to the royal family and I will attend on time."

"As you command, Your Excellency."

When the Prime Minister responded that he wanted to attend, on the other side of Rome, former Prime Minister Despretis also received an invitation. "Get ready. I need to attend His Majesty's invitation in Marino in six days. I need to dress more formally."

"Understood, sir, I will ask the tailor shop to prepare new clothes."

Yes, Despretis planned to pick up the young monarch at the airport, but only he knew the reason.

So in just one day, everyone in Rome was talking about His Majesty's ceremony. Of course, many people added some interesting things to talk about before and after tea.

As for Carlo, he never thought that such a ceremony could become the focus.