Rise of Empires: Spain

As the king of Spain, Carlo couldn't stay idle all the time.

After thinking about it, Carlo decided to reserve his own talents and lay a solid foundation for the second industrial revolution.

The second industrial revolution is simply the electrical age, and its main symbol is the discovery and widespread use of electricity.

Germany and the United States are both driving countries of the second industrial revolution, which is why the two countries' national strength rose rapidly after electrification and surpassed Britain, the driving country of the first industrial revolution.

In any case, Spain cannot miss the second industrial revolution.

But there is a problem at present, that is, the awkward time now.

Most of the famous scientists have not been born yet or are still in school, so they are naturally not within the scope of Carlo's desire to win over.

Most of the remaining scientists have achieved certain results, and it is not so easy to win them over from abroad to Spain.

After thinking carefully in his mind for a long time, Carlo temporarily thought of two names.

One is Karl Benz, a famous German scientist and entrepreneur who founded Mercedes-Benz, and the other is Gramm, a Belgian-French physicist who truly realized the power generation equipment that can be used for industrial production.

If you mention generators, the familiar names are Faraday and Henry. But these people were more like pioneers. They were the proponents of theories and the makers of experimental devices, but they did not really make generators for industrial use.

Gram did this. The power industry was built on the two DC and AC generators developed by Gram, which is why Carlo was able to remember his name.

With the approximate names and countries, it became much easier to investigate these two people.

Carlo called Cardinal Bruno, director of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau, and asked him to send people to France and Germany to investigate the current situation of Gram and Karl Benz, and invite them to Spain as much as possible.

After receiving Carlo's order, Cardinal Bruno did not dare to be careless at all, and organized people to go to Germany and France for investigation overnight.

The difficulty of the investigation is very great. Although it is known that Gram and Benz are in France and Germany respectively, and are engaged in electricity and mechanical manufacturing respectively.

But looking for a researcher who has not achieved much in the vast France and Germany is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it takes some luck to find it.

Considering that it is difficult to accurately find a person among the tens of millions of targets, Carlo also assigned additional tasks to Cardil Bruno.

If Gram and Benz are really unable to be found, they can also screen talents in electricity and mechanical manufacturing in Germany and France, and try to attract them to Spain.

In order to attract these talents, Carlo is also full of sincerity. The Royal Academy of Spain is the institution prepared by Carlo for these talents.

As an institution dedicated to scientific research, Carlo donates a part of the research funds to the Royal Academy of Spain every year. As long as they join the Royal Academy of Spain, scientists can apply for scientific research funds for their own research.

In addition, all scientists who join the Royal Academy of Sciences can join Spanish nationality without approval, and get a property in the capital Madrid for free.

Scientists of the Royal Academy of Sciences can also choose to join Spanish universities for part-time work, and they will also have additional part-time income.

If there are major scientific research results in the Royal Academy of Sciences, they can also be rewarded with titles and a large amount of research and development funds, which can be said to be full of prospects.

Such conditions may not attract scientists who have been valued by governments, but for those scientists who are poor and rely on their own wealth to support their research, it may be a good choice.

Throughout Europe, there are countless scientists who have devoted themselves to research in physics and chemistry. But before they really become famous for their scientific research results, they rarely have the opportunity to obtain external funding.

Even many famous scientists in later generations were poor in the first half of their lives, because their scientific research required a long time and a lot of investment to try and error, and their own wealth was not enough to support these studies.

Carlo did not expect to attract many top talents by relying on the Royal Academy of Sciences. As long as he could attract some scientists with good levels, Carlo's expectations would be met.

After all, Spain at this time was more than a little behind other European countries in physics and chemistry.

Even in later generations, when the number of Nobel Prize winners in Britain, Germany and France reached dozens or even hundreds, the number of Spanish winners was only a pitiful 8, of which 6 were in literature and only 2 in medicine.

Spain's land area is not inferior to that of Britain, France, and Germany (local), but the reason why there are so few Nobel Prize winners is that the Spanish people's thoughts were enlightened too late.

The discovery of the New World made Spain enter a life of luxury and waste. The gold and silver treasures shipped from America were all used for the extravagance of the nobles and the church.

The palaces and castles of the nobles and the churches of the church looked magnificent, but the improvement of Spain's national strength was getting worse day by day.

What was Spain doing during the Italian Renaissance, the French Enlightenment, and the British Industrial Revolution?

Spain was still strengthening the rule of the royal power and theocracy, and ignorant the people, trying to consolidate the extravagant royal government.

It is the world's first empire on which the sun never sets, it has earned a lot of wealth from the Americas, and it has colonies like Cuba that continue to generate income, but the illiteracy rate of the Spanish government is almost the same as that of newly unified Italy.

The reason why the illiteracy rate in Italy remains high is that the farmers in southern Italy have lowered the average. If we only count northern Italy, which was originally ruled by the Kingdom of Sardinia, Italy's education situation will crush Spain.

This is also the reason why Primo and Carlo both attach great importance to education, because Spain really lacks talents.

In addition, the population itself is not large. If it does not actively absorb talents from abroad, Spain will never be able to keep up with other European countries in terms of scientific and technological revolution.

In addition to wanting to attract outstanding foreign scientists to come to Spain, Carlo created the Royal Academy of Sciences with the goal of allowing these outstanding scientists to teach in Spanish universities, so as to cultivate more outstanding talents in physics and chemistry for Spain.

Absorbing talents from abroad can only solve the surface of Spain's lack of talents. If we want to truly solve the problem of insufficient talents, we must start with cultivating local talents in Spain.

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