The Rise of the Empire

"Generally speaking, Bavaria is still a very suitable place for farming!" The young Wang Changsun commented after having spent two years understanding the basic situation of Bavaria after he first crossed over. To sum it up, two reasons can be used to support this assertion. First, Bavaria has no strong industrial competitors, and its industrial base is relatively poor. In addition, it operates a national brand and has a relatively large growth potential. There is little trouble with the government. Second, the Bavarian royal family is very rich! very rich!

If you are elsewhere, if you want to build a gun, you have to compete with the Krupp family, who have been famous for decades and become the richest man in Germany. If you want to build a gun, the Mauser Brothers will tell you. If you want to do steel and coal, sorry, Bavaria does not produce iron and coal, look at the industrially developed regions of Germany, whether it is the Ruhr region or the Alsace-Lorraine from France, or the Sa Er District, these places either have coal, iron, or both coal and iron! If you play low-end repeated competition, Bavaria will not know how to die!

Maybe some people say that there is not a legendary BMW in later generations? That's right, this company does exist, and the Chinese name is quite good, and it is called the BMW company! But in fact, the predecessor of this buddy is not a car, and when it is really brilliant, it is not a car! Its predecessor was the Bavarian Mechanical Pharma Company! Founded in 1916, and began to engage in aircraft! 2 war is also engaged in aircraft engines! The famous BMW801 was produced by him! Although the future generations are very brilliant, it is a pity that in Germany in 1889, this company has no hair! Overall, Bavaria's industry is still relatively backward. As for shipbuilding or shipping? Inland shipping can still be played. For shipbuilding, it is also possible to get a design bureau, but the shipyard should be slow for the time being, and it is not even close to the sea!

Therefore, the development direction that the young prince set for Bavaria is to take the high-end route. How to take the high-end route? Internal combustion engines, automobiles, airplanes, boilers, etc. are still relatively far away. These things are either not there yet, or they can be sold in Bavaria after they are developed. When they go out, they will be beaten up by other companies in other places. The industrial heritage is a bit poor. And things that transmigrators don't understand. There is really no way, it needs to be supplemented slowly, and it needs state support. But some things focus on skills, or if you are familiar with certain things as a traverser, you can try it, such as the famous Krupp armor of later generations!

Speaking of Krupp armor before World War 1, people who generally know a little about the history of battleships will subconsciously think of the Krupp hardened armor that was born in 1893 and used on the Brandenburg battleship, but in fact, Krupp The history of engaging in armor is earlier, and the process is more complicated!

When Krupp first started to develop armor, it was done with others. At that time, Krupp did not say that it produced its own armor. Before 1890, Krupp did not even have its own rolling mill! At that time, Krupp's partner Baron Sturm-Hallberg was in charge of production, and allowed Krupp to use the old-fashioned "Wilson method" to manufacture steel-surfaced armor, and Krupp was responsible for the research and development of new armor. Krupp began to develop nickel-steel armor in 1890.

And when the time comes, you have to mention a big country on the other side of the ocean. The world's first hardened armor is the Harvey hardened armor made by American Augusta Harvey. And this buddy did not start from the beginning to the end of the one-stop production. The original hardened armor plate used by the Americans was nickel steel armor imported from the Schneider factory in France, and then carburized and immersed in cold water to get the earliest Harvey. Hardened armor.

And the appearance of Harvey armor directly swept the ship armor industry! Profit margins as high as 50% or even 100% make all arms dealers rush! With such a big cake in front of us, Krupp will naturally not give up, Krupp just thought,

My brother and I have already used nickel ore in casting guns in the 1980s. Isn't it just a matter of applying similar technology to armor? French chicken and American cowboy can do it, why can't I do it?

So historically, Krupp began to engage in nickel steel armor in 1890, and it was successful in 1891. After that, Krupp continued to forge, and put the nickel steel armor hardened after a week of carburizing heat treatment into oil for treatment, thus obtaining the early Krupp hardened armor, which is said to be about 10% stronger than Harvey hardened armor. ! At this time, it is not finished. The final master of Krupp's hardened armor is a hardening method called "gas glue method". A final water spray completes the final hardening process.

Sun Yu had seen something about hardened armor before the crossing, and after the crossing, with the help of the engineers dug out from Krupp, plus the time advantage of starting first, the great crossing and plagiarist succeeded. The Krupp hardened armor, which was only successful in 1893, was a test product in 1889! And the first to register a patent in Germany!

Even if the Krupp family succeeded in their research, it was useless, unless they also had traversers and produced the Wicks hardened armor that succeeded before World War 1, otherwise, they would not be able to compete with traversers at all! Before 1905, the world's strongest hardened armor was produced alone! From 1905 to 1910, all manufacturers of Krupp hardened armor had to pay high patent fees to patent owners! Probably about £15 per ton of armor! According to the exchange rate during the Sino-Japanese War, it is about 90 taels of silver! (The author of this patent fee has seen it before, but I don't remember it exactly --! If there is any mistake, please forgive me.)

Some people may ask, since there are such high patent fees, why are there so many factories rushing to produce? The willingness is very simple and the profit margin is high. Taking the UK as an example, the price of a ton of ordinary steel plate is only 6 to 8 pounds, while the price of KC armor after hardening treatment is generally between 80 and 150 pounds. It is true that armor steel needs to be Rolling, carburizing, quenching and other processes are used for production, but its profit margin is still beyond the imagination of ordinary people! And there are only two in this world! See for yourself!

25% to 30% of the cost of a warship is the cost of armored steel, and if the profit margin is concerned, even the weapons and power are far inferior! How many ships were built in the pre-Dreadnought era? The cost of these ships multiplied by 0.25 is an astronomical figure! And historically, before 1905, Krupp didn't seem to spread the patented technology, so, the profit here, you know.... The prince who was bent over by the passer-by was inadvertently dug out a large piece by the corner of the later industrial giant Krupp, and then put it in his pocket! Too TM has a sense of achievement!

So now the question is, even if you have technology, do you have money? How to say this? The Bavarian royal family is really not short of money! After all, the entire kingdom of Bavaria belongs to the Wittelsbach family, so what if you scraped together some money to get a steel mill. Moreover, the Bavarian royal family can also obtain additional funding from the central government every year. Taking 1910 as an example, Bavaria received a grant of 5.67 million marks from the important government of the empire that year, which is not counting the royal family’s own assets and the kingdom’s grant to the royal family. !

Moreover, it is shameless to say that this factory is also to improve the comprehensive economic strength of the Kingdom of Bavaria, increase employment, and create social wealth. His Highness the Regent will operate the parliament and pass it, won't it be over? What a big deal for the government to pay for a factory. Although Bavaria is poor, relatively speaking, the Bavarian Kingdom, which accounts for one-seventh of the entire second German Empire, is also very powerful if it fights for the total economic volume! If nothing else, the military expenditures of the Sachs and Württemberg armies, which are both kingdoms, are supported by the German central government, but Bavaria is different! Bavarian troops are fully supported by the Royal Government! In addition to having to obey the German dispatch from the staff during the war, it is completely independent! Can you afford the army without money?

During World War 1, most of the 6th Army under the Crown Prince was the Kingdom of Bavaria's own army, including the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 21st Bavarian Army and the Bavarian Reserve 1st Army and a Reserve Brigade, plus a cavalry. military! The total force is about 220,000, with nearly 800 artillery pieces! Even now, the standing army of Bavaria is no less than 3 armies! Think about how much the troops in Beiyang Six Towns spent at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and then think about the size of the Bavarian Kingdom's army. It can be said that money is not an issue at all!

If the armor is to make money from the navies of the world, the probability of making a big profit is 99%! Then the rest of the other stuff will start from your own home! It is self-produced and sold in-house! The probability of making money is one hundred and twenty percent! Of course, these things can't be said one after the other for the time being. His father, the crown prince, said that he should communicate with his uncle first. Thinking of one of his mighty princely uncles, Ruprecht had to express his admiration, this uncle is so powerful! Almost achieved things that N many seniors and juniors have not achieved!

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