Meiman plane trader

Chapter 95 Hometown
After a few days of inquiring in many ways, although there is still no real evidence... After all, there was not even a single eyewitness at the time.

But according to Josie's judgment, there is a high probability that the US team was really teleported away by the Rubik's Cube.

As for where it was sent to, it is impossible to judge.

Although in the original plot, the Red Skull was sent to the planet Vormir to act as a guide for another infinite gem-the soul gem, but in Josie's mind, this infinite gem should not need two guides.

So even if the two were teleported away together, the possibility of appearing on Vormir together is very low.

As for the fact that the US team was teleported away, Josie's personal attitude is regrettable and fortunate.

It's a pity because although I and the US team are not good friends, they are more or less acquaintances.

Fortunately, it is very simple. Although he has not been recognized by the Council of Nine, he has actually become the head of a Hydra branch and has become the hidden enemy of the US team.

Although it is not enough to be afraid of the other party, it still feels a little uncomfortable to suddenly become a deadly enemy from a familiar person.

That's fine now.

After a little feeling, Josie stopped paying too much attention to this matter.

As for the cosmic Rubik's Cube... nothing will matter when I really occupy the Council of Nine.

The next day, in the valley to the west of Innsbruck, a city in western Austria, a luxury convoy drove slowly into a small town called Obsteig.

The people in the town looked at the convoy curiously.

Because this small town is located in a remote place, the war hardly disturbs here, and there are very few troops or big figures coming here, so seeing a luxury convoy suddenly appearing here, naturally I feel very happy strangeness.

Although it is only a small town, because Austria was once the most elite part of the world-class power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the roads here are also well built, and the convoy can easily shuttle through the town.

After turning and turning, the convoy finally arrived at a small building with a yard on the northern edge of the town.

The arrival of the convoy caught the attention of a big dog in the yard, which immediately barked twice as a warning.

As the convoy stopped, Josie, who was wearing a coat, got out of one of the cars, and the one who got off behind him was Ophelia in classical attire.

Josie, who had just gotten out of the car, saw the big dog in the yard at a glance, and his eyes lit up immediately. It was a very strong alpine elf-the Swiss national dog, St. Bernard.

Known for guarding travelers on the Alpine passes, this large dog is very popular not only in Switzerland, but throughout the country around the Alps.

Since it is a very docile dog breed, facing Josie and his group of uninvited guests, apart from barking a few times as a warning and staring at them vigilantly, they didn't make any aggressive moves.

"Is this your childhood home? It looks like it has a new owner!" Ophelia asked Josie after looking up and down the small building, ignoring the St. Bernard's barking.

"It's normal. Before I left, my father sold this place. As for who it was sold to, I don't know exactly." Josie replied.

That's right, this small town, this small building is the hometown of Josie's body.

And about [-] kilometers north of this small town is the Bavarian town of Schwangau.

There, there are two castles facing each other across the mountain.

It is the old and new Swan Castle where the famous Bavarian King Ludwig II once lived.

This is why before coming to Europe, Josie would suddenly have a desire for Neuschwanstein Castle.

Because when this body lived here when it was a child, it often rode horses to hunt in the mountains and forests on the border under the leadership of its father, and watched the two beautiful castles by the way.

And now, Josie is here to take over these two castles... The ownership of these two castles was originally in the hands of the Bavarian state government, but in the latter part of World War II, Bavaria was first annexed by the Hydra Army, and now it is Occupied by Austria, so its ownership naturally fell into the hands of Austria.

During Josie's time in Austria, after using a series of methods, he got the ownership of these two castles with almost no money.

But don't think that Josie really took advantage of it.

Fortunately, Hohenschwangau Castle is a completed building, and it can be lived in with a little repair.

But Neuschwanstein Castle...is still an unfinished building.

At the end of the 19th century, the Bavarian king spent a full 620 million marks to build Neuschwanstein Castle.

That was the silver mark of Frederick III's time (the mark at that time was divided into gold and silver), not the mark that has almost become waste paper now.

In Germany, the mark is not only a currency unit, but also a quality unit.

One Prussian mark is equivalent to 1 grams.

That is to say, 1 mark = 223 grams of silver, which is about four taels. If it is based on the taels of the Qing Dynasty, it is six taels.

Then 620 million marks is 3720 million taels of silver.

And how much did the old witch Cixi next door spend to build the Summer Palace in the same period? More than 1000 million taels of silver!

In other words, Ludwig II, the king of Bavaria, was more extravagant than Empress Dowager Cixi.

Because of this, he was deposed by the royal family on the grounds of insanity, and died mysteriously a few days later.

And when he died, because of his own extravagance, not only the treasury of the entire Bavarian royal family was exhausted, but also left a deficit of 500 million marks.

It's no wonder that until the 20s, the Bavarians mentioned that the king still called him a lunatic and called him mentally ill, and regarded the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle as stupid.

However, what happened to Ludwig had nothing to do with Josie. What did matter was that when Ludwig died, the fucking Neuschwanstein Castle hadn't been finished yet, only the external body had been completed.

Of the 360 ​​rooms in the entire Neuschwanstein Castle, only 14 are actually completed.

It was not until the 90s that the Bavarian state government began to gradually restore and improve it. However, at that time, Neuschwanstein Castle brought tens of millions of marks or euros to Bavaria every year.

And Josie wanted to finish the repair of Neuschwanstein Castle. Under normal circumstances, it would not be so easy without spending 800 million US dollars.

Fortunately, I just got tens of thousands of free labor from General McGinnis, so it will come in handy now?
Thanks to the excellent basic education in the German region, there are many talents who understand engineering, and the worst can be a coolie, right?

For these prisoners of war, Josie only needs to provide food and clothing, which immediately reduces the labor cost to a minimum.

However, these people are still being screened and trimmed in the prisoner-of-war camp, and it will take a while before they will be sent here.

Therefore, Josie was not in a hurry to take over the castle immediately, but first came to Obsteig, the "hometown", to have a look.

While Josie was talking with Ophelia, the current owner of the small building was startled by the motorcade and the barking dogs, and walked out of the house.

　There is another chapter that is estimated to be almost in the morning, so you don’t have to wait, just read it tomorrow

　　
　
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