Rise of Australia

Chapter 69

December 1900, 12, Hamburg, Germany.

The plan to acquire the Mercedes-Benz company was successful, and the move to relocate the entire Mercedes-Benz company and research office went very smoothly.

Because of the approval of William II, no one blocked the acquisition and relocation. Arthur only paid 200 million pounds to complete the entire acquisition and aftermath.

As the largest automobile factory in Germany, Mercedes-Benz has a total of a car factory and a research room, as well as an iron casting company and a machinery factory for researching and manufacturing engines.

These factories and companies add up to more than 500 employees.Only more than 100 of them are willing to go to Australia, and this is still under the circumstance that Arthur is hired with a high salary.

It is good news for Arthur that more than 100 people are willing to take their families to Australia to continue working.

Therefore, after three days of preparation, these employees and their families successfully arrived in Hamburg and will take a transport ship to live in Australia.

Along with them, there are also employees of a company called Diesel Engine Laboratory and Engine Factory.

That's right, Arthur's goal is not just Benz.In the field of engines that are closely related to automobiles, there is a talent who is not weaker than Benz, known as the "father of diesel engines", and that is Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

Rudolf Diesel is an irreplaceable genius and founder of the engine industry, especially the diesel engine industry, and is known as the father of the diesel engine.

Even the word diesel in German comes from the name of Rudolf Diesel.

Like Benz, Diesel's diesel engine invention has achieved certain results. The diesel-powered compression ignition engine he invented not only has high power and low fuel consumption, but also can use low-quality fuel, and has a brilliant development prospect.

If Benz is a half-entrepreneur and half-inventor with no outstanding business ability, then Diesel is a pure inventor, without any brains in business, although he invented an excellent diesel engine and made himself a millionaire. net worth.

But after repeated wrong choices and stock investment failures, Diesel's engine factory's financial situation is getting worse and worse.

After the two ministers Andrew and Pierre successfully signed the acquisition agreement with Benz and discussed the detailed relocation plan, they immediately went to Munich non-stop to find this engine talent.

Rudolf Diesel was a German who was educated in Paris as a child. Because the German Empire, which was still Prussia at the time, had a bad relationship with France, the Diesel family had to flee to London.

After graduation, Diesel moved to Switzerland and Paris successively, and finally set up his own engine research laboratory in Paris.

The reason why he is currently staying in Munich is because Diesel suffers from severe neurasthenia and is recuperating in a nearby sanatorium.

Because of the diesel engine he invented, Diesel's popularity is still quite high.After a little inquiry, the two ministers learned of Diesel's convalescent residence.

Essentially, Benz and Diesel are the same kind of people, they are absolute geniuses in their own industries, and they are not very proficient in business.

They are more pursuing the results and progress in research, rather than financial and material enjoyment.

After hearing that the Duke of Australia, Arthur, wanted to acquire its engine laboratory and factory, the first question Diesel asked was not the amount of acquisition funds, but the amount of future research and development funds.

Arthur is not stingy with such talents, not to mention that the funds spent will be used on the right path of research.

Arthur gave both Benz and Diesel generous research funds. Both of them have a share of research funds of 100 million pounds per year, and they can apply for more as appropriate.

As expected, Diesel agreed to the acquisition decisively. The only requirement was that his research funds must be guaranteed every year, and he had to bring all his assistants in the research laboratory.

In this way, two well-known talents in the automobile and engine industries of later generations were so smoothly tied to the Australian chariot, and the price Arthur paid was only a few million pounds.

Like Mercedes-Benz, Arthur also reserved [-]% of the shares in the engine factory for Diesel, and continued to hand over the management of the laboratory to Diesel.

As for the management of the engine factory, it was not that Arthur was unwilling to hand it over to Diesel.It is really that Diesel's business management ability is too poor, and he also needs to devote more energy to the research of engines.

After everything was fully prepared, Arthur boarded the warship with hundreds of workers and the two recruited talents, as well as the diplomatic mission and guards he brought, and embarked on the journey back to Australia .

On the warship, Diesel and Benz also met the master behind the acquisition of their factory, Arthur.

Under the slightly respectful and flustered eyes of the two talents, Arthur generously promised to prepare two villas for the two in Sydney and arrange the nationality of their family members.

Yes, Arthur also asked them to join the Australian citizenship, to become a real Australian.

The two were a little unhappy at first, but under Arthur's persuasion to consider the future, the two still nodded and agreed.

Seeing that the two were willing to become Australian citizens, Arthur nodded in satisfaction.

In this way, these two outstanding talents have successfully become Australians, and they will also bring huge changes to Australia's industrial development.

It takes more than a month to arrive in Sydney from Hamburg, which also determines that this voyage is extremely boring and boring.

Perhaps because of the mutual attraction of geniuses, Benz and Diesel became close friends during this period of more than a month. It is more reasonable to stay in the same room all day long to study the principles and improvements of engines, and how to use them in cars.

Arthur would be glad to see that.After all, these two are talents with great achievements in their own industries. The communication between them may have a more profound impact on their achievements, and even be enough to change the development of Australia.

There is also good news, because the discussion between the two during this period has led to some new discoveries and ideas.

Diesel and Benz asked Arthur more than once, hoping to speed up the fleet's march, so that they could arrive in Australia as soon as possible, build a laboratory, and invest in research.

Arthur couldn't laugh or cry at this, and could only order the fleet to speed up as much as possible. At the same time, he promised Diesel and Benz that he would find a place for them to build a research laboratory as soon as they arrived in Australia, and at the same time invest funds as soon as possible to allow them to carry out development. .

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