The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 762 Trading
January 1845, 1, Rhineland, Essen.

At this time, Krupp Steel was not the arms tycoon of later generations. At this time, his name was Krupp Steel Foundry.

On the wall of the store, it says that it mainly sells all kinds of high-quality agricultural tools, cooking utensils, as well as finished parts and machine tools.

There is also a small line below: Siemens and Halsk Telegraph Company.

These two giants were forcibly pulled together by Bismarck, but at this time neither Krupp Steel nor Siemens could compete with the powerful industry of the Austrian Empire.

However, they were not overwhelmed. In addition to Bismarck's help, the Kingdom of Prussia provided a large amount of subsidies to its own industry.

Therefore, their market in Prussia still maintains strong competitiveness, even stronger than in history.

In the German Confederation market, it seems a bit weak, mainly because the iron and steel industry of the Austrian Empire is relatively large.

In fact, Franz can also use the power of capital to directly crush Krupp Steel to death, and even directly prevent Siemens' telegraph company from opening.

But that seems shameless, and it may affect the iteration of technology and make the world more boring.

Instead, Franz intends to help them.

A luxury carriage was parked in front of the Krupp Steel Casting Shop and the Siemens Telegraph Company, followed by several temporarily rented carriages and dozens of tall guards.

In fact, there were many dignitaries and wealthy businessmen among the people who came to discuss business, but firstly, the number of guards was small, ranging from one or two to as many as three or four, and secondly, there was only a sense of tension.

At this time, although these people did not put their weapons outside, the sense of oppression could not be faked.

In the store.

"Hello, Ms. Thalia. We are just businessmen, not teachers, and it is even less likely to teach in girls' schools."

Friedrich Krupp had already explained in his mildest tone, but the other party seemed unmoved and just kept complaining.

"This coffee is too bitter, don't you have sugar in your store?"

Friedrich Krupp smiled wryly: "The sugar is in your coffee. Actually, I think coffee is for refreshing, not for flavoring sugar."

"No! You are wrong. Eating sugar can not only refresh your mind, but also provide energy for your brain. In addition, it can relieve fatigue and warm your internal organs."

Face-to-face rebuttal, especially being rebutted by a woman made the traditional Mr. Krupp almost unable to step down.

Mainly in this era, being refuted by women is a very shameless thing.

On the contrary, Werner von Siemens on the side found it interesting and interjected.

"You're talking about church doctors, but they should be referring to brown sugar."

"I'm a Protestant, I don't believe in witch doctors." Krupp emphasized.

Talia stretched her body and said indifferently.

"Sugar is a good thing after all."

"Yes." Siemens smiled, but he didn't feel offended.

Thalia: "Well, I don't have to drag you to Vienna."

"Do you still want to bring girls' schools to Prussia?"

Friedrich Krupp said angrily, although he thought it was unlikely, but the other side had the support of the Austrian royal family, and it was really hard to say what they could do.

Talia laughed out loud, but she didn't care about the attitude of the other party, after all, she had received much cold eyes.

"Your imagination is really rich, but I advise you not to rush to refuse."

"Why? This is Prussia, not Austria."

Talia snapped her fingers, and immediately a group of big men came in from the door, scaring Krupp to flee behind the table.

After that, three heavy wooden boxes fell heavily on the table, and Werner von Siemens' eyes lit up immediately. He felt that there was a high possibility that there was a huge sum of money here.

It's just that as a Prussian soldier, as a nobleman, as a Protestant, you shouldn't work for Austria.

At this time, Talia also stood up and walked to the three wooden boxes to open them one by one. There were no gold, silver or jewelry inside, but some books, notes and the like.

"Here are all the research notes and experimental records in the field of electricity in the world at present, and new achievements that will appear in the future will be sent continuously."

In fact, Talia was also very depressed. She didn't understand why she wanted to find someone who ran a steel company to do electricity research, but there were so many strange things about Franz that she didn't bother to think about it.

"satisfied?"

Krupp didn't know what these research notes in the field of electricity contained, because the knowledge was too advanced for him.

However, Siemens has already walked to the table and started looking through those precious notes. He knows what electricity can bring to the world in the future, and he has always been convinced that he is the one who can change the world.

Siemens: "What do you want?"

Talia didn't talk too much, she directly explained her intentions.

"Technology sharing, of course, is only between us and cannot be leaked to third parties."

"What do we mean?"

Siemens immediately became alert. Although Krupp received a little more state subsidies on weekdays and even received low-interest loans from the royal family, the former was a Prussian military officer who was deeply influenced by patriotism after all.

"Between Austria and Prussia."

"Thank you, it's a word."

"Don't worry, we have another requirement, that is, you need to give priority to the research and development of generators."

"dynamo?"

Siemens was a little puzzled, because there are actually many kinds of simple generators on the market at this time.

For example, hand-cranked, pedal-operated, wind-powered, water-powered, and even a steam generator developed under the auspices of Franz.

But these so-called generators are either unusable for industrial production, inefficient or too unstable to work for long periods of time.

If it is forced to be used in industrial production, then unless it is aluminum smelting, the profitable industry can make money, otherwise it will be a loss-making business.

Franz also tried to allow Austria to develop unilaterally, but the reality was stuck for several years, and scientific progress fell into a bottleneck period.

The key to breaking through this bottleneck is electricity, so he must solve this problem at all costs.

It is impossible to defeat Britain in the age of steam, the opponent's first-mover advantage is too great, but in the age of electricity, those advantages will become its burden instead.

As for letting the Prussian side master the technology?Franz is not too afraid, because the size gap between the two sides is there. Unless the technology gap can be pulled out, it is difficult for Austria to lose at this time.

"That's right, it's the generator. The current generator can't meet our requirements."

"Then what kind of generator do you need?"

"It can supply the whole of Vienna, preferably the whole of Austria. And it is better to be cheaper, because it is easy to promote."

Talia was thinking about what Franz said before, and Krupp on the side listened to these words and said eccentrically.

"It really is a lunatic, more terrifying than that iron lunatic in Britain, all of Austria? Why don't you go all over the world!"

But at this time, Werner von Siemens was already in a difficult situation. He grabbed Thalia's arm and was subconsciously thrown over the shoulder by the latter.
(End of this chapter)