The hunt with Franz was a great success, and everyone returned home with a full load on this day, and Franz enjoyed the fun of hunting; Mary came out to relax, and the day was quite pleasant; Jochen, on the other hand, had a good relationship with the future crown prince of Austria-Hungary, and the photographer's vest was favored by Franz as a surprise.

But the next thing is the main thing, the Austro-Hungarian automatic weapons tender. Of course, HK doesn't have any automatic weapons to bid on right now, and Jochen is here for a single person.

Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born inventor and entrepreneur, only entered the field of weapons research and development in 1881. In 1883 he moved to England, and in 1884 he introduced the first automatic weapon he designed, the rapid-fire machine gun that fired 11.43 rounds, which was the prototype of the future famous Maxim machine gun.

In Jochen's mind, the Maxim machine gun is actually not an ideal infantry support firepower, it is too heavy, too complex, and there is little room for improvement, so for a long time this bulky thing has always belonged to the artillery sequence of equipment, in the army the number of equipment is pitiful, in October 1904 in the Russo-Japanese War Shahe Battle, 210,000 Russian troops are only equipped with 32 Makqin machine guns. However, the war gave Maxim the opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop, because the First World War was a trench warfare, and everyone squatted obscenely, so Maxim's bulkiness was not a problem in this environment, and its excellent burst fire ability became a nightmare for any stormer, and the rain of bullets it spilled became a veritable rain of death. And Makqin has been synonymous with machine guns for a long time.

However, this famous killing weapon has always been ignored at the beginning. For example, this is the case now.

The venue of the Austro-Hungarian automatic weapons tender, the Austro-Hungarian Empire invited a number of arms dealers to participate in the bidding, in this tender, in addition to the Maxim machine gun, there are also its old rivals, the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun and the Nordenfeld four-barreled bead gun, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire requires that these weapons must use the ammunition used in the Austro-Hungarian rifle, so at this time all the guns that appear are fired black. Gunpowder stuff. From Jochen's point of view, the performance is miserable, and the hand-cranked Gatling has a continuous shot because the shooter shakes the handle, so once the shooter is nervous and spends the speed of the rotating handle, the barrel will be clogged because the bullet is too fast; The Nordenfeld four-barreled bead gun has 4 barrels side by side, and the gun body is huge, so it is also very thick and complicated, and it is no problem to say that it is a rotating turret of a small-caliber naval gun without looking at the barrel above. In contrast, Makqin, who can accurately complete procedures such as firing control, fast stuck, and autoloading, is quite outstanding. However, there are always a lot of villains in this world. For example, Zakharov, who pit Makqin in Italy in 1886.

Bashir Zakharov, born in Odessa, Russia, and then settled in Istanbul to work as a firefighter, and the firefighters at this time did not really help to extinguish the fire, but they always got a lot of money for helping the rich rescue gold and silver treasures from the house, so many firefighters simply engaged in open fire robbery and gray trading, Zakharov was one of them.

After earning his first pot of gold in this way, Zakharov began to work as a comprador in a trading firm, in charge of Ottoman and British business. As a result, in 1873, he was sued by a trading partner for commercial fraud, and although he was later released after paying a fee, his reputation was declared bankrupt. So he went to Greece, where he became acquainted with a politician, and he admired Zakharov's eloquence very much, and used his connections to recommend Zakharov to the Swedish gunsmith Nordenfeld, and on October 14, 1877, Zakharov officially took office as the trade representative of the Swedish Nordenfeld Automatic Weapons Company. The Maxim 1886 machine gun, the competitor of the Nordenfeld four-barreled repeater gun, was better in all respects, so it could not recover its disadvantage in performance, so it had to use some external evils. Thus came the scene of the Kingdom of Italy in 1886.

And this time, Zakharov did it again. And this time, his approach is even more subordinate. At the beginning of the competition, the Maxim machine gun was far ahead, but when the shooting competition continued, Maxim was unstable, and problems such as jamming and dumb fire emerged one after another. Joheng, who was sitting on the viewing platform at the venue, watched Makqin himself disassemble the machine gun in a panic, and then sweated and troubleshooting, and knew that sure enough, the Makqin machine gun was tampered with. But in the end, it was Makqin, and after eliminating the fault, Makqin's performance in the next game was almost perfect.

Just when the senior Austro-Hungarian officials in the venue praised Makqin's design and made Makqin smile, Jochen sneered and watched this qiē: "The one who laughs last is the best laugh." It's not over yet. Jochen muttered. Sure enough, Zakharov stepped forward, loudly proclaiming his praise for the Maxim machine gun: "The Maxim machine gun is really a perfect weapon, which reflects the outstanding intelligence of Mr. Maxim. Then the conversation changed: "But such an extraordinary weapon can only be handmade, and it is impossible for Mr. Maxim to supply the Austro-Hungarian army with a sufficient number of machine guns." With an exaggerated tone and a confident demeanor, Zakharov's words were like a spell that convinced the Austro-Hungarian officials present. Listening to the whispers of the Austro-Hungarian officials in the room, and looking at the smile that was still frozen on Makqin's face, Jochen smiled, "Life is really a drama, between the ups and downs, I have experienced all kinds of things in the world, should I say thank you to you, Mr. Zakharov." Jochen smiled, called his attendants, and commanded in a low voice, "Go and do two things: first, I wish to invite that Mr. Maxim to dinner; Second, to collect information about Mr. Zakharov, and ask the Imperial intelligence agencies to keep a close eye on him. I want to know his every move. ”

Of course, Jochen didn't want to teach Zakharov a lesson because he wanted to upset Makqin, but Zakharov did have an unparalleled ability to drill camps. After several lessons from Zakharov's prowess, Makqin was forced to pay a heavy price to merge the Makqin Company with Nordenfeld in 1888, and paid Zakharov a staggering commission to sell the Makhrov machine gun. After 1890, Vickers forcibly took a stake in Makqin-Nordenfeld, and Zakharov paid for the shares of the new company, turning himself from an employee to a shareholder in one fell swoop, and in 1911 Makqin retired, and Zakharov sat on Makqin's board of directors. Of course, none of that was Jochen's focus on him.

Rather, in order to obtain huge profits from the arms deal, this man contributed to the Anglo-German naval shipbuilding race, thereby increasing the shares of the Vickers Company, and sold 4 battleships, 3 cruisers, 53 submarines, 3 frigates, 62 small ships, 2,328 artillery pieces, 8 million tons of artillery steel, 90,000 mines, 22,000 torpedoes, 5,500 aircraft, and 100,000 machine guns for the Vickers Company in World War I. What made Jochen even more unbearable was that Zakharov had a very close relationship with British Prime Minister Elode George and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, so he also undertook the task of encouraging Greece to side with the Entente in World War I, and Jochen's sister Sophie would marry King Constantine I of Greece in the future, and Konstantin himself was related to the German royal family, so Greece had always avoided conflict with Germany and remained neutral in the early stage of World War I. However, Zakharov used various means to promote the good news of the Entente, which eventually led to internal turmoil in Greece, and finally led the pro-Entente faction to force Constantine I to abdicate and Greece to join the Entente. And a series of feats of this man made him a super-rich man with a net worth of more than 50 million pounds after the end of the First World War, worth 333.5 tons of gold! As the most outstanding merchant of death of this era, the image of Zakharov even appeared in Belgian cartoonist Hergé's "The Adventures of Tintin". Such a dangerous person, Jochen, naturally has to pay full attention to him, and if this guy takes shit and gets into Vickers again in the future, Jochen doesn't mind letting German intelligence create some "accidents".

That night, Makqin was invited to dinner with Jochen. It can be seen that the defeat during the day made him very depressed, and the invitation of the German imperial grandson made him with a kind of expectation to grasp the life-saving straw, and it would indeed make him feel like this, Makqin's previous sales experience was a tragedy, in 1886 the Kingdom of Italy was disturbed by Zakharov, and no one looked at the excellent performance of the director Makqin; When he went to Russia in the first half of this year, he was given a cold reception because he was a Jew, and finally let the Russians see the excellent performance of the Makqin machine gun, and because of racial discrimination, the Russian officials deliberately wrote the conclusion report ambiguously, and the Russian side has been hesitating; In the second half of the year, there was another incident in Austria-Hungary. Not once was it because the failure of the performance director was really difficult for Makqin to accept, and it is no wonder that he later made the decision to merge with Nordenfeld at the expense of others. And the invitation of the German imperial grandson in front of him made him think that Germany had taken a fancy to his design, if this was the case, his weapon was affirmed by the strongest army in Europe, and this was his only chance.

"Your Highness Joachim, thank you very much for the invitation, I wonder if you have any advice for summoning me this time?" Stimulated by defeat, Makqin lowered his posture very low.

"Hello, Mr. Makqin. How about we eat first, and then we'll talk about it in detail. Yochen is not in a hurry, now is the most difficult day for Makqin, hang his appetite by himself, so that he can better grasp the initiative in the next communication.

However, Maxim obviously had no appetite, whether it was the tender Viennese fried steak, or the fragrant Hungarian barbecue, or the mellow Clovich brandy, Maxim's brow was relaxed, and after a symbolic tasting, he quietly waited for Jochen to finish his dinner.

Jochen didn't deliberately chew slowly, and after dinner, Jochen said straight to the point: "Mr. Makqin, I want to buy your company. ”

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