Germany's request to extend the 3B railway to the Persian Gulf was unsurprisingly resolutely opposed by the British government, and the German attitude was also very clear, the railway could be jointly managed by Germany, Britain and Turkey, which was the biggest concession of the German side, but the end point must be built to Kuwait.

The two sides were deadlocked, and the negotiations stalled for a while. However, in any case, the construction of the railway is not something that can be completed in a short time. And Helgoland Island is now beginning to decline in value in the eyes of the German Navy, and even the Navy has begun to formulate plans for operations around the fact that Helgoland Island is not under German control. So the Germans were not in a hurry at all, and it was the British who were in a hurry.

Under these circumstances, the enthusiasm of the Germans at the beginning quickly cooled, and the talks entered into a garbage time of daily talks between the two sides, but all about trivial nonsense, and no progress in actual content.

Frederick III and Marchar returned to their daily work, and Foreign Secretary Bülow returned home after seeing that the talks could not be fruited in a short time, leaving the German ambassador to Britain to quarrel with the British, and this Qiē had no connection with Jochen.

Stuttgart, an important city with a concentration of high-tech and heavy industry in Germany, is also the headquarters of several important industries in Jochen's hands, so Stuttgart has also become the focus of German infrastructure construction under Jochen's promotion, the railway and road networks converge here, and the changes brought about by convenient transportation and high-tech industries are no less than those brought about by Berlin, which is the center of imperial politics, and Hamburg, which is the center of imperial shipping.

Whether it is telephone, telegraph or electricity, it is one of the most important technologies in Jochen, and Jochen has the same attitude as Wilhelm II in history in promoting the popularization of electrification in Germany, regardless of the cost.

Machar's support for Germany's electrification process continued during the Caprivi period after he became German Prime Minister, and the implementation of electrification has also changed Germany in all aspects.

Electric lighting is no longer uncommon in big cities, and the lighting system of factories and roads has become electrified, and electric lighting has become a common item in middle-class households. And the electric fan that Jochen made up is not a rare item in Germany now.

The use of electricity has led to the increase in demand for electricity generation as the night begins to light up in Germany's major cities, which in turn has boosted investment in the construction of power stations.

Austria's abundant hydropower resources and Alsace-Lorraine's abundant coal resources provide good conditions for such development.

The exchange of information between German cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna was no longer limited to the guò telegraph, and the laying of telephone lines gave Germans a new way of communication.

Although it is far from the level of the telephone entering every household in later generations, and the laying of telephones and lines is not a small amount of money, the advantage of the telephone is much higher than that of the telegraph for the wealthy, so the penetration rate of the telephone is still rising.

The telegraph station also added telephone service, so that people with ordinary income could also pay a phone bill and use the public telephone in the telephone station to contact friends in other cities directly.

Stuttgart is also a direct beneficiary of electrification, and the absence of electricity means no high-precision breakdown, and no way to improve production efficiency. As an industrial center and a center for high-tech industries, Stuttgart was naturally the initial focus of construction.

Germany is vigorously developing, and other countries are not idle, especially the rich and capricious Yankees, Westinghouse's AC motor and power transmission equipment production capacity can no longer meet the needs of the United States, and the Americans also went to Germany to find Siemens to order. Knowing that the number of devices that Siemens could deliver was also limited, it also spent a lot of money to buy patents for imitation.

How can Germany slow down in this situation? Although the investment is huge, with the likes of Tesla and Parsons, it would be a shame if Germany's electrification process could only reach the level of the same period in history and be left behind by the Americans.

In this case, not only did Germany spend a lot of money, but Jochen himself did not save much money, and although the royalties for alternating current transmission were exploding, the money would be swallowed up by the technical research department not long after it reached Jochen.

Tesla's electrically powered high-precision machine tools, Parsons' 50-megawatt steam turbine generator, and even in order to help Parsons' steam turbines process high-strength rotors and spindles, Jochen also began to let his shipyard start researching 10,000-ton hydraulic presses.

This time Jochen went to Stuttgart again, this time not to see the airship, nor to see the 10-megawatt steam turbine thermal power unit that had just been put into operation at the Stuttgart power plant.

Jochen's destination was a nondescript factory next to the Stuttgart power plant, surrounded by a 3-meter-high cement wall, so that the light inside could not be seen from the outside, and the smoke-filled chimneys in the factory area made it clear that it was supposed to be a metalworking factory.

The factory director who had already received a notice that the crown prince would come led several technical backbones to wait at the gate of the factory, and when he saw the convoy coming, the railing at the gate was erected early.

Under the guidance of the factory director, he walked to the huge conjoined factory shed in the factory area, put on a steel helmet and mask in the preparation room in the factory shed, and then walked into the workshop.

The workers inside were already in place and ready, and Jochen looked around and nodded in satisfaction, then said to the factory director, "Let's begin." ”

The factory director immediately picked up the whistle hanging around his neck, and the long whistle echoed in this factory shed, and the originally quiet factory shed immediately became hot. This is a real heat, and the furnace burner adds coal to the preheated furnace and spreads the coal as evenly as possible on the bottom of the furnace to increase the combustion efficiency.

A conveyor belt pours the selected ore into the furnace, as well as other materials into the furnace, where they melt and mix under the influence of a steam-powered stirring rod and finally turn into a reddish metal solution.

It's not the first time Jochen has seen this scene, but he still can't hide his excitement. This metal solution is not steel, Germany's steel smelting has led the world, even if he sees a larger scale of smelting, he doesn't feel anything, what makes Jochen excited is that this metal solution is hot molten aluminum!

This plant is a smelter that uses the Bayer process to refine alumina on a large scale! As early as 1889, the Austrian scientist Bayer proposed a method that could process bauxite in large quantities, and this method was also named the Bayer method after him.

This technology is not a new invention, but there has been little progress in large-scale production, first of all, Germany is not a bauxite-producing country. Secondly, although there are many ways to refine aluminum, none of them can form a scale, and the price is naturally high. Third, the melting point of aluminum metal itself is low and the strength is poor, and the use of aluminum metal is not high when the proportion of aluminum alloy has not made heavy progress. Therefore, Germany did not develop an aluminium smelting industry.

However, the situation has changed somewhat, and it doesn't matter that Germany doesn't have bauxite, and the German-controlled Philippines and the island of New Guinea are both bauxite-rich and extremely rich in mineral reserves.

Jochen's own demand for aluminium alloys was also an important reason for his urgent need for a large-scale aluminium smelting industry in Germany.

The aluminum alloy frame required by Zeppelin's airship already required a lot of investment. That's okay, the problem with the engine is the key to death.

At present, BMW's nickel steel engine has reached 60 horsepower, and the 80 horsepower engine is also being studied. But the weight of the engine is really impressive.

These things can be used as engines for cars and tractors, but as aircraft engines?

What would it be like to have a few hundred kilograms of nickel steel engine mounted on a wooden shelf with a total of only 100 kilograms of engines removed? What's worse is that the power output of this hundreds of kilograms of iron lump can't exceed 100 horsepower, and Jochen doesn't even bother to think about the practicality of this thing.

The problem of craftsmanship was not a problem for Germany at all, and Maybach even boasted that it would not be a problem to make an 8-cylinder inline engine if he wanted to, but Jochen vetoed it without even thinking about it. 8 cylinders in line, not to mention that the length is too long and there is no place to install it, the weight alone is close to 1 ton, who would use such an iron lump if the brain is pumped?

Therefore, the weight problem is still the biggest problem that plagues aero engines.

As a traverser, the solution Jochen certainly knows, using aluminum alloy. In the case of strength not weaker than nickel steel, the weight is only half of the latter, and the weight is reduced by 1 and a half! That means a bigger, heavier engine! Fill it with more fuel! Load more weapons! There are such bright prospects, so what are you waiting for if you don't hurry up the research and development of aluminum alloy engines?!

The result? Jochen, who proposed to study aluminum alloy engines early on, and delusionally imagined planes and tanks, was soon beaten by reality, and his face was swollen, and there was no bauxite in Germany, this was the first slap, and then there was no aluminum alloy formula, which was the second slap, and then the low output of aluminum smelting was terrible, and this was the third slap, and finally the price was expensive to death This was the fourth slap, and the four slaps smoked Jochen's gums were loose.

What's the use of having a gold finger? The basic industry and technical capabilities are there, and the cruel reality teaches man! R1152