In order to make this genius no longer think about the good of the lighthouse country, Jochen made a lot of efforts to win him over. For this dangerous person who dared to do a crustal resonance test in his real room and caused the surrounding houses to collapse, Jochen deliberately chose a vast and sparsely populated area from the royal estate he owned to build a real room for Tesla. And 10 million marks were given as the first research grants.

Faced with such favorable conditions, Tesla sold itself, and after signing his name on a series of "deeds of sale", Tesla simply transferred his patent for alternating current transmission technology to Jochen. The move made Jochen almost burst out laughing, and Tesla's patent was $2.52 per horsepower, which equates to $3.37 for every kilowatt-hour of electricity produced.

Although the patent was only held for 20 years, it was enough to give Jochen an unparalleled fortune before the First World War, and in 1913 the world's total electricity generation was as high as 50 billion kilowatt hours, that ...... I feel more likely to be hit by others first because of public anger and jealousy, and my brain hole is too big, so I have to take it away. But in any case, as long as it is not free to use, I will continue to get a lot of money, and everything can be done with money.

Although George Westinghouse was dissatisfied with Tesla's switch to Germany, the invitation from Siemens was undoubtedly a relief for Westinghouse in a difficult period, so even if there were complaints, it was difficult to say much. Tesla, on the other hand, immediately became a confidant after meeting Parsons, and the two of them teamed up to tinker with a high-power steam turbine generator, which made Jochen look forward to the appearance of megawatt steam turbines.

After this qiē, Jochen planned to take Mary to visit relatives in the Austro-Hung Empire, and in the two years of marriage, Mary did a very good job as an exemplary crown princess, but the lack of an heir was also a concern of the emperors of the two countries. This also made Jochen and Mary have to find all kinds of excuses to lie in the face of the elders' inquiries. There was even an embarrassing experience that Queen Victoria had to ask a doctor to do a physical examination for the two of them, which almost led to a goof.

However, after two years of marriage, the relationship between the two has become more and more harmonious. Eventually, Mary let go of her past and fulfilled her obligations as a wife.

After much hard work, Mary was found to be pregnant, a happy event that made Frederick III and Empress Victoria very happy. Austria-Hungary was also very concerned, so Frederick III asked Jochen to take Mary to visit his relatives in Austria-Hungary, so that his in-laws would be happy.

Upon learning of her daughter's pregnancy, Empress Elisabeth, who stayed in the Palace of Achilles, which she had built herself, on the Greek island of Corfu, also rushed back to Vienna to visit Mary. And Joseph Franz I also breathed a sigh of relief to his daughter when she was pregnant with a child, after all, there was no movement after two years of marriage, which made people worry about whether there was any conflict between the husband and wife.

Jochen, who left Germany to stay at Schönbrunn Palace, had nothing to do, and every day he walked with his pregnant wife, drank tea with his mother-in-law, or chatted with his father-in-law, playing the role of a good husband and son-in-law. Oh, and of course he went hunting with Ferdinand.

Completely relieved from work, Jochen's life in Vienna was very leisurely, and at first Jochen was very comfortable, but after a long time, he couldn't stand it anymore, so Jochen decided to find something to do for himself.

Jochen has a 20% stake in Skoda, so it makes sense to go to Skoda to see what his own business is going on. Here, Jochen saw the K89 240 mm 40 x tube decommissioned, developed by Skoda for the armored cruiser Maria Theresia and Queen, which was under construction.

Jochen's intervention cut the construction plan of the Sigfried-class shore defense ironclad ship, thus affecting the development of the 240 mm 35 times diameter gun of the Krupp company, and thus the naval gun that was later introduced by Austria-Hungary disappeared. The Austro-Hungarian 240 naval guns were thus gone.

However, the newly built Josef Franz I-class protective cruiser had to be equipped with twin Krupp 210 mm 35 x diameter guns, which was still higher than the historical single 240 mm gun.

However, the Italians equipped their own protective cruisers with 254-mm naval guns, and the Austro-Hungarians, who were unhappy to see that everyone had put 10-inch tubes on their warships and 8-inch guns, prepared to develop their own 240-mm naval guns.

At this time, the news of the successful development of the 150 mm tube withdrawal gun of the Krupp company came, and Skoda came to the door to introduce the tube withdrawal technology, and of course Krupp would not refuse the relationship between Germany and Austria, so Skoda directly started from the 240 mm 40 times the diameter of the tube.

In fact, Krupp also wanted to sell the 260 mm tube cannon he was developing to the Austria-Hungary, but Skoda saw that the Germans' development progress had just begun, and it did not know that it would be until the Year of the Monkey when the finished product was completed, so it finally decided to develop a 240 mm tube with a slightly smaller caliber on its own.

Although the sales pitch was unsuccessful, Krupp also disclosed to Skoda the results of the research on some of the 260 mm tube guns it was developing. As a result, the development of this 240 mm naval gun is progressing very smoothly, and it is planned to install the armored cruiser Maria Theresia Queen, which has just started construction on July 1, as the main gun.

Skoda's production must be a high-quality product, the K10 type 305 mm 45 times the diameter naval gun on the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought combined force class in World War I can be called the strongest 12 inches in World War I, and the K14 type 350 mm 45 times diameter naval gun is also one of the best in the 14-inch class in World War I.

Therefore, in the eyes of later generations of military fans, the Germans might as well throw away their own 283 mm 50 times diameter, 305 mm 50 times diameter and 350 mm 45 times diameter three naval guns, buy them directly from Skoda, and concentrate their own forces on 380 mm naval guns, saving time, effort and resources.

And Wilhelm II has 45% of the Skoda shares in his hands, which means that part of the money for the purchase of guns will go back to his own hands, so why bother to cheapen Krupp. Jochen feels justified that he only has 20% of the shares in his hands now, and he really needs to see the right time to continue to get a little more in his hands.

Another thing that is of interest to Jochen in Austria-Hungary is the progress of the Royal German Petroleum Company, which is engaged in oil exploration in Austria-Hungary. As early as 1890, when Austria-Hungary offered assistance to Germany to alleviate the economic crisis, Jochen took advantage of the situation to obtain permission to carry out oil exploration and exploitation in Austria-Hungary, and several exploration teams of the Royal German Oil Company entered Austria-Hungary.

Jochen is now drilling wells all over the world and preparing to build a strategic oil reserve. But in case of a rainy day, once the German shipping routes are blocked, then Germany will have to live on reserves until the British Royal Navy is defeated. Therefore, if you can produce some of it yourself when necessary, you may be able to solve a big problem.

Germany actually has shallow oil fields along the North Sea coast, but Jochen doesn't want to move them for the time being, while Austria and Hungary are actually oil producers. The Debrecen and Lake Balaton oil fields in Hungary were important oil producing areas for Nazi Germany during World War II, and the Spring Awakening Operation was carried out to protect the Naugi Kaunirao oil fields.

Austria also produced a lot of oil, and Albert Speer, the Minister of War of Nazi Germany during World War II, considered increasing Austria's oil production in the middle of the war to meet the growing consumption of the war. As a result, Jochen was concerned about the oil reserves in Austria-Hungary.

It was Jochen's plan to find oil fields in Austria-Hungary and then exploit them on a small scale to build infrastructure and, if necessary, to expand production. This time, when he heard the news that the Hungarian exploration team had found oil seedlings near Lake Balaton, Jochen was overjoyed and immediately rushed to Hungary.

However, as soon as he entered Hungary, Jochen was stopped by the enthusiastic Hungarian nobles.

At this time, Austria-Hungary was still in an economic crisis, but thanks to the import of light industrial products and economic aid from Germany, the country could barely get by. On the surface, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was relatively calm, but the contradictions between Austria and Hungary were magnifying.

The northern and eastern terrain of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was mostly mountainous, and Austria was located in the middle of this mountainous area, and the Alps occupied more than 60% of the country's area. Although the Alps and the Danube River have brought beautiful forests to Austria, they have also left Austria without enough plains to produce food.

The Danube alluvial plain is the largest plain in Austria, but it is only about 20,000 square kilometers. The largest plains in the Austro-Hungarian Empire were located between the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans. And most of them belong to Hungary.

Therefore, Austria, Czechoslovakia and other provinces in the northeast of Austria-Hungary mostly rely on industry as the pillar of their economy, and Hungary is the largest grain and livestock producer of Austria-Hungary.

Austrian industry and commerce suffered heavy losses during the economic crisis, and the situation was exacerbated by the import of German light industrial products. With the influx of German goods and the sluggish Austro-Hungarian economy, the mark became the more trusted currency of the Austrians on the German-Austrian border. This, in turn, hit the sales of Austrian goods even more.

With the abundant products of the Transylvanian Basin and the Great Hungarian Plain, the economic crisis did not have much impact on the Kingdom of Hungary. Moreover, with the German purchase of Hungarian grain and livestock products, the Hungarian aristocracy did not suffer much in the economic crisis, while Austria's grain purchases and commodity exports to Hungary fell sharply due to economic problems.

Hungarians began to be dissatisfied with the Austrians' inability to buy their own goods so that they could have more money to consume industrial goods, and the Austrians were dissatisfied with the Hungarians' unwillingness to provide grain and livestock products at low prices, and the contradictions between the two sides slowly accumulated.

At this time, the crown prince of Germany, who was his big benefactor, came to Hungary and was naturally welcomed by these Hungarian nobles who had profited from Germany and were able to consume German industrial goods and continue to live in luxury. Jochen's trip was delayed as a result.

At the warm invitation of the Hungarians, Jochen traveled to Budapest, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, where he met with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, Prime Minister Shopari Gyulo.