Chapter 136: The Night Feast XII
With the help of Mr. Storsch's stage design, the last remaining problem for this youth party was the venue. At Crown Prince Frederick, a former giant of Berlin's museum scene, the last address was chosen at the Berlin Armory, directly opposite the Prince's Palace.
Probably the oldest Baroque building on Unter den Linden, the Berlin Armory (Zeughaus) was built between 1695 and 1730 by Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, as an artillery arsenal. In 1875 it became a military museum, and after World War II it became a historical education base for the East German Party.
As a large old building, there are many spacious rooms to use. For this famous museum landmark building on Unter den Linden Street, Joey is willing to invest money and energy to renovate the Armory Museum, after all, when Joey was studying at Humboldt University in his previous life, he liked to linger in this military museum the most, and today's renovation is also to some extent a forgetfulness of his original intention.
The choice of the two adjacent sites of the Imperial Palace and the Armory was also ideal for the construction party, at least in the electrical wiring to avoid a lot of trouble, and after everything was determined, the Imperial Palace and the Armory immediately became a busy construction site.
The transformation of the palace is mainly focused on the electrical circuit, and the development trajectory of the electric power industry in history, the switch and socket was also invented by Siemens, the only thing that is slightly different from the history is that the current socket, there was a protective grounding wire early, which is 40 years earlier than the history, the invention of the protective grounding of the socket is no longer the credit of the Americans, but has become the credit of Joey.
By the way, the design standards for the screw socket of the bulb were also confirmed, and the stupid and brain-dead bayonet design was thrown into the dustbin of history.
At the same time, under the impetus of Joey, the German plug standard with a grounding plug with cylindrical feet was also established. Don't underestimate the plug and socket standard, the establishment of this standard means the establishment of the electrical circle of friends. With the same electrical voltage, the same frequency, the same plugs and sockets, coupled with the industrial design ahead of this era, German electrical products will bring a storm.
In fact, from the very beginning of the electric light display at the Berlin train station, Siemens was already overwhelmed with orders, not only the rapid expansion of its factories in the suburbs of Berlin, but also the construction of new plants in Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden, Munich and even the site selection of Siemens plants in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Not only is the factory in full swing, but also the construction of the thermal power plant is in full swing, among which the installed capacity design of the Berlin thermal power plant has changed drafts several times, and finally under the intervention of Joey, it was decided to put into operation first and then expand the capacity.
In such a tight production situation, Siemens still ranked Joey's order as the highest priority after receiving the order, so although Joey's project was on time, the project was progressing smoothly.
Joey is like a foreman on a construction site, as long as he has time after school in the afternoon, he pulls his friends to work as supervisors at two construction sites. Not only was Joy the overseer, but there were also a large number of professors who were often present on the site, and even Professor Helmholtz had the time to come twice, as well as Professors Kirchhoff, Clausius, Roentgen, and Lind.
Not only the scientific community was interested, but also the German business community and the business community were interested in seeing how, under Joey's direction, a palace and a public museum building could be electrically renovated. In this transformation, people in the German economic community finally discovered something completely different that Joey brought to this era.
In general, the work arrangement of the nineteenth century was linear, and in layman's terms, one thing was done, and then another, in a step-by-step manner. Joey's job is not, but to break down a job into multiple parts, start the work of multiple things at the same time in a period of time, and work in unison.
To put it simply, it is one person who does 10 days of work, and tries his best to become 10 people doing things for a day, from event-oriented to time-oriented, this change has opened the eyes of many people.
In fact, Joey's arrangement is the schedule commonly used by modern people in their work, which is time-oriented, subdivides the specific projects of the work, does a good job in the specific needs of the project, predicts the risk points of the entire project, and responds to them.
In the production of the capitalist world, time is the most critical, and Joey's performance has inspired many people, and he has some ideas on how to carry out socialized mass production.
In any case, everything went smoothly with the progress of the Imperial Palace and Armory Project, and twenty-five days after William proposed the invitation to the dinner, a brand-new Imperial Palace and Armory finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
On these days in June, while Joy was fighting on the construction sites of the palace and the armory, Crown Prince Frederick and Prime Minister Bismarck were fighting on the negotiating battlefield on the diplomatic front.
The cooperation agreement with the Chilean government is progressing very well. The German Foreign Office first issued an official diplomatic note to the warring parties in the Taiping War, urging the two sides to return to the track of peace and resolve their contradictions through dialogue rather than force.
Immediately afterwards, the German Foreign Office issued a diplomatic letter inviting the supporters of both countries, Britain, France, and the United States, to participate in the process of a peaceful settlement of the war, together with Germany and Russia.
As soon as these two notes were issued, world public opinion was in an uproar, and the mainstream media began to ask, when did the German Empire begin to care about world peace? And he actively campaigned for peace matters that obviously had nothing to do with him?
At a time when the world's mainstream media was still savoring the changes in the German Foreign Ministry, the German government threw a bomb into the world public opinion circles, and the German government announced that it would implement an official embargo on both sides of the war at the same time, especially cutting off the trade in military supplies, and at the same time, in order to reflect the consistent humanitarian spirit of the German government, basic humanitarian materials are not included in the scope of the embargo, and the German government hopes to promote the early realization of peace between the two sides, and at the same time calls on all governments to respond positively.
As soon as this remark came out, world public opinion boiled, and all kinds of voices shouted loudly, shouted, scolded, actively supported, and sneered, but the mainstream voices in the public opinion circles all took a positive and positive attitude toward the German Government's peaceful remarks and actions.
Even in some public opinion, he openly shouted the title of "Prime Minister of Peace" to Chancellor Bismarck, and as for those media and public opinion, later generations believed that the source of funds behind these media was very suspicious, and it was very likely that the German government.
In any case, the image of the old prime minister in European intellectual circles has finally become positive, and his prestige and scenery are incomparable in European politics for a while.
The old prime minister's private statement to Chile's special envoy to Congressman Barmaseda was that the German Foreign Ministry's appeal to the countries of South America and the Pacific to settle their disputes peacefully through negotiations was aimed at helping Chile take a breather at the military level and facilitate the next stage of its military counteroffensive. For this, Congressman Barmaseda can only express his gratitude from the bottom of his heart.
Then Crown Prince Frederick stepped in, and a consortium of German banking giants Metzlerbank, Batemann Bank, Hawker Bank, Saar-Oppenheimer Bank, Dresdner Banking Union, Deutsche Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank began to transfuse Chile's war machine.
In return for the blood transfusion of the banking sector of the German Empire, the parliamentarian Barmaseda, with the authorization of the Chilean government, signed a large number of economic cooperation agreements with German private capital.
The Chilean government agreed to transfer 33% ownership of all saltpeter and guano in the areas under its current and future control to German private capital. In other words, if Chile wins this war, German private capital will own 1/3 of the world's guano and saltpeter market.
At the same time, the mining rights in the desolate Andes are also monopolized by the Germans, such as the small copper mines owned by the Chilean government in the Elteniente region, which were given as collateral for the loan to the German banking union, which then sold the exclusive rights to the copper mine to the Ruhr mining giant Thyssensteel.
The same was true of the Chuquikamata mine, which was sold to Sir Grusen's Magdeburg enterprise, the Escondida mine was taken over by the Dortmund Combine Mining Company, and the Koyawasi mine was taken over by Rheinsteel.
Historically, Chile has more than 200 million tonnes of copper reserves in these four regions.
The other mines in North Chuki and Mansamine, which have copper reserves of more than 2,000 tons, are divided between Good Hope Steel, Dillingen-Schute Steel, Klockner Steelworks, and Salsgit-Isenberg Steel.
The slightest hesitation by Krupp about the prospects of the copper industry missed the rush for Chile's copper resources.
From the eyes of Joey's previous life, this carve-up of Chilean mining means that German companies will make a lot of money, because the above-mentioned mining areas are high-grade porphyry copper-gold mines that can be mined open-pit, and the difficulty of open-pit mining is so low that it is equivalent to giving it away for nothing.
However, in the eyes of the Chilean government, the Germans were willing to invest in Chile's inhospitable Andes, and the contract clearly stated how many Chilean locals would be employed, what percentage of Chileans would be employed in the mines, and how many primary and secondary schools and hospitals would be invested in Chile after the mines were in operation, and the promise to open universities in Chile made the Chilean government regard the Germans as its closest friends.
On the basis of this close relationship, the crown prince struck while the iron was hot, and adhering to the principle of doing business on an equal footing, the German Ministry of Economy signed a package of economic agreements with the Chilean government, and signed a long list of agreements on industrial investment, finance and taxation, and the sale of agricultural and livestock products.
In the eyes of the Barmaseda parliamentarians, who understand the economy, the above-mentioned agreement is equivalent to the Germans traveling thousands of miles to invest in factories, issue loans, and purchase a large number of agricultural and livestock products, which is simply a huge benefit.
In addition to the economic aspect, in terms of military aid, Sir Stockma, in the name of the Victorian Crown Princess Foundation to aid the Prussian compatriots, generously donated the active weapons and equipment of an infantry division of the German army to the Prussian volunteers in Argentina, and made it clear that the foundation will give Chile great help in the recruitment of Prussian volunteers in Germany, and the foundation will participate in the war to defend Chile in a civilian way.
The first group of Prussian volunteers, Sir Stockma, said they would leave for Argentina in July.
In order to promote pan-Germanism and emphasize the supremacy that the Germanic people of the world are one and that the human rights of the Germanic people are above sovereignty, Sir Stokema said that the volunteers will be accompanied by a reporting group composed of German press. They will report on the indomitable fighting spirit of the Chilean people and the selfless support of the German Empire for their fellow Germans.
At the same time, in order to enhance the friendship between the people of the German Empire and the people of Chile, Sir Stockma, on behalf of the Crown Princess Victoria Foundation, announced that, on the one hand, all Chilean aspiring young people will be selected and helped to study in Germany, and the foundation will bear all the expenses of these selected aspiring young people; On the other hand, a huge prize will be awarded to individuals who are committed to friendly people-to-people exchanges between Germany and Chile and to enhance the traditional friendship between the two countries.
As for Sir Stokema's remarks, Congressman Barmaseda has long been explained by the old chancellor, that this is just a civilian will of the German government, so that the German government will not appear to be too partial to one side when mediating the war in the South Pacific, so that the peace process cannot proceed.
This set of routines, which only existed at the end of the twentieth century, allowed the parliamentarians of Balmaseta to see the full sincerity of the German Empire, and behind the Chilean people's gratitude to Dade, Joey's plan for Chile on a late spring night was 100% perfectly realized.