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"Your Royal Highness, don't you really think about the re-styled marine power system and internal combustion engine? So why do we share it with Prussia? Can't we do it like hardened armor? Count Schelling asked.

"The reason is simple, we can't eat these things, Bavaria is too small, too small to support these industries." Ruprecht said helplessly. If the area and population of Hebei Province could be had, then Ruprecht would really be like playing with steam turbines and automobiles, but the current situation is that 80,000 square kilometers of land does not even have half of Hebei Province, and the population is only a few million. These industries are not something you can eat.

For example, the automobile industry, this is not something that Ruprecht can play, and the engine horsepower in this era can be in the double digits, which is considered very NB. Stability coffee table, failure rate remains high. If you are engaged in transportation, it may not be as good as a horse-drawn carriage.

Although automobiles represent the direction of development of advanced productive forces, they are only one direction now. Who will do the things that lose money financially? Anyway, the capitalists won't do it, and Bavaria can't do it if they want to. The only way is to pull Prussia along. Not for the sake of making much money, just for the sake of having more cars in the German logistics transport fleet once the First World War broke out as usual!

Before World War II, the logistical supply pressure of the modern army was gradually increasing. Think about it, a German army is only in the early 40,000s, and there are 160 artillery pieces of various kinds at the beginning, and the number of horses is huge, and an average of three people can get a horse, and the consumption of a horse is 10 times that of a person! In other words, the supply consumption of horses in the early days of the German army was much larger than that of people! In this case, the army would move at the same speed as a turtle without the railway, and the problem of logistical transport capacity made it impossible for Germany to push France quickly

If you want to fight a war, whether it is the western front or the eastern front, you need a lot of capacity. The construction of small railways to the front line is one aspect, but this method is limited by many conditions, and all kinds of cars are the most suitable for transportation from the rail to the front line. But it's a pity that Germany before the 1st World War had very backward cars and was inferior to France both in terms of quantity and quality!

And in the First World War, the French cars did play a very powerful role, when the millions of German troops swept over like a sickle according to the predetermined plan, the French mobilized more than 2,000 vehicles of various kinds to transport 7 divisions of troops to the front!

And at the most critical moment of the Battle of Verdun, the French concentrated 3900 vehicles of various types, with a total transport capacity of up to 6800 tons! In the period from February 27 to March 6, the French transported 190,000 troops and 23,000 tons of ammunition in these cars! It was precisely because of the excellent logistics that the French finally withstood this horrific attack.

Therefore, in order to win the first war, for the crown on his head, Ruprecht must also develop the automobile industry as soon as possible, and find ways to pull Prussia, and then support the development of the automobile industry with the power of the state is the only way. Now Ruprecht is not afraid of how much profit Prussia will gain, because the automobile industry at this time did not have much profit. Ruprecht was worried about what to do in case Prussia stopped playing.

The same is true for marine steam turbines. Someone may have said that Parsons didn't build his own steam turbines? This statement is both true and wrong. Back in 1898, Parsons' steam turbine was mounted on a dinghy. And it did very well, but the industry didn't develop in the next few years. The reason is simple, the efficiency of steam turbines was not very high in the beginning, even in the days when Dreadnought first came out. Without a reduction gear system, the advantages of a steam turbine over a steam engine are limited. The steam turbines used by the Germans in Nassau and Helgoland were not very heavy.

Suffice it to say, steam turbines were not very efficient in the beginning. But they have the support of the Royal Navy. The basic principles of steam turbines are understood by many people, and more problems are related to industrial manufacturing. This is like the same liquid-cooled engine, the same design principle, the German DB601 and the book imitation DB601 are completely two dimensional things, the latter because of the automatic control of the oil is not good, and finally the automatic change to manual.

Bavaria's armor is relatively rare. So you can do it alone, as long as you go in the right direction, you can throw money hard, and you can earn it as soon as it comes out. But marine steam turbines are different, and the economy may not be better than that of steam engines at the beginning, so what to do at this time? Like cars, rely on state support. It was very important for these later generations, but the only thing that Ruprecht could not afford to eat was to share, otherwise it would be all cheaper for the British.

Ruprecht is full of energy, and the Hohenzollern family is also full of confidence, after all, Ruprecht has not lost money since his debut! Now Wilhelm II can't figure out how the Bavarian royal family can dig up diamonds by enclosing a random piece of land in Africa? And why did Bavaria, the territorial blacks of Africa, not only not stir up trouble, but also get along amicably? This seems to some to be a matter of complete metaphysics. In line with the idea that everyone is doing business together anyway, we want to earn together, and we have to lose together. The collaboration on automotive and marine steam turbines has finally begun!

The famous Deutsche Dongkkia and Deutsche Heavy Machinery Group were finally established under the vigorous operation of Ruprecht, and the former mainly researched gasoline engines, diesel engines and aero engines for automobiles. They were the dynamic heart of the German army in World War I. The latter's main research projects are large-scale equipment such as marine steam turbines, marine boilers and generators. The former is headquartered in Hamburg and the latter is headquartered in Bremen.

In Deutsche Dongkki, the Kaiser's stake is 40 percent, Bavaria has 35 percent, and the remaining 25 percent is private capital. The shares of the Kaiser of Deutsche Heavy Machinery Group are 35% like those in Bavaria. Private capital accounts for 30%. In order to take care of Bavaria's face, the R&D facilities of the two companies were set up in Nuremberg at the urging of Ruprecht.

After all these things, Ruprecht finally completed the task of this trip to Berlin successfully. Now Ruprecht can be described as a spring breeze. It neatly solved the troubles caused by Krupp, and at the same time greatly expanded the interests of the Bavarian royal family. But what does that mean? Nine times out of ten, things don't go your way. Almost at the same time, some changes abroad had a certain impact on Ruprecht's business, and the deep-seated things were even more terrifying, which made Ruprecht a little unexpected. This time, starting with France.

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