On the southeastern outskirts of Berlin, there is an abandoned wasteland where urban residents often dump all kinds of garbage, causing pollution to large tracts of farmland and fish ponds. Eric personally inspected the environmental pollution situation here, and for this reason, at the suggestion of the environmental protection department, the presidential office took the lead in convening a cabinet meeting to discuss effective countermeasures.

According to the suggestion of Eric and Stresemann, the government will organize and coordinate the construction of this large area of wasteland into a new living area in the southeast of Berlin by private fund-raising, and after the first phase of the road plan is introduced, according to the practice of who pays for it, and fully open up financing channels.

Soon the first clean, neat and beautiful new road was born, which was given the name Auguststrasse according to the principle that a complete road built by an individual or a group of people could be named by the funder after completion, and with it another new road was named Heinrichstrasse.

To the north of the 10-kilometer-long Heinrich Strasse from west to east is the office building of the Rheinland Company, and the street in front of them was built by the Rheinland Company.

Although the government once said that whoever invests will make a profit, but this street has more or less a hint of political color, and in the name of responding to President Eric's call for the benefit of the people, it is actually looking up to the president of the country.

The headquarters of the Rheinland company in Germany is located here, and the processing workshop is located in the Eric Industrial Park, the distance between the two places is not too close, but not too far, because of the convenience of aviation and rail, the company considered the problem of "grounding" with the upper organization, and finally decided to choose a site here.

Because the federal state attaches great importance to transportation, and the state capitals have convenient access to high-grade roads, railways and air lines, the whole journey between the company's executives and the factory takes only three hours, which is already very convenient.

Covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, the research center has two four-storey buildings in the ancient Roman style, with white walls and black tiles and the surrounding green trees, which are breathtaking, especially the gently flowing clear stream, which highlights the unique vision and ingenuity of its designers. The two buildings are facing each other, connected by a rainproof corridor and a small bridge. Walking on this long covered bridge, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery in front of you, and you can also watch the golden carp in the water of the small stream.

There are more than 100 engineers and technicians working here, men, women and children, and although they work together, they don't seem to have much personal interaction with each other except for business exchanges. In order to make it easier to commute to work, many higher-paid employees choose to take out a loan to buy an affordable house in Berlin, or live with a husband and wife, or settle down with a small family. There are two buildings in the research center, and the only real office building is the one on the east side, and the one on the west side is a single dormitory for newly hired or low-paid employees.

Real estate in Berlin was no longer affordable for ordinary people, and it took several years for the high-paid earners to buy an apartment in an area far from the city center, and the average employee had to settle the accommodation problem under the arrangement of the company.

There is a very well-decorated room at the north end of the fourth floor of the office building on the east side, which is Heinrich Lehard's office, and outsiders think that the owner of the Rheinland company is August Horch, but they do not know that the founder of this company is Heinrich.

Heinrich Lehard and Auguste Horch were friends, but their relationship was not as tacit as the outside world would have known. Rheinland was originally owned by Lehard, and Horch had two other financially independent companies, and he became the new shareholder of the joint venture following Horch's recent acquisition of a stake in Volkswagen.

"Heinrich, I want to talk to you properly." Horch's body sank into the soft sofa, anxiously looking at Heinrich who kept walking back and forth in front of him, and said: "We don't always think about the markets that have been taken away now, we should take a long-term view, go out and open up again, you were willing to transfer shares to me, isn't it because I have a unique concept in the company's management?" ”

"Okay, Mr. Horch, what do you mean by telling me this now? You've said enough about marketing to the market, oh yes, you're reminding me that everything can only work according to your plan, well, what does your plan get for the company? Lehard looked at Horch with emotion, and he had always thought that Horch was taunting him for being a fool.

"Don't excite Lehard! God bears witness! Everything I do is to make a profit for the company, not to show off your talents, and of course, I have never doubted your market experience. Horch felt that there were many misunderstandings between himself and Heinrich, and he was very upset.

At present, the Krupp family monopolizes the supply of artillery for the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, and this momentum has dealt a heavy blow to the competitiveness of the Rheinland company, and in addition to the failure of a series of previous negotiations and bids, the Rheinland company's arms market share has also been squeezed out by the Krupp company A considerable share.

"We have high-quality raw materials, and the products are not much worse than Krupp, the reason is that there is a problem in the sales process, Mr. Horch, for the market, I don't want to be a deserter, we should use our own advantages to fight with Krupp!" Heinrich also seems to have a disdain for Horch's sales strategy.

"Well, dear Monsieur Lehard, there is no need for us to quarrel, it's time to recognize the reality. We can no longer focus all our energy on competing with Krupp and avoiding them, maybe the market is broader, we have many advantageous projects, and we can win more orders at home and abroad. Horch tried to leave Heinrich alone, but in the end he still valued the industrial base of the Rheinland company, and at this stage he really couldn't find a better leader than himself.

"Wake up, Horch, you're a typical escapist!" Lehard Heinrich propped his hands on the table with a very complicated expression: "You are a strategic retreat!" Think about it, where else can we retreat? Losing one market after another, and Krupp is pressing step by step, squeezing one by one, if this continues, what will be left of Rheinland in the end? You? And me? Wrong! You still have a way out, because you still have a financially independent company, and I'm going to go bankrupt! ”

After Heinrich finished speaking, he looked at Horch indignantly.