"Overall, Bavaria is a great place to farm!" After crossing over, the young Wang Changsun commented after spending two years to understand the basic situation of Bavaria. If it is summed up, two reasons can be used to support this assertion, first: Bavaria does not have strong industrial competitors, the industrial base is relatively poor, and the company operates a national brand, so the upward potential is relatively large. There is little trouble on the part of the government. Second, the Bavarian royal family is rich! Very rich!

If you want to build guns anywhere else, you have to compete with the Krupp family, who have been famous for decades and become the richest people in Germany, and if you want to build guns, the Mauser brothers will tell you. If you want to make steel and coal, sorry, Bavaria does not produce iron or coal, but if you look at the industrially developed regions of Germany, whether it is the Ruhr area, Alsace-Lorraine from France, or the Saarland, these places either have coal, iron, or both coal and iron! If you play low-end repetitive competition, Bavaria won't know how to die!

Some people may say that there is not a legendary BMW in later generations? That's right, there is indeed this company, and the Chinese name is quite good, and it is called BMW! But in fact, this buddy's predecessor was not engaged in cars, and it was not a car when it was really brilliant! Its predecessor was the Bavarian Mechanical Pharmaceutical Company! Founded in 1916, and started with airplanes! In the 2nd World War, he was also engaged in aircraft engines! The famous BMW 801 was produced by him! Although the later generations are very brilliant, it is a pity that in Germany in 1889, this company has no hair! In general, Bavaria's industry is still relatively backward. As for shipbuilding or shipping? Inland waterway shipping can still be fun, and if you build a shipbuilding, you can get a design bureau, but the shipyard is still slow for the time being, and it is not even next to the sea!

So the direction of development set by the young prince for Bavaria is to take the high-end route, how to go on the high-end route? Internal combustion engines, automobiles, airplanes, boilers and so on are still relatively far away, and these things are either not yet available, or they can still be sold in Bavaria after they are made, and they will be beaten by companies in other places when they go out, and the industrial background is poor, and the traverser does not understand something. There is really no way, it needs to be made up slowly, and it needs to be supported by the state. But if there are some things that are more skillful, or if you are more familiar with something as a traverser, then you can try it, such as the famous Krupp armor!

Speaking of Krupp armor before World War 1, people who generally know a little about the history of battleships will subconsciously think of the Krupp hardened armor that was born in 1893 and used on the battleship Brandenburg, but in fact, the history of Krupp armor is much earlier, and the process is more complicated!

Krupp first started to work on armor with others, not to mention that Krupp at that time was completely self-produced armor, and before 1890 Krupp did not even have its own rolling mill! At that time, it was Krupp's partner, Baron Sturm-Hallberg, who was responsible for the production and allowed Krupp to use the old-fashioned "Wilson method" to make steel-faced iron armor, while Krupp was responsible for the development of new armor. It was only in 1890 that Krupp began to develop nickel steel armor.

And at this time, we have to mention a certain big country on the other side of the ocean, the first hardened armor in the world is the American Augusta. Harvey's hardened armor. And this buddy didn't start with a one-stop production from beginning to end, the plates used by the Americans for hardened armor were nickel steel armor imported from the Schneider factory in France, and then carburized and immersed in cold water to get the earliest Harvey hardened armor.

And the appearance of Harvey's armor directly swept the naval armor world! With profit margins of up to 50% or even 100%, all arms dealers are eager to go! With such a big piece of cake in front of him, Krupp naturally would not give up, Krupp thought, brother, I have already used nickel ore in the 80s to cast cannons. Isn't it now the use of similar technologies for armor? French chickens and American cowboys can make it, why can't I?

So in 1890, Krupp began to develop nickel steel armor, and in 1891 it was successful. Then Krupp continued to work hard and put the nickel steel armor hardened by carburizing heat treatment for a week into oil, resulting in the early Krupp hardened armor, which is said to be about 10% stronger than Harvey's hardened armor! And at this time, it was not over, the final culmination of Krupp's hardened armor was a hardening method called "gas glue", which used carbon-containing gum to put on the armor, then heated and hardened, and finally sprayed with water to complete the final hardening process.

Sun Yu had seen something about hardened armor before the crossing, and after the crossing, with the help of the engineers dug up from Krupp, coupled with the time advantage of striking first, the great traverser and plagiarist successfully made the Krupp hardened armor that was only successful in 1893 in 1889! And preemptively registered a patent in Germany!

Even if the Krupp family succeeds in researching later, it will be useless, unless they also have a traverser and get out the Wix hardened armor that was only successful before the first world war, otherwise, they will not be able to compete with the traverser at all! Before 1905, the world's strongest hardened armor was produced! From 1905 to 1910, all manufacturers of Krupp hardened armor had to pay exorbitant royalties to patent owners! That's about £15 per ton of armor! According to the exchange rate during the Sino-Japanese War, it was about 90 taels of silver! (The author of this patent fee has seen it, but remembers it inaccurately--! If there is a mistake, please bear with me. ）

Some people may ask, since there are such high patent fees, why are there so many factories scrambling to produce? Willing is very simple, the profit margin is high, taking the United Kingdom as an example, the price of a ton of ordinary steel plate is only 6 to 8 pounds, and the price of hardened KC armor is generally between 80 and 150 pounds, it is true that armor steel needs to be rolled, carburized, quenched and other processes to produce, but its profit margin is still beyond the imagination of ordinary people! And there are only two in this world! See for yourself!

25% to 30% of the cost of a battleship is the cost of armor steel, and if you talk about profit margins, even weapons and power are far inferior! How many ships were built in the pre-dreadnought period? The cost of these ships is astronomical when multiplied by 0.25! And historically, before 1905, Krupp didn't seem to have proliferated patented technology, so the profit in it, you know. His Royal Highness the Prince, who was leaned over by the traverser, was inadvertently dug up a large piece by the corner of the later industrial giant Krupp, and then put it in his pocket! It's so rewarding!

So now the question is, even if you have the technology, do you have the money? How do you say this? The Bavarian royal family is really not short of money! After all, the entire kingdom of Bavaria belongs to the Wittelsbach family, and it is nothing to scrape together some money to build a steel mill. Moreover, the Bavarian royal family can also receive additional grants from the central government every year, taking 1910 as an example, Bavaria received an allocation of 5.67 million marks from the important government of the empire that year, not counting the royal family's own assets and the kingdom's appropriation to the royal family!

And no matter how shameless it is, this factory was also built to improve the comprehensive economic strength of the Kingdom of Bavaria, increase employment, and create social wealth. What a big deal for the government to pay for a factory. Although Bavaria is poor, it is relatively speaking, the Kingdom of Bavaria, which accounts for one-seventh of the entire Second German Empire, is very fierce if it fights for the total economy! Not to mention anything else, the military expenses of the Sachs and Württemberg armies, which are both kingdoms, are supported by the German central government, but Bavaria is different! The troops of Bavaria are completely fed by the royal government! Except that in wartime it was necessary to listen to the German dispatch from the General Staff, completely independent! Can you afford an army without money?

At the time of World War 1, most of the Sixth Army under the Crown Prince was the Bavarian Kingdom's own army, namely the Bavarian 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 21st Armies, as well as the Bavarian Reserve 1st Army and a reserve brigade, plus a cavalry corps! The total strength is around 220,000 and it has nearly 800 artillery pieces! Even now, the standing army of Bavaria has no less than 3 corps! Think about how much money was spent on the troops in the six towns of Beiyang at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and then think about the size of the army of the Kingdom of Bavaria. It can be said that money is not an issue at all!

If the armor is to make money for the navies of the world, the probability of making a big profit is ninety-nine percent! Then some of the rest of the stuff will start from your own home! It can be regarded as in-house self-produced and sold! The probability of making money is 120%! Of course, these things can't be said by his crown prince's father for the time being, and he must communicate with his uncle first. As soon as he thought of a certain powerful prince uncle, Ruprecht had to say admiration, this uncle was too powerful! Almost achieved something that many of the predecessors and juniors did not achieve!

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