While Scrooge was making black money, oh no, conscience money, on the North American continent while playing kidnapping and killing, Carroll was also quite busy in Europe.

First of all, the first important thing to ask for is to continue to talk about intellectual property issues with those shameless French people. By the way, according to Scrooge's advice, I looked for an opportunity to contact the Prussians, who were bound to fight with the French in the future.

"The Prussians will be an important partner for us in the future." Scrooge once said to Carroll, "In the long run, it will be our natural ally as we sweep across Europe." Of course, you must remember that allies can be sold at critical times. Moreover, the Prussians, the allies, were innately the best ones to sell. ”

The reason why Scrooge said this is because Prussia is indeed born into a country whose heart is higher than the sky and whose life is thinner than paper.

As a rising country in Europe, he was one of the two most powerful of the German states, while Austria, the other powerhouse of the German states, was a damned Catholic state, while the other states were Protestant. Is there less war brought about by faith or something? This confirms the words of a certain man of God: "I have not come to bring peace to the earth, but to bring the sword to the earth." ”

So Prussia seems to be the natural leader of the German states, and it would be enough to unify Germany by taking out Austria. But how do you get Austria? What else could give Prussia the power to take down Austria other than industrialization? Therefore, Prussia thought that it could only follow this path.

But industrialization comes with a series of side effects. First of all, the first problem is that industrialization will produce a large number of commodities, and these commodities, under the conditions of a complete market economy, it is naturally impossible to sell all of them. With industrialization, if you don't want to be played to death by waves of economic crises, you must have a larger market. Prussia's own market is absolutely insufficient, so the whole of Germany is indispensable, and for the sake of Germany, Austria must be defeated!

What about Austria after the fight? It's not over. Industrialization will develop rapidly, and new productive forces will emerge faster than a certain believer in later generations will have children. And there is already a large industrial country on the European continent with a limited market, what to do? Well, of course, the problems that arise in the course of development can only be solved by continuing to develop. So the solution was: continue to develop industry, and then suppress France.

But the monster of industrialization will grow faster and faster, and it will not be long before the dividends of suppressing France will not be enough, and at this time, if you want to commit suicide in the economic crisis, you can only prepare to go out and grab the food of the British. Think about it, how many wars need to be fought along the way, and for a person who sells weapons and medicines, is there a better ally than this?

More importantly, unlike the United States, Germany has always been in an environment where resources and markets are insufficient, and they cannot hide at home and slowly farm like the United States, they must constantly go out and plunder. Without their rise, the British would not have tolerated the Americans playing farming at home.

When the Americans have almost finished farming, let the Germans and the British have a passionate collision, and then when they are dead and wounded, they can come out and be peacemakers, and say to them: "Look, why are you fighting like this for such a market?" Well, in order to prevent you from making trouble again and hurting the heavens and the peace, simply, in the spirit of fearless sacrifice that I don't go to hell and whoever goes to hell, these raw materials that cause disputes will all belong to me. ”

The Prussians were already in contact with Scrooge's company, and they readily bought a batch of rifles from Scrooge, and they were not strong enough to negotiate the patent transfer with Scrooge's company. As for the allies who are destined to help themselves make a lot of money and have a good gunpoint, the conditions given by Scrooge are relatively favorable. This also made the French very dissatisfied, and in their negotiations with Carroll they constantly mentioned the treatment of the Prussians, and demanded that they be treated better than the Prussians.

"Ah, if you can unify some of our conditions, this matter is not impossible to discuss." "First of all, you should give us reasonable compensation for plagiarism, and secondly, we need some other incentives, such as preferential tariffs when we export certain goods to your country, and then we can get full national treatment if we invest in your country." You know, this is all a concession given to us by the Prussians. If your country needs the same preferential conditions as Prussia, then this series of preferential conditions should also be given to us, after all, the preferential conditions are mutual. ”

However, the situation in France was different from that of Prussia, and Emperor Napoleon III did not take the throne properly, and he came to power solely on the basis of the love of the French people for his uncle. Therefore, if he wants to maintain his rule, he must make the life of those who support him in the country, especially the peasantry, at least close to the level of his uncle Emperor Napoleon.

But Emperor Napoleon was able to do this for a reason, and that is because he used his wars to turn the whole of Europe into a source of raw materials and a market for France. Under such circumstances, he could certainly make the peasants live well. By the time of Napoleon III, France had been suppressed by England in the general situation, but Napoleon III still had to let the peasants maintain the life of Emperor Napoleon, which was naturally very difficult. At the same time, it also made them shrink financially, and their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in history is not unrelated to this shrinking finance. And the French, under such tight financial conditions, naturally could not give Scrooge too many concessions. Therefore, this negotiation has been dragging on.

It went back and forth for a long time, but no agreement was reached. Anyway, until the French took their leave and left, there was still no result.

Sending off the French, who had no sincerity at all, Carol then got in the car and went out. He was going to visit the Lawrence Knight to discuss new issues that had arisen in the cooperation between the two sides.

Since the outbreak of the Civil War, the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company and the MacDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company have lost their markets in the South. Of course, this is not because the Southerners don't buy it, but because the two companies owned by Scrooge really can't continue to sell these things. In fact, if it were possible, the guys in the South would definitely be willing to empty all the money in the treasury to buy these things.

Unable to buy these most important supplies, the Southern Federation resorted to another approach, which was to smuggle them from Britain. From the British, there were heroin and pills as well, and there was the British version of the MacDonald rifle. According to the original agreement between Scrooge and the British, the British could not sell these things to North America. However, after the outbreak of the Civil War, when the southerners came to the door, the British adhered to the attitude of "it is a fool not to make money sent to the door", and engaged in the business of smuggling these items to the North American continent and made a lot of money.

This kind of violation of trade integrity is, of course, unacceptable, so Kroll was instructed to discuss the matter with Lawrence Knights and ask them to give them appropriate compensation.

Yes, it is a demand for compensation, not a demand for them to stop such activities immediately. Because, first, the British will certainly not stop such activities, because there are not only economic interests, but also political interests. Of course, from a certain point of view, the so-called political interests are the greater economic interests.

If the United States can really be divided, then in North America, there will be a force that can really contain the United States of America, and it will not be so easy for the Yankees to farm with peace of mind, and then slowly find an opportunity to kill the world boss. Moreover, with the divided Confederate States of America, there was tremendous room for the most outstanding talents of the British to develop.

What the? You ask me what is the most outstanding talent of the British? Needless to say, of course it's a mess! If nothing else, the nickname of the British "European-stirring stick" alone is absolutely revealing. You know, there are people in the world who have taken the wrong name, but they have not taken the wrong nickname. In fact, the British are just "European-stirring sticks", it is completely a world-stirring stick, as long as they go, they can always stir up trouble, even if they leave, they can leave a lot of trouble that you can't settle for decades or even hundreds of years. For example, after World War II, in India or, more recently, in Hong Kong in 1997, the-stirring sticks who were already getting weaker were still doing the same thing.

Therefore, the British will never give up such an opportunity to make trouble. Scrooge knew this, so Kroll knew it. In this case, besides, the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company and the MacDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company are no longer making money in the South, so it is better to simply ask the British for some compensation. As for what losses the British would bring to the United States, this is not something that a businessman should consider. Besides, the British attempt in the United States will never be realized. Scrooge said that in North America, the logic of the British was to make trouble, to fail, to make trouble, and to fail, and to fail again, until it was a complete failure. So there's nothing to worry about. Even if the Southerners really made some trouble, as a "genius chemist", Scrooge had a way to break the situation, not to mention anything else, such as the seemingly impenetrable trench defense that gave Jackson a headache, for Scrooge, it was actually just a matter of minutes.

The carriage stopped, and Carol stepped out of it, revealing the small cottage of the Lawrence Knight's house with gray walls and red roofs. Guided by a butler-like man, he walked into the small living room of the Lawrence Knight's house.

The Lawrence Knight was waiting for Carol in the small living room, and Carol noticed that the furnishings in her small living room had changed, and in the middle of the living room was a round table with a simple shape full of oriental charm, and there were several chairs with the same rosewood next to it. At the other end of the living room, there is a screen also made of rosewood.

"Ah, welcome, my friend!" Lawrence greeted her warmly and invited Carol to take a seat. He proudly showed off the rosewood furniture to Carol.

"These things used to belong to a Manchu governor, but now they're mine."