The news of the Fiat A's big sale not only shocked other car manufacturers, but also made Carlo happy. Agnelli is arguably the entrepreneur who pays the most attention to civilian cars in Europe, but of course he can't do it on his own, and needs a little push. Carlo came up with the assembly line concept and promoted the strategy of low car prices, which finally got the Italian automotive industry off the ground.

What else is Carlo not satisfied with this, when other countries were still hand-built cars in the workshop style, Italy had already begun to industrialize and create standardized cars, which is the advantage of crushing.

With this first-mover advantage, the leading position of Italy's automobile manufacturing industry can be guaranteed for at least ten years, even if other countries have learned from it, but the first-mover advantage is not so easy to eliminate.

The auto industry is on the right track, and Carlo will not bother with it anymore, after all, he has found the best leader for it, as long as it is not a serious mistake, let it develop on its own. If it was too much, maybe Giovanni Agnelli left in a rage, which would not have outweighed the loss, but he did not have the confidence or time to pay attention.

Now, for example, he is exchanging views with the Foreign Secretary on the foreign policy of the Italian Far East.

"Your Majesty, at present the negotiations between our country and the other countries and the Empress Dowager do not seem to be going well, and although she has verbally said that there is absolutely no such thing, according to the observations of the ambassadors of various countries, her idea of changing the emperor has not changed. And the turmoil caused by the change of emperor will seriously affect the interests of our country in the Far East, so I wonder if it is necessary to send a fleet to visit the Far East and give the necessary warnings. ”

Ambassador Bakona's words represent the pessimistic attitude of the diplomatic service towards Far Eastern affairs. Yes, Italy is no longer the country that does not care about the politics of the Far East, because Italy's interests in the Far East are too great, but the attitude of asking questions is not conducive to ensuring Italy's interests. However, the effect of trying to meddle is too poor, and there is a feeling that if you don't do it or do it, you will fail, which makes the diplomats feel a little discouraged.

"What do the countries think about Russia's practice of leasing ports in the Far East?"

When Bacona talked about the Far East, Carlo did not give a positive answer, but asked about the Russian occupation of the Far Eastern ports.

Although Bakona was a little puzzled as to why the king suddenly asked about the topic of Russia in the Far East, he answered truthfully. "The Russians' approach has now aroused the dissatisfaction of various countries, among which Britain directly leased Weihaiwei, which is across the sea, as a response. Japan, which is adjacent to it, reacted even more violently, hearing that it intends to continue to expand its navy and army in response. ”

Since the Far East is still familiar to itself, it is best not to move at this time, Carlo thought for a while. "I do not approve of the practice of sending fleets, unless all countries send them together. And our foreign policy in the Far East is also aligned with other countries. We must not let ourselves be the first to do anything, and we must work with other countries in everything. ”

Yes, Carlo did not intend to spend too much energy on the affairs of the Far East, which is Italy's largest overseas market, but he knew that Europe would be the next focus. Focusing too much on the Far East is not conducive to Italy's future interests.

Besides, the Italian Navy is now short of capital warships, and sending some small ships over it will not weaken its own influence.

Bacona, who didn't get the results he wanted here, left, while Carlo continued to work hard.

After a moment he stopped with a report. This is a report of the Ministry of Industry preparing to build an oil refinery for Libyan oil, and there are several sites for the refinery, such as Genoa and Venice in the north, Palermo Naples in the south, and even the names of his friend Rome, which is obviously the choice of Carlo.

"Then choose Naples."

Carlo wrote the name of Naples directly on the report.

There is also one reason why Carlo chose Napoli directly, because the south needs to solve the problem of population employment and reconcile the industrial gap between the north and the south, which is what the Italian government must do.

As Carlo worked hard, there was a knock on the door, and the voice of a squire was heard outside.

"Your Majesty, Admiral Yagill has arrived."

Upon hearing that the Admiralty had arrived, Carlo delegated his work and responded. "Admiral, please."

"Your Majesty, is there anything you want me to do?"

Admiral Yagill walked in and asked.

"Admiral, there is indeed something I would like to ask your Excellency about."

Carlo didn't hide it, and directly expressed his intention to invite him.

"Admiral, what do you think of oil-fired boilers?"

"Oil-fired boilers?"

"Yes."

For Admiral Yagill, of course he knows about this oil-fired boiler, and the Navy has now renovated two boilers that use oil-injected coal, and the effect is not bad. As for boilers that only burn oil, I really haven't paid attention to this. It's mainly traditional thinking that's at work.

Coal has always been used as fuel for warships, but coal has many shortcomings. First of all, it is inconvenient to transport, due to the large volume of coal, in order to replenish the coal for the warship, special coal carriers or docks are needed.

The second is the complexity of the coaling operation, which requires a lot of time and manpower and material resources to transport coal into the coal tanks on the battleship. The third is that a large number of manpower is required, large warships need more than ten or twenty boilers, and the stoker needs to constantly add coal to the boiler and ensure that the coal can be evenly distributed in the furnace, which requires a large number of experienced stokers to complete. Finally, maintenance is cumbersome, because coal combustion will produce a large amount of ash, when the boiler is turned off, the stokers have to spend a lot of time and energy to remove the ash.

Despite all the shortcomings of coal-fired boilers, as the only power for warships, they also have no choice for the navies of various countries.

But now, oil is starting to make its way into fuels, and countries are discovering that sprinkling heavy oil on coal can improve the efficiency of combustion. And the Italian Navy did the same, but the king said about the oil-fired boilers, which has not been thought of.

"Pure oil-fired boilers, this is a new way of thinking about fuel supply."

This was not Admiral Yagil's perfunctory remark to Carlo, after the king mentioned this, he really wanted to try the efficiency of a pure oil-fired boiler.

One is efficiency, as long as you have learned about coal and fuel oil, you will know who is more efficient, and then the problem of employment, which is not comparable, and more important is the problem of smoke between the two. Except for a few high-quality coals, there is thick smoke after burning, which causes the column of smoke over the battleship to be very conspicuous and easy to detect.

Fuel does not have this problem, its combustion is more sufficient, and the smoke is lighter, which is conducive to not being easy to be found on the battlefield.

This kind of advantages made Admiral Yagill feel that the oil-fired boiler was very feasible, so he planned to ask the Power Research Institute to come up with a plan as soon as he returned, and he planned to see the effect of the oil-fired boiler.

Carlo's words made him feel a chill immediately.

"By the way, Admiral Yagill, how is your steam turbine developed?"

"Your Majesty, our Naval Power Research Institute is already speeding up the development, and it is expected that the finished product will be seen this year."

Carlo was overjoyed to hear that the steam turbine he had been thinking about had come to fruition.

"Then when you come up with the finished product, I'll take a look."

"Okay, Your Majesty, I have informed Your Majesty when the time comes."