December 29, 1900, Hamburg, Germany.

The plan to acquire Mercedes-Benz was successful, and the relocation of the entire Mercedes-Benz company and research laboratories was also very successful.

With Wilhelm II's approval, there was no one to stop the acquisition and relocation, and Arthur only paid two million pounds to complete the entire acquisition and aftermath.

As the largest automobile factory in Germany, Mercedes-Benz has a car factory and a research laboratory, as well as an iron casting company and a machine shop for the research and manufacture of engines.

Combined, these factories and companies employ more than 500 people. Among them, only a hundred are willing to go to Australia, and this is when Arthur is hired with a high salary.

To have more than 100 people willing to take their families to Australia to continue working is good news for Arthur.

So, after three days of preparation, the employees and their families arrived in Hamburg and will be transported on a transport ship to live in Australia.

They were accompanied by employees of a company called Diesel Engine Laboratory and Engine Factory.

Yes, Arthur wasn't alone in Bentz's targeting. In the field of engines, which are closely related to automobiles, there is a talent who is not weaker than Benz and is known as the "father of diesel engines", that is, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

Rudolf Diesel is an irreplaceable genius and founder of the engine industry, especially the diesel engine industry, and is known as the father of the diesel engine.

Even the German word for diesel comes from the name of Rudolf Diesel.

Like Bentz, Diesel's invention of the diesel engine has already achieved certain results, and his invention of the diesel-powered compression-ignition engine is not only powerful, low fuel consumption, but also can use inferior fuel, and has a brilliant development prospect.

If Benz is a half-entrepreneur and half-inventor with no outstanding business ability, then Diesel is a pure inventor who doesn't even have any brains in business, although he invented the excellent diesel engine and made himself a million-dollar fortune.

But after repeated wrong choices and failed stock investments, Diesel's engine factory's financial situation became worse and worse.

After successfully signing the acquisition agreement with Benz and negotiating a detailed relocation plan, the two ministers Andrew and Pierre immediately traveled to Munich in search of the engine talent.

Rudolf Diesel was a German who was educated in Paris as a child, but the German Empire, when Prussia was still at odds with France, forced his family to flee to London.

After graduating, Diesel moved to Switzerland and Paris, where he eventually set up his own engine laboratory.

The reason why he is currently staying in Munich is because Diesel suffers from a more severe nervous breakdown and is recuperating in a nearby sanatorium.

Because of the diesel engine he invented, Diesel is still quite well-known. After a little inquiry, the two ministers learned of Diesel's sanatorium.

Essentially, Benz and Diesel are the same kind of people, both absolute geniuses in their own industries, and neither of them are very proficient in business.

They are more interested in research results and progress than in financial and material comforts.

After hearing that Duke Arthur of Australia wanted to buy its engine laboratory and factory, the first question Diesel asked was not how much money would be spent on the acquisition, but how much money would be spent on future research and development.

Arthur is not stingy with such talents, not to mention that the money spent will be used to research such a right path.

Arthur was generous with both Benz and Diesel in their research funding, with both having a share of a million-pound research grant each year and could apply for more at their discretion.

As expected, Diesel decisively agreed to the acquisition, with the only requirement that his research funds be guaranteed every year, and that all his assistants in the laboratory be brought with him.

In this way, two of the biggest names in the automotive and engine industry were so smoothly strapped to the Australian chariot, and Arthur paid only a few million pounds.

Like Mercedes-Benz, Arthur reserved 10 percent of the shares in the engine factory and handed over the management of the laboratory to Diesel Dyssel.

As for the management of the engine factory, it is not that Arthur is unwilling to hand it over to Diesel. It's really Diesel who has poor business management skills, and he also needs to devote more energy to the research of engines.

After everything was ready, Arthur took hundreds of workers and two recruited talents, as well as the diplomatic delegation and guards he had brought with him, boarded the warship and embarked on the journey back to Australia.

On the warship, Diesel and Benz also meet Arthur, the master behind the acquisition of their factory.

In the slightly respectful and panicked eyes of the two talents, Arthur generously promised to prepare two villas for the two of them in Sydney, and arrange the nationality of their families.

That's right, Arthur also asked them to become Australian citizenship and become a real Australian.

The two were originally a little unhappy, but under Arthur's persuasion to consider the future, the two nodded and agreed.

Seeing that the two were willing to join the Australian nationality, Arthur nodded with satisfaction.

In this way, these two outstanding talents can be regarded as successfully becoming Australia's own people, and they will also bring great changes to Australia's industrial development.

It takes more than a month to get from Hamburg to Sydney, which makes the flight extremely boring and tedious.

Perhaps because of their mutual attraction to geniuses, Benz and Diesel became close friends for more than a month, spending their days in the same room studying engine principles and improvements, and how to apply them to the car more rationally.

Arthur was happy to hear that. After all, these two are both talents with great achievements in their own industries, and the exchange between them may have a more profound impact on their achievements, and even enough to change the development of Australia.

There is also good news, because the discussions between the two during this time have led to some new discoveries and ideas.

Diesel and Benz asked Arthur more than once to speed up the fleet's movements, so that they could arrive in Australia as soon as possible to build a laboratory and devote themselves to research.

Arthur couldn't help but laugh at this, and could only order the fleet to speed up as much as possible, and at the same time promised Diesel and Benz that as soon as they arrived in Australia, they would find a place for them to build a research laboratory, and at the same time invest money as soon as possible to allow them to develop.