University of Berlin, June 1863.

As the son of a top nobleman, Ernst borrowed his father's connections to sit in here.

Ernst's itinerary has been more intensive lately, but it is mainly about economic principles, and the rest of the courses are mainly aristocratic etiquette, form, and even religion, which are undertaken by Ernst's tutors.

Along with Ernst came out his own governess Richard, and his own servant Tom.

Prior to that, Richard had been responsible for Ernst's early education career.

The group started from Heshingen to Stuttgart and finally transferred to Berlin via Bavaria.

Along the way, I lost a lot of time because I had to visit the nobles I knew well, and it took me nearly half a month to get to Berlin.

Fortunately, the second half of the journey was mainly by rail, avoiding some unnecessary banquets and social events.

When you arrive in Berlin, as a member of the Hohenzollern family, you naturally have to visit the Prussian royal family first. Ernst met his uncle, Wilhelm I.

In fact, when he was a child, Ernst had met Wilhelm I, but he was very young at that time, his memory was not clear, and he had not yet awakened the memory of his past life.

As for why there is an intersection, it has to be said that the unique position of Heixingen, Heixingen is the birthplace of the Hohenzollern family, even if the Hohenzollern family of the Brandenburg family is so prominent, becoming the Elector of the HRE and strengthening the current Kingdom of Prussia, but the blood relationship cannot be overthrown, and the ancestors of the Prussian royal family also went out from Heixingen.

The castle where his family lives is actually jointly funded and built with the Prussian royal family, but his own group has lived in Heixingen for generations and has never left, and the Hohenzollern family of the Brandenburg family cannot leave Berlin, the center of power in Prussia, to develop in the countryside of Hexingen, only because of the particularity of the ancestral land, the Brandenburg royal family will fund the repair of Heixingen Hohenzollern Castle, which is the face of the family.

Hohenzollern Castle was actually an early military fortress that was destroyed during the war, and the current Hohenzollern Castle is a newly rebuilt building.

Occasionally, the Brandenburg Hohenzollern family would return to Hehingen, and the last time the Prussian royal family sent a delegation to form the new Prussian province of Hohenzollern and incorporate it into the Kingdom of Prussia. At that time, Ernst had not been born long ago, so it was natural that he could not meet the Prussian prince who visited the place.

Wilhelm I inquired about Prince Constantine's current situation, and then learned why Ernst had come to Berlin, when he learned that Ernst had come to study.

Wilhelm I was very pleased that the Prussian royal family had always attached great importance to education, which was a century-old project that the Prussian kingdom valued as much as the military.

Now that the first stop of Ernst's study tour was Berlin, Wilhelm I was still very happy, which can be regarded as a side testimony to the development of education in Prussia in recent years.

In the end, Wilhelm I welcomed Ernst and promised to come to the palace for help in case of trouble.

Ernst expressed his gratitude and met with the rest of the Hohenzollerns, Crown Prince Frederick, and Wilhelm II, who was the little guy who would stir up the world in the future.

When he first arrived in Berlin, Ernst often attended meetings among the nobles, which were Ernst's only social event.

Most of the rest of the time was spent at school or in sports, and the level of medical care was difficult to guarantee in those days, so Ernst took health very seriously.

In addition to basic strength training, there is also equestrianism and, of course, firearm shooting. Ernst had access to these basic military educations, which for the Prussian aristocracy were the foundation of their lives.

Ernst also made many friends at the University of Berlin, although he struggled with his studies and showed that he was very stupid compared to these genius classmates, but Ernst had a good mentality and did not seek to compare his IQ with these monsters.

There were also some children of the nobility who were similar to Ernst, but they were all older, but the slightly more mature Ernst could talk to them.

There were many powerful people at the University of Berlin, but it was the same in Germany, where the aristocracy was more interested in military academies, as well as the University of Göttingen and the University of Bonn...... Such competitors.

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"Alright, that's all for today's lesson, class is over!" The professor said solemnly.

The professor put away his teaching aids with a blank face, and then left work without hesitation.

Ernst, who looked tired, rubbed his eyes, put away his notes and books in front of his desk, put them in his handbag, and got up to leave.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind: "Ernst! Where to go after school? Classmate Garlit elbowed Ernst, who was about to walk away.

"Home, of course, Garlett." Ernst replied.

Garrett pretended to be surprised and asked, "Aren't you going to the banquet tonight?" When I heard about Carl's organization, there will be a lot of ladies in attendance! ”

"Garlett, I'm still young, don't try to take me badly, and the banquets and salons have been too frequent recently, I still want to rest for a while." Ernst smiled and put his arm on Garlett's shoulder.

"You bastard, you have more meat jokes than me, I think you're just superficial." Garlit dances with her hands and uses antics to "debunk" the hypocrisy of Ernst.

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In the midst of the fight, Ernst left the school and went out of the school gate, and Tom was already waiting.

"Tom, go to the studio today!" Ernst instructed Tom.

"Yes, young master."

The carriage slowly left the school gate and made its way through the streets of Berlin, turning around and stopping in front of a blacksmith shop after some time.

Ernst pushed open the door and entered the room, which was full of miscellaneous items, mostly tools, hammers, axes...... Discard them on the ground at will.

The furnace was blazing, the room was filled with the smell of charcoal, and there was solidified molten iron splattered from the hearth.

The blacksmith's shop, which of course is now what Ernst calls a studio, was rented by Ernst and now employs a junior high school student in science and engineering in addition to the original blacksmith. Ernst interrupts Pete, a junior high school student, who is adding fire to the stove.

"Pete, is something made?" Ernst asked naturally.

"Boss, it's done, see if that's the case!" With that, he pulled out a wooden box from the counter behind him.

Open the lid on the box and pull out a metal object from inside, a copper handle with a thin iron sheet sandwiched between two layers of thick iron, which is a T-shaped razor.

Although Ernst was born an aristocrat, money was always lacking, not to mention anything else, the status of the nobility was not secured, and even the emperor had to step down and flee abroad after the defeat of the German Empire.

As a nobleman of a small place, although he had a high status (before the annexation of Heixingen, he was a prince, Konstantin was a marquis, and now he is a prince of Prussia, with the same status as a prince), the province of Hohenzollern sounds high, but in fact it is not as big as the county where he was in his previous life, and the population is not even 100,000.

Such a big place is not the only one, and Sigmaringen next door is obviously more prosperous than its own.

Through historical experience, it is better to use the current aristocratic status to make more money, and even if the empire dies in the future, it will be able to live in peace and not be down.

Of course, these are things that are a long time ago, and Ernst is not too eager to do it, but more to complete a bold idea in Ernst's own heart in his previous life.

Once a person reaches a certain status, ambition will follow, and so will Ernst.

Ernst, who understood the future situation, was naturally not optimistic about the future of the European continent, not to mention that there was a series of wars in Prussia to unify Germany at the moment, and when he was old, there were two world wars.

If you insist on staying in Germany in the future, the demise of the German Empire alone will affect you, and then the German aristocracy will be lambs to the slaughter, and the wealth you have may be deprived by the great powers and the republican government, so you must arrange the way back in advance.

Europe is by no means a good land, there are storms on this continent, there are many great powers, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Hungary are all crowded here, and the future will be the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union, so Europe has no future, but now is the best era for Europe, the best era for Germany.

So where does Ernst want to go? This is where we have to move forward to the place of work, Tanzania.

In his previous life, when he learned about the history of East Africa, Ernst always felt a lot of emotion, as the most valuable German colony, German East Africa was simply the chosen place.

It's a pity that the last German stud, German East Africa, did not come to the urgent development, and the empire died, of course, it was also related to the fact that the German government did not pay attention to it at that time.

At present, no country in Europe pays attention to East Africa, Britain and France have a large colony, Germany has not yet been unified, only the Portuguese have a few strongholds on the coast of East Africa, but except for the plains along the coast of Mozambique, the Portuguese have not penetrated deep into the interior of East Africa.

In the previous life, the Germans invaded East Africa without encountering decent resistance, and the only names left were the indigenous tribes of Africa.

These indigenous people are still stuck in a primitive tribal society, which can be imagined as the barbarism of East Africa.

But for Ernst, barbarism is a good thing, as long as East Africa is slowly developed through immigration, and then the indigenous means of use in the primitive social system are transferred, then it will not be easy to establish a country in the future?

First of all, there are no decent resources in East Africa (developed late. Very few colonists paid attention.

Second, East Africa is less populated, not as densely populated as the Philippines in East Asia, and the colonizers were unable to squeeze out human value, which also means that the native population is small. It is easy to drive away and can avoid a repeat of the South African incident.

Finally, East Africa has good agricultural conditions, open land, reclamation value, and other conditions are not bad.

In Ernst's eyes, as long as he could take over the administration of East Africa, he could establish an independent kingdom as his way out.

This kingdom may be inconspicuous in the world, but after the wave of African independence, the country it has built will definitely be able to beat the surrounding indigenous countries.

Of course, the premise is not to be stupid like the Boers, to have both and want, and finally to leave the country.

It's not that Ernst despises it, even if it is a pig, it may be better than those African "benevolents" in later generations.

As for why Ernst felt that he could start a business in distant Africa, in addition to his own optimism about Africa's environmental resources, he also had a "benevolent monarch" like Leopold II of Belgium as an example.

Before the great powers set their sights on the African continent, creating an established fact, and finally pulling the banner of Germany, co-opting Austria-Hungary and Germany, could lay a foundation for the Hohenzollern family overseas.

Of course, the real problem of all this fantasy is to make money, and Ernst can't even get the initial funds for colonization now, so he naturally has to use his decades of life experience to make money.

That's right, the T-shaped razor in front of me is the first step, at this time people still use that kind of straight-handled razor, Ernst is still young, not to the age of scruffy beard, but the sight of this straight-handled razor also feels a pain in the face.

Fortunately, in my previous life, I had seen my grandfather's old-fashioned razor, which was invented by the American Gillette.

Ernst only remembered about this razor, so after coming to Berlin, he asked Pete to reproduce it through sketches, and now it seems that the initial form is complete.

"Pete, well done, how difficult would this razor be if it were mass-produced?"

Pete replied to Ernst with a solemn face.

"Boss, look!" As he spoke, he removed the blade of the razor, pinched the two ends of the blade and broke it, "click", and the blade broke in response.

The strength of this thin blade is too low to be used, and it is impossible to sell it if the strength of the blade cannot be solved.

Ernst pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there a solution?" ”

"Maybe the metallurgists have a way to get help," Pitt said. Another way is through trial and error. ”

"Well, well, on the one hand, you continue to experiment to find a solution, and as for the experts, I'll figure it out." Ernst decided to do both things and solve the problem as soon as possible.