"Overall, Bavaria is still a very suitable place for farming!" After just passing by, the young Wang Changsun commented after spending two years understanding the basic situation of Bavaria. If you summarize it, you can first support this conclusion with two reasons. First: Bavaria does not have strong industrial competitors, has a relatively poor industrial foundation, and he runs a national brand, so there is much potential for growth. There is almost no government trouble. Second, the Bavarian royal family is very rich! Very rich!

If you are in other places, if you want to build artillery, you have to compete with the Krupp family, who have been famous for decades and become the richest man in Germany. If you want to build guns, the Mauser Brothers will tell you. If you want to build steel and coal, sorry, Bavaria does not produce iron or coal. Look at the developed industrial areas in Germany, whether it is the Ruhr area or the Alsace-Lorraine brought from France, or the Saar area, these places either have coal, iron, or coal and iron at the same time! If you play the repetitive competition at the low end, Bavaria doesn’t know how to die!

Maybe some people say that there is a legendary BMW in later generations? Yes, there is indeed this company, and its Chinese name is quite awesome, and it is called BMW Company! But in fact, this guy's predecessor was not a car company, and he was not a car company when he was truly glorious! Its predecessor was the Bavarian Machinery and Pharmaceutical Company! It was founded in 1916 and started to engage in aircraft! It also used aircraft engines in 2 battles! The famous BMW801 was produced by him! Although it was very brilliant in later generations, it was a pity that Germany in 1889, and this company was not even bad! Overall, Bavaria's industry is still relatively backward. As for the shipbuilding industry or shipping industry? Inland shipping can still be fun. If it is shipbuilding, it is OK to set up a design bureau, but the shipyard should be slow for the time being, and it is not even close to the sea!

So the development direction that the young prince set for Bavaria is to take the high-end route. How to take the high-end route? Internal combustion engines, cars, aircrafts, boilers, etc. are still far away. These things are either not available yet, or they can still be sold within Bavaria after they are made. When they go out, they are beaten up by companies in other places. The industrial background is a little worse, and time travelers don’t understand things very well. There is really no way, they need to be replenished slowly and require national support. However, some things focus on skills, or if they are familiar with certain things as time travelers, you can try them, such as the Krupp Armor, which is famous in later generations!

Speaking of Krupp armor before the 1st War, people who know a little about the history of warships will subconsciously think of the Krupp hardened armor that was born in 1893 and used on the Brandenburg battleship. However, in fact, the history of Krupp's armor was earlier and the process was more complicated!

Krupp started to build armor with others. At that time, Krupp didn't even produce armor entirely. Before 1890, Krupp didn't even have his own steel rolling mill! At that time, Krupp's partner Baron Stym-Halberg was responsible for the production, and Krupp was allowed to use the old "Will method" to make steel-faced iron armor, while Krupp was responsible for the research and development of new armor. Krupp only began to develop nickel steel armor in 1890.

At this time, we have to mention a big country on the other side of the ocean. The world's first hardened armor was the Harvey armor created by the American Augusta Harvey. This guy did not start one-stop production from beginning to end. The Americans' initial hardened armor plates were nickel steel armor imported from the Schneider Factory in France. After carburizing and immersing in cold water, they obtained the earliest Harvey armor.

The emergence of Harvey's armor directly swept across the armored world of ships! The profit margin of up to 50% or even 100% made all arms merchants flock to it! Such a large piece of cake is in front of you, Krupp will naturally not give up. Krupp thought, brother, I used nickel mines in the 1980s to cast guns. Now I just use similar technologies to use armor? French chickens and American cowboys can be made, why can't I do it?

Therefore, in history, Krupp began to use nickel steel armor in 1890 and was successful in 1891. Then Krupp continued to sharpen and put the nickel steel armor hardened after a week of carburizing heat treatment into oil for treatment, thus obtaining the early Krupp hardened armor, which is said to be about 10% stronger than Harvey hardened armor! At this time, it was not over. The final master of Krupp hardened armor was a hardening method called "gas glue legal". It was placed in the armor with carbon-containing glue, then heated and hardened, and finally sprayed water to complete the final hardening process.

Before traveling, Sun Yu had seen things about hardened armor. After traveling, with the help of engineers dug out of Krupp, coupled with the advantage of taking the initiative, the great time traveler and plagiarizer successfully created a test piece of Krupp's hardened armor that was only successful in 1893 in 1889! He also registered a patent in Germany first!

Even if the Krupp family succeeded in research later, it would be useless. Unless they also had time travelers, they could not compete with the time travelers, which was successful in the later generations. Before 1905, the only one in the world's strongest hardened armor was produced! From 1905 to 1910, all manufacturers that produced Krupp hardened armor had to pay high patent fees to the patent owners! It would cost about 15 pounds per ton of armor! If it was based on the exchange rate during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, it would be about 90 taels of silver! (The author has seen this patent fee, but I don't remember it very accurately -! If there is any mistake, please forgive me.)

Someone may ask, since there are such high patent fees, why are there so many factories rushing to produce? It is simple to be willing, the profit margin is high. Take the UK as an example. The price of a ton of ordinary steel plate is only 6 to 8 pounds, while the price of KC armor after hardening is generally between 80 and 150 pounds. Of course, armored steel needs to be produced through multiple processes such as rolling, carburizing, and quenching, but its profit margin is still beyond the imagination of ordinary people! And there are only two companies in this world! You can do it yourself!

25% to 30% of the cost of a warship is armored steel. If the profit margin is in terms of the profit margin, even weapons and power are far inferior! How many ships were built in the previous fearless period? The cost of these ships is multiplied by 0.25, which is an astronomical number! Moreover, before 1905 in history, Krupp seemed to have not spread patented technology, so you know the profits in it... His Royal Highness, who was leaning over by the time traveler, was inadvertently dug a large piece by the corner of the later industrial giant Krupp, and then put it in his pocket! It feels so fulfilling!

So now the question is, even if you have the technology, do you have money? How to say this? The Bavarian royal family is really not short of money! After all, the entire Bavarian Kingdom belongs to the Wittelsbach family, so it is nothing to make up some money to build a steel mill. Moreover, the Bavarian royal family can also obtain additional funding from the central government every year. Taking 1910 as an example in history, Bavaria received 5.67 million marks of funding from an important imperial government, which has not yet been counted as the royal family’s own assets and the grants the royal family has given!

And to be more shameless, this factory was built to improve the comprehensive economic strength of the Kingdom of Bavaria, increase employment, and create social wealth. His Highness the Regent's operation to pass the parliament. How big is the government spending money to build a factory? Although Bavaria is poor, it is relatively important to have a factory. If the Bavaria Kingdom, which accounts for one-seventh of the entire Second German Empire, is competing for the total economic output, it will be very powerful! Not to mention other things, the military expenditure of the Saxophone and Württemberg army, which are both kingdoms, is supported by the German central government, but Bavaria is different! Bavaria's troops are completely supported by the Kingdom government! In addition to being obeyed by Germany's dispatch from the General Staff during wartime, they are completely independent! Can you afford to support the army without money?

During the 1st War, most of the Sixth Army under **** were the own army of the Bavarian Kingdom, namely the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 21st Bavarian Army, the 1st Bavarian Army and a reserve brigade, plus a cavalry army! The total force is about 220,000, and it has nearly 800 artillery pieces! Even now, the standing army in Bavaria has no less than 3 armies! Think about how much the troops in the six towns in Beiyang in the late Qing Dynasty spent, and think about the size of the army in the Kingdom of Bavaria. It can be said that money is not a problem at all!

If armor is to make money from navies in various countries around the world, the possibility of making a big profit is 99%. Then some of the remaining other things will be earned from their own home first! It is considered to be self-produced and sold internally! The possibility of making money is 120%. Of course, my crown prince father cannot say that he should communicate with his uncle first. When he thinks of his powerful prince uncle, Ruprecht has to say admiration, this uncle is too powerful! Almost all things that have not been achieved by many seniors and juniors!
Chapter completed!