Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

After Lin Yi expressed that he didn't mind, he and Crown Prince William got into the car prepared by Gustav.

A group of people and more than ten cars drove into the Krupp factory.

Looking at the tall chimneys on both sides of the industrial area and the pungent smell of incomplete coal combustion in the air, Lin Yi couldn't help but rub his nose.

In this era, no one will tell you about environmental protection. Everyone is working hard to develop themselves, and naturally they will ignore the protection of the environment.

If someone jumped out at this time and said that the pollution was too serious and demanded environmental protection, the Norwegian girl would probably be sent to a mental hospital.

Of course, Daxia actually has no way to take into account environmental issues, but at least Daxia has clear divisions between industrial areas and residential areas.

It's not like the Ruhr area, where residential areas and industrial areas are actually mixed together.

In Daxia, all industrial zones are located on the outskirts of the city, with a straight-line distance of several kilometers from residential areas, in order to reduce the impact of industrial pollution on the people as much as possible.

When the car stopped, Lin Yi got out of the car with Crown Prince William. Accompanied by Gustav and a group of Krupp factory executives, he visited the entire Krupp factory.

In fact, nothing happened during the visit. The workers all stuck to their posts.

Looking at the artillery being assembled in the workshop, Lin Yi had to sigh with emotion. There is a reason why the Hans Empire is a powerful army.

At the same time, their rigorous character made these workers not pay attention to Lin Yi and others at all. They just raised their heads and continued to focus on the work in hand.

Lin Yi was very satisfied looking at these artillery pieces, but he was even more satisfied with the mechanical lathe in the workshop.

The raw materials enter the workshop and are quickly turned into parts for assembling the artillery under the stamping of the mechanical lathe. It was then manually assembled by workers, and soon a brand new artillery was produced.

Seeing this, Lin Yi was greatly touched and immediately proposed to Gustav that he wanted to buy the Krupp production line.

Gustav didn't know what the senior leaders of the Hans Empire meant about this matter, but as a businessman, the production line could be sold, but it also depended on whether the Hans Empire agreed to sell it.

Feeling Gustav's gaze, Crown Prince William nodded slightly and expressed that he could sell it to Daxia, and then Gustav agreed to sell their production line.

But in terms of price, Gustav opened a production line with a price of 10 million marks, which is approximately equivalent to 8 million imperial coins.

Logically speaking, is it expensive to buy a production line for 8 million without warranty?

Of course it's expensive.

Daxia's own production line only costs three to four million silver coins, which is more than twice as cheap as Krupp's.

But Lin Yi felt that no matter how expensive it was, he still had to buy it, because Lin Yi planned to dismantle the entire production line after returning and let the empire's technical department fully understand the Hans Empire's production technology.

Only in this way can the empire's own industrial level be fundamentally improved.

Therefore, Lin Yi purchased five production lines directly from Gustav, with a total value of 50 million marks. At the same time, Lin Yi also said that Daxia was willing to provide each engineer with a subsidy of two hundred imperial silver dollars per day. He hoped that Gustav could help him recruit a team of experts to go to Daxia with the production line to train Daxia's engineers.

Gustave couldn't refuse the price offered by Lin Yi.

One person's daily salary is 200 imperial silver dollars. If converted into marks, the average daily salary reaches 250 marks. This price is equivalent to one month's salary of an engineer in the Hans Empire.

You know, at this stage, the average annual salary of a mature technician is just over 1000. Engineers are higher than technicians. But even if it were ten times higher, it would still only be around marks.

But if you go to Daxia, the price is 250 marks a day, and over a year, it is more than 9. It is equivalent to 9 times the annual salary in Hans Empire.

Such a big gap made Gustave have to look at Lin Yi differently, and at the same time added in his heart, Daxia is really rich.

When Gustav announced the conditions for Lin Yi to be invited, almost all the engineers wanted to sign up.

Finally, Lin Yi selected a team of one hundred engineers and asked them to go to Daxia with the purchased production line.

After completing the deal, Lin Yi and Crown Prince William declined Gustav's invitation to dinner, and followed Crown Prince William onto the train again, heading towards the Stuttgart area southwest of the Hans Empire.

There, Lin Yi also wanted to visit the Mauser Arsenal.

Compared with Gustav's indifference, the representatives of Mauser Company were very enthusiastic.

As for the reason, on the one hand, it is because Mauser Arsenal is different from Krupp.

The Krupp factory is a family industry, which means that the entire Krupp family actually belongs to the Krupp family. Although the Hans Empire has a certain stake in it, the final say is still in the hands of the Krupp family. inside.

As long as the Krupp family doesn't like it, or is unwilling, it means that William II is coming, and they can also deny you face.

But Mauser is different. Since King Frederick I of Württemberg founded this arsenal in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest, the voice of the entire Mauser company has been in the hands of the Hans Empire. .

In layman's terms, the Krupp factory is a family business, and people don't need to look at anyone's face. Mauser Company is more like a state-owned enterprise, and everything is based on business capabilities.

If you don't want to take the order, other people will naturally want it, so the people in charge can be regarded as working in the Hans Empire.

The nature between the two is different.

Under the warm reception of Mauser factory representatives, Lin Yi also visited the entire factory.

Lin Yi still has a very favorable impression of the famous Mauser Company. This good impression is likely to come from the memory of Lin Yi's previous life.

In that great war, many martyrs took to the battlefield and defeated the enemy with a variant version of the Mauser rifle.

The so-called Xiaomi plus rifle defeated the invaders. The rifle mentioned here refers to the Mauser Commission rifle and its variant version, made in Hanyang, and the official rifle.

Although it is said that the other party inevitably cheated Daxia, but to be fair, even the design product that Mauser Company considered unqualified was still a very good, even excellent, product for Daxia at that time. weapons.

There was no way, Daxia was too poor and miserable at that time.

Just like at Krupp, Lin Yi placed an order for ten production lines at the Mauser factory. He also gave the engineers a standard of 200 imperial silver dollars per person per day, and invited a hundred engineers to go to Daxia together.

For such an order worth tens of millions at once, the representative of the Maose Company who was responsible for receiving Lin Yi smiled crookedly.