The special train was speeding all the way east. Xiao Le and the others did not have time to enjoy the sumptuous lunch prepared by Krupp Company. The two parties simply ate a few slices of sausage bacon and dry bread. They spent all their time today above the negotiation.
The Führer's aggressive offensive completely defeated Mr. Krupp's proud psychological wall.
Xiao Le has a strategic foresight that humans in this era cannot possibly have. This is the most important weapon in negotiations.
Many of his judgments on the development of science and technology amazed Krupp! In addition, the head of state exposed the core secrets of Krupp Company, which made the arrogant Germans unable to be arrogant even if they wanted to!
Xiao Le expressed to Mr. Krupp the importance of cooperation from three aspects: economics, politics, and technological evolution. All the theoretical basis is sufficient, detailed and irrefutable!
Krupp is already helpless! He found that he had no choice but to agree to the conditions of the head of state. The cooperation intention between the Chinese and the Krupp Arsenal was officially written in black and white.
Of course, it is impossible to sign any contract in just half a time. The specific cooperation details will only be finalized after a long period of detailed discussions at a later stage, but the letter of intent must be taken away now!
The nature of people in that era was still very simple. Even businessmen who were honest and unscrupulous, their moral quality was many times higher than that of people in the 21st century. Generally speaking, as long as the letter of intent is signed, there will be no surprises in the cooperation.
According to the letter of intent for cooperation, Xiao Le and Krupp are preparing to build two large arsenals in Ryukyu and the Northern Industrial Zone to produce Krupp cannons and other accessories.
Krupp Military Industrial Group opened all its technical secrets to the Chinese, and all Chinese research laboratories also provided first-hand scientific research information to Krupp.
The two arsenals are expected to invest 9.5 million dragon-patterned silver coins. Among them, Krupp only needed to invest one million, and the rest was all technical holdings. In the end, the shareholding ratio between the two parties was 49 and 51, with the majority Chinese taking over the operating rights of the two arsenals.
This is really a bumper harvest, and Xiao Le doesn't have much time to waste here. After reaching the letter of intent, the group quickly took a special train back to Berlin.
It wasn't until they got on the special train that everyone could finally relax a little from their busy mood. At this time, the dining car launched today's lunch. People rubbed their stomachs and found that the few slices of dry bread they had just eaten were not useful at all.
Because today's mission was completed very successfully, Xiao Le was in a good mood. He temporarily lifted the prohibition on alcohol and allowed his officers to drink freely!
When you arrive in Prussia, you naturally want to drink the purest German beer and eat the most delicious German sausages!
The aroma of wine and meat suddenly filled the carriage, and the huge tin cups were filled with golden beer. People toasted to each other in celebration, and the atmosphere became lively!
Being able to successfully handle the Krupp Company made the head of state feel very comfortable. Under the siege of his men, he drank two liters of tin and iron wine glasses by himself.
Asians in this era are still not used to drinking beer, but Xiao Le is different. He has experienced the devastation of beer in his previous life, so he can still keep his brain clear after drinking two liters of beer.
Looking at the people under my command, since they are not very good at beer, some of them are already staggering after just one liter of beer.
Especially Hyoutaro and Noheita. The Japanese nation is very good at drunken sex. If two cats urinate, they will not be able to find the southeast, northwest, and northwest.
At this time, Hyoutaro did not care about the distinction between superior and inferior. He bravely walked up to his adoptive father and burped from wine and said, "Father...I don't understand something...we...why should we fight with that arrogant German?" What about cooperation?”
"You just said it, we Chinese can develop cannons and muskets by ourselves... Since we can do it ourselves, why should we choose to cooperate with them? We only paid one million silver dollars and took 49% of the shares. This It’s too cheap for them!”
"You actually still want to hold technology shares? Don't you? Our university's research institute has cracked their secrets, which proves that their technology is no longer valuable... Since it is worthless, why do you still hold so much? Shares? I'm a little confused, I really can't figure it out..."
The true identity was revealed at the critical moment, and Xiao Le sighed in his heart, these are the Japanese! The fundamental nature of the Japanese nation is such short-sightedness and greed.
Short-sighted and profit-seeking, with no strategic long-term vision. They have done a lot of picking up sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons in history.
Xiao Le stretched out his hand and pushed his godson down on the stool, snatched his wine glass and put it aside. "No, no, no... you can't think that way? Do you know how much brainpower I have spent to achieve this situation? Do you know How suspenseful is the situation today? Do you really think we can completely suppress the Krupp Company?"
"Stop being so naive. In today's entire negotiation, I was actually deceiving the other party and using tactics to defraud him. I just relied on my eloquence to deceive him!"
"Child! You don't know what scientific research is, and you don't know how complicated it is."
We can copy the Krupp cannon in three years. Do you really believe it?
Do you really think that you will be successful if you know the direction? No joke, even if we know the direction, we may not be able to succeed.
what? Because achieving the goal requires a huge industrial base and scientific research base.
Scientific research technology is easy to understand, and we must have as many scientific research workers as Prussia.
You must know that a cannon is a complex machine composed of multiple parts.
Starting from steel casting, plus later forging, plus later rifling cutting, breech block, air-locking ring, and even those high-strength screws on the gun mount, it requires countless scientific researchers to work hard day and night to appear in the market. before us.
But this is only the success of the laboratory, and it must be matched with corresponding industrial strength, that is, we must have a very large team of technicians.
Scientists have taken out a successful part in the laboratory, how can they quantify it? This work must be left to skilled workers, which means there must be enough front-line production engineers.
We simply don’t have these talents! Our industrial zone has just started and is very different from others.
There is no need for anything else, just one screw. How can you ensure its standardization and scale? How can costs be kept to a minimum? These problems require talents to solve.
So why should I talk to you about the industrial system! Industrial system! That is a huge collection of talents from top to bottom, from left to right, all-encompassing.
What we strive for is the excellence of a collective, not just the leadership of one or two talents!
Do you understand now? The gap between us and Prussia is not ten or twenty years, it is a full hundred years!
