Chapter 1053: “Entrepreneur” vs. “Asshole”
Chapter 1033: “Entrepreneur” vs “Asshole”
Franz was not disappointed that he was not able to disrupt the rhythm of the British, which was to be expected.
If you stimulate the British to follow up, then it is not John Bull. The navy is more or less the same, the army equipment and how to stimulate, the British will not be blind.
It’s just like exams. If you are the scum of the earth and always at the bottom, then whether the first place test ninety, or one hundred points, you will not feel much.
On the contrary, if you are a school bully, always dominating the list, suddenly someone scurries ahead of you, even if it is only half a point ahead, you will want to overtake back.
It’s pretty obvious now that the British are schoolboys when it comes to the army, and schoolboys when it comes to the navy.
No matter how shocking Franz’s parade is, it’s all about the army, and no amount of excitement is going to make the British government think twice about having an army arms race with the Holy Roman Empire.
Not only the British do not have that idea, there is no country in the world that has the courage to play with the Holy Roman Empire at this time of the land arms race.
From the moment of the fall of France, the global army armament has been polarized.
The Holy Roman Empire is the only one that is ahead of the others, and the pursuers behind it cannot even be seen.
Competitors?
Unless the British changed their national policy and went all out with their land forces, they might be able to put Franz under a little pressure. As for the other countries, they are all scum.
Look at the second-ranked Russians will know, clear color Austrian equipment, completely Shen Luo army equipment what, in a few years they will follow what equipment.
This aspect of the tsarist government bureaucrats but very experienced, every time the Russian army big change, are rushed in the Austrian army weapons big retirement time.
It happens to be able to take the new goods budget to buy second-hand equipment, the difference in the middle of the price is profit, this aspect of the two sides is very tacit understanding.
Each time the Austrian army weapons and equipment decommissioning, will be rushed to the end of the service life of a few years before, to ensure that these second-hand goods can still be used normally for some years.
Bureaucrats blood money, the Russian army officers and soldiers also followed the benefit. Finally got rid of the domestic crude, although they are second-hand goods, but the performance is more reliable than the domestic new goods ah!
On the one hand is a stupid big black thick, malfunctioning, and may at any time blow up the new equipment; on the other hand is fifty or sixty percent new, stable performance, high security of the second-hand equipment, this choice is very good to do.
In the Tsarist government, it was almost an open secret, known to everyone who should know and everyone who shouldn’t know, except for His Greatness the Tsar.
Even though there were people who wanted to poke through this layer of windowpaper, they ended up decisively choosing to give up after considering the actual situation.
Not because of fear of death, but mainly for the safety of Russian soldiers. If you don’t let the capitalists and bureaucrats play the game of selling, they are going to make money directly from the production process.
After these people some god operation down, this is not very Russian military industry, the final production out of the product can still be used, that can only rely on God’s blessing.
You know, before the opening of the resale movement, the Russian army shells a lot of the scene to the second grinding process, or not stuffed into.
Now this situation is how good, anyway, the Russian army comprehensively learns the Austrian army, weaponry and equipment are even the same model, as long as it is not a professional, the bright side absolutely can not see any difference.
Even if the weapons are found to be slightly outdated, it can also be said that recently in the strengthening of training, equipment wear and tear caused by too much.
Whether other people believe it or not, anyway, the great Tsarina His Majesty believed it. Many times he inspected the barracks and found no problems with the weapons and equipment.
As a result, in recent years, the Russian army logistics department and military industrial enterprises have not been less praised by His Majesty the Tsar.
The complete localization of weapons and equipment, even though the production lines had to be imported from the Holy Roman Empire, was a remarkable achievement.
In the original time and space, for this goal, the tsarist government has been struggling until the demise has not been able to realize. It wasn’t until the Soviet Union came online that this great goal was realized.
The oldest two were like this, and the oldest three behind them were even more so. Not to mention the problem of the gap, the key is that the current world’s third land power is directly absent.
For no other reason than it’s just not good enough.
Whether it is the fallen Spanish army, or Britain’s pocket-sized army, and the “army power” have nothing to do with half a penny.
If you look at the combat effectiveness of the Swiss army, without taking into account the power of the country or the number of people, then Switzerland deserves to be there.
But to rank Switzerland as the world’s third largest army is a joke, isn’t it?
After kicking out Switzerland, the one with a good army combat power is Belgium. No doubt, it is the same problem of “too small” to support the flag of “powerful country”.
After that, the Nordic Confederation seems to be a bit strong, but it has not had a bright performance in the last few decades, and the only time it appeared was in Denmark.
Unfortunately, bad luck, encountered the Prussia in the glory days, defeat that is a miserable. If the Nordic Confederation is at this level, it obviously has nothing to do with being a “land power”.
After taking stock of the European continent, it is even more difficult to look overseas.
The United States of America and the Confederacy, which have slightly better national strength, are a bit stronger than the American soldiers in the original time and space because of the relationship of mutual rivalry, but this “strength” is also very limited.
Whether it is weapons and equipment, or the quality of officers and soldiers, are far behind the average level of the European world.
The rising Japanese army, although the will to fight is good, but the weapons and equipment and training dragged behind, and the quality of officers is not qualified.
“Unqualified,” was the assessment given by Franz.
There was no other reason. The influence of the samurai ideology was too deep. This kind of officer was too subjective and lacked the ability to think rationally.
What kind of officer there is, can bring out what kind of soldier. Such an army would naturally have no problem in bullying the weak; if they encountered a strong enemy, this weakness would be very fatal.
Take the Continental War as an example, the French commander buried tens of thousands of French soldiers under machine guns because of a wrong perception.
If he had been replaced by a godly general like “Nogi Hiden”, the death toll would not have been tens of thousands, but tens of thousands of French soldiers would still be left.
Of course, if the French were so willing to die, the Allied defense line on the Rhine would never have lasted until reinforcements arrived. There is still no problem to burn the war to the heart of German region.
But to take millions of lives to pile up a channel, I guess not wait for the completion of the strategy, the French army themselves first mutiny.
Even if there is no mutiny, there will be heavy casualties in the early stages, and the war will not be fought later.
After all, not every country has unlimited population to consume. If millions of soldiers were killed in a single battle, there would be no way to continue the subsequent battles.
Such an officer, in fact, was best suited to enter the British army and then go command the Indian colonial army. As long as you can make the Indian colonial army to fight for their lives, you can pile up most of the enemy, and become a “military god” is not a dream.
After counting some, it will be found: the number of able to fight is not enough; the number of enough combat power is not enough; balance the number and combat power of not only no money, the command system also has hidden problems.
After Russia and Austria, there are practically no more powerful land forces.
Competitors are so “strong” that it does not matter whether they will be stimulated or not. Even if some countries are stimulated and go to work to get better and stronger, they will have to finish industrialization first.
From the beginning of the aircraft tanks, military production has reached the 3.0 era, without sufficient industrial heritage support, and then good weapons design can not be landed.
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Just when the dignitaries were stimulated, a shocking scam also began to spread from Vienna to the rest of the world.
Mr. Rivera, who cheated the first bucket of money, did not run away with the money, but instead made further efforts to prepare for “his great strategic plan” to be bigger and stronger.
From what I’ve seen so far, Mr. Rivera is a great entrepreneur. His knowledge, eloquent speech, high level of self-confidence, “lofty” ideals, down-to-earth …… and a host of other fine qualities.
I’m not kidding, Rivera, who is in a self-absorbed state of mind, really has “high ideals” now.
Not only want to get rich, but also ready to bring investors together to get rich, ready to break the monopoly of the consortium in the economy, to build a “utopian economic system”.
In order to achieve this goal, Rivera is also looking around for like-minded people, set up a professional investment team, but also formulated a strict business investment plan.
After the investment, in addition to the loan issued to the Spanish government, and normal staff salaries, Rivera did not spend lavishly.
Instead, he opened the pace of buying and buying, first plumbed 2.1% of the shares of the Austrian Electricity Company, followed by 3.3% of the shares of the Austrian Automotive Group, and then acquired 1.9% of the shares of the Suez Canal……
From an investment point of view, these are all high quality assets and companies that can yield good returns. The comment “down to earth” is well deserved.
At the same time as Rivera has been buying up, it has also dramatically increased the share price of the business. Looking at the numbers on the books, Rivera’s investment group is already profitable.
Mature business logic, professional financial statements, and most importantly, profitability right out of the gate.
The media has already put the hat of “business genius” on the head of Rivera, claiming to be the most genius investor in the 19th century.
Now, wherever he goes, Rivera is the brightest bulb in the room. If he continues to be successful, Rivera is a business genius.
Reality is so bizarre, liar and business genius is often only a thin line, the difference is only in whether or not the “success”.
Illegal financing, concealing risks and deceiving investors are all minor issues.
Now is the 19th century, the darkest moment of the capital economy, compared to send “peanut rice”, “earth plane” counterparts, just cheating Rivera is a saint.
Only now the “saint” Rivera, encountered since the start of the biggest trouble. The forest is big, all birds have, the investment group is big, the same is also true.
Since ancient times, money moves people’s hearts, Rivera the founder did not run away, the following little brother but someone ran away first.
These days there is no online payment, and most of the investments raised are cash and checks. There are only a few who are able to remain unmoved in front of a huge fortune.
Certain guys who couldn’t stand the temptation, moved to a crooked mind. First, some of the investments were withheld and not accounted for.
There is no Internet investors can not check the account at any time, Rivera can not establish contact with every investor. The first wave of the assholes’ operation was a complete success.
Only this kind of thing, can hide a moment can not hide a lifetime, to the interest payment problem will be exposed.
In order to avoid the end of jail, these “assholes” simply do not do anything, and directly use their positions to roll money to run away.
Assholes run away, the heavy losses of investors but refused to give up, asked Rivera’s investment group to continue to fulfill the contract.
Black and white contract written clearly, simply can not be denied. Although the money to run away is the personal behavior of the employees, but the contract with the investors is the investment group.
This loss, whether Rivera is willing or not must be borne. If it is just a case, it is not unacceptable, the problem is that there are numerous incidents of thunder and road running.
Whether it is to improve the treatment, or to strengthen the supervision, similar events are still endless. If you can not solve this problem, Rivera’s investment group sooner or later will be dragged down.
Calling the police was a must, but unfortunately it was too hard to find someone these days. As long as they were out of the country, there was nothing the police could do.
Even if the countries of the European Union have signed “extradition regulations”, it is still necessary to find the person first.
Rivera: “Gentlemen, now we have reached the moment of life and death. If we can’t stop similar incidents of running away with money, the investment group will be destroyed by these bastards sooner or later.
Today we are here to solve this trouble. For the sake of the group’s future, and for the sake of our own future, I hope that everyone will not have the slightest reservation, and boldly speak out what’s on their minds ……”
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(End of chapter)