Chapter 274: The Scientist Archives
Chapter 265 The Scientist Archives
In 1855, British engineer Bessemer invented the converter steelmaking method, using machinery instead of manual stirring, greatly improving productivity.
In this era, everyone’s sense of secrecy is not high, and the news quickly spread. Of course trying to keep it secret couldn’t be done, as long as the technology was patented it leaked.
Converter steelmaking method is not what lofty technology, we did not adopt, mainly because of the ideological concept of the problem, not that the mixing of mechanical production technology is how difficult.
After the news was delivered to Vienna, it immediately caused a sensation, which means that the efficiency of steel production will be greatly improved, and the dilemma of the lack of steel on the market will be improved.
Occasionally turned over the newspaper Franz, saw this technology, only to remember that this era of steelmaking technology is still very primitive.
Austria’s largest steel group, with more than 100,000 employees, annual production of steel but more than 500,000 tons.
On this point of production, but also occupied half of the total amount of steel in the new Holy Roman Empire, known as the first steel group on the European continent.
Austria’s steel production is also only after the British, ranked second in the world, the total production capacity has exceeded the French.
This data has been enough to make the Vienna government satisfied, and now the Austrian steel production capacity to more than twenty percent per year growth rate, completely open development.
The main reason for the surge in production capacity, or market demand caused by the steel market is now completely in short supply, not only Austria, the entire European continent are in short supply.
Now the international steel exporters, mainly the British, Belgium is also a steel exporter, the rest of the country does not import steel, even if it is an industrial powerhouse.
Efforts to plant for five years, steel production capacity finally broke through a million tons, which is still built on the premise of the annexation of the South German region, otherwise it can not reach this data.
The Vienna government’s jubilation, Franz did not half surprise. No comparison is no harm, now the British steel production capacity has approached three million three hundred thousand tons, and the European continent’s total is almost the same.
By this time, it needed to be turned on. In terms of steel production capacity, the British and French indigenous resources will determine the upper limit of their steel production capacity.
Even if steel technology continues to make breakthroughs, there is no way to solve these problems. It is not visible in the short term, and at a later stage the lack of resources limits their growth.
Of course, they have colonies to make up for the lack of resources, but the increase in costs, but also caused a decline in profits, which will make the capitalists lose interest in continuing to invest.
Franz asked with concern, “Mr. Algiste, is it feasible to adopt flat furnace steelmaking with our existing technology?”
There was no way, there was too much going on, Franz had forgotten that there was this hang up to be opened on promoting steel technology innovation.
Of course, in this issue he is not even an amateur, flat furnace steelmaking technology Franz remembers “flat furnace steelmaking” four words, the specific content of this is not a professional who knows ah?
Algistair looked at Franz with a dumbfounded face, flat furnace steelmaking is what the hell, is not to put the furnace flat?
This question, Franz can not answer ah! He could only explain stiffly: “It is to improve the efficiency and quality of smelting steel by changing the steelmaking furnace.”
Algiste nodded thoughtfully, still confused, and replied uncertainly, “Your Majesty, this question requires a lot of experimentation to be able to know, why don’t I go and do the experiment first?”
“Good!” Franz replied without hesitation
Obviously, this was not just a conceptual problem, but also a technical problem. At least Franz could be sure that it was definitely not just a matter of placing the steelmaking furnace flat.
Sending off Algiste, Franz decided that in the future, this kind of thing, it’s better not to go blindly hard, when it comes to industrial technology, it’s better to just dig people out.
It is not the Siemens family, with his influence in the German region, still afraid of not digging people?
Franz can proudly say, after so many years of operation, in addition to Prussia’s Junker big nobles can not dig outside, other people basically is the price of high and low.
Junker big nobility is no way, this really can not dig, people are the army owns the country, Franz in any case can not give that treatment.
Of course the ordinary Junker nobility, run over to him to serve a lot of people, after all, the egg is not put in a basket of reasoning, a lot of nobles are aware of.
From the current development, it is clear that the German region is the more potential and the most orthodox existence of the New Holy Roman Empire.
The most important thing is that Franz implements a policy that best protects everyone’s interests, even if the states that have joined the German Federal Empire are likewise browbeating the Vienna government.
Despite the fact that the Paris Conference forcibly split the German region, it didn’t mean that the people of the German region, were really willing to accept it.
On the contrary, because of this intervention of the Great Powers, the idea of the Great Reunification spread more widely. Especially the rebellious middle-aged teenagers turned into firm Greater Germanists.
On top of recruiting talents, the Vienna government already had the advantage. Because of the resources in hand, Franz could also offer a higher price than the other two.
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Franz ordered, “Teren, send someone to check the Siemens family.”
The Intelligence Organization had become more combative after the reorganization over the past few years, and the peripheral intelligence organization formed by the network of aristocratic connections was mainly collecting some basic news.
There were also specially trained intelligence officers in here, using this network of connections to arrange new identities to mix in with the governments of various countries.
These were all long term lurks, and would not be activated until it was absolutely necessary. In the short term, the main focus is still on buying, which is the most effective means.
“Yes, Your Majesty!” Tyrone replied.
After a pause, Franz added, “Why don’t we just set up a scientist archive and collect the information of famous and credible scientists all over the world, especially those in the German region.
Including outstanding young people who have the potential to become scientists, the same can be paid attention to. Anyone we need can be arranged to be scooped up, and in this regard, we can have Count Hohen cooperate in placing them.”
There was no way around it, there were so many scientists in this world, and many of those who were not famous in later generations but made outstanding contributions at the time had the same value of pulling them in.
Can’t fool outsiders, take German nationalism, under the banner of patriotism to fool the scientists in the German region can always, right?
Franz has thought of the slogan: “for the unification of Germany and efforts”, coupled with generous treatment, he did not believe that still can not fool people.
If you really can’t get into it, Franz doesn’t mind moral abduction. From friends and family to start, let them together to do ideological work, the stubborn elements of patriotism education.
As long as these people were fooled in, it made no difference whether they were specifically working for a government research organization, or working for a private enterprise, or running their own industry.
The mid-to-late 19th century was a great eruption of talent in Germany, far surpassing the rest of the world in both quality and quantity.
The Second German Reich was able to become an exploding family, relying on this wave of talent explosion, at the forefront of the Second Industrial Revolution.
Now the new Holy Roman Empire’s underpinnings can be much stronger than the Second German Empire. Whether in terms of resources or in terms of markets, this gap is very wide.
In 1855, the total population of the New Holy Roman Empire alone was as high as 51,286,000 people, with a total territorial area of about 1,026,000 square kilometers, and the total amount of industry was on par with the French.
With this base in place, no country on the European continent could match it, except for the Woolly Bear next door.
The Maohuas are a pervert, with a territory more than twenty times the size of the New Holy Roman Empire, and a population of up to 73 million people, and that’s with the Crimean War to bring credit, either that number or 74 million.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t spell Woolly Bear, Franz is just better than Britain and France. Especially the French, ten years ago in France on more than 35 million people, to now barely 36 million.
This snail-like growth rate, and continues to decline, until the First World War only touched the 40 million barrier, from the second most populous country in Europe fell to fifth place.
In the face of this rivalry, Franz could safely and boldly say: nothing to worry about, let’s take our time!
With each passing year, the contrast in power between the two sides was changing. In less than twenty years, the population of the new Holy Roman Empire would have doubled that of the French, and the gap between the two sides would have been completely widened.
There was no way to run into such a Buddhist opponent that could surpass the past by relying on salty mode. There was absolutely no need to do anything against them, the French themselves would have played themselves off the team.
Napoleon III’s ability to develop the economy is really good, but there is no way to change the status quo of the French population’s low fertility rate, unless the current inheritance law and marriage law are abolished ……
Anyway, in a nutshell the French population is not unwilling to have children, but cannot afford to raise more children. The big cities are littered with abandoned babies, and when they do have children the working class can’t afford to raise them, or don’t have the time to do so.
And the peasants, who are supposed to be the mainstay of population growth, have spontaneously reduced their births in order to ensure their quality of life because of limited land.
(End of chapter)