Holy Roman Empire

The small movements of the French did not exceed Franz's expectations.As Austria continues to grow, the French will feel threatened sooner or later.

Continental Europe is not qualified to practice Lanxi allies. The French government is naturally more inclined to attract Russians than to attract British people.

This is determined by the geographical location. The sphere of influence of France and Russia is not bordered. Even if there is a contradiction, it is also a problem left over by history.

In contrast, the conflict between Britain and France is not only a legacy of history, but also a large number of direct conflicts of interest.

From the colony to the homeland, there are serious strategic conflicts between Britain and France.The contradiction between Britain and France is still the main international contradiction this year, and even the contradiction between France and Austria must stand on the sidelines.

In addition to the threat felt by the French government, the French people were immersed in the glory of the Napoleonic era, and they did not take the defeat of Austria as a thing at all.

The general environment will also affect people. Otherwise, the French government would have already pulled out the Russians, and would never wait until now.

In the face of interests, any ally is unreliable.As long as the French bid high enough, France and Russia are inevitable.

It was just that he had not experienced the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, and it was too embarrassing for Napoleon IV to let the French government smash the pot and sell iron to win over the Russians.

To know the original time and space, the French-Russian alliance was drawn by large loans.As a cost, the French navy dropped directly and was surpassed by Germany and the United States in the early 20th century.

The so-called deviation of the navy, the development of submarines and small ships, is not only the head of the French navy has entered the water, but the key is that the military is not enough.

No money, what a big navy to play with?

It costs tens of millions of francs for a battleship to build a ship. It is not surprising that a series of problems such as follow-up maintenance costs and port construction have been added.

While maintaining the Continental Army, dozens of more battleships came out, the government's money was spent, and private financing was also spent. Where can there be money to attract the Russians?

Although the Russian Empire of this year has no history of the same period, and the pockets are much dwarfed, but the size is bigger than the original time and space!

Alexander III was not as good as Nicholas II, if the French did not bid high enough, they would not be tempted.

Of course, co-opting will definitely have an effect. After all, "take people's hands short, and people's mouths are soft". There is certainly no problem in easing the relationship between France and Russia.

If the bid is a little higher, the political means will be a little stronger, and it is still possible to find a suitable entry point and split the Russian-Austrian alliance.

If you want the Tsarist government to kill the French, this is not a bit of interest.

Think of the Russians as mercenaries of this era, and that is also the most valuable mercenary.

But the credibility of this sky-high mercenary is still not good, more than once do not take money to do things, how can employers be assured?

Since it is temporarily safe, Franz is not in a hurry.At this moment, he is trying out his car-Royal One.

It's not a battleship, it's not suitable for emperors with seasickness.Royal One is a luxury car of the Austrian Automobile Group. It is a status symbol and designed for local tyrants.

Purely hand-made, high-end art, is not comparable to the big goods on the workshop assembly line.

Of course, "car artwork" is not popular this year, and the family car itself is a super luxury, not what ordinary people can expect.

The real competitiveness of Royal One is still in its excellent performance.Hesitant that this is for the emperor, so the cost need not be considered.

The technologies and techniques used are the limits that this era can reach.

4-cylinder engine, 90 hp, top speed 120 km / h.After filling a tank of fuel, it can travel at full speed for 3.5 hours.

In addition to its super speed, the Royal One has unparalleled stability and super safety protection facilities, including special steel and epoch-making bulletproof glass throughout the surgery ...

Franz personally experimented that it is not a problem for the bulletproof glass to block the rifle, and the protection of the car body can resist the grenade.

Of course, this is limited to being thrown outside to explode, which can block the shrapnel. If it is thrown under the tire, it will still be lethal.

In a sense, this gadget can be used on assault tanks after being modified.

But after seeing the cost of terror, Franz decisively gave up this tempting idea, and the tank force was still far away.

There is no way, these high-tech equipment are mostly limited to laboratory products, let alone the high cost of industrial production, the key is that the defective rate is scary and scary.

Take the engine as an example. Of the 100 engines produced in the same batch, only two have a horsepower of 90. Most of the rest are between 80 and 90 horsepower, and some have fallen below 70 horsepower.

This thing is almost the same as the cottage in the future, and the performance depends on luck.It ’s not even as good as a copycat machine, at least people ’s defective rate cannot reach 98%.

The rate of defective products in small-scale production is so high, not to mention the large-scale industrial production, and the data is even more terrible.

If you look at ordinary cars on the world, you know that cars that can reach 40 kilometers per hour are high-quality products of conscience.

The speed of most cars is only theoretically achievable, or it can reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour in the first two years, and in the later period there are only 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.

If you are in a hurry, you may not necessarily have a horse running fast.The only advantage is probably the longer battery life.

If it ’s just slower, it ’s nothing. After all, it ’s faster than a horse-drawn carriage, and it ’s more convenient to travel a short distance than a train.

However, the failure rate of cars is surprisingly high.When it first started selling in the last century, it needed to be repaired every 200 kilometers or an average of 100 kilometers at a time.

Let me put it this way, not only can you drive a car in the 19th century, you must not only have money in your pocket, but you must learn to repair the car, or you can only hire a driver.

In order to better sell cars, the Austrian Automobile Group now sets up a maintenance and rescue point every 20 kilometers, which relieves everyone's worries. This has laid the foundation for the vigorous development of the Austrian automobile industry.

There is no doubt that these messy things will not happen to Royal One.

If something goes wrong when running for 180 kilometers, the following people would not dare to send it to the emperor. In case of any accident, it would be fatal.

For a penny, a penny, the excellent performance of Royal One is also smashed out of money. The total cost is close to a million Aegis, which has already caught up with the construction cost of the former Dreadnought Battleship.

This epoch-making product is still very collectible.That's right, it's collection.Franz is a dead mansion and rarely goes out.

There are special trains to go far, and the Austrian railway covers every city, which is convenient enough; when you go out to hunt closer, it is also horseback riding, and no car travel is required.

If a local tyrant pays, Franz really doesn't mind selling this sky-high car.However, this is impossible.

The manufacturing cost alone is as high as 600,000 Aegis. The most important thing is to use a lot of new technologies, which is the highest manifestation of Austrian industrial standards. If you do n’t sell 70 or 80 million, then I ’m sorry for everyone ’s hard work.

After all, this is not just a product that is sold. The product is worth only a few hundred thousand Aegis. The real value is the new technology used in the car.

Taking this car apart and using it as a research and development template to reverse these technologies can be much faster than its own research and development.

There is no doubt that this is impossible.Not to mention how much technology there is, it is highly confidential and cannot be sold to the outside world. Just look at this price and you ca n’t find a buyer.

Although the technology is good, not everyone can eat it.Including the powerful Anglo-French consortium, no one's technical system has been perfected to this point and can digest all the technologies in it.

Limited by R & D capabilities or different industrial systems, many technologies are essentially not a template and can be reversed and restored.

Of course, the number of templates is sufficient, and experiments can be carried out many times, which can basically be pushed back.

Deduced technology does not mean that it has the ability to produce industrially.This will also test the industrial level of a country, the product that transcends the times, and it is definitely not so easy to imitate.

It is impossible to apply these technologies to industrial production to create wealth, so buying this car is buying a super luxury product.

It's really extravagant. Seventy or eighty million Aegis equivalent to gold means more than two hundred tons.

Such local tyrants can only exist after the collapse of the gold standard, which is impossible in the era of the gold standard.

Then, there is no more.The super luxury car that promoted the Austrian automobile industry a big step forward-Royal One, in the end, only the emperor can be kept as a collection.

Even if it were to be sold, it would have to wait for more than a decade or two. These technologies are almost widely used and do not need to be kept secret.

It was only when the price of Royal One fell sharply.Perhaps only a few thousand Aegis, or even a few thousand Aegis, can be produced by then.

When only the collection value of Royal One is left, it is only worth it in the hands of the emperor. If it falls into the hands of ordinary people, its value will fall directly.

This is similar to antique relics. Even ordinary bottles, jars, and pots, as long as they were used by the emperor, with the word "court" in their pockets, their value immediately rose.

Without artistic value, experts can find out the artistic value; it is not feasible, and it can also be associated with historical value.

At a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, Franz walked around in the palace and departed decisively.

No way, I haven't done such a fast car for a long time, and Franz found that he had signs of motion sickness.

Theoretically, the driver will not suffer from motion sickness, but unfortunately no one dares to let the emperor sit in the cab and act as the driver himself.