Chapter 812： auto industry

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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 does not border. Even if there is a contradiction, it is also a problem left over by history. The interests of the two countries are not in conflict.

In contrast, the conflict between Britain and France is not just 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. This year, the contradiction between Britain and France is still the main international contradiction, and even the contradiction between France and Austria must stand side by side.

In addition to the threats 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 been pulling out the Russians for a long time, and would never wait until now.

In the face of interests, any ally is unreliable. As long as the French offer 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 difficult for the French government to smash the pot and sell the 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, research and development of submarines, small ships, not only the high-level brains of the French navy have entered the water, but more importantly, military spending is not enough.

No money, what a big navy to play with?

It takes tens of millions of francs for the cost of a battleship to build a ship. Adding a series of problems such as follow-up maintenance costs and port construction, it is not surprising that the amortized cost exceeds 100 million.

While maintaining the Continental Army, dozens more battleships came out, the government's money was spent, and private financing was also spent. Where else is there money to win over 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, "taking people's hands is short and eating people's mouths are soft." There must be no problem in relaxing the relationship between France and Russia.

If the bid is a little higher, the political tactics will be a bit 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 not so good, more than once to take money and do nothing, 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 owned by the Austrian Automobile Group. It is a status symbol and designed for local tyrants.

Purely hand-made, high-end artworks are 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 does not need to 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 also has unmatched stability and super safety protection facilities, including special steel throughout the surgery and epoch-making bulletproof glass ...

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, and if it is thrown under the tire, it is still lethal.

In a sense, this gadget can be used as an assault tank after being modified.

However, 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 90 horsepower. 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, 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 the average car in the world, you know that a car that can reach 40 kilometers per hour is a high-quality conscience product.

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 a stronger endurance.

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

However, the failure rate of cars is surprisingly high. At the beginning of last year's sales, on average, every 200 kilometers or 100 kilometers at a time required overhaul.

Let's put it this way, in the 19th century, people who could drive cars not only had money in their pockets, they also had to learn to repair cars, or they could only hire drivers.

In order to better sell cars, the Austrian Automobile Group is now setting up a maintenance and rescue point every 20 kilometers to relieve everyone's worries, which has laid the foundation for the vigorous development of the Austrian automotive 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 and a penny, the excellent performance of the 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 fearless 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 does n’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 it for 70 to 80 million, then I ’m sorry for everyone ’s hard work.

After all, this is not only a product sold, the product is only worth 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, there are enough templates and you can conduct experiments 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.

Unable to apply these technologies to industrial production to create wealth, then 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 is to be sold, it has to wait for a dozen or twenty years. These technologies are almost widely used and do not need to be kept secret.

It's just that when the time comes, the value of the Royal One has plummeted. Perhaps only a few thousand Aegis, or even a few thousand Aegis can be produced by then.

When Royal One has only the collection value left, then 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 cultural relics. Even ordinary bottles, jars, and pots, as long as they were used by the emperor, with the word "court" in them, instantly became valuable.

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 eighty kilometers per hour, he walked around the palace and Franz got out of the car decisively.

No way, I haven't made such a fast car in 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.

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