Chapter 69 A fruitful return journey

December 29, 1900, Hamburg, Germany.

The plan to acquire Mercedes-Benz was very successful, and the move to relocate the entire Mercedes-Benz company and research laboratories was also very smooth.

Because of William II's approval, no one could block the acquisition and relocation. Arthur only paid two million pounds to complete the entire acquisition and aftermath.

As the largest automobile factory in Germany, Mercedes-Benz owns a car factory and a research laboratory, as well as an iron foundry company and a machinery factory established to research and manufacture engines.

Together, these factories and companies have a total of more than 500 employees. Only more than a hundred of them are willing to go to Australia, and this is even under the condition that Arthur hires them with a high salary.

The fact that more than a hundred people are willing to take their families to Australia to continue working is considered good news for Arthur.

Therefore, after three days of preparation, these employees and their families successfully arrived in Hamburg and will take a transport ship to live in Australia.

Traveling with them were employees from a company called Diesel Engine Laboratory and Engine Factory.

Yes, Arthur's target is not just Benz. In the field of engines that are closely related to automobiles, there is a talent whose name is not inferior to that of Benz. He is known as the "Father of the Diesel Engine", and that is Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

Rudolf Diesel is an irreplaceable genius and founder of the engine industry, especially the diesel engine industry, and is known as the father of the diesel engine.

Even the German word diesel comes from the name of Rudolf Diesel.

Like Benz, Diesel's diesel engine invention has already achieved certain results. The diesel-powered compression ignition engine he invented not only has high power and low fuel consumption, but can also use low-quality fuel, and has brilliant development prospects.

If Benz is a half-entrepreneur and half-inventor with no outstanding business ability, then Diesel is a pure inventor who does not even have any brains in business. Although he invented an excellent diesel engine and made himself a millionaire net worth.

But after repeated wrong choices and failed stock investments, Diesel's engine factory's financial situation became worse and worse.

After the two ministers, Andrew and Pierre, successfully signed an acquisition treaty with Benz and negotiated a detailed relocation plan, they immediately went to Munich non-stop to find this engine talent.

Rudolf Diesel was a German who was educated in Paris during his childhood. Because the German Empire, which was still Prussia at the time, was at odds with France, Diesel's family had to flee to London.

After graduating, Diesel moved to Switzerland and Paris, and finally started to set up his own engine research laboratory in Paris.

The reason why he is currently staying in Munich is because Diesel suffers from severe neurasthenia and is recuperating in a nearby sanatorium.

Because of the diesel engine it invented, Diesel is still well-known. After some inquiring, the two ministers learned about Diesel's nursing home.

Essentially, Benz and Diesel are the same type of people. They are both absolute geniuses in their own industries, and they are not very proficient in business.

What they pursue more is research results and progress, rather than funding and material enjoyment.

After hearing that Duke Arthur of Australia wanted to acquire its engine laboratory and factory, the first question Diesel asked was not how much acquisition funds there would be, but how much future research and development funds would be available.

Arthur is not stingy with such talents, not to mention that the funds spent will be used to study such a legitimate path.

Arthur's research funding for both Benz and Diesel was generous, with both men receiving a share of £1 million in research funding each year and having the discretion to apply for more.

The result was as expected. Diesel decisively agreed to the acquisition. The only requirement was that his research funds must be guaranteed every year, and all his assistants in the research laboratory must be brought with him.

In this way, two famous talents in the automotive and engine industries were successfully tied to Australia's tanks, and the price Arthur paid was only a few million pounds.

Like Mercedes-Benz, Arthur also reserved 10% of the shares of the engine factory for Diesel and continued to hand over the management of the laboratory to Diesel.

As for the management of the engine factory, it was not that Arthur was unwilling to hand it over to Diesel. It is true that Diesel's business management skills are too poor, and he also needs to devote more energy to engine research.

After everything was fully prepared, Arthur boarded the warship with hundreds of workers and the two talents he had poached, as well as the diplomatic delegation and guards he brought with him, and embarked on the journey back to Australia. .

On the warship, Diesel and Benz also met the master behind the acquisition of their factory, Arthur.

Under the slightly respectful and panicked eyes of the two talents, Arthur generously promised to prepare two villas for them in Sydney and arrange the nationality of their family members.

Yes, Arthur also asked them to become Australian citizens and become a true Australian.

The two of them were a little unhappy at first, but after Arthur's persuasion to consider the future, they still nodded and agreed.

Seeing that the two were willing to become Australian citizens, Arthur nodded with satisfaction.

In this way, these two outstanding talents have successfully become Australians, and they will also bring huge changes to Australia's industrial development.

It takes about more than a month to reach Sydney from Hamburg, which also determines that this journey is extremely boring and boring.

Perhaps because geniuses attract each other, Benz and Diesel became close friends in more than a month, spending all day in the same room studying engine principles and improvements, and how to apply them to cars more rationally.

Arthur was happy to see that. After all, these two are talents with great achievements in their own industries. The exchange between them may have a more profound impact on their achievements, and even be enough to change the development of Australia.

There is also good news, because the discussion between the two during this period led to some new discoveries and ideas.

Diesel and Benz asked Arthur more than once, hoping to speed up the fleet's progress so that they could arrive in Australia as soon as possible to build a laboratory and engage in research.

Arthur couldn't laugh or cry about this, and could only order the fleet to speed up as much as possible. At the same time, he promised Diesel and Benz that he would find a place for them to build a research laboratory as soon as they arrived in Australia, and at the same time invest funds as soon as possible for them to develop. .

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