＜ Steel and Shipyards. (4) >
“Is this the main gun of Vickers? Please sit down.”
New York Ordnance’s conference room.
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Once, Veyron disbanded the existing meeting and announced that it would be reopened tomorrow, and set up a meeting room for us.
Veyron carefully wiped his chin.
“I think both of you probably know, but the navy is currently in a state of being allied with three countries: the US Navy, the British Navy, and the Japanese Navy. It is at the level that we will be together when we design a new battleship or conduct joint naval exercises.”
“What do you want to say?”
“I mean. This means that the U.S. Naval Ordnance and the British Vickers and Whitworth companies are closely related.”
“…!!!”
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I clicked my tongue.
“Then I think Bethlehem Steel, Vickers, and Whitworth are one family.”
“Yes. It is safe to look at it that way.”
Then, we have no choice but to exclude Vickers and Whitworth.
“It’s fortunate that the patents they will get are the main ones.”
“Yes, it’s a patent for the main gun, so it’s enough if the naval ordnance bureaus of each country make it. Patents for guns are not that important.”
The main gun is Nagari.
I’ll try stabbing it, but there’s no hope. I’ll have to do some more research on this one.
But it’s not a big deal.
The remaining three patents were rarer and more essential.
Veyron swallowed a sigh as he looked at the list of remaining companies.
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of a company called Renotype.”
“It’s a company with a board of directors of Sir Kelvin, a prominent scientist in the British Empire.”
“…!!!”
Kelvin.
If you’re used to it, you’re a science student. Because the Kelvin of absolute temperature (K) is correct.
Sir Kelvin was a prominent British scientist who played an important role in formulating the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Veyron looked a little surprised at the appearance of the giant.
“You mean Sir Kelvin? So, is it not a company with proven scientific expertise?”
“That’s right. And I’m thinking of purchasing a fire control system from this company.”
Vickers range clocks, drapery tables, and other fire control systems were essential for narrow-vehicle firing of dreadnought-class battleships.
And Arthur Fallen first built a new gyroscope in 1900, inspired by the low accuracy of naval guns.
It was Sir Kelvin who made a significant contribution to this study.
Renotype.
It was a technology company with Arthur Fallen serving as Managing Director and Sir Kelvin serving as a member of the Board of Directors.
“They said they were working on a fire control system. I plan to get them by subsidizing research and obtaining patents, and then pay their fees or something.”
“Lord Kelvin is very likely.”
You lied to Veyron.
It is a patent that does not exist in the world yet. The year 1900 hasn’t come yet. But you never know what the world will be like. Since I came to this age and touched a lot, the butterfly effect cannot be ignored.
Maybe it’s already been made.
“If that doesn’t work, there is another way to buy a renotype company with a patent.”
“That would be the cleanest.”
“Well, yes.”
In fact, the fire control system was a technology with many detours enough to create Vickers and Dlayers in the future, so it is not a very important technology.
Well, first of all, all the detours I know of are entrusted to Sir Kelvin and registered as a patent.
“Sir, I understand that Parsons Steam Turbine is currently in under-the-hood negotiations with Vickers.”
“Oh, you can just snatch this place.”
Parsons steam turbines have not yet been tested.
Moreover, Vickers did not acquire Parsons, but rather introduced the Parsons steam turbine to a warship as a pilot to try and operate it once.
HMS Cobra.
HMS Viper.
Even the destroyers built at that time had both sank within a year, so I said it all. Since then, the Royal Navy will never again name warships with snakes.
“Then Krupp’s patents for nickel steel gloves and cement gloves remain.”
Veyron frowned as if in trouble.
Apparently, there are a lot of direct exchanges with DWM’s Berlin headquarters, and for Veyron, who is of German descent, the fastest field is probably the German defense business.
Then he frowned.
“Krupp is a heavy industry and defense company favored by Wilhelm II. Together with Thyssen, they are the two major mountain ranges of German industry.”
Krupp and Thyssen can be regarded as the 19th century version of the military-industrial complex. It was because they were so inseparable that they could form a unity with the military of the German Empire.
Moreover, the Germania shipyard, which Krupp acquired in 1896, is a famous submarine of the German Empire.
The birthplace of U-Boat.
It was the first shipyard to complete a fully functional German submarine.
But so it’s easier.
“Friedrich Alfred Krupp. He became a member of the Imperial Council at the request of Emperor Wilhelm. Am I right?”
“Yes, I heard that in the process, the Social Democrats were driven out of Essen City and turned into a garden for the emperor-supported party.”
“That’s right. And he is the target of the conservatives that the Social Democrats and progressives are currently targeting.”
It is not something to be taken lightly.
In fact, he died suddenly 15 years after he became president because he was accused of homos*xuality due to a press operation by the Social Democratic Party, which was suppressing him in 1902.
The cause of death is unknown.
There were even rumors that he had committed suicide.
At the time, he had only a 16-year-old girl to have an heir, so Krupp is shaken when he gets in trouble.
“By the way, didn’t it say that Eduard Bernstein, the leader of the German Social Democrats (SPD), is in exile in the British Empire? Let’s support the Social Democrats and shake up Krupp.”
It will take some time though.
After all, it was enough to get a patent until the Newport News Shipyard built the first dreadnought.
It should be obtained within at least 4 months.
“And I just thought of a way to get Whitworth and Vickers in.”
f*ck.
I remembered part of a message left to me by the Rothschild Director.
– Our Rothschilds would also like to join this edition designed by the Detroit Director. If you are interested in doing business with us, please write to our Rothschild London headquarters. I’ll run right away. Downing Street wasn’t very welcoming.
So give me a reason.
Some financial monster, not satisfied with Downing Street messenger, needed me.
“Well? Detroit Why did you come here?”
rattle-
As the door to the conference room opened, hedge-fund hitter No. 1 Benjamin Holt walked in, shaking. He had a huge hammer in his hand, which was quite bloody.
I managed to keep a laugh.
“Mr. Holt, how about the armored compartment that I have prepared for you? It took me quite a while to get it.”
“Hey. Even if your mouth is crooked, you have to speak right away. You just opened an office, are you already territorial? That’s why Wall Street wolves.”
“…..haha.”
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Oh right.
I got it from Roosevelt today.
It had been a long day and I had forgotten about it.
“I was just on my way back to the office with engineering equipment. Oh, and I have some good news.”
“Is that good news?”
I tilted my head at Benjamin Hoult’s words.
“Uh, as you said, I’ve been roaming the British Empire and the German Empire to study caterpillars, and there are some pretty good patents? So I swept it up and researched it.”
“…..no way.”
f*ck.
Benjamin Holt triumphantly carried the hammer on his shoulder.
“okay. it’s done The caterpillar we’ve been longing for is finally here.”
“…!!!”
I felt goosebumps rising up the back of my neck.
The predecessor of the tank to appear in the second half of World War I. A core component of the Holt Tractor. And the bridge of the iron horse that will break through the trench line.
The caterpillar (caterpillar) was completed.
But Benjamin Hoult immediately frowned.
“But this child, it’s a transit. Did you hear that the diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel made is heavy oil?”
“ah.”
“You’ve been humiliated!”
“haha…..”
I brushed the back of my head shyly.
take a look at that I am not a science
It’s called literacy.
…I’m really sorry.
***
squeak- squeak-
British Empire.
Newcastle upon Tyne.
Tyne Port.
In the port towns of the British Empire, stone buildings were lined up along the sidewalk blocks.
aa-!
symbol of the industrial revolution.
A steam locomotive was running towards the platform on the railroad of the huge stone bridge placed overhead. As I breathed the pungent smoke, I could feel the realization of coming to England at the end of the 19th century.
“The British Empire is long gone.”
James looked around him with eyes as sultry as mine. The buildings of the British Empire were more archaic than the buildings of the United States covered with neoclassicism.
But it wasn’t our destination.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to appreciate the city center.”
“yes. young master. We will direct you to the Parsons Company.”
hey-
James grabbed a black wagon.
He sat down carefully so that his black suit did not wrinkle. When the coachman asked James where he was going, he answered towards the River Tyne.
Instant Tyne? I wanted to, but I got it right away.
‘Actually, considering the huge size of the steam turbine and the loud noise, it would be nice to have a place a little far from the city center.’
I leaned against the carriage without horses.
The coachman slapped the horse with a whip, and so we rode our wagon through the city center to the industrial warehouse on the Tyne River in Newcastle.
Parsons Offshore Steam Turbine Company (PMSTC).
As we got off the wagon, a sign for Parsons was posted above the huge warehouse on the River Tyne.
Druck-
At that moment, the warehouse door opened and an elderly gentleman in a suit walked out.
I heard that he was a tough guy enough to break into Queen Victoria’s bureaucracy for marketing purposes, but it was an impression as rumored.
“Who is the Detroit Director?”
“That’s me.”
“Ah, nice to meet you. I am Parsons. Let’s go inside and talk first.”
We followed his guidance into the warehouse.
shoot-
The river rippled inside.
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On the other side of the warehouse, the shutters were open, so you could see the river Tyne through it.
A boat was floating.
Wow-
“That famous…”
“Yes, that’s the ship that broke into Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s burial ceremony.”
A whopping 34 knots ship.
The legendary anecdote that Parsons could not catch the frigate even though he was digging through the frigate ceremony because the fastest ship of the British Empire at that time was 27 knots.
The protagonist was right in front of him.
“I don’t know much about the Detroit director, but he said he was the owner of Federal Steel and the Newport News shipyard, so I accepted this negotiation. If it doesn’t work in the British market, you have to get a license and sell it in the US market. It is a kind of insurance.”
Well, of course.
The risk was too great to rely on the British Empire’s market alone. Because the origin of the capitalist monster was the British Empire. Moreover, it is natural that Parsons is burdened by the majesty of the Royal Navy.
“That’s why Vickers also pressured me to cancel the meeting with the Detroit director. Otherwise, the order may be canceled.”
Parsons’ eyes lit up.
At the same time, I was also nervous. Parsons’ steam engine was one of the core patents.
“So…how did you do it?”
“I told you to watch Vickers and f*ck it. If you are dragged around from the beginning of the contract, you can’t even find the original. In the first place, I was taken aback by their attitude towards our Parsons, so it worked out.”
Vickers or something?
I was reassured by Parsons’ stern tone, as if saying: At least there was no breath of Vickers.
But his self-esteem was very high.
‘Also……’
Before arriving in New York, I searched everywhere for what he needed to get Parsons’ patent.
And I found out he was a proud genius.
I also have a knack for dealing with geniuses.
“I came to take over Parsons.”
“……What? You say the same thing as Vickers. How dare a Wall Street businessman know that he will sell Parsons pride!!!”
Parsons’ eyes lit up.
Self esteem…..
In fact, it’s not that hard to deal with geniuses.
And while I was working on Wall Street in the 21st century, and watching the Silicon Valley ecosystem, I realized a few things.
it’s a weapon
I realized that pride was the simplest and most powerful weapon that could break the fortress.
“It’s not even worth half a penny!!! This steam turbine is a masterpiece of my life that I made with flesh and blood!!! You’re just going to devour this patent? That’s why entrepreneurs are!!!”
bang-!
Parsons slammed his desk and began to vomit out anger. It jumped up and down, poking it in the air, even with a stinger.
“Are you going to insult me with a piece of paper money?!”
click-
I simply opened the black briefcase without a word.
“Ugh!”
shoot-
As golden light poured from the briefcase, Parsons covered the dazzling light with his hand.
Parsons, barely waking up, was speechless at the pile of gold piled up like a mountain in his briefcase.
f*ck.
California’s many highly educated technologists are so proud of their groundbreaking ideas. And there are two ways accelerators (investors) can bring them down.
if not useful.
Inflicts rustic murder with harsh reality.
But if it’s useful…
dollar
Either way, it’s going to cost you a lot of dollars.
Dollars of this age?
that’s gold
“……”
“Of course, at a fair price for great technology. We highly value Parsons. Unfortunately, I thought the best way to show this respect was in kind.”
A moment of silence passed.
Parsons silently looked down at the briefcase, and sat quietly in his seat.
“How do you feel? I’ve got some in this briefcase, but I’ll exchange it for dollars or pounds if you want.”
“How much is the total?”
“Ten million dollars, old man.”
“A thousand…! haha.”
Parsons, who became a mountain god of the Tyne River in an instant, swept away his beard with his hands in vain.
There’s only one reason why Vickers failed to win Parsons’ heart.
When there is something in the world that cannot be solved with money, you should reconsider.
Did you really have enough money?
“It’s good that it’s in-kind. There is sincerity.”
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