Chapter 69 A Fruitful Return

December 29, 1900, Hamburg, Germany.

The plan to acquire Mercedes-Benz was very successful, and the relocation of the entire Mercedes-Benz company and the research room was also very smooth.

Because of the approval of William II, this acquisition and relocation action was not blocked by anyone. Arthur only paid two million pounds to complete the entire acquisition and aftermath.

As the largest automobile factory in Germany, Mercedes-Benz has a total of one automobile factory and one research room, as well as an iron casting company and a machinery factory established for the research and manufacture of engines.

These factories and companies add up to a total of about 500 employees. Among them, only more than 100 are willing to go to Australia, and this is still under the condition of Arthur's high salary.

It is good news for Arthur that more than 100 people are willing to go to Australia with their families to continue working.

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.

They are accompanied by employees of a company called Diesel Engine Laboratory and Engine Factory.

That's right, Arthur's target is not just Benz. In the field of engines closely related to automobiles, there is a talent who is as famous as Benz, and is known as the "Father of Diesel Engines". That is Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

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

Even the German word diesel comes from Rudolf Diesel's name.

Like Benz, Diesel's diesel engine invention has achieved certain results. The diesel-powered compression ignition engine he invented is not only powerful and has low fuel consumption, but can also use inferior fuel and has a brilliant development prospect.

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.

But after repeated wrong choices and stock investment failures, the financial situation of Diesel's engine factory has become worse and worse.

After successfully signing the acquisition agreement with Benz and discussing the detailed relocation plan, the two ministers of Andrew and Pierre immediately went to Munich to find this talent in the engine field.

Rudolf Diesel was a German who was educated in Paris in 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 graduation, Diesel went to Switzerland and Paris successively, and finally set up his own engine research laboratory in Paris.

The reason for staying in Munich at present is that Diesel suffered from severe neurasthenia and was recuperating in a nearby sanatorium.

Because of the diesel engine he invented, Diesel is still very well-known. The two ministers asked around and found out about Diesel's sanatorium residence.

In essence, Benz and Diesel are the same kind of people. They are both absolute gods in their own industries and are not very proficient in business.

They pursue more achievements and progress in research rather than financial and material enjoyment.

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

Arthur was not stingy with such talents, not to mention that the money spent would be used for research on such a legitimate path.

Arthur was very generous with the research funds given to Benz and Diesel. Both of them had a research fund share of one million pounds each year, and could apply for more at their discretion.

As expected, Diesel decisively agreed to the acquisition, with the only requirement being that his research funds must be guaranteed every year, and that all his assistants in the laboratory must be brought along.

In this way, two famous talents in the automobile and engine industries of later generations were tied to the Australian chariot so smoothly, 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 give the management rights of the laboratory to Diesel.

As for the management rights of the engine factory, it was not that Arthur was unwilling to give it to Diesel. It was really that Diesel's business management ability was too poor, and he also needed more energy to devote to engine research.

After everything was fully prepared, Arthur boarded the warship with hundreds of workers and two talents he had recruited, 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 Arthur, the master behind the acquisition of their factory.

In the slightly respectful and flustered eyes of the two talents, Arthur generously promised to prepare two villas for them in Sydney and arrange the nationality of their families.

That's right, Arthur also asked them to join the Australian nationality and become a real Australian.

The two were a little reluctant at first, but under Arthur's persuasion considering the future, they nodded and agreed.

Seeing that the two were willing to join the Australian nationality, Arthur nodded with satisfaction.

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

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

Perhaps because geniuses attract each other, Benz and Diesel became close friends in this month, staying in a room all day to study the principles and improvements of engines, and how to use them in cars more reasonably.

Arthur was very happy to see this. After all, these two are talents with great achievements in their own industries. The communication 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 has led to some new discoveries and ideas.

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

Arthur was amused and could only order the fleet to speed up as much as possible, and at the same time promised Diesel and Benz that he would find a place for them to build a laboratory as soon as they arrived in Australia, and at the same time invest funds as soon as possible to allow them to develop.

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