MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 53 The magical industrial age of the 19th century

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, the War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

From the perspective of profit alone, heavy industry cannot be compared with light industry at all. Take clothing and cosmetics as examples of daily necessities. It is not a joke for manufacturers to earn exaggerated profits tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.

But suppose we completely remove the value and role of heavy industry from the process of industrializing a country, what is left?

In a word, industrialization without heavy industry is like a castle built on the beach, with gold and jade on the outside, but rotten inside, it can be said that it will collapse at the touch of a finger.

Since the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, Americans have engaged in decades of deindustrialization, and in the end they can only divert the attention of the people by looking for and exaggerating the so-called external threat theory, and redeem their wealth by plundering more frantically. decline.

The role of heavy industry is that it can convert industrial raw materials into semi-finished products through processing, and then provide them to light industry factories.

In addition, the former can also produce various parts and hardware equipment through mechanical manufacturing to deliver supplies to the supply chain.

In general, only when a country has truly established a relatively complete heavy industry system can it complete the first step of not being stuck.

The outbreak of the first Austrian-Vietnamese War meant that Austria's feet entered the door of industrialization.

Over the years, along with the continuous deepening of the railway construction and industrial development boom, a large number of steel mills have grown up in the empire like the sleeping land recovering after the spring rain, and the steel production is also rising steadily.

But for the ever-expanding demand gap, this scale is still a drop in the bucket. Facing the snowflake-like letters from factory owners, businessmen, and capitalists, the senior officials of the imperial government had to consider starting from Countries such as Luxembourg and Prussia import steel to fill the shortfall at home.

The amount of capital required for the development of heavy industry has always been large, and the long return period and slow effect are also an extreme test of the patience of the ruler.

This is why most of the countries that first started to industrialize in Europe relied on colonial plunder to accumulate their first pot of gold, the most typical of which were Britain and France.

Of course, countries that cannot take the path of external colonial expansion have to rely on squeezing internal resources to obtain valuable funds, such as the bears of later generations.

However, with the development of industrialization and the increasing demand for capital, the modern financial industry was born and extended to help heavy industry financing, such as Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States.

Historically, the US government and its local consortia have frantically raised funds from Europe several times, and have repeatedly insisted that their potential is much higher than that of Belgium.

Then they invested in some projects, and the remaining resources were invested in real estate.

When a series of economic crises broke out afterwards, these projects went bankrupt in turn. At this time, European capital tried to withdraw from North America, but in order to pass on the economic crisis, the cunning Americans adopted various means to limit and refuse capital outflows, and then even brought the British out together. Into the trap.

Unwilling to be lonely, the British will certainly not sit back and watch their own suffering while other countries watch this happen. As a result, almost the whole of Europe has been dragged into the water by coincidence, and has become a victim of economic crises of varying degrees. This is the tip of the iceberg of the economic crisis mentioned in the previous book, so I won’t repeat it here.

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But in any case, the ultimate beneficiary is the United States, and these capitals did fall into their hands in the end, and our protagonist Franz just took the opportunity to get a piece of the pie because he knew this past event.

Anyway, Europe was caught in excess capital at that time, and this leek was not cut in vain. And this account will not be counted on the Austrians, after all, the Americans directly introduced the bill to forcefully keep the pockets of those Europeans.

Besides, no one has ever retaliated against them in history, not even a symbolic sanction has been issued, so Franz can take advantage of it with peace of mind.

There is a fourth way, which is to slowly promote the development of industrialization through the country's own market, such as Prussia and Austria.

However, the future Prussians successfully counterattacked after receiving the help of the British. Even though they later received huge war reparations from the French, they still did not change their inherent shortcomings of being lame.

Compared with this northern neighbor, the industrialization path of the Austrians is much more miserable. Because it has not received the help of foreign capital and domestic capital is still frantically flowing to France and Prussia, its industrialization progress is extremely slow.

And in this life, due to the birth of Franz, a man born from heaven, Austria has obtained some overseas colonies to help it expand the scope of its trade circle, but it is a bit wishful thinking to expect a few regions in this area to complete the industrialization of a big country up.

In addition, due to the toss of my own butterfly, it can be said that foreign capital has basically missed Austria. Neither John Bull nor the Gallic Rooster wanted a central European empire to recover and become powerful.

Countries that are still in the process of industrialization, such as Prussia and Belgium, have no spare power to help. As for the huge Mao Xiong in the east, he really wanted to lend money to this important ally of one of the three northern courts, but he really had more than he could do.

Now, both domestic and external markets can be said to have expanded to the limit. If you want to expand further, you can only rely on war or colonial means.

But for Franz, who has always been prepared, sitting on the two major markets of Germany and Apennines is where Austria's confidence lies.

However, in addition to the four roads that have appeared in history, as a traveler, you can also choose the fifth road, which is technological innovation.

"Technology is the primary productive force." Franz firmly believes in this.

The current mainstream steelmaking method in Europe is still the crucible method invented in the 18th century. This method is to cut the carburized iron material into small pieces and place it in a closed clay crucible, and heat it outside the crucible. The iron material continues to absorb carbon in the graphite and melts into high-carbon molten steel, which is cast into small ingots and then forged into the desired shape. desired shape.

This is the first method of producing liquid steel in European history, but the disadvantage is that the content is small and the cost is quite high.

In addition, there is also the bubble steel method; that is, put a good iron rod in a furnace and heat it with charcoal for ten days to increase the carbon content. After reaching a certain hardness, bubbles appear on the surface, which is called "bubble steel". And if you want to improve toughness and strength, you have to work **** heating and beating. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Although at that time there had already been the "soaked steel" method of carburizing wrought iron and the "cast steel" method of crucible steelmaking, but the production of "soaked steel" had to go through a 10-day carburizing process, and the primary output of "cast steel" But tens of kilograms.

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Moreover, these two methods all have the defects of high cost, unstable quality, low efficiency and limited output. And a large amount of scrap steel flowed into the market, and then was made into low-quality steel cannons. It seriously hindered the development of military technology at that time. After all, every test of a gun may become the last time in life.

At this time, the output of steel was less than one-fortieth of that of iron, and the price was very different. At that time, the price of steel was around 60 pounds per ton, while the price of pig iron was only 3 pounds, and the price of wrought iron was only 9 pounds.

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At that time, in order to cope with the shortage of steel production, the Europeans invented a third steelmaking method, which was the mixing method.

This method has even been praised by great teachers, calling it a great progress in human history, but this is just the old road that the East has traveled for two thousand years. The stirring method is just an upgraded version of the steel frying method in the Han Dynasty, and it does not fundamentally improve the efficiency of steelmaking.

In the magical era of the nineteenth century, only you can't imagine, there is nothing this group of people can't do. The miraculous steelmaking method that has spanned thousands of years has once again become the mainstream of society. People can't help but sigh the wisdom of the ancients and feel sorry for the people at that time.