MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 81 road block and long

"Grand Duke Franz, I have some sad news for you. The Brazilians couldn't deliver the rubber you ordered on time. The situation of the civil war was very unfavorable to them. The rebels occupied some of the rubber producing areas and even felled the rubber trees. fuel usage.

But we also have a growing rubber gap. The production of civilian rubber tires had to be stopped, and materials were concentrated to fulfill orders delivered by the army. "

Adjani is very worried about this, because a rubber crisis breaks out in Austria almost every year.

Although Brazil has been expanding production capacity since 1839, things like rubber cannot be expanded immediately if you want to expand production capacity. No matter how much money you invest, you still need to wait for it to grow slowly. 8-10 years.

In recent years, the Brazilians have only found some wild rubber forests, but the total output has not reached 700 tons, and the actual demand for rubber in Austria is more than 1,000 tons per year. The huge gap even makes Franz feel that the rubber planted in Chenla Not enough rubber groves.

It seems that in order to deliver the military order, Franz had to make the pneumatic tires available ahead of schedule.

It’s just that Franz was wrong this time. Although pneumatic tires are a great improvement in the history of tires, if only durability is considered, solid tires are actually better.

Pneumatic tires have better shock resistance and save labor, which successfully improves the efficiency of transportation and makes riding a car a kind of enjoyment.

In fact, before the invention of pneumatic tires, the carriage was very bumpy. In order to sit more comfortably, the nobles at that time were often equipped with expensive carriage shock absorbers.

Moreover, pneumatic tires are actually more adaptable and maneuverable than solid tires, because solid tires have the characteristics of high elasticity and high wear resistance, which makes it more difficult to control when facing complex road surfaces, and even prone to rollover danger.

But after all these operations, the rubber gap in Austria is getting bigger and bigger. In order to improve their feelings, dignitaries and dignitaries have thrown orders to Franz's factory, and some even have the idea of ​​​​the army.

Closer to home, Franz also knows this situation, but the problem of rubber is really unsolvable. In order to solve this situation, he even came up with the idea of ​​artificial synthetic rubber.

However, the "artificial rubber" project has been silent for several years. After all, the front-end technology is a bit poor, but it has promoted the development of material chemistry.

All Franz can do now is to further expand the area of ​​rubber plantation, at least to prepare for the future.

At the same time, as electrolysis is more and more widely used in industry, the problem of power shortage is becoming more and more serious. Traditional hand-operated generators cannot meet the growing demand at all.

Franz also invested a lot of money in research, but the result he got was only from hand power to steam lever, and the efficiency was still very low.

But at this time, Nikola Tesla hadn’t been born yet, and even the electromagnetism principle that supported him to complete the alternator hadn’t been perfected yet, so Franz could only use the stupidest way to increase the power.

Fortunately, the invention of the steam turbine did not make the cost of electricity too high.

Of course, Franz did not reduce his investment in the study of electricity. After all, the second industrial revolution was the so-called electrical age, and this period was the best opportunity for the Austrian Empire to overtake on corners.

Afterwards, Adjani reported some latest developments in the Near East.

The Ottoman Empire borrowed heavily and seemed to be preparing to rebuild its navy, but the traditional wooden sailing battleships were still built, and the artillery was intended to be imported from Britain.

But it is worth noting that the wood they used did not come from Russia, but from distant Spain. What kind of state relations are revealed in it, and how many unknown transactions are behind the scenes are unknown.

Egyptian Pasha Muhammad Ali abdicated, passed the Pasha's position to his eldest son Ibrahim, and successfully quit opium.

This surprised Franz a little.

However, although Muhammad Ali abdicated and passed the position to Ibrahim, Franz can be sure that this hero must be planning something.

If he really gave up on himself, or looked away, how could he quit opium?

Muhammad Ali is indeed a generation of heroes, but even if he has ambitions in the current situation, it may be difficult to change the situation.

In the west of Egypt, the Karamanli family's control over Tripoli has become more and more firm. Except for Tunisia's two tentative attacks, other countries have not made any moves.

However, since the ban on the slave trade, Tripoli's economic situation has been very pessimistic. It mainly relies on fishing, dates and wool to make money, and the main trading object is naturally Austria.

However, they did not discover oil, but instead discovered many other mineral deposits. However, at this time, Tripoli's infrastructure was extremely backward and there were no precious metals, so it was worthless to mine.

Tunisia feels a crisis, after all, it seems that it is the only country around that still maintains an independent state. But this Tunisian monarch named "Ahmed Beyin", like all the reforming monarchs of this era, has compiled a Western-style army with a number of more than 20,000 people all year round.

At the same time, a navy of 18 warships was formed in order to keep the enemy out of the country, but the largest tonnage of them did not exceed 600 tons, and its firepower was not even as good as the armed merchant ships of the great powers during this period.

In the past, Bei Yin did not hesitate to demolish the temple in order to reform, set fire to the leader of the sect who opposed him, and even executed his eldest son.

But the reality gave him a heavy blow, and that was the defeat of Muhammad Ali. Egypt is far superior to Tunisia in terms of army and navy, but in front of the big powers, it has lost even its underwear.

Now Bei Yin goes in and out every day, often makes some strange remarks, and diplomatically sends envoys to Britain, France, Austria, Russia, and Turkey to form alliances everywhere.

Domestic calls against reform grew louder, but they were all brutally suppressed by his new army. One of them killed a city with a population of 16,000, leaving only one old blind man.

Algeria and Morocco are being invaded by France~www.novelbuddy.com~Although the French army has won many battles, they have not been able to stabilize the situation.

But Algeria and Morocco have nothing to do with the French, the casualty ratio is usually more than seven to one, and what's more terrible is that France sent warships to blockade the coast, making it impossible for them to continue to buy weapons from Britain, Austria and other countries.

There were even cases where British merchant ships forcibly broke through the blockade and were sunk by French warships.

After that, the British government sent a note to the French ambassador, hoping that the other party could give a reasonable explanation, but only one person received a compensation of 100 francs.

Faced with the tough attitude of the French, the British government finally had to inform its businessmen not to continue provoking French warships.

Of course, this is not the meaning of Kizuo, but the meaning of the French government controlled by the Bonapartists. They have had enough of the shamelessness and contempt of the British.

This was also recognized by King Louis-Philippe, who, after all, considered North Africa as his own land as Spain. And now the power of France has penetrated into Spain, and even emptied the self-righteous Queen Regent.