Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

The next day, when Lin Yi walked out of the hotel refreshed, Crown Prince William had been waiting outside the hotel for a while.

Today Lin Wanyu and the others don't need to accompany Lin Yi, so they only need to wait for Lin Yi in the hotel.

The itinerary arranged by Crown Prince William for Lin Yi only lasted three days.

On the first day, they will take a train to the Krupp factory in the Ruhr area and visit the factory manufacturing workshop.

Speaking of the Ruhr area, we have to mention a relatively famous city.

Anyone who likes to watch football must know that there is another team wearing yellow jerseys in the Ruhr area, Dortmund.

Unlike Dortmund, a strong Bundesliga team in the future, Dortmund at this time had only been established for six years and was still a not very big team.

And the players are just workers in the Ruhr area.

Of course, this team is not the purpose of Lin Yi's trip to the Ruhr area this time. What he wants to go to is Krupp in Essen.

The fastest way to get from Bremen to Essen is by train.

After spending four hours, Lin Yi finally arrived in Essen. At this time, the patriarch of the Krupp family, Gustav Krupp, was already waiting at the station for the arrival of Lin Yi and Crown Prince William.

Speaking of Gustav Krupp, the third generation leader of the Krupp Empire was also a legendary figure. Probably no one would have imagined that he actually married into the Krupp family.

But the Krupp Factory, under his leadership, has become one of the largest arsenals in the Hans Empire.

Even William II's most proud stepping stone, the Gustav train gun, was named after him, which fully shows the ability of Gustav Krupp.

Lin Yi looked at the slightly bald man with a small traditional German beard in front of him, and began to recall all the information about the Krupp family in his mind.

The Krupp Factory was founded by Alfred Krupp in 1847, and after its establishment, it began to produce ordnance.

As the Hans Empire moved towards unification under the leadership of the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck, the Krupp factory has always played an important role.

The cannons they produced for Bismarck helped Bismarck win the German-Austrian War and the German-French War.

In particular, the Krupp cannon they produced, a big thing with a caliber of 280 mm, a barrel length of 11.2 meters, and a weight of 44 tons, directly let the world know what the king of land warfare is.

It was also from that time that Krupp's artillery became the benchmark in the world's artillery industry. When countries choose to purchase artillery, Krupp is the first choice.

After Alfred's death, his son Friedrich Alfred Krupp took over the Krupp factory.

Although no large-scale war broke out in the Hans Empire during this period, the Krupp factory still developed steadily.

However, in 1902, Friedrich Alfred Krupp was involved in a homosexual scandal. Under the condemnation of the media, Friedrich Alfred Krupp chose to commit suicide. , leaving only an orphan girl, Beta Krupp.

But at that time, neither the Krupp family nor others were optimistic about being able to manage the Krupp factory well.

Therefore, Wilhelm II personally selected a husband for Beta Krupp. That was the Prussian diplomat Gustav von Bohlen Onder Halbach at the time.

After the two got married on October 1906, 10, Wilhelm II approved Gustav to bear the surname Krupp.

That is the person in front of Lin Yi now.

After Gustav married into the Krupp family, in order to repay William II, he specially built a 98-ton Grand Beta cannon and a cannon with a range of 82 miles for William II, which is often called the Paris Cannon. .

Of these two artillery pieces, one had shelled the Fortress of Liege and Verdun, and the other had shown its prowess near the Marne River, defeating the Purple Flower Division of the Gallic Empire that wanted to block the Imperial Division of Manfrey.

It provided a strong guarantee for the final victory of the Hans Empire.

I have to say that this guy is indeed a strong man, capable of bending and stretching.

"Please allow me, on behalf of the Krupp family, to welcome His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Prince from the Far East." Gustav looked at the two people walking towards him and bowed to them.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Krupp, but today I mainly accompany the person next to me who came to visit." Crown Prince William first nodded to Gustav, and then pointed to Lin Yi beside him.

Lin Yi smiled and nodded to Gustav, and then took the initiative to extend his hand, wanting to shake Gustav's hand.

"Thank you very much for your warm reception, Mr. Gustave."

"You're welcome, Your Highness the Prince." Gustav also stretched out his hand to shake Lin Yi's hand, and then said: "However, Your Highness the Prince, I like to be called Mr. Krupp."

Hearing Gustav's words, Lin Yi's expression was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Krupp."

"Your Highnesses, the car is ready and we can leave at any time." Gustav said to Lin Yi and Crown Prince William.

"Your Excellency, shall we go?" As the master, Crown Prince William naturally had to respect Lin Yi's wishes.

Lin Yi nodded.

"Now that we're ready, let's go."

When Gustav heard Lin Yi's words, without saying a word, he turned around and walked towards the car beside him.

Looking at Gustav's back, Crown Prince William touched his nose in embarrassment, and then said to Lin Yi: "I'm very sorry, Your Excellency, Gustav's character is like this."

Lin Yi smiled and shook his head, indicating that he didn't care.

He vaguely remembered information about Gustav and knew that he was a hard-core Germanic supremacist. He had no good feelings towards anyone except the Germans.

Therefore, Lin Yi was mentally prepared from the beginning.

However, Lin Yi felt that this was all a trivial matter, and the main reason was that Gustav agreed to sell Daxia their production line.

The main reason why Lin Yi wants to buy Krupp's production line is that although Daxia has a complete industry and advanced research and development, the infrastructure is still very poor.

For example, the artillery produced by Daxia before. Although its range and power surpassed the artillery of other countries, its failure rate was also very high.

The reason for this is still due to the imperfect infrastructure in Daxia.

What Lin Yi has to do now is to strengthen the foundation of the Daxia Empire's military industry as much as possible, such as lathes, milling machines and other infrastructure.

If these infrastructures are improved, the performance of the artillery manufactured by the Daxia Empire will be even more superior.

Therefore, Lin Yi came here mainly to buy the industrial equipment of the Hans Empire, not their manufacturing drawings.

If he wants to ask for help from others, Lin Yi can only tolerate the other people's attitudes.