Chapter 1033 "Entrepreneur" Vs "Moth"
Franz was not disappointed by failing to break the rhythm of the British, which was expected.
If the British followed up after prodding, it would not be John Bull. It's almost the same after changing the navy. No matter how exciting the army equipment is, the British will not be blind.
Just like an exam. If you are a scumbag and you are at the bottom of the year, then no matter whether you are the first place in the test with a score of 90 or 100, you will not feel much.
Conversely, if you are a top student and dominate the rankings all year round, and suddenly someone rushes ahead of you, even if you are only half a point ahead, you will want to overtake and come back.
The current situation is obvious. The British are scumbags in the army and masters in the navy.
No matter how shocking Franz's military parade was, it was the performance of the army. No matter how much it stimulated the British government, it would not think of an army arms race with the Holy Roman Empire.
Not only the British don't have that idea, no country in the world has the courage to play an army arms race with the Holy Roman Empire at this time.
From the moment of France's decline, there has been a cliff-like differentiation in the armaments of the global army.
The Holy Roman Empire is thriving, leading far ahead, and the pursuers behind cannot even be seen.
competitor?
Unless the British change their national policy and go all out to develop the army, Franz may feel a little pressure. As for other countries, one of them is scum.
Just look at the second-ranked Russians. All the arcane equipment is completely equipped by the Shinra Army, and they will follow suit in a few years.
The bureaucrats of the tsarist government are very experienced in this regard. Every time the Russian army changed its outfit, it was in time for the retirement of the Austrian army's weapons.
It happens that you can buy second-hand equipment with the new goods budget, and the difference in the middle price is the profit. In this regard, the two parties have a very tacit understanding.
Every time the Austrian army retires weapons and equipment, it will be a few years before the end of its service life to ensure that these second-hand goods can still be used normally for some years.
The bureaucrats earned blood, and the officers and soldiers of the Russian army also benefited. I finally got rid of the shoddy domestic products. Although they are all second-hand products, their performance is even more reliable than the new domestic products!
On the one hand, there are new equipment that are stupid, black and thick, with constant failures, and may explode at any time; on the other hand, second-hand equipment that is 50% to 60% new, stable in performance, and high in safety. This multiple-choice question is easy to do.
In the tsarist government, this is almost an open secret, except for the great tsarist majesty, everyone who should know and everyone who should not know know it.
Even though someone wanted to pierce the window paper, after considering the actual situation, they finally decided to give up.
It's not because of fear of death, but mainly because of the safety considerations of Russian soldiers. If capitalists and bureaucrats are not allowed to play the reselling game, they will have to make money directly from the production process.
After these people's magical operation, the Russian military industry, which is not very good at all, can only rely on God's blessing whether the products produced in the end can still be used.
You know, before the reselling campaign started, many of the Russian army's shells had to be re-polished and processed on site, otherwise they wouldn't fit in.
How good is this situation now? Anyway, the Russian army has learned from the Austrian army in an all-round way. The weapons and equipment are the same model. As long as you are not a professional, you will never see any difference on the surface.
Even if the weapons are found to be a little old, it can be said that they have recently strengthened their training and the equipment is too worn.
Whether others believe it or not, His Majesty the Great Tsar did. Many inspections of the military camps have found no problems with weapons and equipment.
Affected by this, in recent years, the Russian military logistics department and military industrial enterprises have not been less praised by His Majesty the Tsar.
The full localization of weapons and equipment, even though the production line was imported from the Holy Roman Empire, is also a remarkable achievement.
For this goal, the original time and space, the tsarist government has been struggling until its demise, but it has not been able to achieve it. This great goal was not realized until the open Soviet Union went online.
The second child is like this, let alone the third child behind. Not to mention the issue of the gap, the key is that the world's third largest army power is directly absent.
For no other reason than to be unqualified.
Whether it is the declining Spanish Army or the pocket version of the British Army, they have nothing to do with the "Army Power".
If you simply look at combat effectiveness and don't consider the bonus brought by national strength and numbers, then Switzerland deserves it.
But to rank Switzerland as the third largest military power in the world, no matter how you look at it, it makes people think this is a joke?
After kicking out of Switzerland, the army with good combat effectiveness is Belgium. Undoubtedly, the same problem is "too small" to support the banner of a "powerful country".
In the future, it seems that the Nordic Federation also has some strength, but in recent decades there has been no outstanding record performance, and the only appearance is Denmark.
It's a pity that I was unlucky. I met Prussia in the glory period, and the defeat was miserable. If the Nordic Federation is at this level, it obviously has nothing to do with the "army power".
After taking inventory of the European continent, it is even more impossible to look overseas.
The United States and the Confederate States, which have relatively good national strength, are stronger than the American soldiers in the original time and space because of their mutual confrontation, but this "strength" is also very limited.
Whether it is weapons and equipment or the quality of officers and soldiers, they are far behind the average level of the European world.
Although the rising Japanese army has a good will to fight, its weapons and equipment and training are lagging behind, and the quality of its officers is not up to standard
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"Unqualified", this is the evaluation given by Franz.
For no other reason, the influence of Bushido thought is too deep. This kind of officer's subjective consciousness is too strong and lacks the ability to think rationally.
What kind of officers can bring out what kind of soldiers. This kind of army naturally has no problem when bullying the weak; if it encounters a strong enemy, this weakness will be very fatal.
Taking the European War as an example, the French commander buried tens of thousands of French soldiers under machine guns because of a wrong perception.
If the generals like "Nogi Xidian" were replaced, perhaps the death would not be tens of thousands, but the question of the tens of thousands left in the French army.
Of course, if the French army was so willing to die, the Allied Rhine defense line would never be able to support the arrival of reinforcements. It is still no problem to burn the flames of war to the heart of the German region.
However, it is necessary to pile up a passage with millions of lives. It is estimated that the French army will mutiny before the strategy is completed.
Even if there is no mutiny, there will be heavy casualties in the early stage, and subsequent wars will be impossible to fight.
After all, not every country has an infinite population to consume. Millions of soldiers were killed in one battle, and there was no way to continue the subsequent battles.
Such an officer is actually the most suitable to enter the British army and then command the Indian colonial army. As long as the Indian colonial army can work hard, most of the enemies can be piled to death, and becoming a "war god" is not a dream.
After a detailed count, you will find that: the number of fighters is not enough; the number of fighters is not enough; the number and combat power are not enough, and there are hidden dangers in the command system.
After Russia and Austria, there is actually no army power anymore.
Competitors are so "powerful", it doesn't matter whether they will be stimulated or not. Even if a country is stimulated to go all out to govern and strive to become stronger, it must first complete industrialization.
Since the advent of aircraft and tanks, military production has reached the 3.0 era. Without sufficient industrial background support, even the best weapon design cannot be implemented.
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Just when the political leaders of various countries were stimulated, a shocking deception spread from Vienna to all over the world.
Mr. Rivera, who had cheated the first pot of gold, did not run away with the money. Instead, he made persistent efforts to make "his own great strategic plan" bigger and stronger.
Judging from the current situation alone, Rivera is an excellent entrepreneur. Profound knowledge, great eloquence, high self-confidence, "lofty" ideals, down-to-earth... and a series of excellent qualities.
No kidding, the narcissistic Rivera now has "high ideals."
Not only do they want to make a fortune by themselves, but they also plan to bring investors to make a fortune together, to break the economic monopoly of the consortium, and to build a "utopian economic system."
In order to achieve this goal, Rivera is still looking for like-minded people, building a professional investment team, and formulating a strict business investment plan.
After receiving the investment, Rivera did not spend a lot of money, except for the loan to the Spanish government and normal staff salaries.
Instead, he started buying, buying and buying. He first bought a 2.1% stake in the Austrian Electric Power Company, followed by a 3.3% stake in the Austrian Automobile Group, and then a 1.9% stake in the Suez Canal...
From an investment point of view, these are all high-quality assets that can earn good returns. The evaluation of "down-to-earth" is also well-deserved.
While Rivera bought heavily, it also greatly increased the company's stock price. Judging from the data on the books, Rivera's investment group has achieved profitability.
Mature business logic, professional financial statements, and the most important thing is that it has achieved profitability from the very beginning.
The media has already labeled Rivera as a "business genius", claiming to be the most talented investor in the 19th century.
Rivera is now the brightest cub wherever he goes. If it keeps going, Rivera is a business genius.
The reality is so weird. There is often only a thin line between a liar and a business genius. The difference lies in whether it is "successful".
Illegal financing, concealing risks to deceive investors, these are minor problems.
Now is the 19th century, the darkest moment of the capital economy. Compared with his colleagues who gave away "peanuts" and "earth planes", Rivera, who is only deceiving, is simply a saint.
It's just that the current "sage" Rivera has encountered the biggest trouble since starting his business. There are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, and the same is true when the investment group is big.
Since ancient times, money has moved people's hearts. Rivera, the founder, did not run away, but someone below him ran away first.
There is no online payment these days, and most of the investments raised are cash and checks. In the face of huge wealth, there are only a few who are not tempted.
Some guys, who couldn't stand the temptation, used their brains. First, part of the investment was withheld and not included in the account.
Without the Internet, investors cannot check their accounts at any time, and it is impossible for Rivera to establish contact with every investor. The first wave of operations by the moths was a complete success.
It's just that this kind of thing can't be hidden for a while, and the problem will be exposed when the interest is paid.
In order to avoid the end of being imprisoned, these "worms" simply do nothing and run away with money directly by taking advantage of their positions.
The moth ran away, but the investors who had suffered heavy losses refused to let it go, demanding that Rivera's investment group continue to perform the contract.
The contract in black and white is clearly written, and there is no room for repudiation at all.
Although it is the individual employee's behavior to run away with the money, it is the investment group that signs the contract with the investor.
This loss, whether Rivera is willing or not, must be borne. If it is just an example, it is not unacceptable. The problem is that there are endless incidents of thunderstorms and escapes.
Whether it is improving treatment or strengthening supervision, similar incidents are still repeated. If this problem cannot be solved, Rivera's investment group will be dragged down sooner or later.
It is necessary to call the police, but unfortunately it is too difficult to find someone these days. As long as you leave the country, the police are helpless.
Even if countries in the European Continental Union have signed the "Extradition Act", they must first find talents.
Rivera: "Everyone, it's the time of our lives and deaths. If we can't put an end to incidents like running away with money, the investment group will be destroyed by these scumbags sooner or later.
Today we are going to solve this problem. For the future of the group, as well as our own future, I hope that everyone will not have any reservations, and boldly speak out what is in their hearts..."
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