My German Empire - Chapter 11: Preparations before Visit

“My dear, when did you go out? Where did you go so early?” Seeing old Bowen walk in with a tired face, the lady who was cooking steak in the kitchen asked in surprise.

Like most Germans, Old Bowen always strictly maintains his work and rest schedule, and his many years of habits can be comparable to clocks and watches.

But when she woke up this morning, it was unprecedented to see that Old Bowen had disappeared. It was not difficult to tell from the few pieces of clothes that were missing from the closet that he had left the house very early.

Old Bowen came to the dining table, picked up the water glass and drank most of it in one breath. After taking a breath. “My dear, let me tell you something.”

The lady brought the fried steak to the table and asked casually. “what’s up?”

Old Bowen tapped the table lightly. “I mortgaged our house, and I sold a few factories out.”

The lady was taken aback for a moment. “why?”

Old Bowen sprinkled the seasoning on the steak and explained the reason. “Last night Bowen came back and said that His Royal Highness Wilhelm wants to borrow money from them.”

“His Royal Highness borrowing money? This is really new. His Highness still lacks money? How much?”

“Ten million dollars. Of course, your Highness knows how these bastards can have only so much money, so he wants to borrow it from us, parents.”

Madam now is even more puzzled. “Even if he doesn’t borrow he can still get ten million, right?”

Old Bowen put down the condiment bottle and sighed lightly. “Isn’t this me thinking about our son? With his virtue. After you and I are not here someday, the family business will be ruined by him or be deceived by others, and will he not starve to death by then? Wilhelm is also the future German emperor. For our dedication, he will not let him starve to death, right?”

“…” Thinking about their naive son, the wife sighed helplessly. “Then how much did you pool?”

“His Royal Highness said that it could be paid back at the beginning of 1930. So, except for the funds that were barely available in the past two years, I got all the money I could get, and also borrowed a lot from a few friends. I collected about 150 million.” Old Bowen sighed after cutting a steak. “Let’s eat less meat in the future, you will save if you can save it.

“understood.”

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After counting the amount of the promissory note handed over by Bowen, Wilhelm couldn’t help but feel surprised. There were a total of 30 promissory notes worth five million dollars. “Wasn’t your dad so distressed about buying a car?” From the memory of “Wilhelm”, he also learned that Bowen’s family background is the bottom of those friends, unless he sells his family’s properties to make up, giving so much money is impossible.

Bowen chewed on the biscuits and replied in a naive way. “My dad said that he put all the coffins together, and everything that can be taken at home has been used, and my pocket money will have to be reduced in the future.”

Looking at this naive boy who was born with a simple mind and no worries, Wilhelm patted him on the shoulder and said seriously. “Thanks. Don’t worry, I promise to double your pocket money in two years.”

His identity as the future German emperor is quite useful. Several people sent in money one after another, at most 20-30 million each. It’s just that David, the most wealthy among them, only took out 10 million. Wilhelm smiled and said nothing.

Adding the original 200 million, he now has 480 million U.S. dollars worth of promissory notes in his hand. He felt his hands trembling. He never dreamed that he could hold billions of dollars in his hands someday.

After a long time of excitement, he was relieved and went back to business. “Miss Annie, can a private person open an oil company?”

Annie thought for a moment and nodded. “It seems that there is no law stipulating that private individuals cannot mine. What’s more, you are the prince.” She is being increasingly confused about this Royal Highness. You say, you will be the German Emperor in the future. The entire empire is yours.What kind of business do you still need to do, even if you do business, you have to do it in the name of the country, but you want to start a business yourself?

“That’s good, you immediately register an oil company for me. Recruit staff and go to the factory to order oil exploration equipment and oil extraction equipment. I want it done before I come back. By the way, register another automobile manufacturing company.” Wilhelm thought for a while, seeing that he has to register a lot of companies, he said”You just register a ‘German Zeus Company’ and fill in ‘Unlimited’ in the scope of business.”

“Miss Monica, you go to Ferdinand Porsche. He used to be a designer of Daimler-Benz. He should have resigned by now. You can find him and tell him that I want to hire him in my car manufacturing company as a chief designer and technical consultant.”

In 1926, the two giants of the world automobile industry Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler joined hands to merge Daimler and Mercedes-Benz to form Daimler-Benz.

Ferdinand Porsche (also translated as Ferdinand Porscher) naturally became a member of the new company. He designed a series of products such as S, SS and SSK for Mercedes, and this was also the last car designed by Porsche for Daimler. SSK is the abbreviation of German super short wheelbase sports car. It has more powerful power and a shorter wheelbase. It is specially designed for mountain climbing events. Its short wheelbase design ensures excellent handling and hairpin cornering ability. Only 35 of this car were produced at the time.

On the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, Porsche focused on the development of small cars, but received no support. During this period, because Porsche was squeezed out by people, he could only withdraw from Daimler.

“Miss Viola, buy the land in this circle.” The place he circled on the map was a small town surrounded by mountains. And that small town was formed to mine the ore from the three mountains. Later, the mines in the mountains dried up, and people went to the other areas, and it became a ghost town that is now uninhabited. “It’s a great place. After buying the land, send an engineering team to restore it.”

Wilhelm intends to build it into Germany’s area 51, where all important scientific research projects will be carried out in the future.

“Miss Ina, you visit the heads of five companies secretly, Henschel, MAN, Rheinmetal, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz, and ask each of them to design three tanks. Just say that I want to see their capabilities and Yes, Miss Monica, you ask Porsche to design three tanks too.”

Seeing the secretaries leaving one after another, Wilhelm thought for a while, picked up the phone and connected to the Wehrmacht headquarters. “Your Excellency Sikter, I’m Wilhelm. Haha, it’s nothing important, I just want to borrow a few people from you to accompany me to leave the country. You don’t need to be so enthusiastic, I only need four people. Erwin Johannes Gen Rommel; Heinz Guderian; Erich von Manstein; Walter von Brausic. Just let them meet at the train station at ten the day after tomorrow.”