Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Alexandrine was very curious about the large hangar in front of them, so Manfred led them in for a tour. When they entered the hangar, the first thing that caught Lin Shangzhou's eyes was a triplane with a bright red paint job, and next to it was a biplane with a standard paint job.

He could tell at a glance that the plane with bright red paint was Manfred's, and Alexandrine also showed great interest in the plane.

Manfred enthusiastically told Alexandrine about his legendary experiences in the past. After his story, Lin Shangzhou also realized that people who are supposed to cheat in this world are still cheating.

However, the Red Baron's record was not 80 planes, but several Allied magic troops plus dozens of enemy planes. Magic troops are much more difficult to shoot down than planes.

Because she was so curious about the plane, Alexandrine even wanted to sit in it to take a look and operate it herself. If the pilot had not been going to use Manfred's vehicle next, Alexandrine would have played with it for a long time.

Reinhardt was driving Manfred's car, while Goering was driving another biplane, which seemed to be an experimental model that was not mass-produced at the end of the war and was also the last experimental aircraft of the German military.

Lin Shangzhou and others came to the outside of the hangar and watched the plane take off from a safe distance. A minute later, with the sound of the plane's propellers and engines, Reinhardt drove Manfred's car out of the hangar and onto the runway, and then the plane accelerated forward.

Alexandrine watched this scene intently. When she saw the plane flying farther and farther on the runway and finally taking off into the sky, she felt extremely excited and thrilled. Like a child seeing something new, she pointed at the plane in the distance and pulled Lin Shangzhou's arm and said, "Fritts, Fritz, look, the plane is flying!"

Lin Shangzhou smiled and nodded, saying, "Well, otherwise how can it be called an airplane?"

Watching the triplane take off at such a close distance, Lin Shangzhou couldn't help feeling shocked. He was not shocked by the triplane, but by the wisdom and courage of mankind.

After Reinhardt took off, Goering followed closely in a biplane and flew into the sky.

Lin Shangzhou looked up at the two planes circling in the sky, and couldn't help but feel a sense of regret for the flying unit. These people were all excellent pilots. It was really a pity that they were not reused. It was a pity for the German military.

As he looked up at the sky, Manfred came to Lin Shangzhou's side. He also looked up at his car in the sky. After a few seconds, he said to Lin Shangzhou: "Mr. Hipper, do you have anything to discuss with me?"

"I might borrow someone from you in the future."

Manfred was stunned. Borrowing people from him? The pilots here have nothing special except that they can fly planes.

"Borrow people? Do you need us pilots to help you with anything?"

Lin Shangzhou nodded and replied: "In the future, I will contact German aircraft designers, invest in them and let them design aircraft. After the civil aircraft is designed, I will establish an airline to open routes from Germany to other countries. By then, we will have aircraft, but we will not be able to do without pilots."

"So you want my pilots to fly civilian aircraft?"

"Well, isn't it possible?"

Manfred hesitated. He personally was not very willing to fly a civilian aircraft. In his opinion, it was a bit degrading, and most of his subordinates might not be willing to do so.

Lin Shangzhou knew that Manfred was hesitating, so he looked at the plane in the sky and said to him: "Captain Richthofen, do you know... a free soul should soar in the sky."

Manfred was shocked by these words, and then he raised his head and said loudly: "Yes, Mr. Hipper, you are right. A free soul should soar in the sky. I agree with what you said."

"Oh, by the way, Captain Richthofen, you can't call yourself a flying unit in the future."

Lin Shangzhou seemed to have thought of something and suddenly patted Manfred on the shoulder and said to him.

"Ok?"

Manfred didn't understand what Lin Shangzhou meant to say, and before he could ask, he heard Lin Shangzhou say, "Your Majesty and I will help you so that in the future you will no longer be a flying corps, but an independent branch of the military - the German Imperial Air Force."

"But this also requires your help."

This sentence deeply touched Manfred's heart. If making the flying unit receive attention was what he wanted most, then forming an independent army was something he could never dream of.

But now the Chinese adviser to the emperor told him that they would have an independent air force in the future.

Manfred's heart was shaken. For some reason, these words, which should have been a pipe dream, sounded like something that could be achieved to him.

"I believe in you, so we will do our best to help you in the future."

A satisfied smile appeared on Lin Shangzhou's face. He felt relieved after hearing the Red Baron's words.

Afterwards, Lin Shangzhou and Manfred talked about some other things, which were basically all related to borrowing people. In addition to borrowing pilots to fly civilian aircraft, Lin Shangzhou also wanted to borrow people to be instructors for the flying club, so that they could train pilots to prepare for future wars.

Neither of them noticed that there was a little guy beside them - Marseille. The others saw him, but didn't care. After all, the pilots all knew he was here.

"Um... Mr. Hipper..."

Hearing the childish voice in his ear, Lin Shangzhou turned his head and saw Marseille standing beside him, looking at him hesitantly.

He bowed his head and asked kindly, "Marceio, what do you want?"

"Um... you just said you were going to set up a flying club. Can I join the flying club you set up?"

"Oh?"

Lin Shangzhou became interested when he heard this. You know, Marseille was a pilot with excellent performance and capabilities in OTL. He didn't expect that he would take the same path in this world.

"of course can."

Lin Shangzhou readily agreed to Marseille's request, which made Marseille overjoyed. He immediately admired this uncle who had made him embarrassed not long ago.

"But will your family agree with you doing this?"

Upon hearing this, Marseille's face immediately drooped. His parents might not agree with what he was doing.

He said unconfidently: "Uh - I'll try to convince them."

"Then come on, the club will always keep a spot for you."

Half an hour later, the two planes landed safely on the runway. This time, Alexandrine had the opportunity to sit in and operate the plane herself. She got into the cockpit with the help of Cecilia, while Cecilia flew beside and took care of her sister. After operating something that she didn't understand at all, Alexandrine lost interest.

Not long after that, Lin Shangzhou and others left the airport. On the way back to Wuyou Palace, Lin Shangzhou felt a little strange. He originally wanted to meet the aircraft designer first and then meet the pilot, but Alexandrine intervened and he became the one to meet the pilot first. However, the result was very satisfactory. He made Alexandrine gain the loyalty of the future Air Force.

The pilot has been found. The next thing Lin Shangzhou has to do is to meet the aircraft designers. How can he survive without an aircraft if he has a pilot?

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Chapter 217 Meeting with Aircraft Designer

On April 25th, five days had passed since the meeting with the pilot. On the 21st, Lin Shangzhou sent an invitation to Sans Souci Palace to Junkers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel in the name of Alexandrine, inviting them to come to Sans Souci Palace on the 25th, which was Saturday, to introduce Alexandrine to things about the aircraft.

The sudden invitation from the emperor made Junkers and the other two feel a little puzzled. The company they worked for should not be in the emperor's eyes at all, so why would she invite them to the Worry-Free Palace?

Later they learned that Alexandrine became interested in airplanes because she envied Cecilia. After learning this, the three designers quit all their work this week and went to Berlin early to wait for Saturday.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If the talks go well, you can get investment from the emperor or the government for your company. Even if you can't get this investment, as long as you can reveal the news that the emperor wants to develop aircraft, you can get investment from others.

No matter what the final outcome is, it won't hurt to meet the emperor.

The outside media also reported this incident, but it was like a small stone thrown into the water, not causing much waves. Not many people paid attention to it...except for the people in the magic force.

The emperor invited the aircraft designer to visit the Sans Souci Palace, and her recent inspection of the flying troop base revealed one message to the outside world - Alexandrine had developed a great interest in airplanes, and she was very likely to promote the development of aircraft.

The development of aircraft is generally a good thing for the German military. Of course, the German military is not interested in it. However, it is a bad thing for the magic force.

However, it is a pity for them that this time the magic force cannot directly intervene and restrict the development of aircraft like in the past.

In the past, Emperor William II preferred the navy and also liked the magic forces a little. He didn't care about the flying forces at all, so they could do things that were almost rogue. But the little Queen Alexandrine is not her grandfather. What she is showing now is interest in airplanes. The magic forces have no way to directly interfere and influence the emperor's thoughts.

Not to mention that Alexandrine became interested in airplanes because she envied Cecilia. Are they going to stop the emperor from studying what she is interested in?

Since there was no way to intervene, the magic forces simply gave up paying attention to this matter. After they gave up paying attention to it, the only thing that could be called a cause of attention caused by this incident disappeared.

The social, political and military circles all regarded this matter as Alexandrine's personal hobby, a trivial matter, and did not take it seriously at all.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Shangzhou stood on the steps outside the Souci Palace waiting for the arrival of Junkers and others. He knew that the three had arrived in Berlin in advance, but since they had been invited to the Souci Palace, there was no need for him to visit them in advance.

Ten minutes later, he saw three black cars driving into Wuyou Palace. When the cars parked in the open space, Lin Shangzhou walked down the steps and warmly welcomed the three aircraft designers.

After some introductions with mutual boasting, Lin Shangzhou met three aircraft designers: Junkers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

He walked into the palace with the three people and their secretaries and headed towards the reception room in the Wuyou Palace.

Normally, Alexandrine would receive anyone who came in her office, but this time there were a lot of people, three designers and three secretaries, a total of six people.

Alexandrine and Cecilia sat together, Lin Shangzhou and the three secretaries stood. The three designers could have squeezed together on the sofa, but that would have been too shabby.

Arriving at the door of the reception room, Lin Shangzhou knocked on it. After getting permission from the German Emperor, he opened the door and walked in, followed by the three Junkers.

The three aircraft designers couldn't help but show some surprise in their eyes when they saw Alexandrine sitting next to Cecilia on the sofa. Anyone would be surprised to see that the Emperor of the German Empire was such a girl.

Junkers and the others quickly recovered and introduced themselves to Alexandrine.

After introducing themselves, the three of them sat down, and Lin Shangzhou stood next to Alexandrine.

Then Alexandrine began to ask them various questions about the aircraft, and Junkers and others answered Alexandrine's questions in detail.

However, when Alexandrine asked them whether they were still working on aircraft design, the three of them fell silent at the same time. After a few seconds, Junkers replied that they had temporarily put the aircraft design work on hold. Messerschmitt and Heinkel did not speak but nodded.

Their answer disappointed Alexandrine. Junkers hurriedly took out a design document and supporting design drawings from his secretary's briefcase and said that he had only suspended the aircraft design at the company level, but he had not stopped the work personally.

Lin Shangzhou took the document and looked at the contents and the design drawings of the aircraft. From the design drawings, it seemed that Junkers designed a transport aircraft. He had never seen the model written on the drawing. It was not the JU-52 in OTL at that time. But no matter what model of aircraft it was, this thing was exactly what Lin Shangzhou needed now.

After reading the document, he handed it to Alexandrine. The German Emperor could understand the words and what was drawn on it, but she couldn't understand all of them together. She pretended to glance at it for a few times and then gave it back to Lin Shangzhou.

Messerschmitt and Heinkel also came up with their own design drawings, all of which were civil aircraft. However, with Junkers' design in front, Lin Shangzhou was not very interested in the civil aircraft designs of these two.

The most important part of a large transport aircraft is the engine. An engine with sufficient power is needed to support the aircraft to fly to higher altitudes. Junkers' engine technology is obviously better than the other two.

Therefore, Lin Shangzhou decided in his mind on the investment target at the current stage - Junkers.

After deciding on the investment target, he began to paint a rosy picture for the three designers. The three Junkers were all experienced people, and they praised his pictures on the surface, but they were actually unmoved.

After making the pie in the sky, Lin Shangzhou talked about the current investment plan. Although it is called an investment plan, Lin Shangzhou is still making pie in the sky as the money on hand is not enough to support Junkers to restart its aircraft design plan.

Because the returns from investing in aircraft at this stage can be described as generating electricity with love, there is no way for Alexandrine to order Papen to allocate funds to invest in aircraft designers.

The only feasible methods at this stage are personal investment and bank loans, and Lin Shangzhou will have to wait until a highly profitable product like the communicator has been on sale for a while before he has the money to invest.

If the bank invests... Lin Shangzhou does not think that airplanes can earn enough marks for Junkers to repay the loan. Junkers needs orders to make money through the aircraft manufacturing industry. There are no airlines in Europe now. In the next few years, the only airlines in Europe will probably be the airlines established by Lin Shangzhou himself after he makes money.

It is not ruled out that other countries will establish airlines after seeing Germany's development of the aviation industry, but this will take time, perhaps one year, two years, or even three years. In any case, before Junkers really makes money through the aircraft manufacturing industry, it will have to pay out of its own pocket to draw funds from other aspects to repay the loan.

Lin Shangzhou was also troubled by this problem. He couldn't trouble Louis with this matter. He had already gotten a lot of marks from Louis for nothing. It would be impolite to ask for more, not to mention that the income from this was generated by love.

After drawing the second pie, Lin Shangzhou didn't know what to say. At this time, Cecilia made a suggestion - since investment is needed, her sister can invest the money.

This suggestion opened up a breakthrough in the problem. Lin Shangzhou ignored the fact that the largest investor in the aircraft manufacturing industry was right next to him. The German Emperor had money and had sufficient reasons to invest in the aircraft manufacturing industry, and her investment could also take the lead and drive others to invest in the aircraft manufacturing industry.

Alexandrine herself had no objection to this, and immediately whispered to Lin Shangzhou that he could use her property as he pleased, which touched Lin Shangzhou but also made him feel strange.

The Kaiser's original words were: "If you need it, Fritz, you can use my property as you like without my consent."

She didn't mean to use Alexandrine's property freely in investing in the aircraft designer, but he could use it freely if he needed it.

This means that Alexandrine handed over the control of the property to him. Of course, Lin Shangzhou would not really use the German Emperor's property at will.

With Alexandrine's support, Lin Shangzhou immediately signed an investment contract with Junkers. The other two were also very enthusiastic, but unfortunately Lin Shangzhou did not intend to have both.

However, Messerschmitt and Heinkel were not too disappointed. Once the news of the German Emperor's investment in Junkers to design aircraft was released, they would be able to get a lot of investment.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Junkers, who returned with a full load, and Messerschmitt and Heinkel, who did not gain nothing, left Sanssouci Palace. They also brought the news that Alexandrine had invested in Junkers to design aircraft.

This incident attracted a certain amount of social attention, but most people focused on Alexandrine, who spent money lavishly, and believed that the German emperor was paying for his own interests and hobbies, without thinking about what impact this incident would have in the future.

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Chapter 218: Ma Enna's Reminder

On the 27th, an ordinary Monday in April, Lin Shangzhou went to Wuyou Palace with two communicators in the morning. This was something he had almost forgotten about - giving communicators to Letitia and Noah.

Since the beginning of April, Harvot and his team have been committed to improving the appearance and hand-rubbing of the M2 communicator. From the beginning of April to now, the daily output of communicators is about ten. As of the 2th, the stock of M communicators has reached units.

This number is really not small, roughly equal to the number of communicators currently owned by the German military. However, even so, Lin Shangzhou is still not satisfied.

Nearly three hundred communicators may seem like a lot, but if they were put on sale with proper promotion, the three hundred communicators would be sold out in Berlin within an hour.

Therefore, Lin Shangzhou planned to wait until the Harvot team had made more communicators before selling them. The price would be decided later, but Lin Shangzhou had already thought of the main sales group - the rich, the nobles and other upper classes of society.

By then, the price of the communicator will definitely not be low, and only rich people can afford it. Ordinary people can just look at it. There is no need to sell such flashy things to ordinary people.

当然林尚舟今天给蕾蒂娅和诺雅的是供给给军方的M3型，塞西莉亚和亚历珊德琳现在用的也是M3型，M4和M3相比性能提升太小了，与其造M4不如多造M3。

After handing the communicator to the two maids, Lin Shangzhou left Wuyou Palace and took a car back to his apartment. As soon as he got off the car, he saw a familiar face standing next to the apartment - Ma Enna.

Ma Enna still looked the same as before, wearing a thick-brimmed black round hat and a black coat. He held a briefcase in one hand and greeted Lin Shangzhou who had just got off the car with the other hand.

"Good morning, Manna."

Lin Shangzhou came up to him and greeted him, while Bode looked at Mainna vigilantly. His intuition told him that Mainna was a dangerous person.

Ma Enna noticed Bode's slightly hostile look towards him, shrugged and said nothing. Seeing Ma Enna's expression, Lin Shangzhou patted Bode on the shoulder and said, "Bode, go back first. I have something to discuss with him."

"Yes, Mr. Hipper."

Bode nodded when he heard this. Since Lin Shangzhou said so, it meant that the strange man in front of him named Ma Enna was just a stranger with a dangerous aura and posed no threat to Lin Shangzhou.

He stared at Mainna for a few seconds and then walked forward into the apartment.