[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-rise-of-the-empire-spain":3,"chapter-rise-of-the-empire-spain-rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-113":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Rise of the Empire: Spain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2365041,4632,"Chapter 113: Military Industrial Aid","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-113",113,"\u003Cp>A very important matter in the reorganization of the banks is to integrate some of the existing small banks into a large joint bank under government control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those private capital holders can choose to continue joining the large joint bank; such banks under government control will also receive support policies, and their future development will definitely not result in losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alternatively, they can choose to withdraw in time, and the shares they hold after the integration will be acquired by the government and the Royal Family, which can also guarantee their costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether they can make a fortune by taking advantage of this banking reorganization, that is basically impossible. Neither the Royal Family nor the government are fools, so naturally, they would not allow these private banking capitals to find loopholes during this major reorganization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While reorganizing the banks, the government is also preparing to establish the Bank of Spain. Since its establishment, the Royal Joint Bank has been welcomed by a large number of Spaniards, and the government naturally cannot give up this opportunity to make a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, a bank with a truly official background can not only serve as a benchmark for the financial industry but also achieve control over the banking industry, so an official-natured bank is very necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After consulting with Gao Da, the Bank of Spain officially entered the preparatory stage. The Royal Family will contribute 8.5 million pesetas, occupying 45% of the shares in the soon-to-be-established national bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spanish government will contribute 10 million pesetas, occupying 55% of the shares in the national bank. The operation of the national bank is supervised by the government, and the Royal Family does not participate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bank of Spain and the Royal Joint Bank will join the Spanish Currency Issuance Committee, and the Currency Issuance Committee will control the issuance of the Spanish peseta.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the national bank and the Royal Joint Bank will serve as the two major official banks of Spain, obtaining the power of currency issuance and control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The government will not interfere with the operation of the Royal Joint Bank, and the Royal Family will likewise not interfere with the operation of the national bank. However, both sides can control the issuance of Spanish currency through the Currency Issuance Committee, with the goal of achieving cooperation and mutual benefit in the financial industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purpose of doing this is, of course, to completely control Spain's financial industry through the cooperation of the two major official banks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how powerful future banking capital may be, it cannot be more powerful than the union of the two major official banks. The Royal Family and the government hold the two major bank capitals in their hands; royal capital and national capital will become Spain's largest capital, thereby preventing capital from infiltrating the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Gao Da, although the establishment of the national bank will affect the business of the Royal Joint Bank to a certain extent, it is generally not a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he also owns 45% of the shares of the national bank, and 45% of the national bank's income belongs to the Royal Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the development of the banking industry also requires competition. If the Royal Joint Bank were to dominate alone, it would not be a good thing for the development of Spain's financial industry, and it would be easier to breed corruption and graft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, even with competition, the breeding of corruption and graft is inevitable. To prevent this phenomenon from harming the two major banks, the Currency Issuance Committee, in addition to the two major official banks, also has control from the Royal Family and government departments, so as to clear out the dregs in the banks at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is just that Gao Da's influence on the government is not high at present; otherwise, the supervision of government officials would also be on the agenda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corruption and graft will occur in every national government; this is fundamentally impossible to eradicate and avoid. Although the current government originated from a revolutionary government, sitting in high positions for a long time will certainly lead to other thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, after Gao Da masters a certain amount of power, he will formulate more stringent policies to play a greater supervisory role over the government.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to the development of the banking industry, one point that Gao Da is more concerned about is the development of the military industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving military industrial support from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Spain will also usher in a golden period of development in the military industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The development of the military industry certainly cannot rely solely on the Royal Military Factory; various military factories with government backgrounds and private military factories are also quite important aids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an industry like the military, the most important thing is innovation and improvement. It is very necessary to develop a few more military factories to form a competitive situation, at least to ensure that Spain's weapons will be constantly updated and iterated in a competitive environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the intensity of competition is not high, the Royal Military Factory's attitude toward researching new weapons will not be so strong; after all, selling old weapons can also make money, so why bother researching those more expensive new weapons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, for the sake of the country's development, the military industry must have competition, and the intensity of competition can only be high, not low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Da would rather see his Royal Military Factory at a disadvantage in competition than see the Royal Military Factory dominate alone, ultimately causing Spain's weapon development to fall behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the Austro-Hungarian Empire's assistance in the military industry, it is divided into two parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first part is that the Austro-Hungarian Empire will provide Spain with production lines for existing rifle and artillery technology. The reason why the Austro-Hungarian Empire is willing to provide production lines for rifles and artillery is actually because it sees the backwardness of existing rifles and artillery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War have already proven that muzzle-loading guns are already backward products, and now it is the era of breech-loading guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Austro-Hungarian Empire is also researching breech-loading gun products domestically, so it naturally does not care about existing muzzle-loading guns. Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not behind the world in terms of artillery, it is at least behind the Prussians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steel cannons widely used by the Prussians played a huge role in the Franco-Prussian War, and there are also ideas of imitation within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the reason why the Austro-Hungarian Empire is willing to share these technologies; after all, in a few years, these technologies will be completely obsolete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Added to what was previously agreed upon with the Spanish government, Spain's progress in these weapons over the next ten years should also be shared with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which counts as the Austro-Hungarian Empire's investment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, since it is an investment, what the Austro-Hungarian Empire pays is certainly more than just this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to the production lines and related technologies for rifles and artillery, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will also provide a hundred-person scale of weapon technology experts to be stationed in Spain for five years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the investment that the Austro-Hungarian Empire is truly paying, helping Spain quickly master the technology of rifles and artillery, while working together to research new rifles and artillery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such cooperation is not a loss for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Using already backward products and technology plus a portion of technical experts in exchange for the entire progress of Spain in the military industry over the next ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Spain is not a great power and does not have very strong strength in the military industry, at least it still has a certain foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it is the technological progress within the next ten years; with the help of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Spain might be able to achieve certain breakthroughs in weapon technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, even if Spain does not have a major breakthrough in the military industry, the Austro-Hungarian Empire does not lose much. After all, these backward products are not worth much, and the 100-plus technical experts only need to be stationed in Spain for five years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Gao Da's view, the cooperation with the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the military industry can achieve a win-win situation for Spain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. First of all, the 100-plus technical experts provided by the Austro-Hungarian Empire are crucial to the development of Spain's military industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with these 100-plus technical experts, Gao Da is confident in developing Spain's own bolt-action rifle ahead of schedule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, these technical experts will certainly not come into contact with Spain's research on machine guns. The machine gun is developed by the father of automatic weapons, Ma Keqin, and his brother, so Gao Da is still quite at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This aspect does not require the help of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so naturally, there is no need to share technology with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Technology in terms of rifles and artillery can still be shared with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Especially in terms of artillery, at this time, it is still very necessary for the Austro-Hungarian Empire's technical experts to help Spain better learn the currently relatively advanced artillery design ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for these 100-plus Austro-Hungarian experts, Gao Da naturally did not intend to let them go. To say the least, letting at least half of them stay in Spain to work after 5 years is Gao Da's plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although poaching people like this is a bit immoral, these 100-plus people are all technical experts in weapon design from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is very helpful to Spain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's more, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire dispatched these 100-plus people, it naturally was prepared for them to be poached. The Austro-Hungarian Empire could not fall out with Spain just for these 100-plus people, so the people who should be poached must be poached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the information provided by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, most of these technical experts are engaged in rifle and artillery design. If they can be poached to Spain in the future, they can screen some people to join the research and development of machine guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Believing that with the help of more talent, the research and development of the Ma Keqin machine gun will also accelerate. I believe that the Ma Keqin machine gun of this world will be born earlier and will shine before the First World War.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad news is that the Royal Military Factory is destined not to be able to get all the weapon technology experts. For the development of other military factories, it is certainly necessary to leave a portion of technical experts to other military factories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there are only 100-plus technical experts, the value of these 100-plus people must be squeezed dry. They will go to several of Spain's larger military factories to help these military factories master the rifle and artillery technologies that originated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, these technical experts will be distributed according to the scale of the major military factories, and the major military factories will research new rifle and artillery technologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the scale of the Royal Military Factory, the number of technical experts that can eventually be allocated is certainly the largest. The standard rifles adopted by the Spanish army in the future will be selected step by step from the products of these military factories, picking the best rifles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for letting other military factories participate is precisely to cultivate a few more military factories to compete with each other. Only competition will make this industry continuously produce innovation and make weapon technology constantly iterate and progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three thousand words, first update, seeking support!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1979,"2026-06-25T09:27:12.995Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","cab2679ace51baa975b0dc9215c26e3df3f00b7689d3d57a0927347e76f29279","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-114","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-112",493,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Frise-of-the-empire-spain-cover.jpg"]