Chapter 11 Preparing for a Visit

"Honey, when did you go out? Where did you go so early?" Seeing old Bowen come in with a tired face, the wife asked in surprise while frying steak in the kitchen.

Like most Germans, old Bowen has always strictly followed the schedule, and his habits over the years are as accurate as clocks.

But this morning when she woke up, she saw that old Bowen was gone for the first time. From the missing clothes in the closet, it was not difficult to see that he had gone out very early.

Old Bowen came to the dining table, picked up the water cup and drank half of it in one breath. After taking a breath, he sat down at the dining table. "Honey, I have something to tell you."

The wife brought the fried steak to the dining table and asked casually. "What's the matter?"

Old Bowen knocked on the dining table lightly. "I pawned my house and several factories."

The wife was stunned. "Why?"

Old Bowen sprinkled seasoning on the steak and explained the reason. "Last night, Bowen came back and said that His Royal Highness Yannick borrowed money from them."

"His Royal Highness borrowed money? This is really new. His Royal Highness is still short of money? How much do you want to borrow?"

"Ten million dollars. His Royal Highness certainly knows how these bastards can have so much money. He borrowed it for us as parents."

The lady was even more puzzled. "You don't have to pawn all of it. You can still get ten million together, right?"

Old Bowen put down the condiment bottle and sighed softly. "Isn't it because of my son? With his character, when you and I are gone one day, this family business will either be ruined by him or cheated by others. Won't he starve to death? After all, His Royal Highness Yannick is the future German emperor. We won't let him starve to death because of our dedication, right?"

"..." Thinking of their naive son, the lady sighed helplessly. "How much money did you raise?"

"His Royal Highness said that he would be able to pay it back in early 1930. So, apart from the funds that were barely used up in the past two years, we raised all the money we could, and also borrowed a lot from a few friends. We raised about 150 million." Cutting a piece of steak, old Bowen sighed. "Eat less meat in the future, and save as much as possible."

"Got it."

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After counting the amount of the promissory notes handed over by Bowen, Yannick was stunned for a moment, a total of 30 promissory notes of 5 million US dollars. "Isn't your father heartbroken to buy a car?" From "Yannick's" memory, he also learned that among those friends, Bowen's family was the lowest, and he would have to sell all his family's properties to raise so much money.

Bowen replied naively while chewing biscuits. "My dad said that he has collected all the money for his coffin, and he has pawned everything that can be pawned at home. My pocket money will have to be reduced in the future."

Looking at this simple-minded boy who has no worries, Yannick patted his shoulder and said seriously. "Thank you. Don't worry, I promise that your pocket money will double in less than two years."

His identity as the future German emperor is still quite useful. Several people sent money one after another, all of which were 20 to 30 million. However, David, who was the richest among them, only brought 10 million. Yannick smiled in his heart and said nothing.

Adding the original 200 million, he now has 480 million US dollars in promissory notes in his hand. He felt that his hands were shaking. He never dreamed that one day he would have billions of funds in his hands.

After being excited for a long time, he came to his senses and had to get down to business. "Miss Annie, can a private person start an oil company?"

Annie thought for a while and nodded. "It seems that there is no law that prohibits private mining. Moreover, you are the Crown Prince." She was getting more and more confused about this Crown Prince. You said that you will be the German emperor in the future, and the entire empire will belong to you. What kind of business will you do? Even if you do business, you must do it in the name of the country. Why do you start a business separately and compete with yourself for business?

"That's good. Go and register an oil company for me right away. Recruit staff and order oil exploration and production equipment from the factory. I have to get it done before I come back. By the way, register a car manufacturing company." Yannick thought about it. If he continued like this, how many companies would he have to register? He should just do it. "You can register a 'German Zeus Company' and fill in 'unlimited' in the scope of business."

"Ms. Monica, go find Ferdinand Porsche. He was a designer at Daimler-Benz before, but he should resign now. Find a way to find him and tell him that I want to hire him as the chief designer and technical consultant for my car manufacturing company."

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

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

At the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, Porsche advocated the development of a small car, but received no support. During this period, Porsche was once excluded by others and had to 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 on three sides. The town was formed to mine the ore in the three mountains. Later, the ore in the mountains was exhausted, and the people left, and it became a ghost town with no people. "It's a great place. After buying the land, send an engineering team to work on it."

Yannick planned to build it into Germany's Area 51, and all important scientific research projects would be carried out there in the future.

"Miss Ina, you secretly visit the heads of the five companies, Henschel, MAN, Rheinmetall, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz, and ask them to design three tanks each, and say that they are what I want. Miss Monica, ask Porsche to design three tanks as well."

Watching the secretaries leave one after another, Yannick thought for a while and picked up the phone to connect to the Wehrmacht headquarters. "Commander Seeckt, I'm Yannick. Haha, nothing important, I just want to borrow a few people from you to accompany me on a trip abroad. There's no need to mobilize so many people, I only need four people. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel; Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Erich von Manstein; Walter von Brauchitsch. Just ask them to gather at the train station at ten o'clock the day after tomorrow."