It took Scrooge more than a month to travel around Europe and reach relevant patent transfer agreements with the British, French, and Prussians respectively. Only the Austrians were extremely dissatisfied with Scrooge's behavior of arming the Sardinians, so they had no sincerity to negotiate seriously with Scrooge. As a result, Scrooge simply sold the sales rights of the Austrian piece to Napoleon III. Anyway, Austria wants to pull Napoleon III to deal with Prussia, and I am embarrassed to block Napoleon III's way to getting rich.

After completing these things, Scrooge will be ready to return to China. Before returning to China, he decided to spend time in the Kingdom of Sardinia to visit those employees who worked hard for the company in foreign countries...

It was already July, the hottest time of the year. The area where the Kingdom of Sardinia is located is the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs to the typical Mediterranean climate zone. The characteristic of the Mediterranean climate is that it is hot and dry in summer and warm and rainy in winter. However, perhaps because the industrial level of this era is still limited, and the emissions of greenhouse gases are far less than those of later generations, the summer of this era is not too difficult.

Under the recommendation of the Rothschild family, Scrooge first visited the king and prime minister of Sardinia, and then came to a military camp in Genoa to visit the staff of "Blackwater".

When I met everyone, first of all, it was the old-fashioned wish, such as giving everyone a bonus as long as the battle was won; then there was a more realistic material encouragement, each sending a small red envelope or something. The number is not large, but it is barely enough for them to go to the city to find a girl to have fun with.

Then comes the real thing: listen to the reports of the consultants, analyze the problems that arise, and brainstorm and propose solutions to the problems.

"There are no major problems in terms of technique and tactics at present," Robson said, "but the most fatal problem is still difficult to solve."

"What kind of question?" Scrooge asked.

"The Italians are too smart. That's the big problem! They're not British bastards who can be whipped into automatic machines. When you're training, for your whip's sake, they're They can complete all kinds of tactical actions meticulously. But they are far from forming the automatic response of the British. This can be seen in their eyes! These guys are really on the battlefield. The idea is to let others sacrifice for the country. Don't look at the training state as good now, but God knows what they will look like when they go to the battlefield. If it is not done well, you shout "charge" and look back. It may be that they all ran away. I am really worried that they will ruin the reputation of Macdonald 1857." Robson replied with a frown.

"Then, are things like supervising teams useful?" Scrooge asked.

"It's hard to say." Robson was not optimistic about the effect of the supervising team. "If an army relies entirely on supervising the battle team to fight, then giving them any weapons is useless."

"Political agitation? Garibaldi seems to be doing very well," asked Scrooge. He remembered Garibaldi's army. Although the equipment and treatment were average, the morale seemed to be good all the time.

"God knows how he did it. And as you know, Mr. Macdonald, our Italian is limited to a few words related to the military. We can't impress them with speeches. And those Italian officers .once you open your mouth, you won't know anything but 'for the king and the country'...Damn, it! If only there was a drug, like the pills in some chivalry novels, that would make people fearless after taking it Enough."

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the heart. After hearing this, Scrooge thought of a pill that could create miracles. Of course, this stuff is by no means a drizzle of cough syrup that "works wonders," which doesn't even make the robber hit the victim. The thing Scrooge had in mind was way better than cough syrup or something. This thing has a chemical name called methamphetamine, and a name known to modern people as methamphetamine.

Amphetamine, the predecessor of methamphetamine, is already a very strong stimulant. In the original history, in 1920, the Japanese Nagai Nagayoshi produced methamphetamine with a more obvious effect based on amphetamine. When used in small doses, this thing can improve people's alertness, concentration, skill-based abilities, and even cognitive and thinking abilities. When the dose is increased, there will be an increase in libido, a decrease in appetite, and an increase in self-confidence to the point of mania.

In the beginning, this thing was used as a general anti-fatigue drug. Due to the effects mentioned above, many drivers who ran long distances at that time, or students who were preparing to take various exams would prepare some of this stuff for themselves. It is used to refresh the mind and replenish physical strength. It became fashionable to eat methamphetamine when sleepy and tired.

After the outbreak of World War II, the Japanese also used this kind of thing in large quantities for the army. After using this thing in large doses, the user will become agile, bold, manic, and even prone to hallucinations of being attacked. So, um, why the Imperial Japanese Army is not afraid of death, why the Imperial Japanese Army needs comfort women, and why the Imperial Japanese Army likes to carry out massacres spontaneously, you can get part of the answer from here. By the way, most of those Japanese pilots who tied the cloth strips of "Seven Lives to Serve the Country" and flew the plane out of Kamikaze, in fact, only dared to die after using large doses of methamphetamine.

After the defeat of World War II, during the rebuilding period of Japan, various companies in Japan unanimously used a large amount of methamphetamine on the workers, so the Japanese workers worked so hard that they couldn't stop, and even died of overwork. down. When he finished his work and returned home, as soon as the medicine passed, he immediately fell into a mess of depression. At that time, the drive of Japanese workers, so many karoshi deaths, and the highest suicide rate in the world was closely related to methamphetamine. To put it bluntly, during that time, almost everyone in Japan was skating. Later, countries around the world gradually noticed that this thing was highly addictive and harmful, and began to ban it, and the Japanese naturally followed their father’s country to ban it. Then, well, everyone knows that Japan has more and more. A kind of creature - Heisei dead house.

In fact, not only Japan, but even the hope of democracy and the beacon of freedom also use similar things for the military. (The evil Rabbit Country has recently produced such a small anti-fatigue pill, especially for the army. It is said that it can keep people awake for three days and three nights, but I don’t know if it is also such a thing) For example, To allow combat aircraft pilots to perform missions for a long time, the Americans have used such things for them. A side effect of this thing is that the pilot is prone to nervousness, and if it is not done well, there will be a little trouble on the ground. For example, someone in Afghanistan got married at home, holding an AK-47 and using tracer bullets to pretend to be fireworks. Well, it happened that a fighter jet piloted by a neurotic pilot who used amphetamines flew over it. The pilot saw the flames, and he became neurotic, and the bomb was dropped, so the next day's newspaper appeared " The U.S. Army mistakenly bombed the wedding bridal chamber, resulting in a massacre" and other news.

If you use this for those Italians, even if they are Italians, as long as they are willing to take medicine and take a large dose, they can turn them into howling tigers and wolves. Of course, the additional condition is that more tourism and entertainment services must be prepared for the army.

However, using this thing in large doses can have serious consequences. Excessive excitement must be followed by an excessive depression. Moreover, the use of large doses will also destroy the ability of the human brain to naturally secrete dopamine. Well, this kind of lesion is physiologically irreversible. The secretion of dopamine is closely related to people's sense of happiness and well-being. So no matter what happens from now on, this person will never feel happy. After the Gulf War in 1991, a large number of American soldiers suffered from the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome", manifested as muscle pain, easy fatigue, insomnia, forgetfulness, depression, body weight loss, and decreased sexual function. The U.S. military has done a lot of research on this, sometimes talking about the vaccine problem, sometimes saying it was the Iraqi poison gas leak, and sometimes saying it was the pollution of depleted uranium bombs. Anyway, there is no reliable explanation. Just drag it on until everyone's attention is no longer focused on this issue. Judging from these symptoms alone, it is likely to be the result of amphetamine abuse. The only reason why the U.S. military concealed this is so that it can do so when necessary in the future.

But these are not within the scope of Scrooge's consideration. Scrooge knows that even the king and prime minister of Sardinia don't care about those poor soldiers. I can no longer feel any happiness and joy. Compared with the jingling gold coins, compared with the glory and benefits of victory in the war, what are the desperation and pain of the injured soldiers in the countless days and nights after that, as well as the worries and sufferings of their relatives? All this, together with themselves, is nothing more than nothing.

"Methamphetamine is a good thing. The Italian War of Independence is about to start, followed by the Civil War, then the Franco-Prussian War, the two Boer Wars, and the exciting World War I. There is How much wealth! Even in peaceful times, which factory owner would not want his workers to spin like a fully wound machine? What a gold mine this is! I just thought of it now. By the way, in addition to powerful stimulants, isn’t strong anesthetics also a big gold mine? For example, diacetylmorphine, which is heroin, doesn’t Germany’s Bayer rely on packaging it as non-toxic and has no side effects, so it won’t be addictive, Can you make a fortune with the magic medicine that can cure all diseases? The monk can't touch me? Hurry up and go back to the country and make a fortune out of these things! What? Will anyone point out its harm, will someone come to expose themselves The propaganda that these things are safe, non-toxic, non-addictive, and non-addictive is a complete lie. Hehe, when the president of Bayer faced this problem, he instructed like this: "Whoever dares to say, hit He doesn't dare to say that he can't stop!' I am different from him. He only has some thugs at the level of local gangsters. I am different. I have a private army in my hand! Who dares to say this, I do it Is the 'Blackwater' company just for fun?" Scrooge thought viciously while showing a slight smile at the corner of his mouth. If at this time, a master who can read minds reads Scrooge's thinking, he will say with emotion that every boy who looks cute on the outside is black on the inside.