Since factories like Steel Mills were basically guaranteed to make a profit, what was there to say? Of course, they had to build Steel Mills on a grand scale.
Continuously expanding the scale of the Steel Mills would also help raise Spain's overall industrial level, benefiting both the Royal Family and the government.
It would also provide Spaniards with more jobs and accelerate Spain's economic development. It was simply a three-way win.
Without the slightest hesitation, Carlo immediately instructed Butler Loren, "From now on, focus on expanding the bank and the Steel Mills. The other industries can be postponed for a while."
There was no helping it. If Spain wanted to catch the train of the Second Industrial Revolution, it had to draw in a large number of relevant talents from other countries.
To recruit enough talent from other nations, money was the first necessity.
Money moved people's hearts. No matter how tremendous their scientific achievements were, researchers were still ordinary people with material needs.
Even if they themselves had little desire for material things, they had families, and their families would have such needs.
Therefore, the simplest way to recruit talent was to give them and their families enough money and provide them with the material comforts and lifestyle of a nation's upper class.
Letting a scientist who had once been destitute, perhaps even on the verge of his family's ruin, suddenly enjoy the life of the nation's upper class, with inexhaustible money and endless material pleasures, would surely move that scientist's heart.
Although throwing money around seemed rather crude, at a time when most European commoners lived in poverty—or even in hellish conditions—it truly was the most effective method.
Of course, no matter the era, the lives of the lower classes were destined not to be very good.