December 29, 1900, Hamburg, German Empire.
The plan to acquire Benz Company had been a great success, and the operation to relocate the entire Benz Company and its research laboratory had proceeded very smoothly as well.
With William II's approval, no one obstructed the acquisition or relocation. Arthur had spent only two million pounds to complete the entire purchase and handle all the aftermath.
As Germany's largest Automobile Factory, Benz Company possessed a car factory and a research laboratory, as well as an iron foundry and Machinery Factory established for researching and manufacturing engines.
Altogether, these factories and companies employed more than five hundred people. Of them, only a little over a hundred were willing to move to Australia, even with Arthur offering high salaries.
For more than a hundred people to be willing to bring their families to Australia and continue working there was already good news to Arthur.
Thus, after three days of preparation, those employees and their families successfully arrived in Hamburg and would take transport ships to begin their lives in Australia.
Traveling alongside them were the employees of an establishment called the Diesel Engine Laboratory and Engine Factory.
That was right—Arthur's target was not Benz alone. In the engine field, which was intimately tied to automobiles, there was another talent whose reputation was no weaker than Benz's, a man known as the "Father of the Diesel Engine": Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.
Rudolf Diesel was an irreplaceable genius and pioneer in the engine industry, especially the Diesel Engine industry, and was honored as the Father of the Diesel Engine.
Even the German word for diesel had originated from Rudolf Diesel's name.
Like Benz, Diesel's invention of the Diesel Engine had already achieved considerable results. The Diesel-powered compression-ignition engine he had invented not only delivered great power