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The birth of Royal One was far more than the creation of a luxury item. Nor had it been lavishly built by subordinates merely to flatter the emperor.

After all, it was his own enterprise, and Franz himself would be footing the bill in the end. Without the emperor's personal approval, someone would be held accountable.

Without question, the Austrian Automobile Group had poured everything into building this ultra-luxury sedan not to flaunt its wealth.

Franz could not possibly drive this car out for a spin. Information about it would not even be made public.

Besides advancing automotive technology, his purpose in making this request was more to test the nation's industrial strength.

As an emperor who had been bombarded by all manner of information, Franz knew perfectly well that data and reports could be fabricated out of thin air, but a physical object sitting right before one's eyes could not be faked.

At this time, Austria alone possessed a complete automotive industry. Every other country was still trailing behind in the dust.

Even if his subordinates had wanted to falsify things, they had no room to do so.

For Royal One's sake, Franz personally inspected the Austrian Automobile Group's largest automobile production base—the Prague Automobile Factory. Running at full capacity, it could produce 20,000 cars a year.

That figure would have been nothing remarkable in later generations; any automobile factory could easily achieve it.

Yet this factory, which averaged fewer than fifty-five cars a day, was already the largest automobile factory in the world, without equal.

In fact, the reality was even more astonishing. This seemingly insignificant annual capacity of 20,000 cars accounted for one-third of Austria's entire automobile production capacity.

The Prague Automobile Factory's output directly exceeded the combined automobile production capacity of Britain and France, and was