In fact, none of Joseph's little inventions involved much technical difficulty.
For example, the Cheese Mixer had been brought straight over from a chemical plant. The Sausage Meat Grinder had been modified from a Coal Mine Crusher.
The world had only just entered the age of steam, and people's thinking had yet to open up. Thus, any engineering application Joseph casually proposed could greatly boost productivity.
Driven by two revolutionary food-processing machines, Parma's fiscal revenue had surged by more than 20 percent for two consecutive years—selling starch at the price of meat, how could it not be profitable? And that was before its raw-material procurement and sales Channels had fully matured.
As Parma's industrially produced agricultural byproducts had gradually entered the Balkans and Levant regions since the end of last year, its fiscal revenue growth this year was expected to exceed 30 percent.
The ceaseless influx of wealth also elevated the French princess's status in Parma. Even King Ferdinando consulted her whenever he encountered any major matter.
Below the display stand, Count Elerach ate until he still wanted more, then instructed his servant to order twenty pounds of "Parma King Sausage" to savor slowly after returning home.
Well, Joseph had originally intended to name the Starch Sausage "King of Kings," but Thales said it would remind people of that eunuch king in Persia. So Joseph settled for the next best thing and removed one "King."
Over the next three days, the novelties in the various national exhibition areas left Count Elerach's eyes wide open—
Milan's new Soda Ash bleaching equipment. Relying on France's cheap Soda Ash production capacity, it replaced expensive Potassium Hydroxide as a bleaching agent, reducing costs by 65 percent.
Florence used the Hot Blast Porcelain Firing Patent to rapidly bring the quality of its ceramics up to