Chapter 776: Making a Fortune in Quiet Places (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
Unlike many factories in Europe and the United States that "go it alone" at this time, Daming's leading industrial product quality is not just based on a single product. Even a seemingly inconspicuous product comes from the entire industrial system. Its quality and output are also rooted in this industrial system. Daming relies on an advanced industrial system to crush European and American products.
Europeans don’t understand this at all now. In fact, even many years later, only a few people can understand its importance.
"It is impossible for Daming to lead the entire system. Just by hiring away an engineer, it is definitely impossible for them to produce products that are comparable to ours."
how so?
Is it true that the British had no chance of producing the same bicycles as theirs, because of that system?
Looking at the stunned Kent, Brian thought for a moment and said in a serious tone.
"Mr. Kent, can I give you a suggestion?"
"Of course, you say."
Kent looked at him, a little confused.
"If you want to produce a bike of comparable quality to the Phoenix, there is a way!"
Kent asked hurriedly.
"What is the solution?"
"That is, you buy key components from Daming, then assemble and produce them, and produce ordinary parts yourself. In this way, even if your quality cannot catch up with Phoenix, it will definitely be better than other British products! At that time, your factory's profit from the whole vehicle may be a little less, but correspondingly, you can produce more bicycles and get more profits."
how so?
Although Kent found it difficult to understand why an engineer could not bring him the technology he imagined, the path he proposed made his eyes light up.
Import raw materials from Ming Dynasty and produce in the UK!
This seems to be a good choice too!
In fact, for businessmen like Kent, they don't have much choice. Importing high-quality parts from Daming can always solve product quality problems. Thus, it can open up the sales of products, which can at least make a certain profit!
Of course, this is not a bad thing for Daming’s enterprises. After all, the spare parts market is also a market and can bring extremely lucrative profits.
When leaving the hotel, Brian was full of gratitude. He was grateful not to other people, but to the man who vowed to defeat "MADE IN DAMING!". Without the affirmation, he would not even have discovered his own value. It was because of Kent that he realized that his value was actually very simple - without Daming, he would be nothing.
“Oh, I can become a citizen!”
Brian was a little excited to think that he, who was originally a little hesitant, no longer hesitated and did not need to worry about it.
Becoming a Ming citizen means that he can enjoy many benefits as a Ming citizen, such as paying for pension insurance, medical insurance for locals, and unemployment insurance. These benefits can only be enjoyed by the Ming.
He has been working in Ming Dynasty for seven years, has already passed the "Chinese Language Proficiency Test", and also holds a long-term visa from the company. With all the procedures complete, there will be no problem for him to apply for naturalization as a Ming Dynasty citizen.
Just when Brian made an extremely critical choice in his life, he didn't know that on this day, Emperor Zhu signed the document to establish the Imperial Security Bureau and signed several bills on confidentiality.
"Hey, signing these bills is really against the principle of free trade!"
When signing the "Ming Empire Technology Control Import and Export Act", Emperor Zhu said with emotion.
"Nowadays, the world's technology and equipment are freely circulated, freely sold and imported. If we impose such restrictions, I'm afraid we will set a precedent..."
Is this precedent good or bad?
Emperor Zhu himself couldn't explain it clearly. After all, most of the Ming Dynasty's technology came from the system mall, rather than being introduced from Europe.
"Your Majesty, by setting up technology export barriers, we can ensure to the greatest extent possible that our technology will not be obtained by enemy countries."
Fang Zhanbo, the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, said with some emotion.
"In the past decade or so, we have introduced European and American technology patents and experts and scholars. Their arrival has directly promoted our development and improved our level. Similarly, our current technological lead over Europe will also encourage them to poach our people. Once they do, it may be a huge blow to us, Your Majesty!"
In fact, Emperor Zhu certainly knew all these things. He had seen too many technological blockades in another world. Why in another world, would Western countries impose various technological blockades on China? The fundamental reason was that they had learned from the lessons of the Soviet Union.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Soviet Union took advantage of Western free trade and introduced a large number of technologies and technicians from Europe and the United States. They not only imported complete sets of equipment and production technologies, but also directly commissioned European and American countries to design warships for them, and directly introduced the naval gun technology, steam turbine technology and various other technologies needed to produce warships. Even the factory that produced T34 tanks was directly introduced from the United States. The factory building was designed by an industrial building design company in Detroit, and the machines were provided by dozens of factories in the United States.
It was through the introduction of mature Western technology that the Soviet Union became the world's second most powerful country. Faced with such a situation, the United States established the Batumi Organization during the Cold War to blockade the Soviet Union's technological source.
This blockade did play a big role - the Soviet Union could only obtain some technology through smuggling and theft, which directly affected the development of the Soviet Union.
The experience of another world... Of course the Ming Dynasty had to learn from it, but what it learned was intelligence and technology introduced from Europe and the United States just like the Soviet Union. In the past fifteen years, through targeted introduction, the Ming Dynasty was able to catch up with European and American countries in a short period of time. Even until now, technicians from Europe are still widely present in various enterprises. It is the presence of those experts and scholars that enabled the Ming Dynasty, which had a weak foundation, to achieve national take-off.
“This technical barrier is mutual!”
Emperor Zhu pursed his lips and then said.
"There is no need to widely publicize these bills. When we set up barriers, the other side will also set up barriers. Maybe they will not be able to react in the short term, but when they react, it will also affect our introduction of talents and technology. If Ming wants to develop, it must use various means to harvest the world's intellectual resources worldwide and let the world's talents be used by Ming. As for technology..."
After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.
"We can sign a confidentiality agreement with the company and strengthen technical precautions. Our technological leadership is a systematic leadership. There are many technologies. Simply introducing one of them will not solve the problem. What do we want to prevent? Technology leakage. We should use commercial means as much as possible, at least..."
Emperor Zhu smiled and said.
"While we can still exploit the talents of Europe, it is better to keep a low profile."
It is a low profile, but the Imperial Security Bureau must be established. In fact, the emperor had already had the idea of establishing the Imperial Security Bureau long before Fang Zhanbo proposed to strengthen internal confidentiality. After all, the Investigation Bureau cannot be the only one in charge. In the future, the Investigation Bureau will be responsible for overseas affairs.
As for the domestic situation, let the Imperial Security Bureau be responsible for it. After all, counter-espionage activities also need to be carried out domestically.
There must be restrictions on business, and the country cannot relax either, but it can be done quietly!
Making a fortune in silence is the real truth!
"After all, we have limited talent right now. If we can harvest a handful of European leeks, we'll harvest a handful first, and then..."
After a pause, Emperor Zhu said.
"Let's wait until we actually have our own talent system!"
When talking about his talents, Emperor Zhu Da deliberately looked at the calendar - June 27th.
"In four days, it will be graduation day!"
Graduation day is July 1st. That day is the graduation day of famous schools. Every school will hold a grand graduation ceremony for their graduates.
It has been several years since I attended the graduation ceremony of the University of South China.
"Yes, sire."
Fang Zhanbo replied respectfully.
"Um."
Nodding, Emperor Zhu said.
"When the time comes, come with me to Nanhua University to attend their graduation ceremony! After all, they are my students too!"
(End of this chapter)
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