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Chapter 1184 Killing the Anza people's road to technology (second update, please subscribe)
In fact, if it is possible to export warships to countries all over the world, Emperor Zhu will not reject it.After all, everyone knows that the arms trade has always been the most profitable business in the world.

The same is true in this era, except that in the 19th century, there were not many countries that could afford warships.

After counting and counting, there are only a few countries in the world that need warships.In another world, South America is the main destination of European export warships, but now, there are only three countries left in South America: Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.

As for Europe, except that Russia will purchase warships from other countries, almost all of his European countries are self-made.

It is not easy to be a big buyer like Russia.

However, the entire warship may not be bought by someone, but some countries will still be willing to buy the corresponding subsystem technologies.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

That is, while the British Royal Navy formulated an ambitious expansion plan, in private, they imported a lot of naval technology from Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention the large-caliber tube retreating guns, the nickel steel armor technology was also directly transferred by Daming. After all, the warships designed in the "Shengde [-]th Plan" used more advanced carburized armor steel technology.

Because of this, of course Daming would not refuse the fat pig that came to his door.Little did the Brits, who paid big bucks, know that some of the technology they bought was outdated before they even got out.

"According to the agreement we reached with the Bidmore Steel Works, they will pay us a patent fee of 5 pounds for every ton of nickel steel they produce. According to the location of the ship, the thickness and shape of the armor, a piece of British-made The price of nickel steel armor per ton was between 20 pounds and 27 pounds, while the price of a ton of ordinary steel plate was only 3 pounds to 6 pounds at that time.

In the royal garden, Lin Yuehu said with a smile.

"The armor required for a battleship is about 3000 to 4000 tons, including hull armor and turret armor, and every battleship built by the Royal Navy means that we pay [-] pounds, although the Navy does not This income will not be shared, but the additional income brought about by technology transfer will also increase the enthusiasm of domestic steel factories for R&D and provide them with sufficient R&D funds. The money earned is spent on research and development, even if it transfers some technology to hostile countries, it has nothing to do with it!"

In fact, the transfer of technology is very common in this era. In another world, Germany Krupp transferred the technology to the UK the year after it invented carburizing steel. The UK paid a patent fee of 10 pounds per ton, which also caused It created a situation, that is, during the dreadnought arms race between Britain and Germany, the British Royal Navy used Krupp’s carburized steel to build dreadnoughts, and the UK paid Krupp’s patents while competing. fee.

Even at the beginning of the outbreak of the First World War, British Steel still paid patent fees to Krupp through neutral countries, as did many other British companies. It was not until the second year that Congress passed a special bill requiring it to introduce German technology. of British companies adopt the "book-entry system" to deposit patent funds into a special account in a British bank.

When the war ended, the so-called special account became Germany's indemnity.Even the patented technology of German companies has become part of the reparations, and through the so-called "truce treaty", a large number of technologies that they have been jealous of for decades have been plundered from German companies.I have to say that even if the Anglo-Saxons are robbers, they will first set a rule for themselves. What rules should they set?
It is the rule that legalizes robbery.

People don't just go to the door and rob like the big hairy guy, but first pass some laws to legalize the robbery before doing it, and then say-this is the power conferred by the law.

That's what Anglo-Saxons typically do - be a bitch and set up a torii.

"Although the truth is the same, we must also pay attention to the scale. What technologies can be transferred? What technologies cannot be transferred. We must grasp it well. Some technologies must never be transferred."

Emperor Zhu did not object to this decision of the navy.

"I understand that basically the technologies we are working on are from the British or other European and American countries. The technologies that can make key breakthroughs in the next two to three years, and we also spent a lot of thought when selecting the transferees. .”

Lin Yuehu replied.

In fact, Ming has long set a standard for technology transfer—that is, technologies that European and American countries can make breakthroughs in the next two to three years.

Why was this standard established?

It's not just to earn a lot of technology transfer money and corresponding patent fees.To put it bluntly, it is to combat their invention and innovation.

Invention and innovation require a lot of investment. Every time, when companies in Europe and the United States are about to make a breakthrough in technological innovation, the empire will generously transfer technology to some companies, which will naturally lead to those who invest a lot of money in technology research and development. Many enterprises are in some kind of predicament - the technology they have just researched has fallen behind before it is put into the market, or their competitors have seized the market with the technology imported from Daming.

"Just like the reason why we chose Bidmore Steel Works this time instead of Shelfield Steel Company is because the latter is already the most advanced enterprise in the UK in the field of alloy steel. Technology will effectively attack Shelfield Steel Company and their initiative to research new technologies."

Lin Yuehu's answer made Emperor Zhu nod and said.

"Well, technology transfer is a double-edged sword. It seems that it can improve the opponent's strength, but it will also weaken the opponent's research and development capabilities. We must use this sword skillfully, but we must also prevent ourselves from being hurt!"

In fact, this set of methods is in another world, the method most commonly used by the Anglo-Saxons. They often use similar methods to suppress late-developing countries and suppress the technological innovation capabilities of late-developing countries. It may even destroy a country's ability to innovate.

Even if it does not destroy a country's innovation ability, it will kill a country's innovation ability to some extent.In the competition between nations, such strangulation has sometimes been disastrous.

(End of this chapter)