Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 473 Postwar Recovery: Coke’s Monopoly ()

When computers were first developed, it was just a flash of inspiration, but seven years have passed since they were actually used on spacecrafts.

In the past seven years, computer companies have taken many detours, and then the patents were bought out by the military before they were finally used in aerospace.

The concept of computers was actually proposed during the Second World War.

The smoke of the war had dissipated, and the computer was introduced.

It took another seven years to apply it on a spacecraft, and the process was tortuous.

In essence, this is the fault tolerance policy that Zhu Qiyu brought to Ming Dynasty.

Scientific researchers should be treated with both discipline and tolerance. There are some who defraud scientific research funds, but there are also serious scientific research companies.

Scientific research projects must be full of twists and turns, and must be repeated step by step.

This requires Huangqi Investment Company to have sufficient error tolerance.

Loose investment policies are conducive to catalyzing investment projects.

Just say airplanes.

It was entirely supported by Zhu Qiyu with one hand, and how much money was poured into it. It was not until the Chenghua Dynasty that it was successfully developed. The whole process lasted for fifty years.

Nothing can be accomplished overnight, it is all fermented and formed bit by bit over a long period of time.

But the loose policy also has a drawback.

There are just too many liars.

Bad money drives out good money.

If you are not careful, you will be cheated.

From the Longqing Dynasty to the Wanli Dynasty, in more than thirty years, the imperial court invested in a total of 132 million projects, 148 of which were profitable, 11 of which were not at a loss for the time being, and the others were all in the red.

This set of data shows how bad the investment environment is.

Those scammers completely regarded the court as a fool and deceived them to death. 80% of the resources that the court poured into them every year went into their pockets.

And if the court changes its loose investment policy and adopts a tightening investment policy.

For the imperial court, it was just a matter of words.

But there may not be computers.

The technological revolution will not continue.

This is a point of conflict between each other, and there is no better way to solve it so far.

The development of science and technology is produced by burning money, so the goal of science and technology must be to make profits.

Not only do you want to make back money on this investment, but you also want to make back money on all investments.

From the Longqing Dynasty to the Wanli Dynasty, there were indeed losses on so many projects, but they had to earn back their principal from profitable projects and achieve profitability.

Therefore, the development of science and technology must be driven by capital.

And capital is accompanied by the attribute of profit-seeking, and it must be used to make money.

For example, Edison was packaged as a so-called inventor, but in the end it was discovered that he was just a personality packaged by capitalists, and he himself was a capitalist.

The purpose of invention is to make profit.

Recently, Zhang Ju is learning to operate a computer. He discovered that the world in the future will be changed by this computer.

However, today's computers are so large that the host requires several houses to accommodate them.

The two most difficult things in scientific research are: one is to create a new thing; the other is to reduce the size of this new thing and promote it to the public.

Zhang Juzheng also inherited Emperor Shizu's interest in aerospace.

He always believed that Emperor Shizu's vision was the best in the world.

The way he points to the future is space, so the future must be in space.

As long as it follows Emperor Shizu's guidance, Ming Dynasty will not go astray.

Moreover, there is a political context at this time. The domestic economic recovery did not achieve the expected results. The Ming Dynasty's economic policies were well proposed, but the vassal state was not a fool.

In particular, the vassal states have grown from many small countries to more than twenty large countries, and several small countries are currently uniting to form a federation.

In the future, there may be only one or two countries left on each continent. In other words, in the future world, only big countries will compete for hegemony.

Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wants to expand overseas markets, it has to get permission from others to do so.

The vassal state provided eye drops to Ming companies at every turn, resulting in companies being unwilling to invest. Naturally, Ming products were unable to capture the local market.

The pricing power of goods must take into account shipping costs.

If it is manufactured locally in the Ming Dynasty and shipped to the world, the freight cost will be very high. Add in tariffs, and the cost will be very high.

You have to build a factory locally.

For example, a Coke factory sells a can for two yuan. If it is filled from Daming and shipped to Oceania, the freight will exceed two yuan, which is a loss of money.

Coca-Cola factories must be built all over Oceania. This is a low-end product, and the money earned is hard-earned money.

Rather than making money from a can of drinks, it is far better to explore the vast sea of ​​capital markets.

The two imperial companies of Ming Dynasty, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, are indeed overcoming obstacles in the capital market. At the same time, they are also the countries with the largest cash flow in the world.

The two Coke companies have a history of more than 100 years.

The first one to be developed was Emperor Shizu.

It has always been an imperial enterprise.

It is also one of the legacies of the old emperor.

It stands to reason that the controlling persons behind these two Coke companies are the common people.

In the past three decades, alternatives have emerged in various countries, each with its own beverage brands, trying to compete with the blue ocean of the cola market.

What Zhang Juzheng means is that after acquiring other Coke brands, they will all become subsidiaries of the two companies.

The core purpose of acquisitions is not to become bigger and stronger, but to make competitors disappear.

This has indeed been the case in recent years.

The practices of the two companies are shameless to say the least.

Because the two companies were registered early, all formulas have been registered. According to the laws of Ming Dynasty, this formula must be protected by law.

The two cola companies have the right to sue all counterfeit products on the market.

Before other companies became big and strong, the two Coca-Cola companies turned a blind eye. When they did, they filed lawsuits against these companies.

The Ming Law is basically the one that prevails all over the world, and all the major vassals have made some deletions from the Ming Law.

Therefore, the two Coca-Cola companies acted very shamelessly. They sued whichever company was the best, and then bought the other company and registered a patent.

The two Coke companies have a lot of patents, mainly for the purpose of suing other companies.

This is also the reason why Zhang Juzheng proposed using commodities to dominate the world.

The concept of Coke was first proposed by Emperor Sejo. The two companies are also Emperor Sejo's companies, and the others are imitations.

In the past few years, in the cola market, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are basically killing each other. At the same time, the two companies are also in love with each other and constantly fighting each other.

As long as the major vassals abide by international law, they must let Ming Cola win the case.

The same goes for other products.

The origin of Coke is in Daming, and the origins of coffee, tea, and cigarettes are also in Daming.

Other industries can use the same method to occupy the global market and occupy a monopoly position.

This is what Zhang Juzheng hoped for.

Use foreign money to help Ming Dynasty’s economic recovery.

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