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Chapter 1770 We Don't Sell Technology

"The Dutch seem to have found something good, let's go and have a look."

The Spanish ambassador had just ordered a batch of tea and spices. They found the Netherlanders nearby screaming, and went over to ask curiously.

The Dutch nobles are still trying to find a way to buy tinplate canning technology.

Canning technology is not so easy to master, it involves high-temperature sterilization and sealing technology, and what the World Expo shows is the finished product, not a series of machines for making tinplate cans.

The same is true for the internal combustion engine. There is a finished product directly, and there is no sophisticated production machine. If you want to imitate it, you don't know how many years it will take.

"We don't sell technology, we only sell products and ideas," said the technician.

The implication is to buy canned food, which can be produced by the factory for you, and you also know that there is such a product as tinplate, and it is up to you whether you can imitate it and produce it.

The Dutch people are a little anxious. Can they study the production technology of tinplate cans after they get the tinplate cans?
It is certainly easy to make an identical can container with tinplate.

The problem is they haven't even figured out that bacteria are the cause of food spoilage, they don't know that food needs to be pasteurized, dehydrated, etc. , I don’t even know that the air in the can needs to be emptied before sealing.

Without this knowledge, it may be very difficult for them to research the complete set of technologies behind it, even if they know that such a product exists.

"What good things have you found?" the Spanish nobleman came over and asked the Dutchman.

"A canned food that can keep food fresh for a long time without spoiling, you should know what it means?" The Dutchman said to the Spaniard while holding a canned food.

The Spaniards also paid attention to sailing. When they heard that there were sealed cans in this era, they immediately realized their value, and their eyes widened: "How much gold and silver does it take to buy the technology to produce this can?"

"Technology is not for sale, but cans are for sale." The technician said helplessly.

These Europeans have a vicious vision, and they immediately thought of the value of food cans, and they wanted to buy the technology directly as soon as they opened their mouths.

"We buy cans from here, and when they are shipped back to Europe, they will spoil and completely lose their function of preserving food. Only when they are produced in our own country can we make the most of their functions." The Spaniard encouraged.

"Sorry, we also have a factory in the City of London. The local factory can produce canned food. You can buy canned food directly from the factory in the City of London. It will take less than a month to transport them in batches to the Netherlands or Spain. I don't think there will be any How difficult it is.” The technician still insisted on the principle.

When they heard that the factory set up by the Chinese in London could produce canned food, they were at a loss for words. It was indeed very convenient to buy canned food from London.

However, in this way, all the canned food supplies of the Netherlands Navy and the Spanish Navy will be in the hands of the Chinese. If a war breaks out between the two sides, the Chinese can completely cut off the canned food supplies.

"Huaxia people seem to intend to teach people how to fish, not how to teach people how to fish."

"But even with canned food, our navy can't beat their ironclads."

The Netherlands and the Spaniards failed to purchase the technology to produce canned food, and in the future they wanted to provide food with a long enough shelf life for their naval sailors and had to spend money to buy it from the Chinese. They couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.They were even more frustrated when they thought that even if they had canned food, they could not decide the outcome of the naval battle.

"We want to buy steamships. We have enough money in the Ottoman Empire. We can buy steamships with three or even five times your cost."

"The generator, we need it, and the telegraph, as long as we have money, we can buy it, right?"

"Gold and silver are not a problem. Our Ottoman Empire will pay gold and silver as scheduled. If possible, we want to hire your technicians to spread knowledge to our Ottoman Empire."

Grand Vizier Koplulu has a cheeky old face, and wants to buy some core technologies from the World Expo and even hire technical talents with high salaries.

He went from knowing nothing about industrial civilization to beginning to understand, roughly knowing which technologies are core technologies and which technologies are dispensable, or not so important for the time being.

However, this big man who called the wind and rain in the Ottoman Turkish Empire did not work very well in the East, and no amount of gold and silver would help.

The World Expo only sells industrial and handicraft products, not technology, and the core industrial products are not sold, only for viewing.

Even if they understand the purpose of some core industrial products, they still cannot know how to produce them.For example, generators, they don't know the principles of electromagnetism, so it is impossible to imitate generators by virtue of the appearance of generators.

They couldn't invent the telegraph without the dynamo and understanding what electricity does.Different technologies intersect with each other, without mastering the front technology, the difficulty of imitation is as high as the sky.

Not only the Dutch, Spaniards, and Turks were blocked, but the Persian emperor was also not easy to use, and the technology behind some core products and industrial products was not for sale.

It's like having something that you know is very good, but you don't know how to produce it, so you can only spend money to find others to buy it, and whether others sell it or not depends on other people's faces.This feeling is quite unpleasant.

The venue of the World Expo, the Crystal Palace, was full of traffic until noon. Before everyone could see all the industrial and handicraft products, the crowd began to go outside for a temporary meal.

The Ministry of Rites has prepared a dining car for the diplomatic missions from all over the world, and they can rest in the garden behind the Crystal Palace.

"Their bar seeders are very useful. It is estimated that they can effectively improve the efficiency of sowing, thereby increasing the production of food, and we can feed more people."

"There are several products called rubber shoes and rubber raincoats, which are waterproof. This is quite an amazing thing. It can be waterproof and rainproof when worn on the body. Maybe it can be equipped for musketeers in the future, so that they will not face the arquebus in rainy weather. The predicament of failure."

These envoys shared the novelties they saw in the Crystal Palace, and some of the new industrial products were really useful and could even be used in the military.

Food cans can be used for sailors or soldiers on land, and rubber raincoats can be used for musketeers, depending on how they are used.

"However, it's a pity that Chinese people are only willing to sell finished products, but not the technology to produce these products. Even if they are finished products, they have restrictions..." The ambassadors talked about a common phenomenon, and they felt a little headache.

(End of this chapter)