Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 305: Breakthrough in Foreign Trade and Warning Signs of Railway Development

"Not only is domestic construction very encouraging, our foreign trade is also doing well." After Staff Officer Ye finished chatting with Ren Zhong about the domestic situation, they began to talk about foreign trade.

"Our three major foreign trade industries last year, clothing, electronic products and mechanical products, all had good sales. Especially our tractors and micro hydroelectric generators."

Speaking of this, Staff Officer Ye became a little excited.

Politically, the route of external expansion is as difficult as ever.

Dealing with the First World and the Second World has indeed been a waste of time and effort.

After all, when the new government was established, it resolutely abolished all the unequal treaties signed previously, so the relations between all the major powers and the new government’s allied forces immediately became less harmonious.

For Ren Zhong, this is not difficult to understand.

Like a big bear eyeing the territory, the new government flatly refused to maintain the status quo of Outer Mongolia. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it directly sent the Seventh Route Army to take it back. Naturally, there was no close relationship between the two sides. This was a greedy big bear that never knew how to be satisfied. There was no selfless help from the Davari at all.

Ren Zhong directly cut off their attempt in the north, leaving himself a vast strategic depth, which was not only for the security strategy of the new country, but also for the future generations. Not an inch of these lands that have been passed down since ancient times can be lost.

After abolishing the unequal treaties with the Western powers, the Western powers, which were originally rogues who sucked blood from the dragon clan, are naturally very unhappy now that their vested interests have been cut off. As a result, the difficulties faced by the new government in international relations are only slightly better than those in the main world's history and time and space. This is just relying on the big fireworks, the powers will not rashly turn against them.

Since no one knows how many big fireworks there are, no one dares to force them too much, and normal economic and trade exchanges are still maintained.

But if you want to establish diplomatic relations, forget it for now.

Through Ren Zhong's painstaking efforts, the domestic market has been initially formed, and the demand for product exchange with the great powers has become somewhat close. Large quantities of factory equipment from the great powers complement the light industry and electronic products developed by private capital supported by Ren Zhong. Such foreign economic trade exchanges have been maintained and have not been interrupted because they are beneficial to both parties.

The light industry that Ren Zhong has been developing for a long time, especially the clothing industry, has now formed a very large scale. After all, the large-scale application of two new clothing materials, nylon and acrylic, was initiated by Ren Zhong. In this way, the clothing industry has become one of the largest foreign trade industries at present, with annual sales reaching an astonishing level of 5 million US dollars, which is the income from the sale of tens of millions of garments.

Compared with cotton, these two new clothing materials may be less comfortable, but they can be produced on a large scale using machines, which greatly improves labor productivity and reduces costs. In addition, with a variety of styles available, the average price of around US$20 is also moderate, which is very attractive to ordinary people in major countries. With the vigorous promotion of Mr. Chen and his overseas team who connect to overseas markets, a brand effect has begun to take shape.

Even if it is just an ordinary channel brand.

Next is the electronics industry. Ren Zhong promoted the transistor industry, and its most successful product was the transistor radio. Compared with previous radios, it had huge technological advantages and had completely dominated the radio market. The price reduction and everyone's desire to obtain information from the outside world after the war made the radio one of the most in-demand products.

At this critical point in development, Ren Zhong adopted the sales method of the main world mobile phones.

The radio is divided into multiple generations of products, which are constantly updated and iterated to form product differences, and thereby create a price ladder, covering radio products from US$19.9 to US$99.9, covering both the low price and high quality of this popular product. The low-priced entry-level radio suddenly put the original low-priced crystal radio out of business.

After all, for foreigners, you can buy one for only US$19.9, which is really something they can afford if they squeeze a little. This price quickly began to spread in the major countries.

The radio suddenly became Ren Zhong's best-selling product.

In the past year, the export sales of radios have exceeded 500 million sets! This is truly a cash cow.

However, compared with mechanical products, these two products are just younger brothers.

"Brother Ren, the tractor you made is our Red Star agricultural vehicle. It's selling so well overseas that we have sold more than 10 units a year. This vehicle costs 1000 US dollars. This product alone can support the automobile production department of Shanxi Heavy Industry." When Staff Officer Ye talked about this, he couldn't figure out why this product was so popular. Even a lot of Rogue Eagles were imported, and Big Bear also sold several thousand units.

It can be said that this car, with its tractor structure and strange car appearance, which does not contain much technical content, is very popular abroad.

Of course, the micro water turbine engine invented by Ren Zhong, which can generate electricity by throwing it into a stream, is also widely used. It is priced at US$500 and has sold hundreds of thousands of units! After all, this thing can generate electricity as long as there is water flow, which can completely realize the freedom of electricity use in stream areas. For the rogue eagle who advocates freedom, several households can share one power generation device. If Ren Zhong had not registered a patent for this, his loss would be great. The threshold for the realization of this generator is lower, and it is not too easy for others to copy it.

So in this regard, Ren Zhong is very grateful for the patent system, which has allowed his motor equipment company to unexpectedly thrive with this product.

Of course, Mr. Chen made an indispensable contribution to this exported product. He promoted this product on a large scale in Southeast Asia.

Nanyang has a lot of rain and streams everywhere, which is a perfect place to use this product. According to Mr. Chen's sales method, it is equipped with a series of other machines, such as flour mills, water pumping stations and other small factory application scenarios that require power supply. With the painstaking efforts of the Longzu people in Nanyang, it is as popular as Red Star Automobile, turning Nanyang into one of the major overseas markets.

"What new products should we develop to open up overseas markets?" After Staff Officer Ye finished speaking about his proud deeds, he asked sincerely.

The world is in a state of disrepair. In Ren Zhong's view, there are market opportunities everywhere, but there will not be too many market opportunities belonging to the Dragon Clan.

In the historical time and space of the main world, the Japanese economy started from the three major industries of textile, food, and machinery industry, but the great development came after the steel, petroleum, and chemical industries made great progress, which led to the take-off of industries such as automobiles and electronics.

There were many accidental factors for the success of the Japanese on this path. For example, during the Korean War, the Japanese became the main logistics supply force for the entire Rogue Eagle Army and gained a lot of benefits from the war. These were things that Dragon Country had no way of learning from.

The current situation is very delicate. There is actually no tendency for the North and South regimes on the Korean Peninsula to live in peace. In today's world, war seems inevitable.

In other words, the rise of the Japanese seems unstoppable.

But is this really the case?

Ren Zhong was silent for a while. After organizing his thoughts, he said to Staff Officer Ye, "Let's stick to our current path. As a big country, we are different from other countries. We must complete the construction of an entire industrial system and achieve self-circulating development before we can truly be invincible."

"We need to further expand production capacity in the heavy industry of steel, chemical and petroleum, and increase the speed of technological innovation. The popularity of agricultural vehicles has its unexpected environmental factors. Of course, price factors are also an important point, but the next big driver of our development is the automotive and electronics industries. Our related research institutes are still increasing their investment in science and technology to develop new technologies.

If a new type of display screen is invented as expected, we will have a new product with greater market impact than the radio. This invention will be based on the basic principle of the television invented by British inventor John John Lodge Baird in 1925 and will be truly practical. In the future, I think this product will be a must-have entertainment product for every family, which will be a major source of profit for us in the next few decades. "

Ren Zhong's efforts in inventing televisions did not start just now. He started researching display screens a long time ago. After all, display screens are also a core component of technological products.

Now that we have made a breakthrough, we can produce products with palm-sized displays.

For radar, the display is now basically usable.

But to reach the level of a TV, it needs to be at least 12 inches to be valuable.

"Brother Ren, you are the one who can see far ahead." After listening to this, Staff Officer Ye nodded and was very confident in Ren Zhong.

"The last question is that there is a controversy in the railway field. According to the plan of the Liming Railway Research Institute, the train locomotives are to be replaced by internal combustion engines. However, the railway mileage is increasing very rapidly. The new internal combustion locomotives that were originally planned to be produced in three years are no longer able to meet the needs of the railway mileage.

In this regard, private capital has a strong voice, believing that we should relax the policy on locomotive research to allow private capital to have the opportunity to participate and improve the technical level of our railways. "

Ren Zhong's eyes flashed and became a little sharp.

"Private capital also wants to get involved in the railway industry?" Ren Zhong asked.

"There are indeed several investors who are very interested in the railway. They are not only interested in locomotives, they also have a very strong interest in the operation of the railway." Staff Officer Ye said with a wry smile.

Before he came today, several groups of people had come to him one after another to ask Staff Officer Ye to persuade Ren Zhong to open the railway.

You must know that in the current major industrial planning, Ren Zhong is the real soul figure and his words are the final word.

These people are also very powerful and have obtained this information, so they found Staff Officer Ye to act as a lobbyist, but Staff Officer Ye did not have this intention.

In the usual process, Ren Zhong would definitely just say a few nonsense words to complete the process.

But in today's situation, Ren Zhong noticed something unusual.

Railway construction was in full swing. In the originally harmonious development process, a hint of disharmony suddenly emerged. The debate over the technical routes of steam locomotives and diesel locomotives suddenly broke out in the newspapers!
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