Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

“Hiss, it seems I was a bit rash.” After listening to Chief of Staff Ye's words, Ren Zhong felt a thud in his heart, realizing he had oversimplified things.

The current world of 'Bright Sword' has a distribution of power that is vastly different from the main world's instance. The biggest change is that Europe and North America are not entirely aligned.

Due to economic assistance from the East, John Bull is still firmly in control of its colonies in Black Africa, gaining considerable benefits and markets from colonial development.

Ding Wei's grain-growing teams have turned the barren lands of Black Africa into granaries, with hundreds of millions of acres of hybrid grain fields producing continuously high yields, reaching 700 to 800 kilograms per acre per year, enough to feed the Black Africans under John Bull's control with plenty to spare.

More importantly, Ding Wei's grain-growing teams did not consider raising grain prices to crush the local tribal agriculture. Instead, they helped them start modern farming techniques based on plantation demonstrations, repairing water conservancy projects to help the tribes near the plantations escape poverty and have enough to eat. As a result, the land in Black Africa under John Bull's control is quite stable.

Even if Rogue Eagle stirs up trouble with so-called freedom and autonomy, the local natives, having just had enough to eat, are now focused on cultivating more fertile land to get rich. Black Africa still has countless undeveloped lands everywhere, and Ding Wei's side is helping them build basic infrastructure such as simple roads, ditches, and wells with mechanical equipment.

Lazy tribes are left to fend for themselves, but hardworking tribes can now take off directly with the help of Ding Wei's grain-growing teams.

Coupled with the huge profits from mining, the Colonial Bureau has also invested heavily in local infrastructure. At least in terms of road construction, Black Africa's railway and highway construction is in full swing, truly finding a place for the Eastern infrastructure army to use its skills.

With roads, food, and mines, John Bull's overall economy has been pulled upwards, becoming the undisputed locomotive of Europe.

With the take-off of the domestic aviation industry, and giants leading the home appliance and electronics industries, John Bull not only has the desire to lead Europe, but also has considerable strength to speak!

Naturally, it is unwilling to be a subordinate to North America. After all, the total economic volume of Europe is not much weaker than North America. On the contrary, John Bull's economy in the 'Bright Sword' world has recovered very quickly. The loose former colonial federation, originally led by it, is somewhat unworthy of its name in the main world, but in the 'Bright Sword' world, it has actually formed a closely economically integrated confederation. The seamless market allows John Bull's industrial products in this world to have a market comparable to North America and the East.

Because of this, even though Rogue Eagle is very unhappy with John Bull's cooperation with the East, there is no way to stop it.

Because the joint collaboration between the East and Europe even far exceeds that of North America alone.

The East and Europe even tacitly transport light industrial products to the Great Bear from the east and west, occupying most of the Great Bear's market.

The entire 'Bright Sword' world has formed a large pattern of close economic ties between the East and Europe, penetrating the Great Bear in the Asian and African markets, and North America running through the North and South American markets.

The economic volume of the three parties is similar. Rogue Eagle still has the largest military force in the 'Bright Sword' world, but in terms of quality, the East has risen sharply, already having a huge advantage in the air, as well as a strategic and peaceful cliff-like leading advantage.

In terms of conventional ground forces, the current combined arms units also have obvious advantages. The demonstration units have high-quality suppressive forces such as the Qiang-9, armed helicopters, and the new Type 60 tanks, not to mention the rocket force, which is unique. In local areas such as Asia, a crushing advantage can be formed.

Under such a pattern, everyone finally gets along harmoniously.

If a dispute is rashly provoked, it will not be good for anyone.

Ren Zhong is clear about this pattern, but it seems a little too early to choose to break the situation at this stage.

After a long silence.

“Chief of Staff Ye, you are right. The current explicit restrictions do have many inconveniences, but I still believe this should be done sooner or later, and we should start planning now,” Ren Zhong said.

“Before the explicit control, our enterprises can restrict the export of advanced technologies and products through self-discipline, especially our unique products and technologies in the East. Now, we will raise the threshold and reduce the supply. If asked, it is because the production capacity is limited and cannot meet the needs of the market. We will focus on the internal market and our own products in the East, such as high-end chips. In the future, we will only export finished products, drastically reducing the number of chips and completely driving up the price of high-end products.”

“Our 8-way parallel computers must start at $1 million, and the top configuration must be tens of millions of dollars. We also require a commitment that they must be used for civilian purposes and not for military purposes. This can be clearly required. Our products will occupy their high-end computer markets in finance and meteorology.”

As Ren Zhong spoke, his thoughts became clearer and clearer.

Local control can not only alleviate the backlash from the other party, but also justify the early implementation of such control measures. When further strengthening in the future, at least the opponent will have some psychological preparation and will not explode and cause a lose-lose situation.

And high-tech materials such as carbon fiber are currently only exported as finished products, including aviation products such as the Airbus A300L. Carbon fiber components are directly supplied as parts after being processed in the East!

After 5 years of joint research and trial production with Rolls-Royce on the RB211/WS11, and talent training, the Eastern aviation engine has experienced a complete research and development process of advanced aviation engines. After absorbing a lot of Rolls-Royce's engineering experience, it has accumulated huge experience for the RB211/ws11 level aviation engine.

This experience was quickly reflected in the upgrade and improvement of the WS-9B. The aviation engine research team followed the research on the WS11 while independently improving the WS-9B, increasing the WS-9 by more than 20% in five years!

The original WS-9 had a maximum thrust of 54.5 kN, an afterburning thrust of 91.1 kN, a thrust-to-weight ratio of 5.05, a maximum military fuel consumption of hours, a maximum afterburning fuel consumption of 0.2 kg/N·hour, and a bypass ratio of 0.62. After the improved WS-9B, the maximum thrust increased to 68 kN, and the afterburning thrust even reached 110 kN. The overall mass of the engine was reduced to about 1700 kg.

The thrust-to-weight ratio was increased to 6.45, and the fuel consumption remained basically unchanged, which is a huge improvement in the performance of this engine.

It not only realized the upgrade and replacement of J-9 and Qiang-9, but also provided new power for CAC-150/Airbus A310.

New materials such as carbon fiber have played an important role in this regard.

Although Rolls-Royce is very envious of these new materials, and has made countless applications, Ren Zhong instructed Chen Hanyuan not to relax in this regard.

Whether it is the RB211 aero engine or the Airbus A310 new airliner, the East provides direct parts and not raw materials.

With the huge profit relationship of Airbus, if there is no core technology constraint, Ren Zhong can almost be sure that after the other party can completely manufacture independently, they will try to get rid of the East's control and share.

It should be known that the Dongda side of Airbus now has a 50% share of the dividends. Even John Bull doesn't have that many shares now. They had to give a share of the pie to the Gauls and Prussians in the aviation industry under the premise of opening up the European aviation market and forming a unified European Space Agency. They took out some shares and production lines to successfully form the three major European standard aviation standards.

The European aviation market was unified through this European standard.

Moreover, Airbus's main sales customers are now also led by these three countries, with other countries as auxiliary.

It can be said that export controls did exist in fact before.

Chief of Staff Ye is responsible for economic and technological affairs, and he knows the overall situation of Dongda's foreign trade and cooperation better than Ren Zhong.

It can be said that the most valuable and profitable things in Dongda are now cooperating quite deeply with companies in the Western United States.

Dongda's upstream technologies and products have been realized through a group of emerging leaders in the Qianlong Project, as well as top companies from John Bull's family like Rolls-Royce. Now they are all pivotal giant companies in the Bright Sword world.

Among the top 500 companies in the Bright Sword world, only nearly 100 are openly from Dongda, which is not as good as the nearly 200 from Rogue Eagle and nearly 130 to 140 from Europe. However, secretly adding the companies controlled by the Qianlong Project, the total number of Dongda's top 500 companies worldwide has exceeded 150. With this ebb and flow, the real strength of the top 500 companies under Dongda's control has surpassed Europe and is roughly equivalent to Rogue Eagle.

Moreover, with the development of the IT industry in the future, more companies will emerge from the IT industry in Dongda.

Acting rashly is indeed not appropriate.

However, there is no such problem with secretly restricting companies privately.

The technological leader in the Bright Sword world at this stage is undoubtedly the Dawn system. Not to mention the military industry, it is basically a unique leader, far ahead!

In terms of civilian use, the technologies of the Dawn system are basically used in industries such as aviation, railway locomotives, shipbuilding, electronics, telecommunications, and computers. Although the related companies are not necessarily wholly-owned by the Dawn system, the Dawn system must be the controlling shareholder in terms of major shareholders.

In terms of steel metallurgy, chemical industry, and new materials, most of the technologies, such as open hearth furnaces, converters, and many alloys, were also researched by the Dawn system. However, after more than 20 years of development, some people have also jumped out of the Dawn Research Institute to independently innovate. Therefore, the Dawn system does not completely monopolize technology in these aspects. Related companies have a variety of capital sources. The Dawn system of course also has some backbone companies, but the capacity it occupies is not so much. In terms of steel, except for special steel, ordinary steel, and even products such as ordinary rail steel, have been withdrawn, and these companies have been handed over to local state-owned enterprises.

Now the Dawn system's steel is concentrated on the production of special steel for shipbuilding and gun steel, high-end tool alloy steel, high-temperature alloy steel, and other special alloy steels. Although the production capacity is only a few million tons, the output value accounts for a considerable share.

Although the technology for household appliances such as televisions, microwave ovens, and refrigerators was developed by the Dawn Research Institute, considering that the technical threshold for their production is not high, the Dawn system has not interfered too much in the development of this industry, but has handed it over to local or cooperative capital for production and sales. The Dawn system basically only charges a certain patent licensing fee, so the development in this area is even more diverse, forming a huge supporting industrial chain and a large industry dominated by several large household appliance companies and supplemented by hundreds of small and medium-sized household appliance companies. It has now acquired the ability to be a major household appliance producing country in the Bright Sword world.

With the development of the electronics industry, the 8051 and 6502 chips designed and produced by Dongxin Technology began to become popular. Almost all household appliances began to undergo intelligent upgrades under the stimulation of these two chips.

The Dawn Research Institute released a white paper on 18 typical application designs based on these two chips. After the 8051 and 6502 hardware design and programming application technologies were made public, the household appliance industry in Dongda suddenly discovered a new world. Their leading companies took the lead in responding and started a wave of household appliance intelligence. Microwave ovens and rice cookers with 99 cooking modes have just come out, and new products with 1080 modes are immediately announced to be coming soon. Just the intelligent control of the two chips has directly brought the household appliance industry to the so-called intelligent era. The aggressive ones have already canceled all mechanical switches and entered the cool era of full electronic control.

This is Ren Zhong's plan to support the Dongda industry. For application-oriented product research and development, the Dawn Research Institute will handle the basic technology and core chips, and then give the application development to major domestic manufacturers to freely develop. The Dawn Research Institute basically no longer intervenes in specific application development.

Instead, it directly provides chips and related design basic kits. A small 8051 or 6502 chip single-board standard design can be produced on demand by downstream circuit board manufacturers according to the customization of application manufacturers. The Dawn Research Institute only completes a demonstration of the basic version, which is equivalent to inspiring countless applications and promoting the development of technology in this era. According to this planning step, the driving role of the Dawn Research Institute is now getting bigger and bigger.

Whether it was the standardized design of personal computers in the beginning, or the new single-chip microcomputer application design now, after completing the basic chip and design kit, it can be infinitely copied to an industry for large-scale application development, promoting the development of basic technology in Dongda and carrying out large-scale technology realization in all walks of life in Dongda, and cultivating some new industrial leaders through market behavior. In this way, full competition is realized in the product end with low technical requirements, and this fully market-oriented new method is more stable and powerful for Dongda's economic development.

Therefore, after an industrial survey, Dongda began to tighten its leading core technologies and actively implemented restrictive sales to the West.

In this way, even if giants like MBI design high-performance computers like parallel computer hosts, they are now gradually becoming a case of no rice to cook. According to the current order situation, their procurement quantity demand is far from meeting the needs of production.

Through the secret adjustment of high-end chips, related companies from the Dongda system have preferentially obtained scarce chip resources and have obtained huge profits in the high-end and high-profit host market.

(End of this chapter)