The Duke of Newcastle not only disapproves of Xiao Letian's polluting arguments, but even insinuates that the Northern Industrial Zone is nonsense, and the key point of attack is the multiple standards of the Special Industrial Zone.

To be honest, this is really a source of chaos in the Tanggu Special Economic Zone, because in the early era of human industrial development, there was a long period of beggar-thy-neighbor, and various countries came up with different industrial standards for various purposes.

Each country kept its technology secret, and in the design and production process, the same parts had different names and standards, and even the spacing of the rails was deviated, the most famous of which was Tsarist Russia, where the Tsar actually used the distance between the two sections of his beard as the standard for the spacing of the rails.

Not to mention the steel casting and machinery manufacturing industry, which was the proper national lifeblood industry at that time, directly linked to the military industry, the military factories of various countries are highly classified places, and any words that can be leaked are carefully camouflaged.

This era is not like after World War II, when the industries of various countries began to cooperate and divide labor, and each country developed its own industry according to its own situation, and then learned from each other's strengths and weaknesses through trade. It was only in that era that global industrial harmonization and standardization could be carried out.

But the current world is not good, countries believe in the law of the jungle, all of them are red-eyed hungry wolves, desperately trying to tear off the flesh from each other's body to fatten themselves, at this time the countries are pursuing a large industrial system, because only the large industrial system can ensure national security, so that there will be no situation of being controlled by others.

To put it bluntly, all strategic material resources must be safeguarded, and then the industrial processing products carried out by using these resources must also be made by themselves, so that when war comes, people will not be stuck in the neck.

This kind of strategic thinking is difficult for people in the 21st century to understand, because in Xiao Letian's previous life, there were a large number of young people who had never seen war before, and sincerely believed in world harmony and human peace.

This was not the case in the international community before World War II, where almost all the great powers were preparing for war, and even if they didn't want to provoke a war, they had to be prepared to passively enter the war, and that sense of crisis existed not only in the hearts of politicians, but also in the hearts of ordinary people.

Another example is the current serious Franco-Prussian relationship, Xiao Letian is an undisclosed ally of Prussia, so he can get some highly classified information.

In those top-secret intelligences, Xiao Lotian knew that there had been a great breakthrough in the artillery technology of the Krupp Arsenal, and that the god of war had thrown his luck on Prussia, and France knew nothing about it.

When Napoleon swept across Europe, French artillery played a key role, Napoleon himself was born as an artillery commander, and his use of the god of war can be said to be superb.

At that time, France's cannon casting technology was definitely the first in Europe.

Unfortunately, when the Krupp company received the support of the Kaiser, the technology began to develop rapidly, and at this time the French were completely unaware that Prussia had begun to equip a large number of Krupp artillery with long range, high accuracy and strong power.

The scales of war have long been tilted!

All in all, the industrial development of various countries in this era, under the premise of the same basic principles, has taken a separate route.

Everyone is holding back the energy to develop their own characteristic industrial system, and they all hope that their country will be more efficient, more economical, and more technological, and in the end they will not be allowed to be stolen by others.

This has caused a great confusion of industrial standards in various countries around the world, and engineers in different countries have to go through a period of learning if they want to adapt to other people's systems.

Just like human beings want to learn a foreign language, at that time, the industrial standards of various countries were the languages in industrial production, and if you want to understand, you need to learn first, of course, the premise is that the other party is willing to teach you.

The standards of various countries are extremely chaotic, and the Northern Industrial Special Zone created by Xiao Letian is even more chaotic, and he does not completely copy the standards of one country, such as the United States and Prussia.

On the contrary, the Tanggu Special Zone is home to a number of companies from different European countries, some of which are joint ventures with the Americans, and some are joint ventures with Prussia, Britain, Italy, and other countries.

Of course, the United States and Prussia have the largest number of factories.

This is a point that many European engineers are very dissatisfied with, because it is very difficult to cooperate with different factories due to different standards, and it is also difficult to train Chinese workers.

Confusion, chaos everywhere, once a British engineer wrote to the old shopkeeper Fan Yao, saying, "If the Northern Industrial Zone completely uses British standards and systems, then the efficiency will be at least doubled!"

The industrialization process of the Qing Dynasty was naturally the object of the attention of the European powers, which was not only related to national security, but also to huge financial resources.

All the advantages and disadvantages of the SAR cannot escape the British intelligence network, and as a high-ranking British nobleman, the Duke of Newcastle is naturally familiar with each other.

Today, when he heard Xiao Letian question the pollution of Britain, the duke, who refused to suffer a little loss, immediately began to fight back, on the one hand, attacking the weakness of the Tanggu Special Economic Zone, and on the other hand, planting a seed in the heart of Emperor Tongzhi.

The standard should still be the best of the United Kingdom, you look at how developed our British industry is, the world's first! If you don't learn from the first, can you learn Xiao Letian's international brand? This is not the work of a wise man.

Hidden under the beautiful diplomatic vocabulary is the competition of interests between countries, and Xiao Lotian understands that the Duke of Newcastle is trying to overestimate the value of Britain by belittling himself.

The future industrialization of Chinese mainland is destined to be a huge cake of hundreds of billions of silver dollars, and Britain can no longer sit still, and they will start to grab food and eat it.

Thinking about all this, Xiao Letian smiled faintly, "Wanguo brand? The standard is confusing? I don't think so, on the contrary, I hope that my special zone in the Qing Dynasty will use this kind of universal brand standard ......"

"Without him, it's just a matter of a century-old plan!"

"A hundred-year plan?" both Jae-chun and the Duke asked in surprise.

Xiao Letian looked at the land of Britain with deep eyes, looked at the gray tone, and said sadly, "Yes, we can't just look at the front of us when we do things, we must have a hundred-year plan!"

"On the surface, what the Qing Dynasty lacked were steel mills, coking plants, textile mills, and chemical plants...... But the root cause is actually in science and technology, and it is because of the lack of technology that the Qing Kingdom cannot manufacture the latest machinery!"

"And what does science and technology rely on? It depends on people to create, so the most important thing is to cultivate talents!"

"Why do I want to adopt the standards of the international brand, why do I want to buy different models of equipment from all over the world? The purpose is to let our Chinese technicians have more and more contact with the technology of different countries to understand different design styles!"

"Only by reading a wide range of books can we make a breakthrough! Isn't it the same to cultivate industrial talents?"

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