Chapter 76: Black and White Technology Says

The matter of the order has nothing to do with government officials, experts and scholars. In the system of market transactions, they are the defenders of the fair order and the analysts of theories, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, and most of these governors who attach importance to industrial development have risen step by step from the industrialists, and several are still family heads or important players, and their enterprises are still strong market players, which are not contrary to federal laws and regulations. As for experts and scholars, many of them work as consultants in industrial enterprises, and have in-depth research on enterprise operation, market fluctuations, and supply and demand. It is for this reason that the Minister of Industry has brought these people in, rather than the executives of large corporations and the like, with the intention of analysing the crux of the problem from a more macro and comprehensive perspective, and then seeking an appropriate way out.

How to guarantee the order, everyone has their own opinions. Orders mean demand in the relationship between supply and demand, there will be orders when there is demand, and in the case of a major turning point in military and transportation methods, the reduction of regular orders is expected, and in the process of this decline, find ways to maintain a stability of orders or even be able to rise against the trend, it will take some strategic measures. In the case of agricultural and forestry machinery, for example, if you want to keep orders for machinery and equipment, you need to persuade people to expand the scale of agricultural and forestry production, and to move from the traditional human and animal power model to the mechanical power model. This has been fruitful in the federal states of Lorraine and Neuchâtel, while in other regions, due to historical evolution, geographical climate, economic environment, etc., progress is still very limited, but even in the more distant future, the sky is full of flying ships, and crops still need to be planted, managed and harvested through ground labor, so the promotion of agricultural machinery is more feasible, and the same is true for forestry. However, it is not so easy to really promote these ideas, and the best guidance is the market and capital. One of the simplest examples is that the government takes out a certain amount of money to encourage people to reclaim wasteland and subsidize the consumption of agricultural machinery for people, and the production enterprises of agricultural machinery promote the use through reasonable rental.

However, agricultural and forestry machinery is a relatively low-end product in the field of machine technology after all, even if this piece is stabilized, it will not help to maintain the development momentum of "black machinery" - people are accustomed to calling the mechanical technology with Xingyuan stone as the core "white machinery" or "mysterious machinery", and the conventional mechanical technology such as internal combustion engines and electric motors is called "black machinery" or "scientific machinery". In the current era, it is automobiles and airplanes that truly represent the high-end level of "black mechanical" technology. In this civilization-level incident, airplanes are the industry that has been hit the hardest by flying ships and is almost impossible to save. After all, whether it is from the military or civilian field, once the supply of star source stones increases suddenly, the number of flying ships will also increase geometrically, so whether it is in the field of military use or civil air transportation, people will tend to use flying ships with higher cost performance.

In the foreseeable future, huge flying warships will once again dominate the blue sky, and various types of flying ships will be able to quickly establish air transportation routes covering major cities, and whether it is passenger transportation, postal services, or some special fields, aircraft do not yet have the conditions to compete with flying ships. In the military realm, there is no room for survival unless the flying unit can prove that the aircraft can be stronger and more practical than the ultra-light flying ships that use the Star Source Stone.

In the optimism of agriculture and forestry machinery and the pessimism of the aircraft industry, the automobile is an industry in a delicate position, which can be up or down, and there is more room for imagination and play. As a result, the meeting focused on how the automotive industry can maintain existing order levels. In this regard, the bigwigs have different opinions and have put forward a lot of interesting suggestions. For example, the concept of family cars, which is in line with the trend of historical development, but the problem that needs to be solved is how to reduce the cost of family cars to the level that every family is likely to afford, and how to make ordinary people accept the concept of cars, which is not only traditional propaganda can do. In the military sector. There are a wider range of types of vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, from transport trucks, reconnaissance vehicles, wheeled light armored vehicles to tracked heavy combat vehicles, which can cover the needs of complex and changeable battlefields, and are obviously irreplaceable by flying ships. Therefore, the military field is an important direction of efforts to maintain vehicle orders, and what needs to be done is to make corresponding adjustments in the direction of technology research and development, design and production, so that it is more closely in line with the military's strategic thinking of taking flying ships as the main force on the battlefield. To put it simply, it is necessary to develop combat vehicles with assault capabilities suitable for use in the Airborne Forces, as well as multi-purpose vehicles suitable for use at night and in bad weather, which are carried out in response to the characteristics and disadvantages of flying ships. In addition to these two areas, Weiss also proposed an idea that quickly gained popularity, and that was the field of competition.

Taking the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Competition as an example, he analyzed that in a democratic country like the Federation, people's curiosity and competitive psychology are actually very strong, but many times they are suppressed and need to be released in a specific way, which is also one of the reasons why boxing and martial arts are very popular everywhere. If the federal states and the major industrial companies could join forces to organize a round-robin or cup car race, it would undoubtedly greatly increase people's interest in the competitive aspects of the automobile as a mechanical device. He explained with a figurative reasoning: in a city of 100,000 people, there are usually only 500 cars, of which 200 are public and 300 are households, if the city holds a monthly or weekly car race, and is incentivized by the appropriate prize money, many people will buy cars for training in order to participate in such competitions, and in a few months, the number of cars in the city will probably increase from 500 to 1,000, and the number of public vehicles will still be the same. And civilian vehicles have more than doubled. In terms of technology, people are pursuing faster and better vehicles due to the demands of competition, which not only promotes manufacturers to develop and produce, but also stimulates the wisdom of the public. Perhaps in a year or two, the city's car ownership and high-end level will be drastically different from the original city without such events, and it is common to scale up the city's model to the entire federation, but it should be noted that such competitions must be fair and just, as well as appropriate competition and entertainment, and must find ways to ensure safety, so as to form a long-term long-term virtuous circle.

In this field of competition, in addition to four-wheeled family cars, three-wheeled motorcycles and two-wheeled motorcycles can also be considered for introduction, so as to ensure and enhance the activity of mechanical products in this country. Although the development of automobile engines and transmission systems cannot replace aircraft, there are certain similarities between the two. In addition, the aircraft can also be introduced in competitive mode. However, considering the cost of the aircraft and the complexity of its handling, it is difficult to achieve large-scale popularization and can only be applied to a specific group of people.

Although Weiss's speech was prepared on the spot, with the training of the past, he organized this speech in an orderly manner, and was praised by the Minister of Industry and many bigwigs. He took the opportunity to say that Lorraine would like to be a promoter and demonstrator in the field of mechanical competition, and that the Lorraine government could organize a regional vehicle competition to explore fair and competitive competition rules, and then continuously improve and promote them, and try to encourage companies and individuals in the state to form automobile clubs. As long as there are 100 car clubs, then there will be orders for at least 1,000 cars, expanding to 10 federal states, which is 10,000 cars. With the boom of this sport, the number of demand will continue to rise, and a certain degree of competitive competition will speed up the consumption and renewal of vehicles, further increasing the size of orders and the level of technology. Other governors have also responded, saying that after the initial rules of Lorraine's car competition are determined, they will work together to form a regional car competition league, so as to form a more influential competition brand.

During the three-day meeting, in addition to Weiss's suggestion being novel and constructive enough, there was also an expert boss's suggestion that also brought inspiration to everyone, that is, in the case of a rapid increase in the number of flying ships, the military's "black machinery" will have a large amount of redundancy, so that the military can disarm or partially disarm these equipment and sell it to the people. In addition, in the event of a military threat or even the outbreak of war, these civilian equipment can be quickly pooled and re-incorporated into the military or used as equipment for militia organizations. In order to ensure the good maintenance of these equipment as much as possible, a rating system for the reserve can be created, as long as the military has accepted and used the updated equipment, and has shown the due level in qualified military training, you can get extra points in this scoring system, and these bonus points should be linked to the tax system, that is, to reduce the tax burden to encourage the public to keep and maintain those retired military machinery and equipment.

Finally, Industry Minister Anchorson said that the competitive system of automobiles and the civilian use of military machinery and equipment are the two major gains of this meeting, and maintaining the market activity of machinery and equipment is undoubtedly a necessary backhand to cope with the development of events and strategic adjustment.

After the meeting, governors, academics, and officials from the Ministry of Safety and Inspectorate were supposed to go back wherever they came, most of them leaving via the rail system. Before saying goodbye, Weiss and several familiar governors got together for a cup of hot tea, and naturally talked about things that they were all interested in. One of them is the "pollution revolution" and the relocation of factories in the capital region. The capital region was originally the strongest industrial zone in the federation, and the reason why the chief of Alves was not seen at this meeting was because the capital region was undergoing a major adjustment of its industrial layout. The reason is easy to understand: because the concentration of industry has led to severe pollution of the air and water resources in the region, the people of the capital region have demanded that the heavy factories that produce a lot of waste and sewage be dispersed elsewhere. For strategic reasons, the federal government intends to divide these plants into three categories for planned and scheduled relocation. The first is air pollution, in which factories relocate to the eastern seaboard and use the sea breeze to blow away the exhaust gases. The second type is the sewage production type, which is moved to the southeast and uses the raging tide to desalinate the sewage. There is also a category of less environmentally damaging ones, which are scattered to several federal states around the capital zone. In this way, the pressure on the capital region is reduced, and a certain degree of strategic concentration and security is maintained. So, the executives of the Capital Region are busy with these things right now.

Weiss had heard of this before, and his original intention was to contact some companies to relocate to Lorraine, but some time ago, the Lorraine industrialists were exhausted in order to solve the current financial problems, and they simply did not have more energy to recruit new partners, so they put it on hold. After all, the relocation of enterprises, the establishment of factories, and the recruitment of personnel all have to spend money, and there are no certain discounts and subsidies, so why do those enterprises come all the way to Lorraine? Besides, accustomed to life in the capital region, and then going to a remote and backward place like Lorraine, the psychological gap invisibly increases people's inner resistance. Rather than this, it is better to do your best to do your best, and wait for the influence and image to improve, so that those who look down on Lorraine will not be able to climb high.