On March 25, 1689, the westerly wind roared off the coast of Nanding Port, and the waves were monstrous. A 150-ton river/offshore steamer flickered and struggled into the harbor.

As the sailor lowered the pedals, a man in a thick woolen coat went ashore with a bitter face. His name is Mo Xingye, the founder of the East Coast Army, the eldest grandson of Army veteran Mo Ming, and currently serves as the deputy director of the family-owned Haidiao Instrument Factory, responsible for the research and development, introduction and production of new products.

Of course, because he is too young and has limited experience, this deputy director is only nominal. The ones who really do things are the old people who have been in the factory for almost 20 years. These people are familiar with everything in the factory, and there are also some dry stocks, and they are well motivated to work, and the Sea Eagle Instrument Factory is still in their hands.

The Haidiao Instrument Factory has a relatively long history, with a history of more than 25 years, and it is an enterprise founded by Mo Dashuai after returning from the Far East. In the early days, it mainly produced sextants, quadrants, compasses, protractors, rulers, etc., and now it has also begun to produce instruments such as flowmeters, pressure gauges, thermometers, etc., which can be regarded as further enriching the product line.

In fact, these instruments and meters are very different from the products of the same name in later generations, and the use is also very different, and they are all more advanced precision instruments in this era. Such as compasses, protractors, rulers, etc., are not only used in surveying and mapping, but also used in navigation, and these things are used in almost all operations on maps. The navigation school has set up special courses including nautical surveying and geodesy, and has trained a large number of qualified staff officers. And these staff officers, who have mastered a great deal of knowledge, are an important part of the combat effectiveness of the East Coast Navy.

Compared with the East Coast Navy, of course, European naval officers also have corresponding courses, but the content is shallow and the equipment is somewhat incomplete. For many years, the Europeans have been trying to import some of these instruments from the East Coast on the non-regulated catalogue, which are of much better quality and more accurate than they produce themselves, making the East Coasters a lot of money.

Although the products produced by Haidiao Instrument Factory are not as good as the state-owned East Coast Precision Instrument Company (a large leading enterprise after the integration of the former state-owned scientific instrument factory), their products are still in short supply under the huge market demand, and the sales volume is excellent, becoming a pretty good cash cow. You know, now the maritime industry is becoming more and more popular all over the world, the number of ships in various countries is increasing year by year, the total tonnage of 50,000 tons and 100,000 tons of ships decades ago has been admired by everyone, but now there is no 200,000 tons, you really dare not say that you are a great navigational country! The popularity of the navigation industry and the sudden increase in the number of ships will naturally make related enterprises including Haidiao Instrument Factory and East Coast Precision Instrument Company make a fortune.

In fact, the Mo family also has a sea eagle watch factory, specializing in the production of many timekeeping tools, including marine clocks, tower clocks, mechanical watches, etc., which can be said to be the only one on the East Coast, including the navy is a loyal user of their family. The various clocks and watches of the Haidiao brand produced in the factory are sold throughout the country and overseas colonies, and are another major source of profit for the Mo family, which is very stable.

However, after the study of the family meeting of the Mo family, they felt that the future of the family would not be the Haidiao Watch Factory, let alone the Haidiao Musical Instrument Factory, but the Haidiao Instrument Factory, that is, it would transform into a manufacturer of measuring instruments and precision instruments in the future. These things are used in many industrial applications, and the future market demand is very huge, if the development goes well, this alone can make their family prosperous.

It is precisely because of this that Mo Xingye, as the eldest grandson of the family, left his hometown in Xingnan Port and arrived at Nanding Port on the ship of the messenger liner company, which is the location of the Sea Eagle Instrument Factory, a medium-sized port city that is in the midst of a development boom.

Nanding Port, is the Commodore City of Rivadavia in Argentina in later generations, is located on the west bank of San Jorge Bay, there is currently a second-class national highway leading to the inland Shuanghu Township and other places, the economy is dominated by wool spinning, ceramic manufacturing, animal husbandry, fishing industry, of course, now there are more Mojia sea carving instrument factory located here. The reason why the sea carving factory is located here is mainly due to two reasons, one is because the chief official here has an old relationship with the Mo family, and the factory is located here to facilitate care; The second is the national executive order, which mandates that all factories producing controlled technology be located in remote southern cone areas to avoid technology leakage as much as possible. The Sea Eagle Instrument Factory was originally unable to meet this point, but their factory also tackled the key equipment of the country such as the engraving machine (of course, it inevitably "borrowed" the technology of the East Coast Machinery and Instrument Company), so it was on the watch list of the Mei organ, and the factory could only be set up here.

Of course, setting up the factory here is also the will of the deceased Mo Ming. Mo Dashuai was a man of later generations, and naturally knew that there were extremely rich oil and gas resources in the vicinity of Commodore City of Rivadavia, which, like Neuquén, was the main oil production center of Argentina, and the future development prospects were destined to be not underestimated, although the city was relatively desolate and arid around it.

Therefore, based on this consideration, the Mo family finally decided to set up the factory here, while producing and selling, and quietly studying various instruments and meters used in the oil production process. When the internal combustion engine appears in the future and the liquid fuel of petroleum is popular, their factory can be close to the water and develop one step faster.

Mo Xingye hired a large horse-drawn carriage near the dock and hurried to the factory. The factory is not far away, just in the city, so it only took about twenty minutes for Mo Xingye to sit at his desk.

"The factory wants to launch the metal dilatometer and comparator project? This is the forbidden side of a precision instrument company, these old arms and legs, the motivation is really not small. As soon as he sat down, the secretary knocked on the door and came in, and handed him a large stack of papers. Mo Xingye simply flipped through it and found that the managers in the factory who were the same age as his father were thinking about enriching the product line again.

In fact, if there is a huge demand for instruments at home and abroad, the Sea Eagle Instrument Factory is enough to maintain a steady stream of profits just by producing the instruments mentioned above, as well as supplying flowmeters, pressure gauges, thermometers and other instruments to various water plants and factories in China. Not to mention that they have now developed a key basic and cutting-edge instrument such as a wire engraving machine, although the quality may not be similar to the East Coast Precision Instrument Company, but the market is also very wide, there is no need to enrich the product line, do something more complicated.

However, as the old saying goes, sail against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. If the sea carving factory lies on the past credit book and does not want to forge ahead, then how to catch up with the industry's leading precision instrument company? And in the future, once other manufacturers overcome the technical threshold and rise rapidly, it is not impossible for their factories to decline. Mo Xingye can also understand this, so after seeing these report documents, he did not reject them, but sighed slightly, and actually agreed with the opinions of these uncles and uncles in his heart.

"Well, there's another ...... Feasibility study on the development of astronomical products. This, this, this is riveting enough to grab business with precision instrument companies, amazing, amazing! Turning the pages above, Mo Xingye saw another report, and then he was stunned all of a sudden.

Theodolite, equatorial mount, meridian telescope, reflecting telescope, etc., are the research and development directions highlighted in this report. Some of these products are the products being developed by the East Coast Precision Instrument Company, and some are the fist products of the state-owned Henan Glass Factory, all of which are cutting-edge equipment with technical content.

You know, the production of all kinds of high-precision lenses required by these precision optical instruments has to rely on them. In particular, the Henan Glass Factory in Dongfang County, which just a few years ago produced the world's first large-scale lens for astronomy, mainly because it has been able to produce flint glass of consistent quality on a large scale after years of intensive research and development. Moreover, their factory itself manufactures and sells large astronomical telescopes for the relevant departments to observe the stars, and now the sea carving factory wants to enter this kind of industry, will people sell this key optical lens? I'm afraid it's not too optimistic.

"Instead of tossing and turning on this, it is better to focus on physics instruments. Ordinary balances, precision balances, scales and other things, mints, the General Administration of Precious Metals, the National Reserve Grain Depot and even various factories all need to be sold not too hot, I envy me. Mo Xingye lit a cigarette, shook his head, and said to himself: "In addition, like polarimeters, air pressure pumps, gas meters (measuring gas states), microscopes, etc., are all places that can be chased, so why bother to humiliate yourself." Well, now the domestic survey is in full swing, all kinds of geodetic instruments are also selling very hot, the East Coast Precision Instrument Company has a lot of money, and there are government channels and relations, if our similar products can not be stable in quality and performance, I am afraid that it will not be able to compete. For these products, I heard that the scientific instrument factory under the precision instrument company is constantly improving and innovating, and we can't just eat the old book. Steering, adjustment, indexing of the scale, improvement of vernier and micrometer screws, etc., are all technical obstacles that need to be solved urgently. Our factory is spending money on this, which seems to be more reliable than developing any astronomical products. No, I'm going to discuss this matter with them, and I'll have to fight for what I should fight for. The scale of the business founded by my grandfather and father is quite difficult, but it cannot be lost in my hands. I heard that there are several big yard disciples in Qingdao County in the north who have joined forces to enter this lucrative industry, they borrowed a sum of money from Qiang Xiaoman, and they also took tens of thousands of yuan, and also dug up a few technical backbones from the precision instrument company and Henan Glass Factory, which seems to be quite threatening, and can not be careless. ”

In fact, it is normal for Mo Xingye to have this kind of worry. Precision instrument manufacturing industry, in the East Coast and even the world is a high technical threshold industry, and the demand for capital is also very large, need to continue to invest money to improve old products, research and development of new products, all kinds of instruments are updated very quickly, a careless backward is a normal thing.

Moreover, with the growing economy of the East Coast, the demand for such instruments for industry, research and teaching is also increasing, and the market size here is staggering. Not to mention, now the European countries are also learning from the East Coast to engage in various standardized production, directly "plagiarizing" the East Coast's various measurement standards, trying to import new or second-hand instruments, in order to improve their industrial level Without these instruments, precision production is a joke The market in it is even more amazing.

Therefore, Mo Xingye suddenly had a sense of crisis and began to seriously think about the future development direction of Haidiao Instrument Factory. Their "old shop", which has a history of twenty or thirty years, seems to be quite prosperous at present, but if there is a deviation in the future development direction, it is not impossible to be surpassed by others, so it must be carefully chosen.