Section 642 Second Carlos War
Although facing competitors with high professional standards such as Edison and Siemens, Kede Huanglin has not withdrawn from this field.
After the fierce competition, they have all found their own positioning, these technology companies and laboratories, although they are technically thrown off the ten streets of De Xuanlin, but they are not as good as De Xuan Lin in business.
They know more about technology than De Zhulin, but they don't know China as well as De Xuanlin.
Deeply cultivated in the Chinese market for more than ten years, De Xuanlin's business network is incomparable to them. Although it is engaged in technical intermediary services, the luxury intermediary business of De Xuan Lin has not stopped. He has amassed thousands of high-quality customers, which are unmatched by rising stars such as Siemens.
As a result, De Xuanlin withdrew from the direct technology introduction market, but stabilized its intermediary business. Just like in the luxury sector, he began to collect the needs of his customers, and then let his already mature scientific team summarize these needs. He has established relationships with China, the UK, Germany, the US, most of the world's largest technology companies, universities, laboratories, and even individual inventors. For the needs of customers, we can find the most suitable technical team through De Xuan Lin & Co.
At the same time, De Xuan Lin has gradually grasped the pricing power of the technology, avoiding the situation that the technology team is asking for a price, first of all, the technical evaluation is carried out by the company, and a reference price is given for the possible benefits of the technology, which is also part of their service.
As a result of the services in place, they gradually became the leading intermediaries, and Edison and Siemens began to take orders more from De Celin rather than directly to customers, and for these technology companies, direct commercial development is not only not good at it, but also an additional cost.
De Xuanlin's recent big orders are all related to oil companies. As gasoline engine applications began to mature, oil companies increased their profits, and various projects based on petroleum engines were developed.
De Zhulin has mastered three major projects: excavators, bulldozers and road rollers, all of which are done by American companies. Because the Americans have the most experience working with these power machines, the oil companies are willing to pay $300,000 for the three patents, and De Celin can take a tenth of the commission.
The team that De Cellin found was very professional, and the excavator was made by John Deere, who produced combine harvesters; The bulldozer was developed at the Ballwin Locomotive Factory in Philadelphia, and the roller was developed at the Rutgers Machine Works in New Jersey.
But De was under a lot of pressure, because he knew that a shipyard and a port machinery factory in Shanghai, China, were also working on these projects, not to get commissions from oil companies, but to focus purely on the market. The purpose of their research and development is to hold their own patents and produce them themselves. Once it was developed by these companies and registered a patent, his deal was basically ruined.
De Xuanlin couldn't help but regret a little, maybe she could have placed orders to other companies at the same time, but she was a little greedy at the time, and the Americans offered the most generous price and gave the most generous commission. Nowadays, the industry has produced some industry rules, such as this kind of large-scale R&D projects, which need to provide some deposits for R&D institutions, and after R&D failure, they will bear part of the cost. The main reason for this situation is that the growth rate of intellectual resources is limited, while the speed of commercial development is unlimited, and excessive commercial competition soon allows intellectual resources to have a greater right to speak.
The reason why De Xuanlin has occupied a place in recent years is because he knows how to operate better, and he only picks the most professional team to do it, so that the risk is the lowest and the cost is the lowest. But he didn't expect that Chinese companies could also value these markets, or blame the increasing labor costs, and the fact that construction companies like construction companies are increasingly starting to use machinery. If you had found several German companies at the same time, you might have diluted your commission a lot, but the probability of failure would have been much smaller.
De Zhulin kept an eye on the progress of the Chinese company, while constantly urging the Americans, and he found that the Chinese were moving faster, which made him think that the deal might be yellow. However, it will not lose money, because the Americans did not ask for advances, because these American companies are also optimistic about this market. Americans are also keen to use construction machinery, so after they develop it, they can not only sell patents to Chinese, but also produce them for profit in their own country.
It's just that this lucrative business is so yellow, and it will make De Xuanlin lose a lot.
So he decided to talk to Chinese companies to see if they were willing to sell patents or work with oil companies.
Oil companies don't prohibit others from producing gasoline engine products, and they hold these patents, but they just want to promote the development of these industries. Previously, the oil company held global patents for gasoline engines, and he licensed a large number of machine factories to even charge royalties until combine harvesters began to be electrified with gasoline. Later, the fees were introduced, and they were very low. The purpose is to get more machine factories to produce machines that use gasoline, and as for making money from machine production, oil companies have no idea for the time being.
It's a pity that these companies refuse to cooperate, China's developed shipping and port industries, so that these large machinery companies are not bad for money, they pay more attention to the market. Steam-powered excavators have long been available, and steam rollers are even more popular. Therefore, the market of these construction machinery is good, and these machine factories think that the income from production is more cost-effective than selling patents directly.
Finding out that the business was destined to be yellow, De Xuanlin was in a very bad mood, but early this morning he received an order that made his heart pound.
Arms orders from Spain.
The profits of the arms trade are notoriously high, and who wants to do this kind of business.
When she first came to China, this kind of business was unimaginable, and it was monopolized by Ocean Bank. Unconsciously, he also became a big ocean company qualified to intervene in this kind of business.
As for the war in Spain, De Celin had never cared much about it, for he it was a rotten country with no future and no money, and it was too far away from him.
So the last time he saw the news of the Spanish War in a newspaper specializing in political commentary, he stopped buying that newspaper, not because he didn't care about the international situation, but because he felt that the reviews of that newspaper were substandard, and he would think that the Spanish Civil War could lead to a world war.
De Xuanlin's money would never be spent on such an unprofessional and discreet newspaper, even if it was only a small amount.
Now that Spain's order arrived, he suddenly found that apart from that newspaper, other newspapers rarely reported news about Spain, and Spain was a small country with no sense of existence for China.
So De Celin immediately asked his assistant to go to the newspaper at once, and all the newspapers were to be found in the near future, and he was now extremely concerned about the situation in Spain.
After the newspapers arrived, De Xuanlin found out that the Spanish Civil War, which had been fought for more than three months, had begun to prolong.
This is really good news.
One side of the civil war was the Spanish government, the government of the Spanish Republic. More than three years ago, because of the Spanish throne issue, it almost triggered a war between China and Germany and Britain and France, and finally Germany compromised, so that Prince Leopold gave up the Spanish throne in exchange for a South American colony.
After Germany abdicated the Spanish throne, the Italian prince chosen by the Spanish Constituent Assembly succeeded to the throne in Spain, but it did not go smoothly because his staunch supporter, General Juan, one of the Big Three, was assassinated, and the murderer has not been determined.
During his tenure on the Spanish throne, Prince Amedeo I of Italy faced the same dilemma as his predecessor, Isabella II, that is, he was caught between conservatives and liberals.
Three years later, under the constant opposition of the conservative forces represented by religion, the great nobility, and the large landowners, Amedeo was even assassinated, so that Amedeo I was disheartened and forced to announce his abdication, and the Spanish government declared a republic. At this time, the Catholic Church, the great nobles, and some generals supported the Carlos family to rebel again, and quickly established rule in the Basque Country in northern Spain, and the grandson of Carlos the Elder, Don Carlos, proclaimed himself the new king.
The war between the government of the Spanish Republic and the Carlos faction broke out, known as the Second Carlos War.
Dissatisfied with the rule of the Madrid regime, the Basques, who had always been dissatisfied, supported Don Carlos, allowing the Carlos faction to quickly gain a foothold in the economically prosperous Basque Country, and expanded into southern Spain, establishing guerrilla groups in the rural areas ruled by the church and landlords to rebel against the government of the Republic.
What De Xuanlin could see from the newspaper was only some superficial information, and the information that he couldn't see needed to be dug up by himself.
Fortunately, the most important thing he lacks in the intermediary business is his connections, and the luxury business has made him connected with many powerful families in Europe.
He soon figured out the situation better than the newspapers through his European friends.
De Glalin found that, like every war that had taken place over the years, behind this war of Carlos, there were also great powers with different interests, and his homeland, the German Empire, was also involved.
He was surprised to find that Germany actually supported the Don Carlos regime, for the simple reason that Carlos was willing to give up sovereignty over South American territory and recognize Leopold's rule over Dominica, Venezuela and other places.
De Celestian also learned that after the abdication of Amedeo I, Germany contacted the Spanish Republic and Carlos successively, and even fought for the Spanish throne for Leopold again, and only after all efforts failed, did it choose to support the Carlos regime.