The choice of this kind of thing is all an illusion, and in fact it never exists. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In September 1777, the commander of the British Army, Henry . On the deck of the Tang cruiser Yangwei, a long table was set up, with Clinton sitting on one side and Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and Liu Fangwu, commander-in-chief of the Tang Expeditionary Force, on the other.

Although Clinton was in a relatively low mood, he still seemed to be very normal, and he did not cry for his father and mother to cut his belly after surrendering unconditionally, like a madman in some island countries.

A reporter from Datang Daily used a camera to record this scene, and when the camera's "flash" fireworks flashed for a moment, except for the Tang people who were not frightened, the Americans and the British were shocked.

Two months later, the photo appeared on the front page of Datang Daily under the headline "Celebrating the Victory of the Just War Against Imperialism and Anti-Colonialism." Of course, it was the Continental Congress that first got this photo, and although the legislators were amazed at the technology that left a person's influence behind with a simple click, everyone knew what historical value this photo had. It is a valuable historical document that has been preserved along with the original Declaration of Independence.

Naturally, the Americans asked Datang to buy such cameras, and as a diplomat, Chu Bai responded that the United States could send special personnel to Datang to buy photographic equipment and learn related skills. In fact, Americans want to buy a lot of things, and Jensen, the forerunner of Tang-American exchanges, is the one who has been in Datang for the longest time. This attentive businessman has put together a series of Datang's magical technologies. For example, electric lights, telephones, and so on.

This material was first handed over to Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Later, Washington pointed out in the Continental Congress that in order for the United States to quickly become an advanced country that is not afraid of Britain and is prosperous and powerful, it should import a large amount of advanced technology from the Tang Republic and send students to study.

The Tang Republic's mystique about the elites of the Thirteen Colonies is slowly fading, but it has made these elites more in awe of the West Coast country. The country is extremely wealthy, the people there are hardly hungry or cold, and they produce an abundance of food and other products. Enough for everyone. The Tang people were very smart, and during the war, the advisors of the Tang Dynasty gave many good ideas to the Continental Army and the Continental Congress. They have created a lot of advanced technology that makes life more convenient.

Naturally, the most intuitive embodiment is still the army of the Tang Dynasty, their muskets shoot faster, the firepower is dense, the range is longer, and the same is true for the artillery, so the army of the Tang Dynasty is exceptionally powerful.

It can be said that the ideal country that the elites of the Thirteen Colonies hope to build is a country like the Tang Republic. And now the relations between the two countries are very friendly. The United States hopes to learn from Datang and learn all kinds of things that will promote its own progress.

Although Britain has not officially ended the war. However, there were only sporadic British troops in the Thirteen Colonies, and they were about to be wiped out. George III and his cabinet ministers, even if they didn't want to lose the Thirteen Colonies, had no choice, although the war did not greatly damage the vitality of the British mainland, but almost lost most of the North American colonies, and was swallowed up 30,000 soldiers (including mercenaries), and dozens of warships were sunk. What's more, victory is simply out of reach, European countries in this era are very realistic, and in the end, Britain can only admit this situation, knock out its teeth and swallow it in its stomach.

The Continental Congress has begun to consider many issues at the national level, such as national development. At the end of 1777, the Continental Congress provided a letter of request to Chu Bai, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty to the United States, basically requesting the purchase of products, the transfer of technology, and the dispatch of foreign students to the Tang Dynasty in accordance with Jensen's materials and the actual needs of the United States itself.

In fact, this situation has long been expected, and before the Tang Cabinet sent an expeditionary force, it had discussed internally how to deal with it if the United States wanted to obtain Datang's various technological add-ons.

Although the Cabinet did not have a particularly unified opinion, it ultimately held that it is feasible to export technology-added products to the United States under conditions and in a restricted category at this stage, and the risks are not very high.

In fact, not long after the independence of the United States, the Industrial Revolution had been carried out rapidly, and machines began to enter American factories in large quantities, changing their production models, and the first to invent the steam paddle steamer was the American Fulton.

Therefore, even if Datang does not make this money, Americans will soon enter the industrial revolution. On the contrary, if Datang systematically promotes the export of technology, the export of products, and the cultivation and suppression of industries to the United States, it can take the initiative to shape the industrial structure of the entire United States, tie the United States to its own economic chain, and at the same time obtain more means to restrict and control the United States.

Then there is the category of export technology add-on products, what can be exported and what cannot be exported, there is a discussion. For example, should something like an electric light be exported? The conclusion is yes, although this will start the electrification revolution in the United States a hundred years earlier, but it will not be an egg. The electrification revolution will not play much of a role until the industrial revolution is the foundation.

The export of electrification equipment has designed a series of things, and the most basic generators must be exported, even if it is the most ordinary thermal power generation equipment, each of which is sky-high. Then the transmission and power supply equipment will also be exported, and a large number of wires will make Datang's metallurgical enterprises and plastic chemical enterprises all instruct. Then there are all kinds of substation and transmission equipment, which will also get considerable orders. Then there are the light bulbs that have penetrated thousands of households, as well as a series of civilian electrical appliances, such as electric kettles, electric fans, telephones, cameras, etc.

As for the industrially produced electric machinery, it will not be sold to the Americans for the time being. In terms of production machinery, it is still dominated by steam-powered machinery, and simple machinery such as spinning machines and cotton ginning machines will be exported to the United States. Datang is not afraid that they will use machinery that is more than two generations behind Datang's cotton textile industry to compete with themselves.

It can be seen from this that Datang's exports to the United States will be more focused on civilian consumption, while in the field of industrial production, it will lag behind a lot.

So are you afraid that the export of these technology-add-on products to the United States will cause the loss of technology?

It is impossible not to lose at all, but the possibility that Americans will be able to copied a large number of Datang products so quickly is basically zero. Later generations saw that the Republic had copied countless European and American products, from telephones to fighter jets. But it has to be mentioned that the reason why the republic can be a copycat is because the country has a large and complete industrial system. On the whole and locally, this system is backward, but the cluster effect is also huge. Not to mention those ordinary civilian consumer goods, they are all outsourced to the Republic to OEM, and the technology is handed over to the king of cottages. Even if it is a complex product such as a fighter jet, a country with excellent skilled workers and a complete industrial system can touch it little by little, because the principle is understood, and when you have money, you can invest a little, and in the end you will definitely be able to get it.

However, all the above advantages that the later republics have, the United States, which has not yet been established in the real sense, does not have the industrial system, and he does not have the real mechanical modernization industry, and all of them are blank in specific disciplines, and there are no large number of modern industrial workers, and there is no one to teach them by hand.

Give them a generator, and even the Americans will not be able to disassemble it if the construction drawings are not given to them. Even if they were to take it apart, they wouldn't know what material was needed for a certain part of this huge machine, because metallurgy was not powerful. In short, everything is done by Datang, but the United States can't do it, so they learn to buy it and press a few buttons and do some simple work.

Just like the countries of the Middle East have some oil industries, bearded people can operate complex oil production equipment, but they can't build it, even if they have money, it's useless. It's the same thing.

Americans also know that they need to really learn technology, and Datang does not exclude accepting some international students from the United States, but the number is bound to be limited, just like the international students sent to Datang from Spain, they will set up separate classes, and the content taught will definitely not be the same as what an ordinary Datang person learns.

Chu Bai, the envoy to the United States, soon agreed to send the request back to China and promised to promote further economic cooperation between Tang and the United States. However, he also proposed that because of the export of a large number of technology products, Tang and the United States need to sign an intellectual property and patent agreement to prevent the infringement of the intellectual property rights and interests of Datang enterprises and individuals.

Patent law has been around in Europe for a long time, and in the fifteenth century the Venetians had the first patent law in the modern sense. Americans are not particularly repulsed by this, and it is clear that they have not yet realized the power of later generations to bring down a company by relying on patents.

In fact, the Continental Congress also proposed to purchase the technology to manufacture Datang's ordnance, but Chu Bai vetoed their proposal, and instead used Datang to invest in technology and other factors, and cooperated with American companies to set up ordnance enterprises, and the weapons produced were mainly some foreign trade products of Datang, such as SC-2 rifles and some civilian hunting rifles. As for the weapons of the Datang military, don't even think about it.

The United States has not yet established a state, and the funds for the Continental Congress are still borrowed from Datang, so the whole project will not be carried out quickly. However, many of the people in the Continental Congress were rich businessmen, or had friends of rich businessmen, and of course there was no such thing as state investment in this capitalist country, and it was obvious that every kind of Datang commodity was represented by powerful American businessmen, and these American businessmen were the real people who controlled the direction of American politics. (To be continued.) )