Datang's opening up of many important "advanced" machinery and equipment exports has set off a storm in many European countries. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The British government even issued an official statement, first of all, William Pitt Jr. welcomed and appreciated Datang's decision. Although the British government does not have any publicly owned enterprises, a series of capital began to approach the Datang intermediary in London, seeking to buy a series of important machinery and equipment.

In the past ten years, Britain has been extremely powerless in the face of competition in the non-native and colonial markets for Tang Dynasty goods. The textile industry, which was supposed to be a pillar industry in Britain, could only survive in the British Isles and the Indian colonies by relying on its own trade protectionism. Even so, high-end Datang textiles still entered the UK through smuggling and other channels, and even the luxury bedding of the British royal family was actually customized from Datang's first-class home textile brands. It's just that it has been inconvenient to announce it because of the problem of national policy.

On the other hand, British spinning and cotton cloth gradually became a major part of the trade goods exported to China after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and in fact their influence was greater than that of opium, which is remembered by all Chinese. However, in today's time and space, although the development of the textile industry in Britain is far better than that of the other in the same period, in the Far East markets such as the Qing Dynasty, there is no way to compete with Datang products. On the one hand, this is because Datang signed the most favored trade agreement with Qing and enjoys extremely low tariffs, while Britain does not open its local market due to its own trade protectionism, and Datang responds with the same high tariffs to any country that does not open its local market. On the other hand. Although the textiles produced by Datang are much higher in labor costs. But due to large-scale machine production. Combined with the higher quality, the tariff preference added to the former is still in fact cheaper and higher quality than British textiles exported to Asia. This completely hit the expansion of British textiles in the Asian market.

Even in Europe, the same situation, with the advent of the era of large machine production, the traditional textile handicraft industry in Europe has faced a complete elimination, and the textiles produced by machines in various countries have begun to become the mainstream products in the urban and rural textile market. However, as in the case of the Far East, as long as Datang's products are circulating in a country's market, it is difficult for British products to compete with them. Even if it's the UK. In order to avoid the local market being occupied by the Tang people, Datang Textiles is facing almost punitive tariffs when entering the UK, and even the British will look for various reasons, such as improper customs declaration procedures, to prevent Datang products from entering the customs. The trade friction between Tang and Britain has now become a major issue in the relations between the two countries.

This time, Datang has opened up dozens of gate categories and hundreds of kinds of machinery and equipment for export, which is a major benefit for the British who are bent on doing big industry. The British are not stupid. For textiles, sugar and other end products set relatively high tariffs, but for the Datang import machinery. But it is an encouraging tariff.

The main equipment imported by the United Kingdom is a lot of special machines used in complete sets, such as boring machines, planers and other machine tools with different effectiveness, such as a complete set of large shipbuilding machinery, railway equipment for the production of locomotives and carriages, and of course the largest number is a relatively large number of industrial and mining machinery and textile machinery. Some machinery was also exported to Datang before, but the technical level was very low, and now the British can directly buy a batch of obsolete equipment used before the Datang factory, although the technical level is far from the highest level of Datang, but it is also much better than their original.

Machinery exports are a big deal, and for many years to come, the British will continue to buy from Datang to expand their industry until they can replicate similar products. Datang Enterprises are not entangled in this, because when the British copied such low-end products, Datang Enterprises no longer competed with them in this market, but turned to sell more high-quality products.

In Bai Nan's concept, by selling some more advanced machines to the European powers, improving their industrial manufacturing capacity and even national strength is not just to feed the market of Datang, but in fact he has another layer of consideration. When European countries are armed with steel, the conflict between them can only intensify further, and their wars will become more tragic. At the same time, the European countries that have been added by Datang's technology will further frantically open up areas where Datang has not settled, so as to further promote the development of the world and the development of human civilization, and for Datang, globalization is a phenomenon that cannot be seen now, but it will only be very beneficial to Datang in the future. Colonization is an inevitable part of this process. The power of the Tang Dynasty is limited and not enough to fully colonize the backward regions of the world, and the European powers can help the Tang Dynasty do this. At that time, if Datang has a demand, it will not be too difficult to snatch it by force.

Of course, these plans actually took at least twenty years to start to see the results, and Bai Nan was probably no longer in office at that time, but he was happy to see the development to that day.

In this boom in the purchase of "new" Datang machinery and equipment, there is no doubt that Britain is the biggest beneficiary, and it is also the largest shareholder. France, which has always maintained a relatively good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, was in the period of the Great Revolution and the domestic political situation was chaotic, although there was a certain degree of follow-up, but the level was not as good as that of the United Kingdom. And because Spain has just ended a war with Datang, its enthusiasm for this is relatively limited. Other powers, such as Austria, Prussia and Russia, have also made some purchases, but they are smaller than those of the United Kingdom. The scale of procurement in Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Sardinia and other countries is even more insufficient. From this point of view, although Datang has opened a window for European countries, in fact, I am afraid that it will take some time to continue to brew.

In the following months, the scale of orders for new and old machines sold by Datang increased several times, and the total order amount even exceeded 60 million Tang Yuan, some of which were of high value and played a more important role. At the same time, due to the lack of funds, the industrial bourgeoisie in some countries is still borrowing money from Datang's commercial banks to buy equipment, and this financial gain will also be effectively rewarded for a period of time. (To be continued.) )