Chapter 354: Technological Limitations

Steam engine technology can be said to be at least two hundred years ahead of the world, for the natives of the 17th century, regardless of whether it is the current Ming Dynasty or the future birthplace of the industrial revolution in Britain, this is the existence of black technology.

Whoever can master this technology is equivalent to mastering the door to change the world and change a country, and the export of such a technology through the public will not be really worried at all, as the president of the State Commission of Science and Technology, Bao Zitu is particularly worried.

Although this technology is not very advanced for the traversers, it is completely different in this world, and the reason why the Dutch have been so generous and have repeatedly tolerated the expansion of Australia's influence in Southeast Asia is nothing more than wanting to get more steam engine ships.

With the steam engine ships, the Dutch supremacy at sea could be maintained, if not longer, and they did not hesitate to use the method of delaying the delivery of ships to obtain the need for steam engine technology.

It is enough to prove how important this technology is, the Dutch do not know, so as the owner of the Australians will not know, Australia wants to develop the shipbuilding industry, the future will definitely export ships to the sea coachman, the other party is completely able to buy the ship dismantled in assembly for research, I believe that with the ability of the Dutch Amsterdam shipyard, it is not difficult to dismantle a steamship.

In the final analysis, the technology of the steam engine is like a very thin piece of paper separated by a thin layer of paper, as long as everything is pierced, it will really look like a big white, and if you don't pierce it, you will not know where to break through.

The clever Dutchmen would have used this primitive method to imitate their own steamboats, and although they may not be comparable to those in Australia in terms of material properties, they at least gave them a direction for research.

In these respects, it is true that you cannot export steamships to any country, because you cannot guarantee that any country you go to will not dismantle and study the newly purchased ships.

However, if you don't sell it, it will also bring some trouble to Australia, as the European general agent of Australian goods, the Dutch only insist on not selling Australian goods for a quarter. Australian businesses can lose at least half of their profits, and this kind of loss is not something that those entrepreneurs can afford.

Australia needs to develop and build, immigrants need to be hopeful for the future, if the life is still the same as before, it will only make them feel cheated, and even have no sense of security, which will inevitably have an unstable impact on the Australian social environment.

Population has always been Australia's defect, but development also needs population, for the time being, half of Australia's exports are mainly sold to Europe, the other half is sold to Southeast Asia and the Ming Dynasty, as for the domestic sales situation has not been very good.

Although many items are very cheap in the country. However, the consumption habits of thousands of years have made these immigrants still reluctant to use their savings in those good goods, and they have always only bought things that can be used, not expensive unless necessary, and never buy things that look flashy and have little use.

This is one of the reasons why Australia has some promotions every holiday weekend, without which local operators would be in a difficult situation.

So sometimes, we can't completely decide the affairs of this world with the thoughts of later generations, and restricting the export of steam engine technology can indeed delay the development of modern industry in Europe. But at the same time, it also brought a slow development to Australia, Australia's shipbuilding technology is not developed, and skilled skilled workers are limited, and it is impossible to build a maritime transport fleet to compete with the Dutch in a year or two.

Even if Australia has steam technology. It is possible to transport by sea without being affected by the monsoon, but the Dutch transport volume is large, and the sum of a single transport can almost exceed the total transport of Australia in a year, a difference of such a large proportion. Even having advanced technology doesn't get much help completely.

Australia's advanced technology must first be used for development, which can help Australia accelerate its development and become a real power. A real power is not a one-way mastery of some technology to be considered a strong country, but to have its own influence in many fields such as economy and culture.

If you want to have influence in these fields, you must involve the issue of output, and some key technologies must not be exported, just like the one needed to make steam, these key things cannot be exported.

For this reason, Australia has specially prepared a list, which lists what can be sold and what cannot be sold, which have been unanimously discussed by the parliament and the scientists of the Science and Technology Commission, not that someone can sell it if he wants to.

Without the permission of these two institutions, the leakage of important technical information by private individuals will result in heavy prison sentences, and the maximum possible death sentence.

In fact, Australia is very strict in restricting the export of technology, and it is not as ordinary people see on the surface.

At the port, customs officers will strictly inspect all persons and goods imported and exported, and if they are found to be carrying confidential documents or items, they will be directly arrested and handed over to the Department of Homeland Security for interrogation.

Of course, the people in the Ministry of State Security are not vegetarians, and the state has spent money to support them without making a little achievement, and the staff of various units and research institutes are within the scope of their secret monitoring, and it is still difficult to escape their eyes if they want something else, especially after the full lifting of the ban on entry and exit from Australia, the monitoring of everyone has become stricter.

With the control of the Department of Homeland Security, coupled with the supervision of the Congress and the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry, the restrictions on technology exports will inevitably be stricter, and according to the character of the dean of Bao Zitu, his restrictions on technology are more crazy than those of ordinary scientists such as Lin Youde.

Without the support of several powerful research leaders, the original cooperation project of the steam engine ship would not have been successful, and now that Bao Zitu has successfully served as the president of the Commission of Science and Technology, you can see which aspect of his next action will be.

Recently, he has led a team to frequently visit and study the following units, and according to reliable information, he will formulate a stricter technology export restriction law, must ensure that Australia's technology remains in an absolute leading position, it can be said that the old comrade Bao for the export of technology to make great efforts, even sacrificed most of the rest time, but it is certain that in the future in the history of Australia, there will be a bun for the country's technology outflow efforts to leave a strong mark. (To be continued......)