Chapter 529: The Charm of Computers
However, after some people learned how to operate computers from the Chinese Imperial people who went abroad, the superiority of these computers made the rich businessmen love it, especially those that came with their own small games, so that they never got tired of playing, and the Chinese Imperial Chinese people who went abroad to make a living also had a part-time project, teaching computer operation courses and paying a lot of money.
Such a high salary has made many people who want to go out of the country to break through, with computer operation skills, they are equivalent to bringing a free meal ticket, when there is no money, as long as you open a computer cram school, you can earn a lot of foreign exchange.
At the same time, in order to promote computers more quickly, the games and software programmed by various companies in the Chinese Empire were directly sold to various countries, and more and more of them were sold to other countries, and the sales of computers began to increase significantly.
With the support of special financial software produced by the internal software company of the Chinese Empire, it is much faster to use the computer to keep accounts than the traditional way, and when looking up the accounts, you only need to enter a code in the search bar, and there is no need to go through the account books a little bit, so a large number of factories quickly use computers, even the stock and futures exchanges in various countries.
Soon, these people discovered that their country was different from the Chinese Empire, that is, there was no Internet. After the sale of computers, NATO allies have begun to lay networks, and submarine cables have already been laid from the Eastern Continent to the San Martin Empire, which makes other countries quite angry, and soon the requirements for laying networks were sent to the Chinese consortium.
For the requirements of various countries to lay the network, the top management of the consortium naturally agreed one by one, but the price of renting the root server of the China Consortium is also expensive, but the business opportunities of the network have long been seen by businessmen from various countries, even if the government does not come forward, businessmen will rush to rent, plus a large number of automatic switches and other supporting equipment, in addition to the computer, the China Consortium is a solid and big profit.
The Internet began to spread rapidly throughout the world, and Xiaofeng's monitoring scope also relied on the Internet to spread rapidly from Zhonghua Island, and will soon spread to every corner of Wangxiangxing. After spending huge sums of money on a batch of computers for scientific research, governments around the world thought they could sit back and relax, but the China Consortium has come up with a new trick.
It turned out that after discovering that the computer market was becoming saturated and the sales of Flexible 1 computers were declining, the Chung Hwa Foundation released the Flexible 2 computers, which were 30% more powerful than the Flexible 1 computers. When the new type of computer appeared, many scientists asked the government to replace the faster the flexible 2 computer, and the governments of the government were so angry that they almost vomited blood.
Although very reluctant, the computer still has to be replaced, after all, those scientists are great, and the government can't afford to provoke them, otherwise it will anger them, cause a brain drain abroad, and the country's loss will be even greater. However, after replacing the new computers, governments around the world have also put pressure on the Chinese consortium to slow down the update.
In this regard, Wu Feng, CEO of the China Foundation, said that this time it is just a technological breakthrough, and the computer update speed will not be too fast in the future. This assurances were reassuring to governments, and the Chung Hwa Foundation did reduce the speed of computer updates, replacing them with only one model every three years.
The computer industry of the Chinese Empire is quite profitable, of course, the Chinese consortium itself only earns a small part, most of which is handed over to the state as high-tech tariffs, which is also Fang Xiaoyu's disguised support for his son, which has increased a lot of taxes for him and made the country's funds richer. But the way the Chinese Empire used high-tech products to make a lot of money made the Boston Empire quite jealous.
Originally, the gross domestic product of the Boston Empire had reached 0.92 trillion Chinese dollars, which was 6% higher than the 1.5 trillion Chinese dollars of the Chinese Empire, and they themselves were slightly higher than the countries of the Western Continent in terms of scientific and technological strength, which made it easier to export products and kept the country in a weak trade surplus, but the balance was broken due to the intervention of computers.
For the current price, a computer is already sky-high, not to mention that due to the interest of a large number of wealthy people in this novel high-tech product, as well as the rigid needs of many enterprises, more than 100,000 computers and thousands of servers entered the Boston Empire in one year in 916 alone, which is a big business of hundreds of millions of dollars.
These are not all of the foreign exchange loss, computer-related industries are also absorbing the foreign exchange of the Boston Empire, all kinds of computer peripherals and genuine software, and even related books began to pour into the Boston Empire in a steady stream, coupled with the laying of the Internet, the Boston Empire in a year alone, at least contributed more than 2 billion Chinese yuan to the Chinese Empire in the computer.
Coupled with the various electronic products that had been imported from the Chinese Empire, as well as precision machinery, the Boston Empire had become a trade deficit of more than a billion in this year, which did not annoy the Boston Imperial government.
What annoys them even more is that the Chinese Empire is still importing various ores from the Boston Empire and the countries of the Western Continent, allowing a country that prides itself on manufacturing to export raw materials for a long time, which is a reality that is not easy for the Boston Imperial government to accept emotionally, but it also gives the Boston Empire one more means to hit the economy of the Chinese Empire, that is, the price of raw materials has risen.
In early 917, the political and business elite of the Boston Empire formed the Boston Think Tank, which was modeled after various government and non-governmental think tanks in the Chinese Empire and provided advice to the government. According to the current international situation, these Boston imperial elites quickly came up with a series of policies to develop the country's economy, which mainly included turning the Boyuan into the world currency, manipulating the price of raw materials to suppress the Chinese Empire, and implementing quantitative easing policies, lending a large number of domestic enterprises and individuals to stimulate the country's economic development.
With this policy plan, a series of new policies began to be introduced within the Boston Empire, starting with the Boston Imperial Bank starting the money printing press, printing a large number of dollar bills, and also introducing commercial low-interest loans with near-zero interest rates, and lowering the loan threshold to encourage increased spending and borrowing.
The government also took this opportunity to launch a variety of preferential policies for doing business in a timely manner, and under such a stimulus, the private sector began to make all kinds of investments frantically, especially the stock finance and real estate industries began to improve rapidly, and for a time the entire Boston empire was in a good economic situation.
With the rapid growth of consumption, various commodities are in short supply, and various domestic enterprises have expanded their production capacity and desperately produced various commodities. The sale of goods required transportation, so the construction of roads and railroads became a profitable industry, a large number of companies began to invest in infrastructure, and the entire territory of the Boston Empire almost became a large construction site, and a series of large-scale construction of roads, buildings, and factories made the government happy, and the Boston think tank became a unit of great importance to the government.
In the great development of economic prosperity, the capitalists made a lot of money, among which the Locke consortium, which occupied eighty percent of the oil smelting industry in the Boston Empire, first began to buy a large piece of land in the center of Gotham City and built a Locke Square in order to expand its influence.
Rockeplace, which covers an area of nine hectares, is a concave square with a large musical fountain in the center, surrounded by a ribbon of street gardens, which can not only host various exhibitions, but also make a good ice skating rink in winter, and is surrounded by nineteen tall buildings, the tallest of which is the seventy-storey Locke Building.
After it was built here, it quickly attracted a large number of companies, and the nineteen buildings were quickly leased out by various companies, so that the Locke Consortium could recover nearly 100 million waves of dollars in rent every year alone, which the Locke Consortium had not thought of before.
Seeing the actions of the Locke Consortium, the major consortia have also begun to launch their own projects, and the largest newspaper group in the Boston Empire, the Gotham Times Group, built the Gotham Times Square modeled on Rock Square, but they did not rent out the buildings here to various companies at will.
The shrewd executives of the Gotham Times Group gathered more than 40 large shopping malls and more than 10 theaters and cinemas here, turning the entire square into a leisure and fashion center, generating a lot of profits for the group, and the largest financial consortium in the Boston Empire, the Morgan Consortium, built many financial companies and Oder Street, Boston's largest stock exchange, becoming a veritable financial center of the whole country.
A large number of skyscrapers, including the 102-storey Imperial Power Building, have also been built by various group companies. Just when the prosperity of the Boston Empire was beginning to emerge, the Boston Empire began to attack the Chinese Empire.
In the world's steel production ranking, the Chinese Empire has long surpassed the Boston Empire to reach an annual output of 100 million tons of steel and 1300 million tons of pig iron, and the Chinese Empire relies on advanced technology to refine the steel not only lower cost, but also better quality, and many of the important special steel, the Boston Empire is unable to refine, so the Boston Empire's steel products have not only been limited to the low-end market for a long time, but also because the Chinese Empire's production capacity is too large and suppressed and cannot be expanded.
The Boston Imperial steel industry was so suppressed that the Boston Imperial Government naturally had to take a move to solve it. Due to the Chinese Empire's refusal to exploit its domestic mineral deposits, and in order not to create too large a trade surplus, the Chinese Empire has always purchased iron ore from outside.
Due to the good quality and large reserves of iron ore in the Boston Empire, the export of iron ore has always been a major tax item in the Boston Empire, and the pricing power of iron ore is also in the hands of the two mining companies of the Boston Empire, Booker and Rhodes. At the behest of the Boston Imperial government, the two companies finally began to attack the Chinese Empire in early 917.