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In the early days of the founding of the United States, there was a very interesting controversy. Under the mentality of "historical compensation and revenge", a group of literary and artistic leaders put forward the terrifying mention of reconstructing scientific standards. Especially on the three issues of industrial measurement, scientific equations, and the latitude and longitude of the earth, the relevant arguments were once the most intense.

Several bigwigs from engineering backgrounds are out of sight, and they don't bother to talk to those literary and artistic young people about scientific standard engineering. Whether it is a number of physical objects brought by the great tribulation from the afterlife, or the basic knowledge system possessed by the people themselves, it is impossible to be able to become a saint. After all, the human science exhibition has gone through thousands of years of accumulation, integration and evolution, and it can not be reconstructed overnight.

Once the great historical saint complex moves to the latitude and longitude, the helmsman of the navy is not as well-cultivated as the engineering bigwigs, and he directly scolds some young people with a bloody head. All the existing precious map materials from later generations, as well as all the geographical coordinate information of the sea 6, are all the numbers of later generations. To reformulate the latitude and longitude and convert them into new latitude and longitude coordinates, the amount of work is simply impossible to express in words, and the consequences of the slightest negligence are unimaginable.

The complex of literary and artistic youth leading history has been shattered, but the gorgeous modern scientific restoration project cannot be stopped. After the loss of modern means of maritime navigation, both the navy and the trading merchant fleet had to return to the era of manual mechanical instrumentation and drawing work.

The "state-owned precision industry company", which was first established in Manchester and later moved to Yushu City, Songzhou, has become one of the most important enterprises in Huamei Basic Industries, and it is also the most braunting local high-tech industrial project in Yushu City.

The state-owned precision industrial company, led by several otaku and joined by You Renyi, the only seventh-level senior engineer in China, has monopolized the manufacture of domestic optical and precision industrial components after years of research. Ordinary clocks, measuring instruments, precision gears, sextants, military rangefinders, and marine clocks are the company's most fist products.

Whether military or civilian, medium and ocean-going vessels. Huamei's self-produced marine clocks are equipped with three seats, the first is Manchester City time in North America, the second is London time in England, and the third is used for timing during the voyage to ensure positioning at sea. Under the monopoly of the market, the unit price of a gorgeous marine clock is more than 1ooo US dollars, which is one of the most expensive equipment on the ship. In addition, according to the relevant national laws, each Huamei ship must undergo a safety inspection and registration once a year, which includes strict regulations for the custody of marine clocks.

In the burning of the Yuanyu O7, three marine clocks were mysteriously lost. The Navy's home fleet spent a long time searching for suspicious targets on the vast sea, and even the frigate USS Republic once sailed near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, but to no avail. Many insiders in the Cabinet and the Navy were quite annoyed by this, and when the news reached the two houses of the Congress, it set off a fierce quarrel among the half-informed parliamentarians.

Some complained about the ineffective handling of the Qingcheng police. There are also accusations of the Ministry of Homeland Security's dereliction of duty, in short, this kind of problem once it can be put on the platform to the level of the country's "strategic security towards Europe". There is an absolute need for an explanation.

Many details of the case gradually emerged. It has been revealed that this is a well-planned foreign-related criminal case of stealing a Chinese navigation clock, and the opponent is likely to be the spy agency of the French Prime Minister Richelieu. At a time when the export of canned food and kimchi is strictly prohibited, the navigation clock is the most important instrument of the country. Once the actual marine clock entered Europe through the French spies, even if its manufacturing process could not reach the point of imitation and copying, its design principle would inevitably be revealed.

Soon, the third day before the Spring Festival. The Qingcheng city government has received a penalty notice from the cabinet. Mayor Danielson was reprimanded in writing, and the heads of the city police and coast guard were given administrative demerits; The state-owned distant-water fishing company carried out internal rectification, and the captain and boatswain of the Yuanyu O7, who escaped with a hangover on the shore, were detained pending investigation. Homeland Security Secretary Yonetani also fell ill again, according to the National Civil Service Dereliction of Duty Punishment Regulations. Received a symbolic penalty of three months' salary.

Even if the "thousand-day anti-thief" itself is not a reliable thing, this time the Chinese and US counter-espionage security work has indeed lost a lot of face. The Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and the European Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have all received relevant secret investigation tasks, and they are very likely to vow not to give up until the culprit is found.

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“…… The first phase of the investigation into the burning of Yuanyu O7 has been completed, and this is a summary of the findings. At the last meeting of the National Security Council before the Spring Festival, Secretary of Homeland Security Miya handed down a copy of the paper.

"The crew responsible for the keepings of the marine clock had been in close contact with a French merchant who represented the French royal family in the past year. The crew member volunteered to stay on board the ship for the night before the fire, and it is easy to deduce that there will be a resurgence after that. Migu wrote some key information on the blackboard, and sighed at the end, "And the next afternoon, the merchant ship on which the merchant was traveling left the port. But neither the MIA's intelligence stations in Quebec nor Jarre have yet found the whereabouts of the merchant ship, and perhaps they have chosen a route we don't know about and slipped back to France. ”

In other words, the marine clock had already been smuggled out of the country by the French. Looking for a needle in a haystack, it is really difficult to find a suspect vessel. Premier Wu Yuan tapped his finger on the table, not very good, "Our counter-espionage security work is still not strict enough." ”

"In fact, European countries have been raising the demand for our controlled products for many years." Yan Xiaosong took over the premier's words, as the foreign minister, he knew better than anyone present the current European countries' thirst for advanced industrial products from China and the United States, "not only the navigation clock, but also they want us to sell the 'new cannon', that is, the naval guns that our navy is currently equipped." ”

"Impossible!" Defense Minister Zheng Quan slapped the table with an awe-inspiring expression, "If they think that they can get what they want with petty theft, they are too naïve." ”

"Do you need to talk to their diplomats in Manchester City?" Yan Xiaosong smiled to ease the atmosphere.

"No matter what source they learn about, they won't admit it. Espionage is never played on the table. Wu Yuanyi shook his head, "Although France has sent a handle that can be hyped to the door, according to our time slot, it is not yet the time to have a showdown with France." ”

"Su Zining. What do you think? Qi Jianjun, who successfully ran for the post of president of the Senate a few years ago, took off his reading glasses, handed the text to others, and turned his gaze to Su Zining, who was diagonally opposite the conference table.

"I'll put aside the matter of the nautical clock for now, and I'll make a digression first." Su Zining had been scribbling on his notes before, and when he saw that his old boss asked him by name this time, he raised his head with a smile, "I remember that when I just graduated from college, I took a trip to Italy with a sum of money from my family, mainly for tourism. ”

Su Zining's words opened. The members of the National Security Council all showed attentive expressions, knowing that Su Zining was about to throw out some surprising points again.

“…… I visited an ancient Italian military museum and the furnishings inside were an eye-opener for me. Many Italian muskets and cannons of the 15th and 16th centuries, both breech-loading and rifled. Its historical and technological precursors have completely subverted our old perceptions......"

“…… Remember Henry VIII of England at the beginning of the 16th century? This man was a military fan, in the British Museum of later generations. He also treasures his hunting weapons. Breech-loading rifled gun. Metal shells, basically what we can do now, Henry VIII was tired of playing in his hunting grounds more than a hundred years ago. Of course, if we can still access the Internet now, we can also find similar toys from the French royal family. ”

"Why didn't these cutting-edge engineering designs, which had been around since the 16th century, become widespread until the mid-19th century?" Su Zining said this. Flipping through the notes in front of him, he showed the sketches in his memory in front of everyone, "Not only is it difficult to manufacture and process materials, but also the extremely high cost makes it impossible for this historical cutting-edge product to be used on a large scale." The cost of a 16th-century metal-shelled bullet made entirely by hand. It is worth a year's income of an English mechanic, and it is destined to become the personal toy of the royal family and nobles. ”

"I once asked Lin Youde, how many years is Europe behind us in terms of industrial manufacturing? The answer given by Lin Youde is two hundred years. That is to say, even if we now give them a complete set of engineering design drawings and all the raw materials for the oldest first-generation 9o mm Wisworth naval gun, with their current capabilities, they will not be able to complete the replication process for at least two hundred years. Many of the goods we export to Europe imply a set of engineering and manufacturing processes that are not superficially known, and their scholars or skilled craftsmen can also reproduce a few things by hand to different standards, but they have little practical significance other than to please the royal family. Until now, the 21b flint production line purchased by Spain and the Netherlands would have been empty talk about the large-scale standard mass production of the 21b flint rifle without our supply of key parts. ”

After speaking, Su Zining turned his head to Zheng Quan, and looked at the hardliners in China who resolutely pursued a technological blockade of Europe with a smile: "So, is a backward world really beneficial to us?" This is the essence of the Navigation Clock incident. ”

"Isn't it our established national policy to contain the European Exhibition?" Zheng Quan frowned, feeling that what Su Zining said seemed to make sense, but he always felt that something was wrong.

"Containment is not the same as strangulation, let alone extreme rejection, the world needs us, and we need the world. I've discussed with my wife before whether a backward world is a good thing or a bad thing for us. Su Zining smiled and shook his head, walked to the blackboard, and wrote a number of numbers in chalk, "We are only a domestic demand market now, and the demand for all kinds of industrial and agricultural raw materials has swelled five times compared with ten years ago, but the import volume from Europe has only increased less than two times. The policy of encouraging shipping has been going on for more than a decade, and now our Atlantic commercial capacity has increased to a certain size, and the cost of transportation per 100 nautical miles per ton of cargo has been reduced to 25 cents or even less, but the load ratio of merchant ships returning to sea is declining, so the root cause is no longer in our capacity, but in the lack of productivity in Europe. This forced us to work hard to open the supply of raw materials, and what should have been someone else working for us became our own hands. ”

"Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and England all have high-grade metal minerals, and we have always used them as an import supplement or even the only source of local industrial raw materials. But in the end, we are paying for the disadvantages of low industrial extraction capacity and backward productivity in these European countries. ”

"Our mines already use copper-mesh lamps to prevent gas explosions on a large scale, while the current European mines do not dare to work underground at all, and can only mine at the surface. If we don't export copper mesh miner's lamps, they will continue to be in this state for another hundred years. This leads to the extremely primitive mining industry in Europe. Speaking about the yield and cost will keep people awake. Coupled with the fact that the Thirty Years' War is now more intense than in the same period in history, and the production disruption in European countries is even greater, our import costs will be higher in the future. ”

"Taking European sail merchant ships as an example, their average voyage is less than half of our merchant ships, and the average cargo carrying capacity of a single ship is only one-third to one-quarter of ours, which means that the logistics level of Atlantic trade has actually been following their rhythm in essence. In order to protect these backward sailing merchant ships loaded with commodity raw materials, our navy is still shouldering the burden of anti-piracy security in the Atlantic, which is actually a thankless effort of our own. ”

"If we are like nannies who take care of the logistics and transportation that should be undertaken by them, it is actually equivalent to 'renting' our shipping technology and naval combat power to them, and hitching a ride on our ships and manpower. We take on the shipping risk. Every penny earned now should be used to dominate the European market and labor as much as possible, rather than contributing to Europe's logistics industry now, and letting European money dominate our shipping industry and labor. ”

"And we are not yet at the time to monopolize maritime transport. Do we need to risk offending all of Europe at this time to grab the business of tens of thousands of sailboats? The Dutch were beaten by France and England in the second half of the 17th century. It was because their merchant ships had almost a monopoly on the maritime transit trade throughout Europe. Offended all of Europe. ”

"Therefore, as a member of this world, a world that is not powerful is not in line with our fundamental interests at this stage. The core idea of our Curb Europe exhibition is not about one or two products, let alone fishing for nothing. Rather, it is to dominate the relationship between markets and labor on both sides of the Atlantic, to obtain cheaper raw material supplies, and to expand the export market for products. At the level of science and technology, curb their ability to innovate independently. Instead, we rely on the technical output of the product that we control the rhythm. Moreover, we should not allow the European countries to attract collective hatred because of our excessively high industrial level, but should bind them and transfer the hatred. It's as if we sold 21b flint gun production lines to Spain and the Netherlands, and immediately these two countries became hostile to the countries of Europe. ”

After saying a lot of content in one breath, Su Zining picked up the teacup and poured a few sips.

Marx was right...... A qualified dirty capitalist who, for the sake of profit, must sell to his opponents the ropes that hanged him. At that time, the European powers were scrambling to build railways for the Qing Dynasty, but they were not doing good deeds for the Qing Dynasty, haha. Yan Xiaosong understood what Su Zining meant, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"What Su Zining means is that we can open up the export control of some commodities? The theft of the marine clock is not as strict as we think? Zheng Quan touched his chin thoughtfully, "But it can't be stopped, right?" ”

"The 17th century was the beginning of the comprehensive prosperity of modern basic science and technology in Europe, so the 'street lamp' plan of abducting and selling European talents should continue, and the main rhythm of basic science and technology progress is in our hands, and the output of finished products does not matter. Without a complete set of basic industrial systems, they will not be able to reverse engineer for hundreds of years. Anyway, they can't be imitated, and buying our advanced equipment to improve productivity is also working for us, and making money is not for nothing. Targeted output can also sow discord. Su Zining showed a relaxed expression, "As for France, just find a chance to get it back with interest." ”

"This topic is a different perspective on our policy towards Europe and the world. If we really want to make adjustments, we need to study them thoroughly in the Diet and the Cabinet. However, what should be taken precautions must be taken against it, and the state's counter-espionage security work must not be relaxed. ”

Senate Speaker Qi Jianjun also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and made a concluding remark for the discussion at the National Security Council.

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In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, Huamei provided mining equipment such as mining steam pumps to Spain's Cuban colonies and Portugal's Brazilian colonies. A 2o horsepower mining steam pump can be equivalent to the work efficiency of at least 1oo slaves, and the daily coal consumption is less than the food cost of 2o slaves, which is favored by local mine owners. However, the output scale of this modern mining equipment is very limited, and the spare parts are almost all in the hands of Huamei, which has not fundamentally changed the overall low mining capacity in Europe.

From Su Zining's point of view, Huamei can also sell more types and quantities of mining equipment to Spain, Portugal, and Sweden, three countries that use ore raw materials to repay their national debts, so as to "force" these countries to increase production capacity and reduce costs, so that the same national bonds can be exchanged for more ore. It may even be possible to sell more advanced multi-masted schooner merchant ships or simplified versions of civilian steam merchant ships to improve the efficiency and safety of maritime transport in these countries.

According to Su Zining's proposal on the adjustment of the National Security Council's commodity export control, in the future, Huamei's product exports will be graded in a more standardized manner, and will be re-divided into five levels according to the impact on national strategic security: high risk, potential high risk, low risk, potential low risk, and no risk. Each level is subdivided into two sub-levels: A and B.

Among them, the first level belongs to the export prohibition, and the second level belongs to the conditional export approval of the National Security Committee; Tier 3 and Tier 4 are restricted exports; Level 5 is not subject to any restrictions.

According to this classification standard, not to mention fresh-keeping canned food and kimchi, even the marine clock, the Iberian 2ooo large schooner warship and civilian steam equipment are all second or third class products. Although the classification and discretion of a specific product may vary from person to person, it can better grasp the scale of high-product export control than the previous one-size-fits-all rude policy, and can also be used as a reference bargaining chip for China-US foreign policy.

As for the national security issue that the export of advanced technology and equipment may lead to, apart from the relevant companies that want to relax the policy, the internal opinions of the cabinet and the Diet have been very different. Su Zining's remarks about "the overall progress of the world's productive forces will do more harm to the future of the country" do not necessarily have more supporters, and the old-fashioned "persecution paranoia" is even more numb and unwilling to listen, and the sense of historical cheating and superiority brought about by the advantages of the country's productive forces is still a high degree of obsession with those currently in power in China.

The Lunar New Year of 1642 has arrived, and the year-end dividends of all walks of life have begun again, and most of the Chinese magnates are not worried about the theft of the navigation clock. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)