Chapter 177: The Charm of the Radio

Despite this, Huadong Xing still urges Fang Xiaoyu to make more money every day, which makes Fang Xiaoyu annoyed, but now his own invention has also reached a bottleneck stage, what can be invented simply has been invented, and the products that he knows but have not invented, and the level of technology and craftsmanship is not enough, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to tap his own potential and strive to tap the potential from what he has the ability to manufacture now.

In the current situation, the most potential can be tapped is electricity, which is an indispensable energy source for modern society and the second industrial revolution.

Without electricity, many things can not be done, TV can not be watched, can not be Internet, computers can not be turned on, can not use air conditioning, electric heating, electric lights, and even complete sets of electrical appliances and kitchenware in the kitchen will become waste, but the indispensable power is built on a series of electrical equipment, if there are not so many electrical equipment, electricity can only be reduced to auxiliary energy, except for the factory to drive the machine to run no role.

Now the whole Chinese Territory has begun the construction of new power stations, due to the slow construction of hydropower, it has been somewhat insufficient, so Fang Xiaoyu had to build a number of thermal power stations, fortunately, there are a lot of coal resources in the Chinese Territory, and it is enough to use, of course, this is only an expedient measure.

Fang Xiaoyu understands the importance of sustainable development very well, so he will try to avoid polluting the environment, and when the technology matures in the future, wind power stations, solar electronics, tidal power stations and even nuclear power plants are all within Fang Xiaoyu's calculations, and the technical difficulty is also low, and when the Lanfang Empire is completely controlled by Fang Xiaoyu, he plans to build a super hydropower station on the Hunhe River, which has the richest water in the country.

The provinces of Tongsan-gun, which had already begun to develop, have basically completed the laying of electric wires, but of course, the electrical equipment used today is only street lamps on the street or electric lights at home, except for factory machines, and other electrical equipment has not yet been widely used.

Although the electric light has made people feel convenient, Fang Xiaoyu feels that this is not enough, he needs more electrical equipment to increase people's reliance on electricity, only by increasing this dependence, and then showing it to the outside through the window of Tongshan County, can the whole world gradually start to use electricity, so that he can make more money, because the patents for alternating current and direct current are now in his hands, and the energy patent has a different feature from other patents, the duration of this patent is seventy years.

Originally, this was to reward those who contributed to the energy supply, but once Fang Xiaoyu took advantage of this loophole, he could obtain a steady stream of wealth and become the richest person in the world. And the basis of all this, Fang Xiaoyu intends to open the market with an electrical appliance, which is the radio.

Some people may think that small radios are battery-powered and don't use much electricity. If you think so, you are wrong, radios are in the modern impression of small, hand-holding, ultra-low-power devices, but those radios are a product of the era of LSI times.

When radios first appeared, they were all big guys who used tubes, were bulky, and powered by alternating current, so their power consumption was not low, not only could they be directly connected to alternating current, but even higher than that of refrigerators and air conditioners in later generations.

Radio is nothing to modern people, because modern people have long been accustomed to modern tools such as computers, networks, and mobile phones, and have disdained the kind of electrical appliances that can only listen to sound, but for this world where there is no entertainment and information channels are blocked, it is very tempting to have such a tool.

In order to expand the influence, Fang Xiaoyu began to publicly display and sell in his own major shops in Tongshan County, and various beautiful radios soon became the most eye-catching goods, people gathered around to see this strange machine, when the human voice came out clearly from the radio, the crowd sent out a burst of exclamations, this is the trial broadcast program of the Zhonghua Ling Radio Station established by Fang Xiaoyu, and they are preparing for the official broadcast.

To this end, Fang Xiaoyu not only had an idea, pressed a trademark of Lanting Electric for the electrical company, but also carried out a promotional activity for the first time in the store, that is, the radio can be returned unconditionally within ten days of being sold, and the coupon activity of buying the radio is adopted.

After buying a radio at the major stores of the Chung Wah Group of Companies, you will get a cash coupon of 3 yuan, and you can use this cash coupon to purchase items in the major stores of the Chung Hwa Group in the future, which can be fully offset by the same value of cash.

With such promotional methods, the sales of radios were extremely hot, and even reached the point of being out of stock several times, which made Wu Fengle, who was in charge of sales, close his mouth and praise Fang Xiaoyu as a sales genius.

With this promotion, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly had an idea, and began to transform the model of major shops into supermarkets, and at the same time increase the variety of goods, and open the market with various unique products of Zhonghua Group Company. The supermarket only changed the sales model, and did not change much to the shops, so the store renovation was completed quickly.

Under the temptation of this novel sales model and a variety of unique goods, the Xinyuan supermarket chain of the China Group has achieved great success, and the sales are rising, as for those radios that guarantee unconditional return within ten days, except for some faulty ones, no one returns them at all, even if those faulty buyers are also to ask for repair rather than return, because the radio has swept the entire Chinese collar within a few days, if you want to buy it to make an appointment in advance, who would be stupid to return it?

A few months later, the merchants of the Western Continent who had come to China to receive the goods brought the radios back to their homeland, but the countries of the Western Continent had no electricity supply at all, let alone radio stations, and no one believed them despite their claims that the radio was out of the blue.

Obvet, the richest merchant in the Nantes Empire, first saw the business opportunity in the radio, and he applied to the Chinese Consulate to build a radio station and a hydropower station, Fang Xiaoyu immediately agreed, and sent an experienced engineering team to the Nantes Empire to help him.

Obvet soon set up a small hydroelectric power station and a radio station, and after hearing the clear human voices, the radio began to take the western continent by storm, and Obvet immediately began to sell his hoarded radios, and as a result, he made a fortune. Seeing Obvet's profits, other businessmen followed suit by building power plants and radio stations, and ordering large quantities of radios from the Chinese Consulate.

Fang Xiaoyu's electricity royalties and the money from the sale of radios soon exceeded Fang Xiaoyu's expectations, and he continued to expand his electrical appliance factory with the help of these funds, and Lanting brand electrical appliances soon became the largest and only electrical supplier in the world.

Of course, these are all later words, and the only thing Fang Xiaoyu has to do now is to rely on electric lights and radios throughout the entire Chinese Territory to fully implement electrical equipment.

In Fang Xiaoyu's imagination, the first industrial revolution represented by the steam engine had already begun in the Saar Empire, and he failed to take the lead because he started decades late, and even because he had nearly fifty years of accumulation less than the countries of the Western Continent, although he had many transcendent technologies, he was far inferior to the other party in terms of industrial scale.

Since the first industrial revolution was a step late, the second industrial revolution took the first step to recover the losses, Fang Xiaoyu is ready to take a lead in the second industrial revolution powered by electricity and internal combustion engines, and strive to open the gap with the powers of the Western Continent during this period, so as to quickly become strong and become one of the superpowers in the world, so as to gather the wealth of this world world faster and shorten the time to go home.

Although Fang Xiaoyu has a complete set of plans for economic construction, he also knows that a strong country can not be achieved only by enhancing economic strength, but by relying on the tempering of blood and fire and the victory of wars again and again.

If you have not defeated a powerful country recognized by the world, it will not be recognized by the major powers, just like the United States at that time, although at the end of the nineteenth century the United States became the world's first in industry but no one recognized it, and European countries still call it an upstart.

It was only when the United States played a decisive role and won the victory in the two world wars that the United States was recognized as a world power, and even China in the 21st century is facing the same problem.

Although the Chinese collar has not yet been founded, it must take this road if it wants to be recognized by the international community, and there is no shortcut. But so far, the Chinese collar has not really defeated an internationally recognized power.

The Wa and New Guinea states were only small and weak countries that were not recognized, and although the Cossack Empire was considered a strong country, it was also considered a second-rate power, not to mention that its victory was not complete, but only with the help of geographical advantages.

These two great battles from land to sea did not cause the Cossack Empire to lose to the point of breaking its bones, so the Chinese Empire was not a real victory over the other side, which is why the Cossack Empire has always been unconvinced.

Unless a powerful country is defeated in a dignified manner, the Chinese Territory will not be able to truly rise, and for this goal, Fang Xiaoyu will lock it on the Boston Empire, which has the ability to compete with the Chinese Territory for hegemony in the Eastern Ocean.

Located in the northern part of the New World, the Boston Empire was a large empire with an area of more than 9 million square kilometers, with a large industrial power in the middle, rich mineral resources in the north, and agricultural cultivation in the south.

The eastern part is the commercial center of the empire, responsible for commercial exchanges with the western continent, because of its huge industrial base, not far from the western continent, so his national strength is very strong, its industrial production value is more than ten times that of the Chinese territory, is an absolute strong enemy.

Although the Boston Empire was not a great power, they were also an economic power, and defeating such a country would be very helpful for the Chinese Empire to improve its status in the international community, and with the previous defeat of the Cossack Empire, the Chinese Empire could be regarded as a real rise.