Section 271 Science and technology prosper
Of course, if it is only developed in those "advantageous" industries, it is impossible to stimulate the enterprises of the maritime countries to put all the advanced technologies into the application field...... At the very least, if the low-end market is occupied, the capitalists of the maritime countries will not have a strong sense of competition.
It's like when Xin Yu was in the 10th century, Huaxia exported 100 million shirts in order to exchange for an airplane from a developed country, with low profit margins and brutal competition in the low-end market...... In this world, most of the world is still a subsistence small-scale peasant economic model, and industries such as clothing, even if the whole world is large, there will not be much market...... At least the market is not yet mature.
However, it is precisely because of the low market profit margin of low-end products and the fierce competition...... Even if we do not count the large-scale industrial production of the maritime countries, they have absolute industrial and technological advantages, and even other countries with the same handicraft industry as the main body of centralized production will form an extremely fierce market competition.
In this way, those countries around the maritime countries, especially the bureaucratic capital that is the main body in those countries, after a period of "good life", are naturally unwilling to return to the past and rely on "collecting land rent" as the main means of income, and it is still a meager harvest to live.
Although those countries do not have the basis for the development of a comprehensive range of large industries, even the industrial products of the copycat maritime countries, even if they are mostly manufactured by hand, will receive a great economic return.
Under such circumstances, learning the development model of maritime countries has become the pursuit of capital within those countries. Speaking of which, although the accumulation of technology in smelting, manufacturing or other industries at that time far exceeded that of all countries in the world dominated by the natural economy, just as Xin Yu wanted to spread some of the technology, the industrial and commercial owners of the maritime country were too "stingy" with technological development, or in other words, they were too much to pursue a certain technological economic benefit.
This has led to the fact that the various products of the maritime countries do not have much "technical content" in relation to the handicraft industry. In the absence of an absolute generation gap in technology, it is easy to be imitated by other countries...... Although it is impossible to reach the level of the maritime nation in terms of materials, the workshops of other countries, replacing them with ordinary materials, can also imitate machines or products with similar functions, but with inferior performance.
And because it is impossible for the maritime countries to occupy all the markets in the whole world, this also leaves the foundation for the development of the hand-built industries of those countries.
It is said that the role of force is mutual, and the development of foreign industries has stimulated the technological upgrading of maritime countries to a certain extent, but the economic development speed of maritime countries has also stimulated the "desire" of foreign capital. Starting from low-level handmade imitation, those foreign capitals that have tasted the sweetness naturally cannot stay in the original handmade forever...... Profit margins are one thing, and efficiency is ...... That is, the efficiency of obtaining economic benefits is another reason.
On the contrary, the maritime country itself is not a feudal dynasty that "closes itself off from the country", on the contrary, because the maritime country with industry and commerce as the absolute main body is in fact an extremely open and free world. Although the rulers of other countries did not see as far as Xin Yu, they knew that education was the fundamental factor that drove social development...... In fact, even if there are such shrewd people who know that the development of education is an investment in the future, not every country can have that kind of capital, and the rulers cannot have the courage to fully roll out the cause of national education.
However, if we can't train a large number of industrial talents, can't we still train some elites? Just like the education model in this world for tens of thousands of years, a small number of talents for governing the country have been trained, and a large number of people who can settle accounts have been cultivated...... That is, ordinary talents, or a relatively popular practice.
Here, it is just a matter of applying those training methods in the humanities to the development of science and technology. Although because those countries do not have a traverser like Xin Yu, it is impossible to have a relatively scientific and systematic science and engineering education materials all at once, but it is easy for them to send a small number of talents to the ocean country to "steal teachers".
Speaking of which, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the maritime country accepted a large number of "international students" from the Xue Mo Cui family, and this model of cultivating "international students" has been applied to other countries. Although at the beginning, because of the pure theoretical learning, there is no special benefit in the field of applied science, and the people in this world do not have a special understanding of science and technology itself...... Although it is not like those old stubborns who eat the ancients, despise science and technology as "strange skills and tricks", and reject the development of science, because they do not understand and do not know what the role is, for a long time, almost all countries have not been very interested in this kind of "study permit" of maritime countries, or it should be "commissioned training" business.
However, after the development of the maritime countries, especially the "manufacturing" capital of many other countries, became more and more dissatisfied with their own technological level, they finally woke up to the fact that those seemingly "obscure" theories are also of great value for improving industrial production efficiency. Therefore, after that, there are more and more international students who come to the maritime country to "learn from experience".
Maybe it's because the citizens of the Ocean Country haven't understood what "scientific secrecy" is, or maybe it's because Xin Yu is deliberately "indulgent", or maybe it's because the entrepreneurs of the Ocean Country are too confident in the science and technology of the Ocean Country, and they don't want a few international students to be able to take away all the technology of the entire Ocean Country.
In short, the major schools in the maritime country did not refuse to allow students from other countries to come to "further study", but opened their doors to accept students from all over the world...... Although there are no bastards in the education industry of the maritime countries who propose "industrialization of education", all schools enjoy state subsidies, and there is no need for so-called "income generation". However, the high cost of "studying abroad" can still improve the economic conditions of schools with "commission training" qualifications. Since the state does not explicitly prohibit them from accepting international students, it is natural that each school will not take the initiative to cut off one "financial source" after another.
It is under such circumstances that more and more countries have sent their students to the maritime countries and learned countless scientific knowledge from the schools of the maritime countries...... Although in many cases, these technologies cannot be directly applied to real life, and even for the education of international students, the schools of the maritime country have "left a hand", but even if those international students can learn less, even compared to the students of the maritime country, these international students rarely have the opportunity to link theory and practice, and cannot flexibly apply what they have learned.
However, since most of the people who can be sent to study abroad by those countries are more thoughtful and intelligent talents, and no matter how few things an international student can get, they can't stand up to the large number...... Over time, there will always be something practical for other countries to learn.
Now, more than 60 years later, although the number of international students allowed by the maritime countries has not been relaxed in terms of the total number of international students, it still only accepts about 2,000 international students every year. However, in such a long time, even a group of pigs can learn all the basic knowledge of the Ocean Country...... Although due to economic or other reasons, it is impossible for other countries to carry out compulsory education for all like the maritime countries, but the huge population base can also allow those countries to cultivate their own talents.
Under such circumstances, more and more countries have made more and more achievements in the field of science and technology.
Speaking of which, although because of the progress of these countries, especially in the field of industrial manufacturing, it has stimulated the upgrading of science and technology in the maritime countries. Let all walks of life in the maritime country still maintain their absolute advantages. However, no matter how backward the industry of other countries is, it is already an extremely remarkable progress compared to the self-sufficient natural economy of the past, and even the primitive agricultural civilization.
Among them, the most significant is probably the Great Liang State bordering the maritime country. Speaking of which, after the implementation of the constitutional monarchy, the eighteen big families in the Great Liang country completely controlled almost all the rights of the Great Liang State.
Under such circumstances, these eighteen big families naturally became the masters of the Great Liang Kingdom. Perhaps it is because this kind of government is extremely suitable for the development of industry and commerce, or perhaps because the eighteen families are more concerned about the development of the maritime country, and also because Xin Yu himself bears the obligation to know the development of the maritime country. Therefore, the enterprises of the Liang State represented by these eighteen are the first to learn the model of the maritime country.
Nowadays, although due to economic factors, the Great Liang State has also not implemented the issue of universal education, but because the eighteen families that dominate the Great Liang Country have gradually turned their industries to industry and commerce. With the extreme pursuit of profits by capital, the Liangguo enterprises represented by these 18 big capital families are also the ones that keep up with the "trend" the most...... As mentioned above, the economic base determines the superstructure, and the strong economic foundation of the maritime country has made this once remote place suddenly turn from barbarism to prosperity, leading the development of the whole world.
Although it is said that because of the lack of technical talents, Daliang can only be said to have barely entered the era of electricity, which is far less developed than the information society of the ocean country, but it is only a matter of time before Daliang country, which already has the foundation of informatization, and then further enters the information society.
Although there are not many countries like Daliang that are more eager to pursue technology, because of interests or because of the reasons for capital to promote the development of science and technology, with the maritime country as the center, it has radiated to more than a dozen countries within about 10,000 kilometers, and because of the promotion of interests and all aspects, the scientific development of the entire "area" has become extremely prosperous.
For example, even if these countries are far from being able to establish a very tall high-speed railway transportation system like the maritime countries because of their technological backwardness, ordinary steam railways, which seem to be very backward, have been established in this region.
Building materials manufacturing industries such as cement manufacturing, which have a low threshold and do not have much technical content, have made great strides in the past 60 years in several countries near the maritime country. In this way, because of the positive "response" to the development idea of "building roads before getting rich" of maritime countries, a relatively complete road network has also been built in these dozen or so countries...... Even if it is not as dense as the dense highway network of the maritime country, it is far better than the previous situation where only large cities are connected by rammed earth pipelines.
In addition, although in aviation technology, because the entry threshold is too high and the technology is too advanced, other countries have not been able to keep up with the maritime countries and develop the aircraft manufacturing industry, but in some "rich" circles, "toys" such as propeller planes have also been favored by ordinary people who want to "fly". In other words, although flying tools such as airplanes and hot air balloons cannot be popularized, at least in these countries, these "artifacts" can still be seen.
In addition to these changes in manufacturing or transportation conditions, several of the more than a dozen countries in the immediate vicinity of the maritime states have coastlines, which means that several of them are bordered by the sea. There is a "role model" of maritime countries, and those countries have also actively developed marine transportation, fishing and other industries in the past 60 years and more.
Where there is demand, there is a market, and it is always an unbreakable truth. Now that these countries have also begun to ask for "benefits" from the sea, they will naturally not be left behind too much in the shipbuilding industry.
Although compared with the 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the latest "flower of industry" built by the maritime countries, compared with such a super "overlord", the shipbuilding industry of those countries is at most only capable of transplanting steam power to seagoing ships, and even a few countries that are not technologically competent have not been able to manufacture steel ships so far.
However, if we look at the longitudinal comparison of the past, even the technology for making large wooden sailing ships was not mature, and now in addition to the maritime powers, those countries can not only use relatively fast steamships, but also many countries can also make all-steel sea ships...... Although the tonnage of about 6,000 tons is their limit, such progress represents the entire human society...... At least the science and technology of the entire human society in the world is gradually being promoted in the world of ordinary human beings.
This is also the most gratifying opinion that Xin Yu feels in the past 60 years.