Out of the cage

Bai Jingqi was extremely annoyed, because: while the Donglin group coveted the economic accumulation of the Western Economic Union, he and the Fenghou Group had been paying attention to the technological potential of Luoshui.

Now his Fenghou Group has more than 60% of the heavy machinery supply in the west, and the remaining 30% is also supplied by other domestic military enterprises, but! There is still 10% of heavy machinery, which still has the share of Luoshui Heavy Industry, and it is incompressible.

What Bai Jingqi is extremely depressed about now is that Luoshui is still able to follow up and develop products of the same level.

For example, to transport airships, the Fenghou Group has completed an advanced Tesla energy-storage diesel-electric airship for the Western Regions.

In the second year, Luoshui produced a pure electric airship with a graphene storage body. Efficiency is better at high altitude. After forcing the Fenghou Group, they had to replace the already perfect design with a graphene full electric power, just like the waiter, which allowed Fenghou to stabilize 80% of the orders on the plateau.

The same is true for heavy trucks. When Jibei Army Vehicle is doing heavy truck business in the northwest, it is the same as serving grandpa. The power modules are divided into electric power and diesel power. The entire drivetrain also had to be updated to the latest. Because ah, Luoshui has also completed the finalization of the truck system, electricity, diesel and electric are all done, and the prototype is also produced, but the market price is slightly higher, so only 7% of the orders in the west.

These iterations of equipment updates are very expensive and require the market to give back. The heavy industry companies in Shenzhou are sure that they have won most of the market. According to the traditional model, the heavy industry in Luoshui has long been driven out.

But in fact, now Luoshui still has research and development capabilities, and firmly occupies the major industries related to special steel, power control components, and core transmission parts.

This made the Chinese military industry giants very surprised: How much money did Wei Keng make in light industry and agriculture to subsidize these large-scale special equipment industries at hand?

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Questions about the military giants on this plane:

A large number of military-related parts and components industries in Luoshui in the west are indeed supported by the civilian market, such as electronics, chemicals, and machinery.

However, in the research and development of these industrial chains, Wei Keng actually cheated a lot.

Civilian design of heavy industry requires a costly R\u0026D team to do the overall design based on the existing technical level, calibrate the relevant subsystems, and continue to spend money on experiments.

The production capacity of Luoshui's heavy trucks, airships, and missile engines was completely copied by Wei Keng based on the technology on Wei Qiang's timeline.

This kind of cross-plane plagiarism: Wei Keng only maintains that Luoshui has this technology, and pays great attention to stopping it, so as not to let the military industry at hand compete for the market.

Therefore, as Bai Jingqi saw, Luoshui Group's heavy equipment has only 10% of the market share, but it can still keep up with the iteration of China's advanced equipment.

As for Luoshui occupying the entire western market in a short period of time, it is theoretically possible, but it has no friends in business and politics. Moreover, unscrupulous cheating is harming others and benefiting oneself, which is tantamount to making all the engineering teams of Shenzhou's heavy industry R\u0026D department unemployed and hitting China's scientific and technological research and development capabilities.

In the eyes of the military giants in Shenzhou, although this guy Luoshui has already left the field of armament manufacturing, he is afraid that this guy will come back one day.

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Bai Jingqi was not wrong to be worried. Wei Keng, a big pig, started to say "brother" on his mouth, and started preparing to prevent his brother from being stabbed behind his back. A few months later, Lao Bai got bad news.

All along, this "brother" behaves like a grasshopper strung on a string. But now Bai Jingqi was told: "You yourself are a grasshopper, and I (Luoshui) am actually a rooster. You, the food reserve, bye bye."

On November 4, 2207 in the Qin Tongli calendar, Wei Keng's plane landed here at the Zhengtu Aerospace Manufacturing Plant in Yanbei. This is Luoshui's anti-gravity airship production base.

Wei Keng inspected the site of the production base, and then met the technical team here. There are only 600 technical personnel here. Compared with the talent reserve of Fenghou Group, it is really too small, but the backbone is there. Ready to expand at any time. In fact, people are already recruiting. Who told Feng Hou's good brother to come over and remind me.

Into the expert's laboratory,

Wei Keng asked the person in charge of the production: "Have you read the information?"

Li Yunzhao, the person in charge, turned on the system projection, and in the projection was a monster as big as the Qinglong spaceship, 230 meters long, slightly shorter than the 260 meters of the Qinglong floating base. But the width is obviously wider, a full sixty meters wide, and it looks fatter. "Wakagi" is marked on the side armor of the hull.

The person in charge said: "Our idea is-"

Before she finished speaking, Wei Keng waved his hand: "Let's talk about the conclusion first, can we make it?"

Li Yunzhao: "It can be built, but only the main performance can be guaranteed."

Wei Keng turned to look at another satellite launch expert and asked, "Second question, is there any cost advantage in using Ruomu's launch system to launch civilian satellites?"

Satellite expert: "The cost is higher than the peacetime, but much lower than the wartime cost." At the end he added: "We have to build it."

In front of Wei Keng, two plans popped up, the magnetic tow launch in the peaceful era and the chemical fuel launch in wartime, as well as the costs behind them.

Wei Keng asked the third person again: "When necessary, can militarization be carried out?"

The third person said very conservatively: "It can be modified, but the scale of armed forces loaded will be limited, and the ability to strike the ground is not comparable to the traditional version of the Qinglong battleship. But!" He said seriously: "This large battleship The strategic deterrence it has after it appears is completely worth researching and developing."

Wei Keng felt that these people were more eager than he thought. Don't do the mobilization work yourself.

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The Ruomu aircraft carrier was upgraded to the Qinglong built by Luoshui on the timeline of Wei Qiang (Wei Keng's younger brother).

The total system includes four electromagnetic launchers on the upper deck and fifteen mechanical hook net recovery systems under the battleship.

Four electromagnetic launchers can eject four 20-ton unmanned fighter jets to a subsonic state, allowing the aircraft to activate the stamping device and enter the combat state. The internal extension platform can allow eight groups, a total of 32 fighters, to dispatch at one time.

When returning to the voyage, the aircraft idled and deployed the parachute and landing gear, was captured by the hook of the mechanical arm under the floating warship, took the bait like fishing, and then recovered it into the aviation cabin.

In Wei Qiang's timeline, the Luoshui Group built a total of 34 such warships, and crossing the Himalayas had a strategic impact on the Allied forces' command of the sea in the Tianzhu Ocean.

Knowing about the Golden Fleet in that timeline, Wei Keng's first reaction was to admire: "My brother's aesthetics are so high-end, big is beautiful, and more is good, unlike me, who looks earthy and looks like a man, it's nothing Hobby."

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Coming back to the topic, although Wei Keng will not take the initiative to engage in these tall and powerful super weapons, but sometimes he will fight for his breath.

In Wei Keng's original plan, he wanted to keep a low profile and not engage in any arms race. But the premise is that the other party really obeys the rules.

In the twentieth century of the main world, the public intellectual circles were all "gentlemen". To the outside world, they didn't care about what they said. For example, for Ossie, as long as the opponent has not had time to stab the knife, he repeatedly brags that Ossie follows a certain rule and talks about "procedural justice", and even makes a dialectical argument. If Ossie does not speak justice, Ossie's moral loss is greater than Your loss (the cost of being killed) is even greater.

As for Wei Keng, he is a "villain" who directly talks about his heart and deeds. When you start to say that I am a rebel, then you must be ready to use the means of "suppressing rebellion" to deal with me. Then I really build a floating battleship, as an insurance, it's not too much.

At the engineering meeting, Wei Keng said: "Then it's so determined, Ruomu must be built! Although our roads need to be paved and farmland needs to be planted, we must also provide each laborer with a drone, but! When the industry grows, the greed of wolves, tigers and leopards will increase. We love peace, but there is no sword in hand, which is different from having a sword in hand. I will not build more, I will not use it for competition, and I will not Let the pockets of the common people in the western states and counties shrink. The purpose is to prevent some guys who are used to knocking bones and sucking marrow from taking out knives and forks at will."

All the technicians present made a gesture of spreading their arms together, holding their right wrist with their left hand, and giving a thumbs up with their right hand. If this etiquette was done after the Confucian debate with very classic long-sleeved clothes, it would be very ceremonial. And now Wei Keng's words were applauded by the technicians: cheers! .

Their eyes were all shining with inexplicable interest! Qianlong is finally ready to come out of the abyss.

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Just like the handicraft merchants in the East, they cannot be compared to the handicraft citizens of the Western city-states. And the higher thinking direction pursued by those intellectuals who are moving closer to the aristocracy in the West cannot compare with the breadth of thinking of Eastern scholars.

Europe has been regionalized ever since the concept of the entire Mediterranean in the heyday of Rome was broken. In Europe, whether it is intellectual scholars or the later commercial capital system, there is such a concept of mobility (without borders), that is, the king is the king in his own territory, and scholars are scholars wherever they are. As long as your height is high enough, you can gain more freedom. Liberty in the various noble estates.

However, the continuous great unification of Eastern history, and the worldview of Eastern scholars, in the process of assistance, do not have the concept of being able to settle down in one corner.

If an Eastern scholar has the conditions to show his talents, he will never be satisfied with being a retainer of a lord, or he will either completely live in seclusion or help the king spread the world.

So when the Eastern world is in chaos, as one of the heroes, you must show enough ambition, Pianan? Then no one with lofty ideals will take effect. And show the ambition to embezzle the world. Even if the battle is defeated, the think tanks and staff who followed at the beginning will not jump ship, but will follow to the end to repay the kindness of knowledge.

In Shenzhou, the people on the east side saw Wei Keng as rebellious, and the talented scholars around Wei Keng also had this intention.

The Shilin disciples who are now working with Wei Keng claim to have the method of "looking forward to Qi".

When Wei Keng broke his home and went to the plateau by himself, he observed road by road and planned land by land. In the eyes of these people: It seems that they want to accumulate a lot of money and make achievements that will last forever.

Otherwise, they would not be able to understand Wei Keng's ambition behind living in luxury houses and not avoiding the sun, which is the same as ordinary people's food.

When Wei Keng feels that he is serving the people, it is normal and pragmatic to be content with being a screw and stepping on the mud with bare feet.

The minds of these scholars in the West may be: My lord, you are right, we are diligent in improving politics, cultivating the people and supporting the army. I will understand, low-key, low-key, wait for a while~~~

Now a series of scholars who followed Wei Keng to the Western Regions and Hetao area, planted potatoes, opened mines, opened roads, what are they planning?

So when Wei Keng was still thinking about the research and development of warships, how to sell the pot to give these senior technicians a salary level comparable to that of the Fenghou Group.

This group of scholars who mastered Gephysics are sure that there is no injustice, and they are not disrespectful at all. What they meditate in their hearts is: for the sake of the great cause, let the Fenghou Group be blinded tomorrow, and leave a plaque on the Lingyan Pavilion the next day.

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There is a generation gap between Wei Keng and people from this plane.

No, no, it's a historical gap. Wei Keng didn't have the space in his heart to deduce the possible role of "Oriental traditional scholars" in industrialization.

In the history of the main plane, Eastern commercialism did not have a decisive battle with dynastic conservatism, but existed as a weak comprador group, constantly negotiating peace and begging for peace.

In the historical line of the main world, there was a big mistake before the industrialization of the East: the traditional scholars collectively stood on the wrong team. In the past thousand years, the world has changed throughout history, and there has never been a time when the scholars of the old era were so completely wiped out.

On the ancient battlefield that determined the rise and fall of many dynasties, on one side was the yam egg pie with millions of clay legs and straw sandals, and on the other was the old camp where Xubu's upper-middle-class elites gathered, and even young school students were willing to follow them.

The result of that battle of changing the sky is that after the East became popular, the following generations of industrial technicians were basically born in the middle and lower classes. However, because of self-pity for their identity, the old intellectuals could not let go of their previous style, and they did not formally participate in the trend of industrial progress in the next few decades. On the contrary, the structure of the cultural school has been completely reduced.

And this kind of historical result has created that the impression of the generation after the millennium on traditional culture stays in the "celestial rites and music" style. In the style of painting.

Wei Keng is just a typical example under this view of history.

Master Wei's current blueprint is full of thoughts about the integration of agriculture and industry, and unity and progress. As for the scholars, Wei Keng was actually a bit mean and ungrateful. What he thought in his mind was: if he is unusable, he is worthless, and at worst he will directly recruit new science and engineering talents from the grassroots.

Now, Shilin in the western part of the Shenzhou plane is facing a difficult problem that may be "Wei Keng's bright moon shines on the ditch". But he still does not change his judgment on the general trend of the world: Wei Keng has "wangqi" and "five colors" here, and he can wait for the day of shock.

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When Wei Keng arrived in Yanbei, he finally decided to develop an anti-gravity giant warship.

Western Economic Union's entire industrial planning system, energy, and road infrastructure systems immediately caught up. Dozens of departments, hundreds of factories, and thousands of scientific research centers began to coordinate.

And from this day onwards, students from many schools in eastern China who studied electricity, materials, and particle reactors received letters from their seniors, inviting them to go to the west to build something big.

Wei Keng himself is forbidden to be a master in Gewu College in the west. For example, the rights of tutors and student unions are restricted, and the selection is all based on graduation examinations. But it will not prohibit its own talents from attracting people in the east through the relationship network that existed during the academy period.

Wei Keng has made a request for this: it is not necessary to recruit the best high-achieving students, as long as there is no bad consumption, and it is enough to pass the basic theory courses.

In Wei Keng's understanding: the work of scientific research does not lie in too many geniuses, but in a pragmatic atmosphere. Because the scientific research plan on my side is to adopt a steady and steady plan, rather than a leap forward with genius as the core.

Wei Keng made a promise to the other side: housing package distribution, board and lodging and medical unit management, there will be jobs when you come here, and performance will be evaluated according to talent contribution.

In stark contrast to Wei Keng's generosity and benevolence is the stinginess of the East China Bank.

The gang of shopkeepers went too far, raising the loan interest rate for the students of Gewu College, and all the daily accommodation consumption in Gewu College was also increased. Among them, there are some poor scholars who are unable to make ends meet, and they can only maintain it by contacting seniors with money.

Wei Keng's standards for his talent-student recruiting behavior: as long as the recruited people are qualified, they will be reimbursed twice, if they are excellent, they will be reimbursed three times, and if they are outstanding, they will be reimbursed ten times. As for failure, you are at your own risk.

I wish there were no harmony words, I wish, I wish