Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 351 351 Increases and decreases

The gap in automobiles is huge, and the gaps in other areas are even bigger.

 What has happened to the light bulb factory in Bunas now? It’s getting to the point where the quality control step is completely eliminated.

 The produced light bulbs, regardless of whether they work well or not, are packed and shipped directly without testing whether they light up or not.

Those who buy the goods, after buying the goods, take them back for testing themselves, and then directly report the number. They directly say how many defective products there are, and the manufacturer will directly replace them!

Even, because they have to work overtime for production, the manufacturer doesn't bother to verify it. As long as the quantity is roughly the same, it will be written off!

People who buy light bulbs over there don’t dare to lie about the quantity, because the demand for these things currently exceeds supply. If someone is really found to be a fraud, they will have no chance to get the goods again in the future.

You know, if you buy this thing now, you can make money, and you don’t have to worry about sales at all! As long as you have a light bulb in your hand, you can sell it!

In order to save transportation costs, the bosses who sell light bulbs even rent a room directly in Bunas, test the light bulbs directly here, and then ship to other areas.

They will smash the inferior products immediately after testing, then collect the tail parts of the bulbs and send them back to the manufacturer to show their innocence.

 In this way, the production of hundreds of thousands of incandescent light bulbs a year is still unable to meet the purchase quantity of users.

 So much so that Tang Mo even directly authorized several cities such as Nanshui and Refeng to build light bulb factories there to further expand light bulb production capacity.

 Almost similarly, the production capacity of railway tracks has been stretched to the limit, but it is still a drop in the bucket.

Compared with the great development of railways in the world, Datang Group’s production capacity improvement in rail production is really too slow.

 The original railway rails produced by Bunas, although the production capacity has almost doubled within a year, are still unable to meet actual needs.

As a result, the proportion of Datang Group’s rail tracks in the world’s laid kilometers of railways has dropped from more than 30% to less than 5%, which is ridiculous!

 Yes, you read that right. Now, there are really more and more factories around the world that can produce rails and are producing rails.

In fact, except for the current railway project on Longdao and the Buyu Railway, which uses rails produced by the Bunas Factory, other rail projects in the world basically do not use the rails of Datang Group.

 In most cases, local factories are transforming, or have already transformed and started producing rails of the same specifications.

  In any case, the speed of trains in this era is not very fast, and the technical requirements of the rails are not high. At most, their performance is not very good. They will have to be replaced frequently in the future, so there is no need to delay their use.

Under this premise, countries all over the world are working hard to lay railway tracks, because this thing is so useful both in war and in peace.

 It can help a country control its vast territory, help the military transport weapons and supplies, and provide convenience in allocating supplies and transporting special products.

 With this thing, the economy will become active. Infrastructure construction itself will stimulate domestic demand. Coupled with the characteristics of railways that can promote the flow of goods, it has simply become the first choice for high-level investment in various countries.

After inspecting the railway between Bunas and Ice Crystal City, the Nanla Empire immediately launched its own construction plan for two main railway lines running from north to south and from east to west.

 The Lions Empire, which is under preparation, is also expanding its own railway network based on the Datang Group's railway network.

Donne and Susas are not idle. They are extending their own railways, and some areas have even been connected to the Datang Group's railway network.

Even the Poplar Kingdom, which previously focused on sea transportation, and the Talen Islands in the south where Neverwinter City is located, have begun to build their own railways.

This has pushed the demand for railway tracks to an unprecedented level. In the next year, the total mileage of railways being laid around the world will reach an astonishing 10,000 kilometers!

  What is this concept? This is equivalent to building a quarter of China's total length of railway tracks in this different world where Tang Mo lives in one year! In 2021, last year, the total length of newly built railway tracks in China was only more than 4,000 kilometers.

Although half of the more than 4,000 kilometers are high-speed rail tracks with higher technical content, judging from the number alone, Tang Mo's other world's admiration for railways is worthy of showing off.

However, this is only the total length planned to be laid, not the actual total length laid. Except for the construction of the Longdao Railway that exceeded expectations, the laying of railways in other countries around the world is actually overdue.

On the one hand, due to terrain restrictions and insufficient investigation and demonstration, many difficulties were encountered during the construction process.

On the other hand, there is a serious shortage of steel production capacity in various countries, and rail production cannot meet the demand for railway construction.

There is really no other way. In fact, everyone’s family is not rich, so we can only bow to reality - the plan cannot keep up with the rapid changes, and the limited steel cannot be made into rails and laid on the road!

Metal exports have always been an important source of foreign exchange for various countries. Countries with large steel production capacity now rely on these export materials to purchase new weapons from the Datang Group and the Cyric Consortium. How can they all be used? Make railroad tracks? In addition to these projects, some industries of Datang Group are also shrinking. In the general textile industry, Tang Mo is consciously withdrawing.

 Previously, Datang Group expanded and acquired shares in many textile workshops around Bunas, as well as salt and other daily necessities companies, all of which are inextricably linked to Datang Group.

Now, in order to recover funds, Datang Group is selling off its shares in these civilian light industries and food factories.

Of course, someone has taken over, such as the Marquis of Egret, who has always had a good relationship with Tang Mo, and the royal family of Lanes, etc. They are all rich and have the ambition to control people's livelihood enterprises.

The two parties hit it off immediately, and Datang Group officially withdrew from these enterprises and ceded control of this part of the industry as much as possible.

This greatly appeased the emotions of other nobles and the royal family, deepened the trust between the two parties, and eased the conflicts between the parties.

At the same time, allowing nobles to participate in the luxury goods field can also win over people's hearts, and at the same time allow them to support the development of these industries more selflessly, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

I have to say that in these areas of people's livelihood, only when everyone makes money can we create a large recognition environment and make better money. Therefore, here, Datang Group can be regarded as retreating in order to advance.

While many industries are beginning to strategically retreat, not all production capacities of Datang Group are stagnating or shrinking. At least in the shipbuilding industry of Datang Group, the increase in production capacity is terrifying.

　Today, Datang Group launches a free ship every week. In terms of shipping, Datang Group’s progress is obvious to all.

  Brand new giant ships can suddenly transport huge amounts of goods that previously could not be transported by a single fleet. The emergence of the Free Wheel suddenly highlighted the importance of the Endless Sea.

It was only then that everyone discovered that the Datang Group had almost all the important ports around the Endless Sea in its hands.

 Bunas, Refeng, Osa, Neverwinter City, Everwinter City... these ports allow Datang Group to control almost all transportation activities on the east coast of the Endless Sea.

Although the Yangmu Kingdom's Nanshui and other ports still exist, due to backward infrastructure, there has been a gap between them and these new ports of the Datang Group.

 As time goes by, this gap will become larger and larger until it is irreparable. Then ports like Nanshui will be eliminated and turned into small ports and fishing villages...

There is no way around this. The ports under the control of Datang Group can provide technical support for the new ships. Ship repair, maintenance, shipping and other services are more comprehensive and professional. These details are available for ports such as Nanshui. But couldn't follow up.

�Coupled with the future convenience of railway transportation, the follow-up of supporting facilities, and the complementary formation of surrounding industrial layout, the competitiveness of Nanshui will be completely reduced to zero.

Everyone is doing shipping business just to make a profit, right? Only by transporting 1,000 cars from Bunas to Osa, and then transporting 20,000 rails from Osa back, can you make money.

  Transporting 1,000 cars from Bunas to Nanshui, but when we arrive at Nanshui and we can't get a boatload of apples, tomatoes and potatoes, isn't that a loss?

 Hence, "non-Datang style" ports like Nanshui are destined to be eliminated in the future. This is something that everyone knows very well.

 Unless these countries also follow the example of Datang Group, build their own ports, increase investment, and introduce talents... But the price paid is too high.

Take the Yangmu Kingdom as an example. In fact, the king of the Yangmu Kingdom has abandoned the Nanshui Port controlled by the Rebot family and signed a contract with the Datang Group to build a railway from Osa to the royal city.

Most other countries also have this idea - giving up their own ports and instead seeking cooperation with Datang Group, using the ports invested and built by Datang Group as their own ports.

 In order to support these ports, Datang Group has been frantically expanding its transportation fleet. Today, Datang Shipping is already a behemoth with more than 400 sailing ships and more than 30 free ships.

Sometimes, in order to speed up transportation, even Datang Group will directly use Wolf-class cruisers to transport some important cargo. After all, its speed is much faster than the free wheel.

 It’s just that such goods are generally very few and very expensive—for example, expensive medicines, and some precious rare metals that are waiting for urgent use.

 The size of this fleet is changing little by little. New free ships are launched every week. These new ships will replace the old sailing ships, allowing Datang Group's transportation capacity to increase rapidly.

 Obviously, this touched a lot of people's cake...many, many people.

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 Two updates today, adjust and adjust, and continue to make additional updates tomorrow, hehe.

 (End of this chapter)