The gap in cars is huge, and the gaps in other areas are even bigger.
What has happened to the light bulb factory in Bunas now? It has reached the point of complete abolition of the quality inspection step.
The produced light bulbs, no matter 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 themselves, take them back for testing, and then directly report the number. They directly tell them how many defective products there are, and the manufacturer will directly replace them!
In fact, 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! 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 here in Bunas and test the light bulbs directly here before shipping to other areas.
When they test out inferior products, they immediately smash them into pieces. Then they collect the ends 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.
As a result, Tang Mo even directly authorized several cities such as Nanshui and Hotfeng to build light bulb factories there to further expand the production capacity of light bulbs.
Almost in the same way, 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 the world's railways, Datang Group's production capacity increase in rail production is too slow.
Although the production capacity of the original rails produced by Bunas has almost doubled within a year, it still cannot meet actual needs.
The result is that the proportion of Datang Group's railway tracks in the world's railway kilometers 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.
Anyway, 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 wartime and in peacetime.
It can help the 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 more active. Infrastructure itself will stimulate domestic demand. In addition, railways 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.
Dorn and Sussus 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 Talon Islands, where Neverwinter City is located in the south, have begun to build their own railways.
This has pushed the demand for railway tracks to an unprecedented and terrifying height. 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 the fact that in one year, this other world where Tang Mo lives has built a quarter of the total length of railway tracks in China! And in 2021, that is, last year, the total length of newly built railway tracks in all of China
, 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 worth 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 constraints 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 way, everyone's family is actually not rich, so we can only bow to reality - the plan cannot keep up with the rapid changes, and those 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. Tang Mo is consciously withdrawing from the general textile industry.
In the past, 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.
Naturally, 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.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two parties hit it off immediately, and Datang Group officially withdrew from these enterprises and gave up 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.
It has to be said that in these areas of people's livelihood, only when everyone makes money can we create a big 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 of Datang Group's production capacity is stagnating or shrinking. At least in Datang Group's shipbuilding industry, the increase in production capacity is terrifying.
Today, Datang Group launches a Liberty Ship every week. In terms of shipping, Datang Group’s progress is obvious to all.
The brand new giant ship can suddenly transport huge amounts of cargo that previously a fleet could not transport. The emergence of the free ship 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, Rewind, 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 the backward infrastructure, the gap between them and these new ports of the Datang Group has widened.
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 technically 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, Nanshui's competitiveness will be completely reduced to zero.
Everyone is doing shipping, just to make a profit, right? Transporting 1,000 cars from Bunas to Osa, and then transporting 20,000 rails back from Osa, can you make money.
Transporting 1,000 cars from Bunas to Nanshui, but when they arrive at Nanshui and unable to collect a shipment of apples, tomatoes and potatoes, isn’t that a loss of life?
Therefore, "non-Datang" ports like Nanshui are destined to be eliminated in the future. This is something 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 given up the Nanshui Port controlled by the Leibert family and signed a contract with the Datang Group to build a direct railway from Ossa 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 transport fleet. Today, Datang Shipping is 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 Freewheeler.
It's just that this kind of goods is generally rare and very expensive - for example, expensive medicines, and some precious rare metals that are waiting for urgent use.
The size of this fleet is now 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 the cake of many people...many, many people.
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