After scanning the technological development in the country for a while, the investigation entrusted to the newspaper before moving the capital also came to fruition.
The "Overseas Transportation Development Report" appeared directly in Wang Qi's head in the form of a report and was not published in the newspaper.
Transport capacity is related to local development and the trade network of the entire penal colony. During the floating island period, it can be said that not many things are as important as them.
According to this report, limited by the existing air transportation conditions, the best overseas vehicles are the original exported four-cylinder engine vans, and the best transport capacity is the light truck produced by the cooperative plant in the Pilates region.
This kind of light truck, which relies on the development of four-cylinder gasoline engines, can be said to have very average transportation capacity and a terrible failure rate. However, compared with pot camel trucks and wood gas trucks, it is still much better.
Unfortunately, the overseas manufacturing foundation is too weak. The factory in the Pilates area has a production capacity of less than 1,000 vehicles this year. It has been difficult to form the main transportation force in the past ten or eight years.
Other floating islands are even worse. The size of a light truck can only be transported by a Manniu aircraft, and it is not for export. On most floating islands where trade exists, only a small number of vans and cars from the Blackwater Automobile Factory can be purchased.
The current main force in ground transportation is tractors that have been copied by outsiders for a long time. The company does not sell complete tractors, but only single-cylinder and twin-cylinder engines. The latter is gasoline-powered and is not very popular abroad.
In addition to its own export parts, there are many overseas floating islands that can imitate single-cylinder engines, with varying levels of quality. They basically belong to the third echelon. The second echelon is the machines that Fatel sells to the Lord District.
This newspaper survey speculated that on average, about every 170 to 200 people own one single-cylinder tractor, agricultural machinery, water pump and other equipment using single-cylinder power on each floating island, and the farther away they are, the lower the number.
The number of camel machines and wood gas trucks is double or even more than that of tractors. However, due to the high breakdown rate, it is common to stop and toss for hours after walking eight to ten kilometers. Their overall contribution to transportation capacity is not as high as that of tractors. .
In terms of shipping, there is not much to say about the planes sold by the company, but there is a competitor, a copycat wooden plane from Fatel, named Nekomo, which means high mountain.
The Nekomo quote obtained by the newspaper was between 160,000 and 220,000 Phoenix coins, which was cheaper than the average price of 248,000 after options given by the Pangxun Feathered Serpent Factory.
For the time being, Fatel's export quantity is also very limited. Customers from the Feathered Serpent Factory and the Aviation Administration are queuing up, and there is no price reduction.
From the perspective of the overall goal, Wang Qi still welcomes competition, but after all, the butt determines the head, and there is a difference between the inside and the outside. He is still a little unhappy about other companies copying his own high-end products.
Small things are done with kindness, small things are done with wisdom. Facing all the lords, the Phoenix Kingdom is the larger one in terms of size, production capacity, and combat effectiveness, so it gives them a little bit of space in order to spread the application scope of its own language and steadily absorb their population.
As for Fatel, the Kingdom is the weaker side. Although it is not afraid of a real fight, the opponent is larger and has many more high-level professionals. It is not enough to always be targeted at the back of the head. Competition with them requires more strategy. You cannot Even if you offend someone severely, you can't seem too pushy.
Fatel has imitated single-cylinder engines, and there are also rumors that it is imitating four-cylinder gasoline engines. In addition to aircraft and guns, there is reason to suspect that it has formed a path dependence on imitation.
An important example of this judgment is that I have never heard of the outflow of Fatal's chemical products, and I have not received any purchase intentions for their chemical equipment.
Chemical production is very systematic. Just learning about pipeline design can be taught in a separate class, which can take several years. It is not possible to produce a product just by copying the shape of a device. If you don’t know what intermediate compounds are produced during the production process, you can’t even do anything about it. Improve the proportion of active ingredients in finished products.
If Fatal is determined to develop independently, it should make good use of its multi-million market. The chemical industry is not only the chemical industry itself, it is also the basis for the development of metallurgy and machinery manufacturing. Its importance cannot be overstated.
Since Fatel likes to imitate, there are more places where he can bury mines. What Wang Qi focuses on here is the aircraft trade.
The total population of the entire penal colony, the part that the kingdom can reach now, is only 40 million. Taking into account further expansion into the distance in the future, the overall market size will not exceed 100 million.
Without the hard demand for air transportation brought about by floating islands, such a small population cannot support the development of the aviation industry.
Fatal was just playing with airplanes at home. He didn't even understand it yet, so he reached out to grab the external market. Wang Qi couldn't just sit there.
The method of showing damage is to collect the failure rate of the opponent's aircraft and make it public. However, Wang Qi is a supporter of the theory of technological victory and does not think that brand building can last long. Besides, the threat of demons is always there, and playing bad tricks is the way to death.
The best way is to upgrade. In addition to maintaining market competitiveness, the goal also includes urging Fatal to develop its own industry.
The scale of our own population is limited, the growth rate is average, and there is a long time lag between population growth and industrial production. It is difficult to take into account too many industrial categories, and the production capacity of advantageous categories is also limited.
Although there are some overseas lords who are willing to cooperate, the foundation is too poor and the scale is smaller, so it is difficult to help much. It is better to figure out low-threshold industries such as the textile industry.
Only Fatel has retained at least 20 million people after becoming a floating island, and may have almost recovered to 30 million people. If they are willing to do it, they can make more achievements in the primary machinery market.
With them as machinery suppliers, their own equipment manufacturers can focus more on responding to domestic industrial upgrading needs and accelerate development.
To get close to such a goal, new aircraft need to reach a certain level of complexity, forcing Fatel to improve the supporting system.
Due to the shortcomings of air transportation of fuel, pure fuel-based aircraft can only exert their advantages at the military level. Civilian demand is very limited. Fatal, who is pursuing imitation, may not consider the mass production of this type of aircraft.
The main competition between the two companies is limited to the gliding type. It is of little significance to improve the wooden man aircraft, because it is too small, so small that a lot of risks are placed on this size, and the incidence rate will not be higher than being struck by thunder. It can be left to the Feathered Serpent Factory to slowly figure it out.
The Manniu is different. Its volume and weight determine that no wooden aircraft connection can come close to its performance. You must truly learn how to make an aircraft to create a similar product.
It just so happens that after Blue Sky Heavy Industry has reached the stage of engine research and development, a lot of its efforts have been transferred back to the improvement and optimization of existing aircraft and their subsystems, and they can add a few requirements incidentally.
If Manniu wants to enter the foreign trade list, the existing aircraft manufacturing team will not be large enough and needs to be deployed in advance.
