Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 185 Let the meat go

Huang Jiang woke up from his sleep, and Jia Jia was riding on his quilt, puffing out her cheeks and looking at him angrily.

"Staying in bed again! Brother-in-law!" Jia Jia said dissatisfied.

Huang Jiang patted his head, which was still a little dazed. As soon as he stood up, he felt the bone-chilling cold and quickly shrank back.

Sure enough, the quilt was still warm.

Huang Jiang squinted his eyes and was about to fall asleep again.

"puff--"

Jiajia Qi didn't hit anywhere, and with a strong force on his legs, he sat down hard on Huang Jiang's stomach.Huang Jiang felt a huge muscle reaction and started to move.

The surface temperature of his skin quickly lost, and he quickly put on his clothes.

"Can't you get up by yourself?" Jia Jia complained and climbed off the quilt.

"It's cold. It's like staying in bed for a while." Huang Jiang said while wearing a sweater.

After putting on his wife's family scarf, he and Saratoga walked out of the room together.

It was already deep winter at this time, and there was a thin layer of frost on the ground early in the morning.The outdoor temperature is already close to minus three degrees Celsius. This temperature at the beach is enough to freeze people to the core, giving them a profound understanding of what it means to be cold and wet.

Nearly two months have passed since the Mirage's autumn offensive, which was the last autumn outing on the Yellow River. Although this year's autumn offensive came fiercely, it did not cause much waves within the Federation. After all, the Mirages were all blocked. Beyond the border, only the deacons who came to collect military merits saw the mirage of the sea.

As in the past, the mirage's autumn offensive will continue until the arrival of blue winter. With the first snow in Gloriosa, the mirages have disappeared since then.Under normal circumstances, they will retreat into their strongholds and not emerge until next spring.

However, there are exceptions. For example, the tragedy on Starry Island happened in winter.

Therefore, even at this time, Huangjiang cannot relax at all.He tightened his scarf, feeling the warmth of the scarf knitted by Lexington himself, and looked at the white frost outside the door.

Anduji returned to Jimu Island a few days ago. He took advantage of the autumn offensive to gain military merit.Generally speaking, when a deacon in the Tulip Territory wants to gain military merit, the first place he goes to is Cycad Island.

Huang Jiang naturally would not ask such a childish question, and entertained the first federal deacon he knew with good wine and delicious food.

This autumn offensive, Huang Jiang earned a total of more than 3500 military merits, about 350 crystals, plus the previous pre-stored, there is no problem in summoning two or three ship girls.

Huang Jiang was not in a hurry to summon him. He even sent several unreported ship girls to station at Wutou Island. This was not because he was afraid of Milton, but because of the scrutiny from parliament during the New Year in another month. The officer is coming.

This will be related to Garland's funding for next year, which is commonly known as the time to cry for poverty.

Although Huangjiang's pockets have been full for a while because of Jiagang, the investment in automobile research and development, production and other construction projects on Jialan Island, Iris Island and Wutou Island have already used up all this money. Huangjiang It was impossible to use the funds saved to summon ship girls, so naturally they had to find ways to ask the council for money.

Huangjiang also tried to ask Governor Tulip for money, but nothing happened, which was obviously not what he expected.But the review will be a month later. The first thing Huang Jiang needs to do now is the promotion of cars.

Since he wants to promote it, he naturally needs to have enough output.But creating an industrial chain out of thin air is not a simple matter. Unlike the modern industrial zones that Huangjiang is familiar with where parts can be purchased within 3000 meters, in the Blue Federation, almost every part needed for cars has been produced by no one. , Huangjiang can only ask Daimler and Thors to standardize part by part, and then entrust production to other factories...

But because of the previous decision, almost all the factories in Huangjiang territory are related to textiles.Light industry, mainly the textile industry, now accounts for [-]% of Jialan's tax revenue, while another [-]% comes from Jiagang (excluding share dividends), and the rest comes from miscellaneous fishery and transportation industries.It can be said that the introduction of the textile industry by the Huangjiang River has achieved initial results. Backed by Jialan Island, the origin of high-quality wool, the textile industry on Iris Island is booming. The fabrics produced on Iris Island have begun to rise in the upper echelons along with HM's fashion. There was a storm in the wife's circle.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. In order to prioritize the development of the textile industry to obtain tax revenue, it is almost impossible to find a factory in Jialan that can independently complete mechanical processing. The Jialan Automobile Factory established by Dailem is actually an assembly plant. There are no lathes for machining precision parts.

Even if Huangjiang invested a lot of money, it would not be possible for the originally impoverished Jialan collar to catch up with the industrialized island that had developed industry for decades or hundreds of years in a short period of time.

He must introduce heavy industry.

Even more anxious than him are the businessmen in the textile factories, because the demand within the Federation is increasing, and they urgently need a large number of ships to transport their fabrics and clothing.

Developing Garland's own shipbuilding industry was urgent.Huang Jiang originally had this idea. After all, it was impossible for Huang Jiang to trust the first batch of experimental sea soul motherships headed by the Jialan to the shipyards on the outer islands. But it would be too difficult for a novice to start building warships. It comes naturally to practice building civilian ships.

However, where should these heavy industries be placed...

Gloria Island is a wool producing area and cannot be moved.The textile industry on Iris Island has been spread out and cannot be moved.Wutou Island is a reserved agricultural land and should not be touched.

Huang Jiang touched his chin and wondered whether he could borrow an island from West Wind Drifting to build ships this winter?I believe they will have no objection.

For example, Yuluo Island.

"Brother-in-law, what are you thinking about?" Jia Jia followed and asked.

"It's about cars." Huang Jiang replied, "Isn't our production capacity insufficient? And we can't produce parts ourselves, so it's a bit of a headache."

"Eh?" Saratoga said, "Isn't that terrible? We've invested a lot of money in it."

Huang Jiang said with relief: "Actually, it's not that bad. It's just that we have to part with a piece of meat. Authorize patents to other manufacturers and let factories with the ability to mass-produce low-end cars. We Then you only need to produce high-end cars and limited-edition cars. Wait until the production volume increases in the future before continuing."

"Patent authorization... what if they are unwilling to cooperate and are imitating it?" Jia Jia worried.

"I have asked Thors to register a patent. I have applied for patents for almost all the accessories, operating systems, power systems, and safety systems that we know that cars need." Huang Jiang said with a smile, "They must really want to imitate it. It will take a long time to get around the patent barrier, and I am really curious whether they can develop a cheap car with independent power drive for each wheel."

"Patents require litigation, right? We don't have that many lawyers." Saratoga understands the truth. It costs a lot to maintain patents.

"Don't worry." Huang Jiang said confidently, "I heard that Standard Oil has the most powerful team of lawyers in the federation. I am happy to meet them."

(End of this chapter)