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Chapter 466 Future Technology Center (Fourth update, please subscribe)

What should be the charm of Nanyang manufacturing?
It can be everything.

But it definitely shouldn’t be those four words, high quality and low price!
In another world, no matter what kind of product is produced in Tangshan, it will definitely become high-quality and cheap. Any industry can lead to overproduction and price wars. And then what was accomplished? The so-called "high quality and low price".

On the way out of Sarawak, Li Yi'an could only sigh helplessly as he recalled the "special charm" created by Tangshan.

Is this kind of "high quality and low price" really good?

Behind the high quality and low price is that prices will get lower and lower, and profits will get lower and lower. Companies can only achieve profits through the strategy of small profits but quick turnover. The result is vicious competition. The income of practitioners will not increase significantly. More Talent will not enter this industry.

In the end, this kind of cheapness destroys not only an industry, but also the possibility of the country developing into a developed country - after all, national income is determined by the income level of practitioners in various industries, but in a price war, companies How can those capitalists raise wages for their employees when profits are extremely limited or even extremely meager? This means that the income of practitioners must not be significantly increased, and it is also long-term.

"We should engage in innovation, market share, and even monopoly, but we must fundamentally eliminate price wars. If we engage in price wars... we will kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred to ourselves!"

With such a sigh, Li Yi'an also determined in his heart the charm of Nanyang manufacturing - high quality and reasonable price.

As for high quality and low price, it is definitely not the charm of Made in Nanyang! There should definitely be no sweatshops in Nanyang.

"Xiangdong, look, this is our food..."

But this does not mean that food security is ignored. While importing rice, Nanyang also exports millions of tons of cassava chips every year. Compared with rice, cassava not only has a higher yield, but also does not require cooking and care, and does not require much manpower, otherwise it would It will not be the “lazy choice” for Africans.

"Yes, we grow cassava not for eating, but to ensure food security. Food security is very important. If a government cannot guarantee food supply, it will be far away from collapse."

Yu Xiangdong said.

On the one hand, rice production requires a lot of manpower, and on the other hand, infrastructure construction and factory production require manpower. If the two powers harm each other, whichever is the lesser, imported rice becomes the best choice.

It is precisely because of this that cassava, the "lazy man's first choice", has become the "staple food" of Nanyang. Although he does not eat it himself and mainly exports it, with it, at least the basic food security of Nanyang can be guaranteed.

On the way back to Chang'an, looking at the cassava plantations on both sides of the highway, Li Yi'an couldn't help but say.

The reason why this idea came up is because... Nanyang also needs high-quality and low-priced products.

"Your Excellency, the people are still not used to this. The staple food in Nanyang is still rice and noodles. Southerners eat rice and northerners eat pasta."

"In fact, Japan can be allowed to operate as a sweatshop in the future."

For example, cheap rice - rice from Myanmar, Siam and Vietnam is very cheap. Nanyang imports millions of tons of rice every year to meet market demand.

It's not because Nanyang doesn't pay attention to food production, but because rice cultivation in this era is too labor-intensive - transplanting and harvesting all rely on manpower, and human resources are precisely Nanyang's weakness.

Although Yu Xiangdong was the person in charge of the secretariat of the official residence, he had entered the company before coming to Nanyang and had always won Li Yi'an's trust. After Xu Wenzhi came to Yong'an to take up a post, he took over and took charge of the secretariat.

Li Yian will certainly not ignore the importance of food security.
"We chose cassava because it has a high yield and does not need to be cooked by humans, so we should use it as a backup. However, the staple food of Nanyang people is still rice and noodles. Growing rice requires a lot of manpower. The key is to achieve mechanized agricultural planting. Ah! Only through mechanized planting can we solve agricultural problems and fundamentally solve the problem of food security."

Yu Xiangdong said.

"What you said is true. Agricultural mechanization is a problem that must be solved for the development of agriculture in Nanyang. I heard that the research institute is currently studying rice transplanters. If machines can replace manual transplants and then use machines to harvest rice, then the constraints on agriculture will be The manpower problem will be solved, and by then our rice will almost be domestically produced." Yu Xiangdong's words made Li Yian nodded and said.

"Yes, the key to food security is the mechanization of agriculture."

Rice transplanters and rice harvesters all require scientific researchers to invent. In fact, it is not just these two machines, but also the mechanized harvesting of oil palm. If this problem is not solved, with the increase in labor costs in Nanyang, oil palm will Planting and picking will definitely become a new problem, which also needs to be solved with the help of machinery. Otherwise, Nanyang will eventually have to give up this industry.

Looking at the oil palm plantations outside the car window, Li Yian frowned. Oil palm plantations also require a lot of manpower!
But the human resources here in Nanyang... are still tight.

Among the 30 million citizens, there are still several million who are under one year old.

Thinking of this, although the car was driving, Li Yian turned on the system directly.

If you encounter problems, please contact Tongzi.

In the past few years, Nanyang has developed too smoothly with the gifts from San Dezi. It went so well that Li Yian almost forgot Tongzi's existence.

What's in the system?
Not only can you instill skills, but there is also a shopping mall. At the beginning, the mall was just a department store, and the products in it were nothing more than clothing, toys, household appliances, etc., but with the upgrade, especially the upgrade to LV.6 a while ago After becoming a level user, there are more types of products in the mall, including large-ticket products such as cars.

"There should be agricultural machinery!"

Looking at the dazzling array of products on the virtual interface, Li Yian scrolled through the pages. Suddenly, a car appeared on the interface, which made him stunned for a moment.

This is... Looking at the familiar shape of a two-door car, a word flashed subconsciously in Li Yian's mind - Nanyang Volkswagen.

Although this car does not have the "Zhong" logo on it, the appearance of the car that has been modified by himself reminds Li Yi'an that this is a product of Nanyang.

"Here, Nanyang's products have actually been smuggled into the system... That's not right!"

Suddenly, Li Yian realized the crux of the problem - the products in the system mall were affected by reality. With the development of manufacturing in Nanyang, products from Nanyang naturally appeared in the mall. Even though this car is still in the design stage and is planned to be launched three years later, this product has appeared in the system mall, which means that the technical level of the products in the mall is more than three years ahead of reality.

"In other words, the development of technology in reality will affect the technology of the system mall. The more advanced the technology is in reality, the more developed the products in the mall will be!"

Suddenly, Li Yian found the system's biggest... No, it should be the most correct way to open it!

"These are the real golden thighs!"

Staring at this car that should have the "Zhong" logo on it, Li Yian could even hear his heartbeat speeding up, not because of this car. It's because I found the correct way to open the system mall.

"The product iterations in the mall are three years ahead of now. After the products in the mall are taken out for research and put into production, the product iterations in the mall will be upgraded again... My God, this is not a mall. It is clearly..."

It’s the Future Technology Center!
"You, you, you have been living so smoothly these past few years, but you have wasted so much time and let this treasure house of future technology sit idle here! It is simply unforgivable!"

Thinking that he had wasted three years in vain, Li Yian even wanted to stand up and reflect on himself...

(End of this chapter)