In fact, they didn't make much money from this order, but Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company valued not this order itself, but more subsequent orders.

Not only the follow-up orders from Liaohua Agricultural Company, but also orders from other planting companies and even those big planting households.

This order is for advertising, to make their harvester an instant hit!

And this is indeed the case!

When this batch of harvesters arrived at the farm of Liaohua Agricultural Company, it caused a sensation instantly!

Liaohua Agricultural Company is the largest planting company in the Northeast and has the largest farm. Naturally, many of their actions have attracted attention from various peers.

Previously, many colleagues heard that Liaohua Agricultural Company had expanded its grain planting area, and they all laughed and waited to see the joke.

In the Northeast, it is easy to expand the area of ​​grain cultivation as long as you are not afraid of losing money... Land is basically free of charge. The government has a large amount of developable land. As long as you dare to invest in development and planting, the government will give it to you for free.

I’ll give you the right to use it for twenty or thirty years.

But land is easy to get, but labor is hard to find!

Whether it is sowing or harvesting, the grain planting industry requires a large number of manpower, and in this poor place in northern Liaoning, how can there be any idle labor for you to hire!

Besides, when the farming season is busy, local farmers are basically busy with their own land and have no time to do odd jobs on those large farms. As for urban residents, there are not many of them, and some are employees of factories and companies.

Therefore, for many large farms, they basically maintain a group of employees for a long time. These employees are also professional farmers. They farm when the farming is busy and breed cattle and horses when the farming is slack.

When the farming season is busy, a group of odd workers need to be hired from other places.

This model has lasted for many years, and has even spawned a group of people who specialize in helping large farms during busy farming periods. The wages of these people are very high.

But this year, after Liaohua Agricultural Company increased its sowing area, it did not hire a large number of temporary workers, which puzzled many people.

After some people inquired carefully, they discovered that these Liaohua agricultural companies actually used a new type of mechanical equipment to harvest directly.

After adopting mechanical harvesting, their own permanent employees can complete all harvesting operations, and there is no need to hire a large number of temporary workers from outside.

And I also heard that even if they use their own employees, they can finish the work in advance during this busy farming period, freeing up more manpower for other work.

This surprised other colleagues.

What kind of harvester can have such a great effect?

At this time, without them needing to inquire further, the sales staff of Renjia Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company have already begun to find many planting companies and those ordinary large-scale growers!

Why are you looking for them? What else can you do? Promote their power-charging harvester!

This advertisement is loud and clear. If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity to make a big profit, how can you raise money to develop a steam combine harvester?

When it comes to this steam harvester, the people at Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company feel a twinge of pain. After the high-pressure steam engine appeared a few years ago, their company's executives thought that steam engines could be used in agricultural machinery, so they jumped into the steam industry.

Research on harvesters.

But I didn’t expect that the technical difficulty of this thing would be so high!

It has been going on for several years, and R&D funds have been spent one after another, almost draining the company of its flesh and blood, but it has not been completed yet... At least it has a harvester structure.

In order to regain their blood, they thought about it and simply dismantled the harvesting equipment originally used on the steam engine, and then used the power to make a power-charged harvester to sell first...

Fortunately, the market acceptance is quite high, and I took advantage of this opportunity to sell a lot.

Relying on the power-charged harvester to regain some health, the people from Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company looked at the half-finished steam combine harvester, gritted their teeth, and poured the money into it again...

In their words, if you don’t succeed, you will be successful!

In fact, after spending so much money on the development of steam combine harvesters in the past few years, the huge sunk costs have made it impossible for them to withdraw.

In order to engage in these two things, they not only invested all their profits in the past few years, but also invested their past capital. For this reason, they also owed several bank loans.

If they stop at this time, they will not go bankrupt completely. After they sell some assets, especially some patent assets, they can still pay off their debts and get back to work lightly.

But the problem is, they are unwilling!

We have been doing it for so many years, so much money has been invested, and now we say we won’t do it anymore? Are you kidding me?

The people from Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company, after fishing hard, turned around and continued to toss their steam combine harvesters.

Coincidentally, Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company is not the only manufacturer that values ​​steam agricultural machinery these days, but there are also other manufacturers.

In fact, there are many domestic manufacturers of agricultural machinery and equipment, even for things like harvesters. There are actually many, but everyone has different technical routes and different efficiencies.

Hekou Agricultural Machinery Company is only doing well in the field of agricultural machinery in the Northeast, but as the empire grows, there are companies in other places that produce various agricultural machinery and equipment.

Tangshan Machinery Company is such a company that specializes in the production of agricultural machinery and equipment. In fact, they are also producing agricultural machinery and equipment powered by steam engines.

Their research and development focus is not on harvesters, but on steam plows, and their research and development progress is also very bumpy. Over the past few years, they have spent a lot of money, but they have not yet come up with a practical steam plow.

, either there is a problem here or there is a problem there.

It’s very uncomfortable to toss.

Both agricultural machinery companies are trapped in the R&D dilemma of steam agricultural machinery. This is actually not an isolated situation, or even unique to the agricultural machinery industry, but a common problem faced by many contemporary machinery industries.

That is, as technology becomes more and more developed, the threshold for new technologies becomes higher, and the corresponding R&D investment also becomes higher and higher.

This is actually very unfriendly to some companies, especially those that lack R&D capabilities and do not have enough capital to acquire new technologies through acquisitions.

When technology continues to advance and innovate, it is often difficult for them to keep up with the pace of the times, and eventually gradually decline.

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On the other hand, continuous technological progress and innovation will give some companies huge opportunities to become bigger and stronger.

Benefiting from the perfect patent laws of the Dachu Empire, when some companies develop some new technologies, they can actually survive very well relying on the patent of such a new technology. If they develop several patented technologies with huge profit potential,

Come on, we will become bigger and stronger in minutes.

The most typical one is Guangzhou Machinery Company.

Although Guangzhou Machinery Company was considered a large enterprise in the past and had many employees, in fact, its name was just nice, but its products were not that good.

Their various types of machine tools and equipment are only second-rate. Although they have orders, they basically just make some hard-earned money.

Most of them still rely on various cheap farm tools to make a living.

To put it bluntly, before developing steam engines, the Guangzhou Machinery Company only sold hoes.

But later, with the support of the local government, they obtained the patented technology of low-pressure steam engines and became the first domestic low-pressure steam engine manufacturers.

Now life is getting a little better, but only a little better.

Because the low-pressure steam engine does not belong to them, but to the Institute of Steam Engines of the Royal Institute of Technology. In order to promote the rapid and large-scale application of steam engines, the entire set of basic patents on low-pressure steam engines are open for authorization.

Up to now, it is estimated that hundreds of manufacturers across the country have obtained patent authorization for low-pressure steam engines... In the future, it is estimated that they will also be authorized directly for free.

Guangzhou Machinery Company only took advantage of the relatively early date of obtaining the patent and became one of the three major steam engine manufacturers in China. However, even so, their technology was the most backward, otherwise they would not have been able to produce small steam engines in the early stage.

And famous... because their technology can only produce these small low-pressure steam engines.

In the era of low-pressure steam engines, Guangzhou Machinery Company was nominally one of the three major steam engine manufacturers, but in fact the money earned was less than one-tenth of that of Tianjin Machinery Company, which was engaged in large-scale steam engines.

Some competitors sometimes scornfully say that they are just sales hoes...

It’s so frustrating!

In order to change this situation, Guangzhou Machinery Company is determined to engage in technology research and development.

Almost all the money earned from the production of low-pressure steam engines and hoes was invested in the research and development of high-pressure steam engines. At the same time, it also received support from friends, especially the shipbuilding industry and even the navy.

In the end, they succeeded in developing a high-pressure steam engine, and it was a high-pressure steam engine with a complete set of patents of their own!

Relying on high-pressure steam engines, it has become the largest steam engine supplier in China and the most profitable machinery company.
Chapter completed!