I have to say that in terms of openness, there is still a gap between Zhang Huangyan and Sun Chengzong. If Sun Chengzong were here, he would never say such a thing.

"Airships, even the most advanced diesel airships, were on the verge of being eliminated during the war. The target was too big and the speed was too slow. It was simply too easy for anti-aircraft guns to shoot down this thing.

Therefore, we have no problem selling it to the Prussians. Moreover, Ming Dynasty will soon have better things. It is fast and has a small target. The current anti-aircraft guns have almost no way to deal with this thing.

After this thing appears, airships will completely withdraw from the war stage.

The same goes for trains. The British and Russians have mastered train technology. Unfortunately, they are just like you, they are always thinking about how to hide good things.

When they figure it out, or after they have covered their country with railways, they will think about making money from this thing. Instead of letting them make this money, we might as well make it now.

Bicycles have the lowest technological content. We have taken advantage of mass production. If the British and French master this thing in the future, we will still lose this market.

It is better for us to occupy it now, and we will be the leader of this market in the future. We can make this money for hundreds of years.

Another thought is... we cannot always let Europe lag behind like this.

In the past ten years, our trade with Europe has been to exchange Ming Dynasty's industrial products for European gold and silver. It can be said that only we can sell things to the Europeans, and the Europeans have nothing to sell to us.

The reason why we have been pumping like a water pump for twenty years and have not drained Europe dry. That is because the Europeans obtained a large amount of gold and silver from the Americas. The wealth accumulated by the Mayans and Incas for thousands of years was emptied by the Europeans.

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And all this money flowed to our Ming Dynasty through trade.

This approach is not sustainable, so we must allow Europe to prosper in a limited way. In this way, we can better dump products.

Just look at our joint venture projects and you will know that we can jointly build airship factories, train factories, bicycle factories, and even glass factories with them.
Chapter completed!