Chapter 675: Entering the Venue

To be honest, Australasia's efforts to attract talents from Europe and the United States are actually somewhat lax.

After all, Australasia has taken the lead in aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, rockets, etc., which also makes Australasia's demand for European and American talents not so strong.

Attracting immigrants has been the main topic in recent years. On the contrary, the introduction of technical talents, although also in progress, is much less intense than before.

After William Edward Boeing raised this issue this time, Arthur realized that the biggest gap between Australasia and the United States is not population and economy, but the reserve of mid-level talents over the years.

Perhaps the United States cannot catch up with Australasia in aircraft and tank technology, but the reserve of mid-level talents in the United States is far greater than that of Australasia.

This phenomenon can be fully reflected in major private enterprises. The number of private enterprises in Australasia lags far behind that of the United States. In addition to the reasons caused by population, the lack of reserve of mid-level talents is also an important reason.

Although top talents determine the development direction of an industry, mid-level talents are also very important.

After all, top talents have the use of top talents, and mid-level talents also have the use of mid-level talents.

Only when a country has a large reserve of technical talents, and has sufficient reserves of top talents, middle-level talents and junior talents, can it play its own brilliance in a certain research field.

Australasia is now lacking in foundation. Although it has made some progress now, it will easily be overtaken by Europe and the United States.

In order to stabilize its own advantages, in addition to constantly attracting top talents, it must also cultivate its own middle-level talents to fill the vacancies of small and medium-sized private enterprises.

State-owned enterprises and private enterprises, top talents and middle-level talents work together to make all industries in Australasia flourish.

Arthur's order was quickly passed to Batty, director of the Royal Security Intelligence Agency, and then distributed to various intelligence personnel.

Fortunately, intelligence personnel are professionally trained and involved in all aspects. Otherwise, attracting talents and acquiring companies will make these intelligence personnel busy sooner or later.

In fact, compared with acquiring industries, it is easier to attract those technical talents in the current United States.

This is not an exaggeration. For the United States, where the population has exceeded 100 million, what are tens of thousands of technical talents?

On the contrary, those companies that have gone bankrupt are the most popular among the capitalists. Because everyone knows that the economic crisis cannot last too long, and the US economy will return to normal sooner or later.

This also means that only when there is an economic crisis is the best time to buy at the bottom. The more bankrupt companies you buy, the more you will earn after the economic crisis.

But these technical talents are different. Every time you recruit a talent, you have to pay the same salary as this talent.

Moreover, there are many such talents in the United States, and there is no rush for this moment. Recruiting too early will increase the expenses of companies and consortiums during the economic crisis.

This also led to a strange phenomenon. When these intelligence personnel began to win over those technical talents, almost half of them were willing to go abroad for development.

Although the intelligence personnel did not explicitly say that the destination was Australasia, these technical talents agreed when they heard that they could provide them with stable and high-income jobs.

Fortunately, there was no anti-fraud propaganda at this time, otherwise, it would look more like a fraudulent behavior, and some technical talents might call the police.

With many intelligence personnel taking action, the first batch of thousands of technicians were quickly gathered and boarded the already prepared ship to Australasia.

Because the intelligence personnel promised these technicians that if they brought their families with them, they could also provide jobs for their families.

This also made most of the technicians travel with their families, which invisibly contributed to the immigration work in Australasia.

I believe that the immigrant population will increase in the new year, because the United States currently has no measures to control the economic crisis.

President Hoover's words that every American household can eat chicken and live a normal life again may only be experienced by Americans in their dreams.

Although the lack of technical talents has always been a problem, with the backbone of the company that followed Boeing and Douglas, the company can still maintain its operation for the time being.

In fact, the three major aircraft manufacturers in Australasia are all different in their research fields.

The Royal Aircraft Manufacturing Plant focuses on military aircraft, and its best achievements are jet bombers and fighters.

Boeing has achieved certain results in single-wing propeller aircraft and has entered the passenger aircraft industry.

The smallest Douglas company is mainly involved in the field of transport aircraft, whether it is civil transport aircraft or military transport aircraft, it actually plays a significant role.

On this basis, the Royal Aircraft Factory also involves the field of passenger aircraft, and Boeing also designs military aircraft. Because of its relatively small scale before, Douglas did not involve other fields, but its capabilities are undoubtedly excellent.

These three aircraft manufacturers, which are involved in different fields and have competitive and cooperative relationships with each other, are also a benign relationship for the aircraft industry in Australasia.

Even the military can choose the best aircraft design from the three aircraft manufacturers. After all, they are all Arthur's industries, so there is no loss for Arthur.

After Douglas and Boeing's site selection was determined, the most important task was to build their own wind tunnel.

Wind tunnels are very important for the design and construction of aircraft, because they can simulate the airflow around the aircraft, ensure the reasonable design of the aircraft, and design the fastest and most stable aircraft on this basis.

The earliest wind tunnel in the world should be built by the British Wenham about 58 years ago. It is a wooden box with openings at both ends, with a cross-section of 45.7 cm × 45.7 cm and a length of 3.05 meters.

Although the shape of this wooden box is very simple, it successfully measures the resistance encountered by objects when they move relative to the air.

After the birth of the aircraft, the construction of wind tunnels has always been a topic explored by major aircraft manufacturers.

The Royal Australasia Aircraft Factory is naturally no exception, and has built its own successful wind tunnel.

Historically, the popularity of wind tunnels had to wait until after World War II, but Australasia, because of its far-reaching lead in aircraft, has also achieved some results in the construction of wind tunnels.

At present, Australasia has three types of wind tunnels: low-speed, medium-speed and high-speed. The Royal Aircraft Factory will also help Douglas and Boeing to build the wind tunnel laboratories they need.

A general wind tunnel is mainly composed of the cave itself, the drive system and the measurement system. If you want to develop an aircraft with good enough performance, you must go through a lot of experiments in the wind tunnel.

After Boeing and Douglas have their own wind tunnel laboratories, I believe they will have better ideas in aircraft design.

Just when Australasia's big bottom-hunting operation was going very smoothly, the accident happened very suddenly.

At the end of April 1927, intelligence personnel reported that there were a lot of bottom-hunting in the US stock market. After their investigation, these bottom-hunting did not come from domestic consortiums in the United States, but from the capital actions of some European countries.

Although these bottom-hunting did not target Australasia, they certainly had an impact on Australasia's bottom-hunting operation.

After all, there are only so many markets. While these capitals are bottom-fishing, they also reduce the number of companies in Australasia that can be bottom-fished.

Coupled with the actions of the US domestic consortium, this not only makes the US stock market a mess, but also makes those US companies on the verge of bankruptcy become the hot cakes that are vying to be acquired.

This situation is bound to happen, and Arthur is not surprised by this.

Although the stock exchanges of European countries, including the London Stock Exchange, have also suffered a huge crisis, the distance between European countries is too close after all, and everyone dares not let go and bottom-fish. At most, they just act quietly and grab a little bit.

Most of the time, European countries are trying to save their own stock markets. After all, their own losses are very heavy, and they don’t have the heart to care about others.

But the United States is different. First of all, the United States is still relatively far away from European countries, and it basically poses no threat to European countries.

Secondly, after the United States stopped paying compensation, it had offended a large number of European countries.

This also made it inevitable for European countries to bottom-fish American companies. After all, the United States is like a soft persimmon with wealth in its hands. Who else can they bully if they don’t bully the United States?

When the Americans reacted, everyone huddled together to say that it was just a normal business behavior. What could the Americans do?

In fact, the bottom-fishing in European countries had already started in March, but at the beginning, European countries were still relatively cautious and did not indulge too much. Basically, they were all carried out in private.

But after a month of trial, it was found that the US government did not strictly control the stock market, and the bottom-fishing in European countries became crazy.

As American companies were acquired one by one, the United States finally reacted in May and expressed its intention to govern the stock market.

But it was too late at this time. All forces were frantically bottom-fishing in the US stock market, and it was not so easy to manage.

While the Americans had not taken action yet, Arthur quickly provided a list of companies he wanted to acquire and asked the Intelligence Bureau to act as soon as possible.

This list mainly focuses on chemical, electrical, military, light industry and shipbuilding. Apart from anything else, the US shipbuilding technology is still good. After all, the size and strength of the American navy are the confidence of the United States to maintain its status as a great power.

These are basically all heavy industries, and the Americans should not give up so easily. However, Arthur is not pursuing a complete acquisition.

If acquisitions are not possible, try to buy the technology of these well-known companies in the industry, and then build factories in Australasia.

Especially the technology of the US shipbuilding and chemical industries, which is currently lacking in Australasia, and it is just right to buy a lot during the economic crisis.

The Hoover government's announcement of stock market control was welcomed by Americans, but Americans soon found something wrong.

First of all, it is not so easy to control the stock market, and it is very likely to make the stock market more chaotic.

As for closing the stock market, the US government is not so determined. After all, the stock market is related to major financial groups, and financial groups can influence the US government.

Although the US government has investigated which countries are behind the crazy bottom-fishing, the problem is that the US government does not have a good solution.

After all, the combined power of these countries is simply beyond the reach of Americans. Can the United States still start a full-scale war with European countries?

Secondly, for those greedy capitalists in the United States, the truth is to sell the company to whoever pays more.

As for the theory that the government has promoted that selling companies will harm the government, only civilians care about that nonsense. Capitalists only have money and power in their eyes. What is patriotism?

It is precisely because a large number of capitalists value interests and the money they get that the US government's measures to control the stock market have not been well implemented.

This has also led to the acquisition of tens of thousands of companies in the United States in just a few weeks, including a large number of steel, oil, shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing and agricultural industries, which has dealt an immeasurable blow to the United States.

It is worth mentioning that countries like Turkey, which did not suffer much loss in the economic crisis, have also entered the market.

However, Turkey is obviously self-aware and has not set its sights on those important heavy industries, but has acquired a large number of relatively cheap small factories to increase its industrial heritage.

Although this seems insignificant, it is a fatal blow to the US industry.

Although these factories are cheap, they cannot withstand the large amount of acquisitions by Turkish capital. Moreover, it is not only countries like Turkey that have not suffered from the economic crisis. A large number of countries with industrial defects have entered the market in order to snatch American industry.

As long as you can buy a factory, it is equivalent to creating a little industry for your country at a price far below the cost price.

Although a factory seems to have basically no impact on the improvement of a country's industry, the accumulation of dozens or hundreds of industries is a good supplement for those countries whose industrial scale is originally small.

In a one-on-one situation, those countries may be afraid of the United States, but the current situation is that all countries are frantically buying in the US stock market, and everyone is bolder.

After all, everyone still understands the principle that the law does not punish the masses. No matter how powerful the Americans are, they will not go against all the countries participating in the bottom-fishing.

And some of the countries participating in the bottom-fishing have the support of the British behind them. This is also the British strategy. How to protect the London stock market from being bottom-fished? The best way is to let the attention of various countries shift to the New York stock market and protect Britain by sacrificing the United States.

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