Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 122: Chapter 122: The Prelude to the Thunder Action Begins!

While the Flapping Wing Flying Device factory and Thunderbolt Special Team were conducting secret activities, everything on Jade Island was developing with a thriving momentum.

Especially after the successful hosting of the Jade Island Technology Expo, a series of high-end technology products from Jade Island suddenly caught the world’s attention. People from various countries eagerly awaited the moment they could use Jade Island’s most advanced technological products.

Against this backdrop, major global companies began taking actions, determined not to miss this opportunity to seize the future market!

Yet for Jade Island, there was no intention to swallow up the entire global market all at once!

The space that should be left for these companies would still be given. Having already consumed the meat, Jade Island would inevitably leave some bones for these partners to have a taste.

Additionally, although Jade Island dominates the globe in production capacity, it indeed lacks in the supply chain and sales chain capabilities. Therefore, it is better to collaborate with these world-class companies to maximize Jade Island’s production capacity.

In this way, more profit can be earned without losing core interests, so why not do it?

Thus, during this period, Jade Island officials and companies from various countries reached a series of long-term strategic agreements and simultaneously signed a large number of production orders.

As a result, Jade Island’s major factories entered a full production state!

Almost every day, numerous transport ships set sail from the major ports along the coast of Jade Island, heading to destinations around the world.

Due to this impact, the performance of Jiang Shipping also saw a dramatic increase!

After resolving the pirate harassment problems, Jiang Shipping entered a phase of rapid expansion. Currently, the number of transport ships for Jiang Shipping has almost tripled, and all are equipped with new engine high-speed transport ships, further enhancing transport capabilities.

It is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Shipping has grown into an Asian unicorn-like giant shipping company, on par even with the four major global shipping giants!

In less than a year, it reached the level that other shipping companies can only attain in decades, making Jiang Shipping’s expansion capabilities astonishing!

However, the growth of Jiang Shipping inevitably came with the decline of other shipping businesses!

The most affected were obviously Samsung Shipping of Korea and Kawasaki Shipping of Japan, which used to be the dominant companies in Asia but have now almost become third-rate Asian shipping companies!

The direct reason is Jade Island’s transport limitation order!

According to Jade Island’s official export policy, high-tech vessels like high-speed transport ships can only be exported to the four major European shipping companies. As for other companies that want to buy such vessels, it’s impossible!

Facing such technological aggression, Samsung Shipping and Kawasaki Shipping naturally felt greatly dissatisfied. On one hand, they continuously protested against Jade Island’s discriminatory policies through various means on the international stage, while on the other hand, they secretly speeded up the imitation production process, hoping to escape this disadvantageous situation as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, Jade Island strictly controls such equipment as high-speed engine devices, making it extremely difficult for others to understand the design parameters of these devices.

Moreover, such high-tech devices are by no means something that can be imitated in just a few months; the phenomenon of technological barriers is quite severe.

Samsung Shipping is the one that still has some hope.

With support from Samsung Shipyard, it is said that they have been able to produce some small high-speed transport ships. Given that they have long mastered the supercavitation propulsion technology, and with Jade Island as a sample, they have barely managed to create faster engines. Although there remains a considerable gap in propulsion speed compared to Jade Island’s products, it has given them hope.

This is the general situation in the Asian shipping industry—one superpower, while other companies can only sip at the residues.

And this troubling scenario occurs not only in the shipping industry. In fact, any market where Jade Island gets involved tends to fall under its domination!

This situation has caused major manufacturers worldwide to feel fearful, but ironically helpless, as Jade Island’s products are too advanced, making it difficult for them to catch up even if they wish to do so!

The result is that some companies unable to catch up can only close down and go bankrupt, while others, more flexible in their thinking, have begun to turn to another road.

That is, collaborating with Jade Island!

Of course, this so-called collaboration essentially means becoming a contract manufacturer for Jade Island, producing some components for Jade Island’s high-end products to survive!

In fact, this is basically the trend in global enterprise development.

Facing opponents whose technological prowess far exceeds their own, starting with contract manufacturing is the only thing possible, gradually accumulating technical experience, eventually forming imitation capabilities, and starting the gradual process of catching up!

Luckily, Jade Island from the beginning had no intention of knocking these companies out completely but rather had plans to sign more reasonable agreements with them.

The specific content of the agreements is that in the early stages of collaboration, they can only produce some minor components; after a period, they could approach the production of core components. Essentially, this involves technology transfer.

Precisely due to this collaboration method, major global enterprises did not unite in rebellion but walked down a path of ”apprenticeship in learning skills.”

From a global perspective, the world is silently undergoing this technological revolution, with the undeniable leader being Jade Island!

Time just slowly passes in this subtle technological revolution.

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A month later.

Nanyao Island, combat command center.

Today, Jiang Cheng specially wore rarely donned military attire, looking refreshed, truly resembling a senior military officer.

He was sitting at the central seat of the conference venue, closely watching the projection screen in front.

In the picture, dozens of battle-hardened special forces soldiers were wearing unique equipment with wings, undergoing various training exercises.

During the training, it was astonishing to discover that they could surprisingly mimic birds, either hovering in low altitudes or soaring in high altitudes. The movements in the picture were extremely impactful!

All the military high officials present showed expressions of disbelief!

Although they knew Jiang Cheng was secretly developing a special military equipment, they could never have imagined it would be such winged equipment with flight capability.

Being elite individuals, once they saw the flexible combat capabilities brought by this equipment, they immediately realized that from now on, Jade Island would possess a ghostly special operations unit that would strike fear in the hearts of enemies!