Some time ago, in order to compete for the steam engine order in the mining area of the North Coal Company, the Tianjin Youbang Company did not hesitate to find the relevant officials of the Hebei Governor Yamen and asked them to put pressure on the North Coal Company not to let the North Coal Company adopt the order of the Zhaoqing Machinery Company and order the order of their AIA Company instead.

The officials of the Yamen of Hebei Governor are naturally inclined to the enterprises under their own jurisdiction, and now Tianjin AIA Company is the only large-scale high-tech enterprise in the northern provinces, and it contributes a lot of tax revenue to the local government every year, so it is also actively helping AIA to run.

Although the North Coal Company is an enterprise under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, its business scope is not limited to Hebei, basically several northern provinces are their business scope, but Hebei still has to give face, but this face is only to give a fair competition.

If your steam engine has high performance and low price, he will buy it, otherwise, the governor of Hebei will come to the door and will not be able to use it!

If you want to talk about the relationship, Zhaoqing Machinery Company is not bad, people are directly found by the senior officials of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, because Zhaoqing Machinery Company, but the wholly-owned holding company of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and the North Coal Company, which is a brother company, is much stronger than Tianjin Youbang Company.

Although the results of the bidding have not yet come out, it can be seen from this that the competition between the two companies is now.

On the one hand, they are vigorously cooperating with the Royal Institute of Technology to purchase their technology patent authorization, of course, this kind of thing, now all companies with a little brain will do so.

The Royal Institute of Technology's technical authorization, except for a very few sensitive products, most of the other product authorization, most of the authorization, most of the unlimited quota, not high or exclusive authorization, as long as you meet the enterprise qualifications, you can also get the money, then you can get the Royal Institute of Technology's technical authorization.

But again, the vast majority of the technical licensing of the Royal Institute of Technology is biased towards technical licensing, and many of them are even theoretical.

Therefore, most enterprises will set up their own technical departments, but most of the technology studied by enterprises is only how to turn technology licensing into products, and there are relatively few new products developed by themselves.

Tianjin AIA is different, they are walking on two legs, on the one hand, they have bought all the patent authorizations that can be bought, on the other hand, they are to establish a huge R&D institution by themselves, and at the same time, they are also carrying out joint R&D with many universities in China, which is to develop their own exclusive technology.

The technical patents purchased from the Royal Institute of Technology are all non-exclusive patents, which means that there is a second company in the domestic market, or even dozens of similar products, but if it is a new product developed by itself, then under the strict patent protection of the empire, this new product can only be produced by you, which is a monopoly, and you can buy as much as you like.

Nowadays, many small and medium-sized enterprises in China, their scale is not large, and the capital is not abundant, but some of them are quite nourishing, and the profits make those large companies look blushing.

Most of these small and medium-sized enterprises have their own technology patents and can produce one or two exclusive products.

There is a pencil company in Guangzhou is a typical example, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the empire began to promote charcoal, at that time Li Xuan originally wanted to make a pencil out, but he didn't expect to be the first to get on, a young show surnamed Chen in Guangzhou occasionally found that the lead block can be used to write, and then after his own thinking, he actually made a pencil, and then directly applied for a patent, and then set up a small workshop to produce

As a result, even the people at the Royal Institute of Technology could only watch their pencil patent application being rejected, because Chen Xiucai applied for it a month earlier than them.

Finally, the pencil company established by Chen Xiucai in Guangzhou, relying on pencil patents to become a large company step by step, can now be seen on the market, the pencils sold in the public are basically produced by his company, and Chen Xiucai has become a rich man.

Of course, now there are only four or five years left for this pencil patent, and many companies are counting the days, waiting for his patent to expire and rush to imitate the production.

The strict patent protection system in China ensures that the new technologies invested and developed by individuals or companies can be protected and obtain huge profits, which is why many domestic enterprises attach so much importance to technology research and development.

It's just that there are very few companies that attach importance to technology research and development to Tianjin Youbang Company, which puts more than 10% of the company's annual turnover into research and development.

This 10% is not about profit, but about turnover.

Although the industry is different, the development path of development is basically the same, and they all rely on technology research and development to seize the market.

These two typical examples reflect the cruelty of competition in the entire empire's industry and commerce, especially in the industrial manufacturing industry!

A company without technology is simply not able to become bigger and stronger, and even survival is a problem.

Gone are the days of setting up a factory and producing something to get rich overnight in the past decade or so.

Li Xuan has maintained an encouraging attitude towards this kind of competition in the domestic market.

Only by maintaining healthy competition can we achieve better development, after all, the huge Tang Empire cannot only rely on some enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

The fundamental purpose of the enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is not to develop the economy or the like, but to develop national defense and stabilize the people's livelihood.

If you look at the industries invested by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, you can see that most of them are concentrated in heavy industry, and there are very few light industries, and even if there are, most of them are invested in the early years, or they have been invested in recent years, but they belong to the kind of high-tech industries, which have a certain demand, and private enterprises are unwilling to invest, or cannot invest in industries.

Nowadays, most of the enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are concentrated in the arms, energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and chemical industries, and most of them are related to the national defense industry, not to mention the three major weapons companies, and the energy includes the three major coal companies, shipping has the Yangtze River shipping, overseas trade has Nanyang, Dongyang, and Western trading companies, shipbuilding has Jiangnan Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard, Tianjin Shipyard, and chemical industry has Datang Chemical Company.

And almost every one of these companies is basically related to national defense.

Therefore, although most of the enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are strong and occupy a very large proportion of the national economy, they are still unable to cover the development of the entire national economy.

Even in shipbuilding, shipping, coal, chemical and other industries, although most of the top enterprises in these industries are enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, in fact, more are private enterprises.

There are thousands of shipyards in China, but there are only about a dozen shipyards under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

There are hundreds of large and small coal companies in China, and there are only three coal companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

The same is true for shipping, there is only one shipping company controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, that is, the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and the rest are all private shipping companies.

This is also the case for overseas trading companies, although the major trading companies controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Pacific Trading Company controlled by the Imperial Assets Division together account for half of the overseas trade, but the rest is generally divided up by private capital.

Not to mention, in fact, in addition to some more sensitive companies, many of these state-owned enterprises are actually listed companies, which means that the state-owned enterprises are basically only able to rely on majority equity holdings, but not wholly-owned holdings.

Private capital occupies a very important position in the development of Datang's industrial and commercial economy, and it is becoming more and more important.

However, it will not be important enough to threaten the stability of the imperial regime, because Li Xuan will not allow it.

In Li Xuan's plan, the economic development model of the Tang Empire in the future will be dominated by enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, such as national defense and people's livelihood, and other vital and sensitive industries, while private capital will play the main role in other ordinary industries.

Private capital makes money, and it is enough to provide taxes to the empire.

As for building guns and artillery, stabilizing people's livelihood, etc., these are not their tasks, but the tasks of state capital.

The two are separated, develop separately, and do not interfere with each other.

Maybe after a hundred or even decades, the power of private capital will develop greater, the technology of private enterprises will develop better, and it will inevitably be the cooperation between national capital and private capital at that time, but what kind of impact will it bring at that time, Li Xuan doesn't care, anyway, he won't live at that time.

Therefore, when Li Xuan saw Xuanping's 20 years of domestic industrial and commercial development, especially the report on the development of the private economy, he was still more pleased.

Although the political system of the Tang Empire is still a traditional feudal empire with a strong folk atmosphere, this does not seem to affect the rapid development of industry and commerce.

In terms of the political system, it is because Li Xuan has made a series of improvements, although it is still the centralization of imperial power in essence, but the specific form of expression is similar to some modern regimes in later generations, and it has also absorbed the advantages and disadvantages of certain modern states in later generations.

The combination of the two is to form a very special Tang Empire!

You have to give a position to this kind of political system, it should be an improved imperial centralism that is more in line with the national conditions of the Tang Dynasty and the contemporary development!