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Chapter 361 Wood Element
As Ford and other major automobile companies sold well in South China, countries gradually realized that they could no longer obtain more new currency simply by relying on agricultural products and selling them at low prices.
As a result, various trading companies came into being in Nanhua, and many computer brands emerged.
These brands are not owned by Nanhua, but were founded by businessmen from various countries.
They purchased the necessary accessories from Nan Hua Computer Factory and various accessory factories, and then established factories in other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Malaya to produce chassis and casings.
Ultimately, these components are assembled together to form new brands.
Despite the different brands, their configurations are actually the same, the only difference is in the exterior design.
Later, in order to increase sales, these merchants launched a brutal price war.
They keep lowering product prices, even at the expense of profit margins.
Eventually the price of computers fell all the way to the new dollar.
However, Xincheng’s own computers did not participate in this price competition and still insisted on the initial selling price.
After all, they are a state-owned enterprise, so when computer sales are not good, they can choose to reduce production and sell computer accessories to maintain profits.
Just half a year later, these merchants began to realize the problem. Even if they lowered prices or even sold at a loss, they could not attract more buyers.
The market demand in Nanhua is limited. After all, the population is only over 10 million, and most consumers who are willing to buy have already completed the purchase.
After citizens read reports in newspapers that computer merchants are not making money due to fierce competition, many potential customers buy directly.
The rest of the people don’t have enough money to buy it, or don’t want to buy it.
This will directly bankrupt their idea of earning new coins.
This ultimately led to the direct bankruptcy of a large number of computer manufacturers.
The situation did not ease until Xincheng Computer Factory launched a new generation of accessories.
However, at this time, the main way for these businesses to make profits has become to recycle old computers and ship them to Europe and the United States for sale.
Of course, this recycling is not done with new currency, but through trade with the European Union, various imported goods are exchanged for old computers.
Although those second-hand computers have been on the market for several years, they are still very popular in Europe and the United States.
Even though the United States borrowed Nanhua's technology to launch the first generation of small personal computers, it was unable to compete with Nanhua's second-hand computers.
In addition, the new generation of computers manufactured by those merchants are no longer sold at low prices, but are priced slightly lower than those of Nanhua's official computers.
Since Nanhua computers were programmed in ternary Chinese, the barrier to entry was quite high, and those abroad who were interested in computers had to first learn ancient Chinese.
However, this language is not easy to master. Therefore, even though Nanhua computers have been on the market for many years, the various software on them still need to rely on the development of Nanhua's Computer Software Research Institute.
A few simple software were developed by people in South China who were interested in programming. As for foreign countries, no useful software has been developed yet.
The high entry threshold of Nanhua Computer has prevented the ternary system from being widely accepted in Western countries in Europe and the United States.
Instead they continued to develop binary computers, using English as the programming language.
It is hard to say which one is better now, but at this moment, computers split into two branches and began to develop.
As the computer penetration rate in Nanhua has increased, chatting online has become a part of the daily life of every Nanhua resident.
Everyone who comes to visit can feel that Nanhua seems to have entered another era.
However, Wang Ze was still extracting Qingling at the mountain base. Li Wenting's research had entered a critical moment, and Wang Ze had to support her from the side.
Li Wenting's long-term research on lightness, supported by various precision equipment manufactured by Wang Ze, has yielded results after a large number of experiments.
However, this kind of research consumes a huge amount of energy, so much so that Wang Ze is even preparing to choose another place to raise mice.
The supply from the mountain base can no longer meet Li Wenting’s consumption.
Wang Ze is very supportive of this kind of research.
This time, Li Wenting's research is on Qingling's control over the degeneration of plants.
After a lot of experimental observations, she finally succeeded in discovering the changing patterns of lightness after it was integrated into plants.
This discovery made her very happy. She immediately reported it to Wang Ze. Only after getting his approval and support did she decide to enter the stage of large-scale experiments.
According to Li Wenting's in-depth research, plants are highly adaptable to light and spiritual elements.
However, this adaptability is not universal; some changes are beneficial to humans, some are insignificant, and some may even be harmful to humans.
Therefore, Li Wenting needs to explore further and find out how those changes that are useful to humans come about.
Through in-depth research, she discovered that plant cells have a keen sense of the external environment.
When plants are in good condition, that is, when they are happy and comfortable, the changes caused by lightness tend to develop in a direction that is beneficial to humans.
Conversely, if the plant is in distress or injured, these changes can evolve in a harmful direction.
In order to achieve the comfortable evolution of plants, Li Wenting realized that it was necessary to ensure that each plant could take root in the environment most suitable for its growth.
This means providing adequate sunlight, water, and nutrients to meet their needs.
It is also necessary to avoid any factors that may affect plant growth, such as pest infestation.
Only by caring for plants as carefully as you would care for a baby can their condition develop in a beneficial direction.
However, it was very difficult to do this, so Wang Zecai had to take action.
Recently, the two of them have been conducting various experiments in the planting area.
Through careful observation using his superpowers, Wang Ze discovered that when plants are in an extremely comfortable state, a special element is secreted from their bodies.
This element is evenly distributed within the plasmodesmata.
When plants conduct electrical signals, this element will affect the electrical signals, thereby promoting better growth and development of the plants.
And when lightness is integrated at this time, these wood elements and lightness will be integrated and evolve in a beneficial direction.
Therefore, this peculiar element becomes an important indicator for Wang Ze to judge whether the plants are comfortable.
However, it is not easy to form this element.
Even if the plants are of the same species, even if grown in the same environment, one may feel comfortable and secrete the element, while another may not react at all.
Finally, Wang Ze became a little anxious. He stopped studying how to make plants produce this substance themselves, and instead used his superpowers to conduct microscopic observations and directly change the molecular structure of substances to create this element out of thin air.
This move has brought Li Wenting a huge breakthrough in her research. At least she no longer needs to take care of these plants as carefully as she would take care of a baby.
Wang Ze named this element "wood element".
When the wood element was successfully synthesized by Wang Ze, it gathered together in large quantities to form a green, viscous liquid.
This liquid is so special that it can only be preserved for a long time if it is stored in a bottle made of wood.
If you use a bottle made of other materials, the wood element will gradually decompose and eventually turn into ordinary water.