"Emperor! This commoner wishes to know why Jiuding is unwilling to sell advanced technology to us?
This shouldn't be your intention as the Emperor, right? It's perfectly normal for subordinates to act on their own initiative—after all, they're people with their own strong ideas.
While we do excel at imitation, it's mostly low-end products; high profits require high-end products.
The advanced technology is controlled by foreigners, who will not share it with us and even prohibit us from learning about it," Liu Yong asked.
Everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to Zhu Wencong, as the technology Jiuding possesses is even more advanced than the West's. Unfortunately, Jiuding has never made it available.
If Jiuding's advanced technology could be purchased, the Zhejiang Businessmen would have the courage to defeat foreign merchants, turning them into mere subcontract factories.
Zhu Wencong wore a helpless expression: "This is beyond my abilities, as I must also abide by Western rules.