Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 244 It’s Pearl River’s Model T

Time flies. In more than a year since Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Bureau and the Japanese Xiaoliuqiu naval battle, not only the existing series of factories and enterprises in the Pearl River, but also the Sihai Escort Bureau have expanded rapidly.

Zhujiang Commercial Bank has become one of the largest private enterprises in China, spanning various industries and becoming a giant.

Take a sugar factory for example. In 1903, the white sugar dumped in China generated sales of 3000 million taels of silver.

Zhujiang bicycles are also making rapid progress, with more than 50 units sold in China. This is a retail price of 500 Canadian dollars per bicycle, which is equivalent to a sales volume of 2.5 million Mexican dollars.

Zhujiang lighters sold more than 100 million units, and a 10-year-old lighter sold for 1000 million units.

Whether it is bicycles or lighters, foreigners active in China buy the most. After all, in this era, motorcycles have not yet developed, and the world's leading bicycles are indeed convenient to use.

Including Beiyang, they placed a batch of orders for tens of thousands of bicycles. They had no money to pay and directly settled with Daye's iron ore to barter.

Zhujiang Construction, Power Plant, and Cement Plant undertook many road infrastructure projects in the Shanghai Public Settlement and made a lot of money.

If we talk about Yau Tsim Mong on Hong Kong Island, Foshan on the Mainland, Shanghai Public Settlement and Zhabei District, in about a year, they have made great strides in developing from the poor and backward urban and rural appearance in the late Qing Dynasty to the appearance of Mainland counties in the 20s.

Throughout 1903, Wang Shouliang's biggest move was to develop a new district in Bao'an, and then in the New Territories, he created an automobile factory from scratch! !

"This is the perfect car!"

Wang Shouliang was able to develop because he drove a large ship to North America at the end of 1902. He frantically poached people from the Ford Motor Company, which was only established in 1903, except for Henry Ford.

A Zhujiang automobile factory marks the beginning of the four-cylinder integrated engine production workshop, various gear production workshops, front and rear axle production workshops, car lights, chassis, lever devices, bearings, hand crank handles, wheels, tires, etc...

Moreover, he can also bring back various finished product designs from the 1994 plane, including finished car models and industrial production lines for manufacturing related parts.

After driving for a few streets, Wang Shouliang parked his car on the street where a group of people gathered, got out of the car, and said happily, "It's done. With the current finished product, it has a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour, eight to nine liters of gasoline, and can drive a T-model The car was driven 100 kilometers.”

So in this dimension, it took more than a year. The Pearl River Automobile Factory founded by Wang Shouliang in Baoan finally built the first automobile. Most of the parts were produced without the help of industrial assembly line equipment. Instead, a group of engineers took the lead in Wang Shouliang's production. Below, a hand-assembled Model T.

After all, a place in Bao'an, connected to the New Territories, used to be a fishing village. If the Pearl River Power Plant, Construction Cement Factory, etc. had not successively opened their helms here, and then provided the driving force for the entire series of Pearl River Automobile Plants, then this place would still be a fishing village...

The roads in these neighborhoods were closed in advance for him to race.

Other important Ford Model T designers and developers such as Will, Gram, and Farkas, and various engineers, dig them all!

This main team was originally recruited by Henry Ford to form the company in 1903. It took another five years under Henry's leadership to launch the Ford Model T on the market in 1908, which has been famous for a century.

On the streets of Bao'an New District, which is paved with cement roads and has four lanes in both directions, and mangroves and lychee trees are planted on both sides of the road, Wang Shouliang drives a "Ford Model T" with wooden gun wheels and pneumatic tires, traveling 50 kilometers. Speed ​​racing.

February 1904, 2, tomorrow is New Year’s Eve.

However, master craftsmen and engineers have been able to slowly assemble and assemble a batch of parts by hand, but the efficiency is not high. One piece takes ten and a half months...

Compared with the Ford Model T, which produced more than 1908 million Model T cars from 1927 to 1500, the speed of this hand-to-hand production is naturally too slow.

For this reason, over the past year or so, even the Pearl River Refinery was established, just to provide gasoline for the Pearl River Model T cars.

After more than a year of infrastructure development, Sihai Escort Bureau and Zhujiang Commercial Bank are rapidly developing, but the bicycle torrent is still the most basic human mechanization in mechanized operations.

An automobile factory covers the construction of the entire industrial system.

From now on, this is the Pearl River Model T!

If we want to industrialize and produce Model T cars on a large scale, it will take about a year and a half.

Five-story residential buildings, commercial areas, living areas, etc., all rise from the ground, and their epoch-making features are all showing beauty and peace.

Wang Shouliang went to the Sihai Fleet once and hollowed out everything.

Now, this is a huge automobile manufacturing base.

But the assembly production line belonging to the Pearl River series is still developing.

The creation of the Pearl River Model T was the origin of mechanization of oil burning.

Eight to nine liters can run 100 kilometers in one and a half hours. This car can run and can seat four or five people when fully loaded.

No wonder Henry Ford was able to sell more than 19 million Model T cars worldwide in 1500 years, and he is even known as the man who put wheels on the earth!

Now, all this is named Wang!

A certain ghost engineer was also very excited. After he adjusted his glasses frame, he suggested, "Wang, do you think you can use steel welded spokes to replace the wooden gun wheels?"

"Even if this is a Napoleon gun-level gun wheel, in the era of giant steel ships, steel is still more powerful and romantic."

Wang Shouliang laughed, "At this stage, the French M1897 75MM field gun also has wooden gun wheels and steel in parallel. Let's study slowly and work together to change the world."

How did this group of elites who were originally attracted by Henry Ford end up on Wang Shouliang's ship? Of course, throw money, throw money, and throw money.

If you can't get it done even by throwing money at it, then don't blame Mr. Wang for starting business without respecting martial ethics.

The famous Ford Model T, now known as the Pearl River Model T, was originally sold on a large scale after 1908, with a retail price of only $260 a car.

According to the exchange rate of that era, it was basically equal to 520 yen, or 1300 oceans.

It’s really outrageous and not expensive!

The Zhujiang bicycles that are being sold in East and Southeast Asia all cost 500 black Mexican eagles.

The next step is to celebrate the success first, and then continue to produce parts on the operational production lines and DIY on the non-operational ones. We will try to build three or four Pearl River Model T cars before the full assembly line operation is realized.

There is no need for more. Ford T sold more than 19 million vehicles in 1500. Calculated based on this data alone, it is a production efficiency of to vehicles per year.

Wang Shouliang cheated and brought back some industrial production lines from the 1994 plane from time to time, but he still couldn't compete with the Ford T in all aspects. After all, it was the industrial base of a North American country.

For many spare parts, Ford can place orders with factories of other companies in North America.

As long as Wang Shouliang assembles it himself, the efficiency will be slower.

But as long as we can produce tens of thousands of Pearl River Ts a year, plus R&D improvements, such as it is still a convertible with no doors, wooden gun wheels, etc...

With a little bit of process improvement and improvement, the production volume of thousands or tens of thousands of units a year will further expand the oil and fuel trade and radiate to more fields.

Also, at this stage, there are not many cities where Pearl River T-cars can fly freely. The only cities are Yau Tsim Mong, Foshan, Shanghai Public Concession, Zhabei and the newly constructed Baoan New District.

It's not that you can't drive outside these places. It's good if you can reach a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, but it also frequently damages the wheels and tires.

……………… After a sumptuous dinner, Wang Shouliang arrived at the three-story Zhujiang Automobile Factory office building. When the factory director’s office was about to take a break, guard captain Xu Sicai came over with several telegrams, “Big shopkeeper, The bureau has an armed rescue team headed by Nanhai, Huanghai and Bohai."

"More than 20,000 compatriots have been successfully rescued from Lushun."

Wang Shouliang took a sip of tea and nodded, "Well done, all the members who participated will be rewarded with an additional three months' salary."

As early as a few days ago, the Ghost Bear War broke out as scheduled. If it weren't for greater certainty, such as buying more naval guns from Yalun...

The devils are about to start in advance.

Over the past year or so, the Japanese have almost destroyed themselves.

I heard that people in a certain building have begun to take the lead in eating chaff and drinking water. From Nanyang to Bend, from the Yangtze River to the Yellow River, as long as they are Japanese merchant ships, they are "recruited", "conquered" and "persuaded" by fleets all over the world. .

The goods are gone and the ship is gone. If you want people to go back, you have to pay more.

Regardless of whether it is true that some people are taking the lead in eating chaff and drinking water, or they are just pretending, poverty and turmoil in the island country are getting worse and worse.

If not for Yin Lun and North America's shameless support, it is estimated that the Ghost Bear War has not yet begun, affecting the entire island country, and almost all of a sudden destroying all the achievements since the Meiji Restoration, the rice riots will break out in advance.

Wang Shouliang was watching the ghost-bear battle that broke out as scheduled.

But this is not to be ignored. Refugee rescue operations are indispensable. At least innocent victims, refugees, and civilians must be rescued to the best of their ability.

The next moment Wang Shouliang said, "Let's make some arrangements. We'll go to Shanghai tomorrow and bring my Model T on board, and keep it full of gasoline."

"This year, Hongkou has gained 30,000 to 40,000 foreign residents from island countries, 70% of whom are women."

Going to Shanghai is much closer to the Northeast where victims and refugees are everywhere, and it is convenient for him to dispatch and command from there.

Xu Si also felt a little messy and had nowhere to put it. After the island country lost all kinds of ways to make a fortune and save resources, the biggest ability to start a business and generate income was that the sister-in-law sold herself.

The 20,000 to 30,000 beautiful girls they sent to Shanghai, plus the ones who were already in Shanghai before, couldn't raise the money to send them by ship. They could only remit money through European and American banks...

It's quite nonsensical.

………………

On February 2, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Shouliang had just finished breakfast at the Wang Mansion on East Broadway Road in Shanghai when he received a report from the guard that Kevin and Joseph were visiting.

When he walked out of the villa with a smile to greet him, the two ghost guys who entered the prince's mansion each carried a gift. It was Kevin who smiled and said, "Wang, in the new year, I wish you good luck in the Year of the Dragon. I follow the instructions of you Chinese people." According to the tradition, I made a small golden dragon for you."

"Although it doesn't weigh much, it's my heart."

Joseph also smiled brightly, "Wang, I have prepared a large Silver Dragon for you, which weighs eight pounds. Can you sell me one of the Model T cars produced by your Pearl River Automobile Factory as soon as possible?"

"I never dreamed that you suddenly ran to play with cars and succeeded?!"

In the polite manner, Wang Shouliang also laughed and invited the two people into the house.

After sitting in the living room and drinking a few cups of morning tea, after the initial greeting period, Kevin suddenly got to the point, "Wang, have you ever heard about counterfeit banknotes?"

"Damn, Shet, Joseph and I have been running around in response to the sudden outbreak of counterfeit banknotes for more than a year. Which damn country or institutional team can produce so many seamless banknotes from various countries? "

"We are working hard outside to fight for our lives, but some people can even run a printing press and loot our wealth. Damn it!"

"Fortunately, Yanlun has been busy for more than a year and has finally produced a new series of banknotes. It also plans to fully replace the old banknotes with new ones. There is still a time limit. After the one-year exchange period, the previously issued banknotes will be completely discarded. Paper money in circulation.”

"Wang, you are one of the richest men in East Asia, and you have always been a man richer than a bank. If you still hold a large number of pound banknotes, you should get rid of them as soon as possible."

Under the words, Joseph's expression changed subtly while drinking tea.

As early as early October 1902, even Shanda, the person responsible for leading the Imperial Bank of China, discovered the counterfeit banknotes of various countries. Earlier, there were also discoverers in the mainland of Yinglun, including France and North America.

It's just that across the vast ocean, transportation information is not developed. You can send telegraphs, but it is true that telegraphs can send messages. The fake banknotes can be confused with the genuine ones. Only repeated codes will confirm that there are counterfeit banknotes. You can't let the Yinglun Bank, the Hong Kong Island Bank, and the Shanghai Banking Corporation The Bank of Shanghai sends telegrams every day to summarize the codes of every counterfeit banknote in our hands, right?

What kind of project is that? !

What's more, those who store pound banknotes are not only the Bank of London, but also the banks of France, Hans Cat, North America and Island countries.

There are countless big capitalists, businessmen, corrupt officials, and top soldiers. Who doesn’t have a batch of banknotes in their hands? Can you let everyone contact each other by telegraph and report and record their banknote numbers to each other? !

This is impossible!

In the past two years since Wang Shouliang's frenzied printing of banknotes and dumping of banknotes, many people and institutions have noticed that something is wrong, and there is no solution to the problem.

How do you break it? ? Banknotes are circulated in the hands of wealthy people all over the world. Can you tell me all the codes? Even Yinglun Bank and Hong Kong Island Bank have a batch of banknotes with duplicate numbers and know that some of them are fake...

Whose is fake? Whose is real? ! This is so unexplainable!

This unsolvable problem almost caused the local people in Yanlun to almost vomit three liters of blood, including French and Hans cats, etc., but the problem still needs to be solved. New banknotes are issued and the old ones are exchanged for new ones and suffer a boring loss.

Then slowly find out the counterfeit knife dealers and punish them!

Yalun's biggest suspects are still Hans Cat and North America.

But Wang Shouliang is also one of the targets of suspicion.

Even if no one believes in theory that the man named Wang has the kind of technology that cannot be broken by European and American powers, he is indeed the first pot of gold since his rise, and it is also super large.

How many pound notes do you have and do you want to change them? Once there are really many, many fake banknotes, and some of them are counterfeit, then this man who was once the God of Wealth to Yin Lun will have to cut his flesh with a big knife.

At the very least, Wang Shouliang must be asked to hand over fake marks, fake francs, and fake knife skills.

Wang Shouliang shook the tea cup in his hand in shock, and sighed quickly, "It's good to exchange the old for the new. You finally want to solve the problem. I haven't dared to collect banknotes randomly for a long time."

"Fortunately, what I am most in need of right now is silver and silver dollars. I only hold very few banknotes."

"We Chinese wealthy businessmen have been suffering from counterfeit money for a long time, and you are finally here to deal with it!"

(PS: Today is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. I once again wish all book friends a Happy New Year. In the afternoon, a group of cousins ​​shouted for drinks. They haven’t gotten together like this in a few years. I have updated it every few days and will keep updating~)

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