Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 250: Generating electricity for love and dreams

A night training rehearsal in Hongkou in the early spring of March 1904 was a small test for Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Bureau.

The destruction of the black dragon in Shanghai's old lair was just a by-pass.

In the following time, the entire Wang family and Zhujiang used their strength to fight hard for oil refining and car manufacturing.

In the following months starting in March, the biggest event that had the greatest impact on the world and attracted the most attention was the introduction of new banknote series one by one, starting with the pound, then the franc, the U.S. dollar, the mark, the ruble, the Japanese yen and other currencies. .

All the money in Wang Shouliang's hand was a small amount of pocket money, which he could exchange quickly and easily.

The industrialized silver from 1994 has also begun to impact the gold and silver currency system that swept the 04 plane. Under the premise of its high price exchange, there are too many old people in Guangdong and Shanghai to convert various gold ingots. , golden winter melons and gold bars were delivered to Wang Shouliang.

He is transforming into a super financier in the gold standard world!

The Zhujiang Automobile Factory's branch in Bao'an New District is also making strides in development.

Except for the five semi-mechanized and semi-manual assembled T-model cars that came out, the factory no longer does manual DIY, but instead fully deploys various production lines and plans to move towards industrialized assembly lines.

At the same time, refineries and gas stations are springing up all over eastern Guangdong and Shanghai.

Cars and cars cannot avoid the oil trade and fuel business.

After all, from the major powers to the backward Belt and Clearance, anthracite and the like are good things, good treasures. Even the steam turbines that are about to enter the era of dreadnoughts still burn coal!

The biggest benefit of progressing and developing too fast is this.

But based on the calculation of seven barrels of oil per ton, the highest price per ton is just over 9 US dollars. Even if 50 US dollars is equivalent to nearly Mexican eagles, it can buy one or two thousand kilograms of high-quality rice. This is still cheap.

Ever since Wang Shouliang's Zhujiang Automobile intercepted the Ford Model T, oil and automobiles, etc., all over the world, of course the discerning people knew that these things would become more and more popular and worth spending money on.

All are transported by sea, and the woolly bears still have to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

It wasn't until 1902 that North America regained the title, overtaking the woolly bear.

And it must be noted that North America was not the only oil overlord in this era. As early as 1898, Mao Xiong produced 860 million tons of oil annually, surpassing North America and becoming the first in the world.

Although the fluctuations are not small.

The Pearl River T-car intercepted Hu. This was a good era when the Pearl River refinery developed on a large scale and kept hoarding resources while running forward.

So according to the geographical location, it was still during the Ghost Bear War that Mao Xiong's oil was sold to Wang Shouliang's Sihai Escort Agency... well, Mao Xiong still didn't have much efficiency advantage.

Taking another look at the French Concession patrol officers riding with him in the rain, Old Huang couldn't help complaining, "Ride faster, it's so hot and humid..."

And no matter how bad it is, Wang Shouliang knows where there are large oil fields in China, and can get materials and equipment from the 1994 plane at any time.

But at this stage, no one has vigorously competed with Wang Shouliang.

When cargo ships loaded with oil were transported to Hong Kong Island, Bao'an New District and Shanghai, the oil was really cheap. Before World War I, the highest price of oil was US$1895 per barrel in 1.36, and the lowest price was in 1892. 0.56 US dollars per barrel.

It’s the end of June, and Shanghai is ushering in the new rainy season.

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Ten thousand tons costs just over US$9! !

The skyrocketing price of oil can be traced back to the late 20s, when hundreds of thousands of Ford Model T cars began to flow into the North American market and the global market every year.

Huang Quanrong, who is obese, was sitting in a human-powered tricycle, opening the awning and looking at the streets in the Central District of the Public Settlement, where people were rushing to the side of the road to take shelter from the rain.

And the Wright brothers developed aircraft again and again and flew into the sky, thus driving the development of the global aviation industry in the late 00s and early 10s.

Running on the ground and flying in the sky, working together to promote the development of the world, allowed Rockefeller, one of North America's oil overlords, to reach a terrifying net worth of one billion U.S. dollars in 1910.

Fortunately, this era is too early.

The Wright brothers are still conducting test flights in North America, which is still a small and transparent stage.

The driver who was riding hurriedly apologized and pedaled harder.

It was already the summer of 1904. Huang Quanrong, a French Concession patrolman who had never formally worshiped the Qinggang, began to gradually rise to the top. This time, he took the instructions from Gui Lao and ran to the Wang Mansion in the HK area of ​​the public concession to give the Nan Hai Neptune gave money.

The gift was money for road construction projects in the French Concession.

It is really during the rainy season that everyone living in Shanghai can better understand the difference between cement roads and gravel-assisted sand roads.

The cement road they were traveling on was clean and beautiful, with not much water on it.

I heard that in order to keep the roads spacious, beautiful and clean, the public concessions hired a night scented team to clean the roads of horse manure, artificial rice fields and other filth.

Although there are more jobs assigned.

The whole city has indeed become gorgeous and beautiful.

Huang Quanrong, who could barely be considered a high-class person even in the French Concession, looked at everything on the street and spontaneously felt that it was the most appropriate thing for the French ghost to hand over the road construction project to shopkeeper Wang Da.

Of course, Wang's Zhujiang Construction and Cement Factory has been on the rise for several years and has also contracted road construction in many places.

With the development up to now, it is not that there are no Guilao Trading Firms, foreign banks, or local private capital in China, who also want to get involved in the field of cement construction.

It should be said that there are still many people who want to engage in cement infrastructure construction.

Involving undertaking official engineering roads? There is no shortage of smart people who want to give money to Gui Lao and want to bribe him to win the project. There are many such people.

But at this stage, the French ghost guy takes the initiative to send business to Wang Shouliang. In addition to the reputation of Zhujiang Construction and Zhujiang Cement Factory, there are also model roads that have been repaired.

What's more, in the past few months, newly assembled Pearl River T-cars have been delivered to Shanghai, and Wang Shouliang also rehearsed several training activities for the car and bicycle team.

Not only the Yinglun ghosts saw some prospects, but the French ghosts, Hans Cat ghosts, North American ghosts, and the furry bear ghosts also gradually saw and understood it.

Huang Quanrong didn't know what the other ghost guys thought.

The French ghost guy just gives away road projects. When giving money, he hopes to get closer to Wang Shouliang so that he can learn the beginning of this kind of oil-burning mechanized pulling...

after a while.

When Huang Quanrong and his party arrived in the rain at the Suzhou River that divides the central area of ​​the Shanghai Public Settlement and Hongkou, Huang Quanrong could not help but get out of the car and look at the bridge piers, which were mainly made of steel frames and steel, cement and concrete. Support, connect the bridge.

Huang Quanrong sighed again, "Although it's not the first time I've seen it, this is our first steel bridge in Shanghai, right? A two-way four-lane avenue with four two-horse carriages running parallel at the same time." "It's so open and bright!"

"This is the bridge built by Zhujiang Construction and Zhujiang Cement Factory. It is much more elegant than the previous wooden bridge."

The first steel bridge in Shanghai on its original track was the Waibaidu Bridge, which was built by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the Concession in 1906 and opened to traffic in 1907. Before that, there were only wooden bridges.

In this dimension, in the summer of 1902, Gui Lao entrusted it to Wang Shouliang's company. His series of bridges and roads on the Pearl River were really professional.

After sighing with emotion, Huang Quanrong continued to get on the bus and headed all the way to Hongkou East Broadway Road. As soon as he arrived at the corner of the intersection, he and several French Concession policemen saw standing at the intersection several men wearing one-piece raincoats and armored Chen 1904 long rifles. , elites with armed belts tied around their waists, blue uniforms, and cowhide waterproof boots.

When these elites stopped the car, Huang Quanrong and several patrol officers naturally stayed down and cooperated with them.

Soon, they saw five T-cars in front and behind them, which were also equipped with awnings. There were wooden gun-wheel vehicles and steel wheel frames. They drove out from the prince's mansion in the rain. A small convoy of five vehicles. , followed by dozens of bicycles.

They were all in blue jackets wearing raincoats, and they also carried their colleagues in the back seats, traveling together as a team.

Huang Quanrong also used a gun to eat, but when he saw the Sihai Escort Bureau branch traveling in full force, he couldn't help but want to kneel down.

Not to mention the long and short guns of the Blue Jackets.

Those five T-model cars, the front and rear ones, all have Maxim Bodhisattva's charity tubes illuminated in the windows under the hoods!

When Huang Quanrong was trembling, he smiled apologetically and handed a cigarette to an elite member of the blue-shirted team who stopped them, and said curiously, "Brother, big brother, we are following the wishes of the French ghost guy and want to give business to shopkeeper Wang Da."

"It's mainly road construction projects in various parts of the French Concession, including the renovation of some public office buildings..."

"Shop Manager Wang has to go out to work on a rainy day? You are really busy with things. I have heard a lot about car-car coordination and walking-car coordination. I didn't understand it before, and I never broadened my horizons."

"When I saw this scene today, I felt it was much more handsome than the traditional cavalry on horseback."

When Huang Quanrong asked with a smile, the blue-shirted elite ignored him at all, and a few people with unkind eyes pointed their guns at Huang.

Frightened, Lao Huang hurriedly slapped himself a few times and continued to stand in the rain to apologize.

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On the other side, take a car on the way to Zhabei.

Wang Shouliang also looked at the street scene to the left and right through the car window, and said to Xu Si in the passenger seat, "In the next few months, we will arrange for the masters and students from the Automobile Department to master the driving skills as soon as possible."

"Includes certain vehicle maintenance skills."

"The automobile factory in Bao'an New District will be able to mechanize the mass production of Model T cars this fall at the latest. It will not be difficult to produce hundreds of vehicles a month by then."

"Shanghai and Zhabei will also build a brand new automobile branch. When entering 1905, we will strive to have thousands of Model T cars in the entire escort agency, especially models with steel wheel frames and hoods."

"The training of the driver team must be stepped up!"

The development of the automobile factory is proceeding step by step. With Wang Shouliang's occasional cheating subsidies, it is normal to achieve mass production this fall.

This is the age of mechanization really coming soon.

According to the efficiency of cavalry in the cold weapon era, take the Songjin Battle in the late Ming Dynasty as an example. Huang Taiji led 234 cavalry from Shencheng to Jinzhou, a journey of six days. The distance between the two on later maps was kilometers.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it could not be a straight line, and it would definitely take a detour.

Combined with this, it is the cavalry in the cold weapon era. Traveling more than forty kilometers day and night is a rapid march, which is a very efficient speed.

The oil-burning Pearl River Model T has a top speed of 70 kilometers an hour... With a full load of five people and numerous firearms, bullets, etc., it can still run 50 kilometers an hour for several hours.

After leaving the cement road area, the speed of 50 kilometers per hour may drop to 40 or even 30 kilometers per hour! !

At a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, five people in a car with long and short guns and corresponding bullets can cover 90 kilometers in three hours! !

1000 cars, that’s people!

The current Lu Division of the Sihai Escort Bureau is really stealing away from many established powers.

At least by 1905, it is estimated that the world's major powers will be stunned by this high-speed mechanized team that transports thousands of people and spans hundreds of miles in one day.

China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and a few hundred miles is nothing.

But for the continent of Europa, that’s scary! ! How many hundred miles is it from Paris to Berlin? ! How many hundred miles is it from Paris to Vienna?

Railways and trains can also do this, but railways are much more troublesome than cars. The great powers are not fools and will not transfer control of domestic railways to outsiders.

Where can I have the convenience and freedom of a car? !

Wang Shouliang has a bit of a bad taste. He wonders if he can conduct a drill next time and send a team of ten thousand people including a certain amount of small artillery to fight across thousands of miles in two or three days.

Will it scare the shit out of William?

That's not right, France should be the one who is scared.

It was only the summer of 1904, so it was a bit too early to start flying. Even in the winter of 1905, it was not too late for Wang Shouliang to go and deal with the Wright brothers.

In October 1905, the Wright brothers' Flyer 10 conducted the longest test flight, flying nearly 3 kilometers and taking only 39 minutes.

But it was not until 1908 that the North American military paid attention to the huge prospects of aircraft. Before the military's involvement, the Wright brothers had been ignored and ignored by the North American media and press.

Including people all over the world, few understand and support them.

Before the military and North American commanders paid attention to and praised them in 1908, these brothers had been generating electricity for love, ideals and dreams! ! The Flyer 3 has been in the stable for two or three years. It is really a legendary stable.

Wang Shouliang has already stopped the Hulett brothers, and of course he doesn’t mind completely stopping the aviation shock that the Hulett brothers brought to North America in the next one or two or three years.

The earliest professional pilots in North America were trained by those brothers. Of course, in this dimension, we can also go to eastern Guangdong to train the earliest pilots in China.

In terms of sea, land and air, Wang Shouliang does not plan to build an overly exaggerated naval force in the short term. It will not be difficult to build large-scale infrastructure after the war is over.

Before the battle, let the Sihai Escort Agency show off their skills on land and in the air.

After all, when the Zhujiang Automobile Factory enters a stable period of explosive growth, the main factory and branch factories can also start rolling trucks and motorcycles.

Only truck workshops and motorcycle workshops have been installed, and the occasional truck can be converted into an armored and bulletproof vehicle. This is a serious torrent of steel, neither scientific nor lame.

(End of this chapter)