Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 251 He is even carrying screws and springs

September, autumn, 1904, Zhujiang Automobile Factory, Baoan New District.

When the first Zhujiang T-type car produced on the industrial assembly line is completed, it means that from now on, Zhujiang Automobile will greatly increase its output.

Wang Shouliang directly paid six months' salary as bonus to all active employees of Bao'an General Factory, including cleaners and vegetable washers in canteens.

As for the design and R&D team, they must have sent more.

He was not short of money. Taking advantage of the Ford Model T, it was cheap to build. The original model only cost US$1908 after 260... Even though the overall industrial base and overall industrial production capacity of the late Qing Dynasty were far lower than those of North America, they were many times lower.

It's amazing that in the future, the selling price of a car will be five to six hundred US dollars or one thousand US dollars, which will be a huge profit for Zhujiang Automobile Factory.

Many auto parts, parts sources and core configurations related to car manufacturing are all production lines brought by Wang Shouliang since 1994.

Wang Shouliang can carry everything from a production line for assembling engines to a production line as small as a screw or a spring since 1994.

He even moved the production lines for screws, springs, gears, and bearings. What else can you say? !

There is also the 1917 Liberty Truck, of which nearly 52 were built. It had a 2.7-horsepower engine and could carry a load ranging from 4.5 tons to tons. This load capacity was much more powerful than the Jeffrey's four-wheel drive, or even doubled.

In the Zhujiang Automobile Engine Workshop, Wang Shouliang not only brought out the finished straight-6 and V6 engines, which meant that the car could have the concept to introduce a more powerful engine, he also came up with the concept and design direction of the V8 eight-cylinder engine! !

Plans are also underway to open a truck production workshop.

It is not difficult for a truck to pull ten soldiers armed with guns and bullets, and they are not slow at all.

This compares to any family car in the 21st century that has more than 100 horsepower, which is far behind.

These are the two copycat plans that Zhujiang Automobile Factory is targeting first! !

There are many differences between car engines and truck engines. In the final analysis, they are straight 6 or V6, V8, etc...

It is not difficult to pull 20 soldiers with firearms and bullets in one cart.

When a few ghost engineers and designers cheered for the birth of a new production line that could produce 60 Zhujiang Model T cars per month as long as there was sufficient supply of raw materials, the Zhujiang Automobile Factory and Engine Production Workshop.

The first straight-6 car was born in 1924.

During World War I, the earliest military truck used was the Jeffrey four-wheel drive truck. Unlike cars that burn gasoline, they burn diesel. From 1916 to 1928, more than 12 of this type of truck were produced in years. , enough to witness the maturity of this truck.

In the era when the Pearl River T-car Bao'an General Plant could produce 60 units per month, the engine shop and the truck shop made progress together. Not to mention 1904, this year was still the year when the Sihai Escort Bureau was building strength.

The only remaining sources are steel and other sources... This is also simple. When are the blast furnaces of Foshan Iron and Steel Plant and Shanghai Iron and Steel Branch idle? The tire factory is also not idle.

Car manufacturers were very slow and late in introducing straight 6 and V6.

The current Ford Model T engine is still a four-cylinder integrated engine, 4 cylinders!

Basically, it only has 20 or 22 horsepower. Even the Ford Model T, which was popular in Europe and the United States during World War I, was modified into an express train for transporting people.

That's still mostly 22 horsepower.

Again, he was even moving screws, springs, gears, bearings, etc. on the production line! !

Time flies more than 20 days later.

The V6 six-cylinder engine was produced by Mamon Motors in 1905. It was not until 08 that a hybrid benzene electric train equipped with a V6 engine appeared.

If you really want the engine and truck workshops to mature, it would have to be at least the end of 1905 or 1906. That was the great era when mechanized troops turned into a torrent.

Compared to 100 years later, these horsepower power sources are still child's play, but in this era, they are absolutely amazing.

对比6缸发动机，还是福特在1932年率先推出了V8八缸发动机，烧汽油马力为65马力，再到1935年推出了新版本的85马力。

As the heart of a car, the amount of horsepower that generates power represents the source of power!

The earliest straight-6 six-cylinder engine was born early, but it was rarely used to start cars. During World War I, it was directly used in early fighter jets, and it basically had forty or fifty horsepower.

Wang Shouliang has already come up with straight-6 and V6 engine technology!

As a matter of fact, the world's earliest straight-6 engine was invented by the Dutch company Spyker in 1903. It has been available for more than a year now. The birth of the straight-1 represents greater horsepower.

October 1904, 10, cold dew!

Wang Shouliang stood on the Sihai Fleet's flagship, looking at an approaching North American ship in front. Xu Si behind him smiled and said, "Master, the North American fleet in the Pacific doesn't seem to be very strong."

"Last time we came here, there wasn't even a single Sihai-class battleship."

"This time they have all reached Hawaii. There are only two large ships in North America, including the USS Connecticut and the USS Georgia, and there are not as many gunboats as we have."

For more than half a month in the past, Wang Shouliang had led the Four Seas Fleet across the market, crossing the Pacific Ocean and arriving near Hawaii.

The purpose, of course, is to go to North America to recruit people!

Before building the Ford Model T, he poached all of Henry Ford's creative teams, and had previously targeted North American Liberty trucks and Jeffrey four-wheel drive trucks.

In addition to transporting design drawings, production technical data, and various production lines from the 1994 plane, we still have to use the big stick of money to poach people from North America.

Jeffrey Company is going to dig it up.

The Liberty Truck also needs to be dug up, but the Liberty Truck is different from the Jeffrey. It was not developed by a company, but was developed and produced by the Ministry of Munitions and the North American Society of Automotive Engineers, and by the entire association.

During this trip to North America, Wang Shouliang targeted the Automotive Engineers Association across North America.

It is said that World War I and World War II were the result of the many European powers playing tricks on each other and taking advantage of the "chosen" land of North America, allowing them to pick up the biggest peach.

At this stage, Wang Shouliang can steal the chicken in advance, even though many European scientists like to travel to and live in North America.

But Wang Shouliang can also poach them to Asia. If they don’t like to live in Shanghai or Baoan New District, they can live in Yau Tsim Mong!

Yau Tsim Mong and Hong Kong Island Central are crowded with ghosts.

Now, Wang Shouliang is leading three large ships with a displacement of 14,000-5,000 tons, namely Sihai, Bohai and Huanghai, two large ships with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, Donghai and Beihai, and several light cruisers and destroyers. .

Several freighters with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons were attached to the back and came to Hawaii.

What was loaded on the freighter were several Ford Model T cars, a batch of Zhujiang bicycles, Zhujiang lighters, Zhujiang instant noodles, noodles, including jeans and denim jackets, etc.

coming!

White ghosts don't like to eat instant noodles and noodles, so they can be sold to Chinese people in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In front of such a huge fleet was the Pacific Fleet headed by the Connecticut and Georgia, which had long signaled friendly exchanges.

These two ships are large ships with a displacement of more than 305 tons, and are equipped with very good firepower. Take the Connecticut, which has two 4MM twin-mounted turrets and four 203MM twin-mounted secondary turrets.

There are a total of 178 12MM third-level guns!

This is already the most powerful Connecticut-class battleship in North America at this stage, and it is also the most powerful battleship in North America before entering the dreadnought era.

When a few white people got on the deck of the Sihai in a small boat, a young man in the lead immediately complained from a distance, "Wang, didn't I tell you that it is necessary for you to come to our North America and bring your entire fleet?" "

"What's left in your lair? A Nanhai? A Zhenyuan-class Xihai?"

"Damn it! How insecure are you?! This has made everyone in our Hawaii base panic, for fear of starting a fight with you if we don't agree with you."

As he complained, he stepped forward, shook hands with Wang Shouliang enthusiastically, diffused his cigar, and then turned and pointed at the Connecticut, "Oh my God, thanks to you, I still saw you in a destroyer of more than 1902 tons at the end of 3000. "

"The Connecticut was launched this year. This big thing with a displacement of more than 17,000 tons started construction at the Brooklyn Shipyard last year. It was just launched this year!"

"Do you want it? If you want it, it's very cheap. It only costs 500 million taels of silver! I can sell it to you when I turn around, and I can even help you drive it back to Hong Kong Island."

Wang Shouliang was caught off guard, with a messy look on his face, "Five million is not expensive, but this thing will soon enter the elimination sequence, Hugo."

Hugo had an exaggerated smile on his face, and he didn't know whether he was laughing or crying, "Yes, thanks to you, this thing was just launched this year, and it quickly entered the service order, and then it should be eliminated!"

"Now, regardless of Yin Lun, France or our navy, they are all designing and researching stronger and thicker big guys. I don't know what Ying Lun is like."

"But what we require here is to manufacture eight unified 305MM main turrets, paired with a group of 75MM small guns. We need to develop an advanced unified fire control system and fire in a unified manner."

"Damn picric acid bombs. With these things, the 20 203MM and 178MM secondary guns and third-stage guns on the USS Connecticut are completely meaningless. The range is too close and the explosion force is not enough."

"With only the 305MM main gun for cluster bombing, one shot is stronger than the 20 secondary guns."

"And the latest battleships have more than 5000 tons of armor steel prepared!"

Is it okay for a large ship to exceed 5000 tons of armor steel alone? It can only be said that the Xiaoliuqiu naval battle in October 1902 was an eye-opener for the great powers!

Just enter the maximum range and pursue the main gun cluster bombing.

Forget about the third-stage secondary guns with shorter range and less powerful secondary guns. The new dreadnought ships only retain small guns like 75MM or smaller machine guns, just to target the torpedo boat suicide squads at close range. .

The original trajectory of the Battle of Tsushima brought stimulation and thinking to the global powers.

This dimension has spread to all countries since the Battle of Little Ryukyu, not to mention that now in October 1904, the eight-month battle for Lushun is coming to an end.

This time in the battle between ghost bears, Mao Xiong still collapsed from blood!

In the final analysis, the various command systems of the old empire were too rigid, decadent and corrupt, otherwise there would not have been major events later.

However, the bloody bear still caused heavy casualties to the Japanese at sea and on land. It was not as grand and bright as the Battle of Xiaoliuqiu by the Sihai Escort.

But Mao Xiong chased after him, and the three-for-one battleship loss ratio was still achievable. The strength of the Japanese fleet in this plane was not as strong as the original trajectory. When the war started, there were only three Shikishima-class battleships.

The furry bear also fell in love with the torpedo boat's desperate charge effect. If he drank too much vodka, the gray animal would also shout "Ula".

The next moment, Hugo smiled again and said, "King, this is Henry, and Henry is the captain of the Georgia."

The bearded Henry smiled and stretched out his hands to shake hands warmly, "Wang, whether it's the Connecticut or my Georgia, it only costs 500 million taels of silver. You can choose whatever you want!"

We all know that a large ship equipped with a large number of secondary guns and tertiary guns is actually not very reliable in the new epoch-making naval battle. It is far inferior to the cluster bombing effect of a group of 8 to 10 305MM main guns.

Just hit the command tower and it will be gone...

If they don't want to make the same mistake as the Japanese Mikasa, Yashima, and Hatsuse, it's best to sell this thing. Only by selling it can they have the opportunity to wait for a new ship equipped with more than 5000 tons of armored steel.

As for the price? The Japanese's Shikishima, Mikasa, etc. were basically bought from Yinlun for one million pounds a ship and six to seven million silver.

In fact, the USS Connecticut and USS Georgia, the most powerful ships before the dreadnought era, were sold at a loss for 500 million taels.

But there is no way!

Losing blood is much better than taking it back as a training ship, playing with it for ten or twenty years and then dismantling it. After all, these things still need maintenance, which is another long-term expense.

Wang Shouliang was speechless again, very speechless. He came to buy all kinds of automotive engineers, high-tech talents and scientists.

Not here to collect rags!

Even if these two ships are not junk, but new ships that were started last year and just launched this year.

After thinking for dozens of seconds, Wang Shouliang still smiled and said, "I came to North America this time. In addition to doing business and promoting my products, I also want to recruit some technical talents to further develop my Pearl River Automobile Industry."

"Let's wait until I've settled the business deal."

"If you are willing, I will buy one for 400 million taels of silver when I go back."

Although it is said to be about to be eliminated by the times, this is indeed a big guy, a heavy guy. He no longer plays counterfeit banknotes, but has brought back a large amount of silver from the 1994 plane.

For the same weight of silver, 27.3 Hong Kong dollars can buy 28.35 grams. Is that okay? ? !

In 1994, one Hong Kong dollar was equal to one gram. This trading model was outrageous!

If a big ship like the USS Connecticut or the USS Georgia comes back and one day some Hong Kong Island citizens want to escort them to Tokyo, wouldn't it be appropriate for us to drive the fleet to escort them to Tokyo and make a few rounds?

After the Ghost Bear War, the island nation's fleet tonnage declined again. Even if they wanted to blackmail Mao Xiong for compensation, Mao Xiong would not pay attention to them after losing the battle.

This is exactly what the Four Seas Fleet needs to enliven the atmosphere and open up Tokyo trade routes!

Henry and Hugo's eyes lit up. They were both overjoyed, but Hugo was the first to say, "Four million is four million taels, but I don't want the old banknotes from the powerful countries, I only accept new ones!"

(End of this chapter)