Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1725, Development of Multipurpose Vehicles

After leaving the oil shop, Liu Jin brought Zhu Houzhao to Mercedes Benz again.

Originally thought it was the annual vacation period, Duan Hai, Huang Zhiyuan, Ren Siheng, Lu Qing and the others might still be on vacation at home, but they didn’t expect that all of them had already arrived in the factory early, and they happened to be discussing Hongzhi Twenty-six New Year's resolutions.

"His Royal Highness~"

"Liu Gong~"

Seeing the arrival of Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin, everyone was also excited.

"You seem to be in a meeting, what are you discussing?"

Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao sat down very casually, looked at the people who were gathering together for a meeting, and asked with a smile: "Isn't it time to start work yet? Why don't you stay at home with your family and come to work early ?”

"Liu Gong, we have nothing to do at home, so we can't stay idle, so let's go back to the factory to discuss some important work arrangements for this year."

"At first, I thought I would report this matter to His Highness and Duke Liu after we have discussed it."

Duan Hai replied with a smile.

Daming people have always been like this, hardworking and restless.

As the managers of the Mercedes-Benz bicycle factory and the automobile factory, they are even more so. It is definitely not an easy task to manage such a huge factory, and Liu Jin's requirements are still very high, and now the development is very fast.

"That's right, what are you guys discussing? It just so happens that His Highness the Crown Prince and I are here, so let's listen together."

As soon as Liu Jin heard it, he immediately became interested and asked quickly.

"Your Highness, Mr. Liu~"

"We are discussing the opening of new factories in the new year. We are planning to start large-scale automobile factories in Tianjin, Beijing, and Shanghai. We are also discussing specific details and arrangements. In addition, we may need funds. More financial support."

Duan Hai also began to report in detail to Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao about the opening of the new factory, which was also Liu Jin's request.

Now that cars have been produced, it is natural to vigorously develop them to increase the output of cars and lower their prices, so that cars can truly enter thousands of households.

Otherwise, at the current price of more than 6000 taels, ordinary people can't afford it at all. If you count on the rich, you can't actually sell many units a year. This is of no great benefit to the improvement of technology and the formation of the industry.

Liu Jin listened carefully, and also constantly combined some business management experience of later generations to think quickly.

"I'll give some of my opinions and opinions."

"I think automobile manufacturing is an extremely large industry. It requires a large number of parts and components. It is impossible for us to manufacture everything by ourselves. It would be inefficient and the investment would be too large."

"In my opinion, we can only manufacture the core components, such as engines, gearboxes, tires and other important technical types, as for the hood, body, chairs, etc., which do not have much technical content. It can be procured externally and handed over to other factories for manufacturing.”

"There is also a car manufacturing, which needs to be separated. The engine factory is established separately. Although it is a subsidiary of the car factory, the finances have to be separated and independent."

"The same is true for the tire factory, which is separated and independent, and becomes a separate sub-factory specializing in the manufacture of engines and tires. It develops the research and manufacture of engines, tires, and gearboxes, and concentrates on doing only one thing."

"Don't put everything together, it's just messier, worse, without improving quality or yield."

Combining some management and production experience of later generations, Liu Jin also put forward his own opinions.

Building a car is not an easy task. If you want to mass-produce it and have reliable quality, you must separate the important things. Don’t make a big pot of porridge or a big pot of rice. That will only lead to inefficiency and quality. .

"Peel off separately, sub-factory?"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Duan Hai, Ren Siheng and the others were slightly startled. They had seen Liu Jin's unconstrained imagination, and they could always come up with something that no one could think of.

In everyone's opinion, it is better to build cars in one factory. The engine workshop, tire workshop, assembly workshop, etc. can be separated. There is no need to say that they are separated and independent.

But Liu Jin actually said that he wanted to separate and become independent, which made people a little confused.

Of course, Liu Jin will not explain too much to them. This separation has the benefits of separation. Concentrating on one thing and one product can improve the quality of the product and continuously improve the technology.

In addition, we can also continue to expand our business externally. The engine can be sold to the mother factory or to other factories. As long as the production capacity is sufficient to meet the needs of the mother factory, I can also find ways to increase production. Selling to other automobile factories, the more money earned, the managers of the engine factory can get more rewards.

In addition, it can highlight the value of a product and technology.

The core products such as engines, tires, and gearboxes are stripped off, and they are financially independent. The wood factory has to pay for them to buy them, instead of an order, and I will produce as many engines as you want.

In that way, the value of the engine will not be highlighted, and you will not be able to accurately calculate the cost. When the price is lowered, you will not know where to start.

This is the reason why the big pot meal is getting worse and worse. There are too many people who are just waiting to die, and the value and ability of those who really contribute cannot be highlighted.

This is the most important point in management.

"Yes~"

Although they still don't understand it very well, Duan Hai, Huang Zhiyuan and others still nodded solemnly and kept it in mind.

Liu Jin's instructions and exhortations, you only need to do what Liu Jin said, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, you will understand it naturally in the future.

"There is also the use of internal combustion engines. I think the current use is still too single and not diverse enough."

"Internal combustion engines have many uses, and can be used on tillage machines and harvesters to replace steam engines."

"In addition to cars, everyone's thinking should not be limited by the current cars. We can research large-scale cars for transporting goods, which we can call trucks."

"The power of the internal combustion engine is much greater than that of the steam engine. I think the manufacture of vehicles specially used to transport and load goods will be very popular and useful."

"In addition, longer cars can be researched, which can take dozens of people out at one time. If such cars are used for long-distance travel, they will definitely be able to greatly satisfy and facilitate people's travel, and there will inevitably be a large market. .”

"Also, can we combine internal combustion engines and engineering construction to create a variety of vehicles specially used to assist engineering construction?"

"The horsepower of the internal combustion engine is very strong. To make full use of this powerful horsepower, it can greatly save manpower and time when used for digging, bulldozing, tunneling, etc."

"In addition, since cars are very expensive and people can't afford them, can we combine internal combustion engines and bicycles, and use internal combustion engines to drive bicycles to develop a new and cheaper means of transportation?"

After Liu Jin finished speaking, the eyes of Duan Hai, Ren Siheng, Lu Qing, Huang Zhiyuan and others couldn't help but widen.

Everyone has thought of replacing the steam engine with an internal combustion engine. The Jingcheng Machinery Factory has already implemented it. The steam engine is replaced with an internal combustion engine. The cultivated machines and harvesters produced are more powerful, faster, and more efficient. efficiency.

But what Liu Jin said is that the internal combustion engine is used to manufacture trucks for transporting goods, passenger cars that transport many people at one time, and it is also used in engineering construction, and even combined with bicycles.

Everyone really didn't expect, all of a sudden, this internal combustion engine has so many uses and functions.

"Write it down, write it down~"

Ren Siheng, Lu Qing and others hurriedly wrote down all of these.

"A new factory must be established, but it can't be limited to the production of current cars. Trucks, buses, engineering vehicles and the like must also be produced and researched."

"Only in this way can the internal combustion engine truly provide strong power for our Ming people's daily life and work."

"Only in this way can more people understand it, know it, and accelerate its development."

"That's why I said separate out the engine, tire manufacturing, etc."

Liu Jin talked a lot at once. The internal combustion engine has too many uses, and it must be well developed so that it can truly become the driving force for Ming Dynasty's economic take-off.

Once a variety of vehicles appear, it will not only facilitate life and production, but also stimulate the rapid development of automobile-related industries. At that time, more people will invest in this industry and field.

With more vehicles, there will naturally be more oil consumption, and the demand for oil will increase greatly, which will also drive the development of the oil industry.

Well, anyway, at the end of the day, you can just sit and collect money, but the whole Ming Dynasty can enjoy the benefits and dividends brought about by development.

(End of this chapter)