I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

There is no need to worry about not being able to sell books, because this program itself does not have the goal of making a profit, and it will be deeply integrated into school education as the economies of various countries recover.

This will not only allow the world to be deeply and widely influenced by the Alliance's cultural propaganda, but also effectively strike all publishing houses, including Allied publishing houses, through dumping, and establish an Alliance-style cultural book propaganda empire. Both official and commercial groups will work together to complete the largest cultural propaganda offensive in history.

After reading the plan, the Propaganda Department Director was immediately appointed. The comrade in front of him seemed to have a handsome face.

Because if this plan is passed, it can be said without exaggeration that their Propaganda Department will become one of the most important departments of the alliance. This is not just giving away a plan, this is fucking feeding huge wealth to their mouths!

In this plan, the book promotion campaign is only the initial focus, and it will later cover a series of related sub-sectors such as print media, newspapers, textbooks, story picture books and magazines, television and movies, etc. This plan has almost no time limit and can be carried out indefinitely.

The budget will definitely be sufficient, isn't this a stable job?

"Come with me for a stroll."

'it is good. '

The production process of the Defender is very complicated, mainly because the interior decoration takes a lot of man-hours. If this kind of car is to be sold, it should be positioned as a luxury car at least.

The military version will have additional simplified interior and reinforced accessories, but the factory price will not be much cheaper. In the future, it will most likely be mainly supplied and delivered to the military, and the civilian market will not be able to absorb many vehicles.

But it doesn’t matter. The Defender is not designed to have much sales in the civilian market, and it makes money from the military.

Several people walked out of the Guard Manufacturing Factory and came to another empty factory area covering a large area. At this time, there were still a large number of workers working inside the factory, and it was in the construction stage.

Mitia smiled and pointed to the inverted VW logo on the factory: "Here, we will produce cars that people can afford without much effort. So this brand is called Volkswagen."

Blatter's eyes flashed with doubt: "Can people afford it?"

As far as he knew, although the Model T was simple to manufacture and the price was not high, it was still around 700 Alliance Coins.

At present, the most developed alliance provides a monthly salary allowance of 40 alliance coins for its professional soldiers. Don't think that 40 yuan is a small amount. The bulk of the transactions within the alliance are circulated not in yuan, but in cents.

One Union coin = 1 grams of pure gold. A set meal of meat, vegetables and soup in a restaurant costs only one or two cents. The purchasing power of 1.5332 yuan is very terrifying.

Taking the Alliance recruits as an example, they would have to go without food and drink for a year and a half to buy a Model T. Although they did not have to worry about food and drink at all and their total income in more than a year did not seem excessive, it still needs to be compared among different countries.

The Alliance soldiers' allowance is several dozen dollars, Ernesto's soldiers only have a few dollars, and Surya's soldiers are better off, generally having more than ten dollars.

There is no comparison for the Allied soldiers. Whether they can get their monthly salary depends entirely on their superiors. Their monthly income is not fixed, and it is roughly 1-5 yuan when converted into Alliance coins.

With this calculation, we can see what the vehicle price of 700 Alliance Coins means to them. This is for soldiers with fixed incomes. The gap for ordinary people is even greater.

Under these conditions, you say you want to build a car that people can afford, but people can't afford a car at all...

Mitia slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, I forgot to add a premise. It is a car that all citizens of the alliance can afford, and a car that the people of the mainland can afford in the future."

Taking the document bag from the accompanying staff, Mitia opened it and showed the design drawings to Blatt:

"Well, for this kind of product, I can lower its selling price to around 300 Alliance Coins. As the scale of mass production expands, according to calculations, the factory price can eventually be lowered to 200."

'200 Alliance Coins...'

Blatt took the design drawing and looked at it carefully. Attached to it was a photo of the alliance's local prototype car. The car model was weird, looked petite and a little ugly, but after looking at it for a few more times, he thought it was cute. In short, it was ugly and cute.

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V1-V2 (Beetle) compact family sedan

Length/width/height(mm):4081/1724/1498

Vehicle weight 650 kg

1000mm inline 4-cylinder air-cooled engine, 26 horsepower.

Trailing arm suspension, rear-wheel drive, 2 in front and 3 in the rear, 5 seats in total.

There are two versions, the two-door hardtop V1 and the two-door convertible V2. Its design requirements are simple manufacturing, easy maintenance, low cost, low failure rate and low price.

The price was intended to be reduced to about half of that of the Model T. In addition to reducing the size of the vehicle and simplifying all functions except the basic ones, its rounded body structure was also a key item for saving manufacturing costs.

The widely used arc design has very low requirements for large equipment such as stamping machines. At the same time, because the arc shape does not need to solve the problem of rebound deformation of steel after die-casting, the production time consumption is also very low.

In the same amount of time, the man-hours required to produce all the parts needed for a Model T are enough to produce about three V3s. The minimalist integrated design makes its assembly and maintenance efficiency extremely high.

It is so fast that a few skilled workers can roughly complete the assembly of its appearance in a short period of time. Of course, they only install the outer shell without adding screws and other firmware, but this is enough to prove its excellence.

'It's certainly cheap enough though...'

"I know what you want to say."

Mitia interrupted Bratt and said, "At this stage, no matter how cheap it is, people on the Mainland will not buy it, because even if it is cheap, it still needs maintenance costs. After all, it consumes oil."

"However, its existence can give more people on the mainland a chance to survive."

"The manufacturing process of a V-type car involves upstream industries such as steel, machinery, rubber, petrochemicals, textiles, etc. Each of these industries involves raw material mining, purification, manufacturing, and transportation. Each of these fields creates a large number of jobs."

"If everything goes well, the total number of these jobs will be no less than one million."

"The people of the Subcontinental Alliance can afford a sedan that costs 300 Alliance coins. A 5-seater sedan is an economical family sedan. If it is a working family, 200 yuan is about half a year's income."

"According to my survey, the number of Model T cars owned by the Alliance people is not low, which proves that there is demand. The high price of the Model T makes it prohibitive for most families, and this is the perfect replacement."

"I have registered an exclusive patent and negotiated the transportation route. After all, according to the Alliance's recovery plan, a huge amount of supplies will be shipped across the ocean to the main continent. This also means that a large number of cargo ships will return empty, and we can just make up for their shortfall."

"This industrial park will be the automobile city of the future! Countless people will be reborn because of its existence, and the creator of all this is the 'ugly guy' Beetle in the blueprint in your hand."

Blatter began to understand Mitia's thinking: 'You mean it's not about how much money it makes, but how many jobs it creates? '

"...I understand. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you on behalf of the mainland people!"

It is true that few people on the main continent can afford a family car, but they are in great need of the industrial chain derived from automobile manufacturing. What they need now is a job.

In today's mainland, work is related to survival and dignity. Work is the proof that a person has started again towards a better life.

Blatter's gratitude is not without reason. The Beetle is actually not very advanced in terms of technical level. If it is produced locally in the alliance, the production cost can be even lower because of the highly concentrated industrial chain and logistics operations and the lack of a sea transportation link.

In fact, there is no need to go to the main continent to open a factory, but it was opened on the mainland and the technology was placed on the main continent.

All nearby countries will recognize this situation. The automobile industry creates jobs, and a large number of jobs provide people with a source of income.

More workers with money will need to consume, which in turn will drive growth in demand for other industries in the country. The growth in demand will in turn expand the demand for jobs in other industries. This is a positive and virtuous cycle.

Mitia smiled and shook her head: "No need to thank me, this is also good for me, we both get what we need."

In the previous life, the Beatles had a nickname: "The Ordinary but Great Mother".

It is the car that truly makes Volkswagen cars affordable and of high quality. It seems that it only solves the two problems of "affordability" and "reliability", but these are precisely the pain points of most ordinary people. It solves this problem perfectly, and that is enough.

Small and cute, isn't it?

She never intended to make money when producing the Beetle. Even from the launch of this series to its end, its sales profit margin only needs to maintain the normal circulation of its own system.

This is used to earn fame. What she wants is for the Beetle to be a silent old friend that accompanies every generation of people on the Main Continent from birth to death. What she wants is for Volkswagen to become a national brand that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people on the Main Continent.

Many companies cannot achieve such advertising effect even if they spend huge amounts of money. She made great money.

In the future, just a brief report on Volkswagen’s behavior will definitely win a huge amount of favor from the mainland Chinese.

How could such a large area, with so many countries, remain poor forever?

She is not just working in the automotive field. There are plenty of opportunities to make money, so she doesn't care about these trivial things.

Chapter 346 Anti-gravity Superconducting Train

After a long period of game, the army of the Triple Alliance transformed a large number of surrendered troops into soldiers, and cooperated with the regular army to gradually enter the capitals and major cities of various allied countries.

The military's cultural committee members paid friendly visits to representatives of various ethnic groups and tribes, and sent them invitations to visit the alliance capital to discuss independent autonomy.

There are innumerable ethnic groups within the alliance, and it would be troublesome to invite all of them. Therefore, the representatives are not limited to a single ethnic group, but can also be a joint delegation of multiple races or ethnic groups in the region.

A large number of military transport aircraft and ships were temporarily modified to transport leaders from all over the world across the ocean to the subcontinent to attend this World United Conference through various means.

Those who can represent their race or ethnicity to attend the conference, in the alliance's conception, will basically be the predecessors of a country, large or small, in the future. They can be said to be potential customers.

In this joint conference, the division and reorganization of the seven countries will be roughly completed through a unanimous vote, and the new countries formed will be incorporated into the newly formed world united government system and formally registered.

Then the recovery plan will be officially launched, providing the newly formed country with free assistance and support in terms of reconstruction technology and funds.

All assistance programs will follow basic market principles in their implementation. New countries will complete the certification application and apply for assistance from the Recovery Council.

The committee completed the calculation and approval through cross-examination by the downstream Ministry of Finance, the Union Ministry of Construction, the Union Central Bank, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and formed specific construction plan sheets to be put into the general pool for bidding, allowing each state to bid on its own.

The bidding is not based on the highest bidder, but on whoever offers the lowest price within the planned rigid construction indicators. A minimum cost mark is also set to prevent malicious price-cutting.

The winning company can obtain special funding from the Recovery Committee according to the construction plan, and then go to the local area to complete the construction task.

A total of 2 billion Alliance coins have been received in the first and second phases of the funding pool of the Alliance's newly established Continental Recovery Plan Committee. The plan estimates that the total investment in the first phase will be approximately 400 billion in five phases, with no specific upper limit.

Aid funds and materials are free, but the national markets of the recipient countries must be unconditionally integrated into the joint government system. At the same time, they must adopt an open policy in all areas of their own country and accept investment from foreign friendly companies.

Regardless of what the future holds, the plan itself represents a huge and lasting benefit, and the states are very envious of it.

At best, each state in the alliance should have a self-circulating basic industrial system and a certain amount of technical reserves to complete the reconstruction of a small or medium-sized city.

Of course, large bridges, undersea tunnels, railway networks, or large and super-large urban agglomerations are still better done by national-level enterprises, and they have to be jointly constructed by subcontracting with state-owned enterprises.

However, they don't have any communication channels to promote their own state's enterprises. This time is naturally an excellent opportunity to promote themselves to friends from all over the world at close range.

After most of the political leaders and chiefs arrived in the alliance, the capital of the leading state of Sivia announced the convening of the alliance's first transportation expo.

It is not only an activity to enhance the national confidence in the country's National Science Popularization Alliance's various cutting-edge transportation technologies, but also a process of showing off muscles to people of all ethnic groups.

Infrastructure, infrastructure. No matter how a city is built, the transportation system is inevitable. There are various large-scale track laying machines, the first generation of tunnel boring machines, bridge and road construction machinery, as well as large passenger aircraft, commercial soft giant airships, and intercontinental wide-gauge double-decker heavy-duty trains.

There is even a hidden highlight at the end.

A black and white bullet-shaped train head is parked in the center of the exhibition hall. It is called a bullet-shaped train head because it looks like half a conical bullet lying on the ground, and the front end of the train head extends very far, making it look narrow, long and elegant.

The area was crowded with onlookers, and the front side door had been opened to allow tourists to board the bus for a close-up observation.

【Anti-gravity superconducting train】

In fact, the alliance prefers to call it the Magic Superconducting Magnetic Train, but calling it the Anti-Gravity Superconducting Train would be simpler and better sounding.

The plan for this train was proposed very early, and was basically launched simultaneously with the Alliance's acquisition of anti-gravity technology. The biggest change in industrial transformation is the disruptive leap in the field of transportation.

The breakthrough in transportation is the basis for the fruits of industrial reform to be delivered to thousands of households, so technological breakthroughs in the transportation field have always been one of the key projects in the research plan of the Alliance Academy of Sciences.

Anti-gravity...as soon as you hear it, you know it's an excellent new transportation technology.

Lighter weight and higher load capacity reduce energy consumption while increasing capacity. With just a little application, the alliance can increase its capacity by about three levels without changing the existing transportation pattern, which is no less than a technological revolution.

Apart from the needs of war, anti-gravity has gradually penetrated into various public infrastructure. It can be said that the application of anti-gravity devices is ubiquitous in the results of the alliance's large-scale infrastructure projects.

However, the most advanced anti-gravity creation is today's protagonist, the anti-gravity superconducting train.

This thing is actually a product of the Alliance's low-temperature and high-temperature superconducting maglev train project, and is not actually a research topic of the anti-gravity research team.