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Text Chapter 575: Moving towards automation!

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    At the door, looking at the back of Yang Qiu leaving in the car, Weizman always felt that there was something that this young man could not see through, especially his promise as if a catastrophe would happen to the Jewish nation.  What kind of disaster is it?  Although Europe excludes Jews, it is no longer possible to have massacres in the Middle Ages.  Also, he dared to open front-line troops to foreign military officers for internships, which shows that he values ??people like himself very much. What is he trying to do?

    He looked at Walter and asked: "Walter, don't you think his behavior is strange?".

    Walter agreed with him: "Selling the shares to us is no different from selling to Anglo-Dutch Shell. He should know that I can resell the shares to Worcester at any time. And I am very curious how he knows the secrets of Morris Company  of?"

    Weizman remembered Yang Qiu¡¯s last request and asked: ¡°What exactly does Morris Motors have? Is it worth exchanging 35% of the oil field shares?¡±

    "Production line! A very efficient engine production line! This is Sir Morris's secret. I only know that it is very advanced and can process one cylinder every 4 minutes."

    "4 minutes!"

    Although Weizmann is a chemist, he knows that the current engine processing is difficult, especially the cylinders that require very high skills. Even Ford, the world's first adopter of assembly lines, still needs 22 minutes to complete the processing of one cylinder.  Morris Motor Company has actually led the world in quietly increasing the speed to 4 minutes per cylinder!  This suddenly made him think of the word automatic machine.

    Walter waved, and the waiter brought two Havana cigars on a silver tray.  After subtracting the tail, the two clicked on it respectively, and then he continued: "I think he hopes to get this technology to improve the current manufacturing speed of Chinese goods, reduce costs and increase international competitiveness. Only in this way can he further shrink  Nationalists on the gap with Europe? What a novel term.¡±

    "Then are you ready to help him realize this wish?" Weizman looked at Walter with a smile.  He knows this person's energy. As long as he wants something, it is almost impossible to return empty-handed.

    Walter thought about it for a moment, because the frown made the features squeeze together even more comically.  But who dares to laugh at this short middle-aged man who can make waves with just a flip of his hand?  Time passed little by little.  It wasn't until Yang Qiu's special car was out of sight that he relaxed his brows, raised his head and said slowly: "It has what we want. We must establish a good relationship with him in a short period of time, and I think in this transaction we  No harm done.¡±

    Weitzman was right to think about it.  The 35% oilfield shares worth hundreds of millions of yuan are completely given away. All that needs to be paid is to convince Morris Company to sell its technology or directly acquire Morris Company.  As for Shell, there is no need to worry too much. At least as far as he knows, whether it is Mobil or Shell, the Rothschild family is involved, and it is not difficult to convince both companies and even the British Parliament.

    But Beizuyi was very worried. He sat in the car and asked again: "Vice President. 35% of the oil field shares is not a small number. Even if Walter contributes, it will only be tens of millions at most. Most of the later construction requires us to do it."  Take it on. Is it too much? Is that car company you¡¯re talking about really that important?¡±

    "Important! Very important! If we obtain the technology, perhaps the level of the national manufacturing industry will be significantly improved within three to five years!"

    Bei Zuyi opened his mouth wide, wondering what kind of technology would make Yang Qiudu so excited that he would pay a high price to get it.  He knew that Morris Automobile Company had long fallen into Yang Qiu's eyes, not because of how advanced the engines it produced were. In fact, this company's engine technology might not be able to surpass that of the Man Company and Meizhou Company, which were absorbing the Rhineland Project.  Saiders Technology's Hanyang and other factories.  But this car factory has something that is epoch-making!

    The world¡¯s first automatic cylinder processing line!

    In his previous life, he was an employee of Volkswagen. When he visited the Volkswagen Centenary Retrospective Exhibition in Germany, he saw the information of the British Coventry Morris Motor Company.  This company was not large in scale, but it developed the world's first automated engine block processing line in early 1923.  The entire assembly line is 55 meters long.  It consists of 53 automatic machine tools driven by electric motors.  As long as the workers follow the production procedures, they can complete the entire processing of a cylinder every 4 minutes on average, and the accuracy is very high!  This means that if it operates at full load 24 hours a day, a single production line can process 131,400 cylinder blocks in a year. If it is used to process 12-cylinder water-cooled engines, it can process 10,000 cylinder blocks in a year!  If we consider the single-cylinder diesel engines used in walking tractors that are being mass-produced in China, the number is 100,000 units per year!

    Therefore, this technology has been kept highly confidential. It was not known to the outside world until an American engineer visited the factory in 1926. So after the engineer returned to the United States, he immediately led everyone to develop the first automatic automobile production line in the United States in 1928.  And this workerThe company where the engineer works is the famous Dodge!  With this automatic production line, Dodge can cut the time it takes to manufacture a truck in half. Each line can manufacture up to 150 trucks per day. The annual output is higher than that of Ford at the time, establishing its dominance in the truck manufacturing industry.

    The mechanical level between China and the United States is currently not comparable.  Most of the self-produced equipment on the Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser can be manufactured through step-by-step instruction from foreign engineers.  If we follow the normal process, Dodge would not have learned about this technology until 1926. It would not be until 1928 when newspapers publicized it that other countries around the world knew about the existence of fully automatic technology. It was not until 1931 when the U.S. financial crisis deepened that U.S. factories were forced to  If we take advantage of the crisis and introduce automated machine tools and production lines into China, it will have to be at least 1932.  In addition, it is time-consuming to understand, copy, etc., which means that we will have to wait at least 1935 or even longer before we can come up with our own fully automatic machine tools.

    We need to wait for another 12 years!

    Now it seems like you are giving away hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares for nothing, but you can get automation technology 12 years early.  After the drawings and complete sets of equipment are moved back to the country, national forces can be immediately organized to specialize in automation technology.  It will definitely take at most five or six years to produce results. In other words, according to historical development, China and the United States will be on equal footing in automation technology!

    This is such an important thing!  When he came back that year, his biggest dream was to regain the country, get rid of the shackles, expand the living space for the Chinese nation, and complete the industrial revolution ahead of schedule to rise in the world.  The first and second points have been realized, and the third point is slowly coming true as the Sumatra Oilfield Period begins, with the first official outward export of Chinese capital.  If you get automation technology again.  It is tantamount to entering the third wave of industrial revolution led by automation and electrification simultaneously with the United States.

    When all 17 basic machine tools are automated, what else can¡¯t you imagine?  In the process of automated development, how many extension products can be born!  Spending a little money in exchange for saving a generation's time is worth it.

    But Bei Zuyi, who was buried in his bones, was still worried: "Vice President, should the agreement state that the shares cannot be transferred? What if they get the shares and transfer them to Shell?" His worries are reasonable, but Yang Qiu  Confident: ¡°Maybe one day they will sell, but not now!¡±

    Yang Qiu was right. In this transaction with no loss at all, Walter decided to play with Yang Qiu to see what he was paying attention to.  So he immediately asked Jacobs to register a Havers Petroleum Technology Company in the Virgin Islands, and then quickly purchased Morris Company for three times the price.  According to Yang Qiu's requirements, 5 automatic cylinder assembly lines and all drawings were manufactured, and they were loaded onto the ship and waited for the transaction to be completed.

    After everything was ready, he began to lobby the British Parliament. He believed that the strategic value of the giant oil field in Sumatra was extremely high and could never be controlled by China alone. Therefore, he hoped that the Parliament and the Prime Minister's Office would pressure the Chinese government to sell part of its shares to it.  The sudden appearance of Havers Petroleum Technology Company added fuel to the dispute over the oil fields in Sumatra, adding to the golden brand of the Rothschild family.  There was an oil boom as Britain squatted.

    It has to be said that the energy of Walter and his family was huge, not long after he started lobbying Parliament and the Prime Minister's Office.  Prime Minister Stanley met with Yang Qiu at No. 10 Downing Street.  According to The Times, the atmosphere of the meeting was obviously not good. Prime Minister Stanley was very dissatisfied with China's use of force in the South China Sea to forcibly acquire oil fields in Sumatra.  The Chinese Vice President also expressed his anger, saying that the Netherlands should not hinder normal business practices. He also showed proof that Southwest Mining Company had purchased all the land, and said that China had no need for expansion and only needed oil to supplement domestic demand.

    Just when everyone was insisting on their own opinions, the belated "Imperial Cruise Fleet" composed of Hood and Repulse finally arrived in the Far East. With the addition of these two giant ships in the South China Sea, the British Empire finally breathed a sigh of relief.  Attitudes are getting tougher.  Facing adverse situations.  In the end, Yang Qiu had no choice but to angrily sign the contract, agreeing to let Southwest Mining Company sell 35% of its shares and guaranteeing that no troops would be stationed in the oil fields. However, the Chinese navy must be allowed to escort the tanker fleet, and the oil company's own security must be allowed.  Power is not limited.  In the end, he rejected the stronger Anglo-Dutch Shell Company and sold it to Havers Petroleum Technology Company for US$50 million.

    After completing all this, Yang Qiucai went to the Netherlands.  Conduct formal consultations with the Dutch government on issues such as the Sumatra oil field.  Faced with the agreement that China and Britain had reached, the Dutch government, which was scared to death, could only watch as Britain took over the stake in the Sumatra oil field and signed the "China-Dutch Agreement on Ore Export and Exploration in the East India Region" with Yang Qiu.  Allow Chinese companies to invest in the Dutch East Indies.  Of course, with the support of the United Kingdom, this little overlord proposed that all Chinese companies must pay heavy resource taxes and hand over some of their shares to the jurisdiction of the Balipapan colonial government, among other conditions.  at lastWhen the Southwest Mining Company proposed to build terminals, railways and other facilities, it tried to blackmail US$3 million in construction approval fees. When Ma Kui was so angry, he also tried to build a temporary airport near the oil field for external communication.  license.

    After everything was settled, Southwest Mining Company officially changed its name to Gulf Oil Company and began to develop the Sumatra oil field.  At the same time, Yang Qiu immediately asked Lu Bicheng to sell the Saudi oil fields owned by Huachen Oil Company to Gulf Oil Company.  In this way, Gulf Oil Company officially became China's first joint-stock oil company.  Huachen Petroleum Company also focused on domestic oil development after the sale, and was officially listed as the second largest oil company in the country.  Since the reserves of Saudi oil fields have not been announced, and the output has been very small for several years, the outside world's attention to Gulf Oil Company is still focused on the Sumatra oil field, but they do not know that this company has actually acquired the two largest oil fields in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.  , and began secretly conducting oil exploration work in other areas of the Persian Gulf.

    After settling the oil field, Yang Qiu left Bei Zuyi and Zhang Cai to supervise the delivery of the automatic production line before setting off again to start his European trip, and officially entered the troubled Weimar Germany on November 7.

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