Chapter 91 Automobile Factory
Early the next morning, Xu Ruohan followed Chen Xuan to the Zhenhua Machinery Research Center in Chuansha, and watched the two cars hand-built by the research center under the leadership of Zhao Xuechu.
"Mr. Chen, this is the car we have built, all of them are built in a one-to-one ratio according to the Mercedes-Benz we bought, the power can reach 22 horsepower, the theoretical maximum speed can reach 78KM/H, we have tested it in our own field, some small problems have been improved, according to everyone's evaluation, although it is not as good as the original car but there is no problem on the road."
It is Zhai Hongyuan, who was sent back by Feng Ru from the United States to be responsible for the research of power, Chen Xuan does not know much about Zhai Hongyuan, it is said that he is the same as Feng Ru, he has not studied in college seriously, and he is also a genius mechanic with rich technical experience.
Chen Xuan was very excited, personally sat on the first car built by Zhenhua, drove around the test site, and found that as Zhai Hong said, although there are still some flaws, there is no problem on the road as a whole.
"Well done, Zhai Gong, thank you, if it weren't for your joining, we don't know what years and months our first car in China could be built, I decided, in the future, our mass-produced car will be called Hongyuan, in recognition of your great contribution to this!"
"This, this, how can it be?"
"Why not, look at these foreign car brands, basically named after the founder, our own cars, naturally can also be named after us Chinese!" That's it! ”
Chen Xuan made the final decision.
"But we haven't decided on mass production yet, have we?"
"Now that it has been decided, I have decided to invest 300,000 oceans to build an automobile production factory, and this factory will now be led by Zhai Gong!"
"This, this 。。。。。。"
"How's it going, I'm so happy, haha。。。。。。"
"No, Mr. Chen, if you want to build an automobile production factory, 300,000 is not enough."
"Huh? What the? ”
Chen Xuan was a little stunned, you must know that these factories under Zhenhua have not yet made such a large initial investment, but they didn't expect it to be enough?
"Mr. Chen, a car needs thousands of spare parts, Americans and Europeans they have their own supporting factories, do not have to produce everything themselves, only need to check the core technology, the rest of the spare parts are ordered to other companies to produce, and we do not have such conditions in China, this is also the reason why we have not been mass-produced, if everything is purchased from foreigners, the cost of our car will far exceed today's retail price, so it is worth the loss."
Chen Xuan remembered a famous sentence in the later Republic of China: It is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy.
"According to the group's estimates, how much money do we need to build a series of supporting factories?"
"I'm afraid it's going to be more than one million, and it's hard to recover the cost in ten or eight years?"
"Huh?"
Xu Ruohan, who was listening on the sidelines, couldn't help but exclaim, obviously frightened by this number, Chen Xuan was silent for a while, and finally made up his mind.
"Okay, we still produce, but there is no need for everything to be produced by ourselves, some things that can be produced by other factories can be outsourced, and even factories outside the group can also undertake our business, as long as the quality and price are right, we can also find some spare parts with low technical content to tender, and we can also provide technical assistance to help them build their own factories to produce spare parts."
"This can be operated, but the amount of money needed is still a lot?"
"It doesn't matter, let's try to do it first, we should save it, we should not save it, we will pay for it ourselves, if we don't do it now, we will always be stuck by Westerners, since we have to do it sooner or later, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the car technology is not so complicated now to keep up with or even surpass them, and then do it in the future, we don't know how much it will cost!"
In this era, I am afraid that no one knows better than Chen Xuan how much the price of domestic car manufacturing has been, even if it is the 21st century in the future, the country has paid such a big price, there is still no car in China, and foreigners can easily get a lot of wealth from the country, which is also one of the pain points in Chen Xuan's heart.
Chen Xuan took out the sample car drawings designed by himself and Xu Ruohan for the engineers to study, and the beautiful appearance of the smooth lines conquered the engineers present at once, this design can be said to be epoch-making and revolutionary, and the cars designed by Chen Xuan and Xu Ruohan are simply beautiful, Chen Xuan's cheeks have been practiced, and the praise of the engineers can be done quietly.
With Chen Xuan's decision, Hongyuan Automobile Company was established, with an initial investment of 500,000 oceans, which was not enough to add in the future, and the R&D team was also selected, Xu Ruohan was the general manager, Zhai Hong was the chief engineer, and more than a dozen skilled engineers were also selected, which also made Zhao Xuechu very dissatisfied, because this also means that many projects planned by Zhenhua must be readjusted, and some projects have even come to a standstill. Chen Xuancai promised Chief Engineer Zhai Hongyuan and several engineers to return to the original project after Hongyuan Automobile could operate independently, and Zhao Xuechu agreed reluctantly.
After explaining his design clearly, Chen Xuan naturally couldn't stay here all the time, and now that he had just returned to China, there were still many things that Chen Xuan needed to deal with, Chen Xuan left Xia Yunru to help Xu Ruohan, and he was busy with other things.
Xu Ruohan also felt that she was under great pressure, her husband took out 500,000 yuan to support herself without blinking, if she didn't come up with a beautiful report card, how could she be worthy of her husband's trust in her, so Xu Ruohan began to be busy, how could such a big company rely on her and Xia Yunru to be busy.
However, Xu Ruohan is not stupid, first thought of Zhao Xuechu's wife Yu Tingyi, who had just given birth to a child, and found some talents through Yu Tingyi, and finally dug the corner of Zhang Jingyun and Zhao Xuechu, poached a lot of marketing and management talents, and also pestered his brother Xu Jingting, not only to a few mechanical talents, but also asked his brother to build a factory to undertake part of the parts production, Xu Jingting is a yarn factory to buy and sell, this is a little far, but in order to support his sister, We still did our best to undertake part of the production of parts.
Yu Tingyi was also busy after Xu Ruohan was appointed deputy general manager, of course she would not let go of her father Yu Qiaqing, Yu Qiaqing couldn't resist Yu Tingyi, so she could only support it with all her might, and also used her connections to help, but Yu Qiaqing and Xu Jingting didn't give him a good look when they saw Chen Xuan.
Hongyuan Automobile Company now does not have its own territory, so it rented two floors of Zhenhua headquarters as an office location, just like that, Hongyuan Automobile was established vigorously under the operation of Xu Ruohan and Yu Tingyi, which makes people speechless Under such a large investment, the company's senior management is basically women, Lu Xiaoyu is now married to Bai Xunjian, and also resigned from his job in Zhenhua, raising his body at home, I heard that Xu Ruohan opened Hongyuan Automobile, and now he couldn't sit still, and went to Hongyuan to ask for entry, At this time, Xu Ruohan and Yu Tingyi were even more overjoyed.
The next work is to select the site of the factory, Xu Ruohan Yu Tingyi and others discussed it, decided to build the plant in Pudong, so that if there are any problems, you can also ask for help in the Zhenhua headquarters, as for the automobile research and development center to stay in Chuansha, there is nothing to pull the people of the Zhenhua Machinery Research Center to help, because several are women, Zhao Xuechu did not dare to give his wife a look, so the development of the car was carried out smoothly.
In fact, Chen Xuan also regretted a little, since the establishment of the automobile project, these women are like chicken blood, busy from morning to night every day, and come to Chen Xuan for help when there is nothing to do, so that many of Hongyuan's work is still planned by Chen Xuan, and these women are becoming more and more lawless, sometimes they are busy late, and they dare not return home at night, and no one is waiting for them to eat when they go home every day, Chen Xuan, who is used to Xu Ruohan's service, sometimes even wants to call Xu Ruohan back.
Chuansha has become the core of Zhenhua, the mechanical research center is here, the steel factory is here, the arsenal is here, the escort training base (Pudong Army Academy) is here, and the middle and senior officer training regiment selected by Jiang Fangzhen is also here, so the control of this place is also the most guarded.
Du Yuesheng sent his most effective intelligence cadres here to preside over the work, and now the Chuansha Zhenhua base no longer invites others to visit, and even the relatives and friends of the locals will be investigated, and Zhenhua also pays for most of the locals to move out of Chuansha in various ways.
Today's Chuansha locals, either have family members working in the escort team, or Zhenhua's employees, Chuansha also set up a street committee for the first time, that is to say, Zhenhua basically controls everything in Chuansha, as long as a stranger comes here, Zhenhua can know the first time, and find out the purpose of the arrival clearly, it is basically impossible to find out what news here.
Of course, the escort team did not do less murder and killing, and over time, the place of Chuansha slowly became mysterious, but there were no major incidents, so it did not attract the attention of all parties.