Anyone who knows Li Mu knows that Li Mu is a person who loves and hates clearly.

Like a person, or a group, Li Mu will be meticulous, think about everything in front, and think very thoughtfully, so that many people think that Li Mu often always gives too much, which will make people get used to problems.

Hates a person, or a group, Li Mu always does not hide it, hate is hate, Li Mu never pretends, so there is no Japanese in the tens of thousands of employees up and down the Junma Group.

As for Li Mu's way of dealing with the enemy, it is even more autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, from the original Amis to the later Tweed, and even in Cuba in the face of such a huge country as Spain, Li Mu will never be soft, Amis is dead, Tweed is imprisoned, and the Spaniards are disgraced in Cuba, which fully shows that Li Mu is the bottom line.

Now Edison is Li Mu's enemy - it's not right, it's not appropriate to describe it like this, at least the current Edison is not qualified to be Li Mu's enemy - then as Li Mu's opponent, Henry can imagine what kind of revenge Edison will incur.

"How's the gramophone going?" Li Mu suddenly remembered a more important matter.

Gramophone, movie camera, electric light, these are Edison's three major inventions, now Li Mu has taken the electric light as his own, gramophone is Li Mu's next goal.

The principle of the gramophone has many similarities with the telephone, and it was in the process of improving the telephone that Edison invented the gramophone.

After Antonio Meucci completed the improvement of the telephone, Li Mu gave Antonio Meucci the next project to be a phonograph, and at the same time to take into account the improvement of the telephone line.

From this point of view, Edison did have a reason to hate Li Mu, but considering that Edison had nothing to do with these inventions in his life, Edison should have no hatred for Li Mu.

Of course, from the perspective of envy, jealousy and hate, there must be, and there are quite a few.

"It's going well, it's said that a prototype has already appeared, and it may be available before Christmas this year." Henry didn't know much about the progress of the gramophone, which was also normal, and as the general manager of the Horse Group, Henry was too busy to stare at the laboratory all day.

"Tell Antonio to speed up and if he can get it on the market before Christmas, I'll give him a way bonus." Li Mu promised a lot of money.

"No, no, no, don't do it again, just because last year a large amount of bonuses were issued, so our car factory has not made a profit until now, God knows why our employees like cars so much, almost everyone of them ordered one, but because it is an insider, the price can not be raised, so recently Rowan put forward a suggestion, our car factory specially set aside a production line for internal orders, and all other products are used for export, in order to increase the income of the car factory, so as to further expand the scale of production." Henry was a little frightened, and shook his hand again and again to express his opposition.

Regarding this "internal price", this is also part of the welfare of Junma Group, as long as it is an employee of Junma Group, you can buy Junma Group's products at a relatively low price, which was originally a benefit given by Li Mu to workers, but I didn't expect it to be used in this place now.

This "internal price" can be described as a lot of benefits, the product line of the Junma Group is still relatively rich, weapons, automobiles, and even in order to provide supporting facilities for the Junma Arms Company and set up subsidiary factories, those factories have now begun to turn to the production of civilian materials, so in many aspects, the Junma Group has been involved, and the discounts that can be provided to employees are quite a lot.

Where there is business, there are business opportunities, and the internal price of the Junma Group has also become a way for many people to make profits, which makes Henry very angry, so the Junma Group stipulates that if someone uses this "price difference" to make a profit, once it is discovered by the group's supervision department, then no matter who is involved, the Junma Group will make an example.

"That's a good idea." Li Mu did not refer to the distribution of bonuses, but to the distribution of production lines.

Rowan is a white man, his full name is Rowan Bridges, originally a professional manager of the North Pacific Rim Railroad, after the economic crisis began, the railway industry was hit hard, and the North Pacific Rim Railroad Company underwent a change of equity, which was also a courtier, Rowan Bridges was not liked by the new boss, and had to find another job, so after the establishment of the Horse Motors Company, Rowan Bridges was invited by Henry to serve as the general manager of the Horse Motors Company.

Junma Automobile Company has just been put into production, the factory is set up in Brooklyn County, there is no supporting factory this year, the production of parts needed for the car, from the engine to the rearview mirror all have to be saved up by the Junma Automobile Factory, so although there are many people in the factory, but the output is low, it can produce twenty or thirty cars every month, which can not meet the internal needs of the Junma Group, not to mention the sale to create profits.

"The assembly line production method you mentioned last time, I conducted an experiment in the weapons factory, and it didn't seem to have any effect." Henry asks a laughable question.

"The effect of the assembly line in the weapons factory is not obvious, and it can play the maximum role in the automobile factory." The assembly line is not omnipotent, and Li Mu is very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the assembly line.

The assembly line can play the role of the assembly line to the greatest effect, for example, the assembly of automobiles, all the parts are counted as many as tens of thousands, and it takes a long time to train a skilled worker, so the production efficiency cannot be improved.

It's not the same with the assembly line, where each person is only responsible for one or two jobs, and they become proficient quickly, with little to no training process, so it's the best way to scale up production.

Weapons are much simpler than cars, such as a python revolver, all the parts add up to dozens, assembly is not a problem, the machining accuracy of the parts is crucial.

The machining accuracy of parts is directly related to the performance of weapons, and if you want to produce high-precision parts, in the era when there are no digital machine tools, you rely on the craftsmanship of the master, which is also the reason why the master is more precious.

The parts processed by the master in the horse weapons factory can be used as sniper rifles when combined, and the accuracy can be imagined, while the parts processed by ordinary apprentices, although the error is also very small, but the error of each part is a little bit, and the performance is mediocre when assembled together, and it can only be used as an ordinary weapon.

"Speaking of car factories, William approached me last month to build a factory to produce automotive parts and process large parts such as tires and seats." Henry spoke of a new situation.

Li Mu knew that William Vanderbilt wanted to get involved in the automotive industry, so Li Mu was not surprised by the news: "It's okay to produce seats, but the tire business can't be given to him, and we have to do this business ourselves - how is William's car research progress?" ”

After the popularization of automobiles, tires are a big business, Li Mu does not want to give up this business to others, Junma Group must produce its own tires, as for other parts, as long as there are no patents, it doesn't matter if they buy from the Vanderbilt family's factory.

"William is very ambitious, he also set up an automobile research institute in February, bought a patent from us, wants to start with imitation, and then produce his own car, the Vanderbilt family's factory is under construction, William put the factory on Long Island, and the meaning of fighting with us is obvious." Henry was still a little angry when he thought about it, and he couldn't figure out why Li Mu wanted to raise a competitor.

Li Mu really wants to nurture a competitor, not to mention anything else, and he must do this purely from the perspective of development.

Monopoly business is indeed very good, but the monopoly business has been done for a long time, because of the lack of competitors, it will also make people slack off, which will lead to a series of other problems.

Of course, Li Mu also has principles to support competitors, such as the Vanderbilt family, they want to produce cars, they must buy patents from Li Mu, and some core components such as engines and gearboxes must be purchased directly from Junma Motor Company, which objectively increases the production cost of the Vanderbilt family, so in terms of competitiveness, the cars produced by the Vanderbilt family are not fundamentally threatening to the cars of Junma Motor Company****** Dickson is different, Edison laboratory is directly to the product patent, once the Edison laboratory succeeds, then if the company wants to use these technologies, it will also have to pay royalties, which threatens the core interests of the company, for this kind of behavior, Li Mu must resolutely crack down.

"Don't worry, let him play, tell Franklin that if the second-generation engine is one percent better than the first-generation engine, I'll reward a thousand dollars, and if it's a double the performance, then I'll give a hundred thousand dollars." Li Mu deeply excavated the potential of the laboratory, and there was absolutely no difference in the problems that could be solved with money.

What Junma Group has to do now is to maintain a leading position in technology, the patent of this year also has a term of protection, under normal circumstances, the term of protection of utility patents is 14 years, that is to say, within 14 years of the patent passed, anyone who wants to use the patent of Junma Automobile Company, must pay a fee to Junma Automobile Company, and wait until the patent expires, the protection effect will be automatically invalidated, and then those technologies will become public technology, and anyone who wants to use it can be.

What Junma Automobile Company has to do is to develop new technologies as much as possible within these 14 years to maintain its leading edge, so that after more than ten years, Junma Automobile Company's technology is still leading, and other companies still have to purchase relevant patents from Junma Automobile Company in order to ensure the competitiveness of their products.

This is called sustainable development.

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