Chapter 292: Beidou Automobile (II)
Compared with Yaoguang and the cars of the same era, uh, there is really no way to compare this, the automobile industry in Western countries has just developed, and there is not even a slightly formal workshop, and the places where the cars are produced are small handicraft workshops, using various parts, piecing together the cars little by little, and even some cars are tricycles. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is such a car that every time it appears on the streets of Western countries, it attracts the attention of countless people.
However, now the Chinese Empire has appeared with more perfect cars, pulling down the cars of Western countries for an unknown number of generations.
There is a contrast, there is a gap, and the Western countries are even more surprised by the appearance of cars in the Chinese Empire than the citizens of the Chinese Empire.
By the time the news of the appearance of cars at the Grand Parade of the Chinese Empire reached Europe, there must have been many people who did not believe it.
"Is that really a car? It can't be that there are people hiding under the car and using human power to pull the car, right? "I'm afraid there are not a few Caucasian people who think this way.
When the black-and-white photos of the cars were sent back to Western countries, and there was real evidence, the white race believed that all this was true, and even more white people wanted to get such cars, and at the same time, some people began to question their own government: why can the yellow-skinned monkeys produce such perfect cars, but our country can only make such garbage things.
In any case, Beidou Motors has already started bookings.
In this day and age, it is slow to assemble cars by hand, for example, in the case of Ford, which only assembled 11 cars in one factory in the first month of production when it first produced the Model T, which is a small number.
However, Beidou Automobile is different, when Beidou Automobile officially produced two models of cars in Yaoguang and Kaiyang, it has been put into advanced assembly lines, and a car can be assembled in two hours, and when the workers are proficient, the time to assemble a car will be shorter.
Now Beidou Automobile has a total of three assembly lines, with an assembly line two hours to assemble a car, day and night, a day can assemble 36 cars, a month 1080 taels, a year 13140 vehicles, of course, this only refers to Yaoguang and Kaiyang, if it is the top vehicle of Tianshu, it takes a hundred times the time to manufacture a Yaoguang.
At present, the automobile production of Beidou Automobile is not too high, and once the car is welcomed by the market, this output cannot meet the demand of the market at all.
The lowest price of Yaoguang only costs 15,000 Chinese dollars, and the Chinese Empire can afford to buy Yaoguang tens of thousands, and with the passage of time, the empire has developed rapidly, and there will be more and more rich people, and more and more people can afford cars, and it will not even take many years, even the middle class can afford to buy cars.
The gasoline used in cars is a big problem, so the Royal Comptoir will build a gas station in various cities and counties across the country to serve car buyers.
Building thousands of gas stations is a lot of money, and although the Royal Comptoir can afford it, the Royal Comptoir needs to develop other places.
Fortunately, there is a car reservation fee, and the car reservation will be paid in full, not just a few percent of the money, and with this money, the Royal Commercial Bank will come up with a sum of money to build gas stations in various cities and counties across the country.
As for the fuel tanker for the gas station to transport oil is also under development, it is expected that Xinghua will be able to develop three years ago, and mass production, before that, you can use the airship to transport oil for the gas station, anyway, the first year of car production is limited, the use of gasoline will not be too much, in addition, the owner himself can also buy more gasoline at once to store.
In a short period of time, Beidou cars will only be sold within the empire, not exported abroad, and every car owner when buying a car, the staff will remind them that once the car is stolen, it needs to be reported immediately. The state will be punished.
The technical content of the Beidou car is far more than that of Western countries at this time, once the whole car or engine is obtained by Western countries, Western countries will be able to improve their country's scientific and technological level through imitation and other means, which is not what Yan Xueyi wants to see.
Caucasians dare to do anything for the sake of profit.
Fortunately, after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, under the exclusion of the people, foreigners left the empire one after another, and basically only merchants would come to the empire to conduct trade.
When it comes to automobiles, the tractor factory near the Beidou Automobile Plant cannot be forgotten either.
Cars were already mass-produced, and tractors were mass-produced, but after the tractors were mass-produced, no one came to buy them, because the empire had confiscated the land from the landlords, and there was no need for these tractors without a lot of land to cultivate.
As a result, the only customer of the tractor factory was the owner behind the tractor factory, the Royal Commercial House.
The Royal Merchant House would buy a large number of tractors to cultivate the land in the northwest and northeast.
Although the empire is mobilizing national immigrants to the north, the north is so big that it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time, and all the royal trading houses are acting in this way.
The Royal Comptoir established a company called the Royal Agricultural Group, which was responsible for managing the cultivation of land in the north and establishing large farms.
Due to the large number of tractors used, the agricultural group will use very few people, and most of them are also used to drive tractors.
The efficiency of using a tractor to cultivate the land is far more efficient than that of manual labor, and hundreds of people can't hold up a tractor, and people will get tired, but the tractor won't.
After a year, the achievements of the Royal Agricultural Group will be revealed, and perhaps many people will be attracted to set up an agricultural group to reclaim land and establish a farm in the north, and they will also need to buy tractors.
The tractors used by agricultural groups are medium and large tractors, which are only used in rural areas where a large amount of land is owned, and farmers with only a few or dozens of acres of land basically do not use such tractors.
Tractor factory has been developing small tractors, small tractors are not as efficient as medium and large tractors, but the price is cheaper, less arable land for homesteaders, and even small tractors can be purchased, the whole paid land farming business, others only need to spend a small amount of money, you can hire a tractor to cultivate your own land.
The automobile industry and the tractor industry started slowly in the Chinese Empire, limited by the fact that the empire has just developed in an all-round way, the development speed of the two industries will not be too fast, and after the explosion of the empire's economy, people have money, and then it is the time when the automobile industry and the tractor industry develop rapidly.