Henry Ford loves the tea here, and when you take a sip, you can always leave a faint aftertaste in your mouth, which is a completely different feeling from coffee.

Although it is difficult for him to find coffee here, after a few months of adaptation, Henry still feels that the tea seems to taste better, and he has heard from the people here that drinking tea regularly is good for his body, especially the tea has a kind of cleansing function for the lungs.

Although they said that it was a half-understood, Henry Ford really felt that feeling. What's more, Henry Ford drank tea for no money, and whenever he finished drinking the tea here, someone would bring new tea.

Here, Henry Ford is like a supreme being, and in the capital, Wang Sirui prepared spacious and bright houses for Henry Ford and his team, and even had servants to serve them.

This feeling almost made Henry Ford get lost here.

Compared with the treatment of these masters, Henry Ford also knows very well why he can get this kind of treatment.

Therefore, Henry Ford and his team did not live in the old and luxurious house that Wang Sirui prepared for them.

The whole team moved into the factory together, where they lived and ate, and spent the whole day in the workshop, researching new products.

After Wang Sirui's persuasion, Ford also gave up the road of using racing cars to prove that its car was reliable, because of Wang Sirui's persuasion, coupled with intentional guidance, Henry Ford's team is currently stepping up the development of a sample of the Model A car.

And after a few months of busyness, today is finally the day of the experiment, so to speak, the team, which has been busy for several months, seems to be waiting for this day to come.

But even though a prototype of the Model A was already available, Henry Ford and his team didn't seem to be happy, because they didn't seem to see any future in the old country.

Most of the roads here are mainly dirt roads, and even the ground has not been hardened with cement, and the cars driving on them do not have the slightest comfort at all, and in one, China has just been defeated, and their civilians need to pay a large amount of silver taels as compensation.

And even if the A-type car is successful, its market in China will not be very large, which is a difficult problem to solve. No market, which means no income, no income, which means that they have no need to exist, all these problems are plaguing Henry Ford and his team.

Obviously, high welfare and high treatment, this is not so easy to enjoy, they have to try their best to prove their ability.

Henry Ford personally sat in the driver's seat, because the previous experience of car research gave Ford a preliminary understanding of his car, at least he can guarantee that the car will not have too many problems. The only thing he needs to think about at the moment is comfort.

Of course, there is also a fatal problem, that is, the stability performance of the car in complex road conditions.

He drove the Model A around the factory for a while, and on the way Henry deliberately ran a distance towards the previously designed complex road conditions, but when Henry Ford parked the car there steadily, he felt dizzy.

Because it was a sample car, Henry Ford and his team didn't decorate the interior too much, and the comfort was definitely a little unsatisfactory.

Still, on top of the wooden seat and backrest, Henry Ford found some cotton pads on it, so that he wouldn't make his ass unbearable after a lap.

But it is clear that Henry Ford, who was frowning tightly after a lap, was not satisfied with the design of this car, and there were many things that were not satisfied.

Wooden wheels, when walking on those complex road conditions, always make a creaking sound, people are very worried about whether it will break, which makes Henry Ford think of the rubber tires used in the United States, but it is a new technology, although it has been developed, but because of the cost, so no car manufacturers look at this material.

And Henry Ford didn't know which nerve had a problem, so he asked Wang Sirui to purchase a production line for the production of industrial rubber, and because the other party was eager to open the market, or forced to make a living, the price of the equipment was not expensive.

As a result, Wang Sirui was more like a hot brain, directly purchased three production lines, and poached one of the other party's technical teams with a high salary.

Although Wang Sirui has this awareness, but the cost is too high, it is said that in China, except for a small amount of rubber in the distant Qiongzhou Prefecture, there is no longer a rubber production area in the whole country, and all rubber must be imported from Southeast Asia.

At present, Wang Sirui does not have the time and extra funds to import a large amount of rubber, that is, the current rubber, which is only a small part of it from Qiongzhou for experiments.

Iron wheels and rubber tires will make the car more comfortable and passable if these two layouts are adopted, but with it, it will be a high cost.

In addition, there seems to be a certain problem with the power of this car, and when passing through those complicated road conditions, Henry Ford can clearly feel that the power of the car is not as strong as that of flat ground.

As for the engine, Henry Ford has experience in research and development, so this is not a problem, but it needs to increase the cost and fuel consumption.

"Andy, put on our special tires, I'm experimenting with them." After a long time, Henry Ford made up his mind.

Regarding the final finalization of this car, this Henry Ford can't make the decision, but how to experiment, Henry Ford can still call the shots.

They have two kinds of wheels and tires here, one is the pure wood one currently used, and the other is the rubber tire and iron wheel hub for experiments, and the interface of the two is the same, which is mainly for the convenience of experiments.

Soon, several assistants were using jacks to lift the wheels one by one, and then quickly replaced the tires. Henry Ford crouched down next to the replaced wooden wheels and studied.

He noticed that the place where the wheel met the bearing was slightly worn, and even a slight scratch mark could be seen on it.

This is a big problem for the car, after all, Henry Ford just drove it around the factory area, at most in addition to driving so far from the workshop to here, it is only a kilometer or two away from the full tax, if according to this level of wear, then the car can only run about 100 kilometers at most and needs to change a set of wheels, which is obviously not cost-effective.

Although they installed the bearings, they could not cope with the friction between the bearings and the wooden wheels.

No, wooden wheels should never be used, which will not only cost the buyer more money and time to maintain the vehicle, but also cause a huge hidden danger to the safety performance of the car.

Soon, several assistants replaced the four wheels with iron wheels with elastic rubber tires.

Henry Ford drove the simply modified A-type car for a lap and found that this time there was a lot of improvement in comfort, and the car seemed to be more powerful than before when passing through complex roads, but because of the engine, the overall improvement was not large.

If it was only on flat ground, then the car with iron wheels could only run at a maximum speed of 30 km/h, which seemed to be much lower than expected.

And the same, because of the replacement of iron wheels, so the current cost of this car has increased a lot, if you count the labor costs, this car so far, its total cost is about 800 taels of silver, converted into dollars, there are almost 600 dollars.

If you add the decoration and mechanical changes in the later stage, the cost will be nearly 700 US dollars, although the cost is lower than the cost of other manufacturers, but the performance of the car is obviously nothing to compare with them.

Of course, there is a more important problem, that is, Huaxia's industrial capacity is not good, or even very backward, and many parts of the car cannot be produced here, although Wang Sirui has purchased from the United States and Germany, but it should still be impossible to reduce costs in the short term.

If it really gets to the stage of mass production, the cost of this car is about 1,000 dollars, which does not seem unacceptable, but they need to fight hard with other manufacturers, and it is clear that Henry Ford does not think they have an advantage in this regard.

Still, Henry Ford was convinced that he could succeed for the simple reason that he had the skills, the money and the ability to give him some useful advice.

Now the only problem that Henry Ford needs to consider is how to reduce the cost without compromising the performance and comfort of the car, and only in this way can he compete with those manufacturers in the United States.

"Hey, man, I don't think you need to worry about it because we have an advantage over those bitches." Andy, as Henry Ford's first assistant, is naturally well aware of what Henry Ford is worried about right now.

"Why? What are our advantages? Henry Ford asked, puzzled.

"Have you forgotten who your boss is? Here, we only need to pay a very low price to get steel for production, and steel mills only need to pay a small amount of money to get a large amount of ore, and you used to calculate the cost based on the steel price in the United States, if we calculate according to the steel price we get, in the cost, just steel, we can save at least about 100 dollars. And the labor cost here is lower than in the United States, so we have an advantage over them. Andy said. (To be continued.) )