How profitable is it to make a car? Although Wang Sirui already knew the result and history had given him the answer, after Wang Sirui got an accurate statement, he was still shocked by this huge profit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Through the secret telegram, Henry Ford reported the sales situation of this month and future plans to Wang Sirui.

On the first day of the E-model, 20,000 cars put on the market were sold out in just half a day, and Ford's net profit on the day reached $8,367,600.

Later, Ford reached an agreement with the U.S. government, which opened a separate logistics channel for Ford, and the railroad company mobilized dozens of trains to transport these cars all day long.

Of course, there is also the horror of the fact that the railroad authorities have decided to build a direct rail line to the Ford plant, through which the cars will be transported directly to their destinations.

The remaining 30,000 cars in the pre-stock have been booked out even before they leave the factory.

At this point, the Ford plant also began to work in three shifts, 24 hours a day, and the annual output of 300,000 units reached 500,000 units.

This is the benefit of the assembly line, people can rest, but the machine does not rest, but even so, the orders received by the factory have been scheduled for half a year, and the number of orders is still increasing.

The U.S. Congress approved Roosevelt's proposal to purchase 10,000 official vehicles from the Ford plant at a price of $800 each.

In addition, American civil servants can also report their plans to buy cars to the government, and then the government will purchase them in a unified manner, and the Ford factory will give a price of 900 US dollars, which is equivalent to the internal price.

Of course, taxes have not been reduced, if it were Ford himself, then he would definitely fight for his own interests in this regard, but Wang Sirui asked him not to care so much. The tax is still paid according to the full tax.

The advantage of this is that all Ford products, no matter where they go, are all green-lighted, and the Ford factory saves a lot of time in terms of product circulation.

Even the tax department will take the initiative to stand up and solve some troubles for the factory.

In addition, the net profit of the Ford plant for the month was $47 million.

This is the net profit after deducting a series of expenses such as taxes and factory construction. If all these orders were manufactured, the net profit would be in the billions.

According to the previous agreement, 30 percent, or 14.1 million, of the 47 million was set aside as the factory's development fund, and the remaining $32.9 million was distributed according to equity.

Mr. Wang, who owns 80 percent of the shares, received $26.32 million, while Ford received $6.58 million.

Wang Sirui's dividend was not transferred back to China, but began to invest in a wide range of countries in the United States.

Henry Ford also made some investments, mainly because he was rich, and the Ford factory was an old hen that would lay golden eggs, even if it was all lost, it didn't matter, and next month's dividend would not be less than now.

As for the funds for the factory, it has not continued to expand in the United States, and after the full assembly line is started, the annual output will reach 2 million units per year, and orders can be guaranteed for at least a few years.

The money was used in Europe and in the Chinese Empire, where the Ford plant was opened.

It's just that only a few people know that this factory located in the Chinese Empire is the real general factory, although the consumption level of the Chinese Empire in the short term is unlikely to reach the same level as that of the United States, and the profits will not be as high as those of the United States.

But correspondingly, the production cost is lower, if converted into dollars, the average cost of a car is less than 300 dollars.

The main thing is that the labor cost is very low, and the salary of ten taels of silver per month is considered a high salary, and how many dollars is ten taels of silver? The answer is, $7.42, which is less than a day and a half of wages in the United States.

Therefore, Wang Sirui's plan is to use the cheap labor of the Chinese Empire to make a lot of money from the Americans.

As for exploitation or non-exploitation, there is no problem at all at this time, because the domestic consumption level is not high, and ten taels of silver is enough for ordinary people to live for a year, and there is no need to deliberately save.

If it is paid at a salary of five dollars a day, then the factories of the Chinese Empire are definitely losing money.

To this end, Ford sent new orders to shipyards in the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, and Ford wanted to purchase 20 special cargo ships of more than 30,000 tons to transport automobiles.

This is to prepare for long-distance transportation in the future, and the transport ship is not a warship, even if it is a 30,000-ton level, according to the design, each cargo ship is divided into four floors, which can transport 3,000 cars at the same time, and the price of a ship is only 3 million US dollars.

With Ford's ability to absorb money, it is still enough to meet these payments.

What's more, these shipyards must be supervised by Ford, which means that Ford will send people to the shipyard to supervise the construction and make recommendations accordingly.

As for these people, all of them were technicians sent by Wang Sirui to steal their experience, including foreigners who were bribed, and some students of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, although the ship was purchased in the name of Ford, it was Wang Sirui who contributed the capital, so Wang Sirui has all the shares of these 20 ships.

At the same time, in the mysterious military camp in the north, a tank with a novel style was slowly parked there with black smoke.

After seeing that the tank had stopped, a group of technicians immediately surrounded it.

The face is not good-looking, obviously, this is not known how many failures, and in terms of tanks, they have invested a huge amount of money, if the previous armored car is an armored force, then the current tank, that is the real armored force.

The car is 5.7 meters long, 2.7 meters high, 3.3 meters wide, with 30 mm armor, frontal armor up to 50 mm, manual rotating turret, equipped with a 37 mm gun, a Type 04 coaxial machine gun, this machine gun has departed from the stupid and stupid characteristics of the Maxim machine gun, and is more suitable for tanks.

Equipped with a 200-horsepower diesel engine, at a speed of thirty kilometers per hour, with a maximum range of three hundred kilometers, a combat total weight of 11 tons, and a crew of four.

Today they are testing how far the tank can travel at extreme speeds, and this is already an experiment they don't know how many times, and the previous experiments have all ended in failure without exception.

This time the situation was slightly better, but not much better, the tank just ran a little farther than before, but in the end it ended its fate in a nest.

Liang Shanhe quickly opened the engine cover, and a hot breath came to his face, which made people unable to open their eyes, and there was a burning sensation on his skin, forcing Liang Shanhe to take a few steps back, waiting for the temperature to drop before going to check carefully.

The four occupants of the car had already come out of the tank, and one by one they couldn't take off their clothes, it was too hot to stay inside, even if it was just spring.

"The power of the engine is still too small to support the tank for continuous extreme speed running, how long has this extreme speed test been carried out?" Liang Shanhe just took a general look at the condition of the engine, if nothing else, this engine has been scrapped.

Liang Shanhe doesn't know how many times this engine has been improved, with the help of American technicians, this engine has soared from the first few dozen horsepower all the way to 200 horsepower, but this engine seems to have reached the limit, and it is impossible to continue to increase horsepower.

"I drove for three hours at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour, and the theory is about 110 kilometers." One of the trainees looked at the recorded data and reported.

"Tell another crew to travel at 30 km/h for half an hour, then drive at the limit speed for half an hour, alternating back and forth." Liang Shanhe immediately gave a new order for the experiment.

Fortunately, they have several prototypes in their hands in order to do more tests in a short period of time.

If even these researchers can't figure out the specific data of the tank, then how should they pay attention to it when they get to the troops?

Soon, another test car started from the starting point, and the environment inside the test site was three kilometers per lap, because only after this test could the rest of the test be carried out.

However, when the tank ran out of fuel after dark and finally had to stop to refuel, the test vehicle was able to continue driving.

It's just that in the later stage, the ultimate speed has been significantly reduced, even below 35 kilometers per hour, and the tank has begun to have all kinds of abnormalities.

"No, it stands to reason that this tank shouldn't have been in such a situation. Xiao Su, how far did this test car go? Looking at the abnormality of the tank, Liang Shanhe asked with a frown.

"The No. 2 car participated in a total of 23 tests, with an average speed of 30 kilometers per hour, a total of 200 hours, and a total of 6,000 kilometers." Xiao Su quickly counted the experimental data.

"I see, this engine is at the end of its life." Liang Shanhe remembered a few points that Wang Sirui deliberately asked him to pay attention to, such as how far a new engine had traveled and how much time it took from the time it started driving to the time when it had obvious abnormalities.

The car has been experimenting for almost a month now, and it runs for an average of nearly ten hours a day.

Although in Liang Shanhe's idea, the tank could not be replaced with an engine, Wang Sirui told him that when the engine was abnormal, it had to be replaced.

And the time of testing is so that the soldiers know when the engine of their tank should be replaced.

Now this result is out, 200 hours, or 6,000 kilometers. And beyond this limit data, the tank can lie down at any time.

There are many reasons why the No. 1 car is lying in the nest, and the limit time is approaching for a while, but it is continuously driving at the limit speed, and the two are together, so it is directly lying in the nest.

Thinking of this, Liang Shanhe already had a new idea, he wanted to use a new engine to test once, and another car to directly test the later links. (To be continued.) )