Shang Zhu recorded in his notebook the conversations of Henry Ford and his assistants, whether useful or useless, whether they were technical discussions or pure small talk.

As long as Shang Zhu thinks it is useful, or it doesn't feel like a pure family conversation, Shang Zhu will record these conversations one by one.

It has been more than three months since he returned to China from the United States, and Shang Zhu has always stayed with Henry Ford in terms of food and accommodation, even installing and debugging equipment, making every part of the way, skills, every problem and solution, etc.

Until now, Henry Ford and his team, of course, have nine Chinese people in the team.

In order to take care of Henry Ford and his team, Wang Sirui did not stuff her with dozens or hundreds of people in the same way as filling the pie.

Of the nine people, four came back from studying in the United States, and of course, they are not actually graduating at the moment. Juan found them at the prestigious universities in the United States and described a bright future for them.

Of course, in the end, the reason for their hearts was not the bright future that Juan described to them, but their destination would be Huaxia, and the boss behind them was also a serious Huaxia man. In fact, they are not the only ones, as long as they return to China, they will participate in the research and manufacturing process of the new car together with Henry Ford.

Henry Ford, although he is not very well-known in the United States now, far less glamorous than after the introduction of the Model T, but for a student majoring in automotive industrial design, Henry Ford is a well-known tycoon in this industry.

Being able to work with him and learn from his experience is almost the dream of more than 50 percent of the students who are engaged in this work.

So, Shang Zhu contacted three classmates who had a good relationship with him and always got together to discuss academics, gave up their studies in the United States and returned to China to build their own country without hesitation.

The other five people are all from Europe, and they are also Qing Dynasty students studying in Europe, although they did not study the automobile industry, but they are more or less related to industry.

For these nine students, who had little practical experience but had solid basic skills, Henry Ford gladly accepted them to join Ford's team after a short period of contact.

In addition to the necessary basic skills, Henry Ford also did not want to refute Wang Sirui's face, after all, Wang Sirui is his big boss, and a lot of inspiration also comes from Wang Sirui, in his spare time, take these students, at least Henry Ford and his team do not feel that there is anything wrong.

At the beginning, Henry Ford just wanted to make Wang Sirui's face unbearable, but after a few months of contact and the two sides participated in the research and manufacture of the A-type car, Henry Ford had an unusual liking for these nine international students.

Especially Shang Zhu, who is usually silent and only knows how to take notes, and Liang Shanhe, who stays in the laboratory all day to study the engine.

It can be said that in the design, research and development, and production process of the Type A car, these two did help Henry Ford a lot, and the other seven also had some credit, but in front of these two, their credit seemed a little bleak.

And Henry Ford's teaching, also made these nine international students grateful, and even in this short three months, they have learned more than the previous three and a half years, although now they can not independently develop new products, but at least their current level, is incomparable with their classmates.

Intuitively speaking, what did a historical Model A look like? This may only be known by the ghost, anyway, the A-type car was only an experimental product in history, and it was not really put into production.

At least 10% of the A-type car in front of me is due to the wisdom of these nine international students.

Nine people, only 10% of them, and Henry Ford's team of 25 people, won the remaining 90%, although it seems that their proportion is relatively small, but it should be considered that they are only students who have not graduated after all, let alone have any practical experience.

The hard-working spirit of the Chinese students also shocked Henry Ford and his team.

"Andy, I think you need to work with Liang and them to increase the power of this engine by twenty percent, and then we'll continue experimenting." Henry Ford turned to look at his first assistant, Andy was actually an engine engineer.

“OK！ You should have done it a long time ago. Andy finally smiled on his face, and after responding to Ford, he quickly turned around and waved to several of his assistants, "Guys, let's go to the lab and make changes to another engine." ”

In fact, the engine installed on the current Model A car has not been accepted by Andy, and he believes that if this engine is really mass-produced and equipped on this car for sale, then his reputation will plummet.

In front of those engines that can easily run to 70 kilometers per hour, this engine that can theoretically only run 40 kilometers is too much to handle.

Although he only had a third of the fuel consumption of those cars, he did so at the expense of power, and customers didn't think it was a better deal than other companies' cars.

"Shang, I need you to make slight changes to the current base to reduce the air resistance of this car." Henry Ford continued to say to Shang Zhu.

Air resistance, aerodynamics, this is the vocabulary that Wang Sirui told them, in fact, the automobile industry has developed to the current stage, and no one has studied the knowledge of aerodynamics.

As for this knowledge, Wang Sirui only knows that installing a rear wing at the rear of the car will reduce the fuel consumption of the car, and the lower the chassis of the car, the less resistance.

But it is clear that with the current traffic conditions and the level of the automobile industry, there is no way to achieve either of them. Besides, who is going to worry about gas consumption now? In an era without air pollution, they only focus on how powerful the car is.

"Okay, I'm trying." Shang Zhu nodded.

The appearance of the car in front of them was proposed by Shang Zhu, but it was only an initial version, and the prototype car in front of them was actually changed by Henry Ford and other designers in the team.

And the reason why Henry Ford handed over this task to Shang Zhu was actually because he was still very satisfied with the current appearance, but in order to take care of Wang Sirui's emotions, he decided to give Shang Zhu a chance, anyway, Wang Sirui can still afford the waste of materials for a sample car.

Since he wants to train the industrial talents of his country, he should be mentally prepared to waste a lot of materials by them.

Soon, Henry Ford recounted the problems he had found during the test and suggested changes, which were naturally recorded by the team members in charge and then went back to make changes.

After Henry finished speaking, the rest of the team drove the car themselves, and found a lot of problems from different angles, both driving and passenger.

When making changes to this car, Shang Zhu was more or less embarrassed, in his mind, an ideal car should be perfect, take the simplest place, after getting into the car, the door can be locked without taking the stick that fixes the door inside.

It's just that there are many problems in the current industrial technology, and the Qing State can't make that kind of lock. So, this Model A car is extremely ugly.

The exterior lock is like Mr. Bean's car on TV, with a lock that locks the door, but the lock is imported from the United States, and they can't make it.

There is not even a lock on the entire door, and the inside is fixed with a stick stuffed into the card slot to prevent the door from opening automatically during driving, and the outside is solved by an external lock.

Despite a lot of dissatisfaction, Shang Zhu still did not despair, because he knew that there would be bread and milk.

When he left his hometown to study in the United States, he didn't even dare to imagine that when he returned from his studies, there would be an automobile factory in China. But now he works in a car factory in his own country.

And the thought that they will have more industrial facilities in the future, Shang Zhu was full of motivation, and all night, Shang Zhu patiently changed the drawings, and from time to time to do a simple experiment, once to test whether this principle can stand.

"Mr. Andy, why don't we use a compression-ignition engine (diesel) for this car?" In another lab, the studious Liang Shanhe asked his question.

"First of all, this engine is going to be used in our Model A, and its main customers are ordinary people, and the diesel burned by the compression-ignition engine will smell worse than gasoline, which is not an ideal experience environment for our customers, and the compression-ignition engine is more noisy, and we have to consider it all." Andy explained with a smile that this guy is good everywhere, but he is too serious, and he always likes to study more powerful engines, if Ford and Andy have always insisted on using gasoline engines, I don't know if this guy will touch this engine.

"Of course, if our product is not for ordinary people, and the customer just wants more horsepower, then we can consider using a compression-ignition engine." Andy continued.

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