"Hey, okay, got it!"

Zhang Nian put down a phone in the big stone room, and immediately turned around and walked out of the huge secretary room, where there are now more than 100 people, each with a desk and a telephone, all of which are products of Siemens. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

With the crazy expansion of Shandong's railway line, it has reached every county with trains, such as Jinan as the center, and Jinan Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Yucheng, Zhangqiu, Changqing, Linyi, Linji six counties have railway lines to communicate, from the sky, six railway lines, with Jinan as the center radiating out.

This is a few years ago when Zhan Tianyou just became the general manager of the railway company, Yang Chao set the construction plan, at that time he wanted to support the railway industry, but in fact the railway is greatly surplus, many branch railways are actually running at a loss, and the level of railway construction far exceeds the actual needs.

However, there is one point that is very necessary, that is, the telegraph network built along the railway line, because the railway leads to the various counties, so the telegraph network also covers the counties, not only the telegraph network, now using Siemens' technology, has opened a telephone line covering the whole province, of course, it is impossible to make a telephone call to every house, but the government departments and some commercial banks, and even large households can still pass, of course, these customers also need to pay expensive telephone bills, each telephone line rental fee per year is thirty taels.

"My lord, the engine factory said that it was going to start, and I asked you if you would like to go and watch?"

Zhang Nian quickly walked to Yang Chao's office next to him, now the big stone house has been renovated, it has been divided into hundreds of rooms, with telegraphs, telephones and lights, thousands of people work here, and the secretary alone occupies three large offices, with a total of more than 300 people, who will be responsible for receiving and sorting out all kinds of information, and then report to Yang Chao.

"Coincidentally, I'm seeing a report from Diesel, so let's take a look!"

Yang Chao put down the thick report, although the secretary helped analyze and sort out the information, but Yang Chao sometimes focused on some information, such as the report of Diesel Engine Company.

Speaking of Diesel, like Siemens, they are both high-tech enterprises supported by Yang Chao, and the development of these two companies also has some characteristics.

Siemens, like Zeppelin, is an industry leader.

But unlike Zeppelin, who received the support of Yang Chao and the Germans as soon as he arrived in China, Siemens actually did not have much treatment, and they themselves did not regard themselves as a star enterprise, after all, Siemens' reputation in electrical is not as good as that of General Electric, where the American Edison worked.

Moreover, Siemens has been operating in China for a long time, and it is not even a capital company, and in 1872, the most advanced telegraph produced by Siemens entered China. In 1879, Siemens received a commission from the Qing government to install a 10-horsepower steam generator in Shanghai for the lighting of the Shanghai port. In 1899, China's first tram was built in Beijing, and China's first power plant was built in Beijing to provide electricity for tram tracks. In 1903, Siemens was responsible for the construction of a power plant for Qingdao.

However, some of the previous businesses were just construction contracts, and Siemens had no plans to produce in China, but Siemens itself did not realize this, because whether it was construction or production, it was just business.

However, as a company that has been operating in China for decades, it still has ambitions for China, so after Yang Chao invited and offered a loan, they immediately agreed to build a factory in Shandong.

However, in the first year of Siemens' entry, they did not even build a plant, in line with the cost control of civilian enterprises, they began to find cooperation with many enterprises that have been built in Shandong, such as the copper wire of their first product electric motor from Alstom in France, the iron core is an American steel mill, and even the engine shell is cast by the German shipyard in Qingdao.

It wasn't until two years later that their motors and generators got a large number of orders with the support of Yang Chao, and then they built the first plant, but since the plant was built, it was not enough, and they never stopped building the plant, and now Siemens' factory has occupied a large area of more than 2,000 acres of land and employs more than 10,000 workers, according to their own comparison, it is already larger than their largest production area in Germany.

But Siemens has not given up the development of the method with the help of partners, which is completely different from Zeppelin, Zeppelin is unable to produce by itself, so he has to find help from others, and Siemens is in the beginning in line with the use of other people's technology, equipment, until now, Siemens is still only an assembly plant, almost all parts are produced by other factories for them, they have more than 30 cooperative enterprises in Shandong, including cable factories, shipyards, arsenals and machine factories and so on.

This is a typical industry leader.

If Siemens' business method is to borrow chickens to lay eggs, Diesel is even more excessive, not that Diesel also has the same rich management means as Siemens, but Diesel as a scientific entrepreneur, from the beginning did not understand what kind of plant he needs, what kind of machinery and equipment he needs.

The structure of the diesel engine in this year is still very simple, basically a cylinder plus some connecting rods, crankshafts, pistons and other parts.

The core is, of course, a cylinder that can withstand high temperature and high pressure, and what factory is more suitable for boring this type of cylinder than an arsenal for boring cannons, so when Diesel just arrived in China, he was brought to Laiwu Arsenal by Yang Chao.

Then something strange happened, in three years, Diesel and Sulzer sent technicians, designed more than 30 kinds of engines, of course, mainly with constant changes, the first one that could be applied was a diesel engine with a 150 mm cylinder, but this was only an experimental model, not a real production type, because the cylinders were too small.

The horsepower of diesel engines in this era is mainly increased in two ways, the first is to increase the pressure capacity of the cylinder, so as to increase the output power, and the other is to increase the number of cylinders and accumulate the output power.

Therefore, after the successful trial production of the first model, Diesel began to continuously improve the design, the first successful application of the 300 mm bore magnesium alloy engine, installed on Yang Chao's second circumnavigation airship, this engine is the first product successfully commercialized by Diesel with a power of only 500 horsepower.

The second successful commercial use was the 1,000 hp engine, which was still 300 mm bore, four-cylinder, two-stroke, and was used in locomotives and small ships, and is still a mainstream bestseller in Diesel, with more than 500 units sold.

The third is the 2000 horsepower, 500 mm bore, 6-cylinder two-stroke launched in the third year, the introduction of this product, so that the technology of the Diesel engine factory has stood at the forefront of the world, more powerful than the German MAN company, the Swedish BW company and the Swiss Sulzer headquarters engine.

This engine has a wider range of applications, the locomotive is the first, even if it is a standard heavy locomotive of this era, two are super heavy locomotives. At the same time, this engine has also entered the mainstream power choice of ocean-going ships, and under the encouragement of Yang Chao, almost all ships in the Fujian Huay Kuan Shipyard have adopted this engine, and more than 100 units have been sold, and the sales volume continues to increase.

These three engines are developing higher, bigger and stronger, which is obviously the correct direction of development for diesel engines with greater power, but it is incomprehensible that the original purpose of Diesel Diesel Engine design was to compete with gasoline engines, when Mercedes-Benz put the gasoline engine on the car, Diesel hurriedly launched his own diesel engine, and the result was a big loss.

Obviously, this is a very failed entrepreneur, he really has no talent in business, if it weren't for Yang Chao, according to his development, he would have been poor by now.

The reason for his success in China is largely due to Yang Chao's efforts to promote diesel engines, and if it were not for Yang Chao's help, his business might not have been better than when he was in Germany.

However, under the impetus of Yang Chao, Diesel at this time also completely changed the wrong idea of installing diesel engines on cars in the past, but put on a tall and mighty posture, and repeatedly told friends in the industry that his diesel engine disdains to compete with those powerless gasoline engines, and his diesel engine should be used on big guys such as trains and ships!

After successfully launching three products and earning his first million silver, Diesel had a new goal.

He was not willing to put only the engine on trains and short-distance light steamers, he believed that the future of the diesel engine was in the ocean voyage, and he constantly expressed to the outside world that the ocean-going steamers still using the old steam engine were as ridiculous as the old ladies of the previous world.

But his research and development failed, not because there was a problem with the design, but because the design was simulated by the Yang Chao spacecraft supercomputer, there was no problem at all, and the problem was in the processing.

Even the machine tools of the arsenal could not produce a good large cylinder, because Diesel designed the cylinder bore to reach a record 1,000 millimeters, or one meter. The reason for the need for such a large bore is that Diesel intends to produce large engines with more than 6,000 horsepower to replace the old steam engines on the 10,000-ton giant ships, and even compete with the new steam turbines.

When the production failed, then Diesel found that he did not have a factory of his own, did not have a piece of his own equipment, and all the parts in the past, including the core cylinder, were actually produced by others.

This is really not a qualified entrepreneur.

So Diesel continued to prototype and began to build his own factory. (To be continued.) )