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At the door, looking at the back of Yang Qiu leaving in the car, Weizmann always felt that this young man had something he couldn't see through, especially his promise as if there would be a catastrophe for the Jewish nation. What kind of disaster is it? Although Jews were excluded in Europe, the Holocaust of the Middle Ages was no longer possible. And he dared to open the front-line troops to foreign non-commissioned officer students for internship, which shows that he values his own people very much, what is he trying to do?

He looked at Walter and asked, "Walter, don't you think his behavior is strange?" ”

Walter agrees: "Selling our shares to us is really no different from selling to Anglo-Dutch Shell, and he should know that I can resell my shares to Worcester at any time." And I'm very curious, how did he know the secrets of the Morris company? ”

Weizmann remembered Yang Qiu's last request and asked, "What exactly does Morris Automobile Company have?" Is it worth taking 35% of the oilfield shares in exchange? ”

"The production line! A very efficient engine production line! This is Sir Morris's secret, all I know is that it is very advanced and can machine a cylinder every 4 minutes. ”

"4 minutes!"

Although Weizmann was a chemist, he knew that the current engine machining was difficult, especially the cylinders that required a lot of skill, and even Ford, the world's first company to adopt an assembly line, took 22 minutes to complete the machining of a cylinder. Morris Motor Company has actually led the world in quietly increasing the speed to 4 minutes a cylinder! This made him suddenly think of the word automaton.

Walter beckoned, and the waiter brought two Havana cigars from a silver tray. After subtracting the tail, the two of them pointed separately before he continued: "I think he hopes to get this technology, which can be used to improve the current manufacturing speed of Chinese goods, reduce costs and increase international competitiveness." And only then will he be able to further narrow the gap with the European nationalists? What a novel term. ”

"Are you going to help him make that wish come true?" Wizman looked at Walter with a smile. He knew the power of this one, and as long as he wanted something, it was almost impossible to go home empty-handed.

Walter thought about it for a moment, as the frowning motion made the features squeeze together all the more funny. But who would dare to laugh at this short, middle-aged man who can set off a storm with a flip of his hand? Little by little, time passed. It wasn't until he couldn't see Yang Qiu's car that he let go of his brows, raised his head and said slowly: "It has what we want, we must establish a good relationship with him in a short time, and I don't think we will do any harm in this transaction." ”

Wizman was right to think about it. The 35% oilfield stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars is completely free of charge, and all it needs to do is to persuade Morris to sell the technology or buy Morris outright. As for Shell, there is no need to worry too much, at least as far as he knows, whether it is Mobil or Shell, the Rothschilds are involved, and it is not difficult to convince the two or even the British Parliament.

But Pei Zuyi was very worried, and sat in the car and asked again: "Vice President." 35% of the oilfield shares is not a small number, even if Walter pays tens of millions of dollars, most of the later construction has to be borne by us. Isn't it too much? Is the car company you're talking about really that important? ”

"Important! Very important! If we obtain technology, maybe the level of the national manufacturing industry will be on a higher level in three or five years! ”

Bei Zuyi opened his mouth wide, secretly wondering what kind of technology could make Yang Qiudu excited, and would rather pay a big price to get it. He knew that Morris Automobile Company had long fallen into Yang Qiu's eyes, not because of how advanced the engines it produced, but because in fact, the company's engine technology might not be able to surpass that of Hanyang and other factories that were absorbing MAN and Mercedes technology from the Rhineland Project. But there is one thing about this car factory that is epoch-making!

The world's first automatic assembly line for pneumatic cylinder processing!

In his previous life, as an employee of Volkswagen, he saw the materials of the Morris Automobile Company in Coventry, England, when he visited the Volkswagen Centennial Retrospective in Germany. The company was not large, but in early 1923 it developed the world's first automated engine block processing line. The entire assembly line is 55 meters long. It consists of 53 automatic machine tools driven by electric motors. As long as the workers follow the production process, they can complete all the processing work of a cylinder every 4 minutes on average, and the accuracy is very high! This means that if it runs 24 hours a day at full load, a single production line can process 131,400 cylinders a year, and if it is used to process a 12-cylinder water-cooled engine, 10,000 cylinders can be processed throughout the year! For single-cylinder diesel engines for walk-behind tractors that are being manufactured in large quantities in China, it is 100,000 units a year!

So this technology was kept a high degree of secrecy until 1926, when an American engineer visited the plant, and the engineer immediately led everyone to develop the first automatic car in the United States in 1928 (in fact, it was not fully automatic). can only be counted as most automatic) production lines. And the company where this engineer works is the famous Dodge! With this automated production line, Dodge cut the man-hours required to build a truck in half, with a maximum of 150 trucks per day per line, producing more than Ford at the time, and establishing itself as the dominant company in the truck manufacturing industry.

The level of machinery between China and the United States is not comparable for now. Most of the self-produced equipment on Taiwan's island-class heavy cruisers was manufactured by hand-taught by foreign engineers. If according to the normal process, Dodge did not learn about this technology until 1926, until 1928, after the newspaper propaganda of the world, the existence of fully automatic technology was not known to the world, until 1931, after the deepening of the financial crisis in the United States, American factories were forced to take action to automate machine tools and production lines, then it was at least 1932 to take advantage of the crisis to introduce it to China. In addition, it takes a long time to eat thoroughly, imitate and so on, which means that it will take at least 1935 or more to come up with its own fully automatic machine tools.

Need to wait for 12 more years!

Now it seems like giving away hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares for nothing, but you can get automation technology 12 years earlier. As soon as the drawings and complete sets of equipment were moved back to China, a nationwide effort was organized to specialize in automation technology. At most, five or six years will definitely produce results, that is to say, according to historical development, China and the United States will be equal in automation technology!

What an important thing to do! When he came back, his biggest dream was to recover the country, get rid of the shackles, expand the living space for the Chinese nation, and complete the industrial revolution ahead of schedule, and rise in the forest of the world from then on. The first and second have been realized, and the third is slowly coming true with the start of the Sumatra oil field for the first time in a dignified manner. If you get automation technology again. It is equivalent to entering the third wave of industrial revolution led by automation and electrification at the same time as the United States.

When all 17 basic machine tools are automated, what else can't be imagined? In the process of automation development, how many extended products can be born! It's worth it in exchange for saving a generation's time.

But Bei Zuyi, who was buried in his bones, was still worried: "Vice President." Should the agreement state that the shares cannot be transferred? What if they get the shares and transfer them to Shell? His worries were reasonable, but Yang Qiu was full of confidence: "Maybe one day they will sell, but not now!" ”

Yang Qiu was right, in this completely loss-free transaction, Walter decided to play with Yang Qiu to see what he was paying attention to. So he immediately asked Jacob to register a Havers Oil Technologies company in the Virgin Islands, and then quickly bought Morris for three times the price. According to Yang Qiu's requirements, 5 cylinder block automatic assembly lines and all drawings were manufactured, and they were loaded on the ship to wait for the end of the transaction.

When everything was ready, he began to lobby the British Parliament, believing that the strategic value of Sumatra's giant oil fields was too high for China to control alone, so he hoped that the Parliament and the Prime Minister's Office would pressure the Chinese government to sell part of its stake. The sudden appearance of Havers Petroleum Technology added fuel to the fire in the Sumatra oil field dispute, and the Rothschilds were the golden signboard. There was an oil boom in the UK when it squatted.

It has to be said that the energy of Walter and his family was immense, when he began lobbying Parliament and the Prime Minister's Office shortly after. Prime Minister Stanley met with Yang Qiu at 10 Downing Street. According to The Times, the atmosphere of the meeting was clearly bad, and Prime Minister Stanley was very unhappy with China's attempt to forcibly acquire the Sumatra oil fields in the South China Sea by force. The Chinese vice president also expressed outrage, saying that the Netherlands should not get in the way of normal business practices, showing proof that Southwest Mining had bought all of the land, and saying that China had no need for expansion, only oil to supplement domestic demand.

While everyone was arguing about their own words, the belated "Imperial Cruise Fleet" consisting of the USS Hood and HMS Counterattack finally arrived in the Far East, and the British Empire finally breathed a sigh of relief in the South China Sea and became more and more assertive. Facing adverse situations. Yang Qiu was so angry that he signed the contract, promising to sell a 35 percent stake in Southwest Mining and promising not to station troops in the field, but that the Chinese navy would be allowed to escort the tanker fleet and that the oil company's own security forces would not be restricted. In the end, he also rejected the stronger Anglo-Dutch Shell and sold it to Havers Petroleum Technologies for $50 million.

After completing all this, Yang Qiu traveled to the Netherlands. Formal consultations with the Dutch government on issues such as the oil fields in Sumatra. In the face of the agreement reached between China and Britain, the Dutch government, which was half frightened, could only watch as Britain took over the equity of the Sumatra oil field, and signed the "Sino-Dutch Agreement on Ore Export and Exploration in the East Indies" with Yang Qiu, allowing Chinese enterprises to invest in the Dutch East Indies. Of course, this little bully relied on the support of the British, and proposed that all Chinese companies must pay heavy taxes on resources, and also hand over part of their shares to the jurisdiction of the Balikpapan colonial government. Finally, when the Southwest Mining Company proposed to build wharves and railroads, it opened its mouth to blackmail the construction approval fee of 3 million US dollars, and Ma Kui was so angry that he also obtained permission to build a temporary airport near the oil field for external communication.

When the dust settled, Southwest Mining officially changed its name to Gulf Oil and began to develop the Sumatra oil field. At the same time, Yang Qiu immediately asked Lu Bicheng to sell the Saudi oil fields owned by Huachen Petroleum Company to Gulf Oil Company. In this way, Gulf Oil officially became the first joint-stock oil company in China. Huachen Petroleum Company also focused on domestic oil development after the sale, and officially listed to become the second largest oil company in the country. Because Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have not been disclosed and production has been extremely small for several years, the outside world is still focused on the Sumatra oil fields, but the company does not know that the company has actually taken over the two largest oil fields in the South Sea and the Persian Gulf, and has begun to secretly explore oil in other parts of the Persian Gulf.

After settling the oil field, Yang Qiu left Bei Zuyi and Zhang Cai to supervise the delivery of the automatic production line, and then set off again on his trip to Europe, and officially entered the troubled Weimar Germany on November 7...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )