Shanghai Baoshan Xingang Wharf, a merchant ship flying the yellow and blue flag of South China entered the port, its tonnage is more than 10,000 tons, the hull is painted in blue and white, it looks very new, it is the result of cooperation between South China and Germany, William and the United States and China under the shipping company to purchase the number of this merchant ship reached 10.

The merchant ship traveled between Shanghai and Detroit, mainly transporting refrigerators, tires, cloth, coffee, palm oil and other goods to the United States, leaving the United States and transporting the automobile production line ordered by Song Zi'an back to Shanghai, and of course, Detroit's specialty, the T-type car parts purchased by SAIC from Ford.

According to the Wuhan government's new tariff bill, tariffs on imported cars and auto parts will be significantly increased to protect China's auto industry.

When Song Zi'an got off the boat, he saw his second brother Song Ziliang walking towards him, and the brothers hugged tightly.

"This time, I returned with a full load, the production line was bought, and the engineers recruited from the United States also came over! Are you ready? ”

Song Zi'an was very excited and couldn't wait to ask.

Song Ziliang nodded: "The plant has been built, and the water and electricity are connected, just waiting for the installation of the machine." In addition, the accommodation of employees has also been arranged. ”

"Great! I immediately arranged for someone to load and unload the machine. ”

"Tell others to do this, you have to go home with me now, my mother misses you."

Song Zi'an and his brothers exchanged pleasantries for a while, and after arranging manpower, they drove home.

Towards the end of the year, the old mother of the Song family has returned to the old house in Shanghai from Wuhan, Song Ziwen can't leave Wuhan, and the brothers and sisters of the Song family follow their mother to celebrate the New Year in Shanghai's hometown.

Song Zi'an naturally became the center of the topic. His older siblings cared about his car business.

Song Zi'an answered them one by one. Tell us more about what you saw and heard in Detroit, Motor City. Detroit is full of auto factories, and hundreds of thousands of workers revolve around one thing — building cars.

Two to three million cars are manufactured every year, and Shanghai and Tokyo together produce only a fraction of Detroit's auto production.

"It was like I was walking into the world of automobiles, and all I saw, heard, touched, and smelled were cars, and people in Detroit made cars for a living, and auto workers were paid five dollars a day, and working in a car factory was more popular with young people there than going to college."

Song Zi'an said that his eyebrows were dancing when he was excited.

"American auto workers earn about the same as university professors in Shanghai? Americans are living too comfortably. ”

Song ML was a little surprised.

USD against fiat currency. One to two, Song Ziwen is the prime minister, and his monthly salary is only 800 yuan, which is less than three times the salary of American auto workers.

"So, how much do you pay auto workers?" Song ML asked with a smile again.

"Ordinary workers range from 50 to 200 yuan, engineers are more than 200, and a grade assessment is set up, and the higher the grade, the higher the salary."

Song Zi'an explained that this wage cannot be compared with the United States. Detroit workers can sell a car in three months, while auto workers in Shanghai can afford a car at least two or three years.

What is most lacking right now is auto workers. I cooperated with Dasheng Company to build an automobile school, and I hope that the Meihua Foundation will be involved. ”

Song Zi'an looked at Song ML expectantly, even if he couldn't get the education funds of the Meihua Foundation, at least he would have to get the faculty of the Meihua University.

Founded by the Meihua Foundation, Meihua University is the best polytechnic university in Asia, with strong strength, training thousands of engineers, and is a partner of well-known brands such as Meihua Laboratory, William University, and Cummins Laboratory.

Speaking of Situ Nan, he is also full of praise, without Situ Nan's help, things did not go so smoothly this time.

This made Song ML happy, and when she learned that Song Zi'an's automobile factory lacked skilled workers, she used her connections to recruit more than 100 junior college students with mechanical professional background with internship experience from Jingwu School for Song Zi'an.

Under Meihua University, there are also secondary vocational education colleges like Jingwu School, well, Jingwu School is a huge education system, known for vocational technology and militarized management, more Lanxiang than Lan Xiang.

U.S.-Chinese factories like to recruit from U.S.-China University and Jingwu School, and Dasheng Automobile Company and Shanghai Automotive Company are no exception.

"It's a good thing to run a school, the US-China Foundation has always supported it, and the face of me, the director of the foundation, is useful."

Song ML agreed, and did not forget to instruct Song Zi'an to find the William Foundation to "turn into a relationship".

The nature of the US-China Foundation and the William Foundation is the same, and the relationship between the two is similar to that of Soong Meiling and Laura. Mellon's relationship is the same, Song Meiling and Laura do not interfere with each other's well water, do not interact with each other, but the two foundations have a good relationship and cooperate with each other, and the William Foundation invests 30% of its charitable funds in Asia every year.

Song Zi'an nodded, and soon found Zhang Xiaoruo again, and was recognized by Zhang Xiaoruo.

Of course, the affairs of running the automobile school were entrusted to a special person, and both of them were busy setting up their own automobile factories.

Unlike Soong's SAIC Motor, Dasheng Automobile, which focuses on commercial vehicles, develops trucks and buses, and has already received orders from the military and the government.

In competition with Dasheng Automobile Company, Meihua Electric Company. Meihua Electric Company not only operated the power industry, but also got involved in urban public transportation, cooperating with China Railway Corporation to build automobile trams in major cities.

"See? Yesterday the Wuhan Municipal Government wanted to build three trams, and today the Guangzhou Government announced that it would establish an urban public transport system, set up a bus company, and plan to bid for the purchase of 30 buses from the public! ”

On this day, Song Zi'an took the newspaper and said to Song Meiling with emotion that after the railway and shipbuilding industries, road transportation is the most active industry with capital and technology, and the giants are all gone!

"It is said that there are also plans to build a car factory in Wuhan." Song Zi'an has a feeling that time is not waiting for me.

"There was this plan, the Wudou Tractor Factory planned to make cars, but then the plan changed."

Song ML laughed.

It's funny to think of the name Wudou Tractor Factory and her founder, Situ Nan's former secretary He Yongyuan has a close relationship with this tractor, and he can be regarded as half of his own people.

"Why don't you build a car factory? The He family (He Yongyuan) is not out of money? Wudou tractor factory is also a domestic famous brand. Strong technical force. ”

Song Zi'an asked curiously. I don't understand why there is one less competitor.

"What project should I study with the military!" Song Meiling said simply.

She said. Song Zi'an understands, tractors, the military, and military tractors aren't tanks? When he visited Detroit, he knew that the automobile factory was actually a tank factory and an aircraft factory, both of which were inseparable from internal combustion engines, but with different functional focuses.

"That's fine, one less competitor!"

Song Zi'an smiled.

After reuniting with his family, Song Zi devoted himself to the construction of the automobile factory physically and mentally. I apply what I learned in the U.S. to my own car factory.

After a month of commissioning, the first T-car final assembly line from Ford Motor Company was successfully installed, and the auto parts shipped back from the United States were also shipped back to Shanghai.

Workers have also been trained.

Shortly after the beginning of 1929, SAIC Motor Company assembled the first domestically produced Model T using imported auto parts and local domestic spare parts.

This is not the first domestic car, but it has important significance, opening the prelude for Chinese to truly enter the automobile era. Among the domestic spare parts manufacturers that provide auto parts for it, there is actually a Dasheng company next door.

To be precise, Daisheng Loom Co., Ltd., a brother company of Dasheng Automobile Company, has transformed Dasheng Loom Co., Ltd. into an advanced clutch manufacturer by using its experience and strength in the field of machinery manufacturing. Manufactures clutches for SAIC Motor and Dasheng Automobile.

There is also Meihua Tire Company, which developed from Acorn International Company, which is also a beneficiary of the development of domestic automobiles.

Over time. More and more automobile-related industries are gathered in Shanghai, and automobiles will become another driving force for China's economic development after railways, electrical, and textiles.

Although it started later than that of Europe and the United States, the automobile industry in Europe and the United States is almost over the prosperous twenties.

SAIC Motor Co., Ltd. modified the open dick silk car of the Model T to make it conform to the aesthetics of the Chinese, and turned it into a closed compartment with more space and glass window design to add to the car's fashion.

In essence, it is still a Model T car, even the black paint of the Ford Model T car has been retained in its original place, and it is already a backward model in the United States, but in China, people have just entered the era of automobiles, there are not many requirements, there are few types of cars on the market, most of them are expensive imported cars, a high-quality and inexpensive domestic car just fills people's desire for cars, and it is also in line with the social trend of rejuvenating the country through industry and advocating domestic products.

Song Zi'an was very smart, advertised in the newspaper, and boasted through the Shiwu Bao and Ta Kung Pao under the Shanghai Poster Industry Group, and everyone thought it was a domestically made car.

Song Zi'an named it Shanghai brand car, this name is really nothing new, and even the car logo is simply "Shanghai SH".

"Below a thousand yuan, Chinese cars, you deserve to have!"

This propaganda slogan was shouted loudly, and the citizens of Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin and other big cities suddenly found that the streets and alleys were full of advertisements about Shanghai brand cars, and the advertising efforts were no less than tobacco advertisements.

Shanghai Motor Company learned from Ford's propaganda methods and organized automobile teams to "swagger through the city" in big cities across the country, so that citizens could see the demeanor of national automobiles with their own eyes!

The selling price is only 1,000 yuan in legal currency, which is equivalent to half a year's salary of a university professor, which is very competitive.

Of course, a librarian can't afford to pay 8 oceans, but it doesn't mean that the working class doesn't want to own a cheap car, and if he does, the librarian can afford to buy a car.

In fact, if you were in Shanghai, the monthly salary of a librarian would have risen to 20 yuan.

Middle-class people such as teachers, government employees, and white-collar workers generally earn more than 50 yuan a month.

It is impossible to compare the standard of living of these people in another part of history, but in this context, industry and commerce in the Zhi Gong Party-ruled areas developed rapidly, creating tens of millions of jobs, the rapid rise in urbanization, and the influx of large numbers of rural people into the cities or emigration.

According to optimistic estimates, the proportion of the urbanized population in the Southern Customs Union region is approaching 25 percent, equivalent to an urban population of 50 to 60 million.

On the other side of history, until 50 years, the urbanization of the population did not exceed 10%!

It can be seen that in the past ten years, from Liangguang to the entire south, Wuhan is about to go through the first five-year plan, although the country is divided as a whole, but the main body has undergone earth-shaking changes Steel production has exceeded one million tons, can know locomotives, railways, ships, aircraft and cannons, and establish a relatively complete industrial system, which is regarded as an industrial power, and Italy is in between.

Of course, this kind of change is only experienced by a few people who are interested, and most people just feel that life is a little better, there are more factories, and the city has developed, and the days are far from satisfying them.

If in a leased city like Shanghai, foreigners are still superior, and Chinese are still the target of bullying.

However, at this moment, the foreigner standing on the top floor of Shanghai's tallest building, the Chinachem Hotel, did not feel good, and did not feel that the foreigner could stay high in Shanghai for too long.

Although he is the king of Shanghai, the famous Jewish tycoon Sassoon, the owner of Nanjing Road, commonly known as the "road owner", recently built the famous Chinachem Hotel at his feet, almost the whole of Shanghai under his feet.

"It's hard to imagine that when I built this building, I never imagined that there would be a day when everything needed for the building, from steel, marble, electric lights, elevators, to designers and engineering teams, could be bought in this country!

The country has made amazing progress in industrial development in recent years.

Of course, I still like the electric lights in Europe and the elevators in the United States. ”

Sassoon turned back to another Jew and sighed.

In front of him, the usually proud Sassoon attitude is respectful and friendly, because he is the president of the American-Chinese Bank and the helmsman of Asian Finance - little Kadoorie.

"It's true, and now the Kadoorie family no longer has to buy materials from as far away as Europe for their second villa." Little Kadoorie laughed.

As for China's economic data, the Bank of America and China has much more detailed information than the data from Shanghai Customs.

"Shanghai is indeed a magic city, it can only be described as a city by magic, even if it is me, the founder of Shanghai's industrialization, sometimes looking back at it, I will feel incredible."

Little Kadoorie is a little proud in his heart, the boss is far away in the sky, little known, don't you think that he and the Bank of America and China have created the industrial myth of Shanghai?

In the Zhi Gong Party, although little Kadoorie is a foreigner, he has gained a lot of recognition.

Shanghai is blowing the automobile trend, Shanghai attaches equal importance to economy, industry and trade, and the steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and electrical industries led by Baosteel Xingang Industrial Zone have an industrial scale of 1 billion US dollars, and the industrial development speed is faster than the traditional light industry, finance, and trade industries, and it is much better than the other side.

Little Kadoorie stood in front of the window, looking at the busy traffic on Nanjing Road below, and there was actually the recently popular Shanghai brand 1,000-yuan national car swaggering through the city on Nanjing Road, and the frequency was quite high, which seemed to confirm the strong sales of Shanghai brand cars. (To be continued.) )