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In his memory, in the previous life, when the Soviet Union mass-produced tracked tractors, most of the tractors in the United States were changed to wheeled structures.

There are two main reasons, one is that the transportation situation in the USSR is worrying, and it is not as developed as the United States, but the Soviet tractors were designed according to the standards of tanks and armored vehicles from the very beginning, and it is natural to choose a strong and good off-road tracked tractor.

The tractors in the United States are more civilian, more convenient and flexible. Even wheeled tractors, a large part of the tractors in the United States have the luxury of gasoline engines.

If there are other reasons for the different directions of tractor development in the United States and the Soviet Union, differences in manufacturing technology or rubber raw materials are also reasons that cannot be ignored.

Just like the second-hand tractor production line that Situ Nan sold to the Soviet Union at a high price, the Soviet Union actually had no choice in the face of a world blockade.

From the perspective of the Soviets, using American technology and equipment to develop their own industries and using the mineral resources mined by the United States as a means of payment is not a loss-making business.

The national conditions of South China determine that it is necessary to take the light and dexterous route, and it is impossible to develop bulky and sturdy like the Soviet Union, and the most ideal choice is a light and fast wheeled tractor, and even the development of tanks and armored vehicles in the future is also a light wheeled structure.

Cummins Power has developed a diesel engine suitable for automobile use, considering fuel economy and cost, and Situ Nan is also considering promoting diesel engine vehicles in South China. Although South China is rich in oil resources.

When Situ Nan told Xu Zhouyang these ideas. Xu Zhouyang pondered for a long time, raised his head and stared at Situ Nan, and finally sighed: "I really don't understand what unexpected plans you have in your mind. Needless to say, if Liangguang has the opportunity to go north in the future, you will definitely instigate Song Ziwen to build what you call a stupid and black crawler tractor in Wuhan. ”

This is premature. Let's wait until they put the Hanyang Iron Works under the protection of the army! Situ Nan said lightly. He hoped so.

At present, Nanhua has no picky capital, and its role in international trade is basically similar to that of the Soviet Union, importing machinery and equipment, exporting minerals and agricultural products, and accumulating industrialized capital with the sweat of tens of millions of people.

Under the arrangement of Situ Nan and Xu Zhouyang, Cummins Power discussed with Nanhua. It is planned to build a tractor assembly plant in New Tangshan, import diesel engines, transmissions and other important components from the United States, and produce the rest of the parts in Nanhua, laying the foundation for the establishment of a tractor factory directly in Nanhua in the future.

"It seems that it will take two more years to see the full autonomy of Nanhua tractors." Situ Nan said to Xu Zhouyang with some regret.

"The development speed of Nanhua is already very amazing, do you still want to eat a fat man?" Xu Zhouyang shook his head with a smile, and said in his heart: Nanhua wants to build railways and highways. At the same time, the development of the shipbuilding industry will swallow up the hundreds of thousands of steel output in Nanhua as easily as a bottomless black hole, and in less than three or five years, there will be enough steel resources for the development of other industrial sectors.

Despite this, Xu Zhouyang is still excited about the development of Nanhua. In addition to South China, the Liangguang regime maintained close ties with overseas Chinese forces. The speed of development of industrialization is not slow, basically the factories built by Nanhua will also have branches in Guangzhou, Nanning and other places.

is not favoritism, this is what Xu Zhouyang is more satisfied with Situ Nan.

After some haggling, Cummins Power and HOLT finally reached a preliminary consensus in the negotiations. Establishment of a new joint venture. The joint venture is named after Holt's tractor brand, Pitcaller, and HOLT is all part of Pittkalle.

Cummins Power owns 60 percent of Pitcaller, but will soon transfer 20 percent of its stake to California Agribusiness to invest more money in the diesel vehicle market.

"Pete Caller, that sounds like a bull's call. It's finally here! Situ Nan received a telegram from Chicago from He Yongyuan and smiled proudly.

I just don't know. As a result of his interference, will Pitckahler still achieve such glorious achievements as in history?

"Young master, after the merger, the Pitcler Company has become the largest construction equipment manufacturer and the second largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the United States, and it will definitely have a dragon battle with the combine harvesting company in the future."

He Yongyuan smiled confidently.

The Combine Harvester Company is the largest agricultural machinery company in the United States, headquartered in Chicago and founded in the mid-nineteenth century by engineer McCormick. He has made great contributions to the development of American agriculture.

The large farms being implemented by Nanhua have also purchased many harvesters from combine harvester companies, which provides a lot of convenience for large-scale mechanized rice planting.

The Combine Harvester Company overlaps with Pietkaler in terms of business, and in addition to manufacturing agricultural machinery such as harvesters, it also has a strong strength in construction machinery.

"That's right. The McCormick family is not simple, they will definitely make a big move, wait and see! Situ Nan replied.

As Situ Nan expected, soon after Cummins Power and HOLT reached a joint venture to establish Pitchaler, the joint acquisition machine company began to contact Best Corporation, one of the largest machinery companies in the United States.

In order to face the strong challenge of Pitchaler, Combine and Best soon came together and merged into the new Combine Company.

Historically, Best Company and HOLT Company were originally married in 1925 to become Pitchaler Company, but due to the early birth of Pitchaler Company, Best Company and Combine Harvester Company came together and gradually became a reality.

"Young master, we had better preemptively acquire Best before the combine harvester company, which will help Pitchaler expand its market share in the harvester market."

He Yongyuan said, but he didn't expect the other party's reaction to be much faster than he expected.

"Leave this matter to Xu Zhouyang to deal with!"

Situ Nan politely refused. I am not very optimistic about He Yongyuan's construction, if you want to destroy the cooperation between the combine harvester company and the best company, Situ Nan is still sure of it, but the price is definitely not small, and the effect is likely to be unsatisfactory, so why bother yourself? If it wasn't necessary, Situ Nan didn't want to go to war with the Chicago consortium.

Not only did there be no war, but Situ Nan and the McCormis family and other key members of the Chicago consortium reached a tacit agreement to introduce funds from the Chicago consortium to develop the oil business, and Citroen Oil Company introduced the Chicago consortium as a shareholder.

In return, the William consortium strengthened the Chicago machine building industry. The meat processing industry and the department store industry infiltrated to achieve mutually acceptable results, and were faintly wary of the two major conglomerates of Morgan and Rockefeller in New York.

The Morgan consortium, in particular, is so powerful in the financial sector that it controls most of the railroads and the U.S. steel companies.

Situ has been investing heavily in the oil, automobile, and aviation sectors, and has developed new means of transportation to reduce its dependence on railways.

Twenties and thirties of the twentieth century. If you want to say which city has the most influence on the United States, the answer is undoubtedly Detroit!

The headquarters of the world's three major auto giants, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, are located in Detroit, and millions of cars are sold from Detroit's car factories every year to all parts of the United States.

In particular, Ford's invention of the assembly line production method has profoundly changed the United States. Relying on Detroit Motor City, steel. Machinery, glass, rubber, tanning, petroleum and other industrial sectors are densely clustered around the city of Detroit and even in the Great Lakes industrial area. A huge industrial sector with automobile manufacturing as the core has been formed.

Every time he came to Detroit, Stuart Nan felt excited, and when he came out of the train station, he smiled and asked He Yongyuan: "What surprise do you think Walter (Chrysler's name) will bring us this time?" ”

"It should be a great car! I'm looking forward to it too! He Yongyuan said with a smile. Before coming, Chrysler sent a telegram inviting Situ Nan to attend the launch of Chrysler's new car.

Coming out of the train station, a manager sent by Chrysler greeted them. Due to the delay of Situ Nan's trip in Chicago, it was already noon when he arrived in Detroit, and the new car launch had already been held in the morning.

I haven't seen it for a few years, but Detroit is much more prosperous than the last time Stuart Nan came, and the traffic density on the streets is much denser than in other places, and the factories I see along the way are either the factories of the three major automobile companies, or the auto parts manufacturers and automobile industry-related enterprises around the three major automobile companies.

Situ Nan saw it in his eyes and nodded secretly.

"Young master, look. That's our gas station, oh, Uncle Ma's M Kee fast food restaurant is also open next to the gas station, and the business is very good! ”

He Yongyuan pointed out the window and said excitedly.

"Hmm." Situ Nan nodded, all the way over, he was paying attention to the gas stations along the way, in addition to the Western Petroleum Company, he also saw the gas station of Exxon Oil Company.

"Although the pipeline has not yet been laid here from the southern coast, no one can ignore the gasoline market in the Detroit market, and it is really necessary for Occidental Petroleum to have a branch here." South Szeto Road.

He Yongyuan thought so, and understood very well the determination of Situ Nan and Occidental Petroleum Company to this market. The Great Lakes Industrial Region is now one of the most promising markets for Western oil companies, and the number of cars here is not at all as small as that of the eastern seaboard.

The new car launch was held at the downtown auto exhibition center in Detroit, and as soon as Situ Nan got out of the car, he heard the noise coming from inside, and the crowd was surging, which seemed to be quite lively.

Situ Nan smiled slightly, and heard He Yongyuan pointing to the huge poster at the door and said excitedly: "Oh! It's so beautiful! ”

At a glance, a glittering, streamlined car jumped on the paper, and Situ Nan immediately smiled. Of course, he didn't laugh at the car, but felt that the people around him were making a fuss.

He paid attention to his surroundings, and the passers-by passing by at the entrance of the exhibition center also stopped to watch, their eyes showed a glint of appreciation, obviously they had not seen the physical car, and the unusual car was deeply attracted to people.

"Crazy people! Even I can't resist having such a good car, even though it's not the first time I've seen it. The manager of Chrysler said with a smile, pointing to the long queue in the exhibition center, and said with a smile, "That's the pre-sale office, and you can get a 98% discount if you order in advance." It seems that today's pre-sale results may be more than 1,000. ”

"How much does it cost?" Situ Nan asked.

"$888, targeting middle-class families." The manager replied. With his annual salary of $5,000 as a sales manager at Chrysler, he could afford the car, so many Chrysler employees had already snapped up orders before the exhibition.

"It's a good car!" Situ Nan nodded, satisfied. Although he has not yet entered to really feel the car, he is familiar with the history of Chrysler, and he can see at a glance that the new car presented in front of him is an epoch-making streamlined car designed by Chrysler Company ten years later in history, whether it is the V8 car launched by Ford Company or the Beetle car of Volkswagen of Germany, their design concept comes from this "airflow" car of Chrysler Company.

The streamlined exterior design was undoubtedly a revolution in car design for Americans accustomed to the old-fashioned Model T, and Chrysler must have done a lot of wind tunnel work to design the car. This is unimaginable for car companies.

The reason why Situ Nan is so sure is because Cummins Power has built the world's most advanced wind tunnel in the real room in Long Beach, California, which is specially designed for Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, and there is only one in the United States, and there is no reason why the Chrysler design team should not use such good resources.

Perhaps the Chrysler company should have changed the ugly streamlined body into something and modified it slightly, and it was basically the same as the famous Volkswagen Beetle.

Situ Nan thought to himself.

Walking into the exhibition center, I soon saw Walter in the spring breeze? Chrysler and Davis? Anderson came out to greet him.

The two of them were two of the three giants of the Chrysler Corporation, and now they came out to greet Situ Nan together, making the surrounding audience and the employees of the Chrysler Corporation secretly surprised, looking curiously at the young young man with black hair and black eyes.

Situ Nan had long been accustomed to this kind of gaze, and the attention around him did not affect him at all, accompanied by Walter, Situ Nan visited the exquisite car in the middle of the platform.

"What's its name?" Situ Nan asked.

"Airflow!" Walter replied.

And so it was.

Situ Nan nodded, stroking the smooth and smooth body of the car, a little in love.

Chrysler laughed, "How's that?" It's great, isn't it? ”

In order to develop this car, Chrysler spent four years and spent $1 million to create a classic, which embodies the hard work of Walter and Chrysler.

To this end, Chrysler also reluctantly gave up the promising tractor market and sold the shares of the tractor factory to Cummins Power.

"Of course, it's cute and will soon become American's new favorite." Situ Nan nodded. Chrysler is doing well, Walter's watch is outstanding, and Situ Nan is really not dissatisfied.

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