The seven students transferred from the Anqing Wubei Academy, as well as those transferred from other provinces, have all been heard from. This shocked the headquarters of the Tokyo Alliance, but also felt that things did not seem to be as simple as they imagined, at least not a simple matter of enriching themselves.

can clean up more than 10 people at a time, Lu Chuanguang can't do it, which means that there must be other potential forces in Wuhu.

Therefore, despite the high demand for sending a second group of people, the headquarters of the Tokyo Alliance decided to wait and see for a while, after all, it was impossible to send people to die without even knowing who the opponent was.

After getting the news from the inside, Yan Shao was also relieved.

Although I won't be afraid of the people of the Alliance, it will be very troublesome to be harassed like this all the time.

So after ordering someone to clean up the traces in both places, everything returned to normal.

Of course, that's not to say that no one was aware of what happened that night. At this time, the population of Wuhu was close to 150,000, and the population density in China at this time was relatively high.

Even if the government had heard about it, it had no intention of asking.

After all, it's not something they can do anymore...

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In Yan Shao's office on the top floor of the building, two potted plants are placed in the corner of the room, where the servant in charge of processing is watering, and Yan Shao is sitting behind the desk looking at the documents.

About ten minutes later. The servant, who had taken care of everything, bowed slightly, withdrew from the room without making a move, and closed the door by the way. Yan Shao, on the other hand, continued to look at the documents in his hand. Written on it is last year's financial report.

In such an era, it is undoubtedly troublesome to keep a record of the company's financial income and expenses. The rough statistical report was only completed in February, and what Yan Shao has in his hand now is a revised version after that.

For the whole of last year, the company's financial revenue was 13 million silver dollars, of which more than 9 million were provided by cotton mills and more than 3 million from flour mills and several other factories and companies.

Then, according to the old rules, the ironworks are still operating at a loss. Since the crude steel output of the iron plant has reached more than 80,000 tons, it is now losing at least 8 to 900,000 yuan a year.

Fortunately, the group's earnings were quite good at this time, so this loss was also within the tolerance range. And as time went on, the ironworks' losses also improved.

"And when the depot is repaired, there will be no need to worry about the sale of the iron plant's steel, so that the loss of the iron plant should be reversed...... At least a more balanced situation can be reached..."

According to the meeting some time ago. The direction of the Group's development has been established.

The first is to continue to expand industries, including cotton mills and flour mills. In particular, the cotton textile mills, as the group's largest source of profit, will expand from the current 8 to 10, bringing the total number of spindles to 800,000.

In addition, the flour mills will also receive a sum of money to expand production, and the flour mills, although they may sound a little too low-end, are second only to the cotton textile industry in this era in terms of profitability of machine flour grinding, and the profitability within the group is higher than that of other industries. It is also a matter of course to be taken seriously.

In addition, other companies and factories have also received some investment. In general, almost all of the group except for the iron factory is more or less profitable, which is also related to the cautious choice at the beginning, even if it is the ash factory that has not made a penny so far, it can be regarded as a lot of profit when converted into the money left for the group. This is very different from Nantong Dasheng, although there are many stalls in Dasheng now, but there are few that can make money except for the yarn factory, and the future results can be imagined.

Temporarily putting the report on the table, Yan Shao got up and took out a glass of juice from the freezer next to him.

Just as he had taken a sip and was about to sit back down to read the report, the phone on the desk suddenly rang.

Frowning slightly, Yan Shao really couldn't stand the ringtone of this kind of phone now, but there was no way, who called the ringtone of this era like this.

"Hey, it's me...", Yan Shao took another sip. After about ten seconds, listening to the business on the phone, Yan Shao suddenly showed a surprised expression. "Okay, I'll be over later."

As he spoke, Yan Shao hung up the phone, and then took his clothes from the hanger and put them on.

Just as he was about to leave the room, the phone on the desk rang again.

...... "A little helpless." Feed? ”

After just a slight pause, Yan Shao nodded and said. "Okay, I'll wait here, let them come up..."After speaking, Yan Shao sat back behind the desk, and sorted out the financial report on the desk by the way.

A few minutes later, just as Yan Shao was putting the financial report in the safe under his desk, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in."

With Yan Shao's permission, a man and a woman walked in from outside.

"Boss!"

It was Tang Li and Luo Wenying, who were in charge of handling the matter of the Alliance, who walked in, and when they saw the two of them, Yan Shao bowed slightly. "It's almost done..."

"It's all done," Tang Li said in a respectful voice. The corpses were all thrown into the river, and the possibility of being found was very small, and the courtyard where they lived and Lu Chuanguang's house were also cleaned up to ensure that no one would find any traces, and the people who lived nearby had also 'communicated' in advance..."

"Very good..."Yan Shao smiled with satisfaction. It's the right thing to do to you. ”

Hearing Yan Shao's praise, Tang Li and Luo Wenying also smiled.

"By the way, boss, you're heading out?" Looking at Yan Shao, who was dressed in formal clothes, Tang Li said with some curiosity. After all, she is an old man in the manor, and she still knows some of Yan Shao's living habits, such as preferring to sleep naked when she sleeps, and never likes to wear too many clothes when she is in the house.

Now I'm wearing a coat in the office. There was only one reason for this, and that was that he was about to leave.

"Yes," Yan Shao said with a smile. Something is about to go wrong, how's that? Would you like to come along..."

"Of course...", he was invited by Yan Shao. The two of them said happily.

After leaving the office, the three of them took the elevator to the parking garage on the basement floor.

This floor is dedicated to parking vehicles, and is usually guarded by 2 or 30 soldiers, so you don't need to worry about someone putting a bomb on the car or something—————— although the assassins of this era may not be so advanced...

"Boss..."Seeing Yan Shao, two guards in charge of security work hurriedly surrounded him.

Nodding at them, Yan Shao took Tang Li and Luo Wenying to board a car.

After driving out of the underground garage, under the protection of four cars. The car was driving slowly, and at this time, Tang Li looked at Yan Shao with some curiosity. "Boss, we're going..."

"Go to the car factory. By the way, I will also give you a glimpse of the future of nationalist China..."

"The Future of Nationalist China?" Secretly grinning, both Tang Li and Luo Wenying felt a little weird about this answer. But just when she wanted to ask more clearly, Yan Shao betrayed her and Luo Wenying.

About ten minutes later, the car finally drove into the car factory.

In a vacant lot in the factory. Li Yin and a few others. Also including Zong Wu, the manager of the future automobile factory, stood here waiting for Yan Shao's arrival.

After getting out of the car, Yan Shao didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly to Li Yin. "Got it all done?"

"It's all done..."Li Yin was also a little excited. Now everything is ready to start at any time...", he pointed to a factory not far away.

Under the guidance of Li Yin, Zong Wu and others, the group walked into the factory.

In the factory, hundreds of workers are standing neatly on both sides of a production line more than 100 meters long, as if they are quietly waiting for something, while some workers are curious to turn around. Want to see the people who suddenly walked into the factory.

Just next to the production line, Li Yin said proudly. "After months of hard work. In general, the whole assembly is not very mature, at least there is a lot of room for improvement, but compared with the traditional manual work, it can be improved by hundreds of times..."

Standing on the side, Zong Wu was also excited and excited, obviously he was also very aware of the importance of the monster in front of him.

At the same time, Tang Li and Zongwu, who didn't understand what was going on at all, looked inexplicable, and didn't understand what this had to do with the 'future of nationalist China' in Yan Shao's mouth.

However, when the two looked at Yan Shao inexplicably, Yan Shao patted the shoulders of the two excitedly. "This is the future of the country..."

It is important to know that the 'assembly line' is an important symbol of the second industrial revolution, as long as you take the lead in having him, even if it is only one or two years ahead of other countries, it can also bring huge benefits to the whole country.

Not knowing what Tang Li and Luo Wenying were doing, Li Yin glanced at the two 'illiterate' with contempt, and then said to Yan Shao with the same excitement.

"Boss, do you want to start now?"

"Of course!"

Now, Yan Shao also wants to see what the 'assembly line' looks like when it is in operation.

After getting Yan Shao's permission, Zong Wu waved his hand into the distance, and then the long assembly line in front of him was operational.

In the past few months, in fact, Li Yin and his team have been doing test tests, using the "working hours research" method of Taylor, which was already very famous at that time, to test every operation link and test various methods to improve efficiency. Based on the tested operating standards, the residence time on the part at each station can be measured and the flow time to the next station can be further designed.

Because the time is urgent, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the whole assembly line, but even so, the work efficiency of the entire assembly line is hundreds of times higher than in the past.

After the assembly line was running slowly, the workers installed the cars in turn according to the results of the training some time ago. There are more than 9,000 installation steps in the whole car, which makes the production efficiency of the car much slower than the historical Model T, but even so, the workers are still hard at work.

At the same time, Yan Shao and Tang Li stood aside, watching a car grow from scratch. Little by little, it is manufactured. About twenty minutes later, a brand-new car slowly drove off the production line.

Looking at this scene, Tang Li couldn't close her mouth in surprise. Although Luo Wenying was not so exaggerated, the surprise on her face was still revealed.

After glancing at the two illiterate people again, Li Yin said to Yan Shao.

"At present, the workers are not very familiar with the operation mode of the production line, and the efficiency will inevitably be a little low when working, and we have also reduced the running speed of the assembly line a lot, so now it takes about 20 minutes to produce a car, and it should be reduced to 10 minutes or even 5 minutes after being more familiar. In addition, we are also conducting further tests to prepare for the improvement of the existing production line, of course. There are also optimizations to the car, etc., and by the middle of the year or the end of the year, maybe it will be able to speed up a little more..."

Li Yin's contempt Tang Li and Luo Wenying naturally noticed it, but after looking at the assembly line that was still operating in the distance. The two could only pretend not to see it.

"One car in 20 minutes...", pursed his lips. Yan Shao looked at Li Yin. "What is the annual production capacity?"

"At present, we are implementing an eight-hour work system, if we only rotate one shift a day, then we can produce about 9,000 vehicles a year, if it is two shifts, it can reach 18,000, but according to my estimates, by the end of this month, workers should be able to master the production technology more proficiently, and then the operation speed of the assembly line can be slightly increased, to the point of one every 10 minutes. That's 17,000 vehicles in 8 hours, and more than 34,000 vehicles in 16 hours..."

This efficiency is already quite impressive. After all, Ford produced only 12,000 vehicles from 1908 to 1910, and Yan Shao was able to achieve this level with only one production line and a group of workers on the first day.

However, after frowning slightly, Yan Shao looked at Li Yin again.

"Can you speed it up a little faster?"

The annual output of 1, 20,000, or even 20,000 or 30,000 is indeed amazing, but it is not enough to reach the point of seizing the European and American markets.

"Yes." Li Yin said categorically. "By May, it should be one every five minutes. However, this is already the limit at this stage, and if you want to increase production capacity, in addition to optimizing the existing models and assembly lines, you can only assemble a few more assembly lines..."

"Then go the two roads together, in addition to the existing assembly line, assemble a few more...", Yan Shao said and looked at Zong Wu. You should also post a few more notices here, and now that the people here in Wuhu should have finished digging, let's go to Nanjing and Hefei to post them..."

"Understood..."

Nodding, Zong Wu said respectfully.

After seeing the operation of the assembly line, Zongwu's reverence for Yan Shao has reached an all-time high.

Not only him, but even Tang Li and Luo Wenying on the side, watching the cars walk down the assembly line, the two finally understood why Yan Shao would say that this is the 'future of nationalist China'...

Just such an assembly line of 5 or 600 people can be compared with the annual production capacity of more than 13,000 people of Ford. What would happen if we put together a few more assembly lines?

"This ......" is in line with the sensitivity to intelligence, and of course, the curiosity of women about gossip, although Li Yin's contempt made Tang Li a little unhappy, but Tang Li still asked curiously. I would like to ask you, how much do these cars cost? ”

Although he doesn't want to pay attention to these 'illiterates', considering that they were brought by Yan Shao personally, especially the woman, he has also heard of the rumors that Yan Shao is lustful, who knows if the woman in front of him has a leg with Yan Shao, if she neglects her, just blow a little pillow wind...

Considering the funds of the future research institute, Li Yin could only reluctantly say. "At present, the cost is about 500 US dollars per car, but after the production efficiency is improved, it should reach 400 or even 300 US dollars, and when the supporting parts factory is established and the optimization of the car is achieved, it is not impossible to reduce it to 1 or 200 US dollars..."

This is really not an exaggeration, because the Model T has historically sold for $300, and even reached $260 at the lowest, which is more than half of the original $850.

"$500, if you want to make a profit, you have to sell it for at least $600..."

Hearing her words, Yan Shao smiled and patted her head—————— it was often like this when she was in the manor, so neither of them felt that there was anything wrong, but Li Yin on the side looked a little weird.

"To be exact, it is 750 US dollars, and although the price of these cars has been reduced a lot compared to other cars in the same period, it is still very expensive for many people in China, so it is mainly sold to Europe and the United States, where the lowest price of the car is Ford's Model T, priced at 850 US dollars, so in the case of little difference in performance, we have a great price advantage, even if you count the transportation costs, there is a lot of profit..."

Even if the transportation cost of one car is 50 US dollars, 10,000 vehicles a year can earn 2 million US dollars, according to the current exchange rate is more than 5 million silver dollars, which is equivalent to half a cotton textile mill (referring to the existing 8 combined), not to mention that the transportation cost is simply not so expensive.

And if the annual production of cars can reach 10 to 200,000 units, then the profit can reach 20 million to 40 million US dollars, that is, 500 to 10 million pounds, which is equivalent to the amount of money Yan Shao made after selling Petroleos Mexicanos... (To be continued......)