Chapter 85: The Great Depression (4)

"Help me contact my mother." Huang Xuan slowly followed behind the new workers, and the heavy smell of sweat and fox odor flew in the air. The sky is full of men's hormones. As in most factories during this period, newly recruited workers did not need to go through the red tape, but the first thing they did was to work, so that the boss had enough time to exploit them.

Lorraine didn't discuss the issue of energy loss this time, in fact, his judgment was limited to data such as loss.

There is a slight delay in the communication between the planes, as the propagation medium of sound waves, pure energy fluctuations need to consume more energy, in order to avoid the situation of no number again, Lorraine tied the communication connection to Huang Xuan's mobile phone, and this layer of conversion requires more energy.

After waiting for about two minutes, Zhang Xinyi's voice came, with a somewhat sleepy taste: "Son, went out so early?" Where are you? ”

Judging from the energy screen given by Lorraine, it should have been just 6 o'clock now, Huang Xuan stuck out his tongue and said, "Mom, I'm out of Nanjing now, I have encountered some problems, and I want you to help." ”

"Out of Nanjing?" Zhang Xinyi sat up all of a sudden, and woke up Huang Qunsheng next to her, she grabbed the quilt and said, "This Li Qing, how dare I take you out at night?" ”

Huang Xuan cautiously followed behind Thomas and the others, and said, "It has nothing to do with him, I secretly came out alone." ”

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Xinyi pinched the microphone and said, "Where are you?" ”

That's not good to talk to my mother, she always wants to figure things out first. Huang Xuan had to lie: "It was too late yesterday, there were some things in the factory on the outskirts of the city, I went over, and I didn't rush back after dealing with it, so I called you." ”

"Then be careful, I asked Li Qing to pick you up. This guy. ”

It seems that my mother is going to teach Mr. Li a lesson, Huang Xuan smiled bitterly: "Mom, don't call him over, I'll deal with some things by the way, I was originally looking for your help, but you are deliberately changing the topic." ”

After making sure that her son was fine, Zhang Xinyi put on her coat and said, "Say, what do you want your mother to do?" ”

"Well, I want to find a few professional mechanical engineers, who must respond quickly and be proficient in business, especially proficient in mechanical technology from the 30s to the 70s, and be able to draw drawings, and they must prepare materials."

"This should be your dad." Zhang Xinyi said and pressed the phone on the speakerphone, and said, "You tell your dad again." ”

Huang Xuan reluctantly repeated it again, at this time the group was almost to the workshop, and he said anxiously: "My car is about to arrive, just such a thing, but I have to work full-time for a few days, and I must be professional." I'll pay the salary, you can look for it, preferably this afternoon. ”

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Xinyi said in a hurry.

"I can't tell you for a while." Huang Xuan lowered his head and said: "Mom, after you help me find someone, ask them to prepare the materials, find an office location, and then find a few computers with the Internet, I will hand over the requirements and drawings to them at any time, and let them pass it to me after completion, about a week or so, is 1 million US dollars enough?" ”

"Waste." Zhang Xinyi laughed and said, "Okay, I'll just give you the money, I'll ask the secretary, and then ask your father to help you make an appointment with a few old professors, but you have to be polite, don't talk about money, we'll arrange it for you." ”

"Thank you, Mom." Huang Xuan happily kissed one.

As he spoke, Huang Xuan had already walked into a small new factory, Rouge was the largest factory in the world, and new factories were being built here almost every day, even the Great Depression could not stop Henry. Ford's desire to expand.

There was no deafening mechanical sound in the workshop, and the environment was much better than that of ordinary workers, Thomas brought people here, let go of the hand covering his eyes, and said: "You all listen to Jens's orders, give the old workers a hand first, and the guys who don't work hard will leave, understand?" ”

Huang Xuan looked around curiously, there were only a small number of lathes here, some people were lying on the table in dirty overalls, or doing something near the lathe, most of them were older than the young range, probably some technicians.

Some large drawings fell on the black cast iron table, Huang Xuan leaned over to take a look, but was slapped back, and said, "Apprentices can't look at these." ”

It was Jens who spoke, a ring-faced man in his 40s, with his hair combed back in a mess, a big nose, and slightly back ears.

Huang Xuan left the table indifferently, turned around and said to Lorraine: "What are those drawings, compare more advanced technology." ”

"How advanced it is."

"Within the 50s." Huang Xuan avoided everyone's gaze and said, "Do you have any way to output these drawings?" "It's a bit unrealistic to draw it directly, and if the workload is larger, Huang Xuanke is a little worried about muscle soreness.

Lorraine didn't need to think about it, and said, "Is it okay to directly adsorb the toner?" As long as there is paper and toner, the output speed is about 30 seconds per square. ”

"That's OK." Huang Xuan returned to the "team" as he spoke, and finally said: "Let's see what Ford's newly researched cars are, complete them, and then find out the technology they lack." ”

"Okay." For Lorraine, it is very simple to find all kinds of technical information in P112, and it is not difficult to find information in a certain plane, it is just a matter of how much energy is consumed. However, if you want to search for a certain area of information in a large area, especially in a large area of non-native planes, it will not only consume a lot of energy, but also be inefficient. After all, Lorraine's search is not a search engine, and different planes may require different search methods, which is also costly.

Huang Xuan now asks Lorraine to search only P101, that is, the plane data he is currently in, in this era of no data information, the search of data is still quite a waste of energy.

In the past day, the cost of energy has exceeded one million dollars, otherwise how can it be said that time travel is a burning of money, Huang Xuan doesn't care, he is still immersed in the high returns of the previous times.

"Gather around." Jens shouted in what he thought was an ordinary voice, and the workers, who had long been accustomed to him, did not even lift their heads.

Huang Xuangao walked over with his feet raised, Rouge's environment is excellent in this era, but the dirty "mess" in the workshop is still there, the ground is full of iron filings and black brought by lubricating oil, Huang Xuan, who has never been to this kind of place, is very uncomfortable.

"The three of you follow Kocchi to draw, and he has 50 more parts drawings, which must be done today." Among the people Jens pointed to was Huang Xuan, and he looked at the other two and walked over.

Kochi has two big eyes, deep sunken eye sockets, a lack of sleep, a discordant husband and wife, he is decomposing a big guy into parts, different parts are carefully placed on the table, seeing the thick stack of white paper, Huang Xuan suddenly felt how wrong it is to pretend to recruit workers.

It would be 14 years before computers appeared, and CAD-assisted drafting was a thing of the past. Photocopying is even more of a cloud, and judging by the way Kochi looks, it's probably not Ford's own parts that he gets.

Huang Xuan took a deep breath and said, "Lorraine, it's all your life." ”

It must be believed that the limits of human beings can surprise their fellow human beings.

The non-human Lorraine, combined with a stupid Huang Xuan, produced a limit that petrified the Americans present. Such a speed, not to mention drawing against the real thing, is to take a picture and copy it, and it has also reached the highest speed. In fact, the current speed maintained by Lorraine does not depend on any thinking ability, it is entirely because of Huang Xuan's muscle endurance, after all, he has to continue to draw, considering the level of soreness that Huang's small arm endures, Lorraine thinks that he controls the speed.

However, the speed of less than 10 minutes of a parts drawing still made Kochi's thick lips thinner. There was even more silence all around.

Even the workers who "operated" the machine tools noticed Huang Xuan, the constantly shaking T-ruler, the pencil dancing in the air, everything proved that the Asian youth in front of him had abilities that they could not imagine.

Kochi looked at Huang Xuan's drawings of the parts twice, and there was not a single mistake, under normal circumstances, such a thing rarely happens, even if it is a skilled worker, there will inevitably be some problems when drawing against the real thing. The three-view is to stipulate the person's line of sight as a parallel projection line, and then look directly at the object, and draw the outline of the object with the orthographic projection method, which is slightly contrary to the normal consciousness of the person, such as an ellipsoid, its view is actually a rectangle. So it's not surprising that when part drawings get complicated, there are some minor problems.

Huang Xuan's eyes were half-squinted, in everyone's opinion, this Oriental man was a little unfathomable, but these gentlemen didn't know that this guy was closing his eyes and recuperating.

After being stunned for a while, Thomas shouted very angrily: "Cheer up, move quickly." ”

Only then did the workers retract their curious eyes and let Huang Xuan wave his arms alone.

Rocky stared at Huang Xuan with strange eyes, patted his shoulder, and said, "The kid is good." ”

"That's it." Huang Xuan smiled, and his arms were not affected in any way, if there was anything like TV in this era, it would be even more perfect.

In just half a day, Huang Xuan used Lorraine to conquer the workers, and in the afternoon, the story of three punches minus one punch and the violent beating of Thomas spread all over the workshop. It's a pity that in this era, I don't want to use any magical oriental or the like, otherwise Huang Xuan would be the first to get this title.

The Rouge site is Henry. Ford's greatest dream, when he was in good health, was his home base, but after stepping down as chairman, his son Edsel Brown. Ford is here. However, Henry still holds the greatest power, and Edsel usually needs to ask Henry for advice.

Of course, Edsel still had the greatest say in day-to-day matters, and the elder Ford's physical condition was no longer suitable for administration.

In the design of the Model A, Edsel was responsible for the interior design such as the engine construction, and the Model A proved to be a successful model, a hybrid of the Audi and Santana series from the perspective of the new century – cheap, convenient and of decent quality. Most of the industrial capitalists of the '30s had a technical background, just as the computer industry in the '90s was mostly made up of technological streams. Edsel was also a capitalist who believed in the power of machinery.

After lunch, Huang Xuan continued to draw, at this time his work had been completed, while no one was paying attention, he quietly drew a few sketches, one of which was the engine sketch of Ford V8, which mainly described its technical indicators, originally this required hundreds of drawings to describe, but if it was just to make people understand, a simple drawing can also be explained.

The second is a classic car – the world's first front-wheel drive car, the Citroen TA front-drive, which was introduced in 1934 and successfully combined advanced technologies such as front-wheel drive, chassisless vehicle construction, single-wheel suspension by torsion bars and "hydraulic" pressing, and was produced in series production. And its biggest feature is that it can be reliable in "sex", especially when pursuing and escaping, this kind of vehicle with obvious advantages is called "robber car" because of its success.

For Huang Xuan, it doesn't matter what people are using the TA front drive for, it matters whether anyone likes it. Although this model was called a new milestone in the history of automobiles after the Ford Model T, the United States itself, research and manufacturing of front-wheel drive remained at a standstill until 1966, that is, 30 years later, Oldsmobile. Front-wheel drive was only recently used on cars such as Tona and Cadillac. While it's about its technology and productivity, the question that must be considered is that Americans may really not like it until they actually see a front-wheel drive vehicle.

These drawings were readily available in P112, and Huang Xuan quickly finished them and placed them under a pile of drawings. At the moment, the work of most of the workers has not yet been completed, so Huang Xuan has a chance to watch here for a while.

Although in the '30s, the workers at the Ford factory did not practice piecework, because of Huang Xuan's speed and the fact that he had completed tasks far beyond others, Koch was embarrassed to let him work anymore and let him wander around the workshop.

During this period, the development of mechanical technology was about to reach its peak, and the progress of precision machinery was obvious to all, and the Rouge factory was a precedent for assembly line operations, on the other hand, the so-called experts and scholars praised it for its instant system, even if it was only in the bud, but also greatly improved productivity and reduced costs.

However, Huang Xuan's independent workshop could not see these things, and he could only listen to Lorraine's explanation, while imagining what this 100,000-acre industrial base would look like, which is enough to build several industrial parks in China nearly a hundred years later.

The man was standing behind a worker and was watching him use the machine, when suddenly someone shouted, "The boss is coming." Everyone at the scene suddenly became busy.

In disguise, Huang Xuan is still relatively good, and his current state is very similar to self-study at school, when someone shouted "The head teacher is here", everyone naturally worked hard and studied for the rise of China.

Edsel is neatly dressed, his eyes are sharp and decisive, his steps are solid and powerful, and he has the momentum of a superior, but Huang Xuan knows that in a few years, he will die in an accident, so that the entire Ford is in a management chaos, which is also a major reason why Ford is lagging behind GM and other groups today, in the world's largest war - World War II, Ford is facing losses every day due to its own business problems, which even once attracted the attention of Roosevelt, he was worried that Ford's business conditions would affect the production of equipment.

As usual, Edcel spoke with a few supervisors and then walked around the shop floor to listen to the workers and try to solve or remember some of the problems he could. This usually takes 20 minutes, and after doing that, Ford is relieved to move on to the rest of the trip, which is as close as a presidential campaign.

However, when he walked around Huang Xuan, the guy pulled out the engine diagram of the V8 from the drawing, laid it on the table, and said to Edsel: "Mr. Ford, maybe you are interested in seeing these." ”

Rocky glared at him with a bad look and explained to the curious Edsel, "Well, this is our new apprentice today, and his drawings are pretty good. ”

Ford walked over with a smile, and wanted to ask Huang Xuan a few words, but after a glance, he forgot to speak.

Due to the rush of the transition from the T model to the A model, Ford, which incurred huge losses, began to develop new models very early, and the V8 should have a certain foundation at this time, but the engine drawings drawn by Huang Xuan were completely the final shape of the V8, and even Edsel himself did not know that the engine would be designed like this in the end.

"You drew it?" The picture that Huang Xuan took out was very simple, but although the sparrow was small, it had all the organs, and Edsel, who was born in technology, had already seen the mystery and spoke with a little hope.

"That's right, I have complete drawings and promise to use."

"Where?" By this time, Edsel had completely lost interest in continuing his tour.

Huang Xuan shook his head and said, "I'm going to sell it, are you interested?" ”

"Oh?" Edsel finally entered the state of a capitalist at this moment, and Huang Xuan took out a pen and made two more sketches under Lorraine's "manipulation".

This time, it's part of the V8's exterior design.

Edsel quickly put away his amazement at Huang Xuan's drawing speed, because the drawing in front of him, in his opinion, could be turned into countless banknotes. It's almost a tailor-made model for Ford – which, of course, was designed by Ford itself. He stared at Huang Xuan for a minute, but didn't find a trace of panic in it, so he said, "Can we talk?" Individual. ”

"Of course." Huang Xuan originally wanted to talk to Ford.

I have to say that this trip is quite smooth, if there is no good luck, Huang Xuan wants to meet Ford or some other big man smoothly, it may be difficult to go through many twists and turns, in that case, in the limited time, there will be too few things to do. This is also the limitation that Lorraine said, of course, selling technology is a profitable thing, but the time it takes is often too slow than selling materials directly, in the 21st century, it is not uncommon to spend two years, but for Huang Xuan, it is definitely a race against time.