A meeting that would stake the future of Cedric's company was soon over.

After coming up with the idea of designing a rain-proof car, Jack quickly assigned the task.

First of all, about buying the wasteland behind the company to expand the production workshop, Jack handed it over to Andy to execute.

Because as far as Jack knows, Andy has some connections in the Santa Clara City Council, and it is more appropriate for him to intervene to solve this problem than others.

As for designing a rain-proof car, Jack directly designed and set up a car design department, with John Gerwitt in charge of administrative matters, and then hired a designer to design the rain-proof car that Jack proposed.

I have to say that no matter which company, in its high-speed growth period, the efficiency is good.

Within a week, not only did Andy buy the wasteland behind the company from the government, but the car design department headed by John Gerwitt also quickly came up with the blueprint for the rainproof car after he hired several designers one after another.

"This car you designed is really simple enough!" Jack looked at the rainproof car design in his hand, and was extremely speechless.

Because this design is to retain most of the design of the Cedric II, add an upside-down square glass box on the outside, and then open a door on each side.

"Have you ever considered using such a large piece of glass, which is particularly prone to breakage?"

"Especially the one on the roof!"

Faced with Jack's question, John Gerwitt had nothing to say but to choose silence and then said, "I'll go back and have them redesign!" ”

"Take it back." Jack handed the blueprint to John Gerwitt.

Looking at the back of John Gerwitt leaving, Jack suddenly sighed, this was not because he intended to embarrass John Gerwitt, but because Jack had his own considerations.

As the first company owned by Jack, Cedric's company occupies a very important place in his heart, so he has long been determined to develop Cedric's company into a great company.

However, what is greatness?

Truth be told, Jack doesn't know either.

But one thing he knows is that Cedric's development cannot always rely on his own foresight, but without his own foresight, he can still walk on the right path to develop and grow, and have the ability to resist risks.

And if he wants to do what he thinks, he naturally needs talents!

Where does talent come from?

In this era when the automobile industry is just beginning to rise, relevant talents cannot be conjured out of thin air, but need to spend resources to support them.

Therefore, after proposing to design a rainproof car, he did not personally copy out the design of the car in later generations, but spent money to hire a designer to design it, and by the way, he became a companion talent.

In this rainproof car design work, he has long been clear about his positioning, that is, he only plays the role of deciding whether to adopt the design draft handed over to him by the design department.

In addition, the most important thing to do is to remind them of the problems in the design draft they submit.

Moreover, he has decided that after the design of the rainproof car is designed, he will completely delegate the authority to John Gerwitt in the design of the new car in the future, and will not interfere with it anymore.

If the design that was handed in didn't meet his requirements, he would at best ask the question but never tell them what to do.

It has to be said that the efficiency of the newly established car design department is not bad, and after Jack returned the first design draft, but two days later, John Gerwitt found Jack with another design draft.

After getting the design draft, Jack looked at it, and now the design of the design draft still follows the design concept of the previous design draft, which is still an inverted cuboid.

However, in order to solve the problem that the glass is too large and easy to break, in the current design draft, although the left and right sides and the back three directions are still dominated by glass, in the current design draft, the glass in the three directions is divided into about 20 x 20 glass, and then inlaid into the steel frame.

As for the top, it was designed directly as a thin steel plate.

"Not bad!" Although the design is still problematic in Jack's opinion, he doesn't plan to let people change anything.

Later generations of mobile phone manufacturers have already told people a truth, as a consumer commodity, the design cannot be done in one step, as long as it is a little more advanced than the previous generation.

This is also true in the automotive industry!

When designing a car, if the company has ten new technologies or new concepts, if you do it all in one step, all of them will be arranged, and the customer will buy your car, won't it be a car that will be used for a long, long time.

On second thought, if only one or two new technologies or concepts were added to the previous generation every time a car was designed, wouldn't it be possible to develop at least five generations of models with the same number of new technologies or concepts.

Under the rapid upgrading, it will definitely greatly stimulate consumers and make more money for the company with the same amount of new technology or new concept.

As a result, the concept of a streamlined body was not introduced by Kleist until 1934, and Jack did not plan to present it for the time being.

He gave Andy a draft of the design and told him that the car would be launched as the next generation of the Cedric II.

After deciding, Jack Wei handed the design draft to John Gerwitt and said with a smile: "During the test period, your car design department will follow up the whole process, and if there is anything unreasonable, you must help solve the problem in time." ”

"Good!"

After the new design was approved by Jack, John Gerwitt suddenly didn't feel that the hard work of the past few days was worth it, and he was full of energy, and immediately left the office with the design draft that had been approved by Jack and went to find Andy.

At the same time, far across the Atlantic, in Gloucestershire, England, something is happening related to Ruth.

Mrs. Booker, who really couldn't find Ruth, returned to Gloucester, and lived well for the time being, relying on the insurance premiums paid by the insurance company.

But the good times did not last long, and the creditors of Lord Bookett, Ruth's father, suddenly came to the door and demanded that Mrs. Bookett pay off the large debts owed by Lord Booker.

Needless to say, Mrs. Bookett had no money to pay her debts.

As these creditors who dared to lend money to Lord Booker, they were naturally not good people, and after confirming that Mrs. Bookett really had no money to repay the debt, they started to auction off the Bookett family's only remaining Bookett estate, so that most of the principal could be recovered.

However, things went wrong here.

According to the law of this era, because the Booker family belonged to the British aristocracy, even if the Booker estate was to be auctioned, the head of the Booker family had to sign it.

And the current Bookett family, with the death of Lord Bookett, the head of the family has become Ruth.

Ruth could not sign without Ruth's signature, and without Ruth's signature, Bookett Manor could not be auctioned until it was confirmed that Ruth was dead and the Bookett family was extinct.

Helpless, those creditors could only temporarily put aside the idea of auctioning off the Bukett estate immediately.

But they didn't do nothing, and at the suggestion of a creditor, they decided to trade the British Embassy in the United States to help contact Ruth.

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