Zhu Jingyuan chatted with the employees of his company, went up the ladder next to the plane, and glanced inside the cockpit.

Aluminium alloy seats, a simple retro instrument panel, and rows of buttons and levers.

It doesn't look much different from the war-years planes in my memory.

Sitting inside the cockpit, the radio equipment in the cockpit was discovered.

While Zhu Jingyuan was taken aback, he immediately realized the problem, stood up again and looked down:

"What is the average cost of this aircraft?"

Zheng Fuguang was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhu Jingyuan to suddenly ask this.

In Zheng Fuguang's mind, Zhu Jingyuan has always been very generous, but he didn't expect him to care about money.

"The first dozen or so verification planes, depending on the type and the type of weapons and equipment they carried, cost an average of 50,000 to 60,000 silver bills.

"After the finalization, the Governor's Mansion ordered 300 planes at a time, and the average unit price was about 40,000 silver bills.

"The types and uses of the planes produced by Daming Airlines, Royal Flying Machines, and the Ministry of Industry factory are slightly different."

Zhu Jingyuan came out of the cockpit and calculated the price a little.

The cost of a 40,000-ton battleship can be exchanged for 1,250 such aircraft.

"We need 128 planes first, but we won't pay for them all at once, and we won't have to deliver them all at once.

"In the future, every time I come to deliver supplies and pull crude oil, I just bring sixteen planes."

Chunxiang, who had been following beside her, hurriedly wrote down Zhu Jingyuan's request on the spot.

Zhu Jingyuan said and took a detour to the side of another plane.

This is a small transport plane, and the overall shape is also designed by Zhu Jingyuan.

The reference prototype is the Y-5/An-2 transport aircraft, which is nicknamed the air tractor by military fans.

However, the fuselage is lighter than that of the Yun 5, because the engine cannot reach the level of the Yun 5 in the short term.

Zheng Fuguang also came over and told Zhu Jingyuan about the final basic situation of the plane:

"This transport plane uses the same engines as fighter jets and attack aircraft.

"But the fuselage was much larger, and the cruising speed was reduced to 150 km/h.

"With more fuel on board, the maximum range has been increased to 800 kilometres.

"It can transport up to a ton of cargo, up to sixteen people.

"Although the transport aircraft has fewer weapons and equipment, it uses the same engine as the fighter jet, and it is larger than the fighter jet, so the overall price is not low.

"The mass production price also requires 40,000 silver bills."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly after hearing this:

"It's okay, this transport plane, the Great Food Country needs a total of sixteen, let's send it over in four times."

Chunxiang followed the record request, and Zhu Jingyuan came to the side of the car.

These two cars are also designed by Zhu Jingyuan.

When Zhu Jingyuan left Daming Jingshi last year, in order to prevent the Ministry of Industry and the craftsmen of his own company from being idle, he left them a large number of design tasks.

Give yourself high-level drawings and key key considerations for them to complete the design and testing.

The shape of these two cars designed by Zhu Jingyuan is no longer the traditional sedan car model.

The kind of riding space is highly prominent, and the external structure is more complicated, which is not conducive to running at a higher speed.

In fact, with the increasing number of tests and use feedback, or if you have time to go to the wind tunnel for an interview, the craftsmen of Daming themselves will definitely find out slowly.

Even if Zhu Jingyuan does not have special requirements, the subsequent design styles of the craftsmen will change.

Historically, this process has lasted for a hundred years and is still changing.

What shape can make the car run steadily, without bumps and rocks or drifting, requires constant trial and exploration.

At the same time, the completion of all ideas and explorations also requires production technology and technology to provide a platform.

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The impact of changes in aesthetic needs, actual performance needs and safety needs are more important.

Zhu Jingyuan can come up with the final results in one go.

However, limited by the current level of technology, it is impossible to directly make the shape of a car in the new century.

In this near-manual era, multi-curved shape manufacturing is a worker's nightmare.

The only way to do this is to use the current proven process to achieve as close aerodynamic effects as possible.

If the engine power is to be large enough, it will definitely be much larger than the new century.

The resulting car is a bit like a "tough" sporty utility car (SUV).

Zhu Jingyuan pulled the car door and sat in the back seat, first pulling out the seat belt he had designed.

Before that, there were hardly any safety measures on the car, and no one dared to drive too fast.

I tried the seat belt effect and admired the interior and design.

Zhu Jingyuan got out of the car again and asked Zheng Fuguang to open the engine cover for himself.

The engine installed here is also designed according to its own requirements, an eight-cylinder liquid-cooled engine.

Zhu Jingyuan instinctively asked the price again when he looked at it.

Zheng Fuguang is used to it, and when he sees something new, he first asks the price, and then says with some worry:

"The price of your model has to be sold for 20,000 silver bills to avoid a loss, and the actual market price is 30,000 silver bills."

Zhu Jingyuan directly took a cool breath:

"It's almost time for the plane, can it be sold at such a high price?"

Zheng Fuguang said with some emotion:

"I can't say that I sold a lot, but in fact it is not a small amount.

"I heard that after the final release at the end of last year, more than 100 units were ordered to be shipped one after another.

"The eight-cylinder engine runs more smoothly.

"120 horsepower, a six-speed gearbox, all-wheel drive design.

"The technical specifications far exceed all other models on the market, like a chariot within a car.

"There is also a series of important safety precautions designed by His Highness himself, as well as his own image of standing out from the crowd.

"These factors make it quite popular among the affluent.

"It just so happened that the market started to get better quickly last year, and many owners made a lot of money last year.

"There are cars of this class, and some people want to give it a try."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly:

"The top luxury car market does exist, and it will continue to exist in the future, and it can continue to develop like this.

"But we can't just develop this, we still have to develop mid-range models and popular models.

"I changed the engine to a four-cylinder one, and the power was reduced to thirty or forty horsepower, and I changed it to a normal rear-wheel drive and a three-speed gearbox.

"The other accessories are also reduced as much as possible, can the price be reduced to a few thousand silver bills?"

Zheng Fuguang nodded directly and said:

"Yes, most cars are designed this way, and most of them cost between three and five thousand silver bills.

"The kind of car that His Highness asked for is a design that is over-specified, and the market and peers are shocked."

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it again:

"Three thousand silver bills, and a worker with a monthly salary of fifteen silver bills, even if he does not eat or drink at all, will have seventeen years to afford it.

"The price is still too high for a worker, and I can buy a dozen orchids to help make money.

"We still have to find ways to lower the selling price of cars and at the same time increase the income of workers.

"It's better to be able to do it, so that workers can buy a car for a year's wages.

"Let the vast majority of ordinary families in the Ming Dynasty have access to cars."

Zheng Fuguang basically shook his head without hesitation and said:

"It's impossible, it has to reduce the price of cars by more than 10 times, or the wages of workers as a whole by more than 10 times......

Zhu Jingyuan flipped through the things in his mind, compared the current situation in the world, and slowly shook his head and said:

"It's not impossible, first of all, you can reduce costs and configuration as much as possible.

"It allows the car to run, to be able to control speed and direction, without any complications.

"For example, there are only three gears, fast, slow, and reverse, and the start can be hand-cranked.

"Then use the assembly line to produce, as standardized as possible."

Zhu Jingyuan is ready to refer to the historical Ford to refer to and reproduce his automobile assembly line.

At the same time, it is preparing to reproduce the "myth" of creating the middle class in Daming.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty in this world already has the word assembly line, of course, it was proposed by His Majesty Emperor Shizu.

And the assembly line itself has been around for a long time.

The porcelain of Jingdezhen in ancient China had dozens of processes and dozens of people in charge.

The new porcelain factory in the era of the British Industrial Revolution also broke down the process to everyone.

For some reason, many articles directly refer to Henry Ford of Ford as the inventor of the "assembly line".

He also said that he "invented" the idea of the assembly line when he visited the "Flowing Water Limit Slaughterhouse".

Inconsistencies......

At best, Ford has designed a car production line.

Before that, cars were mostly handmade.

A group of workers work around a car, finishing one and then making the next.

Ford broke it down into standardized assembly lines.

And then there's the "myth" described in his chicken soup essays.

"The Great Five Dollars" took the initiative to raise workers' wages from $2.5 a day to $5 a day.

"The creation of the American middle class" has led to a leap in the income of American workers as a whole and expanded the size of the middle class.

There are also "the greatest entrepreneur in human history", "driving human civilization to accelerate into a new era" and so on.

If you want to reproduce these myths of him, you have to look at the internal logic of his operation, rather than directly copying the final results of the chicken soup text in later generations, otherwise it may die ugly.

Historically, Ford was not prepared to improve its workmanship.

Ford was a factory owner, not a paternalistic head of government.

Ford famously said, "I just hired a pair of hands, why did a man come?"

In fact, because his standard assembly line work is too boring and hard, the resignation rate of workers is as high as 300 percent.

Three to four people are needed to change a position in a year.

In order to retain skilled workers, Ford had to raise workers' wages several times.

Eventually, it was directly doubled to the extent that the resignation rate of skilled workers overwhelmed the acceptable level.

The assembly line has greatly improved the production efficiency and greatly reduced the production cost of Ford vehicles.

The price of a car on the American market has dropped from two or three thousand dollars all the way to two or three hundred dollars.

Other small car factories have closed down, and large car factories have copied Ford's production model.

The era of assembly line production of automobiles has arrived, and the wages of workers in automobile production lines have remained at a high level.

The choices made by the relevant personnel are driven by direct interests, and the internal reason for the final result is that the workers work more intensively, which greatly improves the overall production efficiency, resulting in a decrease in production costs and an increase in competitiveness of Ford.

Referring to these experiences, the most important part is the efficiency of the assembly line and the reduction of costs as much as possible.

With the improvement of assembly line efficiency and work intensity, the wages of automobile production line workers will be increased simultaneously, and finally a relatively reasonable high level will be reached.

At the same time, the production of fighters of the Ming Dynasty can also try to design a production line model.

Zhu Jingyuan went through the historical situation in his heart, made a simple analysis, and then turned to Zheng Fuguang and said:

"I'll write a production plan and send it to the local factory in Daming to try."