Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 811 Production Line

  After the review, Li Fushou reviewed the "Ocean General Destroyer Plan" report submitted by the Ministry of the Navy; yes, it will be implemented according to the plan.

  The first phase of this class of ships is planned to build 12 ships. The construction period is three and a half years. They will be built in various shipyards in Australia and will be in military service before the end of 1905.

The second phase of the improvement plan will be based on the actual use of this batch of ocean-going general-purpose destroyers, some details will be adjusted and improved, and the displacement will be appropriately enlarged. Construction began before 1906. The number is also 12, and 6 to 12 additional orders are reserved. Possible.

  At this point, the size of the Royal Navy's future fleet has begun to take shape.

  Considering that the current era is in a period of drastic change, due to changes in the international situation, it may have a major impact on the future development of the fleet. This unknowable factor will not be considered for the time being.

The Royal Navy has suffered such a big loss. At the beginning, the Metropolis-class battleship planned to be equipped with the 343 mm large-caliber main ship gun produced by the British Armstrong Company. Mm main gun.

  Who knows, the introduction process was quite unsatisfactory.

  At that time in 1896, the Ocean Empire secretly supported the development of Vietnam in the Indochina Peninsula, making Britain and France and other countries susceptible to it. The technology introduction process was full of twists and turns. Finally, the shipbuilding plan was delayed for more than a year.

   Therefore, it is very unreliable for the key equipment to be demanded for the development of the country today.

  The empire’s arms research and development gradually formed a project commissioned research and development system. The army and the navy put forward project requirements, and private companies with strong capabilities participated in bidding. Both at home and abroad, domestic companies were given priority to support.

The new type of steam turbine project used by the Metropolis-class battleship was jointly bid by Hongshan Heavy Industry and British Acast Power Company, and the advanced steam turbine manufactured by British technology was adopted at Hongshan Heavy Industry. All indicators have reached the world's advanced level. Level, bring surging power to the main battleship.

  With the strong support of tax reduction policies, the domestic machine tool industry has developed vigorously, and its momentum is getting better and better.

  In foreign trade

  The most dazzling performance is the Kalimantan Petrochemical City project, which has replaced imports in the oil and petrochemical fields, saving the empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange every year, and invisibly further expanding the trade surplus.

  The influx of a large amount of wealth has made the domestic economic development prosperous.

  It’s May 1901

  The war in the north has ceased. As Tsarist Russia sent 200,000 troops to occupy the three northeastern provinces and created the Blagoveshchensk tragedy, it caused strong dissatisfaction with Britain, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries, and they exerted pressure one after another.

  Under the strong opposition of other powers, Tsarist Russia was forced to agree to withdraw troops from the northeast, but in fact, the Tsarist army legalized the occupation of the three northeastern provinces in the name of protecting the railway.

  At the same time, Tsarist Russia is actively supporting pro-Russian forces in North Korea, trying to replace Fusang in North Korea.

  The aggressive expansion of Tsarist Russia in Northeast and North Korea has sharpened the contradiction between the two.

The Fusang government and the opposition have regarded Russia as the biggest imaginary enemy. In the eyes of the Fusang people, "Returning the Liaoning from the Intervention of the Three Kingdoms" is tantamount to the humiliation and shame imposed by the powers. "Post-operation" is ready to launch a decisive battle against Russia to realize its "mainland policy."

  After years of development and meticulous military preparations, Fusang Country’s economic strength has been significantly improved, and its navy and military equipment has rapidly expanded, and it has become a military power in the Far East, laying the material foundation for the war against Russia.

  On January 30, 1902, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was formally signed for a period of 10 years.

  On March 12, 1902, Russia and France issued a declaration in St. Petersburg, claiming that the two countries would reserve room for freedom of action in order to protect the interests of the two countries when changes in the Far East or China happen in the future.

  Two years later

  The contradictions between Japan and Russia in the three northeastern provinces are irreconcilable. Tsarist Russia is forced by constant riots and resistance from the bottom of the country. It urgently needs a war to divert the attention of the domestic people and win a respite for the noble ruling class.

  With the continuous extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the senior officials of the Fuso State realized that “every day, or even an hour, delay will enhance Russia’s chances of winning”.

   Therefore, during the Japan-Russia negotiations, the Japanese side kept raising the asking price. At first, it asked Russia to recognize its "protection" of North Korea, then asked to enter the "Southern Manchuria", and finally asked for rights in the "Northern Manchuria" and other regions.

  Despite the czarist government playing diplomacy and deliberately delaying negotiations to gain time, the senior officials of Fusang Country were very decisive and determined to take advantage of the favorable international situation at the time and Russia’s Achilles’ heel of insufficient preparation to start war as soon as possible.

  On February 6, 1904, Fusang announced that it officially broke diplomatic relations with Russia.

  The undeclared war on the night of February 8 triggered an unprecedented **** Russo-Japanese War in modern history...

  Time flies, from May 1901 to the present, three years have passed in a blink of an eye.

  Due to its early development, the Ocean Empire has become the world’s most powerful car producer and consumer country. Australia has more than 120,000 cars in its homeland and is known as the "country on wheels".

BMW Motor Company took the lead in launching automobile assembly line production in early 1903, which more than tripled automobile production that year. The monthly output of 1.5-ton BMW trucks increased from 147 to 1,200. The efficiency has been astonishingly improved, and conditions have been implemented. After the first large-scale price reduction, the use of price weapons to harvest the market share of competitors, and the rapid expansion of the scale of the enterprise.

  At the time when Japan and Russia were fighting against the corpses, BMW’s innovative automobile production line technology shocked the country and abroad, triggered a revolution in production efficiency, and promoted the domestic economy to achieve a relay-style take-off.

  For large companies in the automotive field, BMW’s innovative production line process is a revolution in production efficiency and a crisis of survival for the company.

  They clearly saw that the freight cars produced by the major auto companies followed suit, but were defeated by BMW freight cars, and BMW cars thrived and quickly occupied a large number of domestic and foreign markets.

  Be prepared for danger in times of peace. If BMW shifts from the freight field to cars and expands its product line, then the real crisis will come.

  The “catfish effect” has prompted major automakers to follow up quickly, and have formulated their own car production assembly line processes with their own characteristics. Following this trend of efficiency revolution, the company has developed.

The consequence of the    is the tide of automobile production, followed by rounds of price cuts, which quickly conquered the automobile markets of European and American countries.

  Lamented report in The New York Times;

We regret to hear the news of the acquisition of Oldsmobile Motor Company. This Citigroup automobile manufacturer founded in 1887 just launched its own "DoctorCoupe" brand single-cylinder engine car in 1903, which is also the company. The first mass-produced cars were submerged in the tide of imported cars from Australia.

  In terms of car styling, performance, and price, imported cars from Australia are widely loved, with unquestionable strong competitiveness, as if they were not products of the same era.

  Poor Citigroup’s auto industry just pulled out its immature seedlings, and was trampled under the boots by barbarians overseas.

  Is this the first Citigroup auto brand to be acquired?

   By the way, the Ford Motor Company was acquired last year, oh... it was just a small workshop with an annual output of dozens of cars, nothing to be regretted.

  Volkswagen took him in his pocket for only $176,000, and then sold it under the Ford brand in North America. Now it has become the top car brand.

  Australian automotive products are conquering cities in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, which are pursuing a free economy, and the big family has merged with leading auto companies to eliminate potential competitors and kill them in the bud.

This set of strategies has been severely hindered in countries such as France, Germany and Italy. Compared with the free trade policies pursued by the United Kingdom and the United States, France, Germany and Italy and other countries have heavy tariff barriers, which protect the growing machinery companies in their own countries and are difficult to obtain. .

  Even so, it will have a serious impact on the automotive markets of the aforementioned European countries.

  It is estimated that in 1904, with the implementation of new technologies in automobile assembly lines, production efficiency will be greatly improved, and the cars produced in Australia will more than double from the previous year, reaching an annual output of nearly 90,000 vehicles.

  In response to this major technological innovation, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Industry jointly issued a document to guide various domestic industries to widely promote production lines through policies. This is a golden period for the industry to take off for the machinery and equipment industry.

Mr. Friedrich Schmidt, chairman of the BMW factory, was highly commended by the royal family for his revolutionary innovation. His Majesty personally awarded him the title of Baron Aristocrat (lifetime aristocrat), "Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Empire", and rewarded a Crown car , A manor covering an area of ​​30 acres, with a bonus of 10,000 gold foreigners for encouragement.

  The role of role models is unlimited. Under the call of the government and the encouragement of policies, various industries in the empire have carried out "industrial assembly line transformation", covering manufacturing, food processing and other related industries, and implemented a vigorous industrial revolution transformation.

  These changes that occurred in Australia were not transmitted to European and American countries in the first time.

  For the proud powers of various countries, "the eye is above the top" is the most vivid metaphor. It will not change if you don't suffer a big loss or hit the south wall.

  The rotten, backward and fragile Manchu Kingdom deepened their stereotype, and unintentionally or unintentionally looked down upon the Chinese.

  When Japan and Russia fought their lives in the three northeastern provinces, the Ocean Empire seized the opportunity of development and ushered in another round of golden age of economic development. The scenery here is unique.

  The second Boer War, which lasted more than three years, left Britain greatly injured. The direct war expenditure alone exceeded 240 million pounds, which was a bit more than in the original history.

The reason

   is the rampant smuggling on the southern border of Mozambique. The continuous blood transfusion for the Boer guerrillas has made the British and the Ocean Kingdoms struggling to cope with it. London’s losses are tangible, and it is irritating.

  Ocean Kingdom also sacrificed a butcher knife to crack down on smuggling gangs at the border.

There were more than 370 criminals who were hanged alone, and there were more than 2,100 people who were put into hard labor camps. There are whites and Chinese, of course, most of them are Chinese who have become rich in danger. The empire will not be merciless about this. Severely stopped this unhealthy trend.

  Unfortunately, it was too late. At the end of the war, it did not play a big role. The benefits really fell into the hands of the Mozambican side. Many brave Chinese made a fortune through smuggling and became rich overnight.

  In the final analysis, the Boers do not lack gold or diamonds. During the difficult period of the war, they continued to fight the war in order to purchase supplies, which really lifted the family back.

   Tell me, can you not get rich?

  (End of this chapter)