Valley Emperor

Wuchang Qixiang Machinery Factory, which was established very early, can be regarded as the earliest batch of machinery factories in Wuchang Mansion more than 20 years ago.

It was not the Li family industry at first, but was founded by an engineer from the Jiangnan Weapons Company at that time. In the early days, it was specialized in receiving orders for some high-precision customized spare parts. The quantity was small, but the unit price was high.

However, technology is developing very fast, the level of high-precision machining in the industry is getting higher and higher, and the equipment that can perform high-precision machining is getting more and more expensive. At the same time, more importantly, Qixiang Machinery Factory has never been able to perform in a certain It is famous in this field and has no main products, which also makes it difficult for such a small-scale machinery factory to develop.

It was finally acquired by the Li family six years ago.

When it was acquired by the Li family, the technical level of Qixiang Machinery Factory was actually behind its peers, and the Li family had no intention of investing huge funds to upgrade the technology. The original purpose of acquiring the factory was only for other industries of the Li family. Just matching.

But soon, Li's own company reached a strategic cooperation with Hanyang Machinery Company, and the acquired Qixiang Machinery Factory was useless.

Therefore, Qixiang Machinery Factory has remained the same in recent years, relying on some low-tech spare parts processing orders to live.

It can’t be said that it is close to bankruptcy, but it is impossible to achieve much development.

The development of Qixiang Machinery Factory is actually a common phenomenon in the development of many early small-scale machinery companies.

In the early years, due to the huge demand of industry and very few talents who knew machinery at the same time, it was possible to set up a machinery factory or even a small workshop machinery factory to make money, and it made a lot of money.

However, with the passage of time, the industrial system has been gradually improved, and the technology has become more and more advanced. If many small-scale machinery factories do not have the courage to continue to upgrade their technology in the early stage, they will gradually fall out of date, and finally can only be reduced to Low-end supporting manufacturers.

Today's Datang manufacturing industry is developing towards large-scale and professional development.

Some well-developed machinery companies are either large-scale machinery companies with strong technical research and development capabilities, strong production capacity, and can effectively integrate various resources to reduce costs. A small but sophisticated enterprise of technology.

Among the two, the typical representative of the former is Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. The subordinate business departments of Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. cover almost all fields of machinery manufacturing, and the core industries are various types of machine tools and steam engines.

The representative of the latter is Zhenjiang Precision Instrument Co., Ltd. The Zhenjiang Precision Equipment Co., Ltd. may feel very tall after hearing its name, but they only produce one kind of product, and it is a product that can be seen everywhere: screws!

However, they are not ordinary standard screws, but high-strength, high-precision screws, which are mainly used in various precision instruments or special industries.

Don't look at the inconspicuous screws produced by others, let alone that Zhenjiang Precision Equipment Company only produces screws, and don't look at the fact that there are only dozens of people in the entire company, but their annual sales are not low, and the technical content is in the entire empire. belongs to the top.

The price of their screws is extremely high. Sometimes a screw sells for dozens or even hundreds of Tang yuan. The special screws they produce are widely used in many high-precision equipment in the empire.

Large and complete, small and refined, these are the two characteristics of the current Datang industrial manufacturing field.

Qixiang Machinery Factory is not big and its technology is not very good, so it mixed up like this and became one of the countless small machinery factories in the empire.

Li Yubo naturally knew what happened to the Qixiang Machinery Factory that had just belonged to him.

After accepting the factory, he did not change the existing spare parts processing business in the machinery factory. Although these businesses did not make much money, they were able to maintain the operation of the machinery factory.

There are dozens of employees in this Qixiang Machinery Factory, and many of them are old employees who have worked in the factory for many years.

Datang's current social atmosphere does not encourage job-hopping behavior, and feels that such behavior is a manifestation of lack of loyalty.

And loyalty, which is a very important quality for a feudal empire.

However, it is even more discouraged for companies to dismiss employees. I think this is a manifestation of a lack of social responsibility, and I especially despise those company bosses who dismiss employees indiscriminately. It is difficult for such people to get along in the upper class, because everyone will take a different view. to see you.

I feel that you are a person who is full of interests and lacks a sense of responsibility.

Therefore, once many employees join a company, they will not change jobs unless they have to. Many people retire in a company.

On the other hand, companies will not dismiss employees unless absolutely necessary. At the same time, companies often take on more responsibilities, such as providing employees with other benefits and so on.

Datang society has a generally recognized requirement for enterprises, or more precisely for the upper class, that is: a sense of social responsibility.

This sentence from the Son of Heaven has become a common code of conduct in the upper-class society of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Yubo plans to develop gasoline bicycles, he will not directly cut off the existing business of Qixiang Machinery Factory, because the existing employees need this job to support their families.

He plans to set up a separate department to develop gasoline bicycles. After the gasoline bicycles are developed, the entire machinery factory will be transformed.

If the research fails, at least the current business can continue, allowing employees to keep their jobs.

This is not a special case for him. Many children from the upper class are similar. The traditional education he received since childhood taught him what a sense of responsibility is. When it is not a last resort, don't let employees lose their jobs.

If he screwed up the factory and made so many people lose their jobs, his reputation would basically be over, don't expect to be able to hang around in the upper class.

How to say, you can mess around, but you can't let the employees who follow you lose their jobs and can't support their families!

The person who ruined the employee's job was definitely not the act of a decent gentry in the Tang Dynasty.

Datang people, pay attention to interests, but they pay more attention to decency!

What is decent, nothing more than face Er!

Therefore, many destitute aristocratic families, even if they continue to sell their properties, will try their best not to dismiss employees who have worked for them for many years. Unless they can't stand it, they will dismiss employees on a large scale. Announcing the complete decline of this family.

People in the upper class will consciously exclude this family completely!

So Li Yubo chose to keep the original machinery factory unchanged, but set up another laboratory under the machinery factory and began to recruit people to continue his research on gasoline bicycles.

After recruiting a few assistants, he directly started a gasoline engine. As for direct procurement, he could not afford it, and no one sold him.

Even now he has not been able to obtain the patent authorization for the gasoline engine!

However, even if there is no patent authorization, it is just that the gasoline engine cannot be commercialized, but there is no problem in researching it by yourself.

Today's gasoline engine theory and technology are relatively mature. Li Yubo has been tossing gas engines for several years, and he is still very proficient in internal combustion engine technology. In fact, the Royal Institute of Technology has not kept strict confidentiality on gasoline engine technology. Many theories are possible Seen in professional journals.

Based on these theories and his own accumulation of research on gas engines, Li Yubo soon completed the design of a small gasoline engine that could be used in gasoline bicycles.

But after the design was completed, he found that he couldn't even build a prototype of this small gasoline engine, because his machinery factory did not have such processing technology.

At first, he thought about introducing more advanced equipment to do it himself, but found that it would not work. All of these equipments were expensive, and all his net worth was thrown into it. It is estimated that he could not build a production line.

He also thought about asking other machinery factories to help him process the spare parts and then assemble them himself, but he still found that it would not work.

Because of the companies capable of processing these spare parts, there are only five companies in the entire empire, namely the three major weapons companies, Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.

Although these large enterprises have such high-precision processing capabilities, they know with their toes that they will definitely not take his small order from Li Yubo and specialize in a few spare parts.

In the end, Li Yubo tragically discovered that even if he found a way to realize gasoline bicycles, he even designed a small two-cylinder gasoline engine specially for gasoline bicycles, but he could not even build a prototype car!

However, Li Yubo did not give up. He couldn't build a production line himself, and it was impossible to find other companies for processing. He just set his sights on his alma mater, Huguang University.

To say that the current top production and processing level in the Datang Empire is not actually a major enterprise, but the Royal Institute of Technology.

Of course, this does not refer to batch production capacity, but to laboratory processing capacity.

In addition to the Royal Institute of Technology, in fact, other universities, especially those inclined to science and technology, have top-notch processing capabilities in their laboratories.

For example, Jinling University of Technology and Shanghai University of Technology are second only to the Royal Institute of Technology in the field of science and technology, and they are better than everyone else.

For example, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Jinling Institute of Technology and the Department of Chemistry of Shanghai Institute of Technology are good.

Huguang University is a little worse in science and technology. After all, it is a comprehensive university, but this difference is only compared with the Royal Institute of Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, and Jinling Institute of Technology.

In the entire empire, that is also the top ten existence. Their strength in the optical field and the latest electromagnetic field is not bad, second only to the Royal Institute of Technology.

Although Li Yubo was expelled from school due to absenteeism, he was someone who attended Huguang University anyway, and a person who was able to do such a thing as not going to school because of his research and finally being expelled from school would be famous in the school. www.wuxiaspot.com~ He searched around, asked a few brothers and mentors, and finally asked a mentor to help him process some high-precision spare parts with some high-precision equipment in Huguang University. Of course, this To give money, and it is not cheap.

After spending a lot of money and owed a lot of favors, Li Yubo finally got the small twin-cylinder gasoline engine he designed.

The equipment of Huguang University is of the highest quality, and all of them are made of special materials. The quality of the parts produced by this process is very high. After the assembly is successful, it has been tested many times, and there is no problem.

At this time, he couldn't wait to put the gasoline engine on his specially designed bicycle.

After the assembly, Li Yubo personally drove the test!

When Li Yubo drove this gasoline two-wheeled vehicle to Wuchang Street with a beeping sound, countless people's jaws dropped!

This is the third gasoline car to appear after the imperial gasoline engine was put into practical use.

Well, also the first two-wheeler!

However, what Li Yubo did not expect was that while his gasoline bicycle attracted the attention of the local public, it also attracted the attention of the military.

After Li Yubo rode the car to the street for testing, in just three days, the director of the chariot division of the Ordnance Department of the Jinling Privy Council, Army Major General Yao Liang, saw the report on the car.

When Yao Liang saw the report, it said that the gasoline engine on the gasoline two-wheeled vehicle is very small, but the top speed can reach 25 kilometers per hour, and because the weight of the vehicle is very light, because there are only two wheels, Extremely small and nimble, so like those pedal bikes, even some small dirt roads in the country can be unobstructed.

He stood up directly, picked up the report, and strode out!

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