The Tienniu 350 heavy tractor conducted a long-term durability experiment of up to one year and four months at the Koi Mining Bureau, discovered many problems, carried out hundreds of technological improvements, and finally formed a relatively mature product to launch it on the market.

During a week-long on-site demonstration experiment conducted on a farm outside Philadelphia, USA, in front of hundreds of local farmers, two Iron Cattle 350 heavy tractors plowed and raked 340 acres of land within three days, showing amazing efficiency.

In the remaining three days

The two iron cattle 350 heavy tractors, which were traction on a huge truck, ran continuously on the 96-mile wide road from the farm to Philadelphia, transporting 360,000 pounds of grain, once again shocking everyone's eyes.

The last day was a static display. The Iron Niu 350 tractor that had been working for 6 consecutive days was scrubbed and shined. After simple maintenance, diesel and water were added, full blood was resurrected, and new fields and road work could be carried out.

Such an outstanding performance, the steam tractor was thrown far behind.

After the on-site demonstration, two Tienniu 350 tractors participating in the on-site display were snapped up on the spot and received up to 27 orders.

The same promotional scene appears in Phoenix, Houston, New Jersey, Frankfurt, Vienna, Lyon…

As a test product, the Iron Niu 350 tractor is expensive, each priced at 5,500 pounds, totaling US$22,000. It is equipped with a large two-wheeled tug, a basic deep-turning plow and rake leveling machine, and other agricultural machinery products need to be purchased additionally.

After years of hot sales in the market, the cost of small tractors has dropped sharply after mass production, from the initial price of thousands of pounds to about 760 pounds. It is still a popular product for Mercedes-Benz in the urban countryside. It is very popular because of its high quality, low price, strong and durable skin, and widely used.

The high price of Tienniu 350 heavy tractors is almost seven times that of a small 4-wheel tractor. Is such a high price worth the money?

The answer is yes.

Especially in the vast farms of the United States, France and Austro-Hungarian Empire, heavy tractors have an irreplaceable role and can pull heavy ploughs into deep land on a large area. Small tractors can only pull light ploughs due to limited power, and the two cannot be compared.

The same scenario occurs in other agricultural machinery, such as deep turning, raking, and troughing various farm tasks. The efficiency of heavy tractors is far better than that of small tractors. It is simply a must-have weapon for medium and large farms and can replace hundreds of labor.

Not to mention that during the slack season, heavy tractors show amazing ability in road transport, and can transport 40,000 to 50,000 pounds of goods at any time, which is simply a magical tool for farmers.

In terms of price, compared with a large steam tractor of more than £2,000, the Iron Niu 350 is much more cost-effective than the former. The key is that due to its excessive weight, large steam tractors can only be transported on the road and cannot enter the farmland. They must be used with steam plows, which is another large additional expense.

It is understandable that new products tested on the market are more expensive, after all, the output is limited.

Base in Songjiang, Australia

The construction of a new large-scale factory building under General Machinery has been completed, and its production capacity is continuing to rise. Now it can produce 200 to 210 large four-wheel tractors per month, and it is expected to reach a monthly output of 400 units by the end of the year, which is more than double the existing production capacity.

Within the enterprise, the assembly process is being subdivided according to the flow-through production method. This is an extremely tedious and huge task. It requires continuous trial and error in practice to find the best way to complete the entire set of complex assembly work.

General Machinery Company has dispatched hundreds of experts and technicians to engage in the design and debugging of the assembly process. This is an innovative industrial work that has never been seen in the world today. It has implemented assembly line production for the first time in industrial production practice.

Related concepts are not new. When weapons craftsmen produced Qin crossbows during the Qin Dynasty, they implemented standardized flow production.

A sentence from Li Fushou when he inspected General Machinery Company exposes the window paper, and the world's first industrial assembly line was born.

According to experts' estimates;

After the introduction of new industrial assembly lines for small and medium-sized diesel engines, the work efficiency has increased by about three times, and the number of users has decreased by 43%, reducing a lot of unnecessary repetitive labor, greatly improving production efficiency, improving output and quality, and increasing corporate income.

After the completion of the heavy tractor assembly production line, the production capacity will be qualitatively improved on the current basis. It is initially predicted that it can produce about 400 units per month and the output value will reach 2 million pounds. After running-in, there is still potential for further improvement.

After the initial trial of the two heavyweight products, they have caused a huge response in European and American societies.

General Machinery Factory Australia has several popular products in the market, and it has spent a lot of effort to increase the production capacity of the new heavy tractor product line, so it is difficult to take into account the production of new products and luxury cars.

In view of this

Hongbao will separate the four-wheel luxury automobile production plant from the Australian General Machinery Factory and establish a new first automobile factory in Australia, referred to as "FAW", which is specifically responsible for the production and sales of "Crown" brand automobiles and subsequent automotive product research and development.

Due to the times, cars can only be expensive things in aristocratic manors at this stage, and it is difficult to enter ordinary middle-class families on a large scale.

The cultivation and maturity of the entire market will take more than ten years or even longer. In a short period of time, it is limited to fine work and manual creation, which is within the incubation period of high-end automobile brands.

Moreover, due to the limited production of natural rubber and high prices, supporting products such as glass, rubber and plastic are not yet mature, and automobile products do not have the cheap advantage of large-scale production, so we can only look forward to the future.

As long as the first step is taken in the long journey, will it be far from the end?

In addition to the second largest category of machinery products, the third-ranked export product, Ocean Ships, still maintains a steady trend, exporting 117 trade ships over 5,000 tons throughout the year, including 39 popular 10,000 tons of steel steam freighters.

There are 6 medium-sized and large-scale shipyards in Queensland that have received orders for ocean-going ships at home and abroad, and their products are sold in more than ten countries around the world. They have added high-value-added products such as immigrant passenger ships, refrigerated ships, and oil tankers, showing a prosperous development momentum.

In addition to this

Due to the vigorous trade demand and internal material transfer demand, Songjiang City and Tianshu City are the inland ship manufacturing bases, inland river and small and medium-sized coastal ships are developing rapidly, and a certain industrial concentration has been formed, becoming a new economic growth point for the shipbuilding industry.

In Australia, Songjiang City’s inland river ship construction base mainly uses coastal steamers, which also takes into account passenger ships, cotton transport barges, ore transport barges, small and medium-sized oil tankers below 600 tons, engineering ships, etc., to meet the needs of social logistics and trade.

In Shangri-La Tianshu City, more than 20 small and medium-sized shipyards have been developed. The main products are inland cargo ships and external diesel engines. This kind of simple cargo ship only needs to make an iron shell. It can be equipped with small diesel engines behind the buttocks of the ship. Two of the small displacements are hung, and three of the large displacements are hung, and three of the four or even five of the large displacements are hung. It is cheap and has a wide range of uses. It is very suitable for the transportation of the inland main and tributary system in the Qingshui River Basin.

The entire Queensland industrial product export is mainly the above three categories, taking into account the processing and export of agricultural and sideline foods, and has formed a dislocated competitive advantage in the international market.

If there is no one, I have something, I have something, I have something, and if there is no one, I have nothing. This is the secret to the success of Queensland's industrial export products.

Especially the development of the steel industry, thanks to the inexhaustible high-quality iron ore and high-quality coal mines, the steel produced in Australia is of high quality and low price, and the ship manufacturing industry with steel as the main cost has thus developed and has become an emerging international ship manufacturing force.

From a world perspective

The strongest ship manufacturing industry is still the UK, France, the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries. Queensland surpassed Italy's commercial ship manufacturing industry in 1885 and ranked fifth. The annual export commercial ship orders accounted for 7.2% of the world market, and still have great development potential.

In the summary of national economic statistics in 1885;

The total fiscal revenue of the Earl of Kunshan (including overseas territories) belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs reached 7.667 million pounds, and the per capita tax burden was 1 pound, 9 shillings 8 and 1 quarter penn.

As measured by the working population (minus military, infants and housewives), the per capita tax is close to three pounds.

By region, the local government contributed 91.7% of fiscal revenue, which shows that the important contribution of the Australian local economy to finance is irreplaceable to overseas territories.

Due to the large-scale investment in the expansion and basic facilities development in Shangri-La, the overall fiscal revenue is negative. Among them, the Koi Mining Bureau supports the overall situation alone and contributes more than 2 million pounds in the whole year. Therefore, the income and expenditure are offset, and the surplus is still hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The fiscal deficit of the Borneo territory reached more than 700,000 pounds, the African Somali territory contributed 37,000 pounds of fiscal revenue, and the fiscal deficit of the Sulawesi Islands in the custody place was 51,100 pounds.

The full branch is close

In 1885, the fiscal revenue attributable to the Office of the House was 7.667 million pounds. This money was tax levied by the Earl of Queensland as the lord. It will basically be used for related town construction, military expenditure, medical and health care and education, etc., to promote the improvement of basic construction of the Earl's territory, including railways, highways, docks, water transportation, street lights, municipal governments, etc., urban development, building buildings, including dream castles and palace construction, libraries, public toilets, military police expenses and other projects. They will be used cleanly every year, and there will even be different degrees of fiscal deficits in war situations.

Related companies' shareholding dividends, house rentals, homestead land sales, and investment income outside the Earl's territory (such as fixed property income such as northern Queensland, New York, United States, London, Berlin, Munich, etc.) are not included. This is the private income of the Earl, and the other is not disclosed to the public.

Rough estimate

The income in this regard would not be less than 20 million pounds two years ago, and now it is a mystery.

As one of the richest great lords in the world, some people speculate that Li Fushou's wealth has reached the amazing level of a billionaire. This statement is different from one's own opinion.

As the inner account of the Earl, from this income, we have to spend every year to maintain the cost of palaces and mansions throughout the world, maintain the huge expenditure of the "Eagle Plan", continue to invest in large amounts of scientific research, launch huge military expenses for foreign wars, give additional rewards and pensions to officers and soldiers, and give four steam iron armored battleships dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne, and supplement materials in the strategic reserve warehouse deep in the mountains on the banks of the Songjiang River. The remaining ones can be used for investment and operation.

In this way, the Earl of Queensland has a considerable income and a considerable expense.

If there is no year when a large-scale foreign war is launched, a large amount of expenses can be saved for rolling development.

In sharp contrast, even if the taxes included in the Red River Valley city’s Shanghai Jiaozhou fiscal revenue, the entire Queensland fiscal revenue does not exceed 2 million pounds, and more than 90% comes from the two major cities of Brisbane and Red River Valley.
Chapter completed!