I want to be emperor

Chapter 1131 The plane is in full bloom

Before North American Aircraft Company officially announced the order for their America No. 1 agricultural aircraft, no one thought... The commercial operation of the aircraft, which the aircraft industry had been thinking about for a long time, ended up falling to a small company with little technology. content on an agricultural aircraft.

While Tangshan Aircraft Company, Liaodong Aircraft Company, and Lee Aircraft Company are still thinking hard about competing for military aircraft orders, Songhe Aircraft Company is trying its best to develop large passenger and cargo aircraft, and the above four aircraft companies have not successfully sold even one. When the aircraft was given to private commercial users...American Aircraft Company actually gained hundreds of commercial users without making any noise.

Not only commercial users, there are even private orders for aircraft... Their America No. 1 agricultural aircraft, without the pesticide spraying device, is actually a small aircraft. It is easy to control and not expensive. It is very suitable for take-off and landing sites. The requirements are also simple, even private individuals can afford it.

Therefore, in the winter of Chengshun 1952, when American Aircraft Company officially announced that they had received 300 orders for their America No. 1 agricultural aircraft, and estimated that there would be at least thousands of potential orders, the four major aircraft companies remained silent. Already...

We are still fighting for orders for a few or dozens of aircraft... Are you planning to order thousands of aircraft?

That's called envy and jealousy. Everyone is planning to launch a small aircraft project.

However, it is difficult for the other four aircraft companies to imitate American Aircraft Company... It is not that the aircraft cannot be produced. In fact, with the strength of the other four major aircraft companies, it is not difficult to produce such a small aircraft.

But it’s hard to sell.

The sales channel of American Aircraft Company is the sales channel of North American Automobile Company, directly connecting with those farmers and agricultural development companies.

North American Automobile Company has built a solid reputation among these farmer users by relying on its pickup truck and cost-effective tractor business.

Therefore, agricultural aircraft quickly gained the trust of these farmers as soon as they came out, but it was not so easy for other aircraft companies.

This was true for cars in the past, and it is also true for aircraft today.

However, the total size of the American automobile market is not large. There is already one North American automobile company as the dominant company, and the other four automobile companies rush into it. They will spend huge sums of money to set up factories and may lose everything.

Therefore, it is still not easy for the other four aircraft companies to launch agricultural aircraft business in the Americas... This is not even a question of whether your aircraft can work, but whether you have a factory in the Americas.

Of course, similar problems actually exist in East Asia... There are many provinces in East Asia. Each of the four automobile companies here has the support of several provinces.

Then there are a large number of plantations owned by agricultural development companies in some overseas administrative territories and indigenous territories.

Currently, the main users of agricultural aircraft are these farmers. In addition, there are a few commercial airlines that provide pesticide spraying services to surrounding farms... These farms and the airlines that serve them are mainly concentrated in the Americas and Eastern Europe. .

Not to mention, the American Aircraft Company also has a geographical advantage... because they are a company in the Americas, they can naturally get the support of the local government.

Therefore, for the four major automobile companies, the automobile market in these economically developed and densely populated areas is the battleground... As for the Americas, the cost of competition is high, the risk is high, and the total market volume is still small.

Of course, if other car companies are willing to build factories in the Americas and produce cars locally, the local government will also include these vehicles in procurement.

For example, the limousines used by senior officials such as governors, counselors, and prefects from various regions in the Americas are all limousine products of North American automobile companies.

These places are the main users of agricultural aircraft, and these users are all overseas... It is actually more difficult for the other four local aircraft companies in East Asia to get involved.

The local provincial governors’ yamen clearly issued a document asking their subordinate administrative agencies to give priority to locally produced vehicles and support the local automobile industry when purchasing official vehicles... The only thing left to do is to directly require local governments to purchase only North American cars.

As for other aircraft companies, you don’t come to the Americas to set up factories and provide jobs and tax revenue...but if you come to snatch the business of the American Aircraft Company and destroy local tax revenue and employment, the local officials will definitely dislike you.

Looking back to the aircraft industry, there are also local trade protection issues... Regarding agricultural aircraft, local provincial governments in the Americas definitely support American Aircraft Company.

And this actually gave North American automobile companies room for survival.

Besides, the mainstream local automobile market is still in the southeast, especially in the economically developed areas along the eastern coast, such as the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Bohai Rim region. In addition, there are also some inland large urban areas. The automobile sales in these places account for almost the entire empire. More than 80 percent of car sales.

For example, in the automobile industry, today's North and South America are basically the exclusive domain of North American automobile companies. Local farmers like to buy pickup trucks and passenger cars with better off-road performance, and these two models are the advantages of North American automobile companies. models, the market share has reached more than 80% in the long term.

Even if they are not superior models, the products of North American automobile companies can often occupy a lot of markets.

In addition, governments in North and South America purchase various vehicles. Although there are no clear requirements, they basically only purchase products from North American automobile companies.

The police cars used by local patrol officers are also products of North American Motors.

Especially in the Americas, which has the largest number of customers... It will be very difficult for the four major aircraft companies to come over and compete with the American Aircraft Companies... After all, although local trade protection is not allowed on the surface, in reality it will be obtained everywhere. reflect.

The official vehicles in Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi provinces are all products of Tangshan Automobile Company... In turn, the official vehicles in the northeastern provinces are all products of Liaodong Automobile Company.

As for the Yangtze River Delta region, Songhe Automobile Company's products account for the majority of local official vehicles. However, because other automobile companies have also set up factories in the Yangtze River Delta, they also occupy part of the share.

As for the Guangdong and Guangxi regions and even the Nanyang region, these places are the exclusive territory of Li's Power Company... No matter how good the products of other automobile companies are, they basically cannot enter the local government's official vehicle procurement market.

On the other hand, in some neutral provinces where there is no automobile industry and no important spare parts supply companies and other interests to control, the five major automobile companies have launched full competition. In the process of competition, whether it is the local government or the local government, the government uses a variety of cars. Which car is basically cheaper? Which car has better performance and which car has more rebates will be used. There is no unified rule.

Therefore, the official car market in these provinces is often the most competitive... Not only the official car market is fiercely competitive, but the private car market is also extremely competitive.

Especially in some provinces that are neutral, but have large populations and good economies, the car market is often bloody. All major car manufacturers will attach great importance to it, but basically no one can take the lead.

Despite the fact that the automobile industry in the Dachu Empire has only been developed for about ten years these days, it has rapidly grown into an extremely important leading industry. In the fifty-two years of Chengshun, it is expected that the total annual production and sales of various types of passenger cars and freight cars will exceed one million vehicles.

This will be a huge historical breakthrough!

It is not only a huge breakthrough in the automobile industry itself, but also a huge breakthrough in the entire industrial field!

Because before this, there has never been any large-scale industrial consumer product that can have such a huge production and sales volume, and have such a huge output value!

Even though the current car prices have dropped significantly, the price of some mid-range sedans, such as the standard configuration of the Tangshan brand sedan, has dropped to about 400 yuan.

If we simply use this price as the average price of cars, the production and sales of one million cars would be a total sales of 400 million.

This is 400 million a year...and the unit of these 400 million is Chu Yuan...

In the eyes of indigenous people from various countries, Chu Yuan has another name, and that is Chu Jin... One Chu Yuan is equivalent to 3.5 grams of high-purity gold.

The most important thing is that the production and sales of one million cars are not the end... far from the end. According to the estimates of industrial and commercial organizations, today's automobile market still has great growth potential, and can maintain ultra-high growth rates every year. The market growth rate... This large-scale market is expected to produce tens of millions of vehicles per year!

The production and sales volume are tens of millions, which is at least 4 billion Chu Yuan in sales... which is higher than the annual central fiscal revenue of the contemporary Chu Empire.

By then, the GDP of the entire automobile industry is expected to account for about ten percent of the entire empire's GDP.

This refers to... only the output value of the automobile industry itself, and does not include the many other upstream and downstream industrial chains driven by the automobile industry.

If all are included...the automobile-related industrial chain with automobiles as its core can even account for more than 30% of the empire's social and economic production...it is expected to knock the textile industry off the throne of the industrial economy. Become the new leading industry in the imperial economic system.

The automobile industry will also become the first industry that is expected to replace the textile industry and become the leader of the new economic industry in the more than 50 years since the establishment of the Chu Empire.

This is the powerful driving role of the modern automobile industry in the economic system after the second industrial revolution!

Because... this is the first large-scale industrial consumer product for individual consumers in human history!

Focus: large items, industry, personal consumption!

When these keywords are combined, they represent a huge industrial chain!

In the human industrial system, there is no other industrial industry that can be compared with the automobile industry, at least not in the original time and space.

Of course, there are also some industries that have similar effects to some extent, but are not universal and have huge side effects, such as the American medical industry, such as the Korean real estate industry... In their respective environments, they also belong to the 'personal large-scale industry' Consumer products' can generate huge economic output value and promote economic development on paper.

But it won't work in another place, because these things are not universal...

What's more important is that these two industries are more poisonous than the other, and the ones who are poisonous are their own families. As long as the economic controllers in normal countries have some humanity, they will basically not engage in these two things.

But... if you talk about human nature with American capitalists and Korean chaebols, that's a bit nonsense!

But cars are different... This thing is universal, anyone can do it, and it has basically no side effects...

In the past ten years, the Dachu Empire officials have seen the huge stimulating effect of the automobile industry on the economy... This stimulating effect is not only reflected in paper data such as the so-called gross production.

It is more reflected in providing more jobs, reflected in increasing people's income... and for local officials, it is also reflected in local tax revenue.

Relying on the strong automobile industry, the Dachu Empire's aircraft industry has the possibility to develop... Without automobiles, you can't even build an aerospace engine!

For example, the in-line or V-type aero engines currently used by the four major aircraft companies...many of which are directly improved by the four major automobile companies using high-performance engines used in automobiles.

The most typical one should be the Heiyan aircraft of Tangshan Automobile Company. This aircraft uses a V6 engine. This engine was not developed from scratch. Instead, it directly borrowed a V6 car engine from their own car and then repaired it. Modify it and use it directly.

Currently, the only aerospace engine that has been truly developed from scratch is the radial aeroengine developed by Songhe Aircraft Company, um, or Songhe Automobile Company.

But even this radial aircraft engine still requires strong technical support from the engine research and development department of Songhe Aircraft Company during its production process, and the production is also produced by the automobile engine factory.

The contemporary aircraft industry is closely related to the automobile industry... It can even be said that the aircraft industry is a subcategory of the automobile industry.

But...the huge prospects of the aircraft industry have given the aircraft industry greater independence.

In particular, airplanes do not have such big patent restrictions. Except for the engine, which is more difficult to develop, other patents basically belong to the Royal Institute of Technology. As long as you pay for the patents of the Royal Institute of Technology, others will sell them...

Therefore, after the five major automobile companies, some independent aircraft companies have emerged in the Chu Empire. Although they are limited by patent issues and do not independently develop and produce aero engines, in addition to aero engines, other basic aircraft patents can basically be purchased. .

Under such circumstances, some independent aircraft companies were established one after another and then developed their own aircraft... As for engines, just purchase them directly from the four major automobile companies.

Under normal circumstances, the four major aircraft companies will generally not refuse... After all, the current aviation market is still too small, and a few aircraft engines cannot be sold.

What's more, the four major car companies even sell core car engines... Except for the latest engines used in their top flagship cars, which are not sold, other car engines are basically open to external sales... Again, there are now four As for the big car companies, if you don't sell them, they will.

In particular, Li's Power Company, which is not doing well in the automobile market, sells its engines to third-party automobile manufacturers everywhere. Even the so-called most advanced engines are sold externally... It is so stupid that it relies on its engine business to support the entire company. Enterprises earn a lot of profits and continue to develop various technologies to promote their own automobile business.

In this case, the other three car companies have no choice but to follow suit and sell engines.

Therefore, as long as there are no special circumstances, third-party automobile manufacturers or independent aircraft companies can actually easily obtain aero engines from the four major aircraft companies.

What's more, some small independent aircraft companies that have little technical ability and plan to take the low-cost route don't even use these expensive high-tech aero engines, and just use large-displacement motorcycle engines...

The five major aircraft companies plus a bunch of independent aircraft companies that have emerged have also made the aircraft industry, which has just emerged two years ago, present a scene of hundreds of flowers blooming.