Rise of Australia

Chapter 120 Mass Production of Automobiles (Please Subscribe!)
After visiting the entire gold mining area and refinery, there is hope that the problem of gold reserves required to issue new currencies can be resolved.

Only by issuing a new currency can the Australians' dependence on the pound be effectively reduced, and it is also reducing the control of the British Empire over the Australian economy.

Of course, this is also a long-term plan.As long as the British Empire does not lose its status as the first power, the pound will always be an extremely important currency in any region.

Arthur did not seek to completely replace the pound in Australia, but only hoped that the new currency could be circulated to a certain extent and reduce the influence of the British Empire on Australia.

After all, the current monarch of Australia is Arthur. For Arthur, an Australia that is not affected by any country is his own territory.

At this stage, Arthur can only reduce the influence of Britain on Australia as much as possible. It is impossible to completely eliminate it. After all, Australia's ethnic composition determines the special relationship Australians have with the British Empire.

After returning to the manor, Arthur saw Princess Louise and two younger sisters whom he had not seen for more than a month. After having a simple dinner with his family, Arthur returned to his room.

Now that he has returned to Australia, it is natural to speed up the pace of Australia's development.

At present, there are many constructions in Australia. In addition to the industrial areas in Western Australia, steel factories, military factories in New South Wales, shipyards, etc., the construction of industrial railways, the construction of hospitals and schools, and the construction of nursing homes and orphanages, These are all plans that Australia is currently emphasizing on development.

Under the premise of having enough indigenous labor, Arthur felt that it was necessary to speed up the progress of these construction plans, even if it cost tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of indigenous casualties.

Although Australia had a golden development period of more than ten years before World War I, who can guarantee that the reality will be as it was in history?
If there is any accident in the situation in Europe, but Australia is not prepared, then Arthur's efforts will be wiped out.

Therefore, in addition to more accurately grasping the situation in Europe, it is also very important to speed up the pace of Australia's construction.

After making the near-term plan, Arthur once again fell asleep in his bed after many days.

On May 1902, 5, the Benz Automobile Works.

After a lapse of one year, Arthur arrived at Benz's automobile factory again, which was adjacent to Diesel's engine factory.

The last time I came here was a year ago, when Benz and Diesel jointly invented a new car.

It was also at that time that Arthur first proposed the concept of the assembly line to Benz and Diesel, which surprised them and began to make changes to their own factories.

It has been more than half a year since the last assembly line was successfully constructed. With the workers of Benz Automobile Factory being proficient in the assembly line production technology, coupled with the repeated modifications and improvements of the assembly line production technology by Benz and Diesel, finally The cost of the car was reduced to a figure Arthur could accept, which was just over £80.

Is the production cost of more than 80 pounds high?If it is in this era, then it is indeed not high.

You must know that even the Model T, which has very mature technology in the future market, will eventually sell for as high as 260 US dollars, which is more than 50 pounds.

The initial price of the Model T was as high as more than 800 US dollars, which is more than 140 pounds.

This priced Model T car was snapped up at the time and was hailed as a car for the common people.

It is precisely because of such a low-priced T-car that the car has truly entered thousands of households and has become one of the extremely important means of transportation, completely replacing the horse-drawn carriage.

Judging from the initial selling price of the Model T, the profit of each car produced by the Benz Automobile Factory has reached more than [-] pounds, which is an extremely terrifying figure.

If it is brought into the total production of 1500 million Model T cars, it will be a profit of at least [-] million pounds.

Although the price of the car will get lower and lower over time, the cost of the car will also gradually decrease, and can even be controlled to about thirty or forty pounds.

This represents a net profit of at least ten pounds per car, and the total profit of the entire automotive industry may exceed one billion pounds.

But now, the automobile industry in various countries is at an extremely backward level, and Benz Automobile is fully capable of preemptively occupying the world's automobile market with excellent performance and low price, and earning a lot of profits.

This is why Arthur attaches so much importance to cars. Not only can he bring a lot of profits to himself, but the transformation of cars can also allow Australia to achieve cornering overtaking. For the economy and the military, cars are absolutely extremely important products.

A year has passed, but Benz and Diesel are still the same.With the expansion of their respective factories, Benz and Diesel have also become billionaires worth hundreds of thousands of pounds because of their 10% shareholding.Even their salaries are as high as hundreds of pounds per month.

But they didn't pay too much attention to their appearance, and they always wore their work clothes in the factory, which were stained with large and small oil stains and stains, which didn't seem to fit their identities.

After seeing Arthur, Benz was very excited, and hurriedly invited Diesel, who was next door.

Diesel is usually very busy with his research, sometimes Minister Pierre even has to wait for a while to find him.

But after Diesel learned of Arthur's arrival, he quickly stopped his research and went to the car factory next door in person.

Seeing the two of them again, Arthur was also a little emotional, and asked with a smile: "I heard that the car factory has started mass production now?"

According to the agreement between Arthur and Benz at that time, if the production cost of the car could not be guaranteed to be around [-] pounds, the car would not start mass production.

Now that the car factory has started large-scale production, it means that the cost of the car has been reduced to about 80 pounds, or the assembly line developed by Benz has achieved initial success.

"Yes, Your Highness. As early as a month ago, our improved assembly line was able to keep the production cost of the car at about [-] pounds, which already meets your requirements for mass production." Benz nodded with a smile and said excitedly To: "But because you were not in Australia at the time, we couldn't report to you. But you have ordered the production of cars before, so I also advocated on my own and let the car factory start mass production of cars."

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