Chapter 120 Mass Production of Automobiles (Subscribe Please!)

After visiting the entire gold mining area and refinery, the problem of gold reserves needed to issue new currency can be solved.

Only by issuing new currency can Australians effectively reduce their dependence on the pound, and also reduce the degree of control of the British Empire over the Australian economy.

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

Arthur does not seek to completely replace the pound in Australia, but only hopes that the new currency can obtain a certain circulation 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 minimize the influence of Britain on Australia as much as possible. It is impossible to completely eliminate it. After all, the ethnic composition of Australia determines the special relationship between Australians and the British Empire.

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

Now that he has returned to Australia, he naturally has to speed up Australia's development.

There are many construction projects in Australia at present. In addition to the industrial areas, steel mills in Western Australia, military factories and shipyards in New South Wales, the construction of industrial railways, hospitals and schools, as well as nursing homes and orphanages are all plans that Australia is currently focusing on.

On the premise of having enough indigenous labor, Arthur feels that it is also necessary to speed up the progress of these construction plans, even if it costs thousands or even tens of thousands of indigenous casualties.

Although Australia had a golden period of development for 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 and Australia is not prepared, then Arthur's efforts will be in vain.

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

After making plans for the near stage, Arthur fell asleep in his bed again after many days.

On May 17, 1902, Benz Automobile Factory.

A year later, Arthur arrived at Benz's automobile factory again, 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 the two and made them start to make changes to their own factory.

It has been more than half a year since the last successful construction of the assembly line. With the workers of the Benz Automobile Factory becoming proficient in the assembly line production technology, and Benz and Diesel repeatedly modifying and improving the assembly line production technology, the cost of the car has finally been reduced to a figure that Arthur can accept, which is more than 80 pounds.

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

You know, even the T-type car, which has very mature technology in the later market, has a final price of 260 US dollars, which is more than 50 pounds.

The initial price of the T-type car is as high as more than 800 US dollars, which is more than 140 pounds.

The T-type car with this price was snapped up at the time and was hailed as a car for the common people.

It is precisely because of the low price of the Model T that cars have really entered thousands of households and become one of the most important means of transportation, completely replacing horse-drawn carriages.

According to the initial price of the Model T, the profit of each car produced by the Benz Automobile Factory has reached more than 60 pounds, which is an extremely terrifying figure.

If it is taken into account the total production of 15 million Model T cars, it will be at least 900 million pounds in profit.

Although the price of cars will become lower and lower with the development of time, the cost of cars will gradually decrease, and can even be controlled to about 30 or 40 pounds.

This means that each car has at least more than 10 pounds of net profit, and the total profit of the entire automobile industry may exceed 1 billion pounds.

Now, the automobile industry of various countries is at an extremely backward level. Benz Automobile is fully able to take the initiative and quickly occupy the global automobile market with excellent performance and low prices, making a lot of profits.

This is why Arthur attaches so much importance to cars. Not only can it bring him a lot of profits, but the transformation of cars can also allow Australia to overtake others. For the economy and military, cars are definitely extremely important products.

After a year, Benz and Diesel are still the same. With the expansion of their respective factories, Benz and Diesel have become wealthy people worth hundreds of thousands of pounds because they hold 10% of the shares. Even their salaries are as high as hundreds of pounds per month.

But they did not pay too much attention to their appearance. They always wore their work clothes in the factory, which were stained with large and small pieces of oil and stains, which did not seem to match their status.

After seeing Arthur, Benz was very excited and quickly asked someone to invite Diesel next door.

Diesel was very busy with his research, and sometimes even Minister Pierre had to wait for a while to find him.

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

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

According to the agreement between Arthur and Benz at the time, if the production cost of the car cannot be ensured to be around 80 pounds, the car will not start mass production.

Since the car factory has started mass production now, it means that the cost of the car has been reduced to around 80 pounds, or that 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 around 80 pounds, which has met your requirements for mass production." Benz smiled and nodded, and said excitedly: "But because you were not in Australia at the time, we could not report to you. But the production of the car was something you had already ordered before, so I took the initiative to let the car factory start mass production of cars."

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