The journey starts from the Titanic

When Song Zian got off the boat, he saw his second brother Song Ziliang walking towards him, and the brothers hugged tightly.

"This time I returned with a full load. I bought the production line, and the engineers recruited from the United States also followed! Are you ready?"

Song Zian was very excited and couldn't wait to ask.

Song Ziliang nodded: "The factory building has been built, and the water and electricity are connected. Just wait for the installation of the machine. Also, the staff accommodation has been arranged."

"Great! I immediately arrange for someone to load and unload the machinery and equipment."

"Tell others to do this. You have to go home with me now. Mother misses you."

The Song Zian brothers exchanged greetings for a while and drove home after arranging manpower.

Towards the end of the year, the Song family’s mother had returned from Wuhan to her old house in Shanghai. Song Ziwen couldn’t walk away in Wuhan. The Song family’s brothers and sisters followed her mother to celebrate the New Year in Shanghai.

Song Zian naturally became the center of the topic, and his brothers and sisters were all concerned about his automobile business.

Song Zi'an answered one by one, describing in detail what he saw and heard in the Auto City Detroit. Detroit is full of auto factories, and hundreds of thousands of workers are focused on one thing-making cars.

Two or three million cars are manufactured each year. The combined output of Shanghai and Tokyo cars is only a fraction of Detroit.

"At the time, I was almost like walking into the automobile world. All I saw, heard, touched, and smelled cars. People in Detroit make cars for a living. Auto workers earn five dollars a day and go to work in a car factory. The university is more popular with the young people there."

When Song Zian said that he was excited.

"The income of American auto workers is about the same as that of university professors in Shanghai? Americans have a very comfortable life."

Song Meiling said in surprise.

The dollar is against the legal tender, one to two, and Song Ziwen, as prime minister, has a monthly salary of no more than yuan, which is less than three times the salary of American auto workers.

"Then, how much do you pay for auto workers?" Song Meiling asked with a smile.

"Ordinary workers range from 5 to 2 yuan, and engineers above 2 are set up for grade assessment. The higher the grade, the higher the salary.

Song Zian explained that the wages are not comparable to those in the United States. Detroit workers can sell a car in three months, while auto workers in Shanghai can only afford a car for at least two or three years.

What is most lacking now is auto workers. I cooperated with Dasheng Company to build an auto school. I hope the Meihua Foundation will participate."

Song Zian looked at Song Meiling expectantly, even if she could not get the education funding of the Meihua Foundation, she would at least have the faculty of Meihua University.

Meihua University, established by the Meihua Foundation, is the best university of science and technology in Asia. It has strong strength and trained thousands of engineers. It is a partner of well-known brands such as Meihua Laboratory, William University and Cummins Laboratory.

Situ Nan was also full of praise. Without Situ Nan's help, things didn't go so well this time.

This made Song Meiling happy. She learned that Song Zi’an’s automobile factory lacked skilled workers. She used her relationship to recruit Song Zi’an from Jingwu School to recruit more than one hundred mechanical professionals with internship experience.

Under Meihua University, there are secondary vocational education institutions like Jingwu School. Well, Jingwu School is a huge education system, famous for its vocational skills and militarized management, and is more blue than Lan Xiang.

Meihua factories like to recruit from Meihua University and Jingwu School, Dasheng Automobile Company and Shanghai Automobile Company are no exception.

"It is a good thing to run a school. The Meihua Foundation has always supported it. The face of my foundation director is useful."

Soong Meiling agreed, not forgetting to instruct Song Zi'an to find the William Foundation to "alms".

The nature of the Meihua Foundation and the William Foundation are the same. The relationship between the two is like the relationship between Soong Meiling and Laura Mellon. Soong Meiling and Laura do not touch each other well, and do not communicate with each other, but the two foundations have a good relationship. There is cooperation with each other. The William Foundation invests 3% of its charitable funds in Asia every year. It should be rewarded to find the William Foundation to run an automobile school.

Song Zi'an nodded, and soon found Zhang Xiaoruo again, which was approved by Zhang Xiaoruo.

Of course, the affairs of running the automobile school are handed over to special personnel. Both of them are busy building their own automobile factories.

Unlike Song Zian’s Shanghai Automobile Company, Dasheng Automobile Company mainly focuses on commercial vehicles and develops trucks and buses. It has already received orders from the military and the government.

Competing with Dasheng Motor Company is Meihua Electric Company.Meihua Electric Company not only manages electric power unemployment, but also participates in urban public transportation, and cooperates with China Railway Corporation to build automobile and trams in big cities.

"Have you seen? Yesterday the Wuhan Municipal Government wanted to build three trams. Today, the Guangzhou Government announced that it will build a city bus system, establish a bus company, and plan to bid for 3 buses from the public!"

On this day, Song Zi'an took the newspaper and said with emotion to Song Meiling that after railway and shipbuilding, highway transportation is the most active industry in capital and technology, and the giants are all over!

"It is said that there are people in Wuhan who are planning to build a car factory." Song Zi'an has a feeling of waiting for time.

"There was this plan. The Five Bucket Tractor Factory planned to manufacture cars, but the plan changed later."

Song Meiling smiled.

It's funny to think of the name Wudou Tractor Factory and her founder. Situ Nan's former secretary He Yongyuan has a close relationship with this tractor, and he is half of his own.

"Why didn't you build a car factory? The He family (He Yongyuan) has no money? Wudou Tractor Factory is also a domestic famous brand with strong technical force."

Song Zian asked curiously, not understanding why there was one less competitor.

"What project should I study with the military!" Song Meiling said simply.

As soon as she said, Song Zian understood, tractor military, isn't a military tractor a tank?When he visited in Detroit, he knew that the automobile factory is actually a tank factory and an aircraft factory, both of which are inseparable from the internal combustion engine, but the focus is different.

"That's good, one less competitor!"

Song Zi'an smiled.

After reuniting with his family, Song Zi safely devoted himself to the construction of the automobile factory, and applied the experience he learned in the United States to his automobile factory.

After a month of commissioning, the first T-car assembly line from Ford Motor Company was successfully installed, and auto parts and accessories shipped from the United States were also shipped back to Shanghai.

The workers are also trained.

Soon after the beginning of the new year in 1929, Shanghai Automobile Company used imported auto parts and local domestically-made parts to assemble the first domestically produced T-car.

This is not the first car made in China, but it has important meanings, and it opened the prelude to the Chinese people's real entry into the automobile era.And among the domestic parts manufacturers that provide it with auto parts, there is the Dasheng company next door.

To be precise, it is Dasheng Loom Company, a brother company of Dasheng Motors. Using its experience and strength in the mechanical manufacturing field, Dasheng Loom has transformed itself into an advanced clutch manufacturer, manufacturing clutches for SAIC Dasheng Motors.

There is also Meihua Tire Company, which developed from Acorn International, and is also a beneficiary of domestic automobile development.

With the passage of time, more and more automobile-related industries have gathered in Shanghai. Automobiles will become another driving force behind the development of China's economic development after railway electrical and textile industries.

Although it started later than European and American countries, the automobile industry in European and American countries has almost gone through the prosperous 1920s.

SAIC Motor has modified the open silk compartment of the T-car to make it conform to the Chinese aesthetic. It becomes a closed compartment with a larger compartment space. At the same time, the glass window design adds to the fashion of the car.

In essence, it is still a Type T car. Even the black painting of the Ford Type T car has remained unchanged for thousands of years. It is already a backward model in the United States, but in China, people have just entered the automobile age and there is no much demand. There are few types of cars on the market, most of which are expensive imported cars. A high-quality and inexpensive domestic car just fills people's desire for cars, and is also in line with the social trend of promoting domestic products in the industry.

Song Zi'an was very clever. He advertised in newspapers and bragged through the Times of the Shanghai Poster Industry Group's Ta Kung Pao. Everyone thought it was a domestic car.

Song Zi'an named the Shanghai brand car. The name is really nothing new. Even the car logo is simply "Shanghai sh".

"Under a thousand yuan, a Chinese car, you deserve it!"

This publicity slogan was shouted loudly. The citizens of Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin and other big cities suddenly discovered that the streets and alleys were full of advertisements for Shanghai brand cars, and the advertising was as strong as tobacco advertisements.