While Sodavar and Hestina were living a wonderful time together, the Ploiesti Machinery Factory was also commissioned. According to long-standing practice, the Ploiesti Machinery Factory invested up to 620,000 pounds.
, Crown Prince Edel will definitely attend. In fact, the Crown Prince did come to inspect, not because of its size, but because of its products. A week after the machinery factory was put into operation, Edel came with his guards to inspect
The director of the factory, Podosriku, was welcoming him with a group of current senior executives of the machinery factory. Sovalier, as the director of the assembly workshop, also had a seat at the end of the welcoming team.
Director Podosriku has been a little depressed recently. His precious daughter Hestina and Sovalier have been having a heated fight recently, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable. It feels like a thief has stolen a treasure that he has treasured for many years.
He left, which made him a little angry every time he saw Sovalier. Of course Sovalier knew Hestina's father's unfriendly attitude towards him, but there was nothing he could do about it, who made him like Hestina?
Regardless of the relationship between the two future sons-in-law, the car Edel was riding in arrived at the door of the machinery factory.
A large group of senior executives of the machinery factory, led by the recovered director Podosliku, immediately came to welcome the crown prince. In fact, Edel has been a bit depressed recently. Since the two maids knew that he might marry the Austro-Hungarian princess
After that, he began to ask for it crazily during the night rest. Even a tiger can't stand up to a pack of wolves. Edel was quickly defeated by the offensive of the two maids. If it weren't for his young body and strong recovery, he would probably be walking now.
It's all sour. Isn't it possible that this inspection has dodged a disaster?
"I have met His Highness." After seeing Edel stepping out of the car, a group of senior executives from the machinery factory, led by Podosliku, saluted and said hello to the Crown Prince.
"Okay, you're welcome."
After hearing the crown prince's greeting, a group of people straightened up and stood aside. Under the leadership of the factory director Podosliku, Edel walked into the factory.
Podosliku knew what the crown prince wanted to see, and took him directly to several tractors that had just been manufactured in the factory and introduced them. "Your Highness, please look, this is the Volk brand tractor that our factory just manufactured. It is a large and small wheel
Design, the two front wheels are 60 cm in diameter and 10 cm wide, and the rear wheel behind the driver's seat is 120 cm in diameter and 25 cm wide. This can effectively ensure that it can drive on fields and dirt roads. He uses
It is a 28-horsepower twin-cylinder in-line diesel engine developed by the Power Laboratory, which can ensure the efficiency of this tractor. Please take a look, your highness, and we have also equipped it with a large number of agricultural tools, allowing it to be an all-rounder in the countryside."
Edel followed where the viewer pointed and saw several tractors neatly placed together. One of them also had a plow, a rake, a small flour mill, a trailer for transporting goods, etc. beside it.
It fully demonstrates the versatility of the tractor. These are what Edel told Portosriku about later generations of tractors and their main functions. Now that he has placed them here, they may not be a reflection of his own ideas.
"Director Bodosliku, you did a good job." Edel said to him while looking at the tractor in front of him.
"Half of this tractor is the credit of His Highness, I just made it." After receiving the compliment from the Crown Prince, Bodosliku flattered the Crown Prince a little.
After hearing what Director Podosliku said, Edel did not intend to dwell too much on this aspect and continued to ask, "What is the output of this tractor now? How much do you plan to sell it for? What is the sales situation? How many people are there?
interested."
After hearing Edel's question, Director Podosliku first told the production situation. "Your Highness, we have just started production now, and the personnel are not yet proficient in these equipments. Now we can only produce 20 tractors a day. I promise that we will be able to produce 20 tractors a day."
In half a year, we will increase the production to 45 tractors."
After talking about the output, Director Podosliku talked about the price. "Since our tractors are generally used in rural areas. Considering the complex terrain in rural areas and the high requirements for durability, we plan to sell them for about 4,500 lei.
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Edel heard that it cost 180 pounds. Isn't it more expensive than a Model T car? He asked him a little doubtfully. "Isn't it a bit too expensive?"
After hearing what the Crown Prince said, the factory director Podosliku added, "The main reason is that the production cost of diesel engines is a bit high, and the amount of rubber is relatively large (please refer to the current tractor tires). We must sell it at such a price to make a profit.
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Edel continued to ask, "Have you considered whether the market will accept it?"
Director Bodosliku replied, "We have conducted surveys and found that this tractor is quite suitable for people with large fields. There are almost 3,000 tractors in our country. Now our tractor is better than the British Holt tractor."
The tractor company's products are more advanced and fuel-saving. I believe there is a demand for almost 50,000 units in Europe, and the sales will be even greater when added to the United States."
Edel heard that he did not comment on the domestic estimates, because he knew that the estimate of the director of Portosliku was underestimated. Romania's current main crop land is 6.13 million hectares, and most of these lands are now being cultivated. Romania's current land area
The area is 160,000 square kilometers, and 80% of the land is plains. After excluding rivers, cities, roads, swamps, etc., the land that can be developed into cultivated land is about 4.5 million hectares.
The reason that currently restricts the continued development of Romania is that there is not enough manpower for development. The total population of Romania is now 7.64 million. After deducting the urban population, there are still 5.18 million people living in rural areas. The per capita cultivated land area is 1.18 hectares, which is considered to be cultivated.
It's the limit.
Considering that the tractor has more than four times the stored power, it is not as delicate as livestock. The launch of this tractor on the market will allow Romania to reclaim more land to grow food. It will also allow more people to enter the city to expand Romania's industry. Edel said deeply
If you want to make money in World War I, food will be the key. Others can be tolerated for a while, and there are substitutes that can be exchanged. Food is not a necessity. Romania will be able to exchange enough food from both camps in the future.
Profit, this is why he must strengthen his army first.
After listening to the answer from the director of the Bodosliku factory, Edel said, "Based on the domestic sales situation, you can initiate a tractor loan business with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China."
Facing the Crown Prince's forward thinking, the director of the Potosliku factory could not keep up, so he had to ask, "Your Highness, what is a tractor loan?"
Seeing this situation, Edel had to tell him in detail about this model that was so bad in his previous life. "This kind of loan business is to buy a tractor. You can only pay a certain percentage of the money, and the other money will be paid by the bank with the buyer's money."
Give him a mortgage and lend him money to make up for the lack of money."
Director Podosliku still didn't understand, so he asked carefully. "What your Highness means is that when I sell a tractor for 5,000 lei, the buyer only spends 2,500 lei, and the bank will give me the rest for him."
Yeah?"
The crown prince immediately understood this model when he saw the director of the Bodosliku factory and answered with satisfaction. "Yes, that's what you said. The other part is considered the buyer's loan from the bank."
After Edel learned about the situation of the machinery factory from the director of Podosliku, he walked around the factory again. Overall, he was satisfied with the inspection, but now Edel is worried that tractor production will not be able to keep up by then.
After the inspection, he said to the director of the Portosliku factory before getting on the truck, "Now I am quite optimistic about the output of this tractor, but your output is very problematic."
After hearing the crown prince's concerns, Bodosliku said, "Your Highness, I have already made a plan for this. This is based on the methods of Volkswagen. As long as there are signs of a boom, we will continue to recruit people and convert current workers into
Work three shifts and gradually bring new people to work. According to my estimation, it only takes one week of buffering skills to increase the daily output to more than 25 vehicles."
After hearing Bodosliku's confident words, Edel said, "I believe you can handle it." He got in the car and went back.
A month later, the Volk tractors produced by the Ploiesti Machinery Plant were put on the market. After the first batch of more than 600 tractors were put into the market, they relied on excellent quality and low cost of use (diesel prices continued to rise at that time).
(Less than one-third of gasoline), its all-round performance has received a very good response from the market. The 300 units in the European market were sold out in only 7 days. The 300 units sold in the country were sold out in Romania due to the Crown Prince’s idea.
It only took three days for people to compete with the marketing methods of later generations and it was sold out.
Only then did Bodosliku realize that the plan he had made before was a joke. He could only follow the plan first, asking the crown prince to add an additional 200,000 pounds, and then sought a bank loan of 400,000 pounds to urgently purchase equipment from Germany to expand the factory.
When the tractor received the same treatment as the Volkswagen before, Edel was sitting in the office and listening to the chief guard reporting on the changes in Romania in the past five years.
