The matter of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company could not be concealed at all. After all, the order amounted to 16 million and was still rising. The news spread quickly.
After Zhongyuan Automobile Company learned the news, many senior executives were anxious. It was a super order of 16 million. They must increase investment and continue to poach people. They must double the salary for me. Get your own gasoline engine out as soon as possible!
Other major enterprises, regardless of whether they are state-owned enterprises, imperial-owned enterprises, or private enterprises, have all turned their attention to the emerging industry of automobiles.
Suddenly, car companies from all over the country sprung up like mushrooms after a rain!
However, this has no impact on Hangzhou Power Machinery Company!
Because let alone now, even for a long time to come, it is impossible for a second gasoline engine that can be mass-produced to appear in China!
Because there are technical talents in the empire who know how to develop gasoline engines, especially those who understand the core technology. Several of them are professors from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the remaining one is Qianmu from Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.
It is estimated that few companies have the courage to poach professors from the Royal Institute of Technology, because if they really go to poach, it is likely to be like this:
'What a fool you are, you actually want me to work for you. I'm a Marquis of the Empire. That bastard Chen Lifu has to bend down and call me professor when he sees me.'
As for poaching Qian Mu from Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, sorry, he is the major shareholder of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company!
In the Tang Empire, many core technical personnel in private enterprises were often shareholders, and there were not a few who were major shareholders.
Because there is a lot of capital, but there are only a few top researchers, and most of them are concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology, and they are willing to give up their titles, political treatment, and almost unconstrained scientific research environment and leave the Royal Institute of Technology just to make money. , then even less.
Therefore, among the scientific researchers in various enterprises in the society, there are actually not many real top scientists. Most of them are graduates from ordinary universities and those from the Royal Institute of Technology who failed to stay in school, and the scientific research level of these people is as good as The remaining staff at the Royal Institute of Technology are not bad at all.
However, although the overall level of these people is not as good as the top scientists at the Royal Institute of Technology, as time goes by, the number becomes larger and larger. When the number becomes large, each person will only make one insignificant research result in their lifetime. So in total, it is an extremely terrifying number of scientific research results.
And there are also some people among them who can maintain continuous progress in certain fields and make great achievements.
Qian Mu is such a person!
The four-stroke structure was developed by him and his research team. This scientific research achievement has been recognized by a large number of professors at the Royal Institute of Technology.
However, people like Qian Mu are, after all, a minority, and a very small minority.
And such people are often core personnel in various companies. They are not only the scientific research leaders in a company, but also often major shareholders.
Qian Mu alone holds 30% of the shares of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.
If you want to make money, you might as well directly acquire Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, which is simple and convenient!
Because if you simply poach people, you will not be able to poach them unless you spend hundreds or tens of millions on them, including dividends and equity, etc.
Moreover, this person is not only a shareholder, but also a core scientific researcher who has signed an extremely harsh non-competition agreement with the company. The compensation in the non-competition agreement is an astronomical figure.
It is basically impossible to dig out the core backbone. The only people they can dig are ordinary technicians. But if there are only so many people who want to successfully mass-produce gasoline engines, it is not Qian Mu's fault. They may not be able to succeed even if they are given three years.
In these three years, Hangzhou Power Machinery Company has already harvested the most lucrative profits in the market!
Before Hangzhou Power Machinery Company officially launched the first civilian car on the market, they even modified a prototype and sent it to the palace as a tribute to the Holy Emperor.
Zhongyuan Automobile Company did the same thing. They built only two cars in total. One was a car that was demonstrated on the streets of Jinling. The other was built and modified with special royal decorations and sent to the palace.
Holy Emperor Li Xuan saw these two cars in the square inside the palace before.
These two cars are currently the only two cars in the empire. One is naturally the West Lake brand luxury car of Hangzhou Power Machinery Company.
The other one was actually the first test car produced by Zhongyuan Automobile Company. They called it the Zhongyuan Type A car, where A means the head, which means the first car in the empire.
The difference in appearance between Type A cars and Xihu cars is actually not that big. In Li Xuan's opinion, both are very original.
The car body does not use much steel structure. Only the main load-bearing structure uses steel components. This is mainly to control the weight of the car.
Otherwise, today’s gasoline engines won’t be able to drive it!
The gasoline engine of the Type A car of Zhongyuan Automobile Company is a product of the laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology. It is purely handmade, has excellent quality, and is expensive. The output, let alone the output, anyway, the Royal Institute of Technology only sells to
We bought two prototypes from Zhongyuan Automobile Company and sold them to them in accordance with the patent licensing agreement. They were considered as part of the patent authorization and were used as samples for Zhongyuan Automobile Company for their own research, production and use.
The performance of this engine is the same as what Li Xuan saw before at the Royal Institute of Technology. Li Xuan knows it without anyone else explaining it.
It uses a horizontal four-stroke parallel-bar engine with a horsepower of 4.6 horsepower. This two-cylinder engine was developed from the previous single-cylinder engine.
The reason why a single-cylinder engine was not used in the first car was purely because during previous research, professors from the gasoline engine project team of the Royal Institute of Technology found that under the premise of controlling weight and volume, well, it must at least be able to be driven on a four-wheel carriage.
And it can be put into practical use, because due to insufficient materials and processing levels, the single-cylinder engines produced in the early days had less than one horsepower and the power was too small.
And more importantly, because the rotational speed of a gasoline engine is much higher than that of a steam engine or even a gas engine, the gasoline engine vibrates too much and makes a lot of noise. If you want to increase the horsepower on this basis, it is not just the weight and volume.
It will increase significantly, and more importantly, the material cannot bear it.
Later, in order to obtain more horsepower, they continued to try various methods, improve materials, improve processing accuracy, and improve various designs. In fact, they had once increased the power of the single-cylinder engine to three horsepower.
However, the problems of jitter and noise have become more serious, and the more important service life is seriously insufficient. Even at the end of the service life, the failure rate is unbearable.
Such a product cannot be promoted and applied at all.