The empire has tried to carry out many renovations to the old city of Jinling City, but the results are mediocre, although it is cleaner and neater.
However, the buildings are still dense and the roads are still very narrow.
Except for a few main roads that run through the city and are purely for military considerations, the other streets in the old city are not very big.
When we are still in the horse-drawn carriage era, the traffic situation here in Jinling City is not very good. If cars become more popular in the future, won't there be traffic jams every day?
Thinking of this scene, Holy Emperor Li Xuan couldn't help but smile!
Traffic jam is great!
I have come to this world, and if I can see the grand traffic jam again, then it will not be in vain for me to work so hard to develop industry and commerce.
For Lin Xuan now, this kind of thing even brings a greater sense of accomplishment than simply opening up new territories and expanding territory.
In today's Tang Dynasty, if you want to expand the territory, it is just a matter of words. Now Li Xuan has no interest at all. He just lets the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies promote the expansion of the territory step by step. Even Li Xuan himself does it all year round.
Not paying much attention anymore.
However, Li Xuan pays more attention to the development of industry and commerce, especially the development of new industry and commerce. Whether it is the previous steam engine, internal combustion engine, or electromagnetic development, these are things that Li Xuan often pays attention to.
Without his personal instructions, Datang's internal combustion engine industry would not have been able to develop so fast. It didn't take long for the gasoline engine to be successfully developed, but it was quickly introduced to the market and continued to innovate technology.
In just a few years, Datang's automobile industry has shown explosive development.
This point is inseparable from Li Xuan's own focus and promotion.
Even in order to show the importance he attaches to the automobile industry, when Li Xuan traveled in the past two years, except for a few royal carriages with special significance, except for special occasions, he has already used cars for daily travel.
At the same time, the government is also promoting the reform of official vehicles and is gradually replacing horse-drawn carriages with cars. In fact, government agencies at all levels are currently the largest single consumer group in the automobile market.
The number of official vehicles purchased by governments at all levels is relatively large, and for the purpose of support, they will not purchase products from just a few large automobile manufacturers, but will also purchase cars from some small and medium-sized automobile manufacturers.
In order to further stimulate the automobile market, the Tang government further promoted the reform of official vehicles and announced that it would purchase 50,000 official vehicles of different types next year.
They are mainly distributed to cars used by mid- to high-level officials for travel, as well as pickup trucks, trucks, etc. used by agencies with special characteristics such as taxation and police services.
The purchase quantity of 50,000 vehicles is actually a very small number for the huge imperial government agencies, but the stimulus to the automobile industry is huge.
This means that the government still maintains its support for the automobile industry. This support has changed from policy support in the past to order support now.
The government has once again made it clear that it will provide support, making major automobile companies even more motivated.
Several large automobile manufacturers have successively announced a new round of production capacity expansion plans, and Qixiang Automobile Company is even more ambitious to increase annual production to more than 300,000 vehicles!
In addition to these large automobile manufacturers, some small and medium-sized automobile manufacturers are not willing to lag behind, and they have each started their own development plans.
And don’t think that these small and medium-sized car manufacturers are really small. Although their products are not very good and their market share is very small, most of these small and medium-sized car manufacturers often have a large company behind them.
When they see the opportunity, the head office behind it will not hesitate to invest a lot of resources in support!
This is the case for Feng's Automobile Company. Feng's Automobile Company is based in Songjiang Prefecture. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as the earliest professional automobile manufacturer in Songjiang Prefecture. It also enjoys strong support from the local government of Songjiang Prefecture.
However, the development is not satisfactory. Based on Songjiang Prefecture, the largest automobile consumer market in the country, its automobile sales are only more than 2,000 units per year...
Compared with the annual sales of large automobile manufacturers, which can easily reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of vehicles, it is extremely poor.
It doesn't matter if the sales volume is small, but the profit is not high. In order to sell as much as possible, they keep the profit very low, resulting in not making much money.
In the final analysis, the technology is still not good enough!
After seeing the explosion in the automobile industry this time, the headquarters of Feng's Automobile Company, namely Feng's Shipping Company, couldn't help it.
They first made major changes to the management of the automobile company. More than half of the original senior management were transferred, and many real senior officials were parachuted in from the headquarters.
Its new general manager was transferred from the deputy director of the ‘Strategy Headquarters’, the most important headquarters organization within Fung Shipping Company.
This strategy headquarters is an important organization within Fung Shipping Company responsible for researching and formulating the company's overall strategic development direction.
This fully proves that Feng Shipping Company attaches great importance to the future automobile industry.
This directly puts the importance of the automobile industry and improves its strategic position.
After airdropping heavyweight executives, the headquarters of Fung Shipping Company announced a capital injection into its subsidiary automobile company. The first phase of capital injection amounted to one million Tang Yuan, and further capital injections will be made in the future depending on the situation.
What are these funds used for?
Part of it is used to acquire various related patents in the automotive industry or obtain patent authorization, and the other part is invested in their automotive research laboratory.
Most of this one million funds will be used to improve technology, whether it is acquiring technology or developing it yourself, but technology must be available.
Feng's Automobile Company hopes to improve the company's technical capabilities through large investments in technology research and development, so as to create cars that truly meet the market's technical standards, rather than the current situation of cars with poor technology and low prices.
It is not cheap yet and is not recognized by the market at all. Many of the annual sales of more than 2,000 vehicles are absorbed internally by the headquarters of Feng Shipping Company and its affiliated companies and cooperative companies. Part of it is supported by Songjiang Prefecture.
Official procurement for the purpose of the local automobile industry actually does not even account for half of the cars purchased by ordinary consumers.
As a well-known private capital in the empire, Feng's Shipping Company can even be called the largest private enterprise. This is intolerable.
They can be top-notch in shipping, first-class in shipbuilding, and second-rate in steel, mining, machinery and other fields. There is no reason for them to fail in the automobile industry!