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  Chapter 464 Financial Revenue

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The Tieniu 350 heavy tractor has undergone long-term durability experiments for up to one year and four months at the Koi Mining Bureau. Many problems have been discovered, hundreds of technical improvements have been made, and a relatively mature product has finally been introduced to the market. .

In a week-long field demonstration experiment conducted on a farm in the suburbs of Philadelphia, USA, in front of hundreds of local farmers, two Tieniu 350 heavy tractors plowed and leveled 340 acres of land within three days, showing that It is amazingly efficient.

  In the remaining three days

  The two Tie Niu 350 heavy tractors hauled a huge body and ran continuously on the 96-mile wide road from the farm to Philadelphia, transporting 360,000 pounds of food, once again stunned everyone's attention.

  The last day is a static display. The Tieniu 350 tractor that has been working continuously for 6 days has been scrubbed brightly. After a simple maintenance, it is resurrected with full blood after filling it with diesel and water, and it can be used for new field and road work.

  Such an outstanding performance, leaving the steam tractor far behind.

  After the live demonstration, two Tie Niu 350 tractors that participated in the live demonstration were snapped up on the spot, and as many as 27 orders were obtained.

  The same promotion scene appeared in Phoenix, Houston, New Jersey, Frankfurt, Vienna, Lyon...

As a water test product that has just been launched on the market, the Tie Niu 350 tractor is expensive, each priced at 5,500 pounds, totaling 22,000 US dollars. It is equipped with a large two-wheeled trailer, basic deep-tipping plough and flat rake, and other agricultural machinery products are required. Additional purchase.

After years of hot sales in the market, the cost of small tractors has dropped sharply after mass production, from the initial price of thousands of pounds per unit to more than 760 pounds. It is still Mercedes-Benz’s best-selling product in urban and rural areas because of its high quality and low price. It is widely used and extremely popular.

The high price of   Tie Niu 350 heavy tractor is 5,500 pounds each, which is almost seven times that of a small 4-wheel tractor. Is it worthwhile?

  The answer is yes.

Especially in the vast farms of the United States, France, and Austro-Hungary, heavy tractors have an irreplaceable role. They can pull heavy plowshares to turn over a large area of ​​land. Small tractors can only pull light plows due to limited power. The person cannot speak the same day.

The same scene appears in other agricultural machinery, such as deep turning, rake leveling, and slotting. The efficiency of heavy tractors is far better than that of small tractors. It is a must-have weapon for medium and large farms and can replace hundreds of them. Of labor.

  Not to mention that in the slack time of the farm, heavy-duty tractors show amazing ability in road transportation, and can easily transport forty to fifty thousand pounds of goods. This is simply a magical tool for farmers.

From the price point of view, compared with the large steam tractor of more than 2,000 pounds, the Tie Niu 350 is far more cost-effective than the former. The key is that the large steam tractor can only be transported by road and cannot enter the farmland, so as not to fall into the soft. In the soil, field operations must be used with steam plows, which is a large additional expense.

  It is understandable that the price of new products in the test market is higher, after all, the output is limited.

  At the Songjiang base in Australia

The construction of a new large-scale plant belonging to General Machinery Company has been completed, and the production capacity is continuing to increase. Today, it can produce 200 to 210 large 4-wheel tractors per month. It is expected to reach a monthly output of 400 units by the end of the year, which is higher than the existing production capacity. Something.

  In the enterprise, the final assembly process is being subdivided according to the streamlined production method. This is an extremely tedious and huge task. It requires constant trial and error in practice to find the best way to complete the complete set of complex assembly work.

  General Machinery Company transferred hundreds of experts and technicians to engage in assembly process flow design and commissioning. This is a pioneering work in the industry that has never been seen in the world today, and the assembly line production is implemented into industrial production practice for the first time.

  The related concepts are not new. In the Qin Dynasty, when weapon craftsmen produced Qin crossbows, they implemented standardized flow production.

  A sentence made by Li Fushou when he inspected General Machinery Company broke through the window paper, and the world's first industrial assembly line was born.

  According to expert estimation;

  After the introduction of new industrial assembly lines for small and medium-sized diesel engines, the work efficiency has been increased by about three times, the number of users has been reduced by 43%, a large amount of unnecessary repetitive labor has been reduced, the production efficiency has been greatly improved, the output and quality have been improved, and the enterprise income has been increased.

  After the completion of the heavy-duty tractor assembly line, the production capacity will be qualitatively improved on the current basis. It is initially predicted that the monthly output will reach about 400 units, and the output value will reach 2 million pounds. After running-in, the output has the potential to further increase.

  After the initial test of the two blockbuster products, they have already aroused great repercussions in European and American society.

  Australia General Machinery Company has several popular products in the world market. It has spent a lot of energy to increase the production capacity of the new heavy-duty tractor product line, and it is difficult to take into account the production of new products and luxury cars.

  In view of this

  Hongbao separated the four-wheel luxury car production plant from the Australian General Machinery Plant and established a new Australian First Automobile Plant, referred to as "FAW", which is responsible for the production and sales of "Crown" brand vehicles and subsequent research and development of automotive products.

  Limited by the factors of the times, at this stage, cars can only be expensive gadgets in aristocratic manors, and it is difficult for them to enter the families of ordinary middle-class people on a large scale.

  It takes more than ten years or even longer for the cultivation and maturity of the entire market. In a short period of time, it is limited to fine workmanship and hand-made. It belongs to the incubation period of high-end automobile brands, allowing people to slowly accept and love this new mechanical product.

this age

  Due to the limited output of natural rubber and the relatively high price, supporting products such as glass, rubber and plastic are not yet mature, and automobile products do not yet have the cheap advantage of mass production. We can only look forward to the future.

  As long as the first step is taken in the long journey, will it be far from the end?

  In addition to the dazzling export performance of the second-largest category of machinery products, ocean-going vessels, the third-ranked export product, still maintained a steady trend. In the whole year, 117 trading vessels of more than 5,000 tons were exported, including 39 popular 10,000-ton steel steam vessels.

  A total of 6 large and medium-sized shipyards in Queensland have received orders for ocean-going ships at home and abroad. The products are sold to more than ten countries in the world, and high value-added products such as immigrant passenger ships, refrigerated ships, and oil tankers have been added, showing a prosperous development momentum.

  Otherwise

Due to prosperous trade demand and internal material transshipment demand, with Songjiang City and Tianshu City as the inland river ship manufacturing base, the development of inland river and small and medium-sized coastal ships is booming, and a certain degree of industrial concentration has been formed, which has become a new economic growth point for the shipbuilding industry. .

  In Australia

  Songjiang City's inland river ship construction base is mainly based on coastal small steamers, customer ships, cotton transport barges, ore transport barges, medium and small oil tankers under 600 tons, engineering ships, etc., to meet the needs of social logistics and trade.

  In Shangri-La Tianshu City

More than 20 small and medium-sized shipyards have been developed, forming a dense inland watercraft manufacturing belt. The main products are mainly inland waterway ships with external diesel engines. This simple cargo ship only needs to build an iron shell and hang it on the back of the ship's bottom. Small diesel engines, two with small displacement, 3 or 4 or even 5 with large displacement, low cost and versatile, very suitable for transportation in the developed inland river trunk and tributary system of the Qingshui River Basin.

  The export of the entire Queensland industrial products is dominated by the above three categories, taking into account the processing and export of agricultural and sideline food, forming a dislocation competitive advantage in the international market.

  People who do not have me, people who have me are better, and people are better than me. This is the secret of the success of Queensland's industrial export products.

In particular, the development of the steel industry has benefited from the inexhaustible high-quality iron ore and high-quality coal mines. The steel produced in Australia is of high quality and low price. Therefore, the shipbuilding industry with steel as the main cost has developed and has become an emerging international stock Shipbuilding forces in China.

  Look at the world

Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries are still the strongest ship manufacturing countries. Queensland surpassed the Italian commercial shipbuilding industry in 1885 and ranked fifth. The annual export commercial ship orders accounted for 7.2% of the world market. Has great potential for development.

  In the 1885 National Economic Statistics Collection;

  Earl of Kunshanland (including overseas territories), the total fiscal revenue attributable to the Ministry of Internal Affairs reached 7.667 million pounds, and the per capita tax burden was £1, 9 shillings, 8 and a quarter of a penny.

  Measured by the working population (minus soldiers, infants and housewives), the tax per capita is close to three pounds.

  From a regional perspective, the local area contributes 91.7% of fiscal revenue. This shows that Australia’s local economy makes an important contribution to finances that cannot be replaced by overseas territories.

Due to the large investment in colonization and infrastructure development in the Shangri-La region, the overall fiscal revenue is negative. The Koi Mining Bureau alone supports the overall situation and contributes more than 2 million pounds in tax revenue throughout the year. Therefore, the income and expenditure are offset, and the Shangri-La region’s fiscal revenue is still in surplus. One hundred thousand pounds.

  Compared with the more mature Shangri-La, other regions are much inferior.

  The Borneo Territory has a fiscal deficit of more than 700,000 pounds, the African Somali Territory contributes 37,000 pounds in fiscal revenue, and the trustee Sulawesi Islands has a fiscal deficit of 51,100 pounds.

  Early balance

In 1885, the fiscal revenue attributable to the Ministry of Internal Affairs was 7.667 million pounds. This money is a tax collected by the Earl of Queensland as the lord. It will basically be used for related urban construction, army expenditures, health care and education, and promote the Earl's territory, including railways. Roads, wharves, water transportation, street lights, municipalities and other basic construction are complete, urban development, building of buildings, including dream castles and various palaces, libraries, public toilets, military police expenditures and other projects, each year will be spent on projects It is clean, and even financial deficits of varying degrees will occur during wars.

Dividends held by related companies, house leasing, homestead land sales, investment income outside the earl territory (such as northern Queensland, New York in the United States, London in the United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany, Munich, etc.) are not included. This is the private of the Lord. Income, a secret ledger that is not open to the outside world.

rough estimate

  This aspect of secret income accounted for the bulk. Two years ago, it would not be less than 20 million pounds. Now the specific amount is a mystery.

  Li Fushou is one of the richest lord in the world. Some people speculate that his net worth has reached the alarming level of a billionaire. The benevolent see benevolent, and the wise see wisdom.

From this income, the accounts in the Red Fort have to spend every year to maintain the Red Fort and palaces and residences all over the world, maintain the huge expenditures of the "Young Eagle Project", continue to invest large expenditures in scientific research, and launch a huge amount of foreign wars. Military expenses, additional rewards and pensions issued to officers and soldiers, four steam ironclad battleships dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, and strategic reserves located deep in the mountains on the banks of the Songjiang River to supplement materials and other purposes. The remaining can be used for investment and operation. .

  Calculated in this way, the Earl of Queensland's income is considerable, and the expenses are not small.

  If there is no large-scale foreign war, a large amount of expenditure can be saved for rolling development.

  In sharp contrast, even if part of the revenue from the Red River Valley City’s State Finance is included, the entire Queensland State’s fiscal revenue does not exceed £2 million, and more than 90% comes from the two major cities of Brisbane and Red River Valley.

  Compared with the abundant financial resources of the Queensland Earl, this is really insignificant.

  (End of this chapter)