Chapter 243: Ford goes south

The question of whether Detroit disappeared or not disappeared. As a Dixie, Sheffield certainly did n’t care anyway. Anyway, the Yankee ’s site at that time. Furthermore, Detroit ’s production efficiency was actually not high, but it occupied a first mover advantage That's it.
Detroit is a northern city. It has all the shortcomings of northern cities. For example, the cold in winter, the cold thing looks nothing, but it will incur a lot of additional costs. Heating requires coal, and a plant that needs to be kept warm. This point is too clear in Sheffield, the northernmost part of the Republic in the past, the disadvantage of these invisible costs.
Detroit simply turned the first-mover advantage into a scale advantage. With its large scale, it offsets this disadvantage, making it impossible for other cities to compete in the automotive industry, but once globalized, this disadvantage is magnified. It also became part of the rust belt of the United States in later generations.
Automobiles can be regarded as high-tech industries in this era, but it is still a labor-intensive industry. From a lesser-known city to a big city in the United States, Detroit relied on the automobile industry to attract a huge population to settle in Detroit. Finally, the automobile was also defeated. Because of the decline of the automobile industry, Detroit has struggled a hundred years later. , Became the home base of the black population.
The population is a huge disadvantage for the southern states. If you can attract a lot of people to settle in Texas, you can enrich the strength of the south. How will Detroit develop in the future? He is not a Yangji and can't control so much.
It can be said that the pillar industry of Detroit, which is still in the pipeline, is still a seed, and was killed by Sheffield in Houston the night before it broke out.
"Do you know, no one can compete with me in the field of cars now, because the electricity used is Southern Electric, the production line is made by United Machinery Company, the oil of the car is from the Texas oil field, and I have already After calculating the cost of a car, the pricing is stuck at this cost. Ford does not make much money at all. The scale of 100,000 cars can only earn me two million dollars, but I earn less , Other engineers who want to intervene in the automotive industry, even with Morgan ’s capital injection, ca n’t compete with me. If I make less of them, they are even extravagant.
Sheffield looked at the busy plant and pinched her waist to face John Connor and Ramon Hess's mouth is full of arrogance. "After the goal of 100,000 cars is completed, the salary of the workers of United Automobile Corporation is still higher than that of ordinary workers. Do you know what to do at this time?"
"Does the boss want to expand production?" Ramon Hess said uncertainly, "but the profit may be reduced."
"In recent years, Ford has pursued market share. Of course, it is also important to make money. However, it is important to look at the pricing of potential competitors. However, for every 100,000 more cars on the market, it is equivalent to 100,000 more gas. Tiger, I can also make money from the increased production of the Texas oil field. Auto companies would rather make less money than competitors have a profitable space, if you want to enter the automotive field, you can burn money to kill, there is nothing wrong of."
Sheffield concealed his thoughts at all. He hated competitors and pursued monopoly. There is also a monopoly of low-price flags to increase the production of oil to earn another cent.
The auto industry is controlled in its own hands, and Texas Petroleum shares with Standard Petroleum, its monetization ability will be greatly improved, and the auto industry can drive the emergence of many industries, which is equivalent to him feeding a lot of workers In addition to its already existing position in agriculture and animal husbandry, it will gain tremendous influence.
In addition to being ambitious in Sheffield in Houston, the Rockefeller Jr. in New York has not been able to sleep for a few days. From the rhetoric of 100,000 vehicles a month, the stock market has received timely feedback, and the stock price of Standard Oil has entered During the slow climbing phase, as more and more news came, until Sheffield Motors completed the rhetoric of monthly production of 100,000 vehicles, the share price of Standard Oil also ushered in.
Many investors understand that Sheffield United Motors cars are internal combustion engines and require oil as a power source. Once these oil-eating machines are put into the market, the importance of oil will be greatly enhanced. As a representative of the United States Trust, Standard Oil will benefit greatly from it.
Without buying Standard Oil stocks now, investors everywhere are simply getting their heads caught. Moreover, once the auto industry is established, who will be the leader of the auto industry in the future, will there be newcomers to enter the market? It is still impossible for investors to judge. As a related industry, Standard Oil has been standing for decades. It is lower in terms of risk.
Surrounded by the good news from Little Rockefeller's stock market, now that Sheffield is not uncomfortable at all, is it not a sister, he is not only a sister, in addition to Edith Rockefeller ...
Some people are happy and some are worried. There are beneficiaries like Rockefeller Jr., and there are frustrated people. Detroit is not far from New York on the map. The pioneers of the automotive industry here are like being poured into a pot cold water. The fiery heart before had already been extinguished with the success of the monthly production of 100,000 vehicles.
Their mood is like a budding car city, and they have directly entered the stage of death. Many people have started to pack their bags in the past few days, preparing to go to Houston to try their luck and enter the real car breeding place to find opportunities. It can be said that the establishment of Houston's automobile company has completed the production of 100,000 vehicles in a short time, which has destroyed the confidence of most pioneers in the automobile industry.
How can they fight such a powerful opponent? Pour your own oil on your own land, using your own electricity and using the production lines produced by your own company. Such a closed-loop structure is too desperate for the pioneers who are still fighting alone.
These pioneers in the automotive industry did not say it completely, because Sheffield also received several rubber plantations from the Spanish colonists in the Philippines. Southeast Asia itself is an important producer of rubber. For his relationship, rubber is for him It's not difficult at all, he can handle the material of the wheel by himself.
It's just that car pioneers who haven't grown up yet do not know this desperate fact. The reality is always more desperate than they thought.
Among the humble rental plants, the greasy Ford sat dejectedly on the bench, not far from him was a newly-built car, but compared to another car with his own name, the style in the newspaper. The car he made was like an ugly duckling, and people who saw Ford didn't even look at the car again.
The sad face of Ford remembered the scene where he had just built his first car two years ago and was found to come to the door. At that time, he was very motivated and felt that he could create an emerging industry for citizens of the entire United States. Can own a car of his own, and because of this move, he will write his own chapter in history.
With this feeling in mind, after learning about the other party's invitation, Ford refused the other party's kindness after considering it for too long, and began to work hard for his dreams with his like-minded companions in Detroit.
After a long period of persuasion, the man who came to find himself finally failed, and finally persuaded when he left, "You do n’t know what kind of support your dream needs, and you do n’t know that the company you refused has What kind of strength, I hope that one day you will want to understand this problem. "
Today, Ford finally understood the meaning of the other party's words, and the opponent he was about to face was so powerful that he could not beat it.
"Ford, look at this!" Ford's friend yelled directly into the plant, and soon saw a daze friend, holding a newspaper in his hand, "Ford's price is out, it is two hundred and twenty dollars."
This news made Ford, who was sitting on the bench, stunned, thinking of his long-term assembly experience, and said, "It is not surprising that such a large scale and efficiency have put the pricing to this point? If one People save money and spend a year, they can own their own cars. But my friend, do you know what this means? "
"What does it mean?" The man was full of doubts. He was just a senior repair mechanic, and he didn't know much about it.
"This means that in the current pricing, no one can compete with Sheffield Motors' products. Sheffield Motors has lowered the price to such a point that other competitors in the automotive industry have not made any profits at all. "Ford smiled bitterly," This company has already eliminated all competitors from the beginning. "
Just as the two were talking, the well-dressed William Durant came in and saw the two of them touched with frustration, and sighed in their hearts, regretting their prospects. As a multimillionaire, William Durant Te also foresees that the auto industry is gaining momentum, so he came to Detroit to find like-minded partners, but unexpectedly, the outbreak of the auto industry appeared in Houston, and his judgment was wrong.
"Ford, I'm going to Houston soon. If you want, you can go with me. We meet the boss of United Motors. How do you like it?" William Durant seriously proposed in front of Ford. He had heard of the things that Ford had been attracted to in the past few days, and he felt sorry for the other side.
Ford, who lowered his head, suddenly raised his head, his eyes wide open, filled with stubbornness, but then the flame slowly extinguished, and finally said, "Then try your luck."