Chapter 226 Engine Pricing

The next day, it was sunny.

In the winter after the rain in the south, the temperature actually doesn’t drop much, but the wind starts to blow frequently. This kind of wind is called cold when it blows on people's faces. Fortunately, it is the wind after the rain, and the humidity is not bad. If there is no humidity but wind blows in winter, it is easy for a person's face to become like a radish.

However, this kind of wind will only have some influence on children. Most of the others are rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and they have cheerful faces, so they are not afraid.

At this time, you can start using alabaster cream and clam cream. These are the only two types of skin care products in China. Although the effect is not as magical as some later advertising products, at least people have used it for so many years and there are no negative effects.

When we came to the factory, we held a meeting as usual, starting with the assembly of the engine, which must be the top priority of the factory. There is also the issue of engine pricing. Luo Cheng suggested that the engine should not be sold to the outside world until production volume increases. But if someone needs modifications or something, they have to give a price.

In terms of manufacturing costs, domestic labor wages are low, and there is not much money even if materials are included. But there are no patent fees in China, and there is no emphasis on R&D expenses, because R&D funds are also considered national. If you want to imitate, just imitate it. If you can't imitate it, that's another argument.

A piece of imported glass, even a few hundred pieces, will be sold in China for thousands. The actual ratio is actually about six times more. A piece of imported glass only costs two to three hundred yuan. If calculated according to the current exchange rate, the RMB should be only a few hundred, but people don’t want RMB.

As long as there is foreign exchange, imported products are actually not expensive at this time. You must know that more than ten or twenty years later, Japan will export cars to Hong Kong for only a few thousand yuan. At that time, Hong Kong was a free port, and the Hong Kong dollar was not as valuable as the RMB, but people recognized the Hong Kong dollar.

"Three thousand, I designed this engine. Although the performance is still being tested. But I think this engine is definitely better than the imported engine. Now the imported engines sold in China cost three to five thousand each. Ours The engine is good and the price is cheap, so that’s no problem.”

While everyone was still discussing the price of hundreds and tens of tens, Luo Cheng directly offered a price of three thousand. This is considered a high-tech product of this era. Even if foreign countries want to imitate his engine, they have to crack it first. The drawings and markings are not to say that this engine cannot be fully understood, but at least it will take a long time. If there is a long time, Luo Cheng will have upgraded the new engine long ago, and the overseas market will also be occupied first.

With the current wage level in China, it is really not a boast. To export, as long as the product quality and level are acceptable. Labor costs are really unmatched by other countries.

"Director Luo, this price is too high. The manufacturing cost of an engine is not much."

Director Zhang is in charge of logistics. Through finance, he knows the production prices of those parts very well. Even if they are processed in other factories, they only earn some labor fees. In this era, there are no products that kill people.

"Director Zhang, you can't say this. The engine factory in Tianhu, the diesel engine factory in Hongcheng, and even the one in Sijiucheng, how did their factories be established? They need funds, funds, and equipment. What's more, Our engines are not intended to be exported to others, so we don’t care if others like them.”

Seeing that Director Zhang felt that the price he mentioned was outrageous, others should agree. But Luo Cheng doesn't think so. Assembling an engine for him is more troublesome than assembling a car, and other engine factories were established because of demand when they were first established.

Just say that someone else made a car, just copied it, merged with many factories, and gave them a R&D fund of 1.8 million. Therefore, other factories can not count the investment in equipment and technology. But Luo Cheng can't do it here. If the price is too low, he might as well not sell it directly. At most, he can even add glass to the cube car, install a new engine, and sell it directly for 10,000 yuan.

If the money invested in the machine is included in the cost, and all the algorithms are self-produced, then there will be many machines, probably hundreds of thousands. No, that was just a set of machines. Luo Cheng planned to export them after meeting his own needs. Calculated in terms of millions and millions, Luo Cheng didn't think it was much.

State-owned enterprises independently develop products without relying on any financial allocation. You can say that the current automobile factory is doing the same. However, the No. 1 Automobile Plant is a plant that has already developed. In the early stage, the No. 1 Automotive Plant also had local financial investment.

What does Luo Cheng have here? In addition to borrowing tens of thousands of R&D expenses from the No. 1 Automobile Factory to build a cube car, it has basically developed to the present without any local financial support from the beginning to the end. To put it bluntly, car manufacturers are now in debt. Only when the cars they produce are sold can they make any profit.

And at this price, Luo Cheng plans to export it at the same price. According to the currency ratio, it can be sold for more than 2,000 US dollars per unit at most.

Anyway, the price of domestically produced engines has no reference significance, because the profits of domestically produced products are not too high these days.

This time Luo Cheng was able to say something for once, but considering the speed of assembly of the cube car, unless the parts are processed by other factories, and they must sign a planned production contract, the built engine is really not enough for his own use. It's cheaper to sell, so even assembling a few more cube cars is better than selling engines.

Just like the No. 1 Automobile Factory in Tendo, the engine can only be used by oneself. If it is enough, it will not increase production because it cannot be exported. This is also the reason why after Luo Cheng made a cube car, he couldn't provide any quantity.

And just when everyone was discussing the price of the engine for sale, the raw materials for the forklift truck arrived from the steel rolling mill. What was customized was the plates for five forklifts, as well as the forks customized according to the requirements.

The plates alone accounted for more than half of the weight of the car, and it took two trucks to deliver them from the steel rolling mill. It is mainly used to produce the body panels of forklifts. It is a large overall steel plate. One plate weighs more than half a ton, and it takes several people to unload it with great strength.

However, if there is a forklift in the future, he will have to keep at least one in his factory. The current unloading posture seems a bit scary to Luo Cheng. At most, he can only use a rope to unload, and he mainly relies on manpower to unload. Once you miss it, an accident will really happen if the gravity shifts.

Now that the forklift materials have arrived, the meeting will continue and the personnel department will continue to recruit people. The workshop is currently insufficient, and Luo Cheng also knows it. Overcoming difficulties, the construction site workshop at the new site has been expanding, and the ground is being tidied even when it rains. Luo Cheng didn't let the workers work outside on rainy days. When it wasn't raining, it would be colder outside, so just wear more clothes.

Luo Cheng also didn't expect to pick up a military factory's production workshop for nothing, causing the two newly built workshops to be occupied immediately.

Luo Cheng has almost finished what he wants to say, mainly the production of forklifts and engines. After saying this, Director Zhang reported on the assessment. More than 40 people took the assessment, and three people failed. Section Chief Liu of the Personnel Department also reported on the recruitment situation. The sub-district office also prioritized people based on conditions, including family members of martyrs, family conditions, married young people, and finally the area from near to far.

This time Luo Cheng plans to recruit two hundred people at once, including fifty regular workers. Mechanical operators, welders, forgers, fitters, etc. are all required. Moreover, there is no need to poach regular workers now. The automobile factory now has Level 6 workers, who can be assessed for senior workers. Workers in other factories want to learn better techniques and test higher skill levels. If they have the opportunity to come, most of them will come, and people who know the welfare of the automobile factory know that it is good.

After the meeting, if there is a task assigned, set off to do it immediately. For those who have not been arranged, you can actually infer roughly when they will arrive based on the development direction of the factory.

For example, Li Xiaotong from the medical office is a little worried. Once the factory has more than 1,000 workers, there will be regular doctor positions available. Unlike their nurses, who can only prescribe cold medicine, give fever-reducing injections, and of course bandage small wounds. But when I encounter that kind of situation where I feel uncomfortable but don’t have a fever. Then they are really useless.

In fact, Li Xiaotong was used to being controlled by others during her internship, and now she feels like the master of the family. She didn't want anyone else to worry about her, so she was worried, and this refers to the medical department, not Luo Cheng.

Now the infirmary has recruited another nurse, who was called by Li Xiaotong and became her little follower. But in fact, their levels are the same, unless the factory continues to expand and the clinic becomes a small outpatient clinic, and the number of medical subjects increases. That way Li Xiaotong can still be a head nurse.

Of course Luo Cheng didn't know what this girl was thinking. It was okay for Xu Haitang to come to the meeting. At least some news could be broadcast directly to her. But Li Xiaotong, who works in the medical office, always comes to hold meetings. If it weren't for the fact that she was pretty and a little eye-catching, Luo Cheng would have informed her alone that she wouldn't come to meetings in the future.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, Luo Cheng's father came again. He came more often, and Luo Cheng didn't have to come out to receive his father every time. He was watching the excitement at the new factory. How to manually curve the two ends of a board weighing more than half a ton without a high-tonnage stamping machine.

Of course, even if it is done by hand, it also requires the use of various small tools, such as clamping, shaping, welding and cutting machines, etc.

Luo Cheng stood in the workshop and watched the masters making preparations. The length and length of the arc are all marked with calipers. The preparation was really meticulous. But in fact, this is just a body frame, and the requirements are actually not high.

There are steel pipes under the board, and I saw several gas welding masters starting to calcine directly from the marked position, and two masters with big hammers, who really hammered directly.

It's really like blacksmithing, the hammering is very rhythmic, and there are people watching the bending and turning. Wherever something is not in place, someone is always looking at it from the side.

In just ten minutes, the width and shape of a face were created. Except for some knock marks on the surface that need to be polished, judging from the curvature, it really doesn't look like it was made by hand.

But it has to be said that although the skills of the workers are good, no matter how deep the gas welding and calcining is, or how hard the big hammer is used to hit, it is still stable. But in the case of hundreds of tons and thousands of tons of stamping in later generations, one edge came out just by stamping. Especially this kind of thing with low precision requirements has eliminated many skilled workers.

It takes about ten minutes for seven or eight people to make one noodle, not counting the preliminary measurement and marking preparations. This only requires two sides. If it had a shape like a sedan, like a Hongqi car, with all kinds of curves, a group of people might be able to build a car frame in a day.

And just such a group of people must be highly skilled workers, and ordinary people simply cannot achieve such cooperation. And even though the workers are so stable now, it actually takes a lot of effort to maintain high frequency and stable output. So even if there are only five car boards now, excluding the rest time, it may not be possible to complete it in one day.

That is, after looking at a board and shaping it, Luo Cheng left. Luo Cheng plans to design the 2.0 version of the cube car (van), and the body sheet metal will only need a slight increase. And the iron sheet is thin, so it can be hammered out without so many people.

But at such a car body manufacturing speed, even if the transmission is not stuck, the output will not increase. No wonder Hongqi cars can only be equipped with people of a certain boss level. No one can build cars faster in China now.

It stands to reason that the time when the weather is cold and the time when the weather is hot are actually the same length, but for some reason, many people have the illusion that the time when the weather is cold seems to pass faster than when the weather is hot. If you move it casually, it will be gone for a long time.

At noon, his father, Luo Wen, took the others to the factory cafeteria to eat. Xiao Yu kept a lunchbox-sized box of the chestnut and mushroom stewed chicken that he prepared yesterday. Ask your father to take it back to your family to eat together.

Liu Yi and his people have already gone there to build the new canteen. The canteen is between the old and new factory buildings, and the canteen area is relatively large. What is suspended from the top is a steel structure roof, which cannot be built as big as the factory building just now.

The new canteen was also designed by Luo Cheng. It was similar to the canteens of later generations of schools, with many windows for serving food and reception rooms.

The old canteen has not been evacuated immediately, mainly because some facilities in the new canteen are not complete yet. There is really nothing we can do about the old canteen. The kitchen is crowded every day, and there are long queues when ordering food.

Now that there is a new canteen, those who work in the new factory no longer need to come here. The old canteen here will actually be moved there in a few days.

Luo Cheng left after lunch at noon to say hello to the personnel department. The factory doesn't have a deputy director yet, and Luo Cheng doesn't have time to take time off, so when he leaves the factory for something, Luo Cheng has to say hello to the human resources department.

Luo Cheng went back to his room to get his food book and prepare to receive food stamps. Of course, he also had to go to the post office to get letters.

I picked up the letter first, and then went to the grain store. I didn't buy any grain, so I just took the tickets. The coupons for coarse grains can be given directly to his father, Luo Wen, and now there is no shortage of coarse grain wolves in his hometown. It is much more convenient to store food stamps than to store grain.

In the afternoon, Luo Cheng first looked at the office door and saw that no one came, and then opened the letters inside the office. Last time I replied to a letter, I asked about the size of Dai Qianqian’s bra wrap. I don’t know how the other party responded. If the other party seriously discussed this with him, he could discuss another issue in depth.

In this era, men and women wear boxer briefs. I wonder what Dai Qianqian thinks of triangular briefs. People in foreign countries already wear bikinis. Briefs are designed abroad not only to save fabric, but also as a fashion.

This ~~pretentious~~ thing is so pretentious that it deserves discussion.