Henry Ford was shocked that the Chinese could produce different models in mixed lines, while the GM delegation was even more surprised at the layout of the assembly workshop: In the huge workshop with steel frames, the lights were brightly lit even during the day, and the assembly line on the right hand side under the light was coordinated and quiet. Unlike the general assembly workshops seen by Heskel, the "one" shaped assembly line was arranged in the "s" type, making the space to the greatest extent. At the top of the "s", there is an air transport belt conveying assembly parts, and at the corner of the production line, there is an underground steering channel.?? Look?

Every 100 seconds a car is off the line, and then the workers are pushed to the vehicle test area on the side of the production line for testing. After the test, it is finally sent to the temporary vehicle warehouse on the far left side of the workshop. This seems to be exactly the same as General Motors, but the problem is that the floor of the site is flashing under the light. While he was wondering, a person in the delegation said: "Mr. Chrysler once said that it is best to install steel floors where the vehicle is off the line so that dust will not fly and thus dirty the new car."

Chrysler is Walter Chrysler, now the president of Chrysler Automobile. He is known as the "company doctor". When he was CEO of General Motors, he increased Buick's daily production from twenty to five hundred and fifty. However, due to his disagreement with General Motors boss Durat, he eventually slammed the door and replaced him with the current president Mr. Sloan.

After such a reminder, Heskell found that the floor of the assembly workshop was very particular. The lower line on the left, the test area, and the temporary warehouse were all polished with shiny steel base plates, which may be stainless steel floors. Anyway, this is also the Chinese people's wisdom. The production line and office area are marble floors, and the raw material area is shiny steel floors. Because of this, when you see any dust in the workshop, the marble floor with anti-slip and fine lines of people's feet can even slightly reflect some light. All this seems to prove that this is not a noisy, chaotic and dirty car production line, but a high-end restaurant on transoceanic cruise ships.

The head of the delegation, Heskell, who was born in finance, was just an amateur to watch the fun, while the shocked Henry Ford hoped to finish the assembly workshop soon, and then go to see the upstream of the assembly workshop, such as the motivation casting workshop and the stamping workshop, where is the mystery of mixed line production. Not here.

"aht?!" Five minutes later, Henry Ford glared at the translator, then calmed his anger and looked at the Chinese officials accompanying everyone to visit, and finally turned his eyes to Wei Ru, the head of the factory. However, at this time, his eyes were full of hope, like the Lord's lamb looking at a pastor.

"Yes, sir. We can only visit the assembly workshop and some accessories production workshops. Other workshops Chinese people said they were involved in the company's trade secrets and were not suitable for visiting." The translator had to repeat the words of the head of the factory under Ford's glare. "They will invite us to a luncheon specially prepared for us."

"No. No need for a bullshit lunch." Ford shook his head firmly. "Tell them: We need to visit the entire production line!"

Ford's opinion was also the opinion of the entire delegation, but it was obviously impossible. Even now, the treatment given to them is at the level of a global dealer. If it weren't for the Prime Minister's Office in person, they would have only circled around the scenic factory area.

"General Wei, these are representatives of the American delegation. Our guests really cannot visit the entire production line?" The Americans came with Ma Junwu, the Minister of Works. He was very angry at Wei Ru's petty family spirit. He would not lose a piece of meat when he let the Americans see him. Why hide it? Our country and people need confidence and openness.

"Sir, they are manufacturers." Wei Ru had never met an official who helped foreigners speak, and Ma Junwu's request made him very surprised. "When we were in a group to visit the United States, yes, the one we went to was Ford. What did they ask us to see? Looking at the boiler room! He also said that it was useless to let us see the production line, because we couldn't build cars, so we could only build tractors."

"Don't say this. If one is not good, it will affect the diplomatic relations between the two countries." Ma Junwu suppressed Wen's anger. Not to mention the grudges and disputes between them and Ford, this obviously does not give him face, and he does not take the Prime Minister's Office seriously. However, this is outside the pass and a subordinate property of the Revival Society, and he has no choice but to use these "beards".

Ma Junwu's final resumption disappointed everyone. Henry Ford even knocked the civilization staff on the marble floor and his beard was about to blow away. Only Heskel, who was not as anxious as him, talked to the technical director Caitlin, who was curious about everything about the Dalian Automobile Factory.

"That old guy Henry is going crazy. The Chinese don't let us look at the stamping workshop." Caitlin was not disappointed. Instead, she was a little gloating about Ford's defeat. He had worked at Ford earlier because he developed another car based on the T-type car, but was eventually fired by Ford for no reason.

"Why is the stamping workshop?" Heskel asked curiously, "Is this the secret of mixed-line production?"

"Of course." Caitlin nodded, "From the assembly workshop, most Chinese people use general-purpose machine tools made in Europe, rather than special machine tools we often use, which makes the lathe have greater processing redundancy and range. This is an advantage, but it also has disadvantages. For example, the downline of the assembly line car is one hundred seconds, while Ford is ten seconds, and our Chevrolet production line is twenty-five seconds."

Caitlyn is a technical expert, not a management expert, and if Mr. Taylor were here, he would not have made such a judgment. Heskel, who was happy to find the weakness of the Chinese, asked after hearing this: "What's going on in the stamping workshop?"

"The stamping workshop makes automobile shells and large parts. The stamping machine tools are the most expensive machine tools in the factory, especially the machine tools that stamp the car shells. They are responsible for stamping the entire body and need to be specially made and are particularly wide." Caitlin said, "If the Chinese really have any secrets, they should be in the stamping workshop. But I don't think there must be any secrets inside. Judging from the arrangement of the assembly line, the Chinese are particularly good at using space. The bigger thing is that there are three types of stamping machines installed there.

This is also the benefit of their small output. Production lines with less than 100,000 vehicles per year can be merged into one production line, but we and Ford obviously cannot arrange this way, because except for Cadillac and Ozmobi, the annual output of any other production line exceeds 200,000 vehicles."

"But the annual output of Dalian Automobile is close to 300,000 vehicles." Caitlin asked back. He knew that Dalian Automobile's annual production vehicle was.

"That's the total output, sir. Even the Volkswagen, which produces the most, will only produce 100,000 vehicles." Caitlin emphasized, "The production of other models is generally between 10,000 and 50,000 vehicles. This is why Chinese cars cannot provide spot stock. Customers must first deliver deposits, and then wait for the dealer's call just like Christmas gifts.

Sir, based on this result, I think Chinese cars do not pose a substantial threat to us. They are only small-batch car manufacturers and their market share is extremely limited, because once the production is expanded, the production line must be increased, thus losing the original small-yield advantage. But if possible, we would better buy this company."

Caitlin made his mistake as he spoke: Since the Chinese have the advantage of being able to produce mixed lines but insufficient production, why not arrange a few small production lines? The production of these small production lines is completely comparable to General Motors and Ford after the accumulation of output, so he finally proposed to acquire Dalian Automobile as long as he bought Dalian Automobile, everything will be universal, including the unique production technology in front of him.

"This is impossible." Heskel, who did not notice Caitlin's loophole, objected to this. "Dalian Automobile's financial situation is very good, and shareholders cannot agree to sell it. Even if they agree to sell it, the price will be very high; and our economic situation is very bad, and the board of directors will not agree to us to acquire automobile companies in other countries. Although China is a huge market."

After Heskel said the reason why the acquisition was not feasible, he began to ask another question, which was also the most concerned question as a financial executive: "Alfred, why is the insurance premium of Chinese-made cars one-third less than that of us? Can you find the answer here?"

"I think" Caitlin didn't expect that Heskel's problem was this. She was stunned and realized that since the implementation of the compulsory automobile insurance law in Marseille last year, more and more states have implemented compulsory automobile insurance. This trend is obviously beneficial to Chinese cars because their failure rate is the lowest among all cars, and protection measures for drivers: patents such as triangle seat belts, airbags, anti-lock systems, etc. are all in the hands of Chinese people. Any automobile company must pay a patent fee if it wants to use it.

In terms of insurance costs, the unified insurance premium for American cars is 125 US dollars per year [Note 14o]. However, due to the excellent quality, Chinese cars strictly protect drivers. The insurance premium issued by insurance companies is only 83 US dollars per year. Calculated for ten years of use, this is equivalent to saving 420 US dollars. It is almost the price of a Chevrolet.

Diversity, reliability, safety, and low usage costs are all the advantages of Chinese cars. In the assembly workshop of Dalian Automobile, Heskell is constantly looking for why Chinese people can make cars so perfect.

Caitlin paused after 'I think'. It took him a long time to sort out some clues. He said, "Sir, I think it can only be caused by the Chinese workers who have a stronger sense of responsibility at relatively higher salaries." He pointed to the car workers who were installing the wires in the car on the production line and said, "Look, there is a sign hanging on each wire. I asked, and it said that the name of each worker and some special numbers are written on it. Once a failure occurs, and the failure is revealed to be due to their improper assembly, the consequences are unpredictable. I heard from other gentlemen on the cruise ship that China's laws are very barbaric. They like to cut off people's heads or cut off their whole body meat piece by piece. There is another rule that if one person commits a crime, the whole family will be implicated."

"Oh, my God, the merciful Lord!" Heskel couldn't help but cut a cross on his chest. He now had mercy on the workers on the production line. If every worker hadn't been busy and had a large number, he would probably have taken out some money to give them. After all, their salary was less than one-thirty of that of American workers, and they would have to be subjected to various tortures.

When Heskel drew a cross, other representatives also drew a cross under Caitlin's explanation, they had no idea that this statement would become the only explanation for the excellent quality of Chinese goods in the future.

The assembly workshop, spare parts production workshop, and finally, a very small finished product library compared to American automobile factories, the entire visit gave the delegation three impressions. First, the production of automobile mixed line is barely achieved with low production efficiency; second, the excellent performance of automobiles is due to the Chinese government's barbaric laws and strict accountability system; third, because of the first point, Chinese automobiles will not pose a fatal threat to American automobiles. In the American automobile market, their share is less than 10%, and they cannot be expanded without intention (due to the inefficiency of hybrid line production).

Yang Rui was a little amused when he saw this report many years later. Especially the second point, this reminded him of the tea eggs in later generations. The Lighthouse Government and the Lighthouse Government always looked at the people of other countries with the virtues of priests or pastors, believing that if I don’t save those people, they will all go to hell. These people have the character of cowboys in the western United States. They regard everything as a show of justice. At the same time, the linear logical thinking makes them unable to see the whole of the problem. They always think that the iceberg is only above the sea and empty under the sea, and the end result is to harm oneself and others.

In other words, their justice is just a kind of self-intoxication, a show that centers itself, which ignores the actual feelings of others, especially those who are helped. At the same time, with the decline of civilization, the proliferation of peace, democracy, human rights, and the proliferation of American justice that is self-expressive but has little meaning, the whole world is dragged together by them to destruction.

The so-called postmodernism and the so-called structuralism emerged and flourished under this situation. They both outlined and described a world that was waiting for Godot or the Matrix, proclaiming that existence is equal to nothingness and life is meaningless. From this point of view, the death of Western civilization is inevitable, the "knowledge is morality" of ancient Greek civilization and the "Jesus Christ" of Hebrew civilization. This trend cannot be stopped at all. China only needs to keep its civilization carefully, watch Europe and the United States follow the footsteps of ancient Greece and Rome, and be repeated by black and green green.

As for the first point, it is simply nonsense. Even if mixed-line production is really inefficient and large-scale production of cars cannot be produced, isn’t it possible to add a few production lines? Since one production line has advantages, the added production lines also have advantages. The reason why Chinese automobile factories have low output is because they consider the world economic crisis and do not want to overstimulate American automobile companies in the automotive industry and completely lose the US market.

This is the reaction of Yang Rui seeing the report sent by the Intelligence Agency many years later. But at this time, he was welcoming his old friend in his territory, Mr. Taylor, the real father of scientific management in history, and Dr. Mayo who visited him with him.

If Taylor was just a polite visit, then Mayo visited with questions. He was curious about an article Yang Ruibiao had reprinted in the Chinese Management Magazine and was reprinted by American magazines: The assumption of management of human nature and the impact of Eastern and Western civilizations on the theory of good and evil in human nature.

From Yang Rui's perspective, this is actually a combat-oriented article that attacks the "Western supremacy", because Christianity advocates that human nature is evil, and most Chinese people believe that human nature is good, and even if there is an evil side, they think it can be educated. In fact, it is a helpless move to express such articles. Facing the threat of war, he can't introduce such hard goods as logistics management, production management, and human resource management. Now Tongji University School of Economics and Management has also changed courses, simplified textbooks, and transferred all these majors to the 6th Army University Logistics Management School, but unexpectedly, this article has attracted Americans.

"Duke, what impact will the difference in the definition of good and evil in human nature have on actual management?" Dr. Mayo asked a student-like question, which was the question he had been thinking about after reading the paper repeatedly.

Since it was face to face, Yang Rui had to produce some practical information. He smiled and said, "The impact is very big, this is the difference between organic and inorganic."

"Organic and inorganic?" Mayo did not fully understand the chemical term "organic", especially for management.

"Organic means that all workers are a group. They like factories and are willing to pay everything for the factories, not just because of wages. The factories are their homes." Yang Rui replied, not in depth. "As far as I know, American factories are concerned, workers and factory owners are opposed. For the sake of opposition, workers even organize trade unions, and then fight with enemies, production is thrown aside, and customers are also thrown aside. Workers have no sense of belonging to the factory, and shareholders have no sense of responsibility to the workers. This is inorganic. The most obvious feature of inorganic is strikes and layoffs."

"Are there no unions and strikes in China?" Management issues seem to have become social and political issues.

"Of course, the evil organizations like trade unions that are not the original Chinese organization will not exist in China, and there are only guilds in China." Yang Rui smiled. "Of course the strike cannot be eliminated, especially some factories run by Westerners. They are too profitable and do not have the conscience and responsibility of entrepreneurs, so the workers are very dissatisfied. Chinese companies generally implement a lifelong employment system and believe in collectivism. Workers and shareholders are one. Profits may be the basis for the existence of factories, but they are not the only purpose of entrepreneurs."

"Will there be workers unable to accept this environment?" Mayo suddenly thought of what Hoover said on the cruise ship. In that extremely confined family, individuals have no freedom. "Everyone wants to have their own way of working. If a person's talents are very outstanding, will it be difficult for him to accept it?"

"He can drink at least, and before he is eighteen years old." Yang Rui smiled. As soon as this statement was spoken, all the Americans who were sitting there laughed. In addition to eating Chinese food, they were happy to come to China, and they could drink as much as they could. Mayo also understood Yang Rui's meaning. Rather than saying that the Chinese were imprisoned under collectivism, Americans were bound by countless moral and religious habits, and banning alcohol was one of them.

After everyone laughed, Yang Rui said: "If I had never been to the United States, then I would definitely imagine the United States as a country, because there is nothing to say about a country that cannot even drink wine. Moreover, this country often says that people are guilty and think that people are sinful from birth. But there are still so many people who like the United States, including me, so many things are relative, and they are completely different from what those people with ulterior motives promote: the United States represents freedom, while China represents **.

If a person is born with outstanding talents, then according to the Chinese education system, he should go to high school after graduating from junior high school, not technical school, and then go to university, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral fellows. He can become a scientist and a professional researcher, rather than entering a factory to become a worker."

Yang Rui briefly said that China's current education system has completely changed. In order not to allow too many children from poor families to enter universities, compulsory education has begun to be fully marketized, so poor children can not go to school. They rely on their own efforts to recognize words and get a graduation certificate, and most with their graduation certificates to receive compulsory education rewards from the county government. The consequence of this situation is that it is difficult for them to get into high school, especially universities, especially when university enrollment is no longer expanded on a large scale.

In this way, the social class will be fully analysed in the entire education system, and the ruling level will be maintained. If everyone is treated equally and everyone speaks based on their scores, the result will be that students with backgrounds will have a smooth career and achieve success after graduation; students without backgrounds will either learn without anything to use or become fruit vendors. Judging from this result, education that everyone is equal and only looks at scores is largely a waste, especially for poor families whose family is in poor condition and urgently needs their children to earn money after graduation.

Yang Rui spoke with a flashing eyes, but Dr. Mayo did not know the story behind the flashing eyes. He turned to ask: "If workers are not fired, how can the factory overcome the difficulties in the economic crisis?"

"From shareholders to workers, everyone tightens their belts together and finds ways to deal with the crisis." Yang Rui said lightly, "The factory belongs to everyone, and bankruptcy is not good for everyone. In fact, for confident entrepreneurs, every economic crisis is a good opportunity to eliminate their competitors. They will find many competitors that cannot be defeated in the market, but they go bankrupt one by one during the economic crisis. From this point of view, the economic crisis is even more of a training, just to survive, because after each crisis, there is a prosperity, just like spring after winter." (To be continued.)

ps: Note 14o: Vehicle insurance and claims, p15.
Chapter completed!