Chapter 48: The Mountain Fortress Version Jeep

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  Everything is developing at a dizzying speed, Chen Xiaoqi is working hard to launch more inventions and creations, regardless of whether they can be used immediately or how long it will take to bear fruit. He just keeps rushing forward recklessly, as if there was a fire burning behind his butt, without considering how the world will change because of his actions. History? Future? They are not in his plans at all. He has long understood that he did not come to this world to be a bystander waiting silently for it to change back to its original state, which is impossible.

  He is not a calm and rational person, nor does he have the so-called idea of maintaining historical inertia. He is not an all-knowing prophet or sage who seems to control every change in the world at will. He is just a student who has worked and only interned, a depressed student who can't find a job. His passion and optimistic spirit have not been completely worn out, he still has many ideals and desires similar to those of his peers, thinking about realizing them through his own efforts, so-called life value.

  Thanks to that Daoist who seemed like a scammer, he learned the method of Xuanxiu and possessed an extremely healthy physique beyond ordinary people, with endless energy. He was able to work frantically in such limited time, creating wildly, even in deep meditation, he would inexplicably recall his appearance when he was in school, fragments of his life in another world, and even those absurd posts on the internet that he thought he had completely forgotten after reading, as well as books and materials.

  He was like a drawing machine, a human computer, a mad writer, typing away frantically on his typewriter without even drafting - by the way, in order to make it more convenient for himself to turn the things in his mind into words, Chen Xiaoqi suddenly organized a group of people to change the keyboard layout of the current typewriter to the later computer keyboard layout. He didn't have the energy to invent a special Chinese character typewriter, this task was left to smarter Chinese people to do.

  Because he didn't have time to develop a Chinese character typewriter, he could only print English with this machine. However, his invention achieved unexpected results, after all, the keyboard layout used by hundreds of millions or even more people in later generations was proven effective, and Chen Xiaoqi's main keyboard layout came out, many people soon discovered that this layout is convenient to use, as a result, this product he didn't care about unexpectedly became a bestseller. This forced him to temporarily organize new production factories to produce this new type of typewriter, but in the blink of an eye, he had already spent a lot of effort on it and snatched away the future market of Olivetti, an Italian company that had been producing typewriters for over 100 years, only to improve on Chen Xiaoqi's keyboard layout.

  Under Chen Xiaoqi's leadership, the efficiency of getting things done is also relatively high. After he copied a few moves from Haier's management system, the qualified rate of product quality has improved significantly. He didn't have Zhang Ruimin's great skills to establish so many advanced management rules, but Haier's 13 articles were copied over, which had a very good effect on people with low cultural levels at that time. The accountability system in each link of the production process to some extent blocked the reasons for the large number of unqualified products that still appeared since the birth of assembly line production. Before clear regulations and cultivating a sense of responsibility among all employees, any irresponsible worker in a workshop could cause a whole batch of unqualified products, trying to control the loss within the smallest range possible. This is one of Chen Xiaoqi's foresighted advantages.

  By the end of 1922, after the initial success of "CO2 shielded welding" and "argon arc welding" technologies at "MeiHua Laboratory", another epoch-making product of Chen Xiaoxi's company was finally launched.

  This is a Jeep prototype, the car's exterior uses a twin-seat structure with a small body type that was most common on World War II battlefields. The entire vehicle is made of low-alloy steel stamping, and comes in two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive configurations. It has a 4x4 chassis, spring shock-absorbing suspension system, 4-speed manual transmission, square-shaped body, tempered glass windows, electronic ignition, new-type battery, and patented product "three-point" safety belt, etc.

  This is a car that is unlike anything in anyone's cognition of this era, its appearance even looks somewhat strange, people don't even know what such a car can do.

  But Chen Xiaoqi soon let them know what kind of product this was. Although as a prototype car it only had a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, which is slower than most cars of this era, it could travel freely on various roads, climb mountains and cross rivers, whether it was hills or wilderness, forests or beaches, this seemingly ugly car seemed to be able to go anywhere, just like the advertisement for this car said - "Roam freely in heaven and earth!"

  High-society people initially despised and even scorned this car model, which seemed to have no taste or aesthetic appeal. However, another group of people didn't think so. Young people who grew up during World War I soon discovered that this car was different - it was exactly what they wanted.

  No more words needed, this destined-to-be-successful model quickly opened up the market and later after the improved version came out, it also opened up the very poor US Army market, getting orders following engineering machinery, although only a few hundred vehicles were ordered, each vehicle was just $800.

  Of course, the military version will not be the same as the civilian version. They need a larger displacement engine, a larger body, faster speed, thicker steel plate, high chassis and greater load capacity.

  Under various constraints, the R&D center had to modify various devices again and again. The final vehicle was enormous, with a square steel body, black glossy paint, large tires, and a rugged front grille. The entire car looked so wild and powerful. Chen Xiaoqi unambiguously gave this model a name - Hummer.

  The rugged and rough jeep, Hummer is vastly different in both appearance and performance. The price of this type of vehicle can reach as high as $3,000, which is still without other equipment such as the first car-mounted radio made by Chen Xiaoxi. In fact, Chen Xiaoxi did not dare to install it online because the electrical conditions at that time were too poor. Later, when Matsushita developed car radios, they would sometimes catch fire, let alone the current electronic tube devices which cannot withstand such intense vibrations.

  The military happily purchased 300, and after the simplified version was pushed to market, it reflected strongly, relying on a sale price of over $2,000 to cut out a bloody path among high-end cars, opening up new markets.

  Gentlemen who were initially unimpressed with this type of vehicle ultimately couldn't resist the temptation of such a practical model. They can't imagine themselves driving those high-end luxury cars to go fishing, hunting, camping and other lifestyle activities that are fitting for their status. If the previous ugly car was devaluing them, then this new model that looks decent is able to satisfy their vanity.

  Chen Xiaoqi didn't stop at just one, and on the basis of this model, another new model was developed - a pickup truck. This type of vehicle, which can be loaded with a large amount of goods in the back, won the favor of many farm owners of that era. Their living environment and work requirements dictated that they needed such a convenient, practical, powerful, and durable vehicle to meet their needs. It's clear that currently, there is no more suitable vehicle than this "Great Wall" pickup truck. Chen Xiaoqi clearly told them through every medium that the name "Great Wall" represents an unshakeable quality and extreme reliability, established over 2,000 years ago, a magnificent and unparalleled human wonder that stretches for thousands of miles.

  As diesel engines became more powerful and stable, Chen Xiaoqi continuously pushed out various prototype engineering vehicles with increasingly larger horsepower. He kept pushing this future-oriented power core to the extreme, from 4 cylinders to 12 cylinders, from 12 horsepower to 260 horsepower or even higher. Because he knew that even in the T-34 era, a 500-horsepower diesel engine was needed to drive tens of tons of massive objects, let alone the 1500-horsepower heavy tank engines of later generations.

  Apart from car engines, Chen Xiaoqi also extended his hands to the high-power diesel engine for ships, doing preliminary design and pre-research work. At the same time, based on the existing high-power engine, he began to study the next fist product - heavy trucks. In future battlefields, heavy-duty trucks will be an indispensable important assistant and partner. The development of highway transportation in the future will become a network of highways with hundreds of millions of kilometers, covering the entire United States, and the shadow of heavy trucks rushing horizontally and vertically can almost be seen in every American blockbuster, not to mention the famous "Titanic" brother.

  Time flies, and the suburban farm where "MeiHua Laboratory" is located has become a rapidly expanding industrial processing center after years of continuous expansion. From the smallest toothpaste toothbrush to the huge crane, from the small motorcycle engine to the tens of meters high giant reactor, the roads here have been repeatedly widened and reinforced, but still filled with vehicles that are crowded together. This is still the result after Chen Xiaoqi concentrated most of the large-scale production equipment in the newly developed Chicago Industrial Park.

  This secluded laboratory has become an incubator leading the development of this era, with new inventions and patents emerging every day. Among the thousands of employees, there are over a thousand R&D personnel and supporting staff, whose salaries and invention dividends alone amount to astronomical figures, not to mention the experimental equipment they constantly need to purchase. This is already a massive organization that surpasses any research institution in this era, with reserve forces continuously joining in. More and more talented individuals are drawn into the fervent atmosphere, only to be captivated by the comprehensive development blueprint of each project group. It seems as though there are endless topics waiting for them to solve, giving their careers almost boundless goals to strive for.

  Researchers are not afraid of difficulties, because that represents their work is valuable, and their efforts are effective. After overcoming each difficulty, they will joyfully discover that the results of their efforts will be quickly realized on some product. The joy of achievement is something that countless frustrated scientists in later generations cannot taste. In the next few decades, more experts and scholars will often see their inventions and creations, which they spent half a lifetime or even a whole lifetime working on, lying alone in a corner, unasked and unresolved until death.

  It's such a wonderful era, people need countless things to fill their living space, like those very simple refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners and radios, almost every family is striving to own them, this type of product is almost always a bestseller.

  Apart from his main work, Chen Xiaoqi would also try to get a share of the pie. After all, he had countless designs for future products in his mind. Although the plastics industry was still underdeveloped at that time and could not be used to manufacture large quantities of plastic shells for these white household appliances, this did not mean there were no other ways. The wisdom of the working people is boundless, even if it means using hardwood and steel plates to make the shells of these electrical appliances, it's all possible.

  The subsidiary factories of "Mei Hua Laboratory" are expanding, and all the workers in Shangyin City are not enough to join in. Chen Xiaoqi has put a large number of factories in Chicago, taking advantage of the city's extremely developed logistics and industrial worker resources, to turn countless inventions into products at an even faster rate, and then transport them to all parts of the world.