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There are also various light industries.

It requires countless components such as seats, seat belts, airbags, transmissions, engines, chassis, exhaust systems, and electronic controls.

Let’s put it this way!

Liu Aiguo can integrate resources for television sets himself.

Mass production can be achieved in three months or even less.

But cars can't.

There are too many categories and too many things involved in car design, but Liu Aiguo's Hong Kong car R&D center only involves transmissions and engines.

For these two items alone, hundreds of engineers worked day and night on experiments.

Take the engine, for example.

Combustion chamber experiments for engines with different displacements and different fuels must be conducted one by one!

The electronic control system for fuel injectors also needs to be fine-tuned!

We also need to implement intelligent learning for fuel injectors!

Matching is also necessary!

Each step involves dozens of procedures, and each procedure has specific engineering and technical personnel.

Not to mention things like spark plugs and steel belts.

You can make all the TV sets yourself.

But you can't possibly manufacture all the parts for a car yourself.

Many things need to be purchased as finished products.

Can I use the things I buy right away?

Will it be effective after using it?

In most cases, the answer is no.

This requires matching and training.

To put it simply, we should try them one by one.

Which one has the best effect? ​​Which one is the most ideal?

Therefore, it often takes several months for a car to go from production to rolling off the assembly line.

Production from scratch takes several years.

It's tough!

The amount of investment involved is considerable.

The key issue is that even after investing so much, the product might not be well-received.

If they can't be sold, they'll be smashed.

You should know that cars and televisions are different.

The cost of trial and error is too high.

For example, a television set only costs a few hundred yuan, which many families can afford.

But cars are different. Even for those who are now considered wealthy, buying one would almost bankrupt them. When choosing a car, would they choose a newly launched brand or a reliable one?

These are all problems!

Another issue is the purchasing power of China.

Purchasing power was too low at that time; to put it bluntly, even if you manufactured a car, you might not be able to sell it.

Therefore, Liu Aiguo has been developing the 393, making money by selling technology and engines and transmissions.

They didn't intend to manufacture cars.

But building cars is something that will happen sooner or later.

Since that's the case, let's do it ahead of schedule.

Testing the waters is necessary!

Besides, automobile production and manufacturing requires a very long cycle; it's 1985 now!

The car wouldn't actually be on the market until after 1990.

By then, the purchasing power of ordinary people had also increased.

If that doesn't work, we can still export them, right?

"Big Boss!" Liu Aiguo said earnestly, "The initial costs for building cars are enormous. Therefore, I hope the government can provide me with a piece of land free of charge so I can build a factory!"

Cars and televisions are different.

Television sets can be borrowed from other factories, but automobiles need to be built from scratch.

"No problem!" the top leader said. "You can allocate any land in Beijing you like!"

“Fine!” Liu Aiguo added, “Besides the land, I also need a power plant. Either you guarantee my power supply at all times, or I must control the power supply myself!”

Car manufacturing is a highly energy-intensive industry.

If the factory is built later but there's not enough electricity, then they can start crying.

The top leader thought for a moment and said, "There's a power plant in the western suburbs. You can choose to locate your factory there, close to the power plant. I'll have them allocate a special power supply for you!"

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The Liu family was very busy for the next few days!

Yu Li is investigating the location of the first KFC store in Beijing.

We also need to recruit waiters and train them!

Liu Aiguo, on the other hand, was going to the western suburbs to choose a site for building cars.

In this way, Liu Aiguo's old bicycle would obviously not meet the requirements.

He brought two of his own cars directly from Hong Kong.

A van that had been smashed by Jia Zhangshi has now been repaired and is being used by him. There is a driver in the van, summoned from the system.

One of them was a Rolls-Royce, for Yu Li's use, and the beautiful female driver in the car was also summoned from the system.

As for the children, they traveled in a separate van with the head butler.

In this way, the Liu family suddenly acquired three cars, shocking the entire compound.

This made Director Lou and Lou Xiao'e look at them with new respect.

Rolls-Royce!

The license plate number is HK-0002?

sizzle...

So, is this 0001 specially chosen for the Governor's car?

Director Lou is stunned!

……

A week later, the location for Liu Aiguo's car factory was finalized.

It is located in the northwestern suburbs, near a thermal power plant.

There is a large open space there, and it is not too far from the Yongding River, which makes it very convenient to use water and electricity.

As for transportation, it's much better than before.

Liu Aiguo vaguely remembers that when he came to Yongding River to catch fish more than ten years ago, the roads here were all gravel roads, but now they have been transformed into smooth cement roads.

Although it's not quite up to the standard of asphalt roads in later generations, it's already quite good.

The site is large enough to accommodate the third phase of the car manufacturing plant.

Liu Aiguo acquired a full 6,000 mu of land in one go.

We can't use all this land now, but we need to prepare it for the future.

The land was given to us for free; it was all a gift from the government.

However, it would be impossible to build a car manufacturing plant on this vast wilderness in less than a year and a half.

take it easy!

Meanwhile, Yu Li's KFC store also began renovations.

The renovation team came from the United States. They attached great importance to this first store in China, especially since it was Liu Aiguo's first store. They sent their entire team to guide the renovation and strive to authentically recreate the original American style.

Meanwhile, the people from the United States began training employees, teaching management knowledge, and providing a series of things such as settlement systems and settlement instruments.

Yu Li is also studying diligently.

The opening date is expected to be about two weeks from now.

However, the overwhelming advertisements have already begun to bombard Beijing and even the entire country.