Chapter 462 Infrastructure Maniac
Modular production is actually not original to Julong.
As early as the late 19th century and early 20th century, Eagle's company pioneered the modular production model.
Moreover, automobile companies in the industry have previously adopted modular production on a large scale.
However, it was Wang Haoran who truly promoted modular production.
Whether it is aviation or shipbuilding, the modular design concept is basically implemented, and the design, production and installation are closely integrated and coordinated just right.
This enables production efficiency to be greatly improved.
In the past, it would take at least two to three years to manufacture a giant ship.
However, with a comprehensive modular production model, it can be completed in just 7 months.
As efficiency improves, costs will naturally drop significantly.
Moreover, the increase in construction speed also brings good time cost to customers.
This is the huge impact that the modularity of the dragon brought to Ichiro Kobayashi.
After watching the production process of a 10,000-ton bulk carrier at the shipbuilding base, Ichiro Kobayashi thought to himself, no wonder the foot basin was outdone in comparison.
The shipbuilding companies in Jiaoben cannot even compare with the dragon in terms of cost and efficiency.
What else can be said?
In the past, people always talked about zero inventory production model and efficiency first.
What was the result? After all this time, they settled on Julong in terms of both efficiency and cost control.
Not only these two things, in fact, the dragon's material technology, design development and even construction technology are much more advanced than the foot basin.
In the past, Ichiro Kobayashi also believed that the decline of the Japanese shipbuilding industry was due to the suppression of the Eagles.
The Eagles forced them to transfer their shipbuilding capacity to Bang Bang.
But now it seems that this is not really the case.
The main reason why foot basins are out of fashion is because of internal troubles.
The big enterprises in the foot basin have serious big enterprise disease.
As a result, their management model is rigid and their market response is slow.
Well! They also made a mistake: they always thought they could maintain high prices by using high quality.
That is to say, use PUA-style marketing to make consumers pay for the brand premium.
For example, the foot basin appliance was once famous all over the world and sold well all over the world.
For a long time, household appliances such as foot basins have been using low prices to overcome competition and gain market share.
As a result, after they gained market advantage, they thought they could ignore the needs of consumers and pursue the high-price, high-quality route.
They are probably influenced by the marketing methods of luxury goods.
They believe that since they are number one in the world, they should have the highest price.
So they raised their prices drastically.
As a result, they encountered strong competition from giant home appliance companies around the world.
They want to advertise their highest quality and avoid market competition, so that consumers will pay for them.
But their wishful thinking was wrong.
Home appliances are not the realm of quality communication.
Generally speaking, people buy things for practicality.
They were suppressed in the home appliance sector in a very short period of time.
Eventually they suffered a setback in the home appliance industry.
The chaebol of Jiaoben is also very decisive.
Seeing that they could no longer compete in the home appliance sector, they decisively abandoned this large field.
In the field of home appliances, the global annual market demand is not small, and now it has become a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
The loss of the home appliance industry is a big blow to them.
The decisiveness of Jiaoben people in the market is actually very admirable.
They really mean it. Once they find that they cannot compete with their opponents and that their side is suffering huge losses with no possibility of improvement, they will not hesitate to cut off their arms to survive.
They see nothing wrong with doing so.
After all, why do a business that doesn’t make money or even loses money?
Why did the Jiaoben people fail miserably in the field of shipbuilding?
Mainly because the cost of their calculations is very high.
When they were competing for shipbuilding orders, once they found that there was no possibility of covering the costs, they simply chose to give up the orders.
And what about the competition for shipbuilding orders from the Dragon?
They were hitting in the direction of breaking the bone.
In the eyes of the people in Jiaoben Shipyard, the price offered by Julong Enterprise was a huge loss.
However, Julong's company still took the order directly.
Can you dare to think about this?
They will grab the orders even if they lose money.
The people in Jiaoben couldn't figure out what the dragon was going to do.
Is it that after grabbing the order, the budget will be increased in the middle?
Many foot basin companies do this: they first place an order at a low price.
Then, during the manufacturing process, we continue to request additional items.
Gain profits by adding items.
However, after searching for a long time, the foot basin company still could not find any relevant information.
Instead, they got a piece of news: the reason why the dragons dared to place orders at low prices, besides the fact that their costs were indeed relatively low, was because of another reason.
This is how Long calculates the matter: Even if my accounts are broken, I have been able to release production capacity in many domestic industrial chains by winning orders. The shipbuilding industry chain is very long, and everyone has work to do by grabbing orders, which has supported a large number of mature workers and trained technical elites in the shipbuilding industry.
After all the calculations, even if the shipping companies suffer a small loss, they can still gain considerable benefits.
The key point: This trick can force competitors to follow suit.
If competitors do not follow suit, they will gradually gain the largest share of the market.
Eventually, the dragon will be able to control the entire shipbuilding industry and form a de facto monopoly.
In fact, Eagle Lizard has always used this kind of asymmetric dumping to crush its competitors.
However, this trick has now been used by the dragon.
Moreover, it seems to be quite useful.
Ichiro Kobayashi originally wanted to stay in Shanghai for just one day, but after visiting the aircraft assembly line and shipbuilding company, he decided to stay in Shanghai for a few more days.
The main purpose of this is to sort out the future development direction of the foot basin after investigation.
However, after he visited several large enterprises, his mentality became a little broken.
Because, he finally discovered that there was really no hope for Foot Basin to rise in the future.
He shouldn't even hope that the foot basin would have a chance to recreate its former glory.
Unless the dragon decides to support the foot basin at all costs.
But why should the human dragon support you at all costs?
After visiting the Magic City, Ichiro Kobayashi took a plane to the capital.
There was a fire burning in his heart.
He hopes to get more support from the dragon.
Regardless of whether we can come to an agreement or not, we should give it a try, right?
Ichiro Kobayashi flew to the capital, and while the plane was in the sky, he also gave a detailed introduction to the past and present of this historic ancient city.
Ichiro Kobayashi also studied the history of dragons seriously.
He also learned a lot about the capital.
After all, there are very detailed photos and video materials about the situation in the Dragon Capital on the Internet.
After reading the information, Ichiro Kobayashi was a little skeptical at first.
Because this historic city has been completely transformed in just over ten years.
Originally, there were basically no tall buildings and no decent industries.
And now it has become the center of industries such as electronic technology, home appliances, machinery, IT, automobile manufacturing, and biopharmaceuticals?
How is this possible?
The key point is that the capital city is not next to the sea, it doesn’t even have a port, and it doesn’t have enough resources.
How can it develop?
Generally speaking, cities around the world that serve as capitals only perform administrative functions, and there are few that perform economic functions.
So, this was considered a miracle in the capital.
Maybe someone will say, isn’t Dongjing also the best place for foot basins?
In fact, the best place for foot basin is not in Dongjing.
It has specially set aside an area as its best district.
The Greater Kyoto metropolitan area actually includes dozens of cities.
In fact, there is only that piece of plain in the foot basin that can be developed.
In the end, won’t it become one?
This is actually the same principle as the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration.
In the future, when the Pearl River Delta, the giant dragon, develops, all the cities will surely be connected together, and all the land that can be used for development will be developed.
By the way, Ichiro Kobayashi doesn't believe that the dragon can have two economic center cities.
Generally speaking, even for a big country like Samba, there is only one city, Rio, that can be proud of.
Any country that has two or three super economic metropolises is definitely a super giant.
Even if it's a bear, there are only two metropolises!
Other aspects of the bear can only be described as average.
Ichiro Kobayashi has already seen the Magic City.
He was truly shocked by the Demon City.
He felt that the Magic City was already comparable to the most prosperous era of Dongjing.
He believed that the capital city should be much worse than the Magic City.
He observed the city from the window as the plane began to descend.
He saw the continuous skyscrapers again.
This big city is obviously even bigger than the Magic City!
Moreover, its prosperity is no less than that of the Magic City.
Of course, because it was daytime, we couldn’t see the bustle under the night sky.
However, just looking at the scale of the construction, it is very grand!
The construction of this city is better than all the prosperous cities in Giant Eagle.
New York is known as the world's largest metropolis. At its peak, the GDP of one of its cities was said to be equal to that of a large country.
Ichiro Kobayashi has been to New York more than once.
The prosperity of New York is certainly dazzling.
However, the scale of New York city is not too large, and its core area is estimated to be only a few hundred square kilometers at most.
But looking at the built-up area of Beijing, it is estimated to be around three to four thousand square kilometers, right?
It's amazing.
Kobayashi Ichiro thought, some people say that the dragon has at least ten metropolises that are very powerful.
It seems that this is true.
As for the infrastructure strength demonstrated by the dragon, it is the only super giant.
What giant eagle? It's not even qualified to compete with her.
The plane that Ichiro Kobayashi was on landed.
Here, he received a relatively high-level welcome ceremony.
It can be seen that Long should attach great importance to Ichiro Kobayashi.
After the welcoming ceremony, Ichiro Kobayashi was taken to the state guesthouse where he was staying.
Along the way, he witnessed the dragon's infrastructure level.
The Airport Expressway is too wide, isn't it? It has six lanes in one direction?
This road is really grand.
The car ran on it very smoothly.
Moreover, there are many overpasses along the way, and their design and construction are equally shocking.
There are beautiful scenery along the road, including woods, meadows and lakes.
The scenery is so good.
This environment is much better than the foot basin.
The foot basin has always been touted as a model.
It was praised for being very clean, almost spotless, and even the house was incredibly clean.
In fact, the main reason why the foot basin can be so clean, in addition to the fact that they have indeed adopted a lot of measures, is that the foot basin has a marine climate.
It has many typhoons and rains.
The rain washed the foot basin extra clean.
But there are always people who lick people with filters on their faces.
Of course, after this huge change, the filter of the foot basin is probably going to be broken.
Ichiro Kobayashi observed the capital city all the way.
He became a little silent.
After Ichiro Kobayashi checked into the hotel, the relevant parties held a welcome dinner for him that evening.
Wang Haoran also participated in this dinner.
This night was the first time Kobayashi Ichiro met Wang Haoran.
He was quite excited.
He knew that Wang Haoran was very important to the dragon.
This is an iconic character of the dragon.
Without Wang Haoran, Long would not have been able to make the rapid progress in the past ten years.
The young man in front of me is really too young.
And he is quite handsome.
Just looking at his appearance, many people would think he is not even 20 years old.
But his actual age is only about 30 years old.
"Comrade Haoran, it's an honor to meet you." Kobayashi Ichiro shook Wang Haoran's hand and said with emotion.
Wang Haoran smiled. He knew that the other party used the word "comrade" deliberately.
The title of comrade can indeed bring two sides closer together.
However, Wang Haoran certainly would not really open his heart to the other person just because of this title.
He naturally feels alienated from people with foot basins.
"I'm also very happy to meet Xiaolin-kun."
"You have also done something earth-shattering, haha!"
Kobayashi Ichiro quickly said: "Without your support, we would not be able to succeed."
"Now, we have come to a fork in the road again. Our lives are getting tough."
"I sincerely hope to get your greater support. You are welcome to invest in Jiaoben. We will give you the best discount."
Ichiro Kobayashi came here this time to attract investment.
Of course, it would be even better if there could be any technology transfer or orders.
Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Let's talk about this later."
Wang Haoran naturally wouldn't agree to anything casually.
The standard of this dinner is quite high.
Ichiro Kobayashi also gave a report at the dinner.
It mainly talks about the situation of the struggle and the current status of the foot basin.
He talked a lot about his friendship with the dragon, saying that he hoped the friendship would last forever and that he would follow the dragon forever.
Ichiro Kobayashi's introduction aroused rounds of applause.
No matter what, Long would certainly like to have a better relationship with the foot basin.
Kobayashi's attitude is still very good and his current behavior is worthy of encouragement.
The dinner was very enjoyable.
Xiaolin toasted frequently and drank a lot himself, so much so that he was a little drunk. (End of this chapter)