Romanian Eagle

Happy times are short-lived. In persuading his father to give up the idea of ​​participating in the war, Edel, who found that his father was dying, had to pick up all the things he was nervous about after spending a whole day with his father Carol I.

After Eder competed for Romania's war money, Volkswagen, as a leading company in Romania, fell into a hot environment. In the office of Volkswagen general manager Minoba, he is very busy.

"Hey, is that the general manager of Katurski? We need 10,000 tons of steel this month. The price is easy to say, you can increase it as soon as you need it, no problem. Now we have too many orders and we need so much steel, otherwise we will be finished. No order. Thank you, I will treat you to a big meal someday, no problem, then please eat French food."

Minorba put down the phone call he had just called to the steel mill, and before he could catch his breath, the phone rang again.

"Hey, it's me. France has an order for 20,000 1.5-ton trucks, and you tell them whether the price has risen. You have to tell them that it will take 3 months to pick up the goods. We can only produce so much now. If he is not satisfied , he told him that the German order came in front, and he was to blame for placing the order late. He also wanted to buy more than 800 5-ton heavy trucks in our inventory, and told him that they had been picked up by the British and Germans, and The order has also been placed in 3 months. If he wants to buy it, let him hurry up, and it is estimated that it will be 6 months later. "

After Minorba put down the phone, the door to his office was forced open with a bang. Minoba, who was startled, fixed his eyes and saw that it was Deraspa, the production supervisor, who walked in with sweat and frizz. Seeing De Laspar's rude actions, Minoba, the general manager, rarely suppressed his anger and asked. "What's in such a hurry?"

Deraspa, who didn't hear Minoba's dissatisfaction, touched the sweat on his forehead with his hand and wiped it on the leather sofa in the office. Seeing the action of the production supervisor, Minoba, his boss, felt blue veins jump. But what Deraspa said when he walked up to him made him forget about his sofa. "The factory has too many orders for trucks now, and it can't even complete the task even if the shift is changed. What should we do?"

Hearing Deraspa's words, Minoba answered without thinking. "Then go recruit."

For the boss's suggestion, De Laspar immediately explained. "I've already sent people out to recruit people, it's just that the truck line is running at full capacity, and more people won't help."

Hearing Deraspa's explanation, Minoba knew that the production supervisor had an idea, and just needed a nod of his own. he asked immediately. "What can you do now?"

De Laspar immediately said the two methods he prepared. "There are two ways now, the first is to build a new truck production line, but it will take at least three months to purchase equipment, build a new plant, transport equipment, debug and train workers. This is what we have already done. , and workers can get started quickly with familiarity.”

Minoba interrupted him as soon as he heard that it would take three months. "Just say the second option."

Deraspa, who was interrupted by his boss, immediately said the second method was what he wanted. "That is to convert the existing production line to make them produce trucks. We have studied that if the existing T-car production line is changed to a 1.5-ton truck production line, it only takes about 10 days, and many retrofit equipment can be used in Domestic procurement, only a small amount needs to be purchased from abroad. And the cost is not too expensive, only about 13 million lei.”

Minoba mused in his own mind about De Laspar's request to change the Model T line to 1.5-ton trucks. He is still very emotional about this perfect family vehicle that can seat two people and carry half a ton of cargo. And most importantly, this car,

Bringing Volkswagen and Ford to the top two of the world's largest automakers is why he loves the car.

But now the war in Europe is breaking out, and all countries are busy fighting. Sales of the passenger car market have plummeted by 70%, and the Model T, the king of the market, is no exception, and is now down 65%. Two of the three Model T production lines in the Volkswagen plant have entered a semi-shutdown state. More importantly, I don't know how long this war will take, which makes Minoba, the head of Volkswagen, anxious.

Fortunately, the passenger car market has shrunk because of the war factor, and the trucks that can be used for military transportation can only be used by him because of the good reasons of the war. Otherwise, he would have already thought of ways everywhere, how could he still be able to sit safely in an air-conditioned room.

After thinking for a while, Minoba said to De Laspar, who was standing in front of him waiting for a reply. "You ask someone to come up with a modified production plan, I need to see it before I can make a decision."

Deraspa immediately took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to his boss with a smile, and talked about it. "I've already made the plan and it's here."

Looking at the grinning appearance of the production supervisor, Minoba scolded for no reason. "If it weren't for your outstanding ability, I would have let you go away just like you."

Deraspa, who smiled more brilliantly, had long been familiar with his boss's temper, and knew that this was just caring for him, but he didn't forget to say it back. "It's just that you are willing to be such a capable supervisor like me."

Ignoring the presumptuous production supervisor in front of him, Minoba opened the sweat-smelling transformation plan and looked at it. On it is Deraspa's crooked writing, but Minoba sees the result after the transformation.

Throughout the retrofit package, De Laspar proposed to retrofit two of the newest production lines for the three existing Model T production lines. Among them, the production line with an annual output of 32,000 T-type vehicles can achieve an annual output of 24,000 1.5-ton trucks after extending the assembly line conveyor belt, adding and modifying equipment to eliminate unnecessary processes. Another T-car production line with an annual output of 27,000 units will also reach an annual output of 21,000 units after the transformation is completed.

However, in this plan, De Laspar mentioned that if it is transformed into a truck production line, if you want to change back to the production of T-type cars, it will not be worth the loss. The two production lines that were originally capable of producing 59,000 Model T cars will only have a production capacity of 43,000 cars if they are changed back, so it is better to replace them with new ones.

After reading the transformation plan prepared by De Laspar, Minoba was also worried about gains and losses, which was obviously a bet on the duration of the war. If the European war drags on for more than a year, then the transformation will be a huge profit. If it is finished in a few months, then the two truck production lines that have been transformed will be scrapped.

Minoba was walking back and forth thinking, and De Laspar looked at his boss and knew that this was not an easy decision, and that if he made the wrong choice, Volkswagen, which was supposed to be lucrative this year, could be in vain. Minoba himself knew that if he made the wrong choice, the cost of retrofitting and the purchase of new production lines would eat up this year's profits, but he made the decision considering the pile of truck orders.

"You go and rebuild those two Model T lines, hopefully they'll last more than a year."

Deraspa, who received the answer, nodded and said. "Okay, I'll let my subordinates work overtime to transform it so that it won't delay the production of trucks."

After speaking, Deraspa walked out of Minoba's office, leaving behind the boss who had just made up his mind.

Of course, Volkswagen is not the only example of Romania getting the war dividends. Now there are too many Romanian companies that have made huge profits because of this war. Some of them took the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, while others were reluctant to forge ahead and were overwhelmed by their competitors after the war. However, this war also gave Romania's newly developed industrial system enough profit, and gave Edel an opportunity to grow this little sapling called industrialization by himself.

But the most lucrative is of course not the automobile manufacturing industry, but also other industries related to the war.