"Lord Wang, this bicycle is really good, with it, it is much more convenient to travel. Not only can the police station be equipped, but even the Datang Army can be considered equipping. ”

Wang Xuanwu braked sharply and stopped at the year before Li Kuan and Wang Xuance.

"If you are equipped in the army, there are still many restrictions, after all, where there are no roads, bicycles are not as good as horses. However, it is possible to make a batch of special bicycles on a small scale and try them out to the soldiers of the Twelve Guards. ”

For the foreseeable future, cavalry will remain the king of land warfare.

Although Li Kuan is vigorously promoting the construction of cement roads, the length is still relatively limited.

"Lord Wang, the style of this bicycle, although there is still room for improvement. However, the design of various parts is basically settled, is it not to produce a batch of them first and see if it sells well? ”

Dai Quan, who had not spoken beside him, put forward his opinion.

"Yes, let's make 1,000 units to this specification first. There are some things that can be continuously improved in the production process. In particular, durability and cost should be fully reviewed. The Permabike Workshop can also explore how to set up a laboratory measurement technique to measure the overall performance of individual parts and bicycles, and to make use of the data accumulated during the experiments. ”

The industrialization of Datang has just begun, and everything is still very primitive.

Li Kuan had visited a lot of factories in his previous life, and he also had some understanding of the design and manufacture of many parts.

For large-scale industrial production products such as automobiles, each part has its own testing requirements.

For example, for the stamping parts of the body frame, in addition to whether the most basic parts accuracy meets the requirements, it is also necessary to confirm whether the welding strength is up to standard.

How do you know for sure?

Every company has its own set of circulars, and it's not just a matter of just doing a few of them.

Another example is the car suspension spring that you can see when you squat next to the wheel, which looks very simple, it is a black spring, and you can't feel its technical content at all.

In fact, the requirements are not simple at all.

In addition to the basic information that you have to meet the weight and size requirements of the design, whether the surface stress is up to standard, whether the compression under different loads is up to standard, and whether the fatigue strength test meets the requirements......

Behind a simple part, there are often many requirements.

These requirements are naturally not achieved at once, but a process of accumulation over time.

Li Kuan hopes that through the industrialization of bicycles, he can slowly promote a series of standard systems in Guanshishan Academy, and a series of concepts can be popularized in various workshops.

This thing seems simple and does not have an immediate effect.

However, in the long run, it will be able to pump the industrial foundation of Datang and make full preparations for the arrival of industrialization.

"No problem, the production line of this permanent bicycle workshop is also a reference to the four-wheeled carriage workshop, and it completely adopts the method of assembly line operation. Although the early parts were basically produced by the machine workshop, we will later outsource some parts to various specialized workshops. ”

Dai Quan, as a senior craftsman in the Chu Palace, still has a good understanding of Li Kuan's ideas.

Therefore, compared with ordinary masters, Dai Quan basically has no reservations in teaching his disciples.

When I was teaching the students of Guanshishan Academy, I also wholeheartedly told what I knew; There is no such worry that the apprentice has been taught and the master has starved to death. 16k Chinese

"In addition to the design of the whole bike, there is also this key chain, brake pads that can be made by the workshop itself, and everything else can be purchased from outside. And, in order for the outside workshops to be fully competitive, we have to have at least two workshops to supply each kind of part. ”

Li Kuan didn't want to cultivate one or several monopoly suppliers because of his kindness, and that would be to make trouble for himself.

Although with the current technical content of parts, monopoly is not monopolistic and has little significance, and it is easy for other workshops to make similar products.

But in the long run, the bar is slowly raised, and this is not the case.

Just like the cars of later generations, don't look at the countless parts manufacturers, but in some key parts, there are only a few parts in the world that can produce parts that meet the quality requirements of the main engine factory.

For example, the activated carbon in the carbon canister seems to be very simple, right?

However, there are only one or two manufacturers in the world that can do activated carbon for high-end automobile carbon canisters.

Another example is the chain on the continuously variable gearbox, or the catalyst in the three-way catalyst, and some high-demand bearings, basically there are only a few companies in the world doing it.

This is still the case of industrialization in later generations.

"Lord Wang, don't worry, the permanent bicycle workshop is already in contact with the other workshops in the workshop city, preparing to send the production of some parts to them. If everything goes into the ideal situation, our workshop will be able to produce at least a few hundred bikes a day. ”

"Hundreds? One day? This year, it's acceptable to be able to do so. But by this time next year, Ben Wang hopes that the permanent bicycle workshop will be able to produce at least a thousand bicycles a day. And, this scale is increasing every year; If one day our workshop can produce thousands of bicycles a day, that meaning is completely different. ”

"Thousands of bikes? One day? ”

Dai Quan looked at Li Kuan dumbfounded.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu, you really dare to think about it.

Not to mention how to produce thousands of bicycles in a day, and even if they do, who are so many bicycles sold to?

A few thousand a day, more than 100,000 a month.

No matter how cheap the price of a bicycle is, it can't be less than the usual price, right?

How many people can Datang afford to buy?

"That's right! If it can produce 5,000 bicycles a day, the permanent bicycle workshop will become the largest workshop in Datang, with more than 5,000 or even 10,000 employees. The number of other workshops supporting permanent bicycle workshops can at least be dozens, which is the scale of tens of thousands of people.

In addition, a group of people are involved in the sale, transportation and maintenance of bicycles, and the entire permanent bicycle workshop will employ more than 30,000 people. Behind these 30,000 people are 30,000 families who can live happily ever after because of their bicycles.

For the imperial court, such a large workshop can collect more than 200,000 yuan in taxes every year, which is also of extraordinary significance. ”

In order to make Dai Quan pay full attention to the construction of the permanent bicycle workshop, Li Kuan explained his thoughts.

Why did local governments like to pull automobile companies to invest in their own jurisdictions so much?

It is really the development of employment, industrial chain development and taxation, GDP and other aspects driven by this.

Today's bicycle industry, for Datang, is equivalent to the automobile industry in later generations.

Of course, it would be better if rubber trees could be brought back from South America as soon as possible and planted in various parts of the South Seas, so that bicycles can use rubber tires.