Chapter 29: The Prelude to a New Era
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Wang Haoran spent two days to draw the muskets, mines, and cannons, and it was just a rough idea, if the design was too perfect, his ten-year-old child would be regarded as a god, and the trouble would be big, and the hidden clan who asked for immortals must do everything to find out some news of the divine realm from Wang Haoran.
Li Tai often went to the factory outside the city to see Wang Haoran or Chen Jun doing experiments, so Wang Haoran handed over the drawings of the thermal weapon to Li Tai and asked him to hand them over to the emperor, repeatedly telling him that he must hand them over to the emperor himself, and there would be more risks of leakage if he changed hands once. Li Tai also knew that this thing would be a weapon of the country in the future, and he did not dare to neglect it in the slightest.
As for the various grinding wheels that Chen Jun studied, because of his previous experience in blending cement, Chen Jun made them in three days. With the grinding wheel, it takes a few more days to cast the frame and then put it in the flat mill to connect to the hydrodynamic force, and with this thing, the bearing rod of the bicycle and the piston at the shock absorber will not be much of a problem. In this way, it is no longer a problem to make a bicycle. However, the measuring scale error of the Tang Dynasty was too large, and if you wanted to mass produce, you could not grasp the size of the key place at all. So Wang Haoran spent nearly ten days making a few line cards, setting the size of his hair at 0.1 mm, and then using this as a standard to mark the scale on the line card. Finally, I grinded another gold nugget to the point where the length of the nugget was exactly 20 mm, and then I used this nugget as the standard size. This is a newly formulated length standard, and the original length unit of the Tang Dynasty is certainly not suitable for application, so Wang Haoran introduced the 21st century meters, decimeters, centimeters, millimeters, and so on.
However, Wang Haoran is not in a hurry to make a bicycle, the current available equipment is still too simple, although the bicycles can be used, but it is too time-consuming, if you want to mass produce bicycles, you have to improve the equipment one by one. Lathes, milling machines, drills, turning tools, taps, etc., have to be made, which can take several months.
At the end of August, the building of Xiaohaichi was completed, and Wang Furen named it Shengxin Building, but the masses preferred to call it Fanglou. At the time of construction, it had been spread in Chang'an City, and the installation of glass windows attracted many people to come and watch. Today is the opening day, after the opening of the building, everyone is allowed to visit the inside, and the next day the building will be rented out. However, there are not many buildings left, and most of the buildings were booked by some people who are a little familiar with Wang Furen in the process of construction.
Naturally, Wang Furen also left a few shops for himself to sell cement, glass, mirrors, and some other businesses. Wang Haoran had already asked Wang Furen for three shops for his own use, which were free for life, which was Wang Furen's additional reward for Wang Haoran's discernment.
Looking at this snow-white square building, Wang Haoran was full of emotion. Although compared to the buildings of the 21st century, this Shengxin building can be described as extremely ugly and has many shortcomings, but what is this? For Wang Haoran, imperfection is perfection, and only imperfection can make the Tang Dynasty people use their brains to perfect it, isn't this Wang Haoran's original intention?
When Wang Furen unveiled the plaque of Shengxin Building, Wang Haoran knew that a new era of Datang was coming! The era of Wang Haoran has begun!
Within two days of the opening of Shengxin Building, except for Wang Haoran's two shops, the other shops have been opened. There are all kinds of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and this place is close to the West Market, and there are rare things such as mirrors and glass, and it was lively in the West Market for a while.
With this building for publicity, coupled with Wang Haoran painting many leaflets of various buildings, for a time many wealthy families went to the construction team jointly established by Wang Furen and Wang Haoran to place orders to build pavilions, build pools, modify glass windows, etc., and the most received is to build a vault, after all, this cement and steel structure is much more reliable than those clay bricks. Relying on this construction team alone, it is expected that it will not take half a year to earn back the cost of building this building, and the father and son naturally laughed from ear to ear.
But happy is happy, most of the money earned is Wang Furen's, and Wang Haoran is not satisfied with this. There are many places to spend money in the future, so you can't always ask Wang Furen to invest and then take more than half of it, right? From now on, this role should be changed, and when there is a suitable project, at most let Wang Furen drink soup.
Although Wang Haoran's main project--- bicycle is still some time away from being able to go on sale, there is still one important thing to do, that is, cronies, cronies with bright heads. In the future, Wang Haoran will not have the time to do everything himself, Chen Jun alone is far from enough, just engaging in all kinds of research is enough for him to be busy. But most of the people I know here are children, where can I find the right person? I can only think about whether my relatives are suitable. Eh, it really made Wang Haoran think of one, that is, his mother's uncle Liu Wangjiang, Liu Wangjiang is about forty years old this year, he was originally a good businessman, with the help of Wang Haoran and his mother, the business is booming, but he has a loser's son Liu Xiangyu, who often causes trouble everywhere, and later crippled a rich child, is a nephew of Wang Furen, it is not enough to pay for the tavern that his father worked hard to run, and he still owes a lot of debt, and finally Wang Furen came forward, The other party promised to let Liu Wangjiang pay back the remaining arrears slowly, and Liu Xiangyu was sentenced to two years in prison, and now a year has passed, and Liu Xiangyu has to stay in prison for another year before he can be released from prison.
However, the trouble is that Wang Haoran is only ten years old, and it is a little difficult for Liu Wangjiang to do things for him. So Wang Haoran asked her mother to invite Liu Wangjiang, and the salary naturally satisfied Liu Wangjiang, so he recruited Liu Wangjiang.
It will take some time for the bicycle to be made, so Wang Haoran thought of some business that could make a little money for Liu Wangjiang to do first, that is, wine. It's not just rice wine, it's also wine. Although these wines were already available in the Tang Dynasty, the rice wine was not high, and the highest was only about ten degrees, which was slightly higher than the beer of the 21st century. And the wine is not dripping, the sweetness is too strong.
Wang Haoran drew a few drawings of the required tools and handed them over to the factory for production, and the materials and production methods required for procurement were handed over to Liu Wangjiang, and he went to Shengxin Building to arrange for people to decorate. Less than ten days later, Liu Wangjiang came to report that the spirits and wine had been made, and asked Wang Haoran to see how it was done. Where does Wang Haoran taste wine, he didn't drink wine back then, he drank wine once, and he didn't like the taste, but it didn't matter if he didn't like it, as long as others liked it.
Wang Haoran tasted the spirits, strong enough, passed, and then tasted the wine, which is similar to the twenty-first century, and passed, then he only needs to put it in a glass bottle and sell it. Wang Haoran decided to position this wine as a luxury product, and he could make a lot of money without having to do much, but how did he sell it? Wang Haoran thought of the common sales tactics of the 21st century--- a lot of money to ask for names. The method is very simple, print some leaflets, and then let people take the leaflets to the east and west cities to meet people and distribute them, and if there are not enough people, they will give a few pieces of candy to the children on the street and ask them to help distribute them. The leaflet describes the difference between this wine and ordinary wine, and the Huang Po melon seller calls this wine the best wine. Anyway, if no one else has drunk it, if you say that this wine is the best, then others will think that this wine is the best, which is a clever use of the preconceived thinking that ordinary people are used to, which is also a common method in the 21st century. Although the people of the 21st century have used this method badly, and no one believes any advertisements such as noble mobile phones and brand-name watches, the pure Tang Dynasty people are very easy to deceive......
A few days later, Mr. Wang's hotel opened, named "A Cup of Drunkenness," which only sold spirits, which were aimed at people from all walks of life. At the time of the opening, there was also a "three glasses of no drunk, free spirits" activity. Because the date of this event has been advertised before, it has attracted many people to come to participate or see the novelty.