Chapter 33 The Car Dealership
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The engagement was soon settled, and Wang Haoran quickly put all his energy on the bicycle, and it took Chen Jun and Chen Jie two months to complete the production of various special tools, and then officially began to make bicycles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoSince the equipment is simple, the efficiency of making bicycles is not high, and it is Amitabha Buddha who can make three in a day. However, this is not much of a problem, the cost will be transferred to the customer anyway, and as for the rudimentary equipment, you can improve the equipment while selling the bicycle to make money.
When the first bicycle was assembled, Chen Jun asked the question he had asked several times before: "Little master?" Can a man really sit on it and ride it? ā
Li Tai, who often visits, also said: "There are only two wheelchairs, if you can ride on them without falling, wouldn't it be like performing acrobatics?" ā
"Why don't you try it?" Wang Haoran instigated Chen Jundao.
Chen Jun was also eager to try, this was what he participated in the production, and he naturally knew how to use it, so he pushed the bicycle to an open place to try it. He was tall enough to sit directly in his seat and his feet could still touch the ground, so he wasn't very alarmed. But when he stepped on the pedal to move forward, he was so frightened that he screamed again and again, the front of the car shook left and right, and he forgot to use the brakes and fell directly to the ground.
"How does it feel?" Wang Haoran was happy, the first time he saw a young man who couldn't ride a bicycle, quite a fresh and interesting story.
"I think it's possible to ride this around, but I didn't try it because I wasn't familiar with it yet." Chen Jun was a little surprised when he stepped on the bike, feeling that this balance was not as difficult as he imagined.
"Of course! Why else would I do this? ā
"Why are you so sure?" Li Tai asked.
Wang Haoran couldn't answer, he couldn't say that he had ridden before, right? I had to point to my head and pretend to be deep, while taking the bicycle over.
"Brother, do you want to ride?" Xiao Yu said worriedly. At such an exciting moment, Wang Haoran naturally wanted to bring Xiaoyu to see it.
"It's okay, this little problem can't bother me." But there was really a little problem that embarrassed Wang Haoran, that is, the bicycle was too tall for him...... But fortunately, Wang Haoran is still quite tall, and he can barely sit on a bicycle on tiptoe.
Seeing Wang Haoran skillfully pedaling the bicycle, Li Tai and the others were surprised, it turned out that this could really maintain balance! Wang Haoran didn't have the heart to sneer, because there was no rubber, the saddle and tires were replaced with wood, and the shock absorption was only made of lard as a lubricant, so he always felt that the shock absorption effect was not very good, and his butt hurt. After summarizing the feelings, Wang Haoran and Chen Jun put sackcloth on the saddle again, and there was no way to absorb the shock, so they could only wait until the technology matured to solve it.
The next day, the bicycle was officially produced, in addition to the production of bicycles, in the future, three-wheeled bicycles, rickshaws, but Wang Haoran did not plan to put these on the market for sale, so as not to steal the other's popularity.
When producing bicycles, Wang Haoran asked Chen Jun and Chen Jie to practice cycling in this free time, and then a group of people would be waiting to ride bicycles around Chang'an City.
In his spare time at home, Wang Haoran asked Xiaocui to buy a few pieces of cloth, and asked Hanniu to find some bamboo, ready to make a few propaganda flags, just lifted the brush and prepared to write on the cloth, only then did he think that his brush was still ugly, and he couldn't get on the table at all, so he had to call Wang Furen over to help.
"What are you going to write?" Wang Furen learned of Wang Haoran's propaganda method and felt that this method was novel enough, so he readily agreed.
"One is written about the new building, one is written about convenient bicycles, and one is written about the opening of the first day of the lunar month." Wang Haoran originally wanted to write the name of the store "Convenient" and Sheng Xinlou together, but he thought that after a few years, there would be other people who would also make bicycles, if the name of the store "Convenient" and the bicycle were tied together, then no matter how many manufacturers there are in the future, when people talk about bicycles, they will naturally think of the name of the store "Convenient".
By the time Chen Jun and the others were proficient in riding bicycles, dozens of other bicycles had already been assembled. Wang Haoran called Chen Jun and Chen Jie over, and together they planted the prepared flag in the back of the bicycle and fixed it, but Li Tai's bicycle did not have an advertising flag, and he was also the fourth prince, how could he be so condescending to help advertise. After everything was ready, a group of five people headed towards Chang'an City together.
"Xiaoyu get in the car." When he arrived at the city gate, Wang Haoran said to Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu sat down without saying a word, and had already practiced the courage to ride Wang Haoran's car in the factory.
"......" watched Wang Haoran and the three of them ride around on strange things, and the onlookers were so surprised that they didn't know how to comment.
"Is this performing acrobatics?"
"Easy bikes? Is this thing called a convenient bike? Finally a literate man muttered.
"Is there anything you have to buy in Shengxinlou?"
"It's a good thing to use for transportation!"
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Wang Haoran didn't pay attention to everyone's discussions, and he wasn't worried that everyone didn't understand what was going on, and inexplicable things could arouse everyone's curiosity.
In the next few days, Wang Haoran did not go out on a bicycle until the opening of the "convenient" car shop on the first day of the lunar month.
The "convenient" car dealership opened without any other publicity, and the bicycle does not need to build momentum to raise the price like red wine, such a strange and practical thing, and if you say how much it costs, others will follow and think that this thing is worth that much, because they have nothing to compare to price the bicycle.
As soon as the car dealership opened, many people came to place orders, basically from Li Tai's news, Wang Haoran deeply felt how wise it was to send a bicycle to Li Tai. Within a few days, the bicycles in the store were almost sold out, Wang Haoran was not in a hurry, but Cheng Mingyuan, who was selected from the workers who assembled the bicycles, was the shopkeeper but first anxiously found Wang Haoran to ask for a plan.
"Lao Cheng, the factory is still rushing to make tricycles and rickshaws, but I don't have time to make bicycles!" The rickshaw is a rickshaw, and Wang Haoran is worried that the word "yellow" will violate the royal taboo, so he simply calls it a rickshaw. Seeing that Cheng Mingyuan was restless, he deliberately teased. In fact, this shortage of goods is deliberately created by Wang Haoran, as long as Wang Haoran is willing, he can stuff the "convenient" car shop with bicycles at any time. In the 21st century, this tactic is known as hunger marketing.
"That's good! There are still a lot of small bikes, but there are only three large ones! At this rate, it may be sold out in the afternoon. ā
"That's it, Lao Cheng, if someone comes to the door to ask for a car after it is sold out, you can only make a reservation, and it will take seven or eight days before it can be available. If you want to, you should pay a deposit first. ā
"So long? I don't know if people are willing to wait. "Cheng Mingyuan is also in his thirties, although he has read some books, but his brain is not very open. Wang Haoran likes his honest character, and he doesn't need to be too smart to be the shopkeeper of this shop, as long as he can settle accounts and repair bicycles.
What Cheng Mingyuan didn't expect was that a few days later, the pre-order of bicycles was even more popular than when there were cars on sale, according to Wang Haoran's statement that he could only assemble five bicycles a day, the scheduling of pre-ordering bicycles was actually scheduled to two months later.
Bicycles were sold for nearly half a month, Wang Haoran began to sell or rent tricycles and rickshaws, both of which are used by people to solicit customers, but at this time there are not many strong men who purely rely on working for people to make money, and it is unlikely to form a hot soliciting industry in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the promotion of new things is very difficult, especially in new industries that others need to pay to try, so Wang Haoran still needs to think of some ways. In fact, he can't make much money doing this, but what Wang Haoran wants is to use new things to impact the minds of the Tang Dynasty people and broaden their horizons, anyway, they won't lose money, and it's worth it to be busy. It's just that occasionally I feel like I'm a father and a mother to Datang, and I'm very depressed.