After the elated Tang Guoan, Zhong Wenyao, Rong Shangqin and Cao Maoxiang, who had won the treasure, left, Pan Sichi, who was in charge of the daily production work of all the factories under the Aurora Group as the general manager, glanced at Jin Lisan and Li Mingfang, who were sitting on the side for a long time, and signaled Zhou Shengji, Xu Xifang, Ye Xilai and others to seize the time to report to Qin Chuan on the work of the factories under the Aurora Group. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Aurora Group's salt mills, flour mills, pen factories, canning factories, tanneries, soap factories, cigarette factories and other factories all purchased machinery and equipment imported from Germany two months ago, and their production scale and output have been greatly increased. Although the production capacity has increased greatly, all products are still in short supply, in the auction order meeting once every three months, all products are still hot, and all businesses at home and abroad are competing for joy, especially the foreign businessmen who have tasted the sweetness and made a lot of money are crazy.

At Qin Chuan's suggestion, the canning factory also set up a pickle workshop to produce various bagged pickles that are fresh. This kind of Aurora brand pickles packaged in small oil paper bags in taels, although it is not as famous as the pickles of Liubiju in the capital, it is easy to carry and preserve, and the sales are also very good.

In addition, Qin Chuan also built two large workshops in the pen factory, which produced two new pens respectively.

One is to manufacture although it is also a metal pen barrel, but there is a different structure from the fountain pen, but there is a small copper tip, the tip is inlaid with a tiny metal bead inside the hollow nib, behind the nib is a small metal cylinder, the cylinder contains a blue grease refill, Qin Chuan named this clock pen ballpoint pen. As for why it is called a ballpoint pen, Qin Chuan did not explain.

The other is the pencil, which is indistinguishable from the pencil of later generations, in fact, it has appeared for seventy or eighty years. Invented by Monroe. It's just that this kind of pencil has never been produced by a domestic manufacturer, and it has never even been sold in China.

As soon as these two pens appeared, they immediately caused quite a stir.

Ballpoint pen writing, handwriting will never be annihilated, handwriting can be preserved permanently, and there is no need to fill ink as often as a fountain pen, as long as a refill can be used for a long time, such a series of advantages are passed on to the gods, as soon as the ballpoint pen is launched, it will be immediately excited by the foreign businessmen to "coax" the output of several months.

Under the "coaxing" of foreign merchants, another "appalling" evil result appeared, that is, the price of a ballpoint pen was almost the same as that of a fountain pen with a far more complex structure.

The sales of pencils are much worse, and pencils are mainly purchased by domestic merchants for daily bookkeeping.

Even if Qin Chuan later made some improvements to the pencils invented by the Americans, the sales of pencils were still not very ideal.

For example, Qin Chuan placed a small eraser behind the pencil to erase the miswritten handwriting;

For example, Qinchuan's so-called red and blue pencils made of solid ink dyes with red and blue refills are also not selling well. It wasn't until according to Qin Chuan's instructions that Ye Xilai vigorously promoted it in the "Oriental Times" for a long time, and this two-color red and blue pencil was purchased by William Jr. on behalf of the German army. Although Qin Chuan knew that in the following decades, this kind of red and blue pencil would be used in large numbers in the armies of various countries, he was still a little frustrated.

Not only have the commissioning of the equipment been completed in the newly built chemical plants, printing plants, and paper factories for the production of soda ash, sulfuric acid, and dyes, but the printing plants have even begun to produce paper bags with labels and packaging for cigarette factories, refined salt factories, flour mills, canning factories, and pickle factories.

The newly built paper mill, now made of paper, in addition to a small amount of newsprint and printing paper, but also produces good sales of ordinary letterhead and official paper, but because people in the country are still accustomed to writing with a brush, the yamen is still using a large number of more expensive rice paper, so the new paper mill has not dared to expand the output of these kinds of paper. These papers are mainly used by the Aurora Group, then by the students of Aurora Middle School, and then by the foreign businessmen in the concession.

Although there are several types of paper produced by the paper mill, the main product of Qinchuan, the paper mill, is not the newsprint with a higher price, but the ordinary kraft paper in later generations, which is also the original reason for the establishment of the paper mill.

It's very simple, it was when Qin Chuan saw the pickle factory ordering a large number of small porcelain jars to hold pickles, and suddenly remembered the kraft paper bag. Then I thought that the flour mill used muslin bags to pack flour is also very expensive, if it is changed to a small package in the future, using kraft paper to make the packaging, it will save a lot of costs.

Kraft paper has appeared in Europe as early as twenty or thirty years ago, but Qin Chuan does not know why at this time, the kraft paper bags that were popular in later generations have never been seen in this period, let alone heard of.

Kraft paper was originally made of calfskin, but it was only used by the nobles a hundred years ago.

The kraft paper produced by the paper mill is different from the general paper, and its tensile strength is very high, mainly because the pulp wood raw materials for the manufacture of kraft paper are not used in any miscellaneous wood, but must be made of wood from conifers with long fibers.

Of course, not only the red and blue pencils and pencils with erasers are kraft paper bags, but Qin Chuan has also applied for a utility patent.

Looking at Qin Chuan, who listened attentively to the report, and from time to time brought the goblet full of amber beer in his hand to his mouth, and took a sip from time to time, Pan Sichi gave Ye Xilai a look.

Ye Xilai saw Pan Sichi's eyes, smiled bitterly a little reluctantly, looked at Qin Chuan and said hesitantly.

"My lord, the products produced by our Aurora Group are very popular, no matter what it is, as long as we take it out, it will be sold out quickly, and we almost have no inventory. However, this cigarette has been 。。。。。。 lately Something went wrong。。。。。。 ”

Qin Chuan, who was in a happy mood and had just taken a sip of beer, was stimulated by the sudden "bad news" that Ye Xi said, and spit out the beer that was only swallowed in his mouth, and was choked in a hurry, pulling his neck for a long dry cough, before he stopped coughing with the help of Li Mingfang and Xu Xifang, who were in a hurry, patted their chests and knocked their backs.

Qin Chuan, who blushed, took a big sip of beer and gasped for a while before he hurriedly asked.

"Say it again, what's wrong with our cigarettes?"

Ye Xilai glared at Pan Sichi, who had a wicked smile on his face, and had no choice but to say with a bitter smile.

"Originally, our Chunyang brand cigarettes sold very well, not only the foreigners in the lease, but also the merchants in Zhili, SXSD and Guanwai to buy, Zhang Shiheng and the number of people who went to North Korea is also very large, our market is getting bigger and bigger, and the prospects are very gratifying."

"But now the old Jinlong foreign company opened by the Americans in the concession began to import a large number of Pinhai brand cigarettes from the United States, although this kind of American cigarettes are very rushed, and the quality is not much better than our Chunyang brand, but their prices are always slightly lower than ours, and we have lowered the price several times, and they have also lowered the price. Because of the price, most of the merchants now go to the concession to enter their 。。。。。。 ”

Only then did Qin Chuan understand that the cigarette factory had encountered a competitor.