Chapter 19: The Coming of the Wang Family (Part II)
"The students (grass people) have seen the adults. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" The two brothers Wang Zhengqi, who were originally sitting, hurriedly got up and saluted when they saw Wang Tao picking it up.
Although Wang Tao has no official status now, after all, he has been the head of Wupin, and there is no problem with the two of them calling him. However, Wang Zhengyun calls himself a student, it is a little inappropriate, if it is those sour Confucians again, they will definitely sneer at them, or reprimand them angrily, and students are generally scholars who are humble names for their teachers, seated postures, or some great Confucians. Wang Tao is not a great Confucian, and he doesn't even have fame, in the eyes of readers, this is an act of clinging to the powerful and shameless.
"You don't have to be polite, I'm not the manager anymore, you can call me Boss Wang." Of course, Wang Tao didn't study these names, and he didn't notice anything wrong, but he still knew that adults couldn't seem to scream indiscriminately, so he said more.
"Okay, Boss Wang, this is Wang Zhengyun, the fourth brother of my family, who is the main branch of the Wang family, and I came from Shanxi to discuss cooperation with you." Wang Zhengqi first introduced Wang Zhengyun's identity.
"I'm really sorry that Mr. Wang came from Shanxi." Wang Tao didn't quite understand why the people from their master's family were coming, but he still had to say it on face.
"Boss Wang is too polite, originally my eldest brother wanted to come to the capital, but it was difficult to get out of the family because of chores, so I asked him to thank Boss Wang for him." Wang Zhengyun is a scholar, but whether he is a nerd or not, these scenes are naturally very beautiful.
"Mr. Wang is from Shanxi, and he has been tired all the way, so I'm afraid it's very hard." Wang Tao smiled and then asked.
"Although I am a scholar, it is not hard to follow the caravan from south to north in the early years. I heard my eldest brother say that Boss Wang explained a new type of carriage, which can more than double the speed of the current carriage, and I will save a lot of time from Shanxi to Beijing in the future. "Wang Zhengyun is a smart person and knows where to start the conversation.
"It's true, the new carriage is not a little faster than the old one, but it is also much more expensive. Fortunately, the benefits are far greater than the cost, and the means of transportation have far-reaching significance for the changes in life, and perhaps one day in the future it will only take one or two hours from Beijing to Shanxi, and then it will be easier to do business. Wang Tao said in a joking tone.
"If that's the case, I'm afraid it will be impossible for so many trading houses to use their own means of transportation. If there is a day, I can make a lot of money just by running a business that helps others deliver goods. Wang Zhengqi is worthy of being a businessman, and his business sense is very sensitive, and the future development of the logistics industry can be seen from Wang Tao's assumptions.
Wang Tao couldn't help but look at Wang Zhengqi twice, such a person would be an excellent businessman at any time. It is no wonder that he was the first person to find himself to be an agent of a province, so it is not a loss to give him the agent, after all, with such a person to operate, the business of carriages and clocks will not be very bad in the future.
"The student heard that Boss Wang is from the Upper Realm, could it be that the Upper Realm already has this kind of transportation?" Wang Zhengyun is concerned about this issue.
"But so, the upper realm invented something called an airplane, which can fly more than 4,000 miles in an hour." Wang Tao doesn't mind revealing some things about the 'upper realm' to others, and now letting more people know the power of science and technology is also conducive to social progress.
"More than four thousand miles? It's incredible. Hearing this speed, Wang Zhengqi was indeed taken aback. Now the horse's travel of 800 miles a day is almost the limit, and the urgent military affairs of the imperial court are also 800 miles of urgency.
"In fact, the gap between the upper realm and ours is not big, the technology of the upper realm was suddenly advanced by leaps and bounds a few decades ago, from the beginning of the invention of airplanes, to the appearance of an airplane that flies thousands of miles in an hour, it only took forty or fifty years of effort. Until then, the fastest means of transportation had to travel only about a hundred miles an hour. Wang Tao said while thinking about the development of science and technology in his previous life.
From the industrial revolution to the nuclear energy and electronic information age, it is only more than 100 years, and the Internet era is changing with each passing day, and in just 20 years, the Internet has spread all over the world and has become an irreplaceable part of people's lives.
"Hearing Boss Wang say this, I really want to take a look at the upper realm, this is really a means that only the legendary gods have." Wang Zhengqi's face was yearning.
"This day may not be far away, human wisdom is endless, but many people are bound by experience and ancient books to their thinking." Wang Tao can understand what the future society means to the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not a very distant thing. It's just that the research of basic science of mankind has almost stagnated for thousands of years, and Westerners have taken the lead in emancipating their minds, so they can lead the world in the next few hundred years.
The Ming Dynasty or China had the largest population in the world, and if it could exploit this huge advantage, the whole of Europe would not be a match. It's just that now Confucianism controls all aspects of the people, greatly restricting the people's thoughts.
"What Boss Wang said makes sense, but the sage books and the words of the ancients are still reasonable, and the wisdom of the ancients for thousands of years is not comparable to us." Wang Zhengyun was a little disapproving, but his words were quite beautiful.
"This is far away, the two are here to talk about business, then let's talk about business, the two also know that although the business of carriages and clocks is highly profitable, but the production is not easy. If I only rely on my royal workshop, I am afraid that it will not stop day and night, and it will only meet the needs of one province. I am also speculative with the two of you, I have a plan, and the two of you listen to it to see if we can cooperate. You can send craftsmen to learn how to make clocks and carriages, and you can produce any new products in the royal workshop in the future, and you will be much more profitable. Wang Tao could hear the meaning of Wang Zhengyun's words, and knew that although he didn't say much today, it seemed a little whimsical to these readers, and he got down to business at the moment.
"Then what does our Wang family need to pay?" Wang Zhengyun knows that there is no such good thing in the world, and this Boss Wang must have the idea of carrying it.
"You don't have much to pay, first of all, you have to pay the royal workshop a sum of money for every carriage or clock you make, which we call royalties." Wang Tao thinks about the patent fees of future generations.
Of course, Wang Zhengyun and Wang Zhengqi don't know what the patent fee means, but they can guess about it, after all, it is impossible for people to teach you craftsmen to produce and make in vain, teach apprentices, and starve masters to death is an unchanging truth since ancient times.
"If you don't find this way acceptable, you can also buy out, such as giving the royal workshop a lump sum of silver, so that you don't have to pay for every carriage. If you pay enough money, I can even prevent the royal workshop from producing carriages and clocks, and you alone will produce them in the whole world. The profits of the sales right and the production and sales right agent of a province are completely different. Wang Tao said the second plan.
As soon as these words came out, the two Wang Zhengqi brothers fell into deep thought.