Qin Chuan continued to explain his fountain pen to Zhou Fu and Sheng Xuanhuai: "Then there is the need for rubber to make the capsules in the fountain pen, although natural rubber is easy to find in Nanyang, but we have to open a workshop in the pen factory that specializes in making raw rubber into mature rubber, and we also have to make this skin." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Although the materials used for other pen bodies can be copper and iron, this pen can not be too heavy, otherwise it is inconvenient to use, first of all, this iron should be wrought iron, that is, steel, and it should be as thin as possible. As for the use of copper, there is also a question of cost. Therefore, the cost of my pen will vary depending on the material used, for example, the use of gold and iridium tips is different, and the use of copper and steel pen bodies will also be different. Therefore, depending on the different materials used in a pen, the general cost of a fountain pen will be about three to five yuan, and the good one should be five to ten yuan. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai blinked his eyes and shook his head and said: "No, Ming Hong, I have a fountain pen that Jing Fang brought back from England, that pen needs to use a very thin tube to pour ink into it from behind to write, that fountain pen according to Jing Fang said, he spent forty yuan Yingyang to buy, and that fountain pen did not use what you said iridium tip or gold tip, that is to say, the cost of that fountain pen will not be higher than yours, but how can it be sold at such a high price?" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai thought about it and said: "I also heard from the scriptures that when foreigners' fountain pens are made, most of the processes are handmade, as if the nib is pressed and a mold is used, and it takes a lot of time to make a fountain pen." The drama said that the cost of a fountain pen is about fifteen yuan, mainly labor costs, and the cost of making our own pens should not be counted in the labor costs of making our pens, right? ”

Qin Chuan shook his head and said: "Master Shan, you are right, although I have never seen foreigners make pens, but I can also imagine that in addition to the nib of this fountain pen, a mold is used, and then there is boiling glue, and other processes are now handmade." However, foreigners make pen lawless, they make a pen, that is, a person, from the tip of the pen to the body of the pen is a person to complete, to do fast, this person has to make all these things to be proficient, but in fact this is difficult to achieve, so this pen is quite time-consuming, not ten days and a half months I am afraid can not make one. ”

Qin Chuan's words made Sheng Xuanhuai puzzle again: "Ming Hong, isn't this the case when we make pens?" ”

Qin Chuan smiled proudly and said, "No." Like foreigners, each person makes the whole process from the tip of the pen to the body of the pen, which naturally takes more time. ”

"I have a method, that is, to hire more workers, a group of workers to make pen nibs, another group of pen body, some people to make pen bags, some people to make pen tongues, and some people are responsible for the body, pen nibs, pen bags, pen tongue together, because each person only makes one a day, the longer the days, the more skilled they are, and the more skilled the pen making skills will be."

"I estimate that it takes half a month for a hundred foreigners to make a hundred pens. With my method, we can make 700 to 800 in half a month at the beginning, after proficiency, it is not a problem to do 1,000, and the longer you do it, the more proficient, the faster the pen will be, I gave this method a name, it is called the assembly line. ”

Qin Chuan's words not only made Li Mingfang stunned, but even Zhou Fu and Sheng Xuanhuai were speechless in surprise for a long time.

After a long time, Zhou Fucai said excitedly: "What a method of flowing water, Minghong is a great talent, if we have a few more talents like Minghong, why worry about foreign affairs!" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai also said excitedly and loudly: "Wonderful! Minghong is clever! With this method, the labor cost of making a pen for us, that is, one percent of the foreigners, maybe it will be lower, not to say that our fountain pens are better than the foreigners, even the price is not higher than the foreigners, but the money earned by a pen is much higher than that of the foreigners. ”

Qin Chuan nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, I estimate that we will earn about thirty yuan with a pen." If we hire a thousand workers, after we are proficient, we can make 10,000 or 20,000 sticks a day, and seven or eight million sticks a year. ”

Seven or eight million!

The number reported by Qin Chuan stunned Zhou Fu and Sheng Xuanhuai, seven or eight hundred pens, even if a pen only earns one dollar, it is seven or eight million, not to mention that foreigners are now using this fountain pen.

Sheng Xuanhuai was a little stammered excitedly: "Ming Hong。。。。。。 Seven or eight million a year, if your patent can be kept for ten years, then the money is 。。。。。 That's it。。。。。 ”

Seven or eight million a year, nearly 100 million in ten years, that's a billion eagles. With such a large number, even the well-informed Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't help but feel frightened.

Qin Chuan shook his head with a smile and said, "It won't be that much." Because foreigners are not stupid, how can they keep my patent time limit so long for such a money-making thing. ”

"I estimate that the time limit of this patent should be about five years."

"But this is enough, since we want to run this factory, we must use the existing advantages, first occupy the market, this pen factory can not do until the patent expires to pull down, we also have to make this pen more and more refined, in order to reduce costs, and foreigners in the future pen company competition, but also to develop pen machines, improve efficiency, so that after the expiration of the patent, we can also surpass foreigners in price and fine work, our pen brand will create a reputation in foreigners. Also, in this way, five years later, although the profit of our single pen has fallen, the scale and quantity of our pen production have gone up, and we will still make money. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai, who was so excited that he could barely control himself, pulled Zhou Fu's sleeve and asked Qin Chuan eagerly: "Ming Hong, if this fountain pen or fountain pen factory can be completed, it all depends on your patent, since your patent is worth five million marks, and it is about six million in exchange for Yingyang, your patent will be counted as share capital, in addition, how much do you think we are missing to set up the factory?" ”

It was only then that Qin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "It's not too much of a loss。。。。。。 ”