Everyone expressed their opposition to Yang Bo's idea of setting up a self-striking bell factory, and John Tang said: "Do adults know how much a stick of incense is worth? How much is a chiming clock worth? ”

Seeing Yang Bo shaking his head, Bi Fangji said: "One stick of incense and three pennies, a medium-sized one, is the kind of self-striking clock I brought back for fifty taels of silver each."

Lu Ruohan smiled silently, wanting to hear Yang Bo's thoughts.

Yang Bo pointed to the wine feast and said, "Everyone, do you know how much silver this banquet costs?" Less than five taels of silver, and the local wealthy Yao family said that an ordinary family banquet with two little Youer playing music will cost thirty taels of silver, the Yao family is considered a rich family in my local area, but in terms of the entire Shandong Mansion, the Yao family can only barely be regarded as having a surplus of money, but! ”

Yang Bo suddenly raised his voice and said: "If the Yao family is placed in Jiangnan, this kind of family property can only be regarded as barely surviving, otherwise his Yao family can make him bankrupt just by greeting and sending him off, the life of the local tyrant is not something we can understand, and our self-striking bell is mainly sold to Jiangnan." Gentlemen! Price is never the main reason for bad sales, everyone, we are not selling price, we are selling value. ”

"Value?"

Bi Fangji stroked his beard, and John Tang was thoughtful.

"In fact, I don't plan to specialize in the production of this kind of ordinary and inconspicuous chiming clock, our target is three kinds of people, one is the ordinary people, we will use the assembly line operation and mold production method to control the cost as much as possible, the selling price is controlled at five to ten taels, mass production, the second is this kind of medium-sized chiming bell of about fifty taels, the third is specifically for the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River, the price is at least a hundred taels, or even tens of thousands of taels......"

"Hundreds of taels, tens of thousands of taels?" Everyone gasped.

"Would anyone really pay a hundred taels of silver for a chiming bell? Why didn't he buy a room with a stick of incense? Not to mention tens of thousands of taels of silver, oh, those tens of thousands of ingots of silver are enough to bury me......" Lu Ruohan, who was full of artillery, obviously felt a little incredible.

Yang Bo ignored him, and said to himself: "We will choose to make large or delicate types, with exquisite appearance, crisp sound, with complex moving parts, such as flowers and bones that can open and close, a little person who will come out once an hour, a bird that can chirp, choose the best wooden frame, brush gold and silver on the outside, with gold, jade, ivory, precious stones, red sandalwood, etc., so that every self-striking bell is brilliant, unique in my Ming Dynasty, and even in the world, this is the value of --- we say." ”

Bi Fangji is a loyal elder, and his understanding of sales is obviously not as good as that of John Tang, and John Tang's knowledge of machinery and mechanics can solve many problems in the production process, which is why Yang Bo is willing to spend a lot of money to keep him.

"In that case, we also need some professional watchmakers, including the best woodworking, gem-setting, carving, painting, etc., so that our production cycle will be too long?" Tang Ruowang thought about it and answered, his understanding of business is indeed superior.

"I divide the self-striking bell factory into two departments, one is assembly production, the main product is the standard low-grade and mid-range self-striking clock, there is Liu Lao Donkey of the Ordnance Department is in charge, and you ......"

Yang Bo pointed at Tang Ruowang and said, "...... You will be in charge of the most profitable department of the factory, the production of high-end chiming clocks, your goal at this stage is to produce 20 exquisite chiming clocks, plus other kinds, I will send someone to a big city in the south of the Yangtze River to hold a watch exhibition, and then set up a point of sales, of course, we can also customize according to the needs of customers and so on, as for the time problem, it doesn't matter, there is a saying in our place, don't open for half a year, open for half a year, I think this sentence is very suitable for your department. ”

In fact, in the middle of the eighteenth century, the East India Company would buy watch belts worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds from London every year and sell them in Guangzhou.

In the 16th century, before the Industrial Revolution began in the West, most European goods either did not arouse the interest of Asians at all, or could not compete with their local Asian counterparts, with the exception of one thing - clocks and watches.

At that time, Matteo Ricci obtained the qualification to establish a church outside the Xuanwu Gate of Beijing by dedicating himself to the bell, which can be seen that the Ming Dynasty was enthusiastic about this novelty, and Yang Bo's favorite point is that the influence of clocks and watches on people is the change in the concept of time, as well as the confirmation of the timekeeping system such as minutes, seconds, and hours.

"That's right, leisure"

Bi Fangji took a look at the void and said to Yang Bo: "This time I passed through Dengzhou City, which has become a ruin, many people have been displaced, and their families have been destroyed. Can we Maojiatun still accept some more displaced people? ”

Yang Bo was silent for a long time and shook his head.

Bi Fangji was surprised: "Zhixian, didn't you pull people over everywhere?" You also said that the most important thing in troubled times is people, am I mistaken? ”

Yang Bo smiled bitterly: "That's right, that's what I said before, but Father, that was before!" Do you know how many people there are in Shijiusuo Santun now? How much rice do I need each month? Is it just how much money the Yao family takes from me every month to buy grain? This is already the limit of what we can bear, Father, I won't lie to you, this year is just a good weather, if there is a natural disaster, a third of the population will starve to death, and you have not thought about the situation where silver cannot buy food? ”

Seeing that everyone was silent, Yang Bo continued: "Now I can tell you frankly, the most important thing in troubled times is people, the cheapest thing in troubled times is human life, but the most expensive thing is food, I even have an idea, I have never said to others the idea, I have a population of nearly 20,000 in the Ming Dynasty, if you kill one-third of them, that is, 60 million people, now this famine situation of cheap rice can be alleviated immediately." ”

As soon as Yang Bo's extermination theory came out, even Lu Ruohan, who had never been interested in missionary work, drew a cross on his chest: "Oh, my God! ”

Seeing everyone's panicked looks, Yang Bo couldn't help laughing: "There are many ways to solve overpopulation, of course, the one I am talking about is the most direct and crude way......"

John Tang asked, "So, what is the most effective way?" ”

"Raising a butcher's knife to one's own people is not something that ordinary people can do, at least not me, in a country where agriculture is based and land and resources are limited, what can I do? You can only raise the butcher's knife to the foreigners and compress their living space, it's as simple as that......" Yang Bo said with a calm face

"Oh my God!"

Now it's three people who have crossed together.

"Isn't there any other way to say slaughter? I know there will be, and there will be ways for both foreign and native races to coexist peacefully, right? Tang Ruowang asked unwillingly.

"Of course"

Yang Bo nodded: "It's just not that time yet."

But no matter how everyone asked later, Yang Bo refused to say a word more.

"I'm glad you weren't born in Rome, otherwise you would have been treated as an angel by them," John Tang said unwillingly, ignoring Bi Fangji's eyes.

"At the end of the way, you haven't finished your words yet, and the unfinished sentence is the point, isn't it? It's likely that they think they're the devil, right? It's okay, I'll put them all on the gallows. Yang Bo nodded and said very seriously.

Seeing that Bi Fangji couldn't stand Yang Bo's blasphemous words and was about to leave the table, Yang Bo hurriedly stopped him, "Father, well, in fact, I know that you have seen that kind of hellish misery along the way, and I can also understand the disappointment that you have the heart but can't help, so let's do it, it just so happens that our factory is about to be established, and you send someone to recruit some homeless people to come here to work and earn food, right?" There's only so much I can do......"

Bi Francis was overjoyed: "May God continue to protect your goodness, five hundred people will do?" ”

Yang Bo waved his hand weakly: "Then it's decided, remember to recruit as many children as possible, children are the future, not food in troubled times, I can only guarantee that they will not starve to death, as for the other ......"

Before Yang Bo could finish speaking, Bi Fangji had already hurriedly ran out.

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A few days later, after Yang Bo finished handling some chores in the factory, he prepared to return to Jimo Camp.

There were several personnel sent by the teaching battalion, as well as some assistants in internal affairs, and the most surprising thing was that Yang Bo directly issued an order to transfer Cui Yong to serve as the teaching chief officer of the Jimo battalion, and Zhang Shixiong to serve as the military discipline chief of the Jimo battalion and concurrently the Zhenfu Division of the Jimo battalion.

As soon as the news came out, Santun was in an uproar......

Zhang Shixiong is a native of Liaodong and is not popular in Shijiu, because there are many Dengzhou refugees in Shijiu, and these Dengzhou refugees have experienced war and chaos, and they hate Kong Youde, Guan Ningjun and other Liaodong military horses.

In particular, Kong Youde's department almost ate all the women and children in Dengzhou, and then patted his ass and threw himself into the tartar, so the people of the entire Shandong Prefecture also hated the ordinary Liaodong people, and they were very disgusted, and they insisted that this disaster was caused by the Liaodong people.

Although the situation in the stone mortar is better, the estrangement is still buried in the hearts of these people, and they cannot let go. Yang Bo has also made various efforts to this end, but with little effect.

In addition to Wang Xiaoyu's position in the General Staff Department, there are no other Liaodong people who are so reused by adults, and now Zhang Shixiong is not only the chief military discipline officer of a large battalion within the Shijiu Institute, but also serves as the pacification of the Jimo Battalion Suppression Division, and only Yang Bo's absolute henchmen can obtain such an honor.

For a while, everyone was talking about it, and they were puzzled by Yang Bo's move, but it was a homeless person from Liaodong, who had a lot of eyebrows.

"This living Yama has forcibly fined the adult 1,500 Wen, and the adult still dares to use him?" The Dengzhou people said with some indignation.

For these people who don't understand their hard work, Yang Bo, who received the news, was a little helpless......

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