In the history of the original time and space, at the end of the century, the Frenchman Sifrak invented the first bicycle. The earliest bicycles were made of wood, and they had a relatively simple structure, with neither a drive nor a steering device, and the rider pedaled his feet and could only get out of the bike and move the bike when changing direction. Even so, when Sifrak rode the bike for a ride around the park, those present were amazed and amazed.

The world's first truly practical bicycles at the turn of the century? In Paris, France, the German Dresser invented a wooden two-wheeled bicycle with handlebars. Although the bicycle still uses pedals to move forward, it can change direction while moving forward, and it has aroused great interest since its introduction. The French copied them in large numbers, and for a time, hundreds of bicycles appeared on the streets of Paris. The French government also equipped postmen with bicycles as a means of transportation. Subsequently, the technology and performance of the bicycle continued to improve? Macmillan, an Englishman, invented the pedal pedal bicycle, which increased the speed of travel without pedaling on both feet when riding. The Renault-type bicycle was born in the year, the frame was changed to steel tubes, the wheels were also changed to steel rims and spokes, and solid tires were used to make the bicycle lighter? Starley, a mechanical engineer in England, designed a new bicycle style, with forks and brakes, the same size front and rear wheels to maintain balance, a diamond-shaped frame made of steel pipes, and rubber wheels for the first time. Staley not only improved the structure of the bicycle, but also rebuilt many machine tools for the production of bicycle parts, which opened up a wide road for the mass production and popularization of bicycles, so he was called the "father of bicycles" by later generations. The bicycle model he designed was basically the same as the bicycle looks like today? In that year, the Englishman Lawson completed the design of the chain-driven bicycle. In the same year, the Englishman Dunlop developed pneumatic tires. Since then, bicycle technology has also completed the transformation to commercialization, mass production and put into the market.

"It's better to sell cars directly to the British, anyway, there are so many right-hand cars in Hong Kong, and it's useless for us to keep them." More people joined the discussion, and there was a lot of interest in how to "blackmail" Westerners.

"I don't think there's much of a market. A bicycle sells for a hundred pounds, so Chery can't sell it for ten thousand pounds? Does BMW Mercedes-Benz get more than 100,000? Now that there are seven or eight hundred thousand pounds of money in England, who would spend so much money to write a toy? "There are also people who are not optimistic about the end market of automobiles, without modern road transportation, cars can only be toys.

"His Majesty the Third of France may be the culprit." This made everyone laugh, and those who have studied in secondary school know that after the Franco-Prussian War, His Majesty III compensated Prussia a total of 5 billion francs, which is really worthy of the title of "the unjust leader". It is entirely possible that he could have spent millions of francs on such a novelty toy.

"It's already a concept of luxury. And without the modern oil industry, cars would not have been widespread. Besides, it's a bit too much to sell a bicycle for a hundred pounds, you know, fifty years later? A Ford model was initially sold for just $1. And it is very different from previous cars: simple construction, easy to drive, reliable and durable, and most importantly, low price. In the first year, the production of model cars reached [? set a record in the automotive industry. Arrive? The production of model cars has accounted for the world's total production, and the price has also dropped to the dollar, and the average family in the United States has begun to take the lead in entering the automobile era. In the years when the model car was put into production, sales in the United States alone exceeded it. 10,000 units One of your bikes sells more expensive than a car, and sales will be greatly affected. "Wu Fusheng seems to have done his homework, and a series of data was laid out and immediately made everyone speechless." I think a regular bike, which sells for two or three hundred in the original space, is about the same as twenty or thirty pounds. Selling for 100 pounds must be the original goods that sold for more than 1,000 yuan. ”

"The specific pricing is still after doing market research." Liu Lanji's words basically set the tone for the bicycle's sales plan, I believe that in less than two years, modern bicycles will eliminate the kind of bicycles with huge front wheels and ultra-small rear wheels, which are like acrobatic bicycles, which many people have seen in black and white movies.

"What if Westerners copy our bikes? Did we go and apply for a patent first? By the way, at this time, there is no patent protection in the United States, and it will definitely copy our goods. Another concern was raised. This fear was not unfounded, and with the industrial capacity of Europe at this time, it was not very difficult to imitate a bicycle. After all, the bicycle with a chain would be invented in the near future.

"Even if modern bicycles are exported to Europe now, and then to the United States, it will be a year or two later, when the United States has already broken out into civil war, and it is too late to build guns and cannons, who has the time to build bicycles?" People who are familiar with history immediately pointed out that Mi Di is not even a paper tiger now, and there is no need to worry about it at all.

"Transportation is also needed during war, and maybe war can increase sales." Someone started thinking backwards, "Maybe the Americans will form a bicycle hussar unit." ”

Seeing that the topic was getting farther and farther, Wu Fusheng said: "Don't worry about the problem of imitation, with the current technology of the West, it is almost impossible to completely imitate. Even if the structure is the same, the materials and craftsmanship are completely unattainable. Just as European cars and domestic cars are both cars, can the latter compete with the former? This last sentence makes everyone not know whether it is better to cry or laugh.

This is the end of the topic of bicycles, and how to operate them still needs to be investigated. Everyone used their brains and found several products that may be marketable. The sewing machine is a kind of sewing machine, but there is basically no foot pedal type in the original time and space, and it can only be changed by electric power, which requires the mechanical department to do it. In addition, there are several drugs, such as aspirin, juanamine, muffine and so on, and whether penicillin and artemisinin, which are big killers, can be sold needs to be decided by the management committee. Common medicines, such as Chuanbei loquat ointment among proprietary Chinese medicines, were also chosen, but the sales target was local indigenous people. The common denominator of these selected commodities is that they have been invented or will be invented at this time, which ensures that they are destined to be marketable. There was also an offer to sell the kind of medicine named after the German hero to the West, but Liu Lanji vetoed it. That thing is a double-edged sword, no one dares to release it easily, Liu Lanji also decided to hand over the problem to the management committee, let the leaders go to the brains. However, stimulants such as amphetamines are a good option.

At the end of the meeting, Liu Lanji put forward the last topic, which was to form the company's own material collection team. As the spread of the Liberation Army's stalls became bigger and bigger, the goal of the material collection team has been to focus on the urgently needed materials such as weapons, energy, and machinery, while the materials listed as commodities by trading companies have rarely been collected specifically because they are not urgently needed. When trading companies are ready to expand their trade, they need to collect their own supplies. This work is dangerous, and Liu Lanji is so hard assigned, and when no one takes the initiative to ask for help, he has to personally pick up this burden.

In the following days, subordinate enterprises sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The Ministry of Health has set up a pharmaceutical group, and although there are mountains of medicines in the warehouse, it is believed that many will expire before they are used up. Although it is not necessary to produce its own medicines at present, it is absolutely necessary to make technical and material preparations. Aspirin in Western medicine, as a panacea, is the first choice for the production of Western medicine; The Chinese patent medicine of turtle Ling ointment, snake gall Chuanbei loquat ointment, Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid also have a broad market. It's a pity that I don't know the formula of Yunnan Baiyao, otherwise this is also an inexhaustible gold mountain. Someone proposed to produce Wang Laoji, but was beaten back, although the herbal tea will not be sold, but the common people will only go to the herbal tea shop by themselves if they want to drink herbal tea, instead of buying it in an iron can.

The production of Western medicine still needs to wait for a while, but the production of Chinese patent medicine is very organized, mainly trial production of Ren Dan and Qingliang Oil, two commonly used drugs in summer. In the original time and space, Rendan was Japan's Morishita Nindan Co., Ltd.? An oral patent drug that has been on sale since then, with a diameter of ? The silver beads of the metric are fragrant in smell and cool in taste, have the effect of refreshing the mind, disinfection and sterilization, and are often taken together with hundreds of grains to freshen the breath, eliminate hangovers, and treat nausea and dizziness caused by transportation. Cool oil, also known as gold balm and tiger oil, is one of the few medicines that can accompany men, women and children for a lifetime, and can quickly relieve various symptoms such as heat stroke, dizziness, cold and headache, motion sickness, mosquito bites, mild burns and so on. Its high quality and low price, easy to carry, and deeply loved by the people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "daily necessities", and even a "must-have for home and travel"? At the beginning of the century, a young man from Fujian named Hu Wenhu went to Nanyang with his father and opened a pharmacy in Yangon, Myanmar. Due to the tropical monsoon climate, the weather is hot and there are many mosquitoes, people are prone to heat stroke, dizziness, and mosquito bites. Hu Wenhu was determined to develop medicines that were easy for people to use. Hu Wenhu based on this prescription, found a lot of local herbs, and hired doctors and pharmacists to conduct repeated experiments, and finally developed a cool oil that can be wiped externally and taken internally, easy to carry, and cheap, which was named "Tiger Balm Panacea" at that time. As soon as this drug came out, it immediately became famous and sold well all over the world. However, in this time and space, whether it is Hiroshi Morishita or Hu Wenhu, they will be destined to miss their inventions. After the two proprietary Chinese medicines were popularized among the laborers working for the Liberation Army, they were well received and were ready to be put on the machine for production.

The Ministry of Industry has included steel mills, hardware factories, and machinery factories in the plan, but this is only a plan, and these factories will only stay on paper until the power plant is officially generated.

Although the General Armament Department is subordinate to the Military Commission, it is not willing to be left behind in running enterprises. In fact, they have a factory of their own, specializing in military production and maintenance, and this time they also took advantage of the trend to register the Southern Industries Group. The name reflects both the bad taste of the military industry and their ambitions. "The history of mankind is a history of wars, and since the twentieth century, the arms trade has been the most traded business in the world. The nineteenth century was an era of constant strife, and we had products and technologies that were ahead of this era. At the meeting of the establishment of the group, Yu Yunwu, director of the military factory and general manager of the Southern Industrial Group, said.