Chapter 55: The Desire to Do Good Work (5)
"Students need two things, one is naming rights; The second is the patent fee of one penny: for each grenade made, the student is paid one penny of silver; After five years, for every two grenades made, students were paid a penny; Ten years later, ten coins a penny; Twenty years later, no matter how many coins were made, one penny a year was paid. Ding Yi said to Yu Qian, who was about to speak, "Mr. or everyone present thinks it's inappropriate, and the students can take nothing." However, this is the reason why Zigong ransomes people and Confucius does not like it - if there is no patent fee to collect, after that, the students will not engage in these things anymore, and they will not have the money to toss. These things have taken a lot of money, material resources, time and painstaking efforts to test them, or I will throw a sample to you to see how long it will take for the craftsmen of Wang Gong Factory to get out? ”
Of course, Ding really plans to teach the craftsmen of Wang Gong Factory how to polish, grind, and granulate black powder, but don't think about those machinery, it's impossible, Wang Gong Factory's Daming senior mechanical technicians will slowly make it by hand, including prefabricated fragments and iron beads, if you can't get it then, Rongcheng can process it!
Yu Qian smiled bitterly when he heard this, if others said so, he might be able to ignore it and get the things in this guy's hand, no one could fight against the entire country's violent machine. Dante is different, because he can really fix things, whether it's the wrath of the Ming before or the grenade now.
As if in order to increase the weight, Ding Yi said quietly: "The students are still studying the method of steelmaking, to see if they can mass-produce stainless steel knives and guns...... There is also the art of far-sighting, which is commonly known as clairvoyance, which can clearly see the scenery in the distance, and anticipate the enemy's opportunity above the battle array, but so...... Students are also working on a timekeeping apparatus about the size of a ball of tea leaves. It can be accurate to each half of the incense, and the error is at most twenty or thirty breaths, if this thing can be done, it is no longer a risky thing to divide the troops and attack......"
"Stop!" Yu Qian looked at those generals with a fascinated expression, and felt that if he wanted Ding to say more, he would all be fooled. The most important thing is what Ding Yi said, no matter how unbelievable, has the anger of the Ming Dynasty and the grenade in front of him as a witness. It became real - before Ding Yi figured it out, if he told people that there was such a thing, who would believe it?
Yu Qian thought for a while and said, "Half a penny." ”
"For the sake of the country, how can Dan's heart be stained with copper?" Ding Yi bragged shamelessly, and Shi Heng and Sun Bo on the side subconsciously turned their faces away. I feel that it is better not to say that it is better to know this person, but I heard Ding Yi say again. "The gentleman said half a penny, half a penny. It's just that this matter has to be decreed to the emperor and signed by the cabinet! This is not a plan for Ding, it is a plan for Daming! Da Ming is not just a Ding Yi? It's just a matter of buying horse bones. ”
In fact, don't say half a penny, even if it's a cent, a cent, Ding Yi also agreed, Microsoft thousands of years later. Didn't you just start here? Pity Yu Qianyu didn't know what was going to happen in the future, so he was put on the chariot by someone Ding. However, Yu Qian didn't think that one and a half coins was a big problem at this time, ten coins were only half a tael, and a hundred coins were five taels. Fifty taels for 1,000 pieces, and making 10,000 pieces is only 500 taels of silver for someone Ding, how big of a deal? And it is decreasing year by year.
In fact, Yu Qian didn't expect that as soon as this thing was opened, it would not be able to hold 10,000 pieces, especially after the generals in the army saw this effect, the nine-sided town, 10,000 pieces was only about 1,000 pieces per place, according to Shi Xiang, he would have to throw a thousand pieces in three months, and if he started a war, even if it was a local war, he would have to throw a few hundred, right?
Because he didn't expect this section, his original bad feeling for Ding Yi's greed for money turned into nothing, and he couldn't help patting Ding Yi's shoulder and said: "Worship the old man as a teacher, but teach you to make a lot of money." "The generals on the side also thought so, just Shi Heng and Sun Bo they subscribed just now, there are 3,000 pieces, according to Ding Yi, ten taels of silver, that is, 30,000 taels, in fact, even if Ding Yi says 20 taels, everyone will pay the same money, strange goods can live, even if the cost is ten taels, how can you earn 30,000 taels, right? Now it is good, even if it is 10,000 pieces, it will only be 500 taels of silver in the bag.
"In order to prevent traitors from stealing the system, craftsmen cut corners, sell them privately and flow outside the customs, each grenade should have a uniform number, if there is a grenade without a number or a number of more bullets, it is made for private purposes, no matter how the laws of the country deal with it, it is equivalent to embezzling the students' money and property, and each one must pay the students one hundred taels of silver!"
"If Jin's plan is based on selfishness, it may also be for the sake of the country." Yu Qian listened and nodded, if this thing flowed outside the gate, wouldn't it give the Tartar wings like a tiger? Therefore, it is a very necessary thing to add a number, and the entry and exit must be registered until it is distributed to the soldiers, so that they can grasp the whereabouts.
After watching the grenade sales, Ding Yi secretly pulled Shi Heng and Sun Bo, and after Lord Yu, who was entangled in state affairs, left in a hurry, Ding Yi continued his arms fair, but the location was changed from Wang Gong's factory to Sun Bo's camp, and this time it was a one-time formed breastplate.
The armor of the Ming Dynasty at this time, not to mention the generals, the main thing for ordinary soldiers is cotton armor, which is sandwiched with iron blades, which can prevent cutting and projectile to a certain extent, and the cotton armor at this time is not the kind of cutting corners at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so it is very heavy. The chicken breast cuirass that Ding Yi took out was not intended to be fireproof, so it was definitely lighter than cotton armor, and as for the waist-high armor used by the general, it was much lighter, of course, the protection was not as good as the waist-high armor, after all, it was originally worn by the general.
Ding Yi took out this chicken breastplate today, which is a low-end product, and the opponent directly cotton the armor.
In the protection of the bow and arrow, slightly better than cotton armor; Cutting on protection, far better than cotton armor; As for heavy weapons such as flails and maces, the taper and one-piece structure of the chicken breastplate will completely burst the cotton armor, and the cotton armor will not have much effect on heavy weapons at all.
"It's more expensive than cotton armor!" Some generals said so.
Of course, in order to climb the technology tree, Ding Yi, who is getting money everywhere, will definitely not quote the cost price, and will naturally superimpose the price to the point where it is slightly higher than the cotton armor. Listening to the general's words at this time, Ding Yi actually said extremely unscrupulously: "There is also a way to be cheaper, as long as the chicken breastplate in front is not there from below the shoulders in the back, anyway, those who are shot in the back are cowards who escaped!" ”
This time, none of the generals were fooled.
Cowards on the run? Come on!
Could it be that the generals themselves paid for this chicken breastplate for each soldier? Of course it's impossible, it's not enough to eat empty salaries! They will only pay for their own soldiers. And once the war is going to use the family members to go into battle, either they will rush into battle, or they will cover the escape of the generals, and there is no armor behind, isn't this nonsense?
After some bargaining, Ding had an order for 5,000 cuirasses on this trip, which was not worth the trip.
After returning to Goldfish Hutong after leaving the camp, Ding Yi drank a cup of tea, and then said to Liu Yiyi: "After the small business is done, the big business will be yours to do." "Whether it's a grenade or a chicken breast, it's a small business, and in the long run, it's two sustainable incomes, but for Ding Yi's workshop that is trying to climb the technology tree, the almost bottomless pit is really not enough to see.
Of course, these things are not in a hurry, Ding is still going to Guozijian in the afternoon, and the old servant of Yu Qian's family will come to urge him as usual, so he can only do what he thinks the next day. Emperor Jing is very patient, even if he fails to ask the prince of the East Palace for his birthday, every month Ding Yi goes to Beijing, he will summon him and give him something.
Although for the high-level civil officials, it is best for Emperor Jing to be an honest waste, and not toss around. But after all, there are a large number of low-level officials, so there is no doubt that this move has stabilized many low-level Beijing officials and those nobles, and they all feel that Jingzong is still very gentle and generous.
This time was no exception, when the chamberlain led Ding Yi into the palace, after seeing Emperor Jing, Ding didn't have much politeness, and said directly to Emperor Jing: "The minister doesn't seem to be very rich when he looks at the inner library? "Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor has an inner treasury, which is the emperor's private money, such as the East Factory, most of the expenditures are from the inner treasury, and the main income is the Huangzhuang and the taxes that the emperor sent to those mine supervisors. Yu Qian is in the court, even if Emperor Jing has the mind of Wanli in a hundred years, Yu Qian will not allow him to do this, so Ding Yi asked this question, not without a purpose.
Emperor Jing's eyes lit up when he heard this, although he was not one of those illiterate low-level people, and he would say something like "his own son is not as good as money", but there is no doubt that if the inner library is more generous, whether he rewards him on weekdays or sends eunuchs to do things, it will always be much more profitable.
Not to mention that Yu Da Sima is in the town there, even if there is none, there are few people who have too much money, right? Even if Yu Qian, who is not greedy for money, must be happy to say that the treasury has money, silver, grain and grass in the account. More importantly, Emperor Jing knew that Ding Yi would come to the money, not to mention anything else, the income of the Ming Royal Dart Bureau alone is now almost two or three percent of the income of the inner treasury.
"The Daming Royal Dart Bureau is doing very poorly." Ding Yi immediately began to spray Emperor Jing, but he didn't have the same addiction to spraying the emperor as Yu Qian and Li Xian, but if he didn't spray, it would be difficult to let go of the words in the back and say, "The royal affairs, the minister doesn't understand, and he doesn't want to understand." But as a courtier, he always wants the emperor to live better, and he retired the dart game before, which is also in this heart, who knows that Lu Dao is now doing this......"
Emperor Jing couldn't help blushing when he sprayed it like this, because Ding Yi was not wrong, the income of the Ming Royal Dart Bureau, even if the eunuchs and chamberlains who went down to manage the affairs did not share the profits of the officials along the way, and they were bullying and dominating the market, etc., it was not as good as in Liu Yiyi's hands, and there were so many accounts and profits when operating in a proper manner.
Looking at Emperor Jing's embarrassment, Ding Yi smiled secretly in his heart, can state-owned enterprises be the same as private enterprises? This problem can't be solved for thousands of years, so I don't believe that Emperor Jing can come up with any tricks to deal with it! (To be continued......)