At night, Sang Youshen took this basic literacy manual and walked into the night school of the wood processing factory. The night school occupies a newly built shed, and during the day the young student who asked him for advice is teaching on the stage, and a group of newly recruited apprentice carpenters are listening attentively.

Sang Youshen's appearance made everyone in the shed turn their heads to look at him, his old face flushed, and he found a corner to sit down. The others didn't talk much, and the young students on the podium continued their lessons.

When Zhou Qingfeng was in Fushun, he did everything possible to carry out education and tried every means to solve the problem of illiteracy. In the beginning, there was not much progress because there were really too few literate people. However, with the slow increase in the number of literate people, with the establishment of the revolutionary army, and with the appointment of Yin Hu as the minister of the Ministry of Education to coordinate the work of eradicating illiteracy, the trend of free time for school spread.

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The timber processing plant was not yet fully built, but the night school in the factory was already organized spontaneously. The people in charge of classes are often young people who have just escaped illiteracy, and those who are literate are also young refugees from all over Liaodong. It is relatively rare for someone like Sang Youshen to have a bit of status but still come to class.

After two lessons, Sang Youshen clumsily grabbed a wooden stick and drew on the ground. The conditions of the night school are poor, everyone draws and writes, and they will go to school. The other laborers left after class, and the young juniors who were in class came down and shouted, "Master Sang." ”

Sang Youshen looked up with a wry smile: "I have been a carpenter for thirty years, and when I followed the young marshal in Fushun, I still felt that my skills were not bad and I could do it for a lifetime." But I really didn't expect that it was only less than a year, and I couldn't keep up with that little ability. I can't understand the drawings you brought today, no wonder I can't be the factory director. ”

Young post-generations don't know what to say. Sang Youshen returned the set of drawings to him again, and slowly left the shed and went back to rest. The next day, Sang Youshen came to work in the factory again, and seeing the factory day by day, he simply found a manual lathe and learned how to operate.

Machines look simple, but they're actually very knowledgeable. After all, simplifying complex problems is the real ability.

Sang Youshen felt that he had a lot of ideas in his head after a day of work, and he had 30 years of rich practical experience more than those carpentry apprentices who could only operate according to the regulations, and he could design more reasonable processing steps and devices in a targeted manner. He even thought that this manual lathe could be changed in some other ways and could do more tricky work.

These ideas are just circling back and forth in Sang Youshen's mind, and the difference between culture and culture is reflected. He only thinks for himself, but he can't tell others, and he is very distressed for a while. Thinking about it, he simply grabbed the students who were in the night school and thought about it together.

In the processing plant, as long as the device is round, the woodworking lathe is particularly fast. Even if it is driven by manpower, it is more beautiful than pure manual work. At present, it is a simple processing of stools, chairs, bookshelves, beds and various tableware, and a lathe with a division of labor can perfectly process different parts.

Some of these products were ordered by the revolutionary army itself and used for domestic retail. Some are shipped to Shandong and Tianjin for external sales. Such a semi-mechanized processing plant can produce thousands of sets of furniture, or tens of thousands of sets of tableware, in a day. When the factory is fully completed, there will be hundreds of lathes along the riverbank, and the processing capacity will be considerable.

For example, the simplest wooden bowl is to clamp a small piece of cut wood on the lathe and send it to the tool to get off the car twice, and it can be processed in one minute. This thing was sold for only a few pennies, and it was really cheap. If you want a carpenter to build it by hand, it will take half an hour to build one at the earliest, and it is not as good as the lathe processing.

The processed wooden bowls are loaded into standard transport boxes and loaded and transported by transport ships directly on the river. A single box can hold thousands of wooden bowls, which are counted at the port and then shipped out. The wooden bowls, which Sang Youshen was involved in processing, crossed the ocean and arrived in Tianjin two days later, along with other goods.

Wang Kai, who was in charge of the revolutionary army's foreign trade, set up a warehouse in Tianjin to sell these things. When the wooden box was opened, the Tianjin merchant who bought the goods picked up a few wooden bowls and sneered a few times: "The revolutionary army is really interesting, you are probably poor and crazy, and the wooden bowls are also shipped and sold, which can be worth a few dollars."

The merchants were under the faction of Zheng Guifei, and there were shops in Tianjin, the capital, and even many surrounding towns. Wang Kai also wondered how his boss didn't have any other goods, and even worthless goods such as wooden bowls were shipped, so he picked up the bill of goods and said in a low voice: "Retail two cents and one wholesale, five coins and one thousand silver." ”

"How much" disliked the merchant is not young, and some ears are behind, but they are very sensitive to hear the text read by Wang Kai.

Large families naturally use porcelain bowls for dinner, and they also have to paint colorful glazes, and they must have patterns of flowers, birds, insects and fish. But there are a few large families, even if they are large families, the servants of the family have to eat. Give the servant a porcelain bowl, he is sincerely afraid of breaking it, and would rather use a wooden bowl that is not afraid of falling.

Wang Kai read the price again. The merchant grabbed the wooden bowl in his hand again, knocked and found that the quality was actually good, and after pondering for a while, he said happily: "This box of five thousand is five taels of silver, alas, see that you gang of thieves are also pitiful, sell them all to me." ”

Wang Kai sighed in his heart, feeling that his family was also poor, how much can he earn by selling a box, how many carpenters do he need to build these five thousand wooden bowls, and how long do he have to work for this box, wouldn't it be a loss to sell a box, the more he thought about it, the more he really felt that the young marshal was not as brave and strong as before.

The first batch of wooden bowls was only five boxes, and only twenty-five taels were sold. Wang Kai didn't take it seriously. But two days later, another batch of wooden bowls came by sea, and this time twenty boxes were sent in one go. The merchants of the Zheng family are all leaving, and the price of the goods this time is one hundred taels.

It doesn't seem like much.

But in just a day or two, tens of thousands of wooden bowls were transported in the Tianjin Acropolis. The merchants who carry the burden go through the streets and alleys to sell, and the retail is only three or four cents a piece, which is really cheap. Dishes and chopsticks and other things are a must-have for every family. It doesn't cost much to buy ten for a family of three, everyone thinks it's really cheap and good, and it's good to buy it back and use it.

These wooden bowls look inconspicuous, but they sell out quite quickly, and they are all sold out in a few efforts. This is fast in and out, and the flow of money is extremely smooth. Although they didn't make much money, the merchants of the Zheng family were also very satisfied, and they felt that the revolutionary army was only afraid of making so many wooden bowls for a few months, and they were afraid that they would have to wait for a long time if they wanted to sell them elsewhere.

But in a few days, a 2,000-material ship transported a hundred standard transport boxes in one go. This time, it's not all wooden bowls, but also a set of modular furniture. Most of them are wooden beds. Ten sets of large beds were stored in parts in a transport box, each priced for only one tael of silver.

The beds all come together the same, as if they came out of a mold. The merchant of the Zheng family was stunned, and then thought of the wooden bowls that were exactly the same before, he asked Wang Kai in a daze: "Outside the king, don't your young marshal have some magic of turning stone into gold and turning wood into wood, otherwise how can these beds be the same?"

Where did Wang Kai say it clearly, he was inexplicably happy in his heart, and said with a few words: "Where is the ability of my young marshal is what we can guess, this batch of furniture can be won If the money is not in hand, Wang will retail it on the market, such a solid bed, one or two silver is really not expensive, and it will definitely be sold." ”

Although the goods of a hundred transport boxes are not all wooden beds, the total price is several hundred taels. It's not that the merchants of the Zheng family can't afford to pay this money, but they feel that it is too much of a loss to take out such money. After thinking about it, he said: "I want this batch of goods, but I really don't have the money in hand." Didn't your revolutionary army ask for iron, and I will barter it for you. ”

Wang Kai was so strange, "Didn't you say that there is only so much iron in a month, and there is no more?"

The Zheng family merchant said happily: "Our Zheng family doesn't have it, it doesn't mean that other families don't have it." Tianjin Wei alone has several official iron yards. As long as you give more old rice, those craftsmen in the iron yard can't be grateful to Dade for his hard work, and it's not easy to get an extra hundred thousand catties a month."

Wang Kai was immediately angry and happy, and asked rhetorically: "We sold you Suxiang Pill and Dragon Tiger Pill before, and we didn't see that you were willing to give more iron for tens of thousands of taels, how can these hundreds of taels of furniture be changed for more iron materials?"

"There are few people who can afford to eat pills, and there are many people who can afford to use furniture. Your furniture is cheap and well made. It's definitely going to sell fast. I think you young marshal must have some secret method to be able to transport so much in one go, and there must be more to come.

As long as the price is always so cheap, we can ship it elsewhere and sell it. The carpenters around Tianjin are only afraid that they will be sad, they can beat a few beds a month, where can they fight us"

The merchants of the Zheng family laughed hehehehehehe, and Wang Kai was stunned when he heard it. He really didn't think about what would happen if the production capacity of his own revolutionary army exploded, the distance between Tianjin and the Liaodong Peninsula was close, and it was easy to go back and forth dozens of times a month. If it's a few hundred taels each time, it's not a lot in a month.

When the time comes, don't say that the carpenters in Tianjin will be crushed, and the carpenters in the entire Beizhili will not want to have a good life.

Wang Kai hurriedly looked at the list of goods again, and the tables, chairs, furniture, and tableware were very complete. There is even a letter attached to the manifest, and the Administration Department has even written that it will make the most of the capacity of the return cargo ship in the future, and transport a large number of wood products to Tianjin and Shandong.

At present, the revolutionary army can't take out any other goods, and in line with the idea that production capacity is not wasted and transportation capacity is not wasted, it can earn a little is a little. Xu Bing even specially reminded Wang Kaiduo to arrange for unloading at several ports, saying that the subsequent dumping of goods will only increase.

dumping

Wang Kai immediately understood the word literally, this is really an outpouring of sales, an overwhelming supply of goods. This is much more radiant than a few pills in a small porcelain bottle. The number of people affected by it has also increased by hundreds or thousands.

At the end of the letter, Xu Bing specifically instructed Wang Kai to pay attention to the purchase of cotton in addition to coal and iron. At present, the revolutionary army is preparing for the mass production of cotton textiles, which is in urgent need of raw materials and markets.

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