Chapter 181: The Living Bodhisattva
Yinhe Bicycle Factory is the first profitable factory in Yinhe Science and Technology City, and in less than two years, it has successfully landed in major cities in Yuguo, with sales of more than 100,000 vehicles, but the price has dropped from 50 taels of silver to 5 taels of silver, but it is still profitable.
Now the bicycle factory has embarked on the road of assembly line production, and after making a profit, it has recruited a lot of workers from outside, and the previous skilled workers have taught them, and the scale of production has slowly expanded.
Although only rich people can afford this thing now, but the world of the Wild Continent is so big and there are so many rich people, at least for a hundred years, they don't need to think about the market, they only need to think about the production capacity.
Bicycles can't change the world much, but they only make it a little easier for everyone.
What really changed the world was electricity, motor vehicles, and ironclad ships.
Those Galaxy Science and Technology Cities are also doing it, partly because of the subsidies that Zhong Yuan took out, and partly because of the transfer of profits from bicycle sales.
They have to make money so that they can better improve their production level and expand their production capacity.
In the early stage, they can subsidize it, or they can ask the monks to help, but in the later stage, they still have to rely on themselves.
In the past few years, Feixianmen has also been engaged in a big move, that is, to build a large-scale thermal power station at the outer gate of Feixianmen.
Of course, the role of electricity generation is not for lighting, monks can usually change the world, they don't need lighting so much, their role is to provide electricity for a five-thunder lore array under the sect.
Technology is not only changing the world of mortals, but also trying to change the world of monks.
After Zhong Yuan's three-year retreat, the first agricultural tractor produced by Yinhe Machinery Group was completed, which was also hammered by hand.
After the test run, it was driven to a large area of farmland outside the science and technology city to work on the farmland, and accumulated various data for the technical staff of the machinery group.
A large area of farmland outside the science and technology city is a newly established department of the Galaxy Science and Technology City, the Ministry of Agriculture.
The responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture is to accumulate technical experience in farming, improve crop varieties and increase crop yields.
Now it is still in the exploration stage, and dozens of experienced old farmers have been invited to come over, as well as a few foreign disciples who study agricultural technology, and the things grown are not much more productive than those grown by ordinary farmers.
Increasing the yield per mu by one or two hundred catties is not called a skill at all, because they are originally deep ploughing, and there is a large amount of farm fertilizer that can be applied, and ordinary farmers can achieve that yield if they have this condition.
The science and technology institute of the science and technology city has also come up with something like a microscope, which does have a great effect on their agricultural research, but the growth rate of crops is relatively slow, and they can only do experiments slowly and slowly accumulate data.
After the people of the machinery group drove a tractor to this farmland and brought the pear rake to start ploughing, the dozens of old farmers were stunned, and they ran over to ask what this thing was, why is the ploughing so powerful, is it the magic weapon of the fairy family?
After receiving the reply that it was something that could be manipulated by mortals, they asked to go up and operate it themselves.
The operation of the tractor is relatively simple, and there is a foundation monk who follows the whole process, so there is no need to worry about improper operation and casualties.
One by one, the dozens of old men got on the tractor to experience the power of the iron bull, and everyone trembled with excitement when they came down.
It's much faster than a cow plowing the land, and it's much deeper, and one of these things can top dozens of cows.
Moreover, it takes a lot of time for cattle to plough the land in a year, only for ten days, but there is a special person to herd cattle.
With this stuff, the farmer can be much easier.
Although it is not an immortal spell, in their opinion, it is more powerful than an immortal spell.
Because they can't use the spells of the immortal family, they can operate this kind of thing.
When they learned that this thing could not only be lowered, but also could be pulled by hanging on the body, they were even more excited.
They have beaten grain in the field, to get home, can only rely on picking, very hard, there is such a tractor, a pull can be thousands of catties, how much effort do you have to save?
This is simply a farmer's treasure.
An old farmer was even so excited that he burst into tears, and said to the technicians of the Galaxy Machinery Group: "You are all good people, you have made such a good thing for us farmers! You are living bodhisattvas!"
If you have never been a farmer or experienced the hardships of a farmer, it is difficult to understand their excitement at the moment.
Although peasants are known for enduring hardships and standing hard work, who is naturally willing to endure hardships and stand hard work? Who does not want to live a more comfortable life if they can live a more comfortable life?
Hardships and hard work are only forced by life, not by their nature.
Now that something has come out that has changed their lives, how can they not be moved?
After coming to this place for a few years, they also knew that this Galaxy Science and Technology City was done by those immortals who paid for the common people by themselves.
The things that were produced were not needed by the immortals at all, and they were all for the use of those mortals.
If there are living bodhisattvas in this world, it is people like them.
The gratitude of the old farmers made the technicians of the machinery group a little confused, but also a little proud.
I didn't really understand the meaning of these things before, it was just a profession, but now I have a pride and ambition to change the world in my heart.
After the first tractor left the factory, Yinhe Machinery Group added another factory, called Yinhe Agricultural Machinery Factory, which specializes in the production of agricultural machinery.
After another two years, the tractor can also be produced on the assembly line, and it has finally begun large-scale production and sales.
The area of Yu is about the size of the entire earth, and the area of arable land is several times that of the whole earth, with only a population of hundreds of millions, and the typical number of people is small.
Because of the low production efficiency, a lot of land is left uncultivated there.
With these machines, it is possible to cultivate large areas.
Although after expanding the cultivated area, so many people will not be able to eat so much food, but there is no need to worry so much about starving people to death in the future.
The extra food is not wasted, it can be used for breeding, whether it is raising pigs, cattle and sheep, or raising chickens, ducks and geese, it can greatly improve the lives of the people, increase their intake of animal protein, and improve their sense of happiness.
Tractors are much more expensive than bicycles, and the target audience is a group of farmers, and it is very difficult to sell them, so they take the form of renting - giving a certain amount of grain every year as rent, and after ten years, the tractor will be their own.