The advent of the Jenny loom kicked off the first industrial revolution, and steam power pushed the first industrial revolution to its peak.

It can be seen that the importance of the Jenny loom is precisely because the Jenny loom has made a large number of handicraft workers lose their jobs, and it is since then that the power of machinery has begun to replace manpower on a large scale and become the mainstream.

There is no need to repeat the history of the textile machine, but the textile machine used in the garment factory in Tongzhou today is similar to the famous Jenny textile machine, even if it is a little more advanced, it is not much advanced.

There is no way, Zhu Houwei knows very little about this piece, so after telling the craftsman what he knows, such as the shuttle, such as hydraulic weaving, etc., the craftsman lasted three years and finally gave birth to the first reel spinning machine in Huzhou.

Today, the garment factory in the Tongzhou Industrial Zone has as many as 3,000 new textile machines, and countless yarns and cloths are spun every day.

The spun yarn and cloth are sent to the finished product processing workshop to be made into garments and then sold to the public.

The reason why Zhu Houwei did not take out the textile machine and sell it was not because he cherished the broom, but because he knew very well how much impact the new textile machine would have on the handicraft industry once it came out.

Once the impact effect is formed, countless households under the world who rely on hand-weaving will inevitably have a sharp decline in income, no way, the efficiency of the new textile machine is too high, I dare not say that one is worth a hundred female workers, but it can be worth forty or fifty There is no problem at all.

If you can't use a textile machine, you'll only have a bicycle......

It's just that if the bicycle is mass-produced, it will inevitably affect the amount of eucommia gum......

It's really hard to have the best of both worlds...... The four little eunuchs used two round wooden sticks to carry the bicycle into the Cining Palace......

"This is the bicycle ......" Zhu Houzhao smiled, and then saw the empress dowager and the Zhang brothers with a confused face.

No matter how much nonsense he said, he didn't show it in person, Zhu Houwei didn't say a word, and rode his bicycle around the courtyard of Cining Palace.

"Oh, Your Majesty, you can slow down, how can you be good if you fall......" Ren Xing panted and ran after him, and the one who ran was sweating profusely......

This bicycle was put on the shelf after it was sent to the palace, this thing is a novelty for people who have never seen it, but for people like Zhu Houwei, who ride a motorcycle at a speed of 100 per hour, it is really not of much interest.

However, after a few laps, Zhu Houwei found a more serious problem......

In order to be able to carry heavy loads, this car is similar to the 28 bars of later generations, but people in this era like to wear robes......

It seems that it is necessary to get a suitable bicycle for women to ride, so that there is no delay......

"This is a bicycle, what do you think of the two uncles?"

The Zhang brothers looked at each other, and then shook their heads in unison.

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "This bicycle doesn't need forage, no feeding, it can travel 200 miles a day, and it can carry 100 catties of goods!"

The two brothers swallowed.

Even a fool can see the great value of this bike.

"This ...... How will this bike be sold? ”

Zhu Houwei waved his hand and said: "I don't care how to sell it, I don't care, but I can give the two uncles a bottom, or fifty-five accounts, that is, the uncle takes the goods from Tongzhou to sell, I don't care how much silver you sell, even if you sell a thousand taels of silver, you will score five hundred taels, if you sell one tael of silver, then I will divide five dollars, or I will set a price for you, you take my pricing to Tongzhou to order, give as much silver as you take and how many cars, and in the end I don't care, if you sell a loss, I will also take care of ......."

"Also...... Can you still lose? Zhang Yanling was a little unconvinced.

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "The market has a market demand, this bicycle is not a necessity, then there will inevitably be a saturation time, for example, the entire Ming Dynasty can consume 500,000 taels of bicycles, and the capital only needs 10,000, so when the 10,000 in the capital is sold, the market is already saturated."

And with the degree of saturation, the price of the car will inevitably be adjusted, for example, I set the price of the car for five taels, and the two uncles took 10,000 taels from me, and sold them for ten taels at the beginning, but after selling 5,000 units, they can only sell for seven taels or even six taels, and the market tends to be saturated at this time.

If my uncle wants to continue to make money, he has to open up new markets, and opening up new markets also means an increase in costs, and when costs increase, profits will naturally be thin. ”

said it so clearly, if the Zhang brothers couldn't understand it, they would really be mentally retarded......

Obviously, although the Zhang brothers are not mentally retarded, they are very economically minded.

"Then what if we sell it for twenty taels, and then slowly lower the price?"

Zhu Houwei said helplessly: "I have already said, if I set the price, then how you sell it has nothing to do with me, and it doesn't matter to me if you lose money and make money, but if it is fifty-fifty, I will take fifty percent, but you can't get fifty percent, because there are operating costs."

There are pros and cons to both, depending on how you choose.

"Then how much does Your Majesty set the price?" Zhang Heling was a little apprehensive and asked cautiously.

Zhu Houwei thought for a while and said: "It's just five taels, I don't plan to earn your hard-earned money, these five taels should be regarded as the cost of manufacturing bicycles and the wages of workers."

The Zhang brothers' eyes lit up, their own character is not good, but they believe in the emperor's character very much, since the emperor said that five taels is the cost, it must not be much worse, even if they earn, they must earn limited.

It's a pity that the two brothers don't know what it means to reduce costs by quantity......

Now to make a bicycle, the cost is about three or four taels, the difficulty lies in the quality of the bearing has never been a qualitative breakthrough, and there is the refining output of eucommia gum.

But if mass production is to be implemented, then after solving the bearing problem, find alternatives to glue juice, such as using petroleum refining and synthesis, although China's oil mines are not so rich, but they are enough for the current era.

Once the mass production or even the formation of an assembly line, then the cost will naturally drop, and it is not impossible to drop to less than one or two, of course, this little money, Zhu Houwei is not very optimistic now, do the math.

Even if the profit of a car is three taels, 100,000 units are only 300,000 units, and only 300,000 taels can be placed in Zhu Houwei's eyes now?

Give the business to the Zhang brothers to do, so that they can earn money, firstly, to pay for the queen mother, and secondly, to let these two goods be fine, don't always think about harming the people.

Even if it's just a little profit to buy yourself a peace.

Sure enough, although Empress Dowager Zhang has not expressed her opinion, the look in her eyes undoubtedly shows that she is very satisfied.

That's enough......

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