Chapter 683: Custom-made cars
In the end, he was unable to reach Mount Vesu. It's not that you can't drive to your destination within the time limit, but because you change the driver, everyone is driving too happily and driving the wrong way......
Some people have their own navigation map, others don't.
So I found a hill with a wide view, took out the prepared food, and continued the unfinished discussion while eating.
It is said that it is not finished, but in fact, there is one more strong collaborator, and everyone has a new understanding of cars, so most of the good results discussed by Ruan Wenyue and Lin before have to be reversed.
In this regard, Nguyen Van Viet did not have many opinions. Because of joining the Kavi Gong and understanding the military value of the car, everyone's calculations are a little bigger than the original. Except for someone who has no heart or lungs.
However, Lin still emphasized in the discussion that the performance of the car he is riding in now is not the performance of the car that can be manufactured in the future. Switching to ordinary materials to manufacture automobiles, in the case of material strength is far inferior, there will inevitably be a serious decline in all aspects of parameters.
But no matter how much it declines, even if only one-tenth of the performance remains, it is still much better than the modes of transportation that ordinary people can use. To put it simply, it is still profitable. Don't look at the Duke's Guard, there are still people who can catch up with the speed of the second gear of the car, even if the knights and war horses of the guard are not to the point of being one in ten thousand, they are also elite people, not comparable to those who can be contacted by ordinary people.
And the reason why someone proposed to bring a grand duke into their business after Fasage Babak Abunahan did not show the attitude of always respecting the nobility and staying away from it, as he did in the past. This is because the car has a subsequent consumption cost in addition to the fixed purchase cost.
In this regard, it is better to use the power in the magic stone than to dig up oil and refine it. After all, the former has many uses in the maze, and there are many places where the magic stone is in short supply, but not oil. If you want people at the bottom of society to be able to afford a car, the cost of continuous consumption is unlikely to be too high.
Someone has calculated that according to the current price of magic stones and oil, the cost of each kilometer of the car is very different. Magic stones are much more expensive, and they are several times more expensive. And almost all of the cost of oil is on transportation, and in the now known oil-producing area, within the Gwana Empire, the goblin autonomous castle Lebapu, that thing is still disliked even if it is given away for free.
Secondly, refining oil can produce many useful products, which may also find their use in the future in the past. It's not bad to study it first and make some technical reserves.
And to refine oil, to set up gas stations in the future, these things need the help of some powerful figures. In these matters, being in the holy city of Estali, Nguyen Van Van of the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce was far inferior to the energy of Kavi Gong.
However, these beautiful prospects, Kavey Gong seems to be a little dissatisfied. In the midst of small talk, he would come to the side of the car from time to time, looking east and west, and several times, everyone did not care.
Suddenly, he took out the long sword he carried with him, and a shockwave caught everyone off guard, and the bombarded car shook a few times before returning to calm. There is a noticeable depression in the position of the middle sword, but that is all there is to it. The structure of the entire car is still intact.
The Grand Duke suddenly had a convulsion, and everyone was of course taken aback. I don't know what this long-famous great swordsman had in mind. When he saw that he couldn't cut the car, he seemed to be more energetic, charging up his strength, and preparing to use more powerful moves.
Lin hurriedly ran to the Grand Duke, shook his hand and said, "Be merciful, be merciful, Grand Duke." If you want to test your defense, we'll have to wait until we get back and test it again. If we had broken down the car now, we would have to walk home. ”
…… Well, a very real question. So Kavi put away his weapon.
Lin continued at this time: "And in the future, after we switch to ordinary materials, today's car can resist the power of your sword, it does not mean that it will be able to do so in the future." ”
After a short pause, Kavi said, "If I say I want this car." ”
Frightened by this noble person who suddenly had convulsions, Lin smiled helplessly and said, "This is just a trial car." Many parts are still unshaped, and there is no magic attached to them, so what is the use of him? Suddenly thinking of the urine of a rich man, Lin asked tentatively: "Isn't the Grand Duke wanting a custom-made car with the same level of protection, and at any cost." ”
"Yes, yes, yes! That's it! What you discussed before was how to use ordinary materials to replace them, and find ways to make the cost lower, so that the price is lower and more people can afford it. But if the performance is too bad compared to this car, why should people who can afford it buy those lame goods. ”
…… This is the world in the eyes of the local tyrants, and what is the difference between the world in the eyes of the poor.
Unreasonably, someone feels frustrated.
It's just that the local tyrant cares about the poor psychological activities, and Kavi Gong naturally asked: "How, the kind of customized car you said, you can do it." ”
Suppressing the sourness in his heart and the urge to cry, Lin pretended to be strong and said: "Do it, of course you can do it, as long as you have money and materials, you can do it." But I want to set some rules. ”
"Rules? What rules? Kaveh asked.
"Time is also time for me or those silverbearded dwarves, and we have our own things to do, so we can't just be busy building cars all day. I expect that in the future, I will build at most one of these custom-made vehicles a year, and of course it is possible that I will not build them. But I'll also teach you the magicians you send. So the ratio of the quantity between the production of customized cars and the production of production cars is up to you, I don't ask, anyway, it's up to me to get my benefits. ”
"Oh, don't you think about adding some numbers? If you have money, why not sell. "Kavei Gong was a little dissatisfied with such a request.
Lin shook his head and said, "Grand Duke, as far as I know, you are a person who likes weapons and equipment. And those master craftsmen who are good at making powerful weapons, their brainchild can be bought casually with money, and they still have to buy things at any time. ”
Rubbing his gray beard, Kavi Gong had to admit: "That's true. However, their production is not high, and the bigger reason is the problem of materials. ”
"Exactly, this is also the second point I want to say, I will issue the material requirements, of course, I will also provide a list of alternatives, and the buyer will bring his own materials. I bought all the materials for the prototype car, but I almost filled in all my income during this time. If I had to collect the materials and manufacture them myself, I don't know how much the cost would have increased. ”
Someone's sentence is a half-truth. Because at the same time, there was another big money-eater, that is, the jacquard machine that was running. However, this time the purchase of materials also made someone realize something that they had not paid attention to before, that is, the price of rare and expensive items such as magic materials is not fixed, but fluctuates with the supply and the length of transportation.
In the past, whether it was the era of the Great Sage's Tower, the era of Wulian City, and then the period of wandering, the magic materials bought were almost everywhere, and to see which local ones had more inventory and were cost-effective at that time, they were regarded as making friends with those chamber of commerce managers. Because they are all one-time purchases, there is little concern about price fluctuations.
And when you want to use it later, you will see what materials you have at hand, and what kind of plan you will make. Sometimes you don't use things that are too good, and because of the characteristics of the problem, there is no other substitute, so you can only use it head-on. It's like when repairing the airship Sid, the strength of many materials is based on the demand for components. Strictly speaking, it's a waste.
But the silver-bearded dwarves are a little persistent in doing things, and what kind of index parts have to be used, and they are so persistent that they don't know how to be flexible. And this kind of attachment will make them stare at a certain magic material on the market to buy.
When the Holy City was finished, it was entrusted to the Chamber of Commerce to transport it from other places. When the other chambers of commerce are out of buying, they will focus on the raw materials that are in stock and have not yet been used in the hands of some people, and the chamber of commerce manager will come forward to coordinate and ask the other party to come out. In this case, of course, you have to spend an extra amount of money to make the other party fall in love.
Sometimes it is people from other chambers of commerce who know that there is a large demand for the materials in their hands, so they raise the price and make more profits.
In short, this kind of behavior in the mall is almost like someone saying: 'I am a fat sheep'. Therefore, if you want to help customers make customized cars, and estimate the cost of materials in the selling price, there is a great chance that you will lose money in the end. If nothing else, someone has thought of the method of collusion between the buyer and the chamber of commerce, and it is easy to turn against the maker in the sale that includes the price of the material.
So this kind of troublesome thing should be left to those who want to order a car. Anyway, this kind of person is either rich or expensive, if the net worth is a little smaller, they can't buy all the materials for the customized car, and of course, there is no possibility of credit or overstocking. It's good to collect your own salary, and it's more worry-free and trouble-free.
And the people who are there are people who have access to this level and certainly know what someone's concerns are. Like those who make weapons, sometimes they are willing to help, not necessarily because of friendship, or because the person who wants to buy the weapon has enough money. It's just because of a rare material that makes their hands itch.
Therefore, if you want to order a car, the materials are provided by the buyer, which is not an unacceptable requirement in the maze.
"The second point, I pick the client. Because these custom-made cars can be said to be a demonstration of my top technology, if you want to imitate people, the best choice is of course these custom-made cars, not the ordinary cars we will build in the future. I don't want to go through the trouble of creating future competitors. ”
Everyone nodded in agreement. In someone's calculations, whoever wants to tie him up and engage in exclusive business has no way. But they also don't want too many competitors to join this new industry, diluting profits.