Chapter 44: If only I had been a little stupid

After a long time, Liang Yunying's excited mood finally calmed down, but her spirit was still immersed in continuous joy.

Liang Yunying pulled her son into the house with a smile on her face, and took out all the documents she signed today:

"Son, this is your patent certificate, and there are two licensing agreements, you hurry up and sign it.

"Except for recruitment, the rest of the mothers have done it for you today."

"So fast!"

Now it was Zhu Jingyuan's turn to be surprised, took the agreement and looked at it a few times, and then was shocked by the above content:

"Twenty percent – that's 20% of the sale price of the aircraft, and the licensing fee is too high!

"I can't ask for such a high license fee, I can't sign this agreement like this......"

When Zhu Jingyuan's words came out, it was Liang Yunying and Zhu Jianyan's turn to be stunned:

"Jingyuan, what are you talking about? How can any patent owner hate the high licensing fees? ”

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the confused eyes of his parents, and tried to find a relatively popular reason:

"Now that the industry is just getting started, the licensing fee is so high, it's almost the same as ...... Kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

"You may not even be able to catch fish at all, and there may be manufacturers who want to participate in production, but they don't come when they see such a high licensing fee.

"So we have to lower it, it should be below 5%, so that it can have a boosting effect."

Liang Yunying glanced at her husband with some uncertainty:

However, according to the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the current better patent licensing fees are basically at this range, or even higher.

"If no one comes to authorize production, we will produce and sell it ourselves, isn't it better if no one competes with us?"

Zhu Jingyuan scratched his head helplessly, trying to make his parents understand his thoughts and said:

"I don't really care about the profits of the industry itself, I care more about the development of the industry and the cultivation of the atmosphere of the whole society chasing flights.

"I hope that in the future, our people, the slightly affluent will have the opportunity to get in touch with flying.

"You don't need to go through complicated procedures to get the opportunity to fly an airplane.

"Hundreds of thousands to millions of people have been formed among the civilian sector with experience in piloting civilian aircraft.

"Ideally, it would be as common as a coachman.

"In my vision, the battle between flying machines in the future could be the key to dominating the battlefield.

"At the same time, the future aerial battles should be very tragic, and the pilots of flying machines are even just more advanced consumables.

"For civilian aircraft pilots with sufficient flight experience, they may only need to undergo one or two years of professional training before they can become military pilots and go to the battlefield.

"If there are no pilots at all in the civilian sector, the military will start training directly from ordinary people.

"In this way, the time to get a qualified military pilot can be stretched to several years.

"This difference in the length of training may directly affect the outcome of the war, and that's what I'm considering......"

The two situations mentioned by Zhu Jingyuan are almost the same as the situation of American and Japanese pilots in the World War II era in the previous life.

There are at least hundreds of thousands of reserve pilots with civilian pilot licenses in the United States, while there are basically none in the Japanese sector.

In several generations of Pearl Harbor-related movies, there are scenes of folk flights, most of which are coaches taking students to learn how to fly, and there is a child stealing the family's plane.

In other words, while Japanese children are playing in the mud in the fields, American children are already secretly flying airplanes into the sky.

Those civilian aircraft pilots in the United States, when they change their careers to become fighter pilots, may feel like a van driver who has changed to a Ferrari, and it will be very cool to get used to it.

Japan, on the other hand, only had a group of pilots who had been intensively trained before the war, and they were gradually exhausted in the first half of the war.

By the end of the war, Japanese pilots were only rookies with little flying experience.

Then it can only be used to "hunt turkeys", or to be used as a disposable artificial guidance device.

After the room was quiet for a while, Zhu Jianyan pressed his son's shoulder:

"I understand, but in order to achieve this goal, the proportion of the power fee in this agreement does not necessarily need to be changed.

"There are many ways to promote the development of the industry, and sales rebates are also a very common operation, and they are also a typical means to control the behavior of downstream manufacturers.

"If Jingyuan really wants to reduce the licensing fee, it is better to announce to the manufacturer that different proportions of the licensing fee will be refunded according to the amount of sales of the other party.

"If the more you sell, the lower the actual license fee for a single aircraft, then the manufacturer will definitely work hard to promote sales."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately reacted, this is also a typical marketing management strategy in later generations.

Many salespeople take the initiative to show customers their purchase prices, and claim that they are no longer profitable.

In fact, their real cost is lower than the purchase price, because there are rebates from manufacturers, and the more they sell, the more they will return, and the lower the actual cost.

This can indeed strengthen the control of the upstream over the downstream, so Zhu Jingyuan immediately decided to adopt this strategy:

"Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, and my father is still experienced, so I didn't think of this kind of plan all of a sudden......"

Zhu Jianyan laughed when he heard this, his mood was very happy, and he finally behaved in front of his son again.

Liang Yunying seemed to realize her husband's mentality, and suddenly couldn't help but smile, and then told the story of today's events in general without hurry.

Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Jianyan, father and son, were quite emotional after hearing this, the care given by the old emperor was really comprehensive, and he really paid enough attention to the plane.

Regarding the suggestion of going to Wang Zhenyi and the idea of going to the craftsman school to recruit small craftsmen, Zhu Jingyuan felt that it was very suitable after a little consideration.

If you can pay more for yourself, then you can recruit as many high-level workers as possible, and then you can make high-quality products.

The hands-on skills of the little craftsmen are usually very strong, and they should be enough in the short term:

"Then follow the advice of the shopkeeper Wang, but I need to add one thing here, not only the design and maintenance of the machine, but also the recruitment of two or three craftsmen specializing in drilling and exploration."

Liang Yunying immediately asked very suspiciously:

"What are you looking for a driller? Do you go somewhere to dig deep wells? ”

Zhu Jianyan knows a little bit:

"In addition to the basic technology used to drill water wells, the professional drilling technology is basically prepared for salt wells and oil wells.

"But whether it's salt or oil, it's an absolute royal consortium monopoly and it may never be banned.

"Even if there were salt mines and oil fields discovered in the domain country, they had to be run by the companies of the imperial foundation, and the domain directly divided the production area.

"So you can only go to Dashi to find these things, and it's obviously not appropriate to go so far away to find salt, so you're looking for oil?"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded directly this time and said:

"Yes, I seem to have seen it somewhere, saying that there was oil seeping out of the shore over there.

"I'm going to wait until the war is over and bring a group of people over to see, after all, it's nominally my land.

"There's nothing left on the ground in that place, and we can only hope that there will be no minerals underground.

"The future of oil is definitely very important, and if oil can be found, then the place will not be barren."

Zhu Jianyan asked with some uncertainty:

"Are you sure? Has anyone seen oil seeping over there? Where did you see it? ”

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to say what I saw in my last life, but now I can only pretend to be confused:

"I don't remember, but I'm sure I've seen it, there are so many newspapers and books nowadays that I can't remember where they were."

If it was three days ago, Zhu Jianyan would never believe this kind of unreliable words, but now Zhu Jianyan's trust in his son is getting higher and higher.

Zhu Jianyan nodded lightly after a little consideration and judgment:

"If you really remember seeing Jingyuan, then we can find someone to try it, and our family can still afford the cost of drilling a batch of wells.

"It is true that after the end of the war, most of the area of the Little Western Ocean is controlled by our fleet, but it is also very troublesome for the British and French fleets in Tianzhu to harass it."

Liang Yunying understood Zhu Jingyuan's purpose, but she was still not very in favor of going to that kind of place, seeing that her husband and son had reached an agreement, she subconsciously dissuaded and said:

"Even if we go to Dashi to find oil, then we can't let Jingyuan go in person, we just hire someone to go there directly."

Zhu Jianyan gently grabbed Liang Yunying's hand and comforted him:

"Yunying, don't be so nervous, our family Jingyuan has graduated, and it was time to go down for practical training, and it's a good thing to go out for a walk.

"He is a vassal king, he has enough imperial court guards, and if he follows the naval fleet, there will be no problem in terms of safety."

Liang Yunying realized that his son had indeed graduated, these are the rules of the royal family, and it is indeed time to go to the local area for training.

Then Liang Yunying became a little uncomfortable, usually very proud of her son's intelligence, but now she is a little annoyed:

"Jingyuan only graduated at the age of fifteen, it's really a bit too early, if you are a little stupid, it would be nice to graduate at the age of eighteen......"