BSI Chapter 236 Xiao Qi's first money-making project was born
Chapter 236 Xiao Qi's first money-making project was born
Chapter 236 Xiao Qi's first money-making project was born
Xiao Qi knew very well that it would be good to build a quick-response force in the Changsheng Battalion, as he could make the decisions himself.
Now that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the entire Changsheng Battalion are to be turned into a quick-response force, it must be discussed with the emperor.
Although I, the old father-in-law of the emperor, never interfered with the decisions I made in the military, but when I made an important decision, it was necessary to report it to others, otherwise it would be too trivial.
Things went well. I went to the palace and told Zhao Shen about building the Great Song Changsheng Battalion into a unit that could be deployed anywhere around the Great Song Dynasty in a very short time, and told the emperor about the various benefits of this.
After Zhao Shen heard this, he immediately agreed with Xiao Qi's idea, and the treasury paid for Changshengying to customize those four-wheeled carriages.
Xiao Qi originally wanted to tell his father-in-law about it, but he didn't expect to get an unexpected surprise.
But Xiao Qi didn't shirk Zhao Shen's payment. Although he has a lot of gold and silver in the warehouse now, the Changsheng Battalion is the Song Dynasty's army, and he doesn't intend to turn this army into his own private army.
It is normal for the royal family of the Song Dynasty to pay for the equipment of the army of the Song Dynasty, but it is not normal for Xiao Qi to pay for it if the court does not pay.
Xiao Qi thanked his father-in-law, and followed Zhao Shen to Zhao Gou's place to chat for a while, then returned to his palace, and started to deal with various matters related to the manufacture of rubber products.
The matter of equipping Changsheng camp with four-wheeled carriages was quickly taken over by the household department, and the officials sent to build carriages for Changsheng camp took the money from the treasury to the Foundry Bureau to customize four-wheeled carriages.
The officers were appalled at the number of wagons being built for each barracks.
I feel that there are too many four-wheeled carriages built, which is a waste of resources.
The emperor said in the letter that the number of carriages built was too large, and it was completely unnecessary.
Fortunately, Emperor Zhao Shen had been explained in detail by Xiao Qi before, what was the basis for equipping so many four-wheeled carriages.
Zhao Shen was unmoved at all, and insisted on asking these ministers to follow the original plan.
How could those ministers agree that it is their old tradition to oppose the emperor.
However, since the emperor had issued two imperial edicts to do so, it was the Changsheng camp of the Song Dynasty who received these benefits. These ministers dared to confront the emperor, but they really didn't dare to reduce the number of carriages to offend the Changsheng camp.
But these guys are the best at playing tricks. Instead of reducing the total number of custom-made four-wheeled carriages, they made a fuss about how to use these carriages.
These people halved the number of four-wheeled carriages that each unit originally needed to equip, and the remaining half was collected and handed over to the Changsheng Battalion, which was originally engaged in logistics transportation.
The euphemistic name is that which troops need to march quickly, they can ask the transport troops to help them, and let the transport troops send out vehicles to help them transport people and transport food and grass.
Xiao Qi was very speechless when he heard about this matter, these ministers still couldn't change their habit of meddling in military affairs, but Xiao Qi didn't say anything, he didn't worry about any troubles in Changsheng Camp.
As long as the number of those four-wheeled carriages is sufficient, when all the carriages are delivered, it is not his own sentence to order the transportation troops and the carriages to be divided into various victorious battalions.
At that time, as many vehicles as each army lacks, it will be sent directly by the transport troops.
Moreover, Xiao Qi originally had the idea of deploying some personnel from those transport troops and integrating them into various victorious battalions, and now he has just implemented this.
For the remaining troops of the transport troops, they will still be allocated a large number of four-wheeled carriages to let them continue to do the previous work. The difference is that they only need to pull the supplies to the warehouse.
The transportation to each army should be carried by each army's own four-wheeled carriage.
Although this method is not perfect, it is much better than Changsheng Battalion having to waste a lot of time borrowing a carriage from the transport troops in case of an emergency.
The speed of soldiers is not just for fun. Sometimes the speed of the troops is the decisive factor in the victory or defeat of a battle. The troops that arrive at the battlefield first and occupy favorable terrain must have an advantage in all aspects.
I didn't care about those four-wheeled carriages anymore.
Xiao Qi is now concentrating on the study of rubber products and the manufacturing of various extraction equipment.
He drew drawings of all the required equipment, and designed several factories for the production of different products according to the different production and extraction equipment of various products.
It is said to be a factory building, but it is actually an enlarged version of the production workshop.
Fortunately, because Xiao Qi had long planned to produce sealing rings and various gaskets on the machine, he had asked the craftsmen to record all the places where the machine leaked oil and air.
And after measuring the size, wait for things to be produced in the future, and then slowly modify them according to the usage situation.
Along with Xiao Qi's workshop blueprints for making rubber products, and the machines manufactured according to various machine blueprints were transported to those port industrial areas, plus the arrival of a large number of Changsheng Battalion soldiers trained by Xiao Qi.
Rubber product factories in several ports have also started production.
This also relieved those who were originally stationed here to watch the warehouse. The rubber brought by those big ships was really too much, and it was a steady stream.
In a few days, large transport ships will bring in a lot of rubber. Fortunately, each port has a previously designed industrial park, and each park has more than one rubber product factory.
Those warehouses that were originally thought to be too big and wasteful of space were not considered redundant, otherwise they would have been unable to hold the shipped rubber.
As Xiao Qi taught the rubber product refining method, the Changsheng Battalion military professors, and the workers originally recruited here gradually became familiar with the operation process of this thing.
One month later, Xiao Qi received the first batch of rubber products.
These things were quickly taken by Xiao Qi to the casting bureau, where they were used on many machines, and the effect was very good, which made Xiao Qi very satisfied.
So he told those craftsmen a lot about the appearance of many rubber products he wanted to make, and asked them to do various experiments to see if they could be made.
Tires must be the first thing that Xiao Qi thought of, but now limited to technical reasons, only solid tires can be produced, which is too wasteful of rubber, and it is impossible to install them on all four-wheeled transport carriages.
Xiao Qi had no choice but to order the production of a more comfortable four-wheeled carriage for pulling people, and changed the wheels to grooved steel hubs so that solid tires could be installed in the future.
Xiao Qi also designed many kinds of rubber cushions and backrests, which are very comfortable no matter whether they are placed on the carriage or used at home.
Perhaps it was the emergence of the idea of the rubber cushion that made Xiao Qi think of the spring sofa that had been eliminated for a long time in the previous life. He drew the blueprint of the spring for those blacksmiths.
Let those craftsmen develop the steel for making small springs and produce springs.
This thing is actually very simple, that is, use a very flexible thin steel wire to roll into a spring of the required size, and fix these springs together.
Knowing that the current spring steel is not very reliable, Xiao Qi ordered that each spring cushion must have a wooden board to fix the spring on the bottom, and a thick cowhide wrap on the top.
This not only makes the spring cushion look high-grade, but also prevents the person sitting on it from being stabbed in case the spring breaks.
In order to prevent the cowhide from being punctured when the spring breaks, each spring cushion is also equipped with a rubber cushion, so that even if the cowhide is punctured, the thick rubber cushion can prevent the person sitting on it from being stabbed.
The thing was quickly made, and Xiao Qi happily took two spring cushions and rubber cushions and ran to the palace to give to his father-in-law and cheap grandfather Zhao Gou.
Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen were very pleasantly surprised by the cushion, they sat on it like children and kept bouncing up and down.
Xiao Qi said silently: Fortunately, I thought of wrapping the spring with thick cowhide. If you use cloth as the cover, sooner or later someone will be stabbed in the ass.
After Erhuang's excitement passed, Xiao Qi reminded Erhuang that the quality of the steel is not very good now, and these springs are likely to break. I hope that you can just sit on them in the future.
You must not jump on it every day, otherwise the spring will be broken and tied to the old man.
It didn't take long for the Foundry Bureau to follow Xiao Qi's design and make two four-wheeled carriages with carriages made of precious wood, with five-clawed golden dragons carved on the outside of the carriages.
Inside, there are two rows of large spring seats on the opposite side, with large rubber cushions and rubber backs laid on them, and thick carpets on the floor.
Wide and thick rubber tires are used for the wheels. In order to increase the comfort, each wheel is equipped with not only shock absorbing springs, but also leaf springs.
In order to advertise the sale of high-end carriages for himself in the future, Xiao Qi took these two carriages and spent more than half of Lin'an City before arriving at the palace.
When Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen saw the carriage that Xiao Qi gave them, they were overjoyed immediately, and immediately ordered the Imperial Forest Army to go out of the palace with each of them in a carriage for a tour.
Sitting in the comfortable carriage, Zhao Gou didn't want to go back to the palace, and finally took Zhao Shen out of the city, and returned to the palace until it was getting late.
This time it was much more sensational than Xiao Qi driving two carriages around the capital, and the news spread quickly.
It didn't take long for the entire Song Dynasty to know that a new type of luxury carriage had appeared. The two saints no longer traveled in sedan chairs, but switched to this more comfortable carriage.
The most proud person now is Xiao Qi. He has designed several four-wheeled carriages early on.
The entry-level version with the lowest price is to add shock-absorbing springs to those four-wheeled carriages that pull goods. The carriages are all made of ordinary wood, and the steel wheels have no tires. The price is 1000 taels of silver.
Then there is a kind of carriage made of better wood, the seats in the car are covered with rubber cushions, each wheel is added with a shock absorbing spring, and the wheels are equipped with ordinary tires. The price is 2000 taels.
The third type is the most advanced and the most expensive. The carriage is made of high-quality wood. In order to improve the comfort of passengers, three shock-absorbing springs are added to each wheel.
The cushions in the carriages are under the rubber cushions and spring cushions are added, because the four-wheeled carriage carriages are spacious, and in the most advanced carriages, a set of tea tables that can be folded and put down is made of precious wood, and some bottles and cans are placed. Cabinet with cans.
Xiao Qi drew blueprints according to the designs of the RVs he saw in his previous life, and asked those craftsmen to build these small cabinets. Each of these small cabinets has four drawers.
Each drawer is a small grid, which can hold dishes and tea sets of various sizes, and there are things to fix these things to prevent them from being damaged due to bumps.
These small cabinets are fixed to the carriage and have no edges and corners, so that they do not hurt the unwary passengers. After the small drawers are closed, they will be tightly locked by the small mechanism and will not shake due to the bumps of the carriage. Slide out.
The wheels have become wider and wider and thicker tires have been installed. Such a carriage is priced at 5000 taels of silver.
Moreover, as long as customers add money, they can also order any pattern reliefs that customers want to be carved on the carriages. As long as you are not afraid of death, you can let the dragon be carved!
The current Song Dynasty is very rich, because the Song Dynasty can't help doing business, and there are many people doing business. The most famous night market in Huaguo started from the Song Dynasty.
There was no curfew at night in the Song Dynasty, and the night market was very prosperous, so that the people did not reject merchants, and the status of merchants was not as low as in other dynasties.
So there are many rich people in the Song Dynasty, and there are many rich businessmen. In the past, they could only buy big houses and build houses to compare their wealth.
Now that Xiao Qi has created a luxury carriage, how can this make those people who have a lot of money in their hands and don't know how to show off their wealth bear it.
The most expensive and the cheapest of the three types of carriages were the most popular, and the order was so soft that those in the foundry bureau received it.
The cheapest carriage is the best-selling one. After all, it is practical, and there are still only a few wealthy businessmen. Most businessmen still proceed from reality and just want a transportation tool to make travel more convenient.
This made Xiao Qi very depressed. His original thought was that the cheapest carriages would be bought by smart people and used as taxis at first, and the middle ones would be used by ordinary traveling merchants to transport goods.
After all, rubber tires are more comfortable!
Who knows that the earliest version of Didi Didi did not appear, but he was planning to make a living for those common people, and the cheapest carriage was valued by businessmen.
This did not bother Xiao Qi, he immediately bought ten cheapest carriages, five second-class ones and one highest-grade carriage, and asked some soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion to pretend to be coachmen and rent them out in Lin'an City.
At this time, there is no habit of waving to stop and go up and down at any time, usually chartered cars, Xiao Qi stipulated that the lowest version is [-] Wen a day, the second-class car is [-] Wen a day, and the highest version is three silver cars a day.
How about Xiao Qi, who has been influenced by various marketing in his previous life, can guide the thoughts of the people in this era by thinking of any way.
Many businessmen who have customized carriages rented a carriage together to experience it, and many merchants who bought the lowest version paid for a second-class carriage to experience it.
This experience doesn't matter, although it is twice as expensive, but the carriage has rubber tires and rubber cushions, it is really comfortable to sit in!
Those merchants who can afford to buy second-class carriages, but because they were reluctant at the beginning, ordered the cheapest carriages are all regretful.
(End of this chapter)