I want to be emperor

Chapter 1152 Camera

As the days passed, the bustling Songjiang Auto Show also came to an end. The volume of transactions at this auto show was astonishing, according to data announced by the organizer.

During this fifteen-day auto show, various auto manufacturers received a total of 68,000 orders for various types of vehicles, including passenger cars, commercial vehicles, freight vehicles, special vehicles and other vehicles. .

Of course, quite a few of them are actually batch orders from some car agents or corporate users, such as taxi companies, bus companies, freight companies and other enterprises. These orders have been discussed before, and they are just for cars. The company just announced it at the exhibition for publicity and influence.

In fact, there are not that many orders placed directly by individual users. The total number of orders is probably more than 10,000 vehicles.

But these more than 10,000 vehicles are also very amazing data.

This can only be achieved if it is held in a place like Songjiang City, the influence can cover Songjiang City and surrounding urban areas, and at the same time there is a considerable price discount at the exhibition.

The huge automobile transaction volume is one aspect. In addition, other businesses related to automobiles have also achieved considerable transaction volume.

Songjiang Automobile Exhibition is not only an automobile exhibition for finished cars, but also an auto parts exhibition. In addition to vehicle manufacturers, there are also various auto parts suppliers, such as major automobile tires. Manufacturers, automotive glass manufacturers, etc. also participated in this exhibition.

The purpose of these auto parts manufacturers participating in the exhibition is, on the one hand, to promote and advertise and demand cooperation opportunities with major auto manufacturers, and on the other hand, to develop the spare parts business in the third-party repair market.

For example, car repair shops like Jiao Tiancheng are customers of these auto parts supply companies, and they want to sell various auto parts through car repair shops like Jiao Tiancheng.

This is one of the reasons why the Songjiang Auto Show has such a huge influence.

Strictly speaking, this is actually an automobile industry exhibition, not just a car exhibition.

After the auto show ends, a lively big city like Matsue City will not be quiet, because there will be other large-scale events that will follow.

In October, an expo in the electrical industry will be held, which is the Songjiang Electrical Expo.

You can also see many new high-tech products at the Electrical Expo. Even in terms of interest and technical content, the Electrical Expo is even higher than a simple automobile expo.

After all, electrical products are still relatively new in contemporary times, and can even be considered a relatively sci-fi industrial product category.

In addition, there are often things that appear at electrical expos that, although they cannot be mass-produced or popularized, are extremely advanced in technology and can even be regarded as future concept products.

For example, radios... After obtaining relevant patent authorizations for radios, several domestic electrical companies have successively developed their own radios and are preparing to exhibit them at this electrical exhibition.

At the same time, Bell Refrigeration Company, a leading domestic refrigeration company, will also display their latest product at this expo: commercial refrigeration systems.

A refrigeration system whose size, weight and cost are significantly reduced and can be used in high-end commercial places, such as high-end luxury hotels, shopping malls and other places.

Of course, this so-called significant cost reduction is only relative. Its price is still very expensive and can only be used in a very small number of high-end commercial places.

At the same time, a camera developed by a new company also appeared at the exhibition.

If the camera is a primitive movable camera, it actually existed more than ten years ago, but it is not mature and has no practical application.

After all, even cameras were immature back then, and cameras based on camera technology were even less usable.

In the 1940s, as camera technology gradually matured, and in the 1950s, cameras began to be widely used, and some specialized photo studios began to appear on the market. At the same time, newspapers began to widely use photos taken by cameras.

The camera has also matured.

Until now, a company has finally developed a practical camera.

When the footage captured by this camera was played through their projection equipment, it can be said that it shocked many people.

Some people in the industry may have seen videos shot by cameras or similar equipment with immature technology before, so they were not too shocked. They just felt that the camera technology produced by this company was more mature and the videos were clearer. .

But for most non-industry people who came to the exhibition, it was the first time they had seen such a continuous video.

The reaction was probably similar to the first time people in later generations saw the real 3D movie market...

Marvel at this.

There are many similar new technologies and products, and many of them look like science fiction to Chu people these days.

Many of them are household appliances, such as rice cookers, refrigerators, and electric fans.

Until now, these things have actually not been mass-produced and applied on a large scale. They are very niche and science fiction things.

A large enterprise in the electrical industry, namely Songjiang Electric Company, even combines a series of different home appliances developed by it with electric lighting, as well as some electric appliances that look novel and useful or are actually useless. Equipment, such as tables that can automatically serve food using conveyor belts, escalators that can automatically carry people up and down stairs, beds that can be folded, etc.

In short, there are all kinds of things... many of them are strange things in the eyes of future generations.

Songjiang Electric Company used these things to form their so-called electrical home series... and created a model room for people to watch the so-called new era of electrical life.

Of course... these things have a greater role in publicity. As for mass production or even popularization, it is unrealistic.

Although the contemporary Dachu Empire has been electrifying for more than ten years, the popularity of electrical products is still only in industrial production, while only electric lights are used for ordinary civilians.

But even for electric lights, the actual penetration rate is very low.

Even the basic power grid construction in the Great Chu Empire is mediocre. Only some communities in economically developed big cities are powered by electricity.

Even Songjiang City, the most economically developed city in the Chu Empire, does not have electricity throughout the city. Only some core urban areas and mid-to-high-end communities have electricity. However, the power supply is not stable, and power outages often occur for ordinary citizens.

However, the industrial power supply is relatively stable. After all, during industrial production, power cannot be cut off casually!

As for industrial electricity, it is actually the main core task of power supply in the contemporary Dachu Empire's power grid construction... Ordinary civilian electricity is just incidental.

Electricity supply is first used to meet industrial production, improve productivity, and satisfy some industries that can only use electricity for production.

As for civilian electricity, this will not be available for a while.

After all, the level of contemporary electrical technology is actually very limited. Power generation, transmission, and transformation equipment are still relatively primitive. At the same time, the costs of power generation, transmission, and transformation are also relatively high.

Taking power generation as an example, the public power grids owned by contemporary government-run enterprises and the power grids established by some enterprises for internal use generally use AC power generation equipment.

The basic core patents in AC power generation equipment are in the hands of Lee's Electric Company. However, after negotiations with Imperial Grid Company, Lee's Electric Company has released the core patents on AC equipment and changed them to open licensing. Other electrical companies can also Use...of course, the patent fee still has to be paid.

But anyway, this alternating current can already be used, and the corresponding equipment patent issues are no longer an obstacle. Therefore, the power grid in the Dachu Empire, whether it is a public power grid or a corporate power grid, generally uses alternating current for power generation. However, limited by issues such as the industrial base, various contemporary AC equipment, such as generators, transformers and other equipment, are still relatively expensive.

The power that drives the generator is mainly thermal power generation... It burns coal to drive the steam engine, and then drives the generator to generate electricity.

The thermal efficiency of steam engine generator sets these days is not much higher, and it is incomparable with various critical generator sets for thermal power generation in later generations.

Although there have been steam turbine generator sets in recent years, they are more expensive... Steam turbines these days can be said in one word: expensive!

The navy is not even willing to use it on battleships.

Thermal power plants use steam turbines as power to generate electricity. Although the efficiency is higher, the cost of the equipment itself is too expensive, resulting in the cost of power generation being actually no cheaper than using conventional steam engines to generate electricity.

In addition, hydropower has similar problems. Although hydropower does not require power costs, it also costs money to build a dam power station. To build such a large hydropower station, the investment will be huge.

When it comes to power transmission, it is better. Although power transmission also requires some equipment, such as equipment for raising and lowering voltage, it is generally controllable. After all, it is more convenient to use AC power transmission and the transmission distance is longer, but the cost is still controllable. But compared to using direct current, it is actually still relatively high.

Taking into account various factors, the cost of contemporary power generation and transmission is still relatively high, which also results in the end-use cost of electricity not being low.

Enterprise users are fine. Enterprises use electricity for production, and the amount is also large, and enterprises are often located in industrial areas. This centralized and large-scale power supply model also greatly reduces the power supply cost of the power grid, making industrial Electricity costs are controllable.

But when it comes to residential electricity consumption, it is difficult to deal with...because contemporary residential electricity consumption is scattered and individual consumption is not large.

Decentralization means the need to lay dense and large numbers of transmission lines and substations, which will lead to a significant increase in transmission costs.

The individual consumption is not large, which means that if the electricity price is relatively low, you will not receive much money... a serious loss.

Before this, the method adopted by the power grid company of the Dachu Empire was to let users bear it themselves, or at least share part of the power grid construction costs!

They only build backbone networks in a certain area. After building the backbone network, ordinary commercial or individual users in this area who want to use electricity will have to pay part of the installation fee.

This installation fee actually allows you to share part of the cost of power grid erection.

The installation fee is not uniform. Basically, the more electricity users there are in the area, the more concentrated the power grid is and the less it is used... On the other hand, the fewer the electricity users are and the more dispersed they are, the more expensive the installation fee will be... And In fact, in areas where potential users are too few and too scattered, power grid companies will not build power grids for the time being...

Although in the Dachu Empire, the construction and operation of power grids were also classified as people's livelihood industries, and the government-run power grid companies were fully responsible.

However, due to the high cost of power grid construction these days, and the need to prioritize industrial and commercial power, ordinary people's electricity needs to be pushed back...

In fact, there is no so-called electricity consumption for people's livelihood these days, because the number of people who can afford electric lights is still very small, and most of them are still concentrated in mid-to-high-end communities in medium and large cities. This group of electricity users is at least A high-income family has nothing to do with the middle- and low-income groups... Most contemporary Chu people still use kerosene lamps for their daily lighting needs.

The Dachu Empire has never cared much about the so-called livelihood needs of high-income families... Anyway, you can do whatever you want with money, and the empire's limited financial funds need to be used on low- and middle-income groups.

Therefore, the attitude of the Dachu Empire is that electricity for daily use is now expensive, but it provides substantial subsidies on the kerosene needed for lighting for people's livelihood.

This kind of subsidy is mainly achieved through tax reduction and exemption in the production, transportation and sales of kerosene, especially in some remote and economically backward areas.

This kind of people's livelihood measures that only care about low- and middle-income groups and ignore high-income groups has always been a fine tradition of the Chu Empire.

Since the day of its armed unification, the Chu Empire has never cheated the poor... This is even more obvious in the education system.

In the education system in the Da Chu Empire, especially the public education schools, basically the hardware conditions are not very good. The teaching buildings are all boxy and poorly decorated, and some are even rough buildings that have not been decorated at all. Just a simple style...

At the same time, large class education is widely implemented, and six or seventy students in a class are the norm.

Why is it so?

Because the educational funds of the Da Chu Empire are also limited, and public schools also need funds to hire teachers. In order to allow more children from low- and middle-income families to go to school, the tuition fees, books, accommodation, etc. should not be too expensive. , we must do it as cheaply as possible.

This also led to the fact that the public education in the Dachu Empire suffered very serious losses... It required a large amount of subsidies from the central and local finances every year, but the empire's financial subsidies were also limited and could not be subsidized without limit. Can't afford subsidies.

Under such circumstances, what should the empire do if it wants to send more children to school?

Naturally, we must find ways to save all unnecessary school expenses.

The teaching building can provide shelter from wind and rain. There is no need for any tall and imposing teaching building. Just use a ready-made house or build a simple building that can provide shelter from wind and rain.

All kinds of books are printed on the cheapest paper, and only the cheapest ones are used when the quality is up to standard through centralized purchasing.

Just find an open space in a stadium or something like that, and it’s not like children can’t run in a dirt playground...

In each class, students with dozens of senior students go to school together, and one teacher teaches students who are several dozen senior students, adopting a large class system to save teacher resources.

In short, everything is made cheaper.

The purpose is to allow more people to go to school and to prevent some low-income families from having their children drop out of school because of tuition fees.

As for some people saying that the school conditions are not good? Hey, do you want to donate money? Come on, 10 million is not too little, 100 million is not too much, just fill out the donation check... Which local government officials in charge of education can support this God of Wealth like a father?

Not donating money? That's bullshit, get away as far as you can.

Moreover, students are not here to enjoy, but to learn... Can't we learn knowledge in a teaching building that looks like a rough room? Can’t read the textbooks using cheap paper? That's not a joke!

If some people want better school hardware and better small-class education, they can go to private schools... The Dachu Empire will not stop you, and even encourages children from wealthy families to go to private schools... Private education has always been It has always been an important supplementary part of the education system in the Chu Empire.

And since you are so rich, don’t take advantage of the government-run education subsidy funds. Go to your private school... Otherwise, the officials will be annoyed when they look at you.

The various financial subsidies for grassroots government-run education in the Dachu Empire are typically only targeted at low- and middle-income groups... and have nothing to do with those high-income groups.

The same is true in the field of lighting...those who use electricity are left alone, while those who use kerosene lamps are given some policy support and subsidies.

After all, it is only the early stage of electrification. The main uses of electricity are in industry and a small amount of commercial uses. There are still very few applications in ordinary civilian fields.

This also means that there is no market for these so-called household electrical equipment, and many people just see it as a novelty.

However, cameras and supporting movie playback equipment are different from conventional consumer electrical equipment. They are not meant for ordinary household consumption, at least not now.

People in some special industries or organizations are still very interested in this thing after seeing it. For example, the Chaobao Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education is very interested in this new type of camera and purchased a few to take back with them to prepare for shooting some important events. occasion, as a historical record film.

Because the Chao Bao Department manages the Da Chu Chao Bao and the official newspapers of various provinces, these newspapers have a large number of editorial staff, so it is also the earliest institution in the Da Chu Empire to use cameras on a large scale. Today, the official newspapers under the Chao Bao Department The interviewing and editing team is also the group that uses cameras the most in the Chu Empire.

After all, contemporary cameras are only used by two main groups, one is various private photo studios, and the other is newspapers from various places.

Others are used more sporadicly, most of them are used by institutions, and there are very few purely individual users.

As for cameras as a kind of video recording equipment and accompanying playback equipment, the North Korea Newspaper Department also values ​​its role in historical recording and purchased a few to try. If they work well, they will purchase more in the future. Used to record various occasions.

In the future, these videos are likely to become extremely important historical materials!