turn the clouds

Chapter 12 The Iron Factory
Bicycles, technically, are not difficult.

The core point lies in the gears and chains. Besides, the most rigid technical content is a manual braking system.

When the technical difficulty is negligible, the rest is the material problem.

However, with the current level of technology, Chu Tianshu feels that there is no difficulty in making the bicycle.

However, to make it a qualified commodity, it is not enough just to be able to make it.

It is also necessary to consider the user experience, security issues, cost and market.

This all needs to be researched bit by bit.

The first is to determine the size of the bicycle with the height of the current people.

The diameter of the hub, the length of the chain, the size of the gears, the shock absorption of the saddle, the center of gravity of the rider during the ride...

A large item splits out more than 20 sub-items that need attention.

Many sub-items can only be left unresolved due to the lack of field visits.

For some sub-items, due to the lack of data support, a set of formulas can only be temporarily calculated, waiting to be embedded in actual usage data.

It took Chu Tianshu about half an hour to solve all the sub-items that can be solved at present, and then found a soft ruler to measure his height, and nested it into the integrated data.

——The sub-items under the bicycle project are mostly problems to be solved when considering bicycles as a commercial project.

Chu Tianshu wanted to solve the problems before bringing this business to Qi Yingzhi.

For people like Qi Yingzhi who have started to get in touch with real things and have made certain achievements, raising all these problems and solving them one by one is actually more able to show their own value and strength than coming up with a novel project. capable.

And to make a sample separately, there is no need to consider so many.

You only need to embed your own data in it, and make the real thing out, that's it.

Chu Tianshu took the token given by Qi Zhongliu, and all the money he could use, put on the pocket watch that Qi Yingzhi rewarded him, and walked out of Prince Chen's mansion alone for the second time.

After leaving the palace, Chu Tianshu was not in a hurry to buy various materials and start making bicycles.

He first bought two vegetarian boxes, and while eating, he talked with the old man who sold fried boxes.

The old man’s name is Chen Kun. He is 54 this year. He has two sons. One son is working as a foreman in a textile factory, and the other opened a small shop selling grain and oil. The two sons gave the old man three grandsons and four granddaughters.

"It's great to be a leader in the factory." Chu Tianshu exclaimed, "Why don't you get three or five yuan a month?"

"Hey, there are so many of them, and the factory only costs two yuan and eighty-five cents."

"Don't pay taxes?"

"The factory pays the tax, what tax do the wage earners pay?" The old man still felt that Chu Tianshu's head was dizzy.

"It's true, the factory pays taxes, and the wage earners pay what taxes."

"My boss doesn't pay taxes, but I set up a stall here and have to pay taxes."

"It's normal to set up a stall and open a shop, pay taxes, and become your own boss!" Chu Tianshu smiled.

"Alas." The old man sighed: "Who says it's not? But I always feel that setting up a stall is better than working in a factory. After working so hard every day, more than half of them will be handed over to the imperial court to set up a stall." , it’s more like working for the imperial court.”

In a blink of an eye, it has entered the complaining stage.

The baked sweet potato seller also complained.

Chu Tianshu finished eating the box, complained a few words, and then left.

As he walked further and walked into the muddy road that looked like a slum, Chu Tianshu first found a tavern, sat down and ordered some special dirty wine, and bragged with the drinkers in the tavern, saying that he had a certain year There was an opportunity to get rich every month, but I didn't seize it, and said that I met a beautiful girl in a certain year and a certain month.

After chatting for a long time, the topic was brought to the price of iron.

The unit price of a general iron hoe is about seven cents, and the weight is about half a catty, which is 750 grams.

Ordinary wrought iron is produced in the iron and steel plant, and the price is about two cents.

It is said that there are many models and specifications of steel, and the price is generally above five cents.

Relatively speaking, it is still relatively expensive.

Then, Chu Tianshu walked around in the market.

While learning about the prices of various commodities, he observed the heights of the people he met.

Taking Chu Tianshu's own height as the benchmark, among the 120 seven people he met, only eleven were obviously taller than him, 25 were about the same height as him, and the rest were all taller than him. low.

And those who are shorter than him are generally much shorter than him.

In terms of body size, I don't seem to have encountered any particularly fat ones.

Even those of medium plump stature are rarely seen.

Chu Tianshu made a preliminary basic judgment in his heart.

Of course, this still needs further observation.

Moreover, the sampling environment of the samples under investigation is too single.

People in the market will not be the main consumers of bicycles in the early days.

In other words, the people he observes today will not be the first consumers of bicycles.

Really, if we want to make bicycles and develop them as an industry, the first target customers should be the group of students in the school, and they have a little money but are not very rich, but they are used to The bookboys and maids who claim to be upper-class people have entered the scene of wealth and honor.

The target investigated today can only be used as a data reference for the prospect.

After Chu Tianshu observed and investigated, he asked the way and went to the nearby steel factory.

When he arrived at the steel factory, it was the evening when the factory was about to get off work.

Chu Tianshu sat down again in a small tavern near the steel plant, ordered some wine and cold dishes, and sat down to drink slowly.

After a while, the factory got off work, and one after another, workers from the steel factory poured into the tavern to drink to relieve their fatigue.

But most of them didn't want a jug of wine and two small dishes to sit and drink like Chu Tianshu did, but stood in front of the counter and spent three cents for a bowl of wine.

Occasionally, if I see someone who gives me an extra penny, I can get two extra slices of pork belly with fat, and I can eat it with wine.

"Sizzling." Chu Tianshu drank a glass of wine, set up a set of chopsticks, and listened carefully to the iron factory workers in front of the counter cursing.

"His mother is working overtime again. It's the end of the month, Yuanwang's Day, and he doesn't say to give some Chumi to eat. He only knows to increase the amount and ask the men to work overtime. These sons of bitches."

"His mother!" The worker took off his overalls and wiped the sweat from his head with the sleeves of the overalls: "I don't know what shit the foreman ate today, and he scolded him again, saying that grandpa didn't work hard. , Said I was lazy."

"I really want to punch him."

Holding the wine cup, Chu Tianshu felt that the atmosphere had arrived: "Then give him a punch."

(End of this chapter)