Villager of Daming

Chapter 873 High price and trial commercial use

"This..." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about one word and looked at Li Chang.

"Your Majesty, His Majesty King Wu, there is something going on here. Businessmen are sending people to other places. It is not just one businessman, but many businessmen." The chief reminded.

Zhu Tong looked confused. He didn't understand. Don't many businessmen just send telegrams?

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized: "There are many merchants, and when there is a shortage of things in a place, their manpower will pass on the news to them one after another.

In that case, there is no one businessman organizing the goods to be transported there, but everyone transporting them together. If the judgment is not good, not only will you not make money, but you will even lose money.

The merchant who sells goods there first has a low price when buying the goods, and sells them at a high price after passing.

If you buy slowly, the price here will rise and the price there will fall, and you will naturally lose money. "

"Ah!" Zhu Rui understood this time: "In that case, let's go to ten essays! Ten essays is a lot."

"Your Highness, you can adjust it according to the number of people using it. If there are many people and they queue up all day to send reports, you will charge more. If there are few people, you will naturally have to reduce the price.

When the telephone lines are laid out in the future, you can still make calls. The price is higher, so I think it will be fine to charge the same price per minute.

Because the lines are limited, phone lines are expensive! Draw a few lines between conveniences and hope that merchants are willing to pay. "

The director has not determined the final price. Things are more expensive when they are scarce. It depends on the purchasing power. Hanhan said that someone would use a telegram worth 200 Chinese characters.

With this thought in mind, the chief looked at Hanhan, who handed over the grilled mutton skewers.

Zhu Wentian did say that he calculated the price based on the price of telegrams in the late Qing Dynasty. Two words cost nearly an ocean.

In the 1980s, the average monthly income was 50 yuan, and a telegram was 1.40 yuan, capable of sending 358 words.

The average income of the people in Nanjing is 800 cents. One word costs ten cents, and only eighty characters can be sent.

The government doesn't spend money to send telegrams, it's just for them to use. Naturally, the army doesn't spend any money. They are not profit-making departments.

Department stores are state-owned enterprises and need separate accounting to make profits.

So after talking about the phone call, the manager brought up the issue of business separation.

"Your Majesty, the telegraph department accounts separately. If the department store uses normal telegraph business, it will also cost money.

If you use your own telegraph machine, there is no cost, including other transactions with us.

If necessary, department store telegraphs can also be used by merchants for a fee.

At the moment, equipment must be built, and the telegraph lines, locations, and numbers must be determined at the same time.

The advantage of wireless telegraphy is that it saves wires, but the disadvantage is that if there are a large number of them, all the surrounding telegraph machines can receive the signal, which is relatively messy. "

After the chief finished speaking, he took a sip of beer and felt thirsty as he talked.

Zhu Yuanzhang drank and picked up the mutton skewers: "Leave it to them to worry about! We just wait to collect the money, we are short of money. Alas!"

Everyone nodded and expressed support. There was indeed a shortage of money. Weapons for the army, railways to be laid, telephone lines to be pulled, steam engines and other machinery to be produced, and food reserves needed money to buy...

It was so frustrating when I had no money, and in the end I had to issue treasure banknotes.

Nowadays, we are making more money and spending more money. The infrastructure construction of transportation and water conservancy in Ming Dynasty used to be completed with one month of labor of the people.

Organizing manpower back and forth is particularly time-consuming. Some people have no land and can only make money by doing other work.

When building river embankments, it must be done separately. It must be stopped when the people are busy farming, and those without land can work for a month and then work on it.

This model is not good, it is not professional enough, and the people are not skilled in another kind of work. If they have to do a month's work, it is inefficient and prone to casualties. If you want to be professional and efficient, find people without land and give them money. It will take them half a year to build a river embankment, and half of the year will belong to them.

After a section of the river embankment is completed and there are still others that need to be repaired nearby, we can drag them over to do the work, such as the craftsmen in the industrial zone.

"Turn on the fan, let's talk about it, why is it so hot?"

Zhu Yuanzhang ate a skewer, felt the temperature at noon, and turned on the electric fan.

The electric fan is simple, just a motor that rotates the fan blades, and a mesh cover on the outside to avoid hurting people.

In fact, there is no problem for children to put their hands there. The speed and strength are controlled during the design. It is better for the wind to be smaller than to avoid accidents.

It’s hot in Nanjing after Guyu. It’s hot in the south of the Yangtze River. Unlike the northeast and north, some places are still cold! The ice in the river had just melted not long ago.

As soon as the fan blew, Zhu Yuanzhang wiped his sweat and said: "Now the phone lines are extended to several nearby houses. Let's try to see the charges. Leave a phone at the convenience store. According to Yi Chang, it will last one minute."

If no one calls, it's cheaper. We mainly use it to make money. Don't underestimate this. We can always get back the money on the phone line little by little.

The usual money is a thousand copper coins, which can also be used to connect a lot of phone lines. Does Yichang have any arrangements? "

The director got up first and turned the fan towards the wall, which was softer.

After sitting down again, he said: "Since you need someone on the phone to find someone, you can call for two minutes. You need to call back..."

This matter has been mentioned before. When you call someone, call someone over there first, find someone here, have someone come here and then call back. The waiting time may not be long, and then whoever is called will answer.

Just charge one way, one phone and many people just wait!

After waiting for the chief to finish speaking, the meal was finished.

……

That night, a telephone line was put up at the convenience office. This was a good notification. One phone call was made, and the nearby state capital immediately made arrangements.

So when the sun rises and is covered by dark clouds, and when the rain falls, there are merchants waiting at the convenience store.

There is a place to rest in a convenient place, so merchants don't have to run around and can recruit workers or buy and sell here at any time.

It's a twelve-hour business, plus eating and drinking, making money.

When the wiring started last night, the businessmen asked, what is going on? When they heard that a telephone had been installed, they all couldn't sleep.

They knew what a telephone was. The imperial court had posted a notice saying that people were not allowed to touch the telephone line. It was an important thing of the imperial court and was used for timely communication in various places. Touching it would be a capital offense.

Everyone who pulled the phone line knew the purpose of this, and the businessmen naturally knew it too. They originally thought it had nothing to do with them.

This is a good thing for transmitting messages thousands of miles away. The imperial court never thought of preparing a convenient place for everyone.

I also found out about the fee. It usually costs two minutes, and the minutes are clear. There is a pendulum clock with minute and second hands in the convenience store.

One revolution of the second hand takes one minute, and one thousand coins can take up two revolutions.

Some businessmen have a large business, and they live in a convenient place here, while their partners or subordinates live in another convenient place.

They just wanted to try it out to see if they could call someone over the phone.

"The phone can be connected. Now there are only six houses that can make calls. It's all written there, including the rules. You can read it yourself."

The people at the convenience office assigned a person to be in charge of the phone and charged at the same time.

　Without today, this winter is too cold. Everyone, please keep warm!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)