Wasteland Development Diary

What left Zhou Yi speechless was that among the people present, he was the last to know about the refrigeration box.

Gong Zheng looked apologetic. "Chairman, this is my fault for not reporting the progress to you in time. Please punish me."

Qian Su was the boldest.

She spread her hands and said, "It's mainly because you, Chairman, have been preoccupied with major events like bombing the Shuanghe area, developing flying aliens, and breaking ground on light burst bombs... These small improvements are really nothing to brag about."

Zheng Tao also echoed, "We just wanted to make the modifications as perfect as possible before reporting to you."

Zhou Yi understood what they meant, but still said, "Completion is more important than perfection. As long as it's a new thing, there will definitely be many controversies and flaws. But that doesn't matter, as long as it benefits the majority, it's a good thing."

Everyone agreed.

When it came to the pricing issue, Zheng Tao was a little puzzled: "Chairman, the refrigeration box can actually follow the previous Flame Cup model, and be handed over to electromechanical cities like Coral Mouth for mass production, right?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "We need to have our own manufacturing industry."

"In the past, it was due to objective conditions such as insufficient population and lack of relevant materials. But the refrigeration box itself has simple materials, the core is design and proportioning, we can completely produce it ourselves."

"There are three benefits to this."

He said to the others, "First, it can drive the company, allowing some employees to learn basic manufacturing and processing, laying the foundation for future related industrial upgrades. Only when we have our own processing and production experience can we further improve and innovate."

"Second, it can absorb new employment groups. Currently, there are more and more new immigrants. The Guangtai Dam is too large, and now we have to control the scale of workers, and the management difficulty has also become very high. Manufacturing and processing can accommodate more laborers."

"Third, we cannot over-rely on electromechanical cities, otherwise, we will be controlled and influenced in disguise. We must have independent industries, although many have to be explored from scratch, but this is the only way to have a future."

Zheng Tao nodded in agreement: "Indeed."

Qian Su's eyes sharpened: "Chairman, are we going to decouple from the electromechanical cities?"

"Not to that point yet."

Zhou Yi said, "It's never a bad thing to have another way to go. No matter what, others are always unreliable, we have to rely on ourselves."

As expected of a weapons dealer, Qian Su was very sensitive to many things.

"Back to the pricing of the refrigeration box. Let's all explore our own opinions."

Zheng Tao was the first to express his opinion: "The core pricing of the refrigeration box is refrigeration coal. If the material cost is 15 mushrooms/piece, according to the standard of daily consumer goods, the raw material cost usually accounts for about 30%-40% of the commodity price. Our external pricing should be around 38 mushrooms - 50 mushrooms, which can ensure a certain profit."

"At this price, to ensure that the refrigeration box is always refrigerating every month, at least 2280 mushrooms are needed, which is not affordable for ordinary people. So I am actually worried about whether it can be sold on a large scale."

"The refrigeration box is very good, it can store food for a long time without spoiling, but it is a bit expensive."

This was also a point that Zhou Yi was more worried about.

Refrigeration is different from heating.

The latter is a rigid demand, without heating, people will really freeze to death in winter, and daily boiling water and eating are also necessities.

The Flame Cup itself can be charged by the Dead Sea, and the subsequent expenses are very small.

So there is no worry about selling it.

The refrigeration box is more like a life quality upgrade, at least for ordinary people in the wasteland era.

Qian Su lowered her head and pondered for a moment: "Chairman, I very much agree with the point of having independent manufacturing capabilities."

"Can we do this, let's first hand over part of the manufacturing and processing work to other members of the Development Alliance. For example, Steel Refining City, which produces coal, iron, and has been making ironware."

"There are ready-made workers and processing sites there, we only need to provide technical design, and finally hand over the production process to them. It will be processed by Steel Refining City and sold to the outside world by them, we just share the profits."

"This has become the internal distribution of benefits within the alliance, I believe the Steel Refining Guild is very willing. As for the price issue, I don't think there is anything to worry about."

The girl's tone was very confident: "It is a bit difficult for ordinary people to buy refrigeration boxes, but some industries need it very much, even essential."

"First of all, restaurants, they need to refrigerate food to keep it fresh - especially meat. In the past, they used cellars and ice cellars for storage, the effect was not good, and the storage time was also short. Ice cellars also need to buy and transport ice from outside, which is much more expensive than this."

"Then there are ships, this part of cooling is also extremely important. Long-term Dead Sea navigation will cause the ship's light seal to overheat and overload, and there will be special crew members responsible for handling the cooling."

"Generally speaking, the crew will hang wet cloths or reeds on the doors and windows. When the wind blows over the wet fabric, it can reduce the air temperature. Or shake the fan to cool down."

"Large reinforced ships and high-end ships have complete cooling measures, such as purchasing special [low-temperature] light seals."

She patiently explained: "But the largest number is medium and small ships, but they don't have so much available budget, so this aspect has always been a problem. This causes them to be unable to navigate for a long time and must stop to cool down."

"In addition, preserving medicines, making ice cubes, and patients recuperating also need cooling."

"Selling refrigeration boxes to these people, they will not think it is expensive, compared to the past, it is already too cheap."

Zhou Yi immediately understood what she meant after hearing her say this.

Indeed.

Although it is impossible to immediately popularize refrigeration boxes in every household, there are also many people who need refrigeration and low temperatures for work.

"In addition to selling to these people, we can also customize underground freezers to supply some specialized organizations. Not to mention merchants, as far as I know, the Alchemist Society, the Knights Templar, and the Craftsmen's Guild all need ice cellars, because they need to store many specific equipment and supplies."

"Our technology greatly reduces the cost of ice cellars, and customization and design are improved, so there is no need to worry about customers."

Qian Su said with a smile: "The company now has electromechanical programmers, they can calculate and design through programs, which is much faster than traditional methods."

Zhou Yi nodded frequently as he listened.

In terms of business, Qian Su's professionalism is beyond doubt.

Zhou Yi immediately contacted Steel Refining Gong.

After hearing about the refrigeration box, this electromechanical territorial sea lord was overjoyed: "Are you really willing to hand over this product to us for production and sales?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi said with a smile: "How is it, can't you do it?"

"We can do it! We can handle it!"

The other party quickly said: "Refrigeration technology is very common in electromechanical cities, no matter the principle or technology is very mature. Basically, it is a metal structure, and it requires supporting facilities such as refrigerants, working fluids, gas-liquid, and steam compression equipment... It's just that the cost has to be reduced so low, which has never happened before."

"The refrigeration box has a simple structure and inexpensive materials. Although the stability is a little worse, cheapness is the biggest competitiveness!"

"Steel Refining City is a manufacturing and processing city, with experience in processing metal and coal. We can undertake this project, from raw material processing to finished product production to sales."

"Please believe us, Steel Refining City can definitely do this well."

Zhou Yi didn't waste any time and signed an electronic agreement with it on the spot, with a 50-50 profit split.

The final market pricing will be negotiated by both parties together.

Then, he asked Red Falcon to synchronize and connect the design and formula from the programmer's side with Steel Refining Gong's side.

The entire commercialization strategy of the refrigeration box was determined.

The company is responsible for design and research and development, while Steel Refining City is responsible for processing, production, and sales.

The two places are not far apart, and it is convenient to communicate with each other.

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This is also a core idea of Qian Su.

"We retain and further develop the key core technologies, and hand over the parts that require a lot of labor to other cities in the alliance first."

"In this way, the internal circulation of benefits within the alliance is achieved."

"In the future, many commodities and equipment can be handed over to other cities for production, which can also provide a large number of jobs for the local area, absorb and stabilize more people, and generate considerable continuous profits."

Now Beike City has undertaken the external sales of Mushroom House, and Steel Refining City has won the industrial chain of the refrigeration box, and they have also shared the dividend cake of the company's development.

They are the most core allies.

"Our courier industry does not have these complicated things, we just deliver goods everywhere anyway."

"After the number of Bone Fish couriers increased, we can cover more cities. Chairman, do you know what? There is a very outrageous thing now."

Qian Su showed a somewhat helpless expression: "There are actually orders asking us to deliver goods to those sailing ships, to deliver food and supplies to them. They treat us as a mobile transportation team."

Zhou Yi was also shocked.

That's really outrageous.

"What did you say?"

"I accepted it. Although it's annoying, they give a lot..."

Qian Su said with a righteous face: "The most outrageous thing is that we had two orders before, which were sent to both sides of the battlefield respectively. They were both urgently purchasing medicines, we sent them over, and we were almost attacked."

"..."

Even during the war, they are still placing orders to call external logistics.

Everyone is also playing more and more.

Zheng Tao said at this time: "Chairman, if you have time now, I would like to invite you to go with me to see the land on the suspended layer."

"What's wrong?"

"There is a kind of... monster there."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

The Land Lord launched soil sealing on that suspended layer, and it finally worked after a few months.

He and Zheng Tao went all the way to the suspended layer.

There are white radishes and Chinese cabbages growing in the soil here. The Chinese cabbages look very normal, but there are very few white radishes that grow to the height of one person, like missiles inserted in the soil.

There are a total of 4 such giant white radishes in the field, and they are all surrounded by fences and warning grass ropes.

Zhou Yi was about to ask what was going on.

Suddenly, he sensed something sneaky not far away.

Zhou Yi rushed forward in one step and found a radish...radish pulling radishes in the field?

The radish monster pulled its whiskers and ran.

It disappeared in an instant.

However, [Warning] still firmly locked on this little monster. It emits white light, representing that it belongs to the Light Na species.

Zhou Yi walked to it, grabbed the radish leaves and pulled it out of the soil. The radish monster was still struggling desperately.

Take a closer look.

This little thing looks similar to ordinary white radishes, the difference is that it can move, and the roots are more developed and flexible, these roots are its moving limbs.

Plant-based Light Na species.

It was also the first time Zhou Yi had encountered it.

"Chairman, please be merciful, please be merciful!"

Zheng Tao said in a panic.

Zhou Yi said: "Don't worry, I won't hurt it. What's wrong?"

This Minister of Agriculture said: "Actually, it is not harmful, those 4 giant radishes were all made by it."