However, Jing Yu still wrote a letter to Mr. Ralph Stamford with a try, explaining in detail the whole story and expressing that he is willing to take back the watch at a high price, just hoping that the other party can give a reasonable price.

After sending the letter, Jing Yu could only wait patiently, but Jing Yu did not have too much hope for the result. However, the greedy pawnshop owner, Jing Yu, on the one hand, passed the lawyer, and on the other hand, taught him a good lesson through Gleason, at least he lost a lot of money, which made Jing Yu breathe a little.

But no matter how much trouble the pawnshop owner was, the watch would not come back by itself. Jing Yu could only hope that the rich man from the New World was a friendly person and didn't care about the watch.

The young man named George Brand has gradually started to get started with his work these days. Several novels that Jing Yu has given him have been sorted out, such as O'Henry's "A Room with Furniture" and other works. However, these short stories have almost exhausted Jing Yu's short stories, and the rest are some inappropriate short stories.

For example, the short works in "The Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" are not suitable for use. In addition, Poe's works are all good, but he doesn't know if there is already Poe in this world and these works.

As for other writers and works in the early mid-19th century, he dared not touch them, for fear that if he encountered the dilemma that others had already written them.

In addition, his e-books also contain short stories describing modern content and short stories by domestic writers and Japanese writers in other countries. However, these works are too regional, and they are too difficult to adapt and are prone to mistakes.

In short, it is difficult for Jing Yu to continue at this point, but even the short stories he has compiled have already dozens of them.

These works with different content and styles have become unrecognizable after passing through his hands. However, it is precisely because of this that few people can find that these works are originally more intense with the difference in the author's style.

After all, these works were translated into Chinese and were translated back to English by Jing Yu, which made a difference from the original English version. Moreover, each short story brought some of Jing Yu's habits in the translation process, so so far no one has found anything abnormal from this perspective.

Jing Yu, who has become famous in several magazines, has begun to challenge medium-length novels. On the one hand, there are still a lot of resources in this type of novel, and on the other hand, he doesn’t have to make "quick money" through short stories now.

Because his typewriter career is progressing very smoothly.

After several communications and testing, the prototype of the typewriter has been improved several times, and the final machine can finally be recognized by Jing Yu.

"Mr. Scott, then tell me how much the cost of this machine is?" Looking at the product in front of me that is very similar to the photos in my computer, Jing Yu felt that at least it was very perfect in terms of appearance.

"Mr. Jing, the material cost of this machine is currently estimated to cost 5 pounds per machine. If we can produce in large quantities, the cost can be reduced to 4 pounds per machine," explained Todd Scott.

Jing Yu nodded. The materials of this thing are not very expensive. After all, the structure used in it is not very complicated. They are all relatively simple parts. At least compared to equipment such as differential machines, the ribbon accounts for almost 2 pounds. After all, other machine parts are not difficult for Herbert factory, but the cost of manufacturing ribbons remains high. However, Herbert factory also maintains the characteristics of this era. As long as it can be made by itself, it will never purchase it from other factories.

As for labor, it is not complicated to assemble for workers. In short, if Herbert factory abandons the production of differential machines and completely changes to making typewriters for this machine, the labor cost of each machine will be less than 1 pound, and the total cost of the entire machine will be about 11 pounds. However, this is just an estimate. The specific real cost still needs to be summarized and counted after it is produced, but it is estimated that the difference will not be very large.

"How is the daily output?" Jing Yu continued to ask.

"At present, most workers are still producing differential machines, so I estimate that I can only draw out three or four workers to produce them. According to my estimate, two to three typewriters can be made every day."

"It's too slow," Jing Yu shook his head.

"Yes, Mr. Jing, but we really have no other manpower to provide."

"So, Miss Herbert, can you recruit more workers for the production of this machine?" Jing Yu did not have any management rights in this factory, so he could only ask Alice Herbert. Miss Herbert has improved her typing skills very quickly during this period. I guess Jing Yu is probably not her opponent in terms of input speed.

"I think we can stop receiving new differential machine orders, but in fact we can't receive new orders. After waiting for the current differential machine orders to be completed, we can transfer all workers to typewriter production, but we should not recruit new workers before this." Alice Herbert expressed his opinion.

"At that time, the output is expected to be about 20 units per day and 600 units per month. As the workers' skilled output will increase," Todd Scott, as the factory's production manager, immediately evaluated the output.

"It's too little, right?" Jing Yu was a little worried about the production not enough.

"This is a new product, and the early sales should be enough," Miss Alice Herbert explained to Jing Yu.

Jing Yu naturally didn't know much about the market in this world, so he changed the topic: "Did you analyze our target customer group? How much is the appropriate price?"

"Target customer?" Alice Herbert doesn't understand the meaning of this word.

"It's just that people who need to buy and can afford typewriters. How much do you think they can afford?" Jing Yu explained.

They immediately understood the explanation of the 'target customer', but Alice Herbert immediately said helplessly: "Mr. Jing, this is exactly what I worry about. I mean the 'typewriter' of this machine now, so we don't know who would be willing to buy it. At the price, we can only hope that they can accept it for £10."

Jing Yu estimated that this price was not cheap. After all, this was an era when most workers earned only 30 pounds per year. However, the target customer of this machine could not be these production workers, and he did not know whether the price was suitable.

However, the problem mentioned by Alice is indeed real. When typewriters were first launched, no one would use this machine. So maybe they found that no one would buy them at that time. After all, who would buy things that no one could use? Even Jing Yu knew that typewriters were essential for European and American writing workers before computers were popular.
Chapter completed!