Survival of the Chongzhen Emperor Chapter 474 Let Zhou Yanru ride a bicycle to work? The painting style is too beautiful, I really dare not think about it!
Chapter 474 Let Zhou Yanru ride a bicycle to work? The painting style is too beautiful, I really dare not think about it!
Beijing is now a super city with a population of more than three million. In recent years, due to the stable environment and prosperous industries, the population has increased very rapidly. The population has increased by more than 200,000 every year. To be honest, it has reached the level under the current productivity conditions.
Tolerance limit. Traffic, travel and living environment. If we don't make great efforts and rack our brains to find solutions, the whole city will easily become a messy and messy city.
In other words, the current urban management work in Beijing is no less stressful than that of super cities in later generations. The population of super cities in later generations will be many times greater than the current population of Beijing, but there are many means at their disposal and the efficiency is high. So.
The current conditions for managing a megacity with a population of three million are actually an over-the-top problem.
What is even more difficult is that in the future, the population of the capital will continue to skyrocket. Zhu Youjian predicts that after most of the territory is recovered, the population of the capital will grow to more than four million in a few years. This is really
It is so terrible. Without cars, without any modern transportation, communication, and management tools, it is really a huge challenge to make a city of four million people operate normally.
So from now on, we must make arrangements quickly, otherwise it will be too late to cry. How should we deal with such a difficult task? At present, the only available method is to recruit more people, at the same time step up technical improvements, and think more
Local methods, multi-pronged approach, barely cope.
At present, there are less than 10,000 officials, big and small, involved in the governance of the capital. In the next ten years, the number of civil servants in the capital will have to increase to at least 40,000. Among them, there will be more than 10,000 teachers and nearly 30,000 other personnel.
From this perspective, the current education system can meet more than half of the quota just by supplying talents to the capital.
Simply increasing manpower is not enough to solve the problem. The improvement of technical means is equally important. Zhu Youjian feels that the technologies that can effectively solve the problem are bicycles and trains.
This year, both of these things have made major breakthroughs. People from the Palace Research and Development Department have developed a prototype of a bicycle, and people from the Tiangong Bureau have also developed a prototype of a steam engine. However, the prototype has a woolen one.
What can really solve the problem is mass production.
The situation of the bicycle is a little better. Although the prototype has many problems, it can already be ridden normally on the road. What needs to be done now is to solve the problem of large-scale production as soon as possible and reduce the production cost. The cost of producing a bicycle prototype is as high as RMB 6
Ten taels, if this thing were to go on the market, it would cost at least eighty taels of silver dollars.
The price of eighty taels of silver dollars is really too high. The average salary of civil servants in the capital is only about thirty taels. This means that to buy a bicycle, a civil servant needs to save nearly three years of money without eating or drinking. Click here
The price of buying a bicycle feels more expensive than a house in later generations. We must find a way to reduce the cost, at least to a selling price of about 20 taels, before it can be widely popularized.
It is really difficult to reduce the price from eighty taels to twenty taels. I have been working on the sewing machine for several years, and the price has only dropped to 30 taels. If the development trend of bicycles is similar to that of sewing machines, then it will take at least five years.
Only with time can this goal be achieved.
The situation of the steam engine is worse than that of the bicycle project. The so-called prototype machine can simply perform reciprocating motion and has a flywheel. This thing cannot be used at all now. Zhu Youjian, who calls himself a genius, cannot even imagine that it can be used.
What are you doing with this thing!
Strength, stability, etc. are all unsatisfactory. Apart from looking novel, it has no practicality at all. It is purely useless. The problem is that if there is no application scenario, no one in the Tiangong Bureau can think of a direction for further improvement, and they keep putting it aside.
If you work in a research institute, you may not be able to produce something usable in ten years. The most important thing now is to find a suitable application scenario for the steam engine prototype! Even if the current prototype cannot be used, at least it will be possible after a slight improvement.
Only if it can play a role.
In my memory, in real history, the first large-scale application scenario of modern steam engines seemed to be in the textile industry. However, looking at the prototype machine produced by the Tiangong Bureau, Zhu Youjian did not think that this thing had the possibility of being used in the textile industry.
Lack of strength is one aspect, poor stability is the fundamental problem. The power needed by the textile industry is really not something that ordinary goods can handle. At the very least, a variable speed system must be developed before it can be applied to the textile industry.
Can a transmission be produced as quickly as possible? It is impossible even if you think about it. This thing is the pearl of the industrial system. Without profound technical accumulation, it will definitely not be possible. In my memory, the transmissions used in later generations, whether for cars or for electrical appliances,
The reducers and high-end products are all imported! Although the requirements for a transmission that can be used on steam engines are not as high as those of later generations, the productivity should not be too low. It is impossible to achieve success with current technology.
"Today, everyone from the uterine system, Tiangong Bureau, uterine research and development department, and the Royal Bank gathered together to discuss the development plans for the bicycle project and the steam engine project in the next five years."
"The First Cause of All Realms"
"Let's talk about the bicycle project first. In the next year, the monthly production capacity of bicycles must be more than 200 units. In five years, the monthly production capacity must reach more than 2,000 units. This is a production capacity requirement! In terms of cost, next year's
By that time, we must achieve the goal of reducing the ex-factory price to forty taels of silver dollars. Five years later, the ex-factory price of bicycles must be reduced to less than fifteen taels of silver dollars. While reducing the price, the quality must also be guaranteed. Quality and reliability must be improved every year.
Step up to the next level. In order to realize this five-year plan, the Royal Bank will provide an interest-free loan of one million taels of silver dollars per year to the uterine system from now on. This money is earmarked and cannot be misappropriated for any unrelated projects.
In order to make bicycles affordable to more people, I have invested in ordering 2,000 bicycles and distributed them to grassroots government offices in Shuntian Prefecture for free for daily commuting. The Royal Bank provides interest-free loans for car purchases to all officials in Beijing.
If we pay off the car payment in ten years, we can buy a bicycle to ride on.”
The cost was too expensive. In order to create a market as quickly as possible and achieve large-scale production, Zhu Youjian could only use a unique trick to achieve this through his own subsidies and consumer loans.
A bicycle costs sixty taels of silver dollars, and two thousand taels of silver dollars would be equivalent to 120,000 taels of silver dollars. Zhu Youjian thinks it is a good deal to use this little money to bring the bicycle industry to scale. The selling price is calculated as 80 units, and the installments are ten years.
, the monthly expenditure is only 600 yuan, and grassroots officials can afford it. In order to dispel their concerns, Zhu Youjian even thought that after three years of use, he could get a new car for free and continue to use it.
Come on, the money they spend is not a loss.
Bicycles are suitable for grassroots officials and civilians. Really rich people really can't use this thing. For example, rich people like Zhou Yanru ride bicycles to and from get off work, and they can match Zhu's style with any style. Youjian was shocked!