Chapter 537: People in the capital realize the freedom to drink hot water!
The capital is not aware of the war that is about to break out in the South China Sea. It would take about twenty days at the fastest to report military information from the South China Sea to the capital. Fortunately, the Military Command Hall has given the Navy Command a very wide authority. In all maritime matters, the Navy will make decisions in front of the enemy headquarters.
, which is the decision of the Military Command Hall.
What are the people in the capital busy doing? Of course, fighting the drought and making money. The war in the south is in full swing, while the north is completely calm and living a peaceful life.
The drought had an impact, but due to the implementation of a series of anti-drought policies launched by the imperial court, the people were busy doing things and did not let the drought affect their mood, and the whole society fell into a situation where there was nothing to do.
"The production capacity of steam engines is still unsatisfactory. My requirement is to produce 300 units by the end of June. Now it seems that it can exceed 200 units. How to improve production efficiency and reduce the failure rate of machinery will
This is the main task of the steam engine project team of the Tiangong Bureau in the next one or two years. These days, officials of all sizes in Ludi are sending letters to the capital. On the one hand, they are praising the great use of the water pump, and on the other hand, they are complaining about the ease of use.
It's bad, and the output can't keep up with the demand." Zhu Youjian took his people to the steam engine production workshop, held an on-site meeting with the craftsmen, arranged the focus of the next work, and arranged matters to increase production capacity.
At present, after the drought has stimulated production capacity, the production of steam engines has finally entered the stage of finalized production, and production capacity has been qualitatively improved! However, there are still many problems with this thing, such as stability, power, failure rate, and accessories.
Complete standardization, difficulty in maintenance, and other shortcomings have been exposed. It is estimated that it will take several years to make this thing truly mature, and it is just barely used now.
Since it is far from maturity, the production and sales of steam engines are handled by the Tiangong Bureau. The advantage of their responsibility is that they can produce while improving, and the pricing can not consider profits but only costs. At the same time, Zhu Youjian hopes that by participating in the first
The production of a generation of steam engines has trained a large number of great craftsmen in the new mechanical era! This has allowed Tiangong Bureau, the top craftsman training place in the Ming Dynasty, to be upgraded.
Although the progress of steam engine maturity is average, deep down Zhu Youjian is still satisfied. At least this thing has taken the step of practicality. It has begun to have application scenarios, especially steam water pumps have begun to be used among the people.
Market and demand.
In addition to water pumps, some large industrial sites have also begun to notice the role of steam engines. Steel plants have begun to purchase steam engines as power to drive forging equipment, blowing equipment and transmission equipment. In places where steel plants could not be built in the past due to water resource restrictions,
With the advent of steam engines, there will be more options for building factories. Steam engines were first used in agriculture and heavy industry. This may be a special phenomenon of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space.
The steam engine industry that Zhu Youjian values most is just getting started. Even if he attaches more importance to it, this thing will not become a common product among ordinary people for a while because the threshold is too high. In the past two years, the palace has produced
The pillar products of the system are a machine and a vehicle. The machine is a sewing machine and the vehicle is a bicycle.
After several years of technological accumulation, these two things finally ushered in an industrial explosion. The two major sewing machine factories in Jingcheng and Songjiang produce nearly 10,000 sewing machines of various types a year, while the output of bicycles and tricycles manufactured by Jingshi and Shandong Bicycle Factory
It has even exceeded 20,000 units. The annual total sales of two products has exceeded the threshold of one million taels of silver dollars, which can be regarded as a serious large-scale industry.
Don't look at it, in terms of income, these two projects still seem to be very average. Compared with the annual revenue of the entire uterine delivery system of about 40 million taels, they seem not worth mentioning. However, the value of some industries is not
We don’t just look at current profits. The core value of these two industries lies in their growth potential. Due to the decline in manufacturing costs, the factory costs of bicycles and sewing machines can now be controlled within 20 taels of silver dollars, and the highest ex-factory price is only 20 taels.
It's like seven or eight taels. This price is affordable to the people, and sales will increase accordingly.
Judging from the performance, whether it is sewing machines or bicycles, there is no problem in the annual sales volume of the two industries reaching more than 100,000 units. The production process has also been basically mature, and there is no problem in expanding production and capacity, that is,
It is not difficult to achieve an output value of more than 5 million within two or three years. The advantage of these two industries is that it is difficult for private industry operators to enter under the current conditions. It is considered an exclusive business of palace property. For the time being, there is no capital for palace property.
The situation of squeezing the development of private industry after being too strong.
If the steam engine manufacturing industry picks up again in the future, the proportion of high-end manufacturing in the uterine delivery system will reach more than 30%, so that the transformation and upgrading of the uterine delivery system can be realized, and the market where private capital can participate conditionally will be given to the private sector as much as possible, and prosperity will be achieved.
Private manufacturing market.
Nowadays, more or less private capital has entered the enamel industry, large-scale steel industry, glass industry, sugar manufacturing industry, wool textile industry, and even kerosene manufacturing industry that were pioneered in the past. The market is developing as Zhu Youjian hoped.
As you can see, it is developing rapidly towards free competition.
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Private capital has an activity and competitiveness that is difficult to achieve with government-owned capital, and plays a huge role in stimulating industrial development and product upgrading.
Take the glass kettle manufacturing industry, which is a completely open process. It only took about three years for this thing to appear, but now there are more than two to three hundred workshops producing kettles in Beijing, with a related employment population of nearly 10,000. I heard that
Among the civilians in the capital, at least one out of ten households has someone doing work related to kettles. And more civilians are pouring into this industry.
As long as people have a way to make money, their enthusiasm is unimaginable. Now the annual output of hot water kettles in Beijing exceeds one million, with an output value of one million silver dollars. Sixty-seven percent of the products are exported, and the rest are for medical treatment.
It is for the common people’s own use.
The explosion of the industry has benefited not only relevant practitioners, but also ordinary people. Without an annual output of more than one million, how could the selling price of thermos kettles in the country be reduced to less than one or two silver dollars? Ordinary people
How could such a product appear in our homes? Nowadays, ordinary people in the capital have one or two hot water bottles in their homes. Busy people can drink hot water at home at any time.
At least in Beijing, the freedom to drink hot water has been realized, which has qualitatively improved the living standards and hygiene standards of the people. Drinking hot water can prevent a large number of bacterial diseases, and in a big way, it can even improve the overall
The average life span of people in the Ming Dynasty.