The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 81 Guaranteeing the Merchant's Profits

Big advances in technology, where every small step is silent.

Wang Ben stared at Xiao Jiu fiddling with the new steamer, which was still operating normally, but Xiao Jiu suddenly pulled his hair violently.

"what happened?"

Wang Ben asked with concern.

"Failed again."

"Where did it fail, it's pretty good." Wang Ben looked around the steam dish several times, but couldn't see why.

Wang Ben knew that the blowers in the coke refinery would not use hydraulic power, but steam engines instead.

In his mind, it can be used in mining areas and coke refineries. Why is it so difficult to do the same thing.

I didn't think that Xiao Jiu's skills were not good enough, but I only lamented that the interlacing is like a mountain.

"Look, it's deformed here."

Wang Ben followed the direction pointed by Xiao Jiu, but couldn't see anything, and was surprised and confused.

"What went wrong?"

"The wrought iron produced by the master is not good." Xiao Jiu said bluntly, if Wan San was here, he would have to be scolded for a while.

"Needs better wrought iron."

Wang Ben didn't understand much, so he didn't dare to intervene easily, and comforted him based on his own experience: "Sometimes the best material is not the most suitable, take your time, Master Xiaojiu, don't worry too much."

"Crack!"

Xiao Jiu was startled, and looked at Wang Ben in a daze.

"Hey." Wang Ben thought he had said something wrong, so he laughed twice, thinking about whether to apologize, this is a celebrity in the eyes of the nobles.

"It's my fault."

"what?"

"I made a big mistake."

"That's not the case!" Wang Ben waved his hands again and again, and couldn't understand Xiao Jiu any more.

"I tried to use wrought iron at the beginning. I have used it for several iron smelting, but it didn't work. I blamed the master for his poor craftsmanship. The master scolded me, but I was still not convinced."

Xiao Jiu hugged Wang Ben suddenly, "Fortunately, Master Wang reminded me, who said the best materials should be used!"

"Wrought iron is harder than pig iron and has more flexibility. It is well known that wrought iron is better than pig iron."

"Wrought iron can be malleable and cast, but pig iron can be cast but not malleable."

"But pig iron also has an advantage that wrought iron doesn't have. This advantage is not commonly used, but it is suitable for steam dishes."

"Why am I so stupid? Such a simple question has troubled me for a long time. Master Wang must have woken me up, otherwise I will continue to be confused."

After leaving some inexplicable words, Xiao Jiu just ran away, leaving Wang Ben in a mess.

"If you don't go crazy, you can't survive. No wonder the nobles value Xiao Jiu, and the younger generation is awesome."

Although he didn't know what Xiao Jiu understood, Wang Ben knew that Xiao Jiu would definitely succeed, and he also knew why the nobleman trusted Xiao Jiu so much.

It seems that Xiaojiu's problem has been solved, but what about his own.

Wang Ben shook his head.

He has no idea about some things.

……

"A few masters were not convinced, and had some conflicts with Master Wang, but before they started, Master Wang persuaded them with a few words."

"It just shows that Master Wang is more skilled than them, so that a group of people will not be convinced by anyone." Zhu Gaochi laughed.

"It's a good thing that craftsmen are upright, but sometimes it's difficult to control." Zhou Shifeng sighed.

The coke refinery occupies the workshop of the iron smelter. The disadvantage is that it needs to be rebuilt, and the advantage is that it saves time.

To build a house on open land, it takes a lot of time just to level the land.

Therefore, the coke refinery was built very quickly, and the engineering team was greatly expanded, with a full staff and many old foremen.

"Before Wang Ben came, he had already hired several master masters. Although they are well-known, it always makes people feel that they are a little less popular."

"We asked Wan San, and even he agreed with our idea, so the leading craftsman has not been confirmed. Although we didn't urge you, in fact, I have been uneasy."

What Zhu Gaochi wants is not a slick head who brags and flatters, but a talent who can calm down and work hard.

As the saying goes, be close to a gentleman and stay away from a villain.

Compared with Zhang Dehui's respect, although Zhou Shifeng's performance was not as good as Zhang Dehui's at the beginning, but after getting familiar with him, he focused on hard work instead of putting all his energy on pleasing himself, which won Zhu Gaochi's satisfaction.

To please him too much does not mean that he is loyal to him, but that he wants too much and his will is not firm.

As the helmsman, Zhang Dehui is not suitable to stay in his team.

With Zhu Gaochi's decentralization and trust, Zhou Shifeng's words are more important than his predecessors in the factory.

"The steam engine factory is not as large as the coke refinery, and it is like a blank sheet of paper. On the contrary, it is convenient to manage. Unlike the coke refinery, everything is difficult to decide. At present, there are two most important things."

"The first thing is that the various regulations of the coke refinery have not yet been finalized. Master Wang has not yet given an accurate word on how to do it."

Zhou Shifeng hesitated and said: "Although I invited this person back, I still don't know what to do. If such a large factory is destroyed by him, what should I do?"

"We are very satisfied that you can have this worry, but you can't give up because of choking. There is no risk in doing anything." Zhu Gaochi comforted: "As long as you do things seriously, we will not be afraid if you do something wrong. Learn from the lesson and make persistent efforts."

The more you read, the more you know.

For example, in the ordinary world, Sun Shaoan wanted to upgrade his brick-making workshop into a factory, but suffered a huge loss and almost went bankrupt, because the master he hired was a parallel importer.

But he did not regress because of this, but learned a lesson, invited famous teachers to come out of the mountain, and then went from failure to success.

Regarding Zhou Shifeng's worries, Zhu Gaochi knew very well that part of the reason was because of his identity.

Throughout history, the same noble people have succeeded in doing things and failed in doing things. The general reason is that the winners can accept failure, and the losers cannot accept failure.

Blindly asking subordinates not to make mistakes, instead of exploring the reasons to learn lessons, will definitely lead to panic, but it will not help and deepen the cracks.

Even if the coke refinery fails, he can bear the consequences. With the blood of the steam engine, he can start all over again.

But this failure must be a correct failure, not a man-made failure, such as overstaffing and so on.

"It's like a mountain is separated, but most of the people who can reach the top of the industry are somewhat similar. Master Wan can recognize it, which shows that Master Wang has real skills."

"Overcome all difficulties and do things with a calm heart. Shopkeeper Zhou doesn't have to worry too much. Are you still afraid that we are not reasonable people?"

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhou Shifeng with a smile.

"I used to be afraid of the little prince, but now I am not afraid. Instead, I like to talk to the little prince. Every time I talk to the little prince, I feel more confident in my heart." Zhou Shifeng said sincerely.

"Since this is the case, shopkeeper Zhou should take more care of the coke refinery. We believe you can handle it well, so you should trust us more."

Zhou Shifeng's spirit was uplifted, and his heart was warm.

There are noble people who are kind to the common people, but it is really rare to be as approachable as the little prince.

"The second thing is about coal."

"Many people proposed to cooperate with Zhou Dong's family to purchase coal from Zhou Dong's mine. Although the idea is good, it's just..." Zhou Shifeng looked embarrassed and hesitated.

"You can rest assured that we don't doubt your character."

"Dong Zhou's family has many business channels, and his family's coal is not worried about selling. The price may not meet the requirements of the coke refinery."

"you're right."

Zhou Shifeng was right in reminding him, but he was negligent. He only thought about maintaining friendship and neglected the actual situation.

If someone from the outside cabinet came to Zhang Dehui and reported the purchase price of the coke refinery, Zhang Dehui would be embarrassed.

Sell ​​it, he loses money.

Don't sell it, the faces of the two families are not good-looking, and it will hurt some peace.

"what's your plan?"

Seeing that the nobleman was not angry, Zhou Shifeng breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "There are more and more mines around Beiping. Although the demand for coal has doubled several times, there are always trade routes that are not available. Many mines are more or less backlog."

"We cooperate with these mines to provide large-volume and long-term orders, and they sell them to us at the cheapest price."

When talking about the details of the business, Zhou Shifeng spoke clearly and logically.

"Every demand, they can solve the backlog, open the mine with confidence, and we can produce at the lowest cost."

"And we don't quote prices. Let the deacons outside the cabinet contact each company, and each company quotes by itself. The lowest price will win."

"In order to guarantee our production, we also need to sign a business contract, agreeing on how much coal to provide each year and other related matters."

Zhu Gaochi shook his head, Zhou Shifeng didn't know what he said wrong, and just stared at him blankly.

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile: "Everything else will be done as you said, but the purchase price should not be as low as possible. It is necessary to ensure that the owner of the mine can obtain more than [-]% of the profit."

Have a clear understanding of your own position.

He is the framer.

It is the distribution of social benefits, not businessmen.

The two core technologies of the industrial revolution have brought huge benefits to the coal bosses, and created the first and huge industrial chain in modern times in the West.

In this emerging big cake.

The factory owners born out of a large number of nobles and landlords in the West are full of food and fat, while countless people are still being sucked blood.

The coal mining industry is too big for Zhu Gaochi to swallow, nor does he dare to swallow it alone.

But I won't let it go.

In the industrial revolution led by himself, as the ruler who distributes benefits, he will definitely favor the common people.

This is inevitable in the development of civilization.

And if the coal bosses can't make profits, how can they use it to improve the treatment of workers?

This is the difference between a businessman and a manager.

Capitalists are not scary.

Terrible are the capitalists who have no reins in control.

Like the modern capitalist society in the West, the confrontation between capital and ordinary people clearly explains the problem. These problems are not human problems, but distribution problems.

Therefore, a more advanced idea was born, which raised the common people to the status of the masters of the country, and solved this problem from the core.

Zhou Shifeng was dumbfounded.

The idea of ​​a nobleman is really different from that of a businessman. How can anyone think that they make more profits?
"The scale of the coke refinery is still small, but in the future it will be a collection of large-scale factories. Whoever controls the coke will control the coal and smelt iron from the bottom."

"One or two coal yards cannot meet the needs of coke refineries, and as the makers of the industry regulations, they cannot be too short-sighted."

"About the process of the coke refinery, has it been worked out?"

Now that the regulations were mentioned, Zhu Gaochi thought of craftsmanship, and asked with concern.

The most important thing in the Industrial Revolution was the coal industry.

As soon as the coke refinery came out, he controlled the market of the coal industry, and the price was up to him.

(End of this chapter)