Chapter Seventy-One: The Doorway
Yan Xiong has a good relationship with the county manager, and he knows more than others, explaining: "Brother, don't you know, although the county office is equipped with official horses, but those official horses are more expensive than the other, and the feed is the best, and they have to be taken care of by someone else, and if they are slightly unwell, they have to ask a veterinarian. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoUsually nothing important is usually no one rides a horse.,That thing is lost and injured and has to be compensated.,Who of us on an errand can afford to pay for it.。 But your bicycle is different, I have also seen it, it is an iron frame with two wheels, neither need to feed forage, nor do you need to brush every day, even if it is broken to find someone to repair it, the most important thing is to save money, as long as it is not a long run, it is much more convenient than riding a horse, and the big deal is tired. ”
Yuan Fang suddenly realized and asked tentatively: "Then how much are you going to want?" By the way, the cost of a bicycle is not low. ”
Yan Xiong glanced at Yuan Fang: "Brother Yuan, it's all a matter of the government, can I make you suffer?" Rest assured, as long as the price is not too outrageous, everything is easy to say, as for the quantity, of course, the more the better, and it is best to have one for everyone in the official office. ”
Yuan Fang is full of black lines, and there are more than 100 errands in the county office, and one person is equipped with one, that is, more than 100 cars, and Mo Zhiyuan and they are not so much in a hurry.
Yuan Fang shook his head vigorously as if he had knocked the medicine: "No, not so much, this thing is very troublesome to make, and it will only take several days to make a few cars." ”
Yan Xiong was very humble and said, "Then you say, how much can you give me?" Yuan Fang knew that he couldn't hide from this, and looked at Mo Zhiyuan.
Mo Zhiyuan asked tentatively: "Five, is it successful?" ”
Yan Xiong said with a bitter face: "Brother Mo, I know that you are a cheerful person, but five cars are really a bit less, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay when I go back." ”
Yuan Fang asked in a low voice: "Brother Mo, how much inventory do we have now?" ”
Mo Zhiyuan thought for a while and said: "In addition to our own people, there are almost forty cars, including thirty cars of the 28th model, 8 taels of the 26th model, and two of the 24th model. ”
Yuan Fang discussed: "Either give ten cars to the county office, and then give ten cars to your father-in-law, and the rest should be enough for a while." ”
Mo Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Cheng, you have the final say." ”
Yuan Fang looked at Yan Xiong: "Yan Dutou, you also heard it, what's the matter, ten cars should be enough for you to pay the errand, right?" ”
Yan Xiong also saw that ten cars were already Yuan Fang's bottom line, and said with a smile: "Cheng, then come ten cars first, as for the future, do you think you will provide us with a batch on a regular basis?" ”
Yuan Fang was embarrassed and said: "This is not easy to do, I have to discuss with my sister-in-law, I am a mixed party, and sister-in-law Xin is the owner." ”
Yan Xiong said with a smile: "Then let's talk about the price." ”
Yuan Fang hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Yan Dutou, we are not outsiders, you give me the bottom, how much silver does the county bureau plan to buy." ”
Yan Xiong didn't hide it at all and said, "Five taels, this is the bottom line given by the county magistrate." ”
Yuan Fang's fingers tapped on the table, looking like he was thinking, in fact, five taels was already a lot, and Xin Huilan's pricing was about the same as before, but Yuan Fang couldn't really collect Yan Xiong's five taels, which would not only be unsightly, but also lose too much price in the future, and the county would not go to the face, after all, the money would be entered into the official account, if the above sent someone to check the accounts and found that the price of buying a bicycle was much higher than the market, the county manager would not be easy to explain.
After pondering for a long time, Yuan Fang and Mo Zhiyuan discussed it, and finally clapped the decision and said: "Then four taels of silver, when we officially sell it in the future, we will set the price for five taels, what do you think?" ”
Yan Xiong slapped his thigh: "Cheng, brother, don't say anything else, I have written down this favor." Immediately, Yan Xiong asked his subordinates to pay forty taels of silver and asked him to go back and call someone to pick up the car.
The two errands went back to call someone, Mo Zhiyuan got up and took five taels of silver and stuffed it to Yan Xiong and said, "Yan Dutou took this bit of silver and invited the brothers to tea." ”
Yan Xiong was a little displeased and said, "Brother Mo, what are you doing here?" Who are we with, and you still come with me? ”
Mo Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Yan Dutou came over to cheer, the little brother is naturally grateful, a little careful, if Yan Dutou can afford to look down on me, don't shirk it, besides, we have to cooperate in the future, and I have to ask Yan Dutou to take care of it." ”
Mo Zhiyuan said so, and Yan Xiong no longer shirked, took the silver and patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, as long as I can do it in the future, brother, you have a word." ”
After a while, more than a dozen errands came happily, and Mo Zhiyuan asked someone to send ten brand-new 28 bicycles over, and those errand offices saw the beauty on their faces when they saw the bicycles.
Yuan Fang suddenly had an idea, and said to Yan Xiong: "Yan Dutou, why don't you come and get the car in two days." ”
Yan Xiong was stunned: "What's wrong?" ”
Yuan Fang explained: "I think, since it is used by the county office, it is an official car, of course the official car has to be different, in this way, give us two days, I will change the body to dark green, and then print the logo of our Phantom Yu County on the beam and handlebar, just like the official horse to make it regular, and in the future, you will ride out and others will know that this is the car of the official office, and it is convenient to go anywhere, isn't it?" And it also looks high-end and atmospheric. ”
Yan Xiong pondered for a moment, and said, "Well, this idea is good, so that no matter how the price of this thing drops in the future, we can have a saying, customized, of course, it will be a little more expensive." The three of them looked at each other and laughed.
Ten new cars left color change marks, and Mo Zhiyuan lent Yan Xiong two bicycles that had been repaired after the crash and asked them to go back to practice first.
Yan Xiong was about to leave with the people, but Yuan Fang grabbed him and said, "Yan Dutou, the county captain's injury is almost healed, and he will be discharged from the hospital in two or three days, when will our medical fees be settled?" You have to help find the county lieutenant to tell me that the money has not been given for a long time, and the price of goods has risen sharply recently, and our medical hall is almost unable to open the pot now. ”
Yan Xiong promised: "I'll tell the county magistrate when I go back in a while, there shouldn't be any problem, by the way, have you calculated, how much silver?" ”
Yuan Fang had already thought about it, and he didn't need to calculate it at all: "Lu Qingyang's surgery, plus the county lieutenant's surgery, as well as the cost of their hospitalization during this time, and the cost of that half-dead guy, a total of thirty-seven taels and three dollars of silver." ”
Yan Xiong was taken aback: "Damn, so much." ”
Yuan Fang shrugged: "The things we use are the best, just that distilled water takes two days to make, as well as disinfectant alcohol, normal saline, which is not time-consuming and laborious, and the best medicinal materials used for the decoction they take, otherwise the county lieutenant would not have recovered in just one month." No matter how we say it, we can be regarded as saving their lives, two errands plus a county lieutenant, isn't it worth more than thirty taels of silver? ”
Yan Xiong is also half of the medical hall, so he naturally knows that what Yuan Fang said is not true, and most of them are said to his subordinates: "Cheng, then I will go back and talk to the county magistrate, and ask him to ask the county lieutenant for silver." ”
Yan Dutou left with people, and Yuan Fang reminded loudly from a distance like a resentful woman: "There is also the money to help in the Criminal Bureau that day, our medical hall almost emptied the pharmacy, how can your county office give us the capital, otherwise who will dare to help if this situation happens again next time." Yan Xiong smiled bitterly, Yuan Fang's goods are good, but he is a little greedy for money, and his heart is too dark.
Seeing off Yan Xiong and his party, Yuan Fang asked with some confusion: "Brother Mo, what are you doing with so much silver for Yan Dutou?" ”
Yan Xiong smiled bitterly and said: "You shouldn't have done business with the government office, generally the government likes to pay money in arrears when buying things, sometimes it is delayed for months or even years, our capital is so little, but we can't afford this, give Yan Xiong more benefits for this, you think, let's give him benefits this time, next time, he will still bring cash, we would rather make less, it is better than not being owed silver by the government." Yuan Fang suddenly realized, it turned out that there was such a doorway.
In fact, Mo Zhiyuan thought a little too much, even if he didn't give Yan Xiong silver, having Yuan Fang's relationship in Yan Xiong would not make them suffer, he would do his best, of course, if he had silver, he would be more motivated.
In the next two days, Mo Zhiyuan looked for blacksmiths everywhere, and Huanyu County couldn't find idle blacksmiths so he went to the surrounding villages, and finally discussed with Xin Huilan, and asked Lian Dazhui to go to Baihua County, first, to send ten bicycles to Xin County, and secondly, to open up a second battlefield in Baihua County, hire blacksmiths to forge various parts, and then transport them to Huanyu County for assembly, and the most critical part of the bicycle has always been in the hands of the dart bureau and has not been dispatched.
The key components of the bicycle include the iron pipes of the body, rubber tires, screws, etc., these technologies are in the hands of even the sledgehammer, he can't be busy alone, so he hires a lot of apprentices to help, anyway, these are not technical, as long as there are tools, it is a skilled worker.
The reason why these parts are not outsourced is that these technologies are not only used in bicycles, but also have other more extensive uses, and if held in the hand, they will also become profitable projects in the near future, such as the earth heating that Yuan Fang has been thinking about, such as tap water, and so on.
The task of Baihua County was completed, and even Sledgehammer did not return to Huanyu County, and rushed directly to Zhongjing, that is, the imperial city, the capital of the Eastern Saint Empire, with two bicycles and a few thermometers, he wanted to go to Zhongjing to hand over the two 'new inventions' to the Industrial Department in exchange for rewards, which was decided by Mo Zhiyuan and Yuan Fang after discussion.
Now that the bicycle has been exported (sold to the outside world), I believe that imitations will appear soon, rather than waiting for others to be preempted, it is better to go to the Department of Industry as soon as possible to exchange some silver.
Speaking of the medical hall, the county lieutenant finally recovered and was discharged from the hospital, and when he was leaving, the county lieutenant found Yuan Fang and Qin Cao for not knowing how many times to express his gratitude, and said that he would take note of this life-saving grace, and then left with the county magistrate who welcomed him out of the hospital.
This is the advantage of being a doctor, not only can you earn money and eat by your craft, but you can also accumulate contacts, not to mention that many people are reluctant to provoke doctors, who knows what kind of strong network they have behind them.