In the end, we still failed to reach Mount Vesu. This was not because we could not reach our destination within the time limit, but because someone else was driving and everyone was driving too happily and drove the wrong way...
Some people may have a small navigation map, but others may not.
So I randomly found a hill with a wide view, took out the prepared food, and continued the unfinished discussion while eating.
Although it is not yet finished, in fact, with the addition of a strong collaborator, everyone has a new understanding of cars, so most of the results that Ruan Wenyue and Lin had discussed before had to be overturned and started over.
Ruan Wenyue didn't have much opinion on this. After joining Kawei Gong and understanding the military value of the car, everyone's calculations were a bit bigger than before. Except for a certain heartless person.
However, Lin still emphasized during the discussion that the performance of the cars we ride in now is not the performance of cars that can be manufactured in the future. If ordinary materials are used to manufacture cars, the strength of the materials is far inferior, and various parameters are bound to be different.
A serious decline.
But no matter how severe the decline is, even if only one-tenth of the performance is left, it is still much better than the transportation methods that ordinary people can use. Simply put, it is still profitable. Don't look at the Duke Guards still having people
They can catch up with the top speed of a car in second gear. Even if the knights and horses of the guard are not just one in ten thousand, they are still elites and cannot be compared with those that ordinary people can come into contact with.
And the reason why a certain person did not show the attitude of always wanting to respect the nobles and keep away from the nobles when doing business after French Saint Babak Abunahan proposed to bring a grand duke into their business. This is
This is because in addition to the fixed purchase cost of a car, there are also subsequent consumption costs.
In this aspect, using the power in magic stones is not as good as digging for oil and refining it. After all, the former has many uses in Lost Lands, and magic stones are in short supply in many places, while oil is not. If you want to be at the bottom of society
If more people can afford a car, then the cost of continued consumption cannot be too high.
Someone has calculated that based on the current prices of magic stones and oil, the amount of money consumed by a car per mile is very different. Magic stones are much more valuable, and they are several times more expensive.
The cost of oil is almost all in transportation. In the currently known oil-producing areas, the Goblin Autonomous Castle Liebapu in the Gwana Empire, even if it is given away for free, it is still despised.
Secondly, refining petroleum can produce many very useful products, and these things may also find their use in the Lost World in the future. It would not be bad to research them first and make some technical reserves.
In order to refine oil and set up gas stations in the future, if these things are to be built, the help of some powerful people will be needed. In these matters, in the holy city of Estali, Nguyen Van Viet of the Gia Long Chamber of Commerce is far behind Kawi Gong.
energy.
However, Mr. Kawei seemed to be a little dissatisfied with these beautiful vistas. During the chat, he would come to the side of the vehicle from time to time and look east and west. This happened several times, but no one took it seriously.
Suddenly he took out the long sword he carried with him, and a shock wave caught everyone off guard. The car that was hit by the bomb swayed for a few times, and then returned to calm. There was an obvious dent where the sword hit, but that was all.
The structure of the car is still intact.
Of course, everyone was startled by the Grand Duke's sudden convulsion. I wonder what the long-famous great swordsman originally thought. When he saw that he couldn't cut through the car, he seemed to be more energetic and prepared.
Strength, prepare to use more powerful moves.
Lin hurriedly ran to the Grand Duke, waved his hands and said: "Be merciful, be merciful, Grand Duke. If you want to test the defense, you can wait until we get back and test again. If the car is damaged now, we will have no choice but to test it."
Walking home."
...Well, it’s a very real problem. So Lord Kawei put away his weapons.
Lin continued at this time: "And after we switch to ordinary materials in the future, just because the car can withstand the power of your sword today does not mean that it will be able to in the future."
After pondering for a while, Duke Kawei said: "What if I said I wanted this car."
Frightened by the sudden convulsion of this noble man, Lin said with a bitter smile: "This is just a trial car. Many parts have not yet been finalized, and there is no magic attached. What is the use of it?" Suddenly thought of the rich man
Lin asked tentatively: "Does the Grand Duke want a customized car with the same level of protection, and does so at any cost?"
"Yes, yes! That's it! What you discussed before was how to use ordinary materials instead and find ways to make the cost lower, so that the selling price is lower and more people can afford it. But if the performance is as good as this one
If there is too much difference between cars, why would people who can afford it buy those lame products?"
...This is the world in the eyes of rich people, how is it different from the world in the eyes of poor people?
For some reason, someone feels frustrated.
It's just that rich people care about poverty. Duke Kawei naturally asked: "How about, can you make the customized car you mentioned?"
Suppressing the sadness in his heart and the urge to cry, Lin pretended to be strong and said: "Of course you can do it, as long as you have money and materials. But I want to set some rules."
"Rules? What rules?" Kaweigong asked.
"The time for me or those Silverbeard dwarves is also time. We have our own things to do, so we can't just be busy building cars all day long. I predict that in the future, this kind of customized vehicle will be produced by me in one year.
We can only build one car at most, but of course it is possible not to build it at all. However, I will also teach the magicians sent by you the relevant techniques. Then the quantity ratio between the production of customized cars and mass-produced cars is up to you, I can’t.
Ask, as long as I get my benefits anyway."
"Oh, don't you consider increasing the quantity? Why not sell it if you have money?" Mr. Kaweigong was a little dissatisfied with such a request.
Lin shook his head and said: "Grand Duke, as far as I know, you are a person who likes weapons and equipment. And those master craftsmen who are good at making powerful weapons can buy their brainchild with just money.
Are you here, and you still want to buy whatever is available at any time?"
Rubbing his gray beard, Mr. Kawei had to admit: "That's true. However, their output is not high. The bigger reason is the problem of materials."
"Exactly, this is also the second requirement I want to say. I will issue the material requirements, and of course I will also provide a list of replacement materials. The buyer will prepare his own materials. In order to buy all the materials for the trial car, I have almost the same
All my income during this period has been included in it. If I had to collect materials and manufacture it myself, I don’t know how much the cost would increase."
What someone said was half true and half false. Because at the same time, there was another big spender, the Jacquard machine that was running. However, this purchase of materials also made someone discover something that he had not noticed before.
, that is, for rare and expensive items such as magic materials, the price is not fixed, but will fluctuate with the supply and the length of the transportation distance.
In the past, whether it was the Great Sage's Tower era, the Five-linked Cities era, or the period of wandering, I bought magic materials almost everywhere I went. I would like to see which items were in stock locally at a good price at that time.
Just treat it like making friends with the managers of those chambers of commerce. Because they are all one-time purchases, you rarely care about price fluctuations.
When I need to use it in the future, I always make plans based on what materials are on hand. Sometimes I can’t use very good things, and there are no other substitutes because of the characteristics, so I have to bite the bullet.
Use. Just like when repairing the airship Sid, the strength of many materials is above the requirements of the parts. Strictly speaking, it is a waste.
But the Silverbeard dwarves are a little obsessed with what they do. For certain components, they have to use certain grades of materials. They are so persistent that they don’t know how to adapt. And this kind of persistence will make them stare at a certain magic material on the market.
Buy.
When the Holy City finished buying, they entrusted the chamber of commerce to transport them from other places. When other chambers of commerce finished buying, they would focus on the unused raw materials in stock in certain people's hands, and the chamber of commerce stewards would coordinate and ask them to distribute some. This kind of
Under such circumstances, of course, you have to spend an extra amount of money to make the other party part with your love.
Sometimes people from other chambers of commerce know that there is a large demand for the materials they have, so they raise the price to make more profits.
In short, this kind of behavior in the shopping mall is almost the same as saying: 'I am a fat sheep'. So if you want to help customers make customized cars, and estimate the cost of materials in the selling price, there is a high chance that it will end up in the end.
You will lose money. Among other things, someone has thought of a way for the buyer and the chamber of commerce to collude. It is very easy to cheat the manufacturer in the sale that includes the price of materials.
So this kind of trouble can be left to those who want to customize cars. Anyway, such people are either rich or expensive. If they were smaller, they would not be able to buy all the materials to customize cars, so of course there would be no credit.
Or the possibility of overstocking. Just collect the wages yourself, which is more worry-free and trouble-free.
Everyone present has access to people at this level, and of course they know what someone’s concerns are. Just like those master craftsmen who make weapons, sometimes they are willing to take action, and it does not necessarily depend on friendship or purchase.
Those who buy weapons have enough money. It's just because a rare material makes their hands itchy.
Therefore, in order to customize a car, the buyer must provide his or her own materials, which is not an unacceptable requirement in Midland.
"The second point is that I will choose customers. Because these customized cars can be said to be a display of my top technology. If someone wants to imitate, the best choice is of course these customized cars, not what we will do in the future.
I don't want to go to the trouble of building a future competitor."
Everyone nodded in agreement to such a rule. In someone's plan, no one could tie him down and engage in exclusive business. But they also didn't want too many competitors to join this new industry and the divisions would be thin.