Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 638

[Chapter 638 The Charm of Pocket Watches]

“Say.” Zhao Xu said.

The ministers stopped and looked at Yang He.

Taking out a bag from his bosom and taking out something, Yang He said to Zhao Xu: “Your Highness, these are a batch of pocket watches just made by the watch workshop, please have a look.”

Zhao Xu was overjoyed, he was looking forward to a lot of this thing time.

Taking the pocket watch, he looked it over carefully.

Palm-sized, overall silver in color.

Under the metal cover, crystal glass covers the dial.

At this moment, the pointer in the dial is rotating, pointing to the quarter of Shen time, which is 3:15 in the afternoon.

This is exactly what he explained at the beginning. The time scale of the pocket watch adopts the timekeeping method of Dasong.

There are twelve hours in a day, and each hour is divided into eight quarters, each quarter is fifteen minutes, and each minute is sixty seconds.

Fumbling for the smooth case of the pocket watch, Zhao Xu felt a burst of joy.

Since time travel, it basically has no fine concept of time.

And with a pocket watch, he will be able to know the specific time at any time in the future.

In addition, he believes that pocket watches also play a certain role in marching and fighting.

When the generals command the battle, they can arrange a specific time for their generals to launch an attack, which makes it easier to cooperate.

For the imperial court, a strict time management system can be established to improve administrative efficiency.

Then, he took Yang He’s bag and took out another pocket watch from it.

By comparison, he found that the two pocket watches were basically the same.

In fact, two or three months ago, he explained the matter of making pocket watches.

Yang He took it out now, not because the craftsmen in the workshop had recently conquered the manufacturing process of pocket watches.

Instead, the workshop solved the problem of pocket watch assembly line production and realized large-scale production.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t look like asking for credit at all.

After all, it is really meaningful to manufacture pocket watches on a large scale.

The cost is low and the output is high, so that it can be sold as a high-margin commodity.

So he said: “Now the workshop can manufacture pocket watches on a large scale?”

Yang He nodded, “The craftsmen have mastered the polishing of watch parts, each group of craftsmen is responsible for different processes, and finally assembled, with a daily production capacity of 200 Sixty pocket watches.”

“Oh?” Zhao Xu was surprised.

This quantity made him very satisfied, after all, they were all hand-polished parts.

At this stage, he felt that there was no need to waste the steam engine on the manufacture of small objects such as pocket watches.

Good steel is used on the blade.

The main task of Wang Chong and the others is to establish an industrial system from scratch.

After all, Xitu’s steam ship was launched, and the steam locomotive also ran on the rails.

It’s just that although he started the plan to develop these two machines.

But if it is impossible to establish a supporting parts factory, even if Chen Shou and Wang Chong understand the principle, they will not be able to manufacture steam locomotives and steam ships.

Thinking of this, he planned to use the window period before the war to personally participate in the construction of the industrial system.

“Your Highness, what is this?” When Zhao Xu was thinking about it, Chang Wei came over and rolled his eyes.

Zhao Xu smiled helplessly, “Whatever you pretend, just speak up if you want to.”

These old subordinates of his often communicate with each other, and he doesn’t believe that Chang Wei doesn’t know anything about pocket watches.

After all, he slapped a pocket watch in Chang Wei’s palm.

Chang Wei was beaming with joy, just as Zhao Xu guessed, he had already heard about the novelty of pocket watches from Yang He.

Knowing the function of the pocket watch, he often asked Yang He about the pocket watch.

For him, this thing is too suitable for generals.

With this thing, generals can command soldiers to complete a certain task within a precise time.

“Thank you, Your Highness.” Chang Wei played with it for a while, and stuffed the pocket watch into his arms like a treasure.

Yang Feng, Liu Fu and other ministers suddenly showed envious eyes.

“Ahem…” Yang Feng coughed twice on purpose, peeking at his pocket watch from time to time.

Liu Fu rubbed his hands and stared at Zhao Xu.

“Okay, you’re lucky.” Zhao Xu couldn’t resist the pleading eyes of everyone, took out pocket watches from Yang He’s bag, and handed them out one by one.

Fortunately, there were only twelve ministers in the meeting hall, and the pocket watch brought by Yang He was just enough.

Everyone got pocket watches, and the atmosphere in the meeting room became relaxed and cheerful.

The ministers fiddled with pocket watches intently like children who just got a toy.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu couldn’t help but become more confident in the business prospects of pocket watches.

The performance of the ministers is enough to prove the charm of pocket watches.

So he said to Yang He, “Immediately expand the production of the watch workshop, and introduce the pocket watch to Korea and the South.”

This time Yang He came here for this purpose, so he said: “As long as your highness sets a price for the pocket watch, tomorrow The first batch of pocket watches can be sold.”

Zhao Xu nodded and raised a finger, “One thousand taels.”

Currently in Dasong, pocket watches are definitely top-notch luxury items. One is expensive.

These words didn’t frighten Yang He, but shocked Chang Wei and the others.

One thousand taels of silver, their three-year salaries added up would not be enough to buy them.

Looking at the pocket watch, they became more and more precious for a while.

After deciding this matter, Zhao Xu ordered everyone to disperse.

When Yang He returned to the firm, he immediately ordered the firm’s officials to place the pocket watch on the counter of the firm.

This counter is dedicated to displaying the goods that are currently on sale.

As the powerful merchants lifted their resistance to Yanzhou’s trade under the blackmail of the plague, more and more merchants poured into Yancheng.

In order to obtain first-hand information, merchants in Yanzhou often send people to watch the goods counters.

As soon as Yang He put the pocket watch on, there was a wave of shock.

The merchants in the bank and the servants sent by the merchants immediately gathered around to inquire.

The officials of the firm took advantage of the situation and placed a brand specifically introducing the functions of pocket watches in front of the goods counter, and at the same time allowed merchants to touch and experience the pocket watches.

This is also a means of propaganda.

There was a commotion, and many merchants immediately submitted orders to the business, and some servants left the business immediately to pass the information to their shopkeepers.

In the next two days, the word pocket watch filled the streets and alleys of Yancheng.

Not only merchants flocked to it, but also dignitaries who fled from Jinling rushed to buy it.

On that day, after Zhao Xu distributed the pocket watches to the ministers in the council hall.

They, including Chang Wei and Yang Feng, wanted to put pocket watches on their foreheads.

No matter where they went, they would take out their pocket watches from their pockets to take a look, and then put them in their pockets very chicly.

It’s just pretending all the time.

This makes those dignitaries who don’t have pocket watches bear it.

Don’t buy a pocket watch one by one, don’t give up.

In less than two days, the watch shop’s inventory was wiped out.

Nearly one million taels of silver fell into the Yan County Commercial Bank.

While pocket watches are hot in Yancheng.

The envoy of Qi State who escaped from Yancheng arrived in Lucheng and brought back Zhao Xu’s answer to Han Zheng.

(end of this chapter)