Steel Dynasty - Chapter 510

[Chapter 510 Wide Impact]

“What is this?”

A group of businessmen from the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce looked at the pendulum clock standing in the middle of the hall with confused expressions.

After appreciating the pendulum clock with Fei Yue’er in the palace, Xiao Ming had the pendulum clock delivered to the Chamber of Commerce. Once the pendulum clock arrived, it immediately attracted the attention of the merchants.

Li Kaiyuan stood in front of the pendulum clock. This was just sent from the palace. He didn’t know much about the use of this pendulum clock. However, he had heard about the equipment department making pendulum clocks some time ago. Now He finally saw the real thing.

However, in order to let him understand the function of the pendulum clock, Xiao Ming specially asked the watchman from the palace to come over. After some explanation, he understood how to use the pendulum clock to tell time.

“It’s really an ingenious thing.” Li Kaiyuan admired sincerely.

Many businessmen who came to the Chamber of Commerce to apply for business licenses gathered around Li Kaiyuan. They also learned how to use the pendulum clock, and understood that the pendulum clock was another product of Qingzhou.

And judging from the complex style of this pendulum clock, the price of this pendulum clock must be very expensive, and the more expensive it is, the more terrifying the profit will be.

“No, if this pendulum clock is launched, it will definitely shock the world. Vice President Li, has your highness said how to sell this pendulum clock and how much silver is it?”

A businessman from Chang’an almost pressed his entire body against the pendulum clock. The function of the pendulum clock is not only magical, but its appearance is also very exquisite. Not to mention the exquisite carving of the wood outside, even this whole piece of glass is expensive.

Li Kaiyuan’s mouth reached behind his ears. He had to admit that the pendulum clock was the most amazing Qingzhou industrial product he had seen in the past three years. I wonder if there is anything in the country of Chongqing that can accurately record time down to the second.

“Stay away, stay away.”

Li Kaiyuan shooed the Chang’an merchant away like a fly.

Recently, there have been more and more new faces in this chamber of commerce. For the chamber of commerce, this is a sign that business is booming. At the same time, there are too many businessmen, and it is difficult for the chamber of commerce to manage.

Businessmen with varying degrees of character often find themselves doing troublesome things in the Chamber of Commerce, and some businessmen from other places are even simply robbers who block the way.

When they learned about the huge profits from Qingzhou’s products, they were inevitably tempted to come and purchase them. However, the nature of these bandits was hard to change. Some of them even robbed other merchants of purchased goods in the chamber of commerce, trying to do some business without capital.

This month, the soldiers guarding the Chamber of Commerce killed a few daring people.

So for the sake of caution, he didn’t want anything to happen to the pendulum clock. After all, this pendulum clock was the only pendulum clock in Qingzhou.

Originally, King Qi wanted to keep it for himself, but he sent it to the Chamber of Commerce for publicity.

The nearby merchants were driven away, and Li Kaiyuan said at this time: “To be honest with you, this thing is called a pendulum clock. It is a product carefully manufactured by His Highness the Equipment Department. Its function is very simple, it is to record the time of the day.”

The Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce is building It is divided into two parts, one part belongs to the official area, which is similar to the front desk of a bank, and the other part is the product display stand, commonly known as the exhibition stand.

At first, Li Kaiyuan felt awkward with these unfamiliar words, but as time went by, he got used to them, and now he feels that it would be inappropriate to change the words.

As the name suggests, the function of this booth is to display the products currently sold in the chamber of commerce, such as soap, wine, perfume, glass products, mirrors, salt, etc. As long as they can be found on the booth, the chamber of commerce can sell them.

The businessmen stared at the pendulum clock with wide eyes. Some businessmen had already learned how to tell the time through the pendulum clock from the watchman, while some businessmen who did not understand the pendulum clock were eager to ask other businessmen.

After learning the opinions of the pendulum from other people, they raised their heads and looked in the direction of the pendulum clock. They easily learned the time from the pendulum clock.

“A quarter past three.” A businessman exclaimed excitedly: “Oh, this pendulum clock is really magical. If you buy one and put it at home, wouldn’t it be enviable?”

“Yes, this pendulum clock can not only tell the time , the appearance is also very exquisite, very suitable for display at home, but unfortunately, I just don’t know the price? ” said a businessman.

“It looks very expensive. I estimate that a pendulum clock costs at least 50,000 taels.”

“So expensive? How many people can afford it?” someone exclaimed.

“Hey, with the ingenuity of this pendulum, someone will buy it for fifty thousand taels. Even if a thousand people in the whole country of Chongqing buy it, this is fifty million taels of silver.” As soon as

these words came out, the merchants took a breath. At this time, they looked at the pendulum clock with a hint of fanaticism in their eyes. If they could make a pendulum clock, wouldn’t they be able to get rich overnight?

“Hey, in my opinion, all the wealth in the world will fall into the hands of King Qi.” The merchants finally let out a sigh of jealousy or sadness.

Li Kaiyuan’s eyes were beaming, and the merchants’ discussions did not escape his ears. He quietly admired the pendulum clock in front of him. For him, he believed that there would only be more and more products in the future.

These businessmen have never seen a steam engine, and they don’t know how shocked they would be if they saw it with their own eyes.

In his opinion, now that they can create steel monsters like steam engines, what other weird things can they not create?

Smiling smugly in his heart, he looked at the businessmen and said: “Everyone, His Highness said, there is only one pendulum clock now, but there will be a second one soon. This pendulum clock is just to show you. It looks like a pendulum clock. After you go back, you can consider whether to buy a pendulum clock for sale. As for the price, His Highness has not decided yet, but given the magic of this pendulum clock, it will definitely not be cheap. If you want, please prepare it.”

The merchants heard this. Nodding, some merchants with strong financial resources began to make calculations.

This pendulum was made for the rich and powerful. There were many wealthy families outside the kingdom of King Qi, and there were always a few wealthy families who liked to show off. This pendulum was just right for them.

Thinking of this, some businessmen turned around and left. They wanted to give the news of the pendulum clock to their vassal dignitaries, while some businessmen directly discussed cooperation.

Just as everyone was shaking because of the pendulum, servants from the palace came outside the chamber of commerce. These servants carried a basket of white sugar to the middle of the booth and said to Li Kaiyuan: “Vice President Li, His Highness said, let “Tell me about the white sugar.”

Because the pendulum’s joy had not yet passed, the appearance of the white sugar once again aroused the hearts of the merchants. They felt a little overwhelmed. What happened to Qingzhou in the past two days? One item after another appeared.

Li Kaiyuan knew about white sugar. After all, he was the first to know about any new products, so he said: “Everyone, this white sugar is really good!”

(End of Chapter)