Even though he had no intention of meddling in these matters, he couldn't control them. After Zhu Di rubbed him to the end, he had no intention of resuming for the time being, so he is just a Jinshi now.

Fortunately, Wu Pu is now the chief minister of the cabinet.

Therefore, national affairs and dusk can be quickly received, so that the strategy of the Times Group can be adjusted quickly according to changes in the situation.

After the Spring Festival, Times Group, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office of the Five Army, held a round of negotiations, mainly led by Shen Xili to participate. The negotiation direction was the price and quantity of warships purchased from the country.

Zhu Di and the matter will be explained.

The quantity has also been explained.

To ensure that the large ships owned by Times Group can transport 10,000 combat power and various materials, at least five large ships are needed, so the number is certain to be dead.

The only point of divergence is price.

The price of a warship is actually not expensive. If you build a warship of 400 materials, the labor cost is only more than 1,000 taels. Even if the price has risen a lot due to the abundant materials, the cost of a warship of 400 materials is only about 3,000 taels.

The battleship with four hundred materials is eight feet nine feet six inches.

It is the main battleship of the Ming Dynasty.

However, since it is sold, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army must want to make money - this thing is not allowed to be built privately, so it has a price but no market.

The Ministry of Works shouted 10,000 taels per ship.

The Ministry of War disagreed.

It costs 12,000 taels per ship, and the Governor's Office of the Five Army was even more unfair, saying that it could not be sold to the Times Group so cheaply. After all, this belongs to military supplies, and it costs at least 15,000 taels per ship.

Of course Shen Xili would not do it.

Although there is no market price, Zhu Di has agreed to something that is so expensive, Times Group is not a big deal, and at worst it will let the boss continue to bother the emperor.

So the bargaining is ruthless enough, from three thousand taels to five thousand taels.

The government finally slowly reached a unified view: 8,000 taels.

So the negotiations fell into a stagnation.

Both sides retreated again.

After learning the details of the negotiations from Shen Xili, Huang Tun quickly calculated the calculations. Now that the prices are rising, one tael of silver is only the purchasing power of four hundred soft-girl coins in later generations, and eight thousand taels are also 32 million.

Too expensive!

So he instructed Shen Xili not to increase the price, and reduce it from 5,000 taels to 4,000 taels, and the final bottom line is 4,500 taels.

The government naturally disagrees.

So the negotiations became completely cold and neither side was willing to give in.

I am not in a hurry to dusk.

Anyway, Nanyang is not like Mobei. You can knock on the country in winter and summer, so it doesn’t matter if you delay it for a year or two. He is now trying to make money.

If you want to go to North America and the Mediterranean region to operate, you will definitely not be able to do without money.

The key is that you can't be too rush to buy warships, otherwise the government would have to raise prices, so that they would understand that after Times Group, there would be no other next company to take over these warships that were destined to be eliminated.

The development of bicycles is very fast.

One is that the metallurgical process has reached the corresponding level. Another is that Times Chemical has invested capital, and rubber has been hoarded for a long time, so the development and research on rubber has also quickly achieved results.

Under such circumstances, tires were developed with almost no difficulty and began to be mass-produced.

The bicycle research and development team quickly made a model car and formulated a complete and standard production process flow based on the process flow during the research and development. Therefore, Times Group allocated funds to build a production line for each accessories and quickly entered production. Times Transportation built a bicycle assembly factory outside Yingtian City.

In midsummer, the scorching sun is in the sky.

Dusk was originally in the train R&D factory outside the city of Times Traffic. Looking at the giant in front of me, I was shocked and excited - because the news from Yilijie in the northwest recently was not good.

Fang Bin and Jin Rong did not cooperate.

After the Ming Dynasty entered Yiliba, the enemy could not be found, but later, the two sides constrained each other and missed the opportunity to fight many times, resulting in a few contacts with evil thoughts and misunderstandings, but they failed to form a war.

In other words, after spending more than 100,000 troops in Yili for three or four months, no results were achieved.

No matter how rich the Ming Dynasty is, it cannot be consumed like this.

What's more, Yi Shiha is already preparing to go to the Jurchens.

So Huang Tun knew that maybe another month and a half, he would be restored by Zhu Di and forced himself to go to Yili to fight, so he built a chariot for himself.

But now there is only a shell, and the configuration inside is not yet perfect.

There is a complete set of configuration plans in my mind at dusk - this chariot is not only a war machine, but also has to enjoy it, so you have to have soft beds and other things. There is no pressure, anyway, this chariot has crushed this era.

Some performance can be sacrificed for comfort.

While thinking about whether to get a human power generator set inside, the person in charge of the bicycle factory came over sweating profusely, and shouted at dusk: "Boss, boss, it's done!"

Xun looked at the professional shopkeeper of a small business recommended by Zhang Min and laughed, "Luo Guang, don't be so fussy, it's not difficult to ride a bicycle."

Luo Guang couldn't hide his excitement and wiped off the sweat from his forehead. "The first bicycle has been assembled successfully and is now in the factory. Boss, this is your masterpiece. After discussion, we agreed that this test ride should be done by you."

Happy at dusk, "Okay."

I looked back at everyone who developed the train and said, "Everyone can go and have a look, but don't be discouraged. Bicycles are simpler than trains. I think that by the end of this year, after solving some core key node problems, I will have the first train in the world in the spring of next year!"

As soon as I walked out of the train R&D factory, I saw a slave hurried over again and said, "Master, it's easy to find a small one. My chief supervisor asked you to go over and talk, I don't know if you have time."

Xun asked, "Who is your chief magistrate?"

The slave said: "Wang Jinghong, the chief supervisor."

At dusk, I guess Wang Jinghong's book on the theory of Diyuan was making progress, or if he encountered a problem, he had to ask himself, so he smiled and said, "In this way, you go back and tell Wang Dajian that I will visit him in the evening."

The slave immediately went back to report his life.

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After lunch, Zhu Di drank some iced watermelon juice and went to Qianqing Hall. He originally wanted to deal with some political affairs, but maybe he was old and sat down for less than a quarter of an hour before he fell asleep.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly I heard a slight scream outside the hall.

Zhu Di stood up and was furious.

But he found that there was only Corning beside him - the emperor took a nap, leaving only the eunuch Corning to guard him, and the rest were outside the hall, and they had to keep it absolutely quiet, so he asked Corning, "What's wrong with it outside?"

Corning obviously had gone out to see it, and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there is a bicycle rider outside."

Zhu Di was confused.

What's the meaning.

A biker?

What car?

ride?
Chapter completed!