The iron umbrella brought by Hengzhi and others from Lishi was originally just a sample, and was used to display groceries in the north and south. It was also for the subsequent automatic umbrella trading to advertise in advance.

Unexpectedly, he bought it by Yuchi Jingde. He took it in and out all day long. Luo Yong had several lighter automatic umbrellas in his hand, but he didn't know how to take it out.

During the development and research process, this automatic umbrella was naturally made more than one. This time, Hengzhi and others brought over, and the ones bought by Yuchi Jingde were the largest, the heaviest and the most impractical ones. However, Luo Yong judged that it was the most suitable for advertising.

Who would have thought that anyone would buy this, but they would use it every day after they buy it...

"I heard that General Yuchi entered the palace and lost his umbrella after he came out." In the past two days, Luo Yong heard such rumors from the Imperial Academy.

Needless to say, the iron umbrella must have been taken away by the emperor, and it is also its inescapable fate to be dismantled and studied.

Just study it. In fact, the automatic umbrella does not have much technical content. The key is the spring in the umbrella handle. The reason why it can be opened by itself with a press of the switch is that it is popped out by the spring.

When Luo Yong was staying in Lishi County for a long time, he thought that the iron smelting technology of this era was very backward. It was dozens of kilograms in buying an iron pot. So where can the technology be developed?

It was not until later that they made threshing machines that the emperor arranged many craftsmen from Chang'an City and had some communication with those craftsmen that Luo Yong realized that before that, their local iron smelting technology in Lishi was very backward compared with Chang'an City.

In fact, there was steel frying in the Western Han Dynasty, and the steel making technology in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was quite mature, and there was also a steel stuffing method in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, metal smelting has been comprehensively developed. Due to its inefficiency, it is no longer commonly used. Luo Yong's iron pot he bought before is still cast. Currently, in Chang'an City, especially in weapon production, it has basically been forged, which is very close to the folk iron-making process more than a thousand years later.

That is, during the time when the threshing machine was built, Luo Yong had the idea of ​​making a spring.

The spring is not very impressive. Luo Yong used to it and didn't even notice how important it plays in his daily life, until one day, when he came to this world without springs.

Last summer and autumn, Luo Yong went to Guannei Road to build roads. After winter, he came to Chang'an City. Since then, he has been developing in Chang'an City and has made groceries from north to south.

The disciples who stayed in Lishi County were not idle either. Luo Yong and others needed support from Lishi in many aspects when developing outside. In addition, the few people led by the Heng father and son bet on all their energy and enthusiasm in developing and researching new products.

People like the Heng family and his son have absolutely no match for their enthusiasm for new things.

When Luo Yong talked to them about a new idea, he just wanted some common things in the future to appear in this era. For the Heng father and son, it was a door to a new world.

I heard that in the past two years and the two families of Heng and Yin have cooperated, mainly in steel smelting. What Yin wants to do is bearings, and what Heng wants to do is springs.

In the end, Yin took the lead in achieving their goals. Their products have now started to be sold, and Heng's movements are not slow. According to Hengzhi, in addition to this automatic umbrella, their family is also starting to produce a batch of spring cushions.

"I, Aye, said that I also want to use fine iron to forge other parts of Yanerfei, but it is really not easy." Heng Zhi said to Luo Yong.

After all, their family is a carpenter. Although they have done a lot of business in the past two years, and have accumulated a lot of money, they can afford to buy fine iron and hire craftsmen, but iron-making is not their major, and it is very difficult to fiddle with.

"There is no need to worry about this." Luo Yong said to him: "I heard that the government can use fine iron to make Yan'erfei. I believe that in a few years, a blacksmith will make Yan'erfei accessories for sale. At that time, we just need to buy ready-made ones, and it is still important to accumulate wealth right now."

The iron smelting technology mastered by the court is more developed than that of the people. The more their technology develops, the more it will inevitably drive the development of iron smelting technology among the people. If it really doesn't work, Luo will help you poke it at that time.

This time, just for the production of this spring, the Heng family and his son also spent a lot of effort and invested countless manpower and material resources. Even if there were some information provided by Luo Yong, every step was not easy due to the backwardness and lack of raw materials and production tools.

With the emergence of the first batch of springs, their family almost created a spring workshop for themselves. This workshop has not made any profit at present, but just craftsmen hired workers and materials consumed, it costs a lot of money every day.

Thinking of this, Luo Yong couldn't help but pat Hengzhi on the shoulder, feeling a little sorry.

When the Heng family and his son heard his words, a Yan'erfei priced at 300 cents, which attracted many foreign merchants to their local Lishi. However, it did not have much benefit to their Heng family's car manufacturing business itself, and it could even be said to have suffered a loss. Now, he has invested so much in order to make springs.

"Let your brother build more car mats and umbrella handles, and make more money before those people can react." Luo Yong felt that he seemed to be a bit incompetent in his master.

"Natural." Heng laughed: "It's just that in recent years, the local wages in Lishi have grown longer. Thanks to the road on Guannei Road, most of the people who came from there were not high prices and were willing to work hard. My brother also asked those people and went to them to find a few skilled ones."

OK, I have been digging people to the inner road. I have a family like Henghuai, so I don’t have to worry about Heng’s business.

Hengzhi came here this time and was not in a hurry to go back to Lishi County.

As the most prosperous and prosperous city of this era, Chang'an City naturally brings together many advanced technologies. People like Hengzhi are very interested in this kind of thing, and he can study anything he sees for a long time.

Luo Yong didn't let him live in the north and south groceries, so he made a room for him in the yard of Feng'anfang.

The yard here is not big, so they were basically full of people, but there was a house specially used to stock up on stocks, but they couldn't get it out for a while.

Luo Yong originally planned to ask Golang Liulang to sleep in his house and let Hengzhi sleep in their house. When Hou Lin heard about this, he said that Qiao Junlin would go to his house to sleep and give Qiao Junlin's house to Hengzhi.

After all, Azhi gave up her house and moved her to join Si Niang and Qi Niang, and gave Heng a vacant house.

It is suitable for Azhi and Siniang and Qiniang to be in the same house. Anyway, they are close to each other on weekdays and seem to have endless things to say all day long. The main thing is that the two little ones said Azhi and listened.

But after all, there is a difference between men and women. It is always a bit inconvenient to let Hengzhi sleep in Azhi's house, but Azhi himself doesn't seem to care at all. Hengzhi didn't seem to think much about it at all, so Luo Yong and the others didn't say anything.

This time, Heng Zhi and others came here. In addition to purchasing from a batch of groceries in the north and south, there were also samples of automatic umbrellas, and the umbrella handles of two large trucks.

These umbrella handles are also made of stone bamboo and are passed by special tools in the middle. I heard that this process is difficult. A skilled worker can pass through more than ten umbrella handles throughout the day. In addition, it also needs to be polished and grinded, and then installed with springs and other accessories.

The price of such an umbrella handle sold to Luo Yong by Heng's family is currently thirty-five cents per hand. If it is sold to others, it will cost at least fifty cents.

The main reason is that the spring is valuable, and the reason why they were able to make the spring smoothly is largely due to the information provided by Luo Yong.

With these umbrella handles, please contact the Chang'an City umbrella makers who cooperated with their shop. Soon, a batch of automatic umbrellas were put on the shelves in the north and south groceries.

The umbrella surfaces of this batch of umbrellas are all made of high-end fabrics, and tung oil is also the best and clearest. There are solid colors, embroidered patterns, colorful flowers, and various bird and beast patterns.

Such automatic umbrellas are sold in groceries in the north and south, and the cheapest ones are always expensive.

Others don’t know the cost of this automatic umbrella, but Luo Yong’s disciples are very clear about it.

The umbrella handle of thirty-five minus, plus some freight costs, and fan materials, were embroidered, ranging from dozens of cents to one or two hundred cents. In addition, the wages for those umbrella makers, an umbrella should not exceed three hundred cents at most. However, the highest price of Luo Yong for them was almost two cents, which surprised his disciples.

Luo Yong was naturally happy to solve his own disciples’ questions.

"If you want to be affordable, an ordinary oil-paper umbrella of 10 or 20 cents is enough. Those who can afford this automatic umbrella are not ordinary people. How much does it cost to wear clothes and how much does a pair of shoes cost? If this umbrella is priced at a few hundred cents, wouldn't it seem cheap and cheap?"

After all, these disciples of Luo Yong are all poor people. Even though their economic conditions have improved a lot, most of them still focus on affordability in life, and most of them pursue quality and low prices.

Different classes and different ideas. Luo Yong's disciples only start from their own perspective, but often forget that others don't necessarily think so. One or two cents of money is nothing to those rich people living in Chang'an City.

After Luo Yong said this, they felt that the master's words were very reasonable.

Their master's words always make sense.

So this batch of automatic umbrellas was put on the shelves and sold, hanging, swaying, opening, closing, and closing. Each one looked so exquisite and atmospheric.

After all, it costs two or three hundred liters of goods. Many people can earn so much money in half a year. After deducting food and consumption expenses, they can't save so much in a year. As for the retail price of the one or two cents of money, many people are even more discouraged, as if they don't even have the courage to look at it a few more times.

The children in charge of the daily necessities area on the second floor even stared at these automatic umbrellas.

These umbrellas may be something they can't afford in their entire lives, but they are related to the profits of groceries in the north and south, and the livelihoods of them.

Recently, the business in the shop has been getting better and better, and the manpower seems a little nervous. Luo Yong's disciples all said that they might have to add more manpower in a while.

In Guiyifang, many children were eagerly looking forward to it, pointing out that they could still ask for people from groceries in the north and south, and they could be selected by their boss and go there to work.

Working in their shop, not only has good food, but also clothes for all seasons. After eating well, dressing well, people are cleaner, and they look different.

The left-behind children listened to the older children talking about how they were in the shop all day long, and they often had cakes and breads they bought with their wages.
Chapter completed!