Jia Youcai couldn't stand seeing Old Yang's smug look. What was there to be proud of? Even if the credit was 30% to 70%, 7% was his. What was there for you, a cowherd like Yang, to be proud of?
But you shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you, especially since they are giving you gifts.
Jia Youcai quickly stood up and walked over to greet Lao Yang.
"Lao Yang, you're here, is this for me?
Come, come, let me try the bicycle made by your steel mill, shall I?"
Old Yang pushed the car to Jia Youcai with a smug smile on his face.
"Try it, I guarantee it will be fine. It's all based on the outline sketch you drew. It can carry 400 to 500 kilograms without any problem.
It's just too heavy, and if you go too fast, it's easy to lose control of the car, so be careful."
Jia Youcai took the car and pushed it outside while talking.
"If the handbrake can't be used, I still have my feet, right? What's there to be afraid of?"
Jia Youcai then rode his bike and went around the alley outside twice. He felt that it was okay. It looked roughly like a 28-inch bicycle.
The quality should not be a problem, but I don't know the cost of this car.
If the price is higher than 150 yuan, it will be difficult to sell in China now.
The current price is only 52 yuan, and it was less than 2 yuan after liberation. Ordinary people have very little money.
Even though you don’t need a ticket, you still can’t afford it.
By the time the bicycles were 53 years old, they were still unsaleable, and later they were sold in installments.
As bicycles gradually became popular, sales were no longer a problem, but production could not keep up.
The main thing is planned production, and this bicycle also needs to be made of iron and steel.
There is no industrialization here, and pig iron and steel are prioritized in the development of basic industries.
Without enough materials, we could only plan production, and only after adding the tickets later did the bicycle become apparent as a big item.
It is pure nonsense to say that buying a bicycle is equivalent to buying a Mercedes-Benz or BMW car in later generations.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the permanent population of the city was over 3 million, and there were more than 30,000 bicycles. You can calculate the ratio yourself.
This thing might be a rarity in remote areas, but in the old city, it is really nothing.
When I returned to the yard, Lao Yang was standing at the door watching.
Seeing Jia Youcai coming back, he hurried forward and asked.
"How is it? It rides fine, right? It took our factory several months to make this.
We hired more than a dozen university students, and I don’t know how much it cost for the whole day.”
Jia Youcai propped himself up on the ground and asked curiously, "How much does this car cost? Have you calculated it, including the cost of large-scale production?"
Lao Yang walked closer and whispered, "I roughly calculated that if we mass-produce it, we can achieve a success rate of around 120%.
Look at how much this should be sold for to make a profit. The factory doesn’t have much money left.”
Jia Youcai thought about it and came up with an idea: "Make 200 of them first and set the factory price at 180 as a trial.
Relax and just do it. Try it in the big cities first. If you can't sell it, I'm still here, right? "
When Lao Yang heard that it could be sold for 180 yuan, he immediately became excited and felt great, thinking that he would make half the profit.
"Okay, after the sun goes down, I'll make 200 taels and try it out.
If it doesn't sell well, Jia Liu, you can't just ignore me."
Jia Youcai smiled and said, "What's hard to sell? Go find Lao Li and ask him to promote it to various companies for you. Just pay in installments, and there will be no problem.
It would be better if you could look for a garment factory. The female workers there have been working for more than 20 days and have saved some money. You are just worrying for nothing.
I asked you to produce 200 vehicles first because I was worried that your factory didn't have enough money to complete the whole process.
If I were the factory director, I would produce one thousand vehicles in batches and I wouldn't be afraid of anything.
I tell you, this place is only this big, and only so many people can afford it.
If you were a step slower and sold one less bicycle, Fei Ge Bicycle would have to sell one more, and you would earn dozens less.
Maybe in the future they will engage in a price war with you in order to grab market share.
I heard you poached a lot of key personnel from the factory. Old Yang, you've offended people and are on a narrow path."
Old Yang was so angry that he pushed Jia Youcai and cursed, "Isn't this your stupid idea?
Poaching people is indeed somewhat unethical, but this person is really useful. If it weren't for a few experienced masters, we really wouldn't be able to produce anything in a short time."
As he spoke, Lao Yang started laughing.
"Alright, you're still being rude for the sake of cheapness. Let's go in first."
But Old Yang was happy too early, or maybe he was dazzled and fooled by Jia Youcai's production of thousands of vehicles and the one-time profits it brought.
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