In December of the seventy-sixth year of the Great Yao calendar, the Royal Geely Tractor 4S store opened in Lancheng, and the first batch of 200 tractors officially appeared in front of everyone in the world.
In February of the seventy-seventh year of the Great Yao calendar, the second batch of 500 tractors was delivered. On the road from Lancheng to Izumo, there were at least 300 tractors going back and forth to transport a large amount of iron, grain, cloth, salt, and other materials. The total amount of transportation between the two places can reach 7 million catties per month.
In the past, this required more than 10,000 people and 7,000 horned oxen to transport, and consumed countless fodder and fodder, but now only 600 people can do it.
Saved more than 95% of manpower and animal power, as well as countless fodder.
What is consumed is biodiesel, which can be said to be cheap compared to these.
Taking the first batch of merchants who got tractors as an example, each caravan originally required at least 30 to 40 vehicles and more than 100 people, of which less than 20 vehicles were loaded with goods. Food and fodder consumed on the road.
It takes a month for hundreds of people to transport 20,000 catties of goods, and the personnel expenses alone need more than two hundred taels of silver, and the value of food and fodder consumed on the road is nearly one hundred taels.
Nowadays, only one tractor and two people are needed to achieve the same transportation volume, and the personnel expenditure is only ten taels of silver. The so-called biodiesel consumed is about 120 liters, worth twenty two silver.
That is to say, a one-time investment of one thousand taels will cost only ninety taels of silver each month, which is 70% lower than the previous caravan transportation cost.
The most important thing is that it saves a lot of manpower and material resources. It is also more flexible and faster, and can transport the needed goods to the destination in a short time. The value of this is more important than the money saved.
Previously, due to the limited transportation volume, only about 20,000 catties of goods could be transported in one transportation. It is difficult to turn around when the caravan is too big, and the risk is also extremely high.
Especially in Dayao's rainy season which lasts for more than five months, if the caravan is trapped somewhere, the loss will be even greater.
Now it is no longer subject to this restriction, and it can easily transport ten times or even dozens of times the original cargo.
In this way, the goods of the caravan each time are not only those with huge profits, but the types of goods have also increased a lot.
After all, the market for those high-profit goods is limited. After the market supply and demand are balanced, they will focus on other commodities.
In just a few months, commodity prices for a wide range of goods have fallen in both places.
In Izumo, the prices of meat, grain, herbs, needles, and threads have fallen. A large number of high-yield crops such as horned cattle and sweet potatoes and potatoes have reduced the price of beef and grain in Izumo by 10%.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are both vegetables and food crops, have become an important part of the dinner table of ordinary people in Izumo in a short period of time.
In fact, businessmen in Izumo look down on the profit of potatoes and sweet potatoes. The profit of two yuan per catty for five thousand catties is only ten thousand yuan, which is close to nine taels of silver.
Ten tractors made a trip from Dayao to Izumo, and the profit was only ninety taels.
But after Ren Baqian expressed his opinion in private, those families immediately knew what to do.
The prices of salt, cloth, tea, wine, and ironware in Lancheng also dropped again.
Although the iron mines are now in the hands of the Dayao court, there are a lot of ironware among the people in Izumo, and those businessmen will naturally not miss this opportunity.
Although ironware such as pots and knives are also valuable in Izumo, they are far from comparable to Arashi City.
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"Stop making rotary tillage accessories, and switch to harvesting accessories." Ren Baqian said first.
"That thing is very useful, but it consumes too much fuel." The man below said honestly.
"En, I see." Ren Baqian nodded.
Yes, too much fuel consumption.
If the tractor is used in transportation, it can be used in agriculture, and the biggest problem arises.
Although tractors can indeed save manpower and can rotate 60 mu of land a day, the problem of fuel consumption has become the biggest problem restricting the application of tractors.
Three liters of oil for one mu of land costs half a tael of silver, and one hundred mu of land costs fifty taels of silver. Which ordinary people can afford it
You must know that it takes only twenty days for a laborer to do this.
Can a laborer earn fifty taels of silver a year
Even half of it may not be able to earn.
What's more, there are sowing, weeding, irrigation, and harvesting behind.
Therefore, after the initial enthusiasm passed, compared with the transportation that everyone is optimistic about today, the agriculture that tractors should invest in is in trouble.
Of course, this does not mean that the tractor is really useless, but is limited by the number of acres of Dayao and the price of oil.
The strength of the horned oxen and the ancient people is also one of them.
You must know that on earth, a cow with a strong labor force and iron plow tools can only plow more than two acres of land in a day.
But here, with wooden plows, it is possible to plow six acres a day.
Coupled with the limitation of the number of acres, it is naturally difficult for tractors to implement.
To change this situation, one is to cultivate large areas intensively, such as those fields newly reclaimed by the Ministry of Industry.
One is to lower the price of oil. According to the current food price, the price of oil should be limited to about 20 cents.
On the earth, a catty of grain costs two or three yuan in the market, and the price of diesel is only six or seven yuan, twice the price of grain.
Here, food costs eight to ten cash, but the price of diesel oil is four hundred cash per liter, which is forty times the price of food, which can be regarded as sky-high.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to bring down the price of oil in a short period of time, and the current price is almost the cost.
The price of diesel can only be brought down by waiting for the expansion of the land to be reclaimed, the increase in the output of high-oil crops such as soybeans, and the improvement of biodiesel manufacturing technology.
There is no rush for this matter.
Then Ren Baqian took a look at the research progress of the new tractor.
This is a new fifty-horsepower tractor with more horsepower, faster speed, and stronger off-road capability.
The progress of research is not fast. After all, due to the limitations of today's technology and craftsmanship, many originally mature technologies cannot be used and need to be redesigned.
After reading it for a while, Ren Baqian put down the documents and went out to return to the palace.
After entering the Changle Palace, I heard bursts of crisp girls laughing.
Following the shade of the trees, a woman and a child in a red cloth pocket could be seen rolling on the lawn.
The woman is dressed in silk, with her arms and legs pulled up above the elbows and knees.
The woman Ren Baqian is very familiar with, Zhu Hua is an lv9 in the school, an IQ of 9, and a score of 9.
These days, Ren Baqian brought her in to take care of Qi Yuqing.
Although Zhu Hua was full of wildness and his brain was not good, he did a good job.
At least the little guy was very happy, and Zhu Hua seemed to be having a good time too.
Ren Baqian felt that this was probably because the IQs of the two were on the same level, and they had found the same kind.
Watching the two play, Ren Baqian felt a sense of accomplishment as a father filled his heart.
Especially watching my daughter grow up happily.
really grow up.
Ren Baqian looked at Qi Yuqing, who was already one meter tall, and stroked his chin wondering if he was growing too fast
It's only been six months...
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