Become a feudal king from today

"Say. Read М" Zhao Xu said.

The ministers stopped and looked at Yang He.

He took out a bag from his arms and took out something. Yang He said to Zhao Xu: "Your Highness, these are a batch of pocket watches just made by the watch factory. Please take a look."

Zhao Xu was overjoyed, he had been looking forward to this for a long time.

He took the pocket watch and looked at it carefully.

It is about the size of the palm of your hand and is overall silver in color.

Under the metal cover, crystal clear glass covers the dial.

At this moment, the hands on the dial are rotating, pointing to the hour, which is 3:15 in the afternoon.

This is exactly what he explained at the beginning. The time scale of the pocket watch adopts the Dasong timing method.

There are twelve hours in a day, each hour is divided into eight quarters, each quarter is fifteen minutes, and each minute is sixty seconds.

Fumbling with the smooth shell of the pocket watch, Zhao Xu felt happy.

Since time travel, it basically has no precise concept of time.

And with the pocket watch, he will be able to know the specific time at any time in the future.

In addition, he believed that pocket watches also played a certain role in marching and fighting.

When generals direct operations, they can arrange specific times for their generals to launch attacks, which makes it easier to coordinate.

For the imperial court, it can establish a strict time management system and improve administrative efficiency.

Then, he took Yang He's bag and took out another pocket watch from it.

By comparison, he found that the two pocket watches were basically the same.

In fact, he told about the manufacturing of pocket watches two or three months ago.

Yang He only took it out now, not because the craftsmen in the workshop had recently mastered the manufacturing process of pocket watches.

Rather, the workshop solved the problem of pocket watch assembly line production and achieved large-scale production.

Otherwise, he would not look like asking for credit at all.

After all, manufacturing pocket watches on a large scale is truly meaningful.

The cost is low and the output is high, so it can be sold as a high-profit product.

So he asked: "Can the workshop now make pocket watches on a large scale?"

Yang He nodded, "The craftsmen have mastered polishing watch parts. Each group of craftsmen is responsible for different processes and finally assembles them. They can produce 260 pocket watches every day."

"Oh?" Zhao Xu was surprised.

This quantity made him very satisfied. After all, they were all hand-polished parts.

At this stage, he felt that there was no need to waste the steam engine on the manufacture of such a small item as a pocket watch.

Good steel is used in the blade.

The main task of Wang Chong and others is to build an industrial system from scratch.

After all, Xitu's steamship was launched, and the steam locomotive also ran on the rails.

It's just that he has launched a plan to develop these two machines.

But if they could not establish supporting parts factories, even if Chen Shou and Wang Chong understood the principles, they would not be able to manufacture steam locomotives and steam ships.

Thinking of this, he planned to use this window period before the war to personally participate in the construction of the industrial system.

"Your Highness, what is this?" When Zhao Xu was thinking, Chang Wei came over, his eyes rolling.

Zhao Xu smiled helplessly, "Whatever you are pretending to be, just say it directly if you want."

These old subordinates of his often communicated with each other, and he did not believe that Chang Wei knew nothing about pocket watches.

After that, he slapped a pocket watch into Chang Wei's palm.

Chang Wei was beaming with joy. Just as Zhao Xu had guessed, he had long heard about this new gadget, the pocket watch, from Yang He.

After understanding the functions of pocket watches, he often asked Yang He for information about pocket watches.

To him, this thing was perfect for generals.

With this thing, generals can command soldiers to complete a certain task within a precise time.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Chang Wei played with it for a while and stuffed the pocket watch into his arms like a treasure.

Yang Feng, Liu Fu and other ministers suddenly showed envious eyes.

"Ahem..." Yang Feng coughed twice on purpose, glancing at his pocket watch from time to time.

Liu Fu rubbed his hands and looked straight at Zhao Xu.

"Okay, you're lucky." Zhao Xu couldn't resist the pleading eyes of everyone. He took out the pocket watch from Yang He's bag and distributed it one by one.

Fortunately, there were only twelve ministers in the meeting hall, and the pocket watch Yang He brought was just enough.

Everyone got a pocket watch, and the atmosphere in the meeting hall became relaxed and cheerful.

The ministers were like children who had just received a toy, playing with their pocket watches intently.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel more confident about the business prospects of pocket watches.

The performance of the ministers is enough to prove the charm of pocket watches.

So he said to Yang He, "Immediately expand the output of the watch workshop and introduce pocket watches to Korea and the south."

This time Yang He came here for this matter, so he said: "As long as His Highness sets a price for the pocket watches, the first batch of pocket watches will be sold tomorrow."

Zhao Xu nodded and raised a finger, "One thousand taels."

Currently in Dasong, pocket watches are definitely the top luxury items. Since they are luxury goods, they have to be expensive.

This sentence did not scare Yang He, but it shocked Chang Wei and others.

One thousand taels of silver each, and their three years of salary combined were not enough to buy it.

Looking at the pocket watch, they became more and more precious for a while.

After deciding the matter, Zhao Xu ordered everyone to disperse.

Yang He returned to the trading house and immediately ordered the officials of the trading company to place the pocket watch on the goods table of the trading company.

This shelf is dedicated to displaying merchandise currently on sale.

As the powerful merchants lifted their resistance to Yanzhou's trade under the blackmail of the plague, more and more merchants poured into Yancheng.

In order to get first-hand information, merchants in Yanzhou often send people to keep an eye on the goods counters.

As soon as Yang He put on his pocket watch, a wave of shock immediately arose.

The merchants in the bank and the servants sent by the merchants immediately gathered around and asked.

The officials of the trading company took advantage of the situation and placed a sign in front of the goods counter specifically introducing the functions of the pocket watch, and at the same time allowed merchants to touch and experience the pocket watch.

This is also a propaganda method.

There was a commotion, and many merchants immediately submitted orders to the firm. Some servants immediately left the firm and passed the information to their shopkeepers.

In the next two days, the word pocket watch filled the streets and alleys of Yancheng.

Not only merchants flocked to it, but also dignitaries who had fled from Jinling rushed to buy it.

On that day, Zhao Xu distributed the pocket watches to the ministers in the meeting hall.

Including Chang Wei and Yang Feng, they wanted to put pocket watches on their foreheads.

No matter where they go, they will take out their pocket watches, take a look at them, and stuff them into their arms with great ease.

It's just showing off all the time.

How could those dignitaries without pocket watches endure this?

I won’t give up until every one of them refuses to buy a pocket watch.

In less than two days, the inventory of the watch shop was completely gone.

Nearly one million taels of silver fell into Yanjun Trading Company.

While pocket watches were popular in Yancheng.

The Qi envoy who fled from Yancheng arrived in Lucheng and brought back Zhao Xu's answer to Han Zheng.