The person who received the palace's strange commission was the Summer Furniture Factory in Phoenix.
The owner's name is Roland, and he named the furniture factory after summer because it's hot here. They specialize in furniture that is cooler both visually and physically, including a lot of woven products.
Summer Furniture Factory made some money when it was first established, but later the business gradually became difficult. Some of the carpenters who had previously opened a joint workshop quit. In order to take over the mess, Roland even sold his house in Wangtingshu.
If outsiders ask why he took over this stall, he will say that he is used to it.
In fact, it is not a habit, but this furniture factory provides jobs to some housewives.
Speaking of which, there is a system of equal pay for equal work in various places, which means that regardless of gender, as long as they do the same amount of work, they will get the same money.
It's just that among Roland's acquaintances, there are many who have children, and if the relationship changes two or three ways, out of one to two hundred people, there will always be a dozen people who stay to take care of the children, and they don't have the time or energy to do full-time work.
In the past two years, there have been very few people who still receive the minimum wage. Generally, the daily salary can reach 1.5 to 2 yuan. There is no problem in stabilizing the lives of two adults and one child, and there is still some money to save.
But people, after having enough food and clothing, they always want to live a better life. Everyone has things they want to buy, and their savings must be prepared to prevent disasters, so they still have to make some extra income.
Knitting is a better form of part-time work. It does not have fixed working hours and locations. Anyway, you are paid according to the number of baskets or dustpans. Even if you have a baby, you can still find time to do some work to supplement the family income.
Although Roland, the "female director", took over the mess, he was well-connected and the carpenters building houses in the city would take care of it and purchase boards from him.
Perhaps this year, several new territories have joined the kingdom, the number of handicrafts coming in from outside has decreased, and the furniture factory has slowed down a little.
With a little money in his hand, Roland thought about it but decided not to build a house for himself. He still lived in the factory. He borrowed some money from his friends and bought a steam sawmill.
It is not easy to make this decision in the Imperial City. Because the labor cost in Phoenix City is high, the market price of various things made by local workshops will be slightly higher. When several new cities stabilize, goods from other places will still flood into the Imperial City. .
Being able to saw the logs yourself, the workers in the workshop can cut the wood when they have nothing to do, which saves a lot of money than buying semi-finished products from the sawmill. The sawwood ash can also be sold to Brick Ranch.
Apart from cost savings, there is another advantage that I didn’t expect before buying a sawmill, which is that it starts processing from dry logs and can better control the quality.
In the past, there was always a certain percentage of goods sent remotely from sawmills that were more or less defective.
For example, furniture factories use 3x3, 4x4 and 4x5 wooden cubes most often. The specifications are the length and width of the section, and the length is uniformly 4 meters.
Both ends of the goods sent by the sawmill are fine, but maybe because they want to make better use of the wood, there are always some missing points, not many, like the curvature of a big tree, but such materials cannot be used to make furniture. On the surface, but placed on the covered part of the furniture, once discovered by guests, they may not buy anything from home in the future. By the way, Summer Furniture Factory has a front store and back factory model, which is also a pattern learned from the workshop building on Wangtingshu. The front store is responsible for selling knitted products and some furniture, but if there are a lot of orders, it will only sell knitted products.
If you use a sawmill to cut logs yourself, you don't have to take into account all walks of life like standard parts in a sawmill. First of all, furniture can only use less than four meters in length. Once the length is shortened, you don't need particularly good logs to cut them. More neat square planks of wood.
Well-dried logs, the closer the wood is to the center, the better. When placed in a sawmill, these logs will never be used to saw squares, because the cross-section of the squares is small and is more suitable for making scraps than wooden boards.
And these heartwoods with better appearance can allow furniture factories to make furniture with a more luxurious appearance, and the profits will be better.
In short, everything is getting better in Xia Tian Furniture Factory. Recently, they have even stocked up a half-sized log and are not in debt. However, the debt they borrowed from a friend has not yet been repaid. At this moment, the female official from the inner court came to the door and gave A strange commission in the factory.
This commission is so strange that it comes with three handwritten and hand-painted books.
One is the thing you are commissioned to build, one is the game rule book, and the other is the production and sales instructions for the Summer Furniture Factory.
Roland also asked the female official a question: "Why did the imperial court find Summer Furniture Factory to do this... Our craftsmanship may not be good enough."
If it were to ordinary people, Roland would never admit that the craftsmanship of his own factory is not good, but in front of him is the female official of the inner court. There are not many serious carpenters in his family, and most of the employees only started working as apprentices two or three years ago. If this is followed by Your Majesty cannot bear the blame.
"I learned from the tax bureau that there was a delay in your factory's tax payment last year. I asked around and found that you are a nice person. According to my king's intention of supporting disadvantaged enterprises, I made the decision to choose you. If you really have difficulties, I will go again Find another home.”
"No, there is no difficulty."
"Very good, I'll see the finished product next month."
Before the female official left, she left behind a commercial transfer bank card. If you can't withdraw the money, you can only transfer it to other manufacturers. It is also the main form of government subsidies. He has heard of it and this is the first time he has seen it.
After putting the card away, Roland carefully flipped through a few books.
The game rule book is too confusing to read, so I skipped it and flipped through the things I needed to make myself. It felt too exquisite, and I regretted boasting about it.
Fortunately, there was an explanation in the production and sales instructions, which included the addresses of several cooperative factories he needed and letters of introduction, all of which were stamped.
Roland first arranged what he could do and let the workers do it, and then went to other factories to find cooperation.
They are all enterprises in Wangcheng, manufacturing small metal parts, fabrics, paper, paint, glue, printing, and other furniture factories.
There are other furniture factories, because this commission requires mass production, but there are too many things and the differences in each component are not small. It is very difficult to rely only on Xia Tian Furniture Factory.
Relying on the help of a large number of manufacturers, Roland struggled for more than 20 days to organize production, and barely managed to produce the finished product before the end of the month.
Needless to say, although it looks a bit weird in the manual, once it's finished, it just looks interesting.
The most powerful thing is that there are several special cards among them, including "Li Xiang", also known as His Highness the Special Envoy, and Blade Scout. A total of four cards use very complex technology.
These four cards are made by four manufacturers. The outer frame and back panel are made of stainless steel. The main picture of the card body is made of wood incised and filled with paint. The remaining numbers, icons, text, and blank filling are oil-based rubbings.
The frame and back panel are not simply plate-wrapped. They have two parts. The frame body is a four-millimeter-thick board that is heated and stamped to punch out the middle part to create a rectangular seamless frame. A depression is made in the inner ring to separate the back panel. Once the wooden card is pushed in, it cannot be taken out. It can be pushed out by forcefully pushing it from the back, but the wood will deform and become loose after a few times.
The card is very delicate and easy to hold in your hand. You can feel the paint and oil rubbing lines by touching the surface of the card with your hands, but it does not appear to be obvious to the naked eye. It is very suitable for holding in your hand and playing with it. If it is dirty, just rinse and dry it. Will saturate the wood.
The rest of the cards are all pure wood chips, and are also divided into thicknesses. Generally, the cards are four millimeters thick. There are many Little Devil cards, only 2.5 millimeters. Because of the poor craftsmanship, some thicknesses are slightly different, and the thickness of the boards is less than 2.5 millimeters. They should all be discarded, as they are too thin and can easily crack when dropped.
The finished products have all been varnished after rubbing. The paint layer protects the strength and is still strong. Of course, it cannot be broken by force.
In addition to the cards, the furniture factory also needs to make a box for it. This box is also a chessboard with an additional unfolding structure. When fully unfolded, it will be a square tabletop with a width of 1.4 meters, with a hexagonal chessboard engraved on it.
There are also a bunch of pieces of paper and metal cubes. Taken together, the entire box with all its contents weighs sixteen kilograms, and even a child cannot lift it!
At the end of the month, a female official from the inner court came to see the goods: "It's done well. How much can you make in one day?"
Roland replied with a grimace: "It's too complicated. I can only produce three sets at most a day."
"Wait a minute, think of a way. I'll take this set." The female officer said, taking out two ten-yuan Phoenix coins and handing them to him.
Twenty yuan is the price set before accepting the commission. It is not enough to cover the cost of this set. This set is basically purely manual work. The rubbing factory is making molds, and the master carpenter who does the engraving is also thinking of ways to make the apprentices happy. If you do some rough work, it will be much faster later and the cost will be reduced.
Before leaving, the female officer left a message: "Remember to pay the royalties at the Wangting Warehouse. Don't go to the wrong place, and don't wait for me to come find you."
"Yes Yes Yes."
Royalty, five cents per set, is not as high as the cost of four stainless steel frames.
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