There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 535

This imitation cannot be directly called artillery yet.

It's called the cannon!
It is a little more advanced than the red cannons of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The reason why they cannot be completely imitated is due to the problem of parts.

Lathes are needed to produce parts.

The current cannon is still made of copper, which is not as good as steel in terms of toughness and so on.

If a lathe wants to produce enough parts, it needs to use steel, but where does the steel come from?
Now the task of Jiangnan Power Grid has not been completed, and fifty refineries have not been obtained.

Coupled with the current wartime, the compound crossbow is already crushing the enemy, so Li Chu is not in a hurry to finish the artillery.

And the current situation in the world, according to the current situation, for Jiangnan, there will be no war for at least one or two years, and he can rest assured to research and produce new weapons.Is this one the same as the Intel toothpaste factory in later generations? Anyway, why do you have to squeeze so fast when the current supply is enough?

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, a sales data was submitted to Li Chu.

This data is the sales data of color TV sets within the past seven days.

Knowing the reason why there are a lot of bicycles out of stock, Li Chu didn’t start to push color TVs to the market until the first day of the Chinese New Year. Before that, he was hoarding a large number of products, and he pushed them to Jiangning, Suzhou, and Hangzhou at one time when the quantity was sufficient. , Newly built and other counties.

As for why not launch it before the Chinese New Year, so that everyone can enjoy it during the Chinese New Year, this is it.

Today’s ancient times are no different than modern times. In modern times, young and strong laborers from various villages went to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to find jobs. Usually, they seldom returned home once, and they all came back during the Chinese New Year. But this was not the case in ancient times, because of the inconvenient transportation. , There is also a reason for the lack of information circulation, and there are not as many factories in later generations. Everyone works and finds jobs near their homes, and they can go home to see their parents and wives and children at any time.

The reason for the New Year is nothing but a festive atmosphere.

Chinese New Year can be lively.

Other times can be as lively as Chinese New Year at any time, and I can go home anytime anyway.

There is not much difference in the time when this TV is sold sooner or later.

The key is that everyone was busy celebrating the New Year years ago, and this color TV is not easy to promote, and the second is that the quantity of production has not yet achieved the expected effect.

Li Chu looked at the data in his hand. In the seven days since the end of the year, the sales volume of TVs in the entire Jiangnan region has sold a total of [-] sets.

One hundred thousand units.

Not too much, not too little.

Among them, [-] units came from Bianjing City, Kaifeng Prefecture, and [-] units came from Jiangnan...

Since the last time Song Huizong issued an imperial decree to discuss with Li Chu about electric light circuits and railways, this issue has entered a tug of war.

After the tug-of-war, Li Chu temporarily agreed to connect the circuit wires to Bianjing City first.

As for the matter of the railway, and the remuneration for the Qilin Army at that time, this has to be discussed in detail.

It means to install the electric light first, and then talk about it first.

This Li Chu also has no objection.

It is also simple to connect the circuit. Anyway, the power supply at Rufen Town has been replaced with electricity from the nuclear power plant. It only needs to build a few more substations at Bianjing. It's not as wide as Liangzhe Road.

Soon, some large households in the entire Bianjing city were all connected to the circuit and used electric lights.

They are all incandescent fluorescent lamps, which are very bright.

Some gentry and officials who are not short of money even installed several in one hall, covering the entire courtyard.

The main buyers of these color TVs are also these people. Their family does not only buy one set, but one set for each house!
On the contrary, it is Jiangnan.

Only [-] sales.

This sales volume is lower than Li Chu's expectations.

As for why the sales volume was low, Li Chu himself knew the reason.

That is propaganda.

Unlike bicycles, many people don't even know what a TV is.

In Bianjing, they don't care what your TV is!
As long as it is something produced by the Qilin Army, as long as it is new and novel, they will buy it, and it is not bad for money, just for novelty.

But Jiangnan is different.

If you want to tell him that the screen can be played on it, the common people will ask again, what is the screen?
How to explain this thing?

You want to say that you can see every place in the world like the clairvoyance of the emperor of heaven, but if you dare to say that, the common people will absolutely kill you.

Today's ancient people are very honest and simple. Although they are careful, they are far less cunning than the people of later generations. If you can't let him see any place in the world, others will definitely say that you are lying human.

What if you say it can be on TV?
What if the common people want to designate their own location?
Anyway, if it is promoted like this, there will definitely be a lot of after-sales troubles at that time, so it is better to be more honest.

So the TV advertisement is very simple words:
Listen to the play at home!

What Huangmei opera, what excerpt opera can be heard and seen at home.

You don't need to prepare any stage, and you don't need to hire any stage troupe. You don't need anything.

All you have to do is turn on the TV.

The common people really find it novel when they hear this.

Can you watch Huangmei Opera at home?
Don't need to pay any more, just turn on the TV?
Many people were moved.

Especially those people who have seen the TV in the train waiting room originally thought that the TV was just like the big screen, with only a little aerial photography of the Purple Mountain and Xuanwu Lake. Everyone was tired of seeing these things, but they didn't expect that there was such a thing. Like changes?

With the sharp price reduction of electricity, ordinary people can install electricity in their homes, and some people who are not short of money are considering buying a TV.

And those rich and noble families are not short of money. Nowadays, whether it is electricity, light bulbs or TV sets, these are all new gadgets. The market is hot and tight. Having this at home is called face and scenery.

For every person who buys a TV, there will be special staff at the sales place to go back with them to install the satellite pot and help them debug the set-top box until the TV can receive information from the satellite signal station.

The eighth day of the new year.

This is a day worth remembering.

This is also a rather special day.

Because this day is the official launch day of the Radio and Television Bureau.

On this day, all the people who own TVs stayed at home and gathered around the TV.

At this time, the aerial video of Zijin Mountain and Xuanwu Lake was still playing on the TV.

"Is it almost there?"

"It's coming soon."

"When will it start broadcasting?"

"It's four quarters in the afternoon, now it's three quarters in the afternoon, and it's still a quarter of an hour away."

"Did you say that there will really be Huangmei Opera and Excerpt Opera?"

"I'm not too sure about this. I heard from a TV seller that what I can see today is not Huangmei Opera or Excerpt Opera, but something called Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

"Second roommate, you read the most books, do you know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

(End of this chapter)