The old friend left the Yellow Crane Tower and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March.

The lonely sail is in the distant shadow of the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River flows in the sky.

This farewell scene in Li Kuan's mind did not appear.

I don’t know if Honor 1 is too comfortable or if Li Shimin wanted to help Li Kuan again before leaving Chang'an City.

During this southern tour, Li Shimin actually took Honor No. 1 and took concrete roads to Hanzhou, and then prepared to go down the Han River to Xiangyang, Ezhou and other places.

The initial itinerary was basically to go east along the Yangtze River and finally inspect several of the most prosperous prefectures and counties in Jiangnan Road.

It has not been decided whether to continue to go south or north next.

As a result, on the third day of March, a long convoy appeared on the cement road to Hanzhou.

Among them, Honor One completely captured everyone's attention.

"The rubber contract trading price on Michelin and Datang Trading Center stopped falling and rebounded.

It seems that everyone's trend of rubber prices has begun to change."

Among the crowd, Wang Heng was quite excited to see the team moving away.

The task assigned by Aye has finally been completed.

The success of Honor One made the Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshop prepare to launch Honor Two immediately and began to adopt inflatable rubber tires on a large scale.

As a result, the demand for rubber immediately increased to a very exaggerated number.

After all, a carriage requires four tires, which is very huge for the rubber consumption.

The most important thing is that not only Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshops are purchasing pneumatic tires, but even these carriage workshops in the south of the carriage shops have not been lost.

After finally seeing their opponents succeed in trying out their skills, they will naturally follow immediately.

Just like many companies in later generations, they usually do not innovate and focus on the market to see if others have launched new products.

Once there are new products with hot sales, they immediately start launching similar products.

In this way, the related development costs will naturally become very small.

"It is normal to stop falling and rebound.

Although I don’t know what the price of Honor 2 is now, no matter how expensive it is, someone will definitely buy it.

There are much more rich people in Chang'an City than we imagined."

As the shopkeeper of the rubber workshop, Michelin does not want the price of rubber to rise.

However, their pneumatic tires have the right to price and are now in a monopoly supply position, so they are not afraid of any price increase in rubber.

After all, for pneumatic tires, the price of rubber only accounts for a part of the cost.

“I heard that the permanent bicycle workshop also asked us to develop an inflatable workshop for bicycles.

This requirement should be lower than that of a four-wheeled carriage and can be produced soon.

By then, the production of bicycles will be much higher than that of four-wheeled carriages.

Does that mean that rubber will return to a state of shortage of supply?

Should we stock up on some rubber in advance?”

For materials, the price increase is too strong and no one can stand it.

However, if the price drops too hard, it is not entirely beneficial.

It is best to maintain a relatively stable range and do not jump up and down.

"You can keep some custody appropriately, but you don't need to keep it too powerful.

There will be sea ships transporting rubber in Nanyang every month. If we raise the price too high, it will make money for these people out of thin air."

Michelin actually knows the supply and demand of rubber.

Based on the information in the letter provided by Wang Dali to Wang Heng, he was able to basically infer the situation of other customers.

"Well, that's right, but I thought of a good idea that can greatly reduce the risk of price fluctuations in this material?"

Wang Heng suddenly remembered a lecture he was listening to at Guanshishan Academy Business School.

“What’s the best way?”

"We can buy a batch of rubber contracts to reduce the risk of fluctuations in the price of rubber materials in our workshop.

For example, we expect to need 20,000 kilograms of rubber in the second half of the year, so we will go to the contract trading shop of the Datang Trading Center to buy a 20,000 kilograms of rubber contract.

In this way, if the price of rubber rises, then our rubber contract can make money.

Through this method, we can offset the money we spend when purchasing physical rubber.

Similarly, if the price of rubber drops, although our rubber contract price will also drop.

But this also means that the price of rubber we buy from the market will also decline.

Overall, whether the price of rubber rises or falls,

As long as we grasp the nodes of each purchase, although we cannot make money by buying and selling rubber, it can reduce the risk of material price fluctuations.

Today in Nanyang, the scale of rubber plantations is very large.

Many wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City are now actively planting rubber gardens in Yazhou, Nanyang and other places.

This means that the supply of rubber in Datang will immediately reach a higher level.

Rubber that was hard to find in the past will be available in many places like ordinary raw materials in the future.

"Hmm? It seems that something makes sense when you say that.

But after all the struggles, I didn’t earn a penny, wouldn’t I be lonely?”

Michelin thought about it and did not find out what money he could make in such a transaction.

“Michelin, we do this to balance the risks posed by fluctuations in rubber prices.

In fact, the Crown Prince initially set up such a contract trading shop, which also had relevant purposes.

For ordinary merchants, they go to the contract trading shop to buy and sell contracts, which is completely speculation.

But for us, this is just a means to balance fluctuations in material costs.

So you don't have to think it's meaningless."

After Wang Heng said this, Michelin didn't say anything more.

...

"Langjun, I bought the second one of Honor! Wang Fugui, who was killed in the sky, actually sold for two thousand guan, which was obviously a cheating of our money.

However, the comfort of this carriage is indeed good. In Chang'an City, no carriage can compare to it.

It is said that the difference between Honor 2 and Honor 1 is actually very small.

But in order to avoid taboos, it was not sold in the name of Honor One.”

When the carriage in the city was in the carriage, Wei Bao got off a luxury carriage and came to Wei Siren happily.

In order to make the local tyrant attributes of Honor 2 more obvious, Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshop launched a limited edition of 100 Honor 2 vehicles this time.

And they also said that this Honor 2 will not be produced in the future, but will produce Honor 3, which is much cheaper.

To put it bluntly, this Honor No. 2 is a wool-flesh.

The key is that there are a large number of wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City waiting to be fleece.

“The pneumatic tires look similar to the Glory One that His Majesty travels and rides.

The shock absorption system on the suspension has two springs added to the front wheels, and there is also a special shock absorber inside the spring, which can achieve a very good shock absorption effect.

This should look similar to Honor One.”

Wei Siren personally witnessed the situation of Honor 1. Now he just circled around Honor 2 and made a lot of judgments.

“Well, except for the difference in appearance of the car, the rest are highly similar.

Langjun, there is also a sunroof that can be opened at the top of the car, which makes the space inside feel much more comfortable at once."

Although this is the product of the opponent, Wei Bao expressed his appreciation from the bottom of his heart.

To be honest, this is almost the pinnacle of the carriage era.

Even if there are continuous updates in the future, there will be no special essential difference.

"Well, these things are indeed very similar to Honor One.

Next, we have to let the craftsmen in the workshop work harder and quickly understand their skills.

If you can figure it out by yourself, arrange the workshop below to imitate and produce it as soon as possible.

If you don’t understand, find a way to see if you can buy it from the workshop outside.

We must also launch a luxury carriage comparable to Honor 2 as soon as possible, otherwise everyone will only know that there is a Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage, not our city south carriage.”

Wei Siren is still optimistic about the development of the carriage industry.
To be continued...