On this day, fifty iron birch bicycles quietly appeared on the market in Kaifeng of the Great Song Dynasty. 【Latest chapter reading. In the end, the price was 50 times, and the last 80 times were all sold. The next day, it changed hands on the black market and became more than 100 hands on the other hand.

On this day, many private workshops received private orders. The people of the Great Song Dynasty imitated wooden bicycles, and there were countless people. On the market, many wooden bicycles appeared for a while.

However, no matter how they are imitated, the firmness and aesthetics of these cottage wooden bicycles are not as good as those produced by Zhu Zilong.

However, it is difficult to say whether it will be able to maintain its technological leadership over time.

On this day, Zhu Zilong sent ten pure steel bicycles (simple type, not as good as modern bicycles), plus soft seats, and sent them to the palace. Paid tribute to his own cheap emperor dad!

Song Huizong Zhao Ji has always liked novelties, and he was overjoyed on the spot, and under the teaching of Zhu Zilong, he began to practice cycling. During the period, he fell dozens of times, and there were small injuries to the dragon's buttocks, dragons' thighs, and dragon's hands.

Fortunately, it was Zhu Zilong who gave the gift, and it was estimated that the person who gave the bicycle had already been beheaded to show the public.

Zhu Zilong originally wanted to ask the emperor to make a decree, which meant that in the future, the bicycle could only be built and sold at his own home. But think about it, this Yagen is unlikely, in the era when the imperial power does not go to the countryside and rules the world with scholars, you want to engage in patent protection, it is simply nonsense.

So, settle for the next best. Successfully let Song Huizong Zhao Ji write down a horizontal word,----- the first bicycle line in the Great Song Dynasty!

It means that the bicycles produced by Zhu Zilong here are the best and most famous in the entire Great Song Dynasty. Even the emperor said yes when he saw it, probably that's what it meant!

Immediately after, a few days later. Amid a burst of celebratory fireworks and rows of people congratulating them, a Fenghuang bicycle shop located not far from the newspaper office opened.

Originally, Zhu Zilong wanted to call it a phoenix brand bicycle, but thinking about this year, the dragon represents the emperor, and the phoenix represents the queen and the princesses, and he still doesn't die. Use the wind to represent the phoenix!

There are five different levels of bicycles, and the lowest wooden bicycle costs only about three dollars. The second-gear bicycle is made of fine wood, and the price is about ten yuan.

The third-gear bike is made of iron birch and is priced at 50 cents.

The fourth gear is made of all-iron, partly steel, and the price is about 100 yuan. The most upscale one, half copper and half steel, the front of the car is silver, the bell is gold, and there are all kinds of decorations.

This kind of look is not for ordinary people, but for those rich people in the Great Song Dynasty who like to pretend. Prices range from 500 to 1,000!

Don't say it, just Gao Yanei, who came to cheer, as well as other wine and meat friends, as well as the Cao family and others, everyone bought a few of the most high-end cars and went back, and they were sold out on the same day.

After these dignitaries left, the onlookers poured into the car dealership. looked at the emperor's handwritten inscription hanging on the car dealership, and felt that the price was actually quite reasonable, and it also got a ten-year warranty commitment.

So, everyone paid for bicycles.

The nearly 1,000 bicycles that were prepared for the opening of the car were all sold out on the same day. Just like last year's soap went on the market, the people in the back couldn't get it in line. I can only pay the deposit in advance and wait for the goods to come and pick it up.

Some of the people who took the bicycles in front of them rode away happily. Some scalpers are selling bicycles of different grades at a price of 10 to 20 percent.

However, there are also many people who want it, and they are all happy to make a deal.

Just a few days later, on the major official roads and small roads inside and outside Kaifeng City, you can see groups of people riding bicycles from time to time. Thanks to Kaifeng as the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, the official roads near it are very smooth, and in the past six months, Zhu Zilong has not pulled cheap people to build new roads in this vicinity.

Obviously, everything has made good preparations for today's bicycle promotion.

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Shortly after the wooden bicycles were introduced, and now that the flood waters had receded, a large caravan appeared outside the city of Happy Forest.

After the caravan arrived at the Happy Forest, it went to see Wu Song.

The owner of the caravan was Zhu Zilong's makeup as the son of the Qian family in Jiangnan whom Zhu Sihai met at the literary meeting. When Mr. Qian had a banquet with Wu Song that night, he drank wine for three nights and said to him: "Master Wu, I don't know what the prince wants so many eucommia trees for?" ”

"Maybe it's the prince, it's going to be used for medicine, right?" Wu Song replied.

Mr. Qian nodded as if he didn't ask anything more. I thought that Wu Song would know, but now it seems that it is still just a guess. However, this business is made with the money that the family has, and it does not take up space in the caravan.

Just let people in the production area of eucommia trees, cut down and weave into wooden rows, and let people go down the canal in the boat style. Even some goods that are not afraid of water can be loaded on it, which is also convenient.

It's a bit scary to see how much it takes, even though the medicinal properties of the Eucommia ulmoides tree are well known. It can reduce blood and calm qi, and can treat lumbar and knee pain and numbness, rheumatism and habitual abortion and so on. But judging from the amount of medicine taken in Kaifeng over the years, I am afraid that it is only this time that the goods will be used up after ten years. Therefore, the Qian family is a little strange!

Zhu Zilong, who got the news, let go of everything and valued the goods from the Qian family very much. Prepare the manpower early and come to the Kaifeng Canal Wharf.

The canals of the Northern Song Dynasty were well developed, and there is a saying that the so-called Tongcao Four Canals, and these canals are centered on Kaifeng." Bianhetong, Kaifengxing; The Bianhe River is wasted, and Kaifeng is declining. "These are no jokes!

It can be said that without the Bianhe River, there would be no peerless prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty Tokyo City for 168 years; Without the Bianhe River, there would be no Qingming Riverside map that has been passed down through the ages.

"Bring all these eucommia trees to the leased land outside the city." Stroking these eucommia trees, Zhu Zilong's eyes lit up.

"Yes, Lord Wang!"

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When it comes to rubber, later generations only know about the rubber trees of the Americas. It's as if China can't produce its own rubber from ancient times to the present!

Not really!

There are more than 2,000 species of plants on the earth that can extract rubber, and as of 2020, people have found plants used for industrial rubber, mainly clover rubber trees, eucommia ulmoides trees (including eucommia ulmoides), dandelion grass and silver gum chrysanthemum.

Before Zhu Zilong crossed, there were more reports on the fermentation of orange peel oil and sugarcane to extract rubber for tires, and with the continuous deepening of research, new rubber resources may continue to emerge.

Of course, those required are too technical, and the materials are not easy to do in large quantities.

So, after predicting that the bike would be very popular. Zhu Zilong set his eyes on the eucommia tree.

Eucommia ulmoides is a high-quality gum source tree with the widest range of adaptation and the greatest development potential in the world. But that's not the point, the most important thing is that more than 95% of the world's eucommia tree resources are in China.

What does this mean?

It means that once Zhu Zilong researches how to extract rubber from it, he doesn't have to go to the Americas. Rubber products will appear in the Great Song Dynasty and monopolize them.

How do you think he can not get excited?

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