Although with the great changes brought about by the steam industry, coupled with the further improvement of the level of machinery manufacturing, various types of locomotives have emerged in this world in an endless stream.

But for a town like Zhaoqing, which is far from the coastal and industrial centers, the appearance of bicycles can still arouse great curiosity among the local people.

Iron wire, wheels made of some kind of black and thick gel, and bells that jingle at the touch of a button and are not yet pulled by oxen and horses, no matter what the structure is, every part attracts the eyes of these people.

As the governor of Liangguang, he controlled the largest overseas trade export of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the frequency of new things he came into contact with was not inferior to that of Gong Yonggu, the right attendant of the household department of the Royal Industrial Company, so for this kind of apocalyptic bicycle, he could naturally become the first batch of people to enjoy this new "technological product".

"Weichen is late for the car, the preparation is not thorough, please forgive your majesty", Qu Shiyun hurriedly hurried over, seeing that the soldiers of the Fifth Army who were guarding His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao were about to raise their guns to be on guard, he hurriedly braked the car, and jumped down first, lifted his robe, and made a gesture that he thought would be quick and made amends to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao felt a little funny, in the Ming Dynasty, where there were no motor vehicles, a bicycle with non-mechanical power that got rid of animal power was a relatively rare thing, just like the sweat and blood BMW of the Han Dynasty, and today's eight sedan chairs, in their opinion, riding is a very forced thing.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, it is naturally a very ordinary and even somewhat unacceptable picture, when a second-class man in a scarlet robe rode a Daming version of a bicycle with no electroplating technology and paint spraying technology, just two iron wheels plus a power system and a faucet with direction conversion and braking functions, the scene was as much as an eyesore.

However, in fact, the current Ming Dynasty is like this, on the one hand, it is still a medieval society with clans and centralized dynasties as the form of grassroots and upper level rule, and on the other hand, there are more and more emerging products in the era of the steam industry that are being taken out by people to pretend to be, so that many people have a sense of loss, and some people are grateful that the previous lifestyle is much more elegant, and they will not spend a lot of money to try out a mechanical product produced by the Royal Industrial Company, not only bicycles but also other such as pumps and ships without oars, etc., More often than not, they spent huge sums of money to organize poetry clubs and build gardens.

"Get up", Zhu Youxiao couldn't say, this kind of bicycle could be seen everywhere in later generations, so he nodded and directly flattened Qu Shiyun.

In front of Zhu Youxiao, Qu Shiyun was not good at riding a bicycle anymore, so he had to follow Zhu Youxiao with the dragon's head, but at the same time he was also a little weak in his heart, he didn't know that His Majesty would arrive in Zhaoqing City today, so he rode a batch of apocalypse cars purchased from Guangzhou Mansion to the outside of the city to inquire about Zhu Youxiao's Luanyi march, and he himself was just about to return to Zhaoqing City when he got the news from Guizhou, that is, His Majesty was about to enter the city, so he hurried over, but he didn't want to meet Zhu Youxiao by chance.

As a result, before Qu Shiyun could hide the bicycle he had sold at a huge cost, he was deeply afraid that His Majesty would suspect that he had embezzled a huge amount of money, otherwise where would he get the money to buy such expensive goods.

As everyone knows, in the eyes of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, this kind of thing that is everywhere in later generations and incompatible with the Ming world of Eguanbo has not been completely associated with luxury.

Even, when he saw this dignified Governor of Liangguang pushing a bicycle behind him, Zhu Youxiao felt that this was just like some officials in some TV dramas who deliberately rode a bicycle to inspect in order to show their integrity and deliberately made a very honest appearance.

Zhu Youxiao did not stay long in Zhaoqing before leaving for Guangzhou Mansion, which is the location of the largest customs office in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Guangdong City Shipping Lifting Division, because the customs has just been established, so it requires a certain number of troops to maintain order, Zhu Youxiao directly let Lu Jiayu, the chief military officer of the Fourth Army now stationed in Guangzhou Prefecture, concurrently serve as the governor of Guangdong and the promotion of the city's shipping lifting division.

Basically, the entire huge customs revenue was collected and maintained by the Municipal Shipping Department, and the Governor of Liangguang was responsible for supervising and deporting them into Beijing.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, the powers of the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong in Liangguang were similar.

There are not many Western shops that can be seen in Zhaoqing City, but when you enter the territory of Guangzhou Prefecture, you can find that almost every street has a variety of Western shops running their own businesses, some sell Kunlun Road, some sell gems plundered from overseas colonies, and some directly sell Western and Oriental women, and even open a green building dominated by Western women, named "Orchid Style" is also a good business.

"These are registered in the lifting division, according to the different goods, we will levy different proportions of taxes, for some of my Ming urgently needed goods are tax-free, such as direct gunpowder and Western firearms, but it has to be designated Ming officials and merchants to trade, each store needs to take the initiative every three months to fill out the tax payment form and pay the tax before continuing to operate or will be forcibly closed."

Lu Jiayu was dressed in military uniform, and walked beside Zhu Youxiao in a very atmospheric manner, introducing the business situation in the entire city of Guangzhou to Zhu Youxiao.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao looked at a Western soft sailing ship that was loading bicycles onto the ship, and couldn't help asking: "Is there a common phenomenon of illegal smuggling and trading of items prohibited from being imported by the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"After killing a bold Westerner, it is not very common, but there are always outlaws who ignore the king's law for small profits, so it may be inevitable that there will be omissions, but we try to minimize omissions, and we will strictly inspect every ship that enters the port or exits."

As he spoke, Lu Xiangsheng pointed to Zhu Youxiao and pointed to the Western soft sailing ship full of apocalypse bicycles: "Your Majesty, please look, now our people are going up to check." ”

Zhu Youxiao looked over, and sure enough, he saw a group of people from the Fourth Army Military Police who were temporarily acting as customs inspectors entering the Western soft sailing ship with firearms, led by a Jiupin civil official and several scribes.

And the owner of the Western soft sailing ship saluted the Ming inspectors quite respectfully.

"Let's go, take a look at it angrily", Zhu Youxiao said and walked up, but saw a scribe take out a pack of cigarettes from the deck of the ship: "It's opium, this ship actually carried opium privately!" ”

As soon as he heard this, before the Western Fan could react, the military police of the Fourth Army here had already fired more than a dozen shots directly into his body, and the other Western fans were all killed.

"Very good, decisive and crisp", Zhu Youxiao only said a few words, and then looked at another Western-style soft sailing ship that was about to leave Guangzhou Mansion, and there were also people on it to check, but the ship went very smoothly, nothing was checked, and it was successfully released to sea.