Yuanhe City is developing with each passing day, from a wasteland that was left with nothing a few years ago, to an industrial city that is much larger than Linyue County a few years later, all of which have become accustomed to the eyes of the first residents of Yuanhe City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, as Yuanhe City gets bigger and bigger, a problem arises, that is, the workers' homes are far away from the factory, and the workers need to spend more than half an hour to get to the factory every day (there are not many oxen and horse-drawn carts in Yuanhe City, but they are used to transport various goods, and there are almost no people to transport them), spring and autumn are fine, if it is summer and winter, no one wants to spend too long in the outside world.

How to solve the problem of workers coming to work?

The easiest way is for the workers to live directly in the factory, but the workers' homes are not far away from the factory, and it is still possible to go home from work every day, so it is not advisable to live directly in the factory.

Another option is to increase the means of transportation, like modern buses, so that workers will have much less time to work.

On the issue of the choice of transportation, Yan Xueyi thought about it, the tram appeared in 1881, and it is not too early for Yuanhe City to manufacture the tram, but it may take a year to wait until the tram is manufactured and put into operation, so how to solve the problem before that?

Ox carts and horse-drawn carts can also be transformed into vehicles that pull people, but there are also many problems, a single ox cart or horse-drawn cart cannot pull too many people, and the number of ox carts and horse-drawn carts put into use cannot be very large, so much that tens of thousands of workers can be sent to the factory in that period of time every morning, and there are many health problems of cattle and horses, Yan Xueyi eliminated ox carts and horse-drawn carts.

In the end, Yan Xueyi thought of a convenient means of transportation, that is, bicycles.

The modern form of the bicycle was born in 1874, and there was not much problem with the emergence of more modern bicycles in the city of Yuanhe, and the presence of bicycles would greatly save the time of workers at work.

The manufacture of bicycles is very simple, but the solution of tires is a little troublesome, the rubber source of manufacturing tires is not yet, Siqi Province does not produce natural rubber, and artificial rubber needs oil, Siqi Province does have oil, but it is not within the scope of Linyue County, if it is to exploit oil, it is not advisable, I thought about it, I can only buy natural rubber from the outside world, anyway, China itself also produces natural rubber, Guangxi, Guanggu, Hi Nan are natural rubber production areas, and it does not take much effort to transport it to Siqi Province, After all, now Yan's firm has a semicolon everywhere, and it is very simple to solve the transportation problem, and the amount of rubber needed for bicycles is far less than that of the automobile industry, and some natural rubber is enough to be used by bicycle factories from the south.

In this way, the roads of Yuanhe City are full of pedestrians on bicycles with two wheels, coming and going.

Bicycles have just appeared in Yuanhe City, of course, the price is not cheap, a full five taels of silver, even if such an expensive bicycle, still can not resist people's enthusiasm, bicycle factories can only work overtime to produce bicycles.

Five taels of silver to buy a bicycle, if this happens outside Yuanhe City, it will definitely be ridiculed by others, you must know that the people who buy bicycles are ordinary people, how can they have the money to buy such an expensive thing.

But everything has changed in Yuanhe City, ordinary people also have spare money, the life of a family is not a problem, and you can also buy some so-called luxury goods, although a bicycle is almost worth the salary of an ordinary male worker for two months, but everyone can take it out by gritting their teeth, those families who first settled in Yuanhe City, which family does not have a deposit of more than ten taels of silver, and it is very simple to buy a bicycle.

The workers have bought it, can you still buy it? You don't have to worry about life, the wind of comparison will appear, and it is better than eating and wearing and buying a bicycle.

So much so that the output of the bicycle factory is far from enough for everyone's needs.

In addition to opening a bicycle factory, Yan Xueyi thought of another thing by leaping in his mind, that is, airships, airships could not appear in advance in this era, but airships had already appeared, and airships were very convenient for long-distance transportation, so Yan Xueyi ordered the manufacture of airships, which were responsible for the Yuanhe Municipal Government, and the technology was led by three robots.

In addition, most of the robots in Yuanhe City have been taken back by Yan Xueyi, leaving only two in the machine tool factory and three in the arsenal.

As early as after the invention of balloons, human beings tried to propelle and drive balloons, airships came into being, the original airship was filled with hydrogen, and there was a danger of explosion if you were not careful, Yan Xueyi could not know this, directly skip hydrogen, use safe helium, the production of helium will take some trouble, but it can still be solved.

In the history of airship development, the retired German general Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin is an important figure, he is the inventor of the hard airship, and is known as the "father of the airship" by later generations.

In 1900, Zeppelin built the first rigid airship. Its most distinctive feature is a rigid skeleton consisting of a longitudinal girder with 24 long pestles and 16 frames, and a large number of longitudinal and transverse cables are used to enhance the structural strength. The outside of the hull frame is covered with a skin made of tarpaulin. There were 17 airbags in the hull, with a total volume of 12,000 cubic meters and a total buoyancy of 13 tons, which was 5 to 6 times larger than that of the soft airship at that time. Because the multi-airbag can also play a role similar to the water trap on the ship, the safety of the flight is greatly improved.

There is also the later Zeppelin, which weighs 118 tons, carries 53 tons, is powered by 5 diesel engines, and has a maximum speed of 193 kilometers per hour.

For example, if Yan Xueyi wants to occupy the entire Siqi Province, then he will send a large army to fight everywhere, but at this time, the roads in Siqi Province are very bad, and the transportation capacity is only cattle and horses, which is not convenient at all, and it will cause great difficulties to the logistics of the army.

If the airship appears, especially if there is a behemoth like the Zeppelin in hand, then the logistics of the army will no longer be a problem, not only the delivery of supplies is fast, but also more, and the cattle and horses will transport supplies.

This is one of the reasons why Yan Xueyi made up his mind to develop airships, it is too convenient to have airships, but airships can not be manufactured in a short time, and the investment will be very large, Yan Xueyi can only wait patiently, as long as Yan Xueyi wants to conquer Siqi Province before the mass manufacture of large airships, then Yan Xueyi's army no longer needs to think about logistics supply, after all, the army equipped with thermal weapons is too testing logistics.

Thinking of the huge airship floating in the sky, Yan Xueyi's confidence became even more sufficient.