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Artificial construction and machine manufacturing must be a lot worse, and the overall process cannot be compared with later generations. However, many skilled craftsmen worked together, and after half a year of repeated manufacturing, they finally made a bicycle similar to the products of later generations. The construction of the bicycle may seem simple, but in reality there are many difficult problems to solve. For example, if you want to make two round wheels, it takes the effort of the R&D personnel to make the kind of rim for future generations. In addition, it is the chain, which is made section by section, which is more laborious than making the rim. The frame of other bicycles was simpler, and although there was no welding technology in this era, it was possible to make a complete frame by guò casting. That's what the triangular frame of the main body came up with.

Since hydraulic machinery has long been applied in the military workshop, and the technology of bearings in continuous improvement has long been mature, there is no need to worry about this problem on the bicycle. When he first started to use hydraulic machinery on a large scale, Geng Jingzhong thought that bearings were an extremely difficult problem, but he knew that China's ancestors had already helped them solve it. Bearing is an important basic component of all kinds of mechanical equipment, and its accuracy, performance, life and reliability play a decisive role in the accuracy, performance, life and reliability of the main engine. Now Fuzhou bearings are far from being compared with later generations due to technology, so the life of this bearing is greatly reduced. If it is placed in the 21st century, how can a bearing be used for three or five years, even if the general machinery has been scrapped, the bearing is not necessarily broken. However, the bearings manufactured today cannot achieve such an effect. It can be used for a maximum of three months and then it will be scrapped and can no longer be used. No way. The main thing is that the materials are not up to par.

This is still after the special steel was manufactured last year, before that, the life of the products made of ordinary steel is shorter, basically it has to be replaced once a month, but in comparison, it is already very good to have such a technology in this era, if you want to be better, continue to research and develop it slowly in the future. The core issues were all solved. Now it's only logical to build a complete bike. The first batch of 10 bikes was built, each painted in a different color and pattern. There is only this one for Geng Jingzhong, which is painted with a dragon-shaped pattern, and of course it is a four-clawed dragon.

In Geng Jingzhong's eyes, this bicycle is not as beautiful as his previous mountain buggy, and the appearance is close to the old-fashioned Phoenix brand bicycle, but the back seat is removed. Some simple decorations have been added to the front and rear to make the car look better. In fact, the car itself has already surprised everyone, such a thing is unheard of and unseen by everyone. There is no need for a horse, and there is no need for a human tow. Just pedaling with his foot, the car will run forward at a high speed, which is not slower than the carriage, the only difference is that people do not have the same endurance as horses. The whole circle around Fuzhou City, that is, 20 kilometers, only takes an hour to complete.

"Okay, great!" Geng Jingzhong rode around the scientific research base for a long time, and it felt very good, and the bicycles of later generations were not far behind, but when he rode them, it was a little more laborious than the bicycles he had ridden before, but this was not a big problem.

"The staff of the physics and chemistry rooms of the base are all meritorious, and all those who participate in the research will be rewarded with a first-class reward and a collective second-class merit will be recorded. Researchers with outstanding contributions will be submitted to the palace for review by Li Mingming, the person in charge of the base. After Geng Jingzhong stopped, he was in a good mood and was very satisfied with the performance of the researchers at the base. Although they still lack a lot of theoretical knowledge, their spirit of study is not inferior to that of any famous scientist in history. Whether they are passionate about research or motivated by fame and fortune, the results are consistent. It is precisely because of the tireless efforts of these researchers that Geng Jingzhong was able to get the rubber products that could be used maturely in just one year, and he was able to ride this bicycle in just over half a year.

Li Mingming, the current person in charge of this scientific research base, is just a showman, and he has no hope for his continued examination, and he knows where his level is. After he entered the Future Academy, he was just an ordinary teacher in the first year, and in the second year he was promoted to the principal of the school in Fuzhou City, and then in the third year, he became the head of the school in Fuzhou. Later, because the former person in charge of this base was always obsessed with research, the specific things here were messed up, so Ah Hu recommended him to Geng Jingzhong. Not to mention, Li Mingming doesn't have much talent in Baguwen, but he is naturally proficient in this management. After he took over the scientific research base here, he quickly became familiar with it, and took care of things in an orderly manner, saving Geng Jingzhong a lot of their hearts. On the whole, there has not been a single mistake in the overall scheduling in the past two years.

Although there are still a lot of things being studied in this base, such as manual generators or something, the progress is still relatively slow, and the physical theoretical basis that Geng Jingzhong has written down a long time ago is only at the level of the middle school of later generations, and even so, it will take them a long time to digest. In this process of digesting and implementing yàn, it is inevitable that the speed will not be able to keep up.

"This bike is generally okay, but continue to study and improve the details to see how we can continue to reduce frictional resistance without much lubricating oil, and if we can continue to solve this problem, the bike will be more labor-saving to ride. In terms of appearance, there is nothing that needs to be improved, so be it, finalized production. By the way, if you expand the production of this bike, what kind of scale can you achieve? Geng Jingzhong was still riding on the bicycle at the moment, and he didn't get down, so he asked Li Mingming obliquely.

"Back to the prince, this car can now be mass-produced, and the aspect of making the frame can be customized to the iron factory, and the other parts, but the main rim and axle and chain require some effort. Generally speaking, according to the current manpower, at least 30 vehicles can be built in a month. Li Mingming calculated carefully and then replied.

"Thirty cars. That's too little. At least 100 cars per month. It's up to you to do that. Let the technical school send some students to follow and learn, and try their best to increase the production capacity. I've got a lot of use for these cars! Geng Jingzhong commanded.

"Yes, Lord Wang!"

Geng Jingzhong finished giving the order, and then turned around and shouted to a few guards who were still rickety on a bicycle not far away: "You have learned a lot, you all ride back with this king." Then he instructed Li Mingming: "Let the guards of the base come out and follow behind on their horses, and send them directly to the palace." As soon as the words fell, Geng Jingzhong stepped on the pedals, and the bicycle rushed out. It was followed by nine bikes that were still a little shaky. But it didn't take long. After riding a distance, everyone became proficient. The guards who can be selected as Geng Jingzhong's guards are all warriors with a fairly developed brain and cerebellum, and learning this bicycle is not a piece of cake.

On the next road, ten bicycles were running on the road, which was a shocking sight. How could the people of this era ever see such a sacred object, without horse-drawn horses or human lifts, just a few kicks. You can run forward at a high speed, and the speed is not slower than that of a carriage. So the road was lively. Of course, although the adults feel the novelty, they still don't chase after them like children.

Many people don't know who is riding a bicycle, who made Geng Jingzhong and they are all dressed in civilian clothes, and they are wearing regular clothes for military training. But ordinary people don't know it doesn't mean that everyone doesn't know, the headquarters of the ocean trading company is in Fuzhou City, and there are not a few businessmen and children of the family plus the company's staff, after seeing Geng Jingzhong, they all dropped their jaws in shock, with the dignity of the prince, and the ordinary people ran to the street is rare, and they swaggered through the market, but the thing that the prince is sitting on is really strange, so magical. There are nine more cars in the back, which means that this thing has been mass-produced, and you must think of buying one in advance.

There are not a few people who have such thoughts, and they also thought that the price of this thing would not be low, but they did not expect that Geng Jingzhong would set the price to a certain height. Geng Jingzhong directly rode the car into the trading company, regardless of the surprise of the company's internal employees, and found Wang Shishan directly after stopping.

In fact, Wang Shishan had already seen Geng Jingzhong and others riding a bicycle through the window just now, and when Geng Jingzhong stopped the car and went upstairs, he just stood up and went to the door to greet him.

"What was the prince sitting on just now? I can actually walk on my own, and it seems that the speed is not slow! As soon as Geng Jingzhong sat down in the room, Wang Shishan asked.

Geng Jingzhong picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a glass of water, and saw that it was warm water, so he drank it all, and then said: "Uncle, you saw it, then I'll just say it directly, this thing is a new product of the scientific research base, and I asked them to develop it a long time ago." After several improvements, a new model was only released two days ago. I've tried it, and it's a good ride, and it's fast, and I can walk sixty or seventy miles in about an hour. I call this thing a bicycle, what do you think? ”

"O fetish! If this thing is listed, it will be popular, and I really want to say to the prince, holding a bicycle will bring a big change to our Fujian! If it is listed on a large scale, it will be another big source of revenue for the royal government, and it will also be a popular export commodity for the port! Wang Shishan immediately thought of the practicality and market prospects of this thing.

"Uncle, you're wrong, this bicycle is more complicated to make, and it can't be mass-produced, and I don't plan to let him go on the market on a large scale. At present, the monthly production capacity is 30 vehicles, and it is estimated that it can reach 100 vehicles a month in two or three months. I'm going to define this stuff as a high-end consumer product that only the truly wealthy can afford. Of course, I don't think there is any need to worry about this sales, I turned around as a prince and rode a bicycle on the streets of Fuzhou for two laps, with me taking the lead, there must be no fewer people following the trend! Geng Jingzhong said with a smile,

"Of course, if you go out for a spin, and those sons of the family don't follow suit, then this bicycle will soon become the hottest commodity." After Wang Shishan heard this, his eyes immediately lit up. He couldn't be clearer about what kind of virtue those children of the family are, especially those who are gentlemen, and they will not compare with others and catch up with fashion. Fashion is not something that came to life in later generations, and the ancients were no different. Every move in Yang Guifei's palace back then was imitated by someone is the best example.

"The price. My initial idea was for 1,000 taels. It depends on the market, if there are many people who want to buy, it is okay to raise the price. Geng Jingzhong opened his mouth for a thousand taels, without any psychological pressure. If you make 100 cars and sell them every month, it is an income of 100,000 taels of silver dollars, which is not a small amount. In fact, in China's huge market, it can be sold for 1,200 months or more, and there are too many rich landlords and tycoons all over China. People bought it, but you didn't, but it's quite a shame. The price of 1,000 taels is of course high for ordinary people, but for the rich, it is just a number, which is equivalent to the current soft sister currency, compared with the purchasing power, it is equivalent to buying a car of 500,000 yuan, is there a lack of such rich people in China? The results are obvious.

Wang Shishan was taken aback by this number. He originally thought that it was less than one-fifth of the price, how could he have thought that Geng Jingzhong was so black. "This. Isn't the prince too tall? ”

"It's not high at all, you just do it. It's settled, I'm going to ride my bike these days, so I'm going to advertise the bike. You think about how to sell first, and I'm going to go out for a walk. Oh, by the way, when the next batch of cars comes, uncle, you leave one for your own use, and it will be regarded as my filial piety to you! Geng Jingzhong still didn't want to be too angry with his relatives, so he added a sentence.

"Oh, oh. Thank you! Wang Shishan couldn't change his mouth two years ago, and Geng Jingzhong put a lot of pressure on people, but he himself sometimes didn't notice it.

Geng Jingzhong came out of the headquarters of the trading company, and immediately led the guards to ride around. Geng Jingzhong didn't want to be watched by everyone in the city anymore, so he rode out of the city gate quickly and drove towards the river. The road in Fuzhou City is well repaired in this hurry, there are flat cement roads everywhere, it is very convenient to ride, and it is necessary to die in the cities of other provinces, and the road is half good to burn high incense, and the carriage is bumpy to death, not to mention riding a bicycle on it.

The road along the Minjiang River is also well repaired, and the highway along the river leads from Mawei to Nanping Fu inland, stretching for one or two hundred kilometers. When riding to the beach, Geng Jingzhong was also a little tired, these seven or eight kilometers to ride down, if the mountain bike of the future generations would not be tired, and these two bikes, the performance is still a lot worse, really tired. So Geng Jingzhong stopped and happened to sit on the stone by the river to watch the scenery.

There are more and more ships on the Minjiang River now, all of them come and go between the inland and the Monkey Island Port, of course, there are also many ships to Fuzhou City, there are several wharves on the riverside, constantly loading and unloading, very lively. Geng Jingzhong looked at the merchant ships full of goods, coming and going, so he thought of the Cao Yun ship on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which he had seen last time he entered Beijing. The ships are not big ships, and the amount of them is pitiful in comparison. The number of people in such a fleet is quite large, but such people eat horses and chew, and finally reach the ground, at least two layers have to be removed. If the river is silted up, or it rains continuously, it will take a lot of time, and the materials will be consumed more. In comparison, of course, sea freight is more cost-effective.

Now Fujian is no longer short of food, but the imperial court is still lacking. Without enough food, the entire country's economy will be severely threatened. Geng Jingzhong knew this, and Kangxi Xiao Mazi also knew it, but he just didn't order the sea to be opened. Thinking of this, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but sneer and shook his head secretly.

In recent years, Geng Jingzhong has been committed to the promotion of new species, but also to improve the people's production methods, according to the current situation, the effect is still very good. The production situation in Fujian has indeed improved a lot. As early as five years ago, Geng Jingzhong realized that he had to improve the farming tradition that he had been cultivating for many years, facing the loess with his back to the sky, and that slash-and-burn farming method had been going on for thousands of years. In fact, there is now a production method of 'sitting and exerting force, going to be free', and the substitute cultivator with rope traction is to use the winch used for the roller to pull the plow. There are also hoes in the north, and shovels, insect combs and insect removal pulleys in the south. Also useful. Reflecting the increasing number of traditional agricultural intensive cultivation processes, Geng Jingzhong's mission to the scientific research base now includes projects to manufacture tools such as seeders and harvesters.

It wasn't that difficult to make, and although there was no artifact like a tractor, there were still animals like horses and cows that could be used. Under Geng Jingzhong's orders, the main scientific research projects of the physics room of the scientific research base are these agricultural tools. Geng Jingzhong is here to see the scenery, and the craftsmen in the scientific research base are still repeatedly developing. Geng Jingzhong did not stay on the sidelines to watch when he was in the scientific research base before. Anyway, he didn't know it. He has never experienced the process of agricultural tool processing, even if he sees a combine harvester or the like, he can't think of the slightest usefulness, so he can only look at it again. Then quietly departed, as he came quietly.

After Geng Jingzhong released the mission, he was actually looking forward to this time. Once agricultural tools are manufactured and popularized in Fujian. Then the power of human resistance to nature will go further. In Geng Jingzhong's view, this point not only refers to a variety of weather, but also includes natural conditions such as geographical environment, climate, and land. The history of mankind is actually a history of fighting with the sky, and this process has never stopped since primitive man. So they learned to make bows and arrows for hunting, they learned to breed, they learned to farm, and they learned to build water conservancy

But the long history has come to the present. Humans are still passive and have not actively fought against the sky. For example, agricultural tools, the current agricultural tools still use things from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are very few improvements. This is the courage to fight with the sky is too little and too little, although there is a good name of the 'Agricultural Machinery Bureau' in the improvement of agricultural tools, but it has no effect, and the energy used in the development of agricultural tools is infinitely close to zero. On the contrary, the doctrine of Confucianism is constantly turning over tricks and laborious young and old, and it wants to change this status quo. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has become stronger and stronger in changing the environment and fighting against nature, and the first step is to start with agricultural tools.

Thinking of the physical room, Geng Jingzhong thought of Kong Ming Lantern by the way. Flying is the desire or dream of human beings, whether Chinese or foreigners. I don't have the ability to realize it, so I use this responsibility on the immortals, so the legendary immortals are all soaring clouds and fog, what a somersault of 108,000 miles, Chang'e running to the moon, etc., are just a beautiful imagination. Geng Jingzhong studied chemistry, and he didn't know much about physics, but only the most basic ones. He didn't have the skills to build an airplane, so it was a bit wishful thinking to fly. But this is not impossible to achieve, the only modern tool that can really achieve off the ground is a hot air balloon. As soon as this matter is said to be the principle, it is not worth much, Geng Jingzhong drew a sketch for the researchers to study, they don't understand, so let them start with Kong Ming lantern, first make Kong Ming lantern bigger, just like this, step by step to enlarge Kong Ming lantern, when Geng Jingzhong went to the scientific research base before, in fact, it was already possible to take people away from the ground five zhang high, fortunately, it was tied to a rope, and it was not blown away by the wind, otherwise, the safety factor would not be easy to say.

The technology is still very immature, and Yuxi Geng Jingzhong just glanced at it, and then left. But Geng Jingzhong still continued to mention some construction, hot air balloons are indeed good things, after research, not to mention other uses, just a military use is great. Then we studied, as long as we could lift off a hundred feet into the air, travel ten miles, and bring a musket, then we would have met the preliminary requirements.

The power of the current hot air balloon comes entirely from the combustion of coal, and there is only the ability to go up, not forward. There is no other way than to resort to the wind, so this is too much to ask. Geng Jingzhong also instructed that the technical deficiencies can be constantly explored, but do not rush to achieve results.

Sitting here, Geng Jingzhong began to think about it again. Thinking that once his first air force was established, there would really be no opponents in this world. What Kangxi court, Wu Sangui, what Spanish, Dutch, British, can all send them to see the Buddha. Although it is not possible to solve the problem of an aerial bomber on land, it can be used on a hot air balloon ship. Think of holding a hot air balloon with a long cable, and when the two fleets of the enemy and us meet, suddenly there is a large number of heavenly soldiers, constantly firing at high altitudes that 'cannonballs' can't hit, or still packing explosives, and so on. This will surely surprise the enemy! The more I think about it, the more I feel that this is simply an aircraft carrier of this era, and it is really exciting. (To be continued......)