At the Imperial Military Academy, a rampage princess was searching for a traitor.

Unbeknownst to him, Binghe, who is approaching the storm, is worrying about his "small business" in the lower city.

Now the novice mechanic shop has opened a branch. This branch is next to the entrance of the headquarters of the Imperial Capital Mercenary Association.

This is a bicycle shop plus a gas car generator car repair shop, this storefront, the daily traffic of customers, but the mercenary club on the side is very deserted.

In the bike repair shop, there are young people recruited from downtown China. At five o'clock every morning, Binghe personally teaches these young workers, who are not much older than him, how to disassemble the simplest of bicycles. In the process of disassembly, it is natural that the hands are full of oil, and there is no trace of aristocratic elegance.

These young people who were recruited. He's not much of a mechanic. I don't even know a few words. However, the advantage is that the mind is flexible, and the speed of understanding the parts replacement of the bicycle is quite fast.

Bing Verification gave them an internship salary of five lira a month. Performance pay is related to the number of maintenance bikes, and if the business is busy, twenty lira can be earned.

As for the parts of the bicycle, they are supplied by a specially opened factory of Binghe. The production process standards are set by Binghe, and the factory responsible for production is joined by students from the School of Mechanical Engineering. At this time, Binghe was able to find more than just the third group of students.

Since the lease of the factory to the military delivery has been able to earn extra money. And after making money, they will be very reasonable to distribute the wages to the collaborators. ——The reputation of wealth and generosity spread widely among the small circle of students in the mechanical college of the imperial capital.

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The manufacturing of precision parts such as bearings is completed by several students from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. These are tasks that only skilled workers can do, and only key skilled workers are responsible.

As for the assembly of this internal low-tech, labor-intensive work link. There is a large labor force in Downtown. In Binghe's view, as long as he loses the pretentious and reserved aristocracy, the hand-in-hand teaching, and the honest and reasonable organization and management of them. It can completely save the machinist a lot of time to deal with those tedious and low-tech processes.

Mechanics build bikes! It's quite an alternative idea in this day and age. However, Binghe is the embodiment of modern thinking - 'the development of technology needs to meet the market demand', and the only 10th of the higher-income households in the lower districts of the entire empire can afford to consume mechanical products.

The reputation of the nobility, the noble image of the nobility, Binghe doesn't care.

Staring only at the iron rice bowl, hanging their own technology and means of production in the arms market, they are hungry and half-dead, and they are not willing to change their thinking. That was in the eighties of the twentieth century.

When Binghe signed an unequal treaty with his niece, she had to manage all the pocket money allocated by the family. Binghe felt the need to make money on his own.

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Of course, the bulk of the profit of the entire novice machinery shop is not the bicycles, but the fleet of gas locomotives.

Gas generator locomotive. After Binghe partnered with the students of the third group, Binghe quickly recruited students from other groups to join in, and every three days a group of people went to the factory in shifts to solve the key production process links.

Soon a team of forty gas locomotives was formed in the imperial capital. The capacity of these two hundred locomotives is comparable to that of thousands of horse-drawn carriages. It undertook the freight of vegetables, fish and fruits around the imperial capital. And that's exactly what makes a novice mechanic shop's income.

Prior to this, the country's railway transportation was to maintain the flow of materials between several large cities, and the communication of materials between cities and suburbs still relied on the horse-drawn carriage system, which led to the difference between the basic prices in the cities and the prices of agricultural products in the countryside several times or even ten times. Worthless things such as taro and some game fruits can be sold at a good price in the city. The transport capacity of mechanical locomotives fills this gap.

The rise of the mechanical locomotive transportation industry must be a threat to traditional industries, such as the carriage industry. It can be said that the interests of the entire lower town are monopolized by a group of small nobles. But these earth snakes dare not come out now.

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Technological change inevitably gives rise to conflicts of interest. It was difficult for feudal society to carry out the industrial revolution.

The reason is that the feudal society solidifies social rights one by one. The vested interests of all sectors of society are to curb the benefits of technology at all levels of society.

If you want to expand a new technology in the market, you must have the right to expand the new technology.

For example, this gas car technology, if a very small family of mechanics has mastered the gas car technology. He couldn't promote it in the imperial capital. The various transportation lines of the imperial capital are behind feeding a large number of people, and the interest lines behind this can be traced back to a large number of noble lords.

New technology always has defects at the beginning, at the beginning due to the failure rate, maintenance rate, is not visible cost advantage, but once the new technology wants to occupy the market, it will be hostile to the forces that have occupied the market.

For example, Tesla's alternating current on Earth was suppressed by Edison's General Electric, and alternating current was not promoted until Tesla died of poverty. -- It was still the era of monopoly capital groups, and the competition and collision of monopoly capital left a large space for technology to rise, and those who mastered new technologies could still gain power, or with the help of the power of a certain capital group, expand the chain of interests through innovative technology.

In the feudal era, from the big nobles to the small nobles, every property right with interests in the empire was divided according to the rules of rights separation. It is equivalent to all commercial rights, from steel to the profit chain of transporting vegetables in urban markets, which are divided by rights. It is divided into large and small family forces. And the poor technicians have ideas, and there is no reason to motivate them to act.

The profit chain is divided by rights, so there is no profit incentive, and the motivation for social and technological progress is almost zero. (Most people in modern times work either for money or to be highly recognized by society.) Selfless dedication to technological progress is poisonous chicken soup for the soul. ）

However, it cannot be said that technology has completely stagnated, and of course there is also the war that stimulates the technological progress of the military industrial family. In order to stabilize the title and support the rights of the imperial capital, the Gun Flame family has also continuously improved the military production line for hundreds of years. Of course, this kind of technological progress is slower than a turtle in Binghe's eyes. Binghe: "The thousand-year steam calendar is just a sin." ”

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Therefore, in this world, the technological progress that Binghe is now engaged in in feudal society requires three conditions.

First, there is a need for an aristocrat who has enough political power, has no rules, and is unwilling to abide by the rules, and observes the world's technological system in an eclectic manner. I really love the progress of the technological system in this world

The identity of Gun Flame Binghe is already very strong, and now Gun Flame Binghe has also put more than a dozen young aristocratic teenagers such as Pollon Keys. to pull into this profit chain. Of course, an aristocrat like Keith is decent, and he will not take the initiative to pay attention to the market at all. It was only after Binghe's invitation that Keith joined the circle of interests with his teammates. (Binghe is too close to the people, and those aristocratic teenagers don't approve of it, but they now see the aura of Binghe's excellent mechanics, not Binghe's behavior of "losing the dignity of the nobility"), such a large group of powerful teenagers gathered together, which made many local snakes in the imperial capital very jealous.

Second: there is a genius who figured out the entire standardized production line, and used the system to divide labor to reduce the complexity of each link. -- As the chief technical designer, Gun Yan Binghe has a large division of labor in the links.

Thirdly, a well-connected person is needed to communicate with a large number of young mechanics to join this simple standard production and be responsible for the most critical production steps according to the set standards. ——Integrity management ability and good management reputation.

Binghe just met these three conditions.

So in the second half of this year, a well-tuned gas locomotive, in the name of the Royal Mechanical Academy, began to operate in the imperial capital area.

There are six routes, each from 70 km to 120 km. There are 15 to 30 platforms along the route.

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Of course, all this cannot escape the eyes of the big men of the empire.

On the third floor of the Celestial Tower, in the office study of the simple and solemn Emperor of the Empire.

The Director of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, standing quietly in front of His Majesty's desk, as one of the eyes and ears of His Majesty the Emperor, he would deliver information to His Majesty the Emperor every day.

Today, I will send you information about the "Beginner's Friendly Machinery Shop" and the "Gas Car Transportation Business".

And when the emperor carefully opened the materials that were placed on the desk, he seemed to be quite tolerant and said: "It's all children, children get some pocket money to spend, adults don't make a fuss." ”

After the emperor gave such an evaluation, then there was no follow-up. Of course, the approving smile on the emperor's face made the head of the intelligence agency understand what His Majesty meant.

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The cornerstone of imperial power was the army, steel, machine building, ore, chemicals, grain, transportation.

Without exception, these links, which are the cornerstones of state power, are under the control of the great aristocracy. The great nobles had a high degree of control over these related rights in their domains.

The imperial capital is the core territory of the imperial family. The emperor is the supreme lord of this territory, and whether the behavior of any minor nobles in this territory is legal or not is a matter of the emperor's words.

In the past, the emperor allowed the road traffic near the imperial capital to be controlled by the close nobles of the imperial family. Because of the emperor's acquiescence, it was legal for them to hold it.

And now Binghe's behavior has reached heaven's hearing. After the emperor compared the capacity of gas vehicles. I think that this thing that Bing Nu gets is effective in enhancing the traffic of his territory. The Emperor acquiesced in Binghe's actions, so the current actions of these mechanical academies are legal.

Of course, in the future, when the gas car line is perfected, the royal family will take this property under its own name. After all, this is a vital property in the royal domain.

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But for the emperor, now is not the time to divide the cake. Because the cake makers are still young children, "grab the cake that the child just made and eat it." Grab the pocket money earned by the children of the mechanical academy. "This kind of shameless thing, the royal family will not do it yet.

Even if he took this property, the emperor would use it to give some rights to the person in charge of this industry. For example, knighthood, office, marriage, and so on. (Bing's age is still too young.) ）

Emperor Jialong was very dexterous in his wrists. It has always maintained the majesty of the royal family and the cohesion of the royal family to the major noble families.