readx;? At the end of the year 643 of the Femon calendar, a strange four-wheeled carriage slowly drove in from the north gate of Coenas. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The carriage had neither elaborate ornamentation nor gilt ornamentation to show off wealth, and was much simpler than the usual noble car, not even a family coat of arms. But its low carriage, its overly thick rubber tires, and the six black horses that pull it in front of it show that it is extraordinary.

The young guard in charge of guarding the city gate subconsciously walked towards the carriage, and the middle-aged guard beside him grabbed him and said in a low voice, "What are you going to do?"

"Isn't there a need to be checked?" The guard was covered in silver armor all over his body, and only a childish face was exposed outside his helmet.

The middle-aged guard's hand grabbed his arm tightly, looked at the coachman driving the carriage with a smile on his face, opened and closed his mouth slightly, and said in a low voice: "Check, do you know whose carriage this is?"

It wasn't until the carriage drove past the two of them that the young guard muttered, "Didn't you say that unless it was printed with the royal coat of arms, whoever passed through it would have to be checked?"

The middle-aged guard was slightly stunned, thinking, this kid is really sincere. That's right, after the murder of the monarch by the Vice-Chancellor Adrien four years ago and the burning of the Faemon Palace, the Royal Order did issue a charter that any carriage entering Coenas would be subject to interrogation.

However, since Empress Lucia ascended the throne, the empire has been thriving, and the imperial capital of Coenas has been even more calm, and the rules for strict inspection of people entering the city have long been less strict.

What's more, he recognized the coachman who had just driven the horse.

"Silly boy, do you know whose carriage it is?" the middle-aged guard said softly.

"Who?"

"Duke of Vene......"

"King of the North?" the young guard gasped, glad he hadn't done anything stupid.

......

Wesley reclined in a standard Geryu paralyzed position, taking up an entire row of seats by himself, so that Donner, who was sitting across from him, had to squeeze between Una and Layla.

"Don't say it, this chair is really comfortable to sit on. He stretched, then crossed his hands behind his head in a very comfortable look.

"Nonsense! Can you be uncomfortable when you occupy a seat for three people alone?" Donner gave him a glaring look.

"So be it," Wesley smirked, "Layla, come and sit next to me." ”

"I don't want it. Layla stuck her tongue out at him, then deliberately opened the curtain to look out the glass window at the street view of Coenas.

Unlike ordinary carriages, the carriage of this carriage was almost entirely made of imitation carriages, except that it did not use a streamlined design due to ease of manufacture, and the ground clearance was raised to take into account the level of paving of the roads in the empire.

To be more precise, it looks like an enlarged Jeep Wrangler from the outside, but on the inside it resembles an elongated luxury Lincoln, and even more refined and luxurious than the slightly rough American goods that Donner remembers.

It is easy to understand how the precious nanmu from the south of the Thornflower Empire, the special dwarf horse-hip leather of the Ganges city-state, and the craftsmanship of the best carpentry and leather craftsmen in the empire are very different from those industrial products that are mass-produced on the assembly line.

In fact, for those nobles who have been down for centuries, such lavish decorations are nothing, and the reason why this carriage made Wesley feel so comfortable is not in the interior of the carriage.

Before the official start of the Wucheng factory, the first simple hydraulic milling machine used bearings hand-built by dwarf craftsmen according to Donner's design drawings, and the life of the milling machine was extremely low and the accuracy was not high, the most important reason was that the quality of the bearings was not up to standard.

However, with the continuous technological upgrading of the Wucheng factory in recent years, the steel ball rolling mill has been changed for two generations, with the world's diverse and outstanding metal properties, the bearings produced by the Wucheng factory are now different from the past, both in terms of accuracy and life.

In addition, because the carriage only sits on people, and there are no parts such as engine gearbox, although the carriage looks like a hard-core off-road vehicle, it is actually a load-bearing body design, plus the front and rear axles do not need to be equipped with power and steering mechanisms, and there is enough space to install a complex suspension system - the suspension of the front wheels is mounted on the steering wheel of the carriage, and the rear axle is equipped with a differential.

Finally, and most importantly, the carriage used rubber pneumatic tires, which were the first in the world.

Seven years ago, Downer had already bought the largest natural rubber tree plantation in the empire from an earl in Arthur's province (one of the three southern provinces of the empire) through both power and money, and gradually rebuilt and expanded the plantation, rebuilding the original rubber wheel making workshop in the area.

And the ability to produce pneumatic rubber tires is the result of rubber additives accidentally obtained by the Misty Institute of Chemical Engineering when developing hot air balloon materials - I have to admit that war is indeed the most important driving force for the development of science and technology - Moen also won the fifth consecutive engineering and technology progress award for this (Moen won the fourth Tom Award for hot air balloon materials last year)

Now, Wesley is cross-legged, enjoying the fruits of these technological innovations. However, he is not as free as he seems, and he has done a lot of things in the past few years.

At the beginning of 642, he published a novel called "Nine Days", which tells the story of a group of young men and women who fled the war in an unknown deserted village in the western part of the empire during the Great Patriotic War, and began to tell each other what they had seen and heard in order to relieve the pressure of the war.

In the entire novel of nearly 200,000 words, a total of seven protagonists from different walks of life tell a story every night, and the collection of sixty-three stories is full of criticisms of the Church of Light, satirizing the aristocratic way of life, and revealing the suffering of the common people.

The reason for the creation of "Nine Days" was of course Donner's suggestion, but the whole novel was indeed written by Wesley, and it is precisely because it was written by him that it is full of all kinds of indescribable love details, and it once became a popular reading material among the noblewomen of the empire.

For this reason, the Count Borg, who wrote books under his real name, became more popular among the noblewomen of Cohenas.

However, the screened clean version of "Nine Days' Talks" (unfortunately only more than 90,000 words remained) has become a reading material for more than 300 public schools in the SAR.

In addition to this book, Wesley also compiled a play called Don Quixote.

In this comedy, which is performed every month in Coennas, Don Quixote, a sick and down-and-out aristocratic young man named Don Quixote, sets off to the Knight Federation with his retinue Sancho (who claims to be a magic apprentice) in order to pursue his dream of being a knight. (To be continued.) )

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