December 35 of the sixth year of Daming Taiping, the day of Chinese New Year's Eve.

The sound of crackling firecrackers rang out, and people were surging in Longzhong Village. As in previous years, the children of the Zhuge family scattered all over the country, but anyone who can walk away, will take a variety of transportation to Beijing from the end of December...... I have come to this festival that the Chinese attach the most importance to.

On December 35, the children of the Zhuge family who returned to Beijing would gather in Longzhongzhuang to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and worship their ancestors. For the children of the Zhuge family scattered everywhere, the annual Spring Festival gathering in Longzhongzhuang is not just as simple as having a meal and greeting each other, but also a means for most of them to maintain family connections, perhaps the means of family support, even effective and low-cost means.

Those Zhuge who are thriving need to be promoted from the family to be their helpers, and those who are temporarily talented or simply do not have much talent need to take advantage of the opportunity of the New Year to get close to those "big Zhuge Ge" in order to get the opportunity to rise. There are also many Zhuge who start their own businesses, and they also need to take advantage of this opportunity for everyone to get together to pull some venture capital or something. There are also many Zhuge who have a few spare money in their pockets and have nowhere to invest, and they also want to use this annual family event to find some projects that are sure to make money......

Therefore, on the day of the 35th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you can always see some new things here in Longzhongzhuang, similar to an exposition. And on the thirtieth day of this year's Chinese New Year's Eve, the most eye-catching things on the side of Longzhongzhuang are undoubtedly cars and airships!

"Right rudder, right full rudder...... One hundred and eight uncles, turn the steering wheel to the right......"

Outside the "North Institute of Technology" building in Longzhongzhuang, Zhuge Weidao is holding a steering wheel in his hand, and under the guidance of Zhuge Weili's grandson, Zhuge Weiwei, he is driving a hand-built wooden-shell convertible car.

Zhuge Weidao has learned to drive in his last life (he has not bought a car yet), and he has learned to drive an airship in his life, but it is the first time he has heard someone shouting right full rudder in a car, and the "steering wheel" he is holding in his hand knows at a glance that it is a steering wheel used to operate a ship.

In addition to replacing the steering wheel with a steering wheel, the interior of this car is also very poor, and the chair is also hard-seated, and you can sit on it, but the material is quite solid, as if it is mahogany. There are definitely no seat belts, and don't think about airbags or anything, but fortunately there are brakes, but they are not pedaled, but hand-pulled. As for manual transmissions, automatic transmissions and anything, there is no gearbox. The speed of the car is all controlled by the throttle, and the foot is full speed - the car equipped with a four-cylinder in-line 12-horsepower engine can speed around the "Beijing Institute of Technology" at speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour.

In addition, the endurance of these two cars is also much stronger than the previous "horse-electric hybrid" car, only one fuel needs to be prepared, that is, gasoline, as long as the tank is filled, you can run up to 300 kilometers continuously! With Zhuge Weidao's experience, just for this point, the final winner in this round of "steam and electricity battle" must be the car.

Of course, it is impossible for this car to be put on mass production at the moment, this car is not even a prototype, and Dingtian is a test car of the power system. If you want to make a car that can be marketed, you have to have at least a car seat that doesn't have a bad ass, a transmission that can shift gears, a seat belt, a brake that you can put on your feet, a windshield, a roof that protects you from the elements, rain and sun, and oh, a suspension spring...... This is the industrial chain!

The industrial chain of the automobile industry is quite long, and when the automobile industry matures, there are tens of thousands of parts and components that need to be used in a car, and these parts also have their upstream supporting enterprises. Taken together, the entire industrial chain is a huge industrial system.

And it was this industrial system that helped the Chosen One in another timeline win two world wars and finally ascend to the top as the world hegemon!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao released the accelerator and then pulled the brake. The brakes of this car were very hard, and they stopped suddenly, as if they braked suddenly, Zhuge Weidao's body rushed forward, and almost hit the rudder, but fortunately, Zhuge Weili on the side was quick and pulled him.

Zhuge wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, turned back to Zhuge Weili and said: "Shaoxuan, your car is not bad, the power is very sufficient, and the battery life is enough, but there are still some things that need to be improved, I will give you an evaluation book when I go back, you can refer to it." ”

Although Zhuge Weili is the grandson of the Great Military Division, he is very polite to others, and he is not at all unscrupulous, so he smiled humbly at the moment and said: "One hundred and eight uncles, thank you very much!" ”

"It's all a family, why say thank you? Besides, I also invested money in your car dealership, we are a partnership to do business, hello is my good! As Zhuge Youdao spoke, he pushed open a creaky car door and got out of Zhuge Weili's car.

However, his test drive is not over yet, because there is not only one car pulled to Longzhongzhuang today, but there are sixteen various cars, trams, steam cars, and gas cars waiting for Zhuge to test drive one by one, and then he will write an evaluation report for each car, pointing out their advantages and disadvantages and areas that can be improved, and giving investment suggestions - according to the results of the meeting of the military division, Zhuge Shijia will set up an automobile industry fund to focus on investing in start-up car manufacturers. Among them, the money invested in the car factory founded by the children of the three royal families, the eight great families and the Xungui family can only account for 30% of the fund's total assets at most. The remaining 70% must be invested in civilian entrepreneurs!

According to the tradition of the Zhuge family's military division, only the youngest five members have the right to decide on the subject of venture capital. And Zhuge Weidao is now the youngest one in the military division, so he is the only one who has the task of test driving cars, trams, and gas cars.

In addition to test driving the car, after the New Year, he also had to test drive the airship...... The Zhuge family set up an aviation industry fund very early and threw a lot of money at the airship! Many large and small airships were created, including the "Wyvern III" that shone in the Battle of Peshawar. After the Battle of Peshawar, airships became a "tuyere industry" for a while, so there are twenty or thirty large and small airships floating in the sky above Longzhongzhuang today, all of which are looking for investment.

Although Zhuge Weidao is not ready to engage in airships, airships and airplanes are all flying in the sky, and those who can do airships may also be able to do airplanes, right? So he had to take a good look at those airships to see which one had the best workmanship?

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One morning passed in the middle of getting in the car, driving the brakes, and getting out of the car. Zhuge Weidao has opened his eyes this time, it turns out that the car can be so simple and so strange. But he was also relieved, just a Zhuge family has already drummed up so many "classic cars", and I don't know how many "classic cars" there are in the country? This is really a bit of the excitement of China's new energy vehicle market in the future...... But now there is no "Tesla" in the West, and I don't seem to have heard of Ford, Mercedes-Benz, or BMW.

While thinking about happy things, Zhuge Weidao shook his feather fan, and "very Zhuge " walked into the "Northern Institute of Technology" building like a holy place under the gaze of a group of "Zhuge entrepreneurs" - this afternoon he will worship the ancestor King Zhuge Wuzhong there with other members of the military division regiment, and then go to the square outside the "Northern Institute of Technology" building to receive the New Year greetings of "Eight Hundred Zhuge ", followed by more than two hundred tables of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner (Eight Hundred Zhuge and their families), and finally set off firecrackers, watch fireworks, and observe the New Year, On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are still a lot of projects...... Add this kind of thing together, it's really full of New Year's flavor!

"One hundred and eight brothers, you came just in time, come over and take a look at this."

As soon as Zhuge Weidao entered the house, he saw Zhuge Weijiu, the great military master, beckoning him with a feather fan, and he seemed to be holding a telegraph in his other hand.

Zhuge Weidao hurriedly stepped forward, took the telegram from Zhuge Weijiu's hand, looked down, frowned, and said: "Britain, France, Rakshasa Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sardinia are ready to declare war on the Turkish Empire together?" Fighting a Turkey actually wants to make such a big move? Great military division, is this news accurate? ”

Zhuge Weijiu said: "Look at who sent it?" ”

Zhuge looked down at the bottom of the way, and read in a low voice: "Happy New Year, your dearest Mary. Antoinette...... It seems that this news is quite accurate! ”