After discussing the idea of the bicycle, Zhu Youxiao was very excited, so he wanted to build a bicycle.

And he felt from the bottom of his heart that no matter how well Sun Chengzong's lecture was, it was not as good as Wang Hongyu's whimsy.

Crucially, these inventions still make money

Wang Hongyu proposed that if the bicycle was invented, Wei Zhongxian would take it to his workshop, and the workshop and the inner library would be divided fifty-fifty.

This makes the sky more powerful.

At present, there is no steel pipe, only hardwood can be used as a skeleton, and iron castings are used for bearings.

The earliest wooden gears have appeared, and the cast iron gears are far simpler than the pocket wrought iron gears used by Li Tiezhu for clocks and even pocket watches.

The Ministry of Industry can mass-produce cast iron gears, so that several key components of the bicycle, in addition to the steel pipe, have been solved, and the skeleton with wood is also very good, but the life is much shorter.

Before Wang Hongyu leaves, there is one more thing to explain.

That is the veteran of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, who joined the Teng Mosaic Four Guards.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao's actual mobilization force was not much.

The Jinyi Guard and the Four Guards Battalion are still under the control of the Son of Heaven and are in the hands of the Son of Heaven and the Imperial Horse Supervisor of the Inner Court.

In addition to the Jinyi Guard, there are also Wu Xiang Left Guard, Wu Xiang Right Guard, Teng Xiang Left Guard, and Teng Xiang Right Guard, collectively known as the Four Guards Battalion. The sergeants of the Four Guards Battalion are called the Four Guards.

These four guards are generally called Teng Mosaic four guards.

The Tengxiang Fourth Guard Battalion belonged directly to the emperor and was commanded by the inner court, and the soldiers selected were all strong and strong.

Most of the sergeants who initially formed the Tengxiang Four Guards and Warrior Battalions were orphans, or elites selected from the border army, so their combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and even the Nine Sides did not dare to compete with them.

But that's in the past.

Now the four guard battalions have been turned into window dressing, and it is okay to line up for some ceremonial activities, don't look at the soldiers who are tall and big, very bluffing, because they have not participated in the battle for a long time, and the training is already very little.

If there is a real rebellion, these soldiers are probably unreliable.

There are even many soldiers who are selected from the families of nobles and ministers, who are tall and strong, who can neither be famous nor have business acumen, and can also be said to be members of the peripheral family with simple minds and developed limbs.

Although these people belong to the marginal personnel in the family, they have a family background, and they come to the Siwei Battalion purely to eat, so how can they bother to train their combat effectiveness, and if they go to the battlefield, it is estimated that they are not much stronger than the remaining soldiers in Liaodong.

Previously, Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian wanted to leave Wang Hongyu in the capital and specially rectify the four guards.

However, doing so will exacerbate the direct contradiction with the British Duke, Cheng Guogong and others, and it is quite unwise to do so at this time.

Wang Hongyu had more important things to do, and proposed to send a group of people from the 5,000 wounded soldiers in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River to strengthen the Fourth Guard Battalion.

So Wang Hongyu took some of the soldiers and horses who were wounded in the bloody battle of Hunhe and were waiting for demobilization, some of them were left in Liaodong, and some of them were absorbed into Tengpai Siwei.

Replenish these wounded soldiers and organize them separately to strengthen the combat power of the Teng Ti Four Guards.

It is also truly trustworthy, and it is difficult for relatives and civil officials to infiltrate it.

After bidding farewell to the Forbidden City, Wang Hongyu didn't know if he would make earth-shaking changes when he came back.

I hope the Emperor of the Apocalypse can become a great engineer.

Who says an engineer can't be a good emperor?

Wang Hongyu wanted to tell the literati that the scholars were not the only ones who could be officials, and it was not necessary for the scholars to guide the emperor to grow up in the direction of the literati.

Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu are all emperors in the barracks.

This means that the emperor of the military strategist is feasible.

Is it feasible for the emperor of the military strategist, but not for the emperor of engineers?

This is just the prejudice of the literati doctors.

Therefore, because engineers can do various five-year plans, infrastructure development plans, handicraft technology research, modern scientific exploration, and so on.

300 years later, poetry, books, rituals, music, and spring and autumn, mathematics, physics and chemistry engineering, transportation and logistics, which is more important?

It is not that literature, history and philosophy are inferior to mathematics, physics and chemistry, but that traditional Confucianism is inferior to mathematics, physics and chemistry.

In terms of culture, according to the Confucian scholars, it is difficult to update it significantly.

So the Engineer Emperor, far better than the emperor of the traditional Confucian path

When Wang Hongyu left the Forbidden City, he went straight to his uncle's house.

This time, in addition to 7,000 volumes of Western books, the library of the Beijing Normal Mobile School also needs 7,000 volumes of preferred Ming books.

Uncle Liu Ruoyu has a very high level of education, and he also loves to collect, and he is a well-known eunuch who understands culture after Feng Bao and Chen Ju. Later, because of his status, it was more convenient to collect various classics.

At first, Liu Ruoyu knew which scholar was rich in collecting, so he managed to spend money to buy some back. You must know that the popular books in the book market can be bought by ordinary people, and the large print run has a small collection value.

Slowly, ministers, literati, and scholars all knew that Liu Ruoyu had a hobby of collecting, and they all exchanged books with him and appreciated each other's precious books.

The brother-in-law received a large number of books, so he naturally did not hide it from Wang Hongyu.

I was thinking that his Jingshi Academy mobile library didn't have a large number of Chinese books.

I was about to leave Beijing in a few days, and I happened to be sleepy and sent a pillow.

Wang Hongyu said goodbye to his uncle in the restaurant, and unceremoniously proposed to let his uncle take out the books and join the library of the Jingshi Mobile School, and divide them according to the proportion of the books.

The uncle couldn't laugh or cry, but readily agreed. Uncle is not a person who can spend money, and it is not you, Li Tiezhu and your cousin who will earn money in the future.

As a result, 4,000 volumes of classics were taken from Liu Ruoyu and used in the library of the Jingshi Mobile School.

Wang Hongyu will also set up a mobile school publishing house in various places to engage in book printing, wholesale and retail.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the book printing industry was very prosperous, especially popular.

Wang Hongyu decides on the share of the publishing house, according to the number of books invested and the number of books sold.

Liu Ruoyu found some officials and friends, and added another 3,000 volumes.

In fact, it is very troublesome, and you must also memorize the list of books you already have, otherwise it will be difficult to repeat it, and the transportation fleet will be wasted.

In addition to the Confucian books bought at the book market, there are other books that have nothing to do with fame.

Books such as Mojia, Taoism, famous scholars, soldiers, and other princes and hundreds of schools in the pre-Qin period are more precious, and most of the family studies surviving in later generations are the doctrines left in the pre-Qin period.

Of course, excluding those parties and nobles who oppose Wang Hongyu, especially the people from the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, Liu Ruoyu also has friends among these people, but because of their different positions from Wang Hongyu, they will inevitably make a big fuss after they know it.

In this way, the Jingshi mobile library currently has a total of 14,000 volumes.

7,000 volumes of Western books and 7,000 volumes of Chinese books.

Of course, there is no time or manpower to check these books, and even the authenticity is not clear, and some may not even have the value of typesetting.

Therefore, it is not possible to determine the future share simply according to the quantity, but only according to the number of publications and sales, and some books that cannot be sold can only be stopped from printing.