Chapter 706
Zhong Shuyu's first consideration was to engage in bicycles.
Because the idea of a bicycle exists today.
When the former emperor made rickshaws, he wanted people to make bicycles as a means of transportation.
At his request, a bicycle was indeed made.
However, this kind of bicycle is the same as the bicycle first invented in history, it is a wooden bicycle, no handlebars, no pedals, no chains, and it needs to put its own two legs on the ground from time to time.
In this way, riding the bicycle is almost like doing physical work, and it is tiring to ride down a kilometer, and because the road surface is uneven and there is no shock absorption, the burden on the hips can be described as not light.
Not at all comparable to a carriage.
That's not as good as a horse-drawn carriage, it's completely inapplicable.
After several modifications, he also tried to add pedals and chains, but due to the limited materials, the Shengming Emperor did not succeed in riding a modern bicycle in the end. w✭ap✹.✧feng✳shuge✷.info
In the next few hundred years, no one wanted to make this bike well.
Even today, there are some strange bicycles with no practical use in the warehouse of the invention institute.
But as for the bicycle, although the principle is very simple, if you want to really reach the modern level, it is very comfortable and convenient to ride, and it needs to be supported by industry.
Because the bicycle is a product of modern industry, involving the development of steel, rubber and other fields.
First of all, in this era, you can't make rubber tires, because the rubber industry doesn't have them yet.
Another flywheel and chain is extremely difficult to make at the current level of craftsmen.
After a few days of actual investigation and understanding, Zhong Shuyu gave up making bicycles.
Because it's not like the sewing machine she used to make.
She made the most old-fashioned and simple sewing machine, with a foot pedal and a hand crank on the top, so after repeated experiments, she was able to work with the craftsman to make it in three months.
But it takes time to build a bicycle and a rubber chain.
Even without rubber and chains, you can make a bicycle that can be ridden.
But in this way, the comfort must also be greatly reduced.
It doesn't make much sense to do it like that.
So Zhong Shuyu decided to put the bicycle later.
Because it's too much of a waste of time, it's not even as easy to build a bicycle as it is to generate electricity.
Later, Zhong Shuyu thought about simply doing the industrial revolution in parallel time and space, and was the first to engage in textile machines.
Although there are also textile machines in this era, which were invented by Huang Daopo, Zhong Shuyu thinks that it is powered by water power, and the emperor will definitely like it.
Because it can be turned into a factory of a state-owned enterprise, it can greatly increase the financial revenue of the state treasury.
And because of the advent of the textile machine, it also gave the women the opportunity to take the lead in coming out to work, after all, with such a big benefit, who would want the women to be locked up in the back house and not come out.
But Zhong Shuyu was worried that he would not be able to get a greater decision-making power.
In the end, Zhong Shuyu thought about it and thought of cement and soap.
Neither of these things is available in this day and age.
Because a certain amount of chemical knowledge is required.
Nowadays, the city walls of the room are built with lime mortar, glutinous rice lime mortar, yellow mud, etc.
Soap, on the other hand, is a "soap" made from pancreas, soaphorn solution, bath beans, etc.
If she made cement and soap, she would not have handed over a brilliant officialdom achievement to please the emperor, but it would not be too much.
After all, this is a matter that benefits the people.
And in this era, as long as the emperor is happy, then the rest will naturally be easy to do.