Chapter 388 Bicycle Launch
Chapter 388 Bicycle Launch
"Oh~~ um..."
Xu Jinyu finally came back to his senses from the gossip.
"I have already planned this. I, the Prince An, will help you open this bicycle workshop. The future income will be divided into three parts, one for you, one for the school, and one for me. This will last for ten years. Do you have any objections?"
"No!" The woman in front of them was full of joy. This was much better than they had expected.
They thought that His Highness would just reward them with a sum of money and that would be it, but they didn't expect that His Highness would be willing to give them subsequent income and help them run this bicycle workshop.
"That's it, I'll find someone later..."
"Your Highness, is there anything else?" Nanny He said with a smile.
"besides?"
"Yes, it's just a bicycle. Why would an old servant bother Your Highness?"
"it is good."
Xu Jinyu was beaming with joy. This was Xu Jinyu's original plan, to make the world's science and technology progress through this women's technical college, and then trigger industrial development.
"What else?"
"Your Highness, I have improved the loom."
"Your Highness, I copied the candy."
"Your Highness, I have made a preliminary work of the steam engine, but it cannot be used on the machine yet."
"Your Highness, I got the matches."
"Your Highness, I have made the light bulb."
“Your Highness…”
Xu Jinyu's mouth almost broke from laughing.
"Wuyang, I can't handle it alone, let's go find your aunt."
Princess Wuyang: "Okay!"
Princess Changle was brought in. She had many capable people under her command, and the bicycle workshop was built in less than half a month.
When the first bicycle was driven on the cement road in Beijing, and there were stinky tofu on both sides of the road~~
"Selling milk tea~~"
"Milk candy, the latest milk candy~~~"
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These familiar yet unfamiliar hawking sounds made Xu Jinyu dazed for a moment and he muttered to himself.
"What did I do? I hope the system won't jump when it wakes up."
If there weren't neon lights on both sides of the street, Xu Jinyu would have thought she had come to a scenic spot in some ancient city.
After thinking about it, Xu Jinyu shook his head.
"Who cares? It's the one who caused it to crash."
Shaking his head and stopping thinking about the future, Xu Jinyu raised his head and saw Wuyang rushing towards him on a bicycle.
The simplest large-frame bicycle had most of its parts made of wood. Princess Wuyang snatched the first one away as soon as it was made.
Now·······
"Xu Jinyu, help! This bicycle can't stop~~~"
Princess Wuyang was riding a bicycle with her legs stretched out, looking very panicked.
Yes, the kind where you ride with your legs squeezed under the frame of the bicycle.
Because Wuyang is not tall enough, he can only ride like this.
"Brake! Squeeze the brakes!"
Wuyang: "Which one is the brake~~~"
Xu Jinyu: You don’t even know which brake is which, what kind of bike are you riding?
"Then just jump down."
"jump down!"
"Correct!"
"Bang boring!"
Wuyang successfully jumped off the bicycle, but many parts of the paint on the bicycle were worn off.
"Oh, what a pity."
Someone sighed with regret.
When something as novel as a bicycle came out, there were naturally a lot of people watching, and everyone was looking at this new thing.
The guards of the princess's mansion walked over and picked up the bicycle, and were immediately surrounded by people.
Someone stroked the bicycle with a twinkling look in his eyes: "Sir, does this bicycle really not need food?"
The guard almost laughed out loud: "Do you think it has a mouth for eating food?"
"Hahaha····"
The onlookers laughed. How could a wooden thing have a mouth?
"No."
Guard: "It doesn't need food, but you need to eat. If you don't have the strength, you can't pedal the bicycle."
"Ten kilometers consumes two steamed buns of fuel."
"Hahaha······"
The onlookers burst into laughter again.
A peddler carrying a load squeezed in and said, "We really don't need to eat food to travel. This is much faster than walking. I calculated that it is faster than taking an ox cart or a donkey cart to get from the capital to the dock, and only slightly slower than riding a horse."
When the peddler said this, many people around him became excited. They were all peddlers in the capital, walking the streets. How much they could sell in a day depended on how far they could walk.
Now that they heard that this bicycle was faster than ox carts and donkey carts, they became interested all of a sudden.
"Sir, how much is this bicycle?"
"I'm not sure about this, but it shouldn't be that expensive. There's also a three-wheeled vehicle that can haul goods. If you want one, go to the Xinche Car Shop and have a look."
As soon as the guard finished speaking, someone ran towards the newly opened car dealership.
Soon a surprised voice came.
"A bicycle with a wooden frame only costs five taels of silver, an iron frame one costs eight taels of silver, and a tricycle for transporting goods costs only ten taels of silver."
"coax!"
The people surrounding the bicycle dispersed at once.
Xu Jinyu murmured, "What do you mean by only five taels of silver? Are people so rich nowadays?"
The guard smiled and said, "Your Highness, all this is thanks to your Tianji Pavilion. Nowadays, every hawker has at least 10 or 80 taels of silver in their home."
With so many secret recipes released, any family with the spare capacity will start a side business. It's no longer the case that a whole family relied on the fields to make a living.
Xu Jinyu smiled with his eyes narrowed, it is good for ordinary people to have money at home.
This is called sharing wealth with the people.
She would not be forced to sell her children because of an illness, nor would her family be broken up by an occasional disaster. As a time traveler, she has done what a time traveler should do.
You have traveled through time, but if you don't do anything to change the world, how can you have the nerve to call yourself a time traveler?
"My dear, this bicycle is really fast!"
In a short while, a bicycle stopped in front of Xu Jinyu.
"No, I went to all that trouble to build it, but you have to be careful."
"Pay attention to what."
“Watch your butt when riding your bike on a dirt road.”
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