Chapter 549 IQ is really hard For the farmers of the Ming Dynasty, the best way to use cultivated land is cattle.However, the peasants in eastern Liaodong generally used horses to plough the land, especially the double birch plough pulled by two horses, which could plough twenty or thirty mu a day.This efficiency is very good, before the advent of mechanization, this is already the peak of the animal power era, the farmers in Liaodong, planted a large number of crops, no longer take a single food model.Because grain can never be eaten, and if you sell it, the price is not as high as that of cash crops.Every common man has a pole in his heart that one acre of cotton earns more than two acres of wheat.In particular, linen, a new textile material, is the signature equipment of the whole family army.The training uniforms and intimate clothes of the whole family army have been replaced with linen texture, and because the whole family army has led the trend, it has gained a larger market.However, the problem is that the utilization rate of horses has increased, which has directly caused a bad impact, that is, because of the increase in the number of horses, it has directly caused the air in Liaodong to always be filled with a strong smell of horse manure.And it's the lingering smell of horse manure.Now Liaodong transportation, because of the emergence of the railway, especially in this era, the speed of building the railway is quite dangerous, despite this, the railway in Liaodong did not deliberately pursue speed, unlike the United States using the Chinese to build a railway, twelve hours can build more than 20 kilometers.However, more than a dozen or twenty Chinese died every kilometer, and the prosperity of the United States was built on the bones of the Chinese, although the construction of the railway in eastern Liaodong was slow, but it has been built to Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and at least the four prefectures of southern Liaoning, realizing the state-state connection.With the replacement of this transportation by steam trains, the price of horses, the main transportation force in Liaodong, naturally plummeted, and now even in Jinzhou City, as an ordinary worker, the family can support at least one horse.Horses have become the standard configuration of the people of Liaodong, and the popularity rate even exceeded the car ownership rate of later generations, and the cavalry is embarrassed to go out.Liaodong is not only because of horses, there are more than ten or twenty traffic accidents a day, but also traffic congestion, which makes Quanxu very headache.Using human-powered bicycles, reducing traffic pressure is only the first step, as long as the tape measure can mature to produce bicycles, the motorcycle will be copied again.The biggest difference between a motorcycle and a bicycle is that there is an additional engine, and the other basic principles are the same.Quan Xu rode a horse to the compound of the Liaodong Research Institute, a simple workshop, with five or six bicycles that were quite rough in appearance.This kind of bicycle is imitated on the principle of 28 bars, although the bicycle is not too complicated, but because of the industrial manufacturing heritage of Liaodong, it has become a reality.Just like the axles, bearings, steering shafts and other components of a bicycle have been run and matured on other equipment, the only problem that cannot be solved is pneumatic tires.In fact, the earliest use of rubber technology can be traced back to the 11th century, in the origin of rubber, the local Indians called the rubber tree "tear tree", and used the soil method to make rubber products such as water containers and rubber balls.Later, the Spaniards gradually learned from the local Indians how to harvest rubber and make rubber.Now there are rubber products, that is, rubber sticks used by the Spaniards to deal with indigenous slaves, which are made of steel as bones and wrapped with rubber on the outside, which can be done without being injured and disabled, and does not affect the work of the indigenous people.To Sun Yuanhua's great surprise, Quan Xu actually knew how to ride a bicycle and was very skilled, but after thinking about it, it was not so strange that this prototype car was brought over by Quan Xu.Helena then saw Jeon Wook riding a bicycle, which made her curious: "What is this?"
”"Bike!"
Quan Xu is very proud, the tape measure still has to point his face, and he did not completely copy the 28 bars, but added two small wheels in the back as smart as himself, so that the bicycle can stabilize the bicycle and make it not easy to fall.Especially on the back shelf, there is actually a rather comfortable cushion, and the saddle is wider.Naturally, Helena wanted to try cycling as well.Quan Xu handed over the bicycle to Helena, and he asked the question he was most concerned about: "How many bicycles can be produced in a month?"
”Sun Yuanhua: "We have fifteen people here, and we can produce twelve!"
”Hearing this number, Quan Xu frowned slightly: "The bicycle is basically quite satisfied, the only problem is that the weight is too heavy, and the weight needs to be reduced, this bicycle is almost more than a hundred pounds, so it will be very laborious, save what can be saved, by the way, how much does it cost to manufacture?"
”Sun Yuanhua thought for a while and said: "Not counting wages, only counting the cost of materials, each car needs seventeen or eighteen taels of silver!"
”"No, it's too expensive!"
Quan Xu looked at Sun Yuanhua and said: "Reduce production costs as much as possible, if the bicycle wants to be promoted, it must be cheap!"
”Although the people of Liaodong are very wealthy, if they are asked to spend twenty taels of silver to buy a bicycle, they would rather buy a horse and replace the basic transportation in the city with a bicycle, which is Quanxu's plan and the true meaning of bicycles.Fifteen years ago, the county where Lao Cheng was located still had a large number of manpower three-wheeled trucks to transport goods, as well as manpower three-wheeled vehicles to transport guests, and this kind of tricycle was gradually replaced by electric vehicles.Relatively speaking, Liaodong's electric power research is very lagging behind, which is no way to do it, the tape measure can imitate simple mechanical equipment, for too complex, there is no technical reserve.There are many technicians in the tape measure department, they began to imitate the single-cylinder diesel engine, as for the principle or something, let them look at the information, explore on their own, and encourage the members of these tape measure department, Quan Xu is ready to leave the Liaodong Research Institute."
Your Excellency the Marquis!"
At this moment, Helena, who had been playing a bicycle for a while, came to Jeon Xu very angrily."
You have to give me an explanation!"
Quan Xu was a little inexplicable: "What explanation do you need?"
”"I believe in you, so I emptied the wealth of the city-state and came to China to trade with you, as the governor of the East, are you obliged to ensure our personal safety and property safety?"
Helena said very angrily: "Now that our fleet transporting war horses and property has been robbed in the Taiwan Strait, and more than a dozen sailors have been killed, how should this account be calculated?"
”"Your fleet has been robbed?"
Quan Xu was a little incredulous: "Who did it?"
”"What do you say?
Except for Zheng Zhilong, who has the guts?
”Helena is right, the Republic of Venice does not have merchant ships in the pure sense, in fact, the merchant ships of this era are almost all armed merchant ships with a certain ability to defend themselves.Even the most ordinary armed merchant ship with a dozen guns is very normal.Jeon Wook's face instantly became unsightly.As early as half a year ago, Quan Xu received the Spaniards armed Zheng Zhilong's men, and in this case, Quan Xu was silent on the surface.As a matter of fact, more than two-thirds of the main warships of the entire navy, including eight gunboats with 8,000 materials, 16 gunboats with 10,000 materials, and eight gunboats with 12,000 materials, totaling 32 main warships and nearly 300 Exocet warships, were concentrated in the waters of the South China Sea and the East China Sea.As the overlord of the sea, being slapped in the face made Quan Xu feel a little indignant."
What about your losses?"
Helena cried: "What do you say?
Very miserable, three ships of brimstone, two ships of saltpeter, and six hundred Polish horses, a hundred Shire horses!
There are also 30,000 gold florin (Dutch) coins. ”"Don't worry, I'll kill him!"
Previously, Helena had wanted to use herself as a trade in an attempt to solve Venice's passive problem, but this deal naturally did not go through.However, Quan Xu proposed another deal, that is, the production capacity of Liaodong could be supplied to the Venetian city-state republic, and the steel, cement, and even ships they needed could help them produce.The sailing ships of this era are not as highly automated as later generations, which require a large number of manpower, so Quan Xu proposed a win-win cooperation method in order to train his sailors.He recruited a large number of sailors from among the millions of sailors, and accepted the employment of the Venetians, who could provide services for their merchant ships, and during the period of work, compared with the salaries of the sailors in Liaodong, he could receive eight to ten taels of silver per month.This is quite a high salary, and for each sailor hired, he has to pay twenty taels of silver for his settlement, and in the event of an accident, he needs to pay a pension of one hundred and fifty taels of silver.Although Venice is a small country, it has a lot of money, and it has hired more than 3,000 sailors from Quan Xu in one go, and it can be said that more than two-thirds of the Venetian merchant ships that travel to and from Liaodong are all Quan Xu's people.Originally, Quan Xu did not kill Zheng Zhilong, just because he was Zheng Chenggong's father's face, and Zheng Chenggong's personality made Quan Xu very admired.Quan Xu came to the general staff of the whole family army and said to Zhu Zhaoyi: "You immediately draft an order, ordering the First Fleet of the Liaodong Naval Division to go to Kyushu Island, take over the combat mission of the Second Fleet, and order the main warships of the Second Fleet to assemble in Tainan Port!"
”Zhu Zhaoyi was slightly stunned: "Master Hou, what do you mean ......"
"Some people's IQ is really hard!"
”Quan Xu said indignantly: "If you don't cripple him, you are disobedient!"
”Zhu Zhaoyi said: "Master Hou, don't be angry!"
”"Ben Shuai is not crazy, anyway, he beats the child on a rainy day, and he is idle when he is idle!"
Quan Xu said: "Order the 1st Brigade, 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, and 6th Division of the Marine Brigade to improve combat readiness, and when I arrive in Tainan, I will officially launch Operation Shower!"
”Operation Shower is a strategy formulated by the General Staff of the Whole Family Army against the Spanish phalanx of the Spaniards, and it is also the ultimate strategy for Quan Xu to get the Qiongzhou Mansion.Quan Xu looked at the staff officers and said: "This combat operation is not as good as landing in Taiwan and Luzon, it is just a small fight, and now the normal Qiongzhou Mansion has nearly 20,000 firearms soldiers of Zheng Zhilong, which is the test of the wisdom of the staff officers, and also the courage and courage of the whole army, I believe that everyone can withstand the test!"
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