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"Dad, when will Xier's bicycle be made?"

Time flies for several days, and when the newspapers are blowing bicycles well-known, Chen Xu is almost crazy when he is asked by his little cotton jacket every day.

Since seeing Chen Xu swaying his bike with his hands at the gate of Dongcheng that day, his daughter Chen Xi has become deeply fascinated by bicycles. She was waiting for the stars and the moon at home that day. When Chen Xu returned home, she couldn't wait to yell at the cycling. There was also a daughter born in illegitimate daughter Qiuyue, who is almost six years old this year. When she saw her sister asking for her, she also showed her desire. However, because there is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate wife, Chen Qiuyue is very strict by Fan Caiying and dare not ask for it. She could only hide behind Chen Xi and look at her father.

When Chen Xu saw his second daughter's movements and eyes, he felt a little tingling in his heart.

Although he claimed that his wives and concubines were treated equally in the mansion, and that their children had no distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children, and that there were not much differences in food, clothing, housing and use, in the eyes of servants and servants, there were only three wives in the mansion, namely Shui Qingrou, Ying Shi and Meng Wan, Fan Caiying and Fan Caiwei were also quite respected, but in the eyes of servants and outsiders, their status was much different. As for the concubines that the four emperors gave to them in spring, summer, autumn and winter, their status was even more incomparable. Even they themselves asked to lower their ranks and still regarded themselves as maids in the Marquis' Mansion, serving tea and water for Shui Qingrou, Chen Xu and others, and not allowing them to work, they would kneel down and kowtow to beg.

This is the main form of the current society. The concepts and ranks of superiority and inferiority are very clear and deeply rooted, and Chen Xu cannot change them. Therefore, over the years, Chen Xu has gradually been too lazy to say that, so they have to leave, and the concubines have no status, so the illegitimate children are naturally warned by their mothers that they cannot compete for favor with their legitimate brothers and sisters, and cannot ask for items from their fathers.

It’s not a pleasing, but Chen Xu definitely needs to take a bowl of water to serve it evenly. At least he can do it himself. So Chen Xu rushes to draw a few children’s bicycles, shrinking the main wheel to one foot, and adding two small side wheels that can be disassembled at the back, so that seven-year-old Chen Xi and nearly six-year-old Qiuyue can ride safely.

However, after meeting the requirements of the two daughters, facing the lively inquiries of several wives and the same eager expression at the end, Chen Xu had to design a women's light bicycle again, with a wheel radius of one foot and five inches and a small curved beam. In order to distinguish it, it also matched with three colors: black, red and blue, plus some color embellishments in different parts, marked the size, height and color, and asked the butler to personally take 10,000 yuan to find Lin Dong, and first place an order to create five cars to meet the needs of his house.

Although bicycle factories and tricycle factories are currently preparing, under Chen Xu's arrangement, all supporting factories have actually begun to prepare for production. Moreover, due to the publication of newspapers, many people in Xianyang couldn't help but ask around when bicycles and tricycles will be available for sale. The number of people coming to the Academy of Sciences for consultation and placing orders was hundreds of people, which made the Academy of Sciences as anxious as the fire.

Especially Zhang Cang, the Academy of Sciences is now expensive and needs to make more money to fill the bottomless pit of R&D and various expenses. Bicycles and tricycles are obviously an extremely profitable business.

At present, roads across the country are constantly being renovated and modified. The emergence of bicycles will greatly fill the demand and gaps of ordinary families' travel. As long as the price is appropriate, the entire Daqin can sell at least tens of thousands of vehicles a year. Even if one car only makes 500 yuan, it can earn 5 million yuan a year. According to Chen Xu's calculations, tricycles will not be sold too little, and they will make more money. In this way, the Academy of Sciences can earn tens of millions of dollars a year, which will greatly improve the current financial tension in the Academy of Sciences.

Therefore, the bicycle that was suddenly successfully developed became a chicken-like treasure that could lay golden eggs in Zhang Cang's eyes. It was arranged at the Academy of Sciences that day. After several days of preparation and arrangement, it was only possible to produce the bicycle parts drawings.

After receiving the first special order sketch sent by Chen Xu, Lin Dong did not dare to be careless. While being inspired and excited, he organized the backbone of the bicycle team to design overnight, drawing the specifications and drawings of each component and then sent them to each factory and workshop. All factory workshops did not dare to delay. This was a bicycle customized by Qinghe Hou for the three Marquises and two young masters, so he also worked overtime. In just two days, the accessories of the five bicycles were made, and then gathered at the fifth office for fine grinding and installation and debugging. Three days later, all five bicycles of all sizes were installed, and in two days, the paint was completed.

Looking at the five colorful bicycles neatly placed in the test workshop, all the people involved in the assembly and commissioning were inexplicably excited. Lin Dong also breathed a sigh of relief. It had been seven days since the Marquis placed the order to the present. During these seven days, Chen Xu was also asked by his daughter at home, and he wanted to take a detour when he saw his daughter.

Since I have developed my own preferences and thoughts, my cuteness has plummeted.

In January, Xianyang is getting warmer day by day.

In a blink of an eye, it was already mid-January. After a few silent drizzles, the river beach that was still yellow and light green a few days ago was already full of greenery. The willows that had just buddled with green leaves were blooming. The slender willow branches blew in the slightly cold spring breeze. In the river bank, the apricot pears and plums that were still shyly in bud a few days ago seemed to have suddenly woken up these days. One by one, the little ladies who seemed to wake up in the boudoir, stretched out their soft figures and showed their delicate appearance. The red, pink, white, and yellow were blooming all over the mountains.

The rain of apricot blossoms is wet when the clothes are wet, and the wind of willows is not cold when blowing on the face.

It seemed that suddenly, the spring scenery suddenly became extremely thick.

As the spring scenery gets stronger, people go out to the city to enjoy the spring outings and go out in a constant stream every day.

In the west of the city, on the flat cement road leading to Xianyang City, a group of people rode six bicycles of different colors and sizes, riding along the road in the bright spring light.

The leaders were two little girls, six or seven years old, wearing colorful clothes, pedaling two children's strollers that were only two feet tall, one red and one blue. Although they were shaking left and right, they would not overturn because there were side wheels on both sides of the rear wheels, so they would not overturn. The two little guys were pedaling happily, chasing each other and rushing to the front with a silver bell-like laughter.

Behind the two children were three beautiful women wearing thin spring skirts, riding three different main colors of women's bend beam bicycles, including black, red and blue. Among them, the woman in black skirt rode the most steadily and relaxed, and kept following the two children carefully to remind them to take care of them. The other two were riding a little crooked, but they were still quite skillful. They were talking and laughing while riding, and they were obviously very happy.

Behind a group of women was Qinghehou riding a light bike of the same style but not yet painted. He rode slowly while looking around and chatting with a group of guards next to him, and his expression was relaxed.

Behind a group of guards, there were carriages with flags from Qinghe Marquis Mansion, sitting on them were four concubines in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and a group of maids, bringing two girls who had just walked.

The Qinghehou family was traveling in a vast way, which naturally caused cheers and onlookers from the people along the way. Especially when they saw the whole family riding the most lively bicycle in Xianyang recently, they couldn't help but cheer loudly, which made the two children and three women ride more harder.

Today, Chen Xu planned to take his family to the orchard to enjoy the spring barbecue, but Meng Wan and Ying Shi, who had just learned how to ride a bicycle, expressed their willingness to ride a bicycle to the river beach to play, while their two daughters were clamoring to ride a bicycle to the river beach.

Chen Xu knew that these were two women and two daughters who were preparing to show off their bicycles to the entire Xianyang City, but for everyone to be happy, Chen Xu agreed with a wry smile, and even asked someone to go to the Academy of Sciences to get a new car that had just been made and had not had time to paint. He accompanied a group of wives and daughters to ride a bicycle to enjoy the spring, so the scene and scenery this morning came into being.

Since these five cars were sent to Qinghe Villa, seeing the surprise and loneliness in the eyes of Fan Caiying and Fan Caiwei, the four concubines of spring, summer, autumn and winter, Chen Xu had to add twenty orders to the Academy of Sciences. In addition to the five 28-big carriages that were temporarily out for him and several managers to ride, fifteen were light vehicles, including seven of them, seven of which were left in the mansion for Fan Caiying and other four concubines to ride, the remaining few were prepared as gifts for Emperor Shihuang, and one was specially customized for Ziying, who was ready to send it to Ziying after it was done, and then had a heart-to-heart talk with Ziying.

Before Chen Xu placed his second order, Lin Dong and others, who were not even in the factory, were already busy paying it.

Because since Chen Xu's first batch of five colorful orders, the system of the Academy of Sciences began to go crazy, and they placed orders to order. In order to meet the requirements and welfare benefits of insiders, Zhang Cang also issued a notice with a big stroke that all staff members of the Academy of Sciences apprenticeships or above can apply for a bicycle at an internal price of 1,000 yuan and 800 yuan. Each person can choose from the load and lightweight, and the five colors can be selected. So in just a few days, the orders of the Academy of Sciences reached 300.

But the number of staff in the Academy of Sciences should be far more than that. You should know that the entire Academy of Sciences system and the School of Engineering now have more than 4,000 apprentices or above, and the income is not low. Ordinary craftsmen earn several hundred yuan a month, so they can definitely afford it, but many people are just numb after realizing it.

Most of the men in science and engineering have this kind of virtue. Many craftsmen like to build and customize various equipment when they are rich. They also have hammer, axe, chisel, saw, hand drill grinding machine polishing machines and even buy lathes and tinker at home after get off work to study and take on some private work to make money.

On the contrary, compared to the slowness of science and engineering men, the journalist who has more urgent needs and interest in bicycles is the newspaper reporter.

After seeing it with my own eyes and even trying to ride a bicycle, a group of people in the newspaper expressed high praise for the convenience and speed of bicycles. With bicycles, they were indescribable to run news interviews in the future. They disappeared when they raised their legs. Moreover, they didn’t have to arrange people to guard the grass wherever they went, which was much more convenient than horses. So after the news of fierce subscription within the Academy of Sciences spread, the newspaper people could not hold back and asked their connections everywhere to grab orders, and some even walked to Chen Xu’s house through the back door.

Instructed by hundreds of people from the newspaper office, Chen Ping decided to get some benefits for his colleagues and subordinates before he was about to go to the Peking University to perform his duties. So he personally went to the Grand Tutor's Mansion to visit him and asked to place an order of 500 vehicles in advance.

Chen Xu was so amused that he could only throw this matter to Zhang Cang. When Zhang Cang knew about it, he was overjoyed and personally came forward to bargain with Chen Ping. Chen Ping's rich man said that the price was not a problem, but the problem was to be fast.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhang Cang gave a super discount price of 1,200 yuan for weighted cars and 1,000 yuan for light cars. Chen Ping immediately smiled and exposed his back teeth. When the contract was reached, he directly arranged for the financial department supervisor who accompanied him to take out a thick stack of redemption tickets from his bulging briefcase and ordered the full payment of 560,000 yuan.

The wealthy newspaper instantly scared the people from the Academy of Sciences.

After Chen Ping left, Zhang Cang excitedly held a thick stack of tickets and summoned people to quickly modify the factory construction plan. It was obvious that Chen Xu's first phase of production of 2,000 vehicles was too conservative. At present, the bicycle factory had not yet started construction, so he had already obtained orders of 800 vehicles. I am afraid that the order quantity will exceed thousands in the next month, and this is just an order in Xianyang...

Chen Xu was too lazy to worry about the affairs of the Academy of Sciences. He just wanted to accompany his wives, concubines and daughters to relax and entertain in the spring of the 37th year of the First Emperor. Just this year, there may be a huge turmoil in the Qin Dynasty, and I heard that the First Emperor had revealed that he would be parading again after the Shangsi Festival.

This is the last tour of Emperor First Emperor, and something might happen halfway.
Chapter completed!