After discussing the idea of a bicycle, Zhu Youxiao was very excited and wanted to start manufacturing a bicycle.
Moreover, he felt from the bottom of his heart that no matter how good Sun Chengzong's lectures were, they were not as good as Wang Hongyu's whimsical ideas.
The most important thing is that these inventions can also make money
Wang Hongyu proposed that if the bicycle was invented, Wei Zhongxian would bring it to his own workshop, and the workshop and internal treasury would be divided 50-50.
This makes the sky more powerful.
Currently there are no steel pipes, so we can only use hardwood as the frame and cast iron for the bearings.
The earliest wooden gears have appeared, and cast iron gears are much simpler than the pocket wrought iron gears Li Tiezhu used to make clocks and even pocket watches.
The Ministry of Industry can mass-produce cast iron gears. In this way, several key components of the bicycle, except for the steel pipes, are solved. The wooden frame is also very good, but the lifespan is much shorter.
Before Wang Hongyu leaves, there is one more thing he needs to explain.
That is the veteran of the bloody battle in Hunhe, joining the Tengxiang Four Guards.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao didn't actually have much power at his disposal.
The Jinyiwei and Siwei camps are still under the control of the emperor and are managed by the emperor and the imperial horse supervisor.
In addition to the Jin Yiwei, there are also Wuxiang left guard, Wuxiang right guard, Tengxiang left guard, and Tengxiang right guard who serve as Suwei palace. They are collectively called the Four Guards Battalion. The sergeants of the Four Guards Battalion are called the Four Guards Army.
These four guards are generally called the four guards of Tengxiang.
The Tengxiang Four Guards Camp is directly under the emperor and is commanded by the inner court. The soldiers selected are all strong and strong.
Initially forming the Tengxiang Four Guards, most of the sergeants in the Warrior Battalion were orphans or elites selected from the frontier armies. Therefore, their combat power was extremely powerful, and not even Jiubian dared to compete with them.
But this is past.
The current Fourth Guards Battalion has been turned into a mere cosmetic. It is okay to line up for some ceremonial activities. Although the soldiers are all very tall and intimidating, they have not participated in combat for a long time and have received very little training.
If there is a real rebellion, these soldiers may not be reliable.
There are even many soldiers who are selected from the families of nobles and ministers who are tall and strong, who have neither passed the examination nor have business acumen. It can also be said that they are peripheral members of the family with simple minds and well-developed limbs.
Although these people are marginal members of the family, they have family backgrounds. They come to Siwei camp just to make a living and have no intention of training for combat effectiveness. If they go to the battlefield, they will probably not be much better than the remaining soldiers in Liaodong.
Previously, Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian wanted to keep Wang Hongyu in the capital to rectify the four guards of Tengxiang.
However, doing so will directly intensify the conflict with the British Duke, Cheng Guogong and others. It is quite unwise to do so at this time.
Wang Hongyu had more important things to attend to and proposed to transfer a group of people from the 5,000 wounded soldiers from the previous bloody battle of Hunhe to strengthen the Fourth Guards Battalion.
So Wang Hongyu kept some of the injured soldiers and horses waiting for demobilization from the previous bloody battle of Hunhe in Liaodong, and absorbed some into the Tengxiang Siwei.
Replenish these wounded soldiers and organize them separately to strengthen the combat power of Tengxiang's four guards.
It is also truly trustworthy and difficult for relatives and civil servants to penetrate.
After bidding farewell to the Forbidden City, Wang Hongyu wonders whether he will achieve earth-shaking changes when he comes back.
I hope Emperor Tianqi can become a powerful engineer.
Who says engineers can't be good emperors?
Wang Hongyu wanted to tell the literati that not only scholars, peasants, workers, merchants, and soldiers could be officials, but it was not necessary for scholars to guide the emperor to grow in the direction of literati.
Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu were both emperors in the military camp.
This means that the military strategist and emperor are feasible.
It is feasible to be a military strategist emperor, but not an engineer emperor?
This is just the prejudice of literati and officials.
Therefore, because engineers can do various five-year plans, infrastructure development plans, handicraft technology research, modern scientific exploration, etc.
I would like to ask 300 years later, poetry, books, rituals, music, the Spring and Autumn Period, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, transportation and logistics, which one is more important?
It’s 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, it is difficult for Confucian scholar-bureaucrats to significantly update their culture.
Therefore, the engineer emperor is far better than the traditional Confucian emperor.
Wang Hongyu left the Forbidden City and went straight to his uncle's house.
This time, in addition to the 7,000 volumes of Western books in the library of the Capital Mobile School, there are also 7,000 volumes of selected Ming Dynasty books.
My brother-in-law Liu Ruoyu was highly educated and loved collecting. He was a well-known eunuch who understood 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 had a wealthy collection, so he tried to spend money to buy some. You must know that most people can buy popular books in the book market, and the printing volume is large, so the collection value is small.
Gradually, ministers, literati, and nobles all learned that Liu Ruoyu had a hobby of collecting, and they all exchanged books with him and appreciated each other's precious books.
The fact that my uncle received a large number of books naturally did not hide it from Wang Hongyu.
He was thinking that the mobile library of his Capital Academy did not have a large number of Chinese books.
I am leaving Beijing in a few days, so I fell asleep and brought a pillow.
Wang Hongyu said goodbye to his uncle in the restaurant and unceremoniously proposed that he take out the books and add them to the library of the Capital Mobile School, and share the books in proportion.
My uncle didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he happily agreed. My uncle is not a person who can spend money. The money he will make in the future will not be yours, Li Tiezhu's and your cousin's.
As a result, 4,000 volumes of classics were taken away from Liu Ruoyu and used in the library of the mobile school in the capital.
Wang Hongyu will also establish Jingshi Mobile School Publishing House in various places to engage in book printing, wholesale and retail.
The book printing industry was very prosperous in the late Ming Dynasty, especially popular ones.
Wang Hongyu decided on the publishing house’s share, which would be based on the number of books purchased 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. You have to memorize the list of books you already have, otherwise it will be difficult to repeat and the transportation fleet will be wasted.
In addition to the Confucian books you can buy in the book market, there are also other books that have nothing to do with fame.
The books of hundreds of schools of thought such as Mohists, Taoists, famous scholars, military strategists, etc. from the pre-Qin period are even more precious. Most of the family traditions that have survived from the gentry in later generations are those left over from the pre-Qin period.
Of course, those parties and nobles who are against Wang Hongyu, especially those from the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, are excluded. Liu Ruoyu also has friends among these people, but because they have different positions from Wang Hongyu, they will definitely make a big fuss when they find out.
In this way, the mobile library in the capital currently has a total of 14,000 volumes.
There are 7,000 volumes of Western books and 7,000 volumes of Chinese books.
Of course, we don't have the time or manpower to check these books now, and we don't even know their authenticity. Some of them may not even have typesetting value.
Therefore, the future share cannot be determined simply based on quantity, but can only be determined based on publication volume and sales. Some books that cannot be sold can only be stopped from printing.