"This thing is really interesting. It doesn't use animal power, water power, or wind power. People can run on it, and it's quite fast, faster than sitting on a carriage. Riding a horse is much faster than riding this thing, but
Riding a horse is too bumpy. After riding a horse for a quarter of an hour, all the bones in the body hurt. Although it takes a lot of effort to ride this thing, the bones will not hurt. If I had to choose, I would rather ride this than riding a horse." Min.
The son was riding on something that seemed very strange in this era, and he was riding unskillfully and wobblingly as he said.
Two young eunuchs stared at Min'er nervously, fearing that she would fall from above; there were three or four palace maids who were even more nervous than the two eunuchs, as if they would rush to hug her at any time to prevent danger.
However, they did not do so after all. This was not because they hesitated, but because Baoqing, Siqi and others blocked the servant.
Neither they nor Min'er cared that she might fall off 'this thing'. Min'er has been very naughty since she was a child, harming flowers and plants, smashing glass with stones, and teasing little palace maids, although she has not yet lived in the palace.
, but that was because the palace maid was strictly guarded, not because she didn’t want to. As she got a little older, she gradually became dissatisfied with these little fights and got involved in something that ordinary little girls wouldn’t do: horse riding. She actually didn’t like riding horses very much.
Her bones ached and she felt uncomfortable all over. She didn't like to practice martial arts like Yunzhi, she just liked to play; but among the things she could play with, the only thing that an ordinary little girl would definitely not play with was horse riding, and she could only ride horses.
Already.
But now that she saw this 'thing', she immediately threw the horse aside. The eunuch of the imperial prison made it very clear that this 'thing' was what her father ordered them to make, and it was something that had never been seen before.
, it is definitely something that others have never played before; and the feeling of riding this thing is completely different from riding a horse, which she has never experienced before. She immediately occupied it and asked the eunuch to teach her. How could the eunuch of the Imperial Palace dare to violate the most favored rule of the Ming Dynasty?
What does the princess mean? I can only teach her to ride. The two eunuchs, who actually didn't know how to ride, taught her for a while and Min'er learned it and started playing on her own.
Baoqing and Siqi were not interested in "this thing" at first, and were very doubtful that it could really be ridden, so they let her take over it. It can be seen that after she learned to play with it on her own, she also wanted to play, and she stood aside and kept talking.
To change people, she even had to walk beside her; how could Min'er agree to change people? When she saw someone coming, she was afraid that she would panic and fall to the ground, so she quickly turned around and headed north away from them.
"Hmph, Min'er, when I get back, I will definitely report you to my sister-in-law!" Xianqin saw her riding further and further away and shouted loudly from where she stood.
"Hmph, when I get back to Kunning Palace, I will definitely tell you to your mother!" Bao Qing said angrily.
"That's right, eldest sister, if you don't give it to us if you have something fun to do, fifth brother will be angry with you!" Wen Luo also said in a coquettish voice.
"Even if I get scolded by my mother after returning to the palace, I still have the upper hand! You are all later than me!" Min'er turned back to look at them and said.
But at this moment, she suddenly heard a young man's voice saying: "Stop quickly, we're going to hit you!" Upon hearing this, Min'er quickly turned around and saw the man who had already ridden to the end of the yard.
She was about to hit the wall, and she wanted to stop; but she suddenly realized that she hadn't learned how to stop it. She was so panicked that she didn't even know where to put her legs, and she just heard "clang".
With a sound, the thing she was riding hit the wall, and she screamed and fell to the ground crookedly.
"Your Highness!" Her maid immediately rushed over to help her up, and asked hurriedly: "You are injured, do you want the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat you?"
"No, I wear more clothes in winter, and I haven't broken them, and it doesn't hurt much!" Min'er agreed casually, struggled out from among them, and looked towards the direction where the voice came from just now, with a look in her eyes that was sure to be true.
, smiled and said: "Sure enough, daddy is here!"
"Huh? How do you know it's Daddy who's here? Daddy didn't say what he said just now." Yunxi walked over and said with a smile. Wenyuan, Wenqi, Zhu Bao and others followed him and walked over. Wenyuan and
Wen Qi called her "Sister". Although it was the first time for Zhu Bao to see her, he could tell who it was through the conversation and bowed to him.
Min'er waved her hands casually to Wenyuan and Wenqi, and smiled at Yunxi: "Although my father didn't speak just now, the voice was very unfamiliar to my daughter, and it didn't sound like what the eunuch said. All the younger uncles who came to Beijing have already seen her.
After passing by, it was not this voice, and except for the clan, dad will not let any man enter the harem alone, and they dare not come in. Therefore, dad must have brought a young talent in. "
At this point, she paused and continued: "At this time, there happened to be a young talent in the capital who was very popular with my father. So," she turned her head and saluted Zhu Bao and said, "I have met the crown prince of North Korea."
"This can't be done, this can't be done!" Zhu Bao returned the greeting and said, "I cannot afford to be so polite as a princess."
"What's wrong with this?" Min'er didn't say anything. Yunxi said, "You and her have the same status. You just bowed to her in a very polite manner. So what if she salutes to you in a polite manner?"
"No way. How can I be the same as the princess of the country above?" Zhu Bao said again.
"Hey, you don't have to refuse. Since I asked you to call me uncle, I treat you as my nephew. Since you are the crown prince, your status is the same as her." Yunxi said in a slightly stern tone: "Don't you?
Do you want to be my nephew?"
"Being treated as a nephew by Your Majesty is a blessing that cannot be achieved in the next eight lifetimes. How could you not be willing to do so?" Zhu Bao did not dare to accept this. He hurriedly said this, hesitated for a moment, and then followed the instructions in the "Da Ming Huidian"
The stipulated etiquette for the prince and the princess to meet was returned.
"That's right." Yunxi said with a smile as the clouds suddenly turned sunny.
He was about to say a few more words when he suddenly saw the two eunuchs from the royal palace walking over quietly. They picked up the thing that had fallen on the ground and were about to slip away. They said loudly: "Slow down!"
"When the two eunuchs heard the shouting, they subconsciously looked around. Seeing that Yunxi was giving them instructions, their bodies immediately trembled with fright. They pushed the thing and walked over and saluted: "I have seen your majesty, long live long live.
Long live!" He knelt down again.
"No need." Yunxi stopped them from kneeling down and asked again: "Lao Bai from the Royal Supervisor asked you to send this thing to me. You should have told me to see it, right? But I only scanned a few
Eye, why do you want to push it away?"
"Your Majesty, this thing has been broken in some places and the handle is crooked. How can I let Your Majesty see a broken thing? My servants go back and repair it so that Your Majesty can see it." A eunuch answered.
"No need." Yunxi reached out and grabbed the handle, pushed away a eunuch, and said while observing the thing carefully: "Although some small parts are broken, it does not affect its usefulness. There is no need to show it to me.
This will do."
One of the two imperial eunuchs was about to say something more when he saw Yunxi staring at this thing with a slightly nostalgic look. He did not dare to say anything for fear of disturbing His Majesty's thoughts, but he was very confused in his heart: 'This thing
It should be the first one made. Why does Your Majesty look at it with nostalgia? Where have you seen it?'
'More than ten years later, I saw something that I had used in my previous life.' Yunxi grabbed the seat, then grabbed the middle bar, and even grabbed the front and rear tires, thinking with some emotion in his heart.
.
Of course, in addition to the bicycle itself, he also took a serious look at the tires. In his opinion, tires are actually more important.
Of course, this thing is a bicycle. Yunxi likes bicycles very much. In his opinion, except for the speed, bicycles are better than horseback riding: the price is lower than horses, and the average daily depreciation is more forage than horses.
It's less, more stable and won't hurt my bones, and it saves space when stored. I've long wanted to build a bicycle.
But bicycles are not that easy to make. The first thing is the transmission chain. It is very easy to produce chains in later generations, but in this era, a chain of skilled craftsmen took a period of time to make, and the quality of steel in this era is not as good as
In later generations, this required higher craftsmanship from the blacksmith master.
The second point is the tires. Compressed air is definitely not possible. He has never had any hope in that aspect, but there must be rubber, right? No rubber, pure wood tires, unless the roads are built to be similar to later aircraft runways or F1 racing cars.
It's like a driveway, otherwise the bumpiness is not much worse than riding a horse.
The first point cannot be solved by Yunxi through hard work, but he can solve the rubber problem, so before Fang Mingqian returned to the Hanzhou continent, Yunxi ordered him to find a tree that can secrete something very elastic.
The natives called it the weeping tree. They brought back the seeds of this crop and some real objects. They also told him that this kind of thing was only found in the south of the Hanzhou continent and not in the north. Although Fang Mingqian didn't understand it, of course he didn't
He would refuse, and immediately sent people to look for it after returning, and actually found this kind of thing (in fact, he had seen rubber when he first went south to explore, but because rubber was inedible, he thought it was useless, so he did not collect the seeds).
After harvesting a lot, I collected hundreds of seeds and went back, waiting to be handed over to the general in charge before the next batch of ships returned to the Central Plains set sail.
Yunxi was very happy when he saw rubber and these seeds. Rubber has so many uses. Most of the things people use in modern times are related to rubber. Not to mention the tires that are most commonly seen in daily life, tapes, rubber rollers, etc.
Rubber sheets, etc. are also often used; they are more widely used in industry. Many parts of conveyor belts and various precision machinery are made of rubber; not to mention the countless rubber products used in hospitals.
"There is hope for the Ming Dynasty's industry!" Yunxi thought excitedly at that time.
But after getting excited, he had to face a practical problem: how to plant rubber. Rubber trees grow freely in the Hanzhou continent, and the local indigenous people will not take care of them; but there has never been such a thing on the other side of the ocean, so they have to
Artificial cultivation. And he knew that this thing had been successfully cultivated in Nanyang in history. Nanyang even surpassed the southern Hanzhou continent to become the place with the largest rubber production in the world. However, in this era, no one knew how to cultivate it, so it might not be too simple.
He divided the limited seeds into six parts, one each for Yue, Pu, Song, Luo and Su Wufan, and sent the last part to Hainan Island for them to plant separately. If they could successfully plant and harvest rubber, he would buy it at a high price; he accepted this errand.
The people also don't understand, but since the emperor has a life, and he doesn't want them to die, then it can be carried out. Anyway, there are not many seeds, and even if it is of no use, a few people can't be wasted.
So in the end, he gave the remaining physical objects to the imperial eunuch to make tires. (To be continued)