crush the rich

Shen Lv's performance fell short that day, he was like a young man in a daze, he only knew how to please girls and show off to them, and completely lost his usual keen observation skills.

But he is a seasoned person. After realizing this, he quickly adjusted and asked about the bicycle after a moment of stupefaction: "Hmm... this new bike is interesting. Did you ride it just now? But it only has Two wheels? How do you keep it from falling over?"

Yin Lian was originally here to show him the new car model, although she was a little surprised by Shen Lu's stupidity before, and also wanted to see when he would discover the meaning of the new car, but since Shen Lu had already realized it, she also Without deliberately teasing him, he introduced the new car and explained the principle.

But Shen Lu has never seen a bicycle after all. People here lack the concept of bicycles, so they will inevitably have doubts. Even Shen Lu can't help but get rid of the inertial thinking, frowning and asking: "But it is not easy to maintain balance. Is it easy? At the speed of driving, if the rider fails to maintain balance, isn’t the cyclist easily injured?”

Yin Lian said: "It's not that difficult to maintain balance. It's useless to talk too much. Mr. Shen might as well come and try it yourself."

Bicycle is a very easy thing to learn, modern people know it.But in fact, many people who don't know how to ride a bike are still apprehensive.This is the case in this environment now, not to mention the Xia Kingdom in this era.

Because there is no such experience, Shen Lv is very suspicious of Yin Lian's rhetoric.But he is not a timid person, and Yin Lian made a demonstration, and he really looked very relaxed, so Shen Lv also boldly tried.

The situation is much better than expected.Shen Lv is quite talented in this area. Although he is a little timid because of unfamiliarity and unknown mentality, he has become more courageous after getting on a bicycle.

After one afternoon, Shen Lv learned to ride like this.

She had taught Shen Lv by supporting the car, but Shen Lv's assistants had been worried, thinking that she was too thin and a little girl, so she might not be able to support Shen Lv.Yin Lian had no choice but to let the other party help. The steward who followed complained that the assistant was not enlightened, but he couldn't say it too bluntly.

Later, when Shen Lu was almost riding, Yin Lian gestured for his assistant to let go, but he refused to let go.Yin Lian had no choice but to forcefully cover his mouth and pull him back. The assistant struggled for a while but failed to get away. Shen Lv had been riding out by himself for a long time.

After riding for a while, he turned a corner and came back, the assistant stopped struggling, and Yin Lian let him go.After Shen Lu learned it, the people who followed him were also a little curious, as if they wanted to try it but dared not tell.Yin Lian did not ask others to try it, but said: "This car will be given to you, you have time to practice more."

Shen Lv said: "This thing is really convenient... I heard that someone in the south wants to build a tricycle powered by a steam engine... But I don't think it may be as convenient as this car."

Yin Lian said: "Steam tricycle...?" She was a little surprised, and then said, "Actually, I also have plans for this. There is a big difference between the use of steam tricycles and bicycles. I think the upper limit of steam vehicles is relatively high. Good for quick trips over long distances, while bikes are better for short distances on narrower streets...for me to go to the newspaper or something."

Shen Lv was a little surprised: "Are you optimistic about steam cars?"

Yin Lian asked: "You don't like it?"

Shen Lv said: "It's not that I don't like it, but judging from the current situation, I think the efficiency of the steam car is not as good as that of the rickshaw."

Yin Lian thought for a while, but it was difficult to guess what structure Shen Lv knew about the steam car.But after thinking about it, she can probably guess the specific problem - the trains at this time are all steam trains, which are slow in speed, not energy-saving, and consume a lot of fuel. If it is a steam carriage with the same structure or even evolved several versions , I'm afraid it still can't get rid of the problem of high fuel consumption. In Shen Lv's view, the cost performance is of course not high.

Besides, whether it was Huaxia in the early years or Xiaguo at this time, there is actually no shortage of manpower.

Yin Lian had a general understanding of the research and development progress of the so-called "three steam wheels", so she didn't dwell on this topic any longer, and didn't even try to persuade Shen Lv to invest in this aspect.

Because she thinks that Shen Lu's judgment is not wrong at all.

When she came, she downloaded various related technical materials through AI, which actually included some well-known technologies and various front-end technologies invented in this era.It is of course also accompanied by relevant historical data. Most of the mechanical technologies with technical content will face a problem of energy in the early days, or more precisely, problems of efficiency in all aspects.

Using a steam engine to run a tricycle... what kind of problem is that?But how to make it efficient, safe, energy-saving, and run quickly is the core of the development that has been focused on for hundreds of years.The development of design technology, precision workmanship, and materials is not a simple task that can be completed with only some scientific and technological information.

In many cases, technology adapts to the times, not the times to technology.

In this era of industrial revolution where a large number of technologies are born and eliminated every day, there is a predetermined timetable for when each technology will appear, and it is difficult to get the expected return sooner or later.Regardless of Yin Lian holding a design drawing, she can also modify and select some technologies that are close to her own level according to the current technical background. When encountering some technical levels that do not match, she has to make dimension reduction adjustments to make them more applicable in this era.

In the case of sufficient technical reserves, is it possible to force technological progress?Of course it is possible, but that requires a lot of manpower and material resources.This is equivalent to Yin Lian climbing a huge technology tree, and every link needs to invest money and manpower. Even if Yin Lian doesn't try to climb it, it will slowly and naturally unlock the progress as time goes by, but if The natural unlocking speed is 0.1/day. If Yin Lian tries to dominate, it can be accelerated to 1/day. Human and material resources invested.

This is the practice of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Yin Lian could realize that it was not feasible to drive a big golden finger. It is not surprising that Shen Lu made such a judgment. At this moment, it is far from the time when the car enters the era. At this time, the steam car , It's just an advanced technological exploration.

The two then discussed the pricing and sales plan of the bicycle.In fact, Shen Lu always felt that Yin Lian underestimated the value of the tricycle, but because some of the manufacturing technologies used by Yin Lian were relatively advanced, the actual cost was much lower than outside guesses, and Shen Lu did not set the price too exaggerated at the time.

Even so, the price is quite astonishing.

Yin Lian has now expanded the scale of the workshops, but with such technology, hundreds of workers in the five workshops can produce about ten pedal tricycles every day, which still uses a lot of Yin Lian's special machine tools Condition.

However, the small output is not a problem, because few people can afford the car itself.Of course, there is no less than this level of output. Looking at the whole country, the supply is still in short supply.

However, for a truck worth 280 silver dollars, the market for Xia Guo with a population of 7 million is still greatly limited, so besides the three-wheeled truck, Yin Lian also began to try to develop different markets.

Bicycles and luxury human tricycles are her newly developed models.Needless to say about bicycles, the luxury manpower tricycle looks a bit like the earliest version of a car. It is a little slimmer and more compact than a car, and it lacks an engine, but it is generally similar in shape and complete in structure. It has all the functions, and its appearance is also bluffing. At least it looks more durable than a sedan chair.

However, considering the acquisition of materials and the practicability of the vehicle, Yin Lian still made a lot of adjustments to make its shape more suitable for the aesthetics of the times, and only added some "innovations", which are between carriages, cars and sedan chairs. There are also many traditional decorations.

The wooden body has a thin iron shell on the outside, and the inside of the glass window is compared to the ordinary open cargo tricycle, and even equipped with a device for hanging and changing curtains.According to Yin Lian's plan, the vehicle can be made into two-seater, four-seater, six-seater and eight-seater to meet different needs. According to the different number of seats, it can be integrated into the structure of a co-operative car, suitable for one to four people driving together .

The biggest problem with doing this is actually the quality and efficiency of the chain and brake system. The drawings Yin Lian got did not contain relevant designs, so this part was completely redesigned by her, selecting materials and completing trial and error—although compared to the road The things designed by Dongci or Yin Changsheng are a bit too low-level, but anyway, they have deepened her understanding and application of basic physics, and she still has a sense of accomplishment.

On the contrary, the more complicated steering system has various existing drawings that can be used as a reference, so it only needs to be adjusted and used according to the actual situation, and it does not take too much time.

But for Shen Lv, such a commodity is astonishing.

A three-wheeled car with a single driver can be easily driven by a driver who can drive a truck.Driving with more than two people is a little more complicated, and a certain degree of practice and tacit understanding should be carried out, but the difficulty is not too high.

Shen Lv was pleasantly surprised by this newly designed model.Yin Lian feels that although these two models can meet the needs of some people, in fact, the market for bicycles should be broader and the future brighter. However, Shen Lu is not optimistic about the promotion of bicycles and prefers the latter.

But even so, he quickly came up with a number of ingenious promotion plans, and finally drew up the approximate price of the two cars. The bicycle was initially priced at 180 silver dollars, and the human-powered car was priced at 980 to 1280 silver dollars according to different specifications. Between [-] silver dollars.

1280 silver dollars is enough to buy a small house in the bustling area of ​​the capital. For this era, this can be regarded as a "sky-high price luxury car".

Shen Lv was full of ambitions, and after that, he enthusiastically recommended this new car to several of the most wealthy customers, and immediately caught the hearts of them.With his proposal and assistance, Yin Lian refined the decoration of the "human limousine", adding carvings and gold and silver foil decorations. Although the cost increased slightly, its luxury has indeed won the favor of the main customer group. I ordered a few of them—after the reputation spreads, the sales will be better.

However, although Shen Lv himself is not optimistic about bicycles, most of the time he abandons the six-wheeled car that Yin Lian gave him as a display, and prefers the frequent use of bicycles, and quickly feels its benefits—— It is light, flexible, fast, and can easily pass through various narrow alleys and small streets. In this era, it is obviously much more convenient and easier to use than rickshaws and three-wheeled trucks.

When Yin Lian saw him riding a bicycle to the main workshop for the third time, she couldn't help laughing and asked, "Is the bicycle easy to use?"

Shen Lu was also aware of his previous misjudgment, and was not angry. Instead, he said frankly: "I'm already thinking about redesigning the promotion plan for bicycles." But he told Yin Lian about his new promotion plan.

After listening to the beginning, Yin Lian's eyes shone a little, knowing that this time Shen Lu really paid attention to the promotion of bicycles.After listening to several scheduled plans, I was even more impressed. I felt that it was not inferior to the modern publicity plan, and it was more in line with the customs of the times.

After that, Shen Lu went to see the improvement of the appearance of the three-wheeled sedan.This is already the third version of the car design. The previous one was very close to the appearance of the small car in the Republic of China, but this time Yin Lian improved the main structure to a modern western-style carriage and added some exquisite Chinese decorations. , to ensure that the appearance is enough to bluff, which really made Shen Lu even more satisfied.