Ye Mengxiong really didn't expect that Xu Jue, a kind-hearted broker, would bring him a sense of enlightenment to the novelty of bicycles and the needs of workers.

As an important official of the Beiyang Military Prefecture, the Ming Empire, Ye Mengxiong has been out of touch with the world for a long time. His world exists on the map and in letters, it is a world that spans the ocean, but it is not the land where he stands.

There are indeed too many workers in their area. Within the Beiyang Gyeonggi area, there are as many as 60,000 craftsmen from all walks of life.

Under a huge base, less than 600 livestock have horses and animals. Even in the years since Mongolia opened the horse market, there is no shortage of horses in China, especially north of the Yellow River.

Ye Mengxiong also read the "Minghui Dian" that Shen Shixing is revising a few days ago. It records the volume of horse market transactions in detail. The annual transactions of the official market are between 2,000 and 27,000 horses, and the monthly market purchases of cattle, horses and mules are more than 20,000 yuan per year.

Not to mention the Sichuan-Tibet Line, the ancient tea-horse road rebuilt by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, was sold for millions of dankans of tea every year, and horses have been flowing into the country.

Traditional families usually have cattle, horses and mules, especially donkeys and mules. The small peasant economy does not require spending money to purchase a large amount of forage.

But for workers, raising donkeys or even horses is too stressful.

Only a great craftsman with more than three taels of moon silver has the financial resources, but not everyone has the heart.

Being busy at work all day is enough to be tired, and you still have to take care of a beast?

Workers need a new means of transportation, which can be slightly more expensive, but will cost less in the future and are of excellent quality and easy to repair.

Writing these characteristics on paper, Ye Mengxiong almost thought that Chen Mu's bicycle was created for workers.

A gadget like a bicycle is not something that he, an important official in Beiyang, should care about. Even the military role mentioned by Chen Mu in the letter was only the work of the research institute. In fact, this part has basically been completed by Beiyang researchers.

Just on the table of Ye Mengxiong, the Beiyang Yamen, there is a report on the use of existing iron horses, which is very detailed.

The article clearly tells Ye Mengxiong that he wants to complete this tool in large batches and low-cost production, and to overcome several difficulties in the discipline of machinery and materials in the future, and to bring the advantages of steam engines, conveyor belts and mechanical processing after conquering.

At the same time, the veteran general who is more professional in military affairs, Ma Fang, who is cultivated by the Beiyang Medical Academy, gave the various performance parameters of the "iron horse" he needed to replace the war horse: the main uses are scouts, the infantry's flat terrain and the transportation of baggage.

It must reach a weight of less than 60 kilograms, a load of 220 kilograms, and a marching of 80 miles in four hours. All parts will not be damaged when riding for fifteen consecutive days. The damaged parts can be carried on the car in time for repair during thirty days. The car and the car can be connected together when they stop, and the cost is limited to ten taels.

Compared with those young researchers who came out of the martial arts lecture halls in the north and south and did not get into the position of an officer and entered Beiyang, Ma Fang is too professional.

Ye Mengxiong was even sure that when Ma Fang first saw the cavalry riding on an unsettled horse in the garden of the Medical Academy, he had already set various uses for this thing in his mind.

In Ma Fang's conception, the iron horse is a chariot controlled by infantry wearing breastplates and helmets.

The beam of the car must be fixed with bird guns or two hand guns. The empty space of the car must have a matching canvas bag to hold water bags, wine bags, ammunition cartridges, palm thunder, maps and other trivial objects. The tent cloth and purple flower quilt can be fixed in front of the handlebars, and the saddle bag at the rear of the car can be placed left and right to meet the food required by the infantry.

Depending on the different targets, 30% of the double-person iron horses can be mixed and reduced in baggage, and 20% of the single iron horses carrying rockets can not only encounter fearless pursuit of the enemy, but also dismount to form a formation to defend.

Even though he had retired, General Ma still missed the outside world and bluntly stated his intention in the report: the troops equipped with iron horses could go out of the frontier for ten days without the need for a baggage team to drive 400 miles and return to the Great Wall.

The number of four hundred miles is sometimes meaningless, but Ye Mengxiong understands Ma Fang’s meaning is the distance from Datong Town to Guihua City, and it also covers the most prosperous pasture settlements of Bansheng 300 miles on the Ming and Mongolia border with the tribes.

This report can rekindle the fanaticism among the middle-aged and elderly people who grew up in the trouble of the Northern Territory.

Ye Mengxiong, who was sitting quietly in the yamen, put down his pipe and closed his eyes to imagine the situation: several fully organized Ming infantry soldiers crossed the iron horses and traveled eighty miles a day or even faster, pounding all the nests like a strong wind.

During the day they formed a formation with iron horses, and even the cavalry dragged their sabers could not break through the line they had built with guns; under the night sky, they lit a piece of felt tent after tent with rockets, and everything on the way turned into a sea of ​​fire.

In addition to the only naturalized city on the grassland, they did not even need to use artillery. In just a few days and nights, the empire could have achieved the most significant victory against the grassland after Chengzu.

"Ha, haha."

In the uninhabited yamen, Ye Mengxiong laughed expressionlessly, and the daydream was over.

It's pretty beautiful, but the current iron horse can only carry one person. The flag army who was trying to ride a horse is not even afraid to wear a breastplate. Not to mention that it takes 80 miles to ride for four hours, it will take fifteen days to not break. If it takes 80 miles to ride for a total of 80 miles, it is already a major breakthrough brought by the great craftsmen of the military palace to use their intelligence.

There is only one thing that can meet Ma Fang's requirements at present. The total weight of the iron horse now is 55 kilograms, which is considered to meet Ma Fang's standard of "less than 60 kilograms". Others...nothing else.

Although he is in charge of the Sanyang Military Mansion, the Beiyang Yamen has very poor means of generating income.

Through the vast ocean, Western letters must be returned through the Southeast Asian Ocean. Even if Chen Mu farts, he will not smell it after half a year. The Sanyang Military Mansion will still intercept a part of the income to supply the expenses of our government.

The goods shipped to Tianjin Port either enter the Forbidden City or the Ministry of Revenue storage. There is very little money that can truly fall into Beiyang's pocket.

Even if we learn from Chen Mu to sell arms with industrial capabilities, the country is guarding the emperor's feet, and they all go to official prices. If they can't make a lot of money, they will be exported. Not to mention the neighbors near North Korea opposite the Bohai Sea, it is a bit possible.

But the stupid boy from the Korean King Lee family was not engaged in military affairs. He was poor and was even more reluctant to spend money on it. Ye Mengxiong went to the pole to talk to them about the "new type of mechatronic bird gun". The businessmen didn't want it, but instead wanted to buy three thousand bows from him.

Don’t mention Ye Mengxiong is so angry: You search through Beiyang and find a bow-making craftsman for Ye!

To be honest, Ye Mengxiong felt that the income of the Beiyang yamen was probably smaller than that of the emperor.

Forget it if you have less income, but he still spends a lot!

Beiyang has two four-legged gold-swalking beasts organized by guards every moment, and more than 10,000 war horses in nine horse farms. The scientific research funding is not much, and it has to be divided into 3.5 million, including the Beiyang Academy of Sciences and Medical Sciences, as well as the Military Weapons Research Institute.

Steam engines, flying fish, and the Fire De Star Lord who was installed with the Franchise machine by Wanli Master, cannot be studied. There are very few people who can leave it to the iron horse.

But soon Ye Mengxiong picked up the charcoal pen and started writing quickly on the paper.

Xu Jue opened a window for him. Others would indeed resist this kind of iron horse that was driven by themselves, but the workers who rely on their skills to support themselves will not. This is exactly what they need.

"We cannot meet the military needs for the time being, and we can use the people to support military purposes."

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