The development of the bike went much smoother than expected.

The most troublesome thing for Don before was the production technology of tires and bearings, but one of these two technical problems was solved long ago, and the other was successfully overcome by the technical team led by Nokia.

The processing technology of bearings has long been applied in dwarf engineering, and a large number of ball bearings have been used in semi-finished steam battle tanks that they have restored before, and the production technology has been available, but the processing technology is not high.

The problem of machining technology has also been successfully solved with the addition of Tang En, and the original millimeter-level machining technology has been instantly improved to the micron level, which is nearly a thousand times more accurate, and the life and efficiency of the bearing have been increased many times.

And the production process of tires has also been successfully handled by the witty gnomes, this group of little guys who love to study are always full of unusually positive attitudes towards new technologies and new things, and they are afraid that they are at least the big bulls with the title of academicians.

Of course, the appearance of tires is not only for bicycles, the first to enjoy the benefits is Ellington's carriage, they saw the stability and speed of the carriage of the Lord's Mansion after the tires were modified, and the next day the door of the Datang Engineering Research Institute was crowded with people asking for modified carriages.

And the modified carriage did not disappoint them, whether it was the shock spring, the rubber cushion, or the new bearings and tires, after these things were installed, the carriage was like a makeover, completely different.

The originally stiff tremor became soft and gentle, and even the potholed gravel road was many times more comfortable. What excites them the most is that they are running on the asphalt road, and the speed has increased by at least 50% compared to before! Due to the improvement of the bearing process. The friction and resistance are reduced, and the consumption of the horses is also reduced, so the transportation speed and distance per unit time are greatly improved, and the forage consumed by the horses is also reduced a lot!

It is equivalent to saying that the cost of modifying the carriage can be repaid after only a few transportations, and the rest is to enjoy the various benefits brought by the new technology.

Under this stimulus. Ellington has started a wave of chasing new technology.

Within a few days, bicycles began to appear on the streets of Ellington.

The first bikes were not taken for sale, but digested directly internally. Rationing people who need to run back and forth to deliver news and transport light items – of course, it's not easy to teach them to ride a bike.

Adults can say that they have a strong sense of autonomy, as long as they are trained a little. Each one can quickly grasp the trick. But children......

"Woo--big brother, don't let go-"

Elijah clutched the handlebar, crying and begging Don not to let go.

"Trust me, I've been holding you back, you just ride."

Don constantly encouraged Illya, of course, in the same way that parents on Earth often use to teach bicycles......

"I—I see...... I'll give it a try......"

Fiona, who was riding a bicycle not far away, saw this scene with a complicated face.

If you knew this, you might as well pretend to be stupid......

After the first bike rolled off the assembly line, Donn gave it a try. Then Fiona wants to try, and Don laughs at her for not being able to. As a result, Fiona was furious and learned to ride in a few minutes, and proudly showed off to Elsa and Tina.

Now after seeing Don teach Elijah to ride, Fiona realizes that she is a complete idiot.

Win face, lose life......

The advent of the bicycle ignited the enthusiasm of the residents of Ellington, who had seen such a purely mechanical means of transportation for the first time - what? Carriage? Sorry, but the carriage needs to be pulled by horses......

Just two wheels, chains, and pedals, after a clever combination, can move forward at a very fast speed, and can also control the direction by themselves, and it is not too convenient to travel short distances!

Especially when the tires are moving forward on the asphalt road, the feeling of being smooth and comfortable, and letting yourself control it is really cool!

As a result, the second batch of bikes rolled off the assembly line and there was a rush to buy them in Ellington.

A bicycle costs only ten gold coins.

What the? Too expensive!?

Then you must be a slacker!

Even in the Hogg period, ten gold coins are only three months' savings, not to mention that in the more than three months since Lord Don took office, the drastic reform has greatly increased everyone's income, and now there is an income of a few gold coins a month for casual work, if you work a little harder, you can plant some cash crops for the lord to work overtime, or go to some part-time jobs, and it is not a problem for the monthly income to exceed ten gold coins!

Isn't it worth using a month's income to buy something developed by a lord that even those nobles in the imperial capital don't have?

It's worth it!

In the three months since Donn took office, the income of the residents of Ellington has quadrupled or tripled in three months, but after the income skyrocketed, the residents did not have a corresponding way to spend it, so that the Lord's Mansion could not recover the gold coins, which has always made Fiona very criticized, until the launch of the comic and novel a few days ago, it was considered a small part of the gold coins successfully recovered.

And now, the bicycle finally gave them a chance to spend their money freely, and the wages that Donn had just sent out flowed back into the treasury of the Lord's Palace, and Fiona smiled again.

Fiona, who is so obsessed with money, made Don shake his head, and even talked to her: "Don't care too much about gold coins and wealth, frankly speaking, we are the ruling class, the economy is the tool in our hands, and the real purpose is to use wealth to stimulate the residents to produce and create, and the increase in income brings them a rich life is an illusion, and what really makes them rich is because of the increase in productivity after active work." ”

"I know everything, but I just like to watch the number of gold coins increase."

Fiona had a "you can fire me squid if you're not happy", and that look clearly felt that Don was talking nonsense with his eyes open - who in this world doesn't love gold coins?

Tang En slapped his forehead and said this to a former nobleman, who was also a merchant, and it was really too early.

He can't always tell Fiona, because the productive forces determine the relations of production, and the economic base determines the superstructure, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, and the contradiction between the economic base and the superstructure must be resolved, because his ultimate goal is to prepare all the people for chaos, so he makes money in order to better drive the economic situation to develop in the direction he wants......

Of course she wouldn't listen, after all, she was a woman, and she would only listen to what she wanted to hear - even if Fiona was the smarter kind, she was a woman.

I'm afraid that in her eyes, the ultimate goal of making money should be to enjoy the life of a local tyrant, oh no, she knows that she is a mage...... So in her eyes, she made money to build the Mage Tower?

Tang En couldn't help but sigh, could it be that he had such ambition in her eyes?

-- Anyway, you have to build a Tower of Babel, right?

When the economy is active to a certain extent, the emergence of new things always carries a trend, just like this trend, which is led by the small newspaper sellers of Datang Daily.

As the influence of the Datang Daily gradually expanded, and the income of Ellington residents increased day by day, the Datang Daily opened a subscription service half a month after its birth, delivering newspapers to your door every day, and all you need to pay is an extra ten silver coins per month - although it is a bit expensive, some people have begun to enjoy this kind of life of paying for services.

In the past, newspaper sellers used to go from house to house in the morning to deliver the news, but since the advent of bicycles, the situation has changed.

"Jingle Bell~"

The crisp bell sounded, and then there was a "click", and a new Datang Daily was put into the mailbox at the door, and when the owner who heard the sound went out, the newspaper seller had already ridden away on a bicycle.

After breakfast, people who need to go to work push their bicycles out of the house.

"I went to work. Jingle bell~"

After saying hello, they met up with other workers on the road, and rode their bicycles to the factory area where they worked quickly along the way, which has become a new routine for many people in just a few days.

If other earth travelers came to Ellington at this time, I am afraid that they would think that they had traveled to modern times, but there is no way, the current Ellington is too similar to the modern urban style except for the clothing and architectural style.

Whether it's a clean street layout, a flat asphalt road, or a street lamp erected on both sides of the street – it's worth mentioning that these street lights are crystal balls that keep illumination, not electric lights.

The reason why he didn't use electric lamps was because Tang En couldn't get the filament material, he didn't know how to refine tungsten, he only knew that bamboo charcoal could be used - but obviously it was not easy to use, rather than spending so much effort to climb the earth technology, it was better to directly use magic to solve the problem simply and violently.

Constant Illumination was the solution he had found for the time being, because Ellington was not big yet, and the number of street lamps was barely acceptable, and if it continued to expand, he would have to find a way to find a new way to solve the lighting problem - he couldn't keep squatting in the warehouse to give constant illumination to the street lights, maybe the Elven Fluorescent Grass was a good solution, environmentally friendly and energy-saving......

If the previous things only subtly affected the lives of the residents of Ellington, then the emergence of bicycles has directly changed their lives, and the change in travel mode has led to the acceleration of information transmission, the indirect improvement of work efficiency, and the acceleration of the pace of life.

After so many years of repression, the residents of Ellington, who had been living in depression, finally burst out with the birth of the bicycle in the month of the celebration of the year 849 of the Order calendar.

And this explosive power made the spies who came to Ellington recently to inquire about the news all stunned. (To be continued.) )

PS: I came to the Guangzhou Writers Association to participate in the 2016 China Literature Author Workshop, and then I went to the Internet café with a few authors last night to open a black room for ten people...... Well, believe me, the authors will never spell words after getting together, they will only play games......