Valley Emperor

Riding a bicycle is not a decent choice for contemporary Datang people, at least in formal travel occasions, decent people will not choose an indecent bicycle.

They would rather walk!

Of course, people who can actually afford a bicycle for a few hundred yuan are not so destitute as to walk, they can take a horse-drawn carriage.

The horse-drawn carriage industry in Datang is now very developed, and middle-class families cannot afford private carriages, but when they travel daily, it is absolutely affordable to choose a rental horse-drawn carriage, or a public horse-drawn carriage.

Therefore, despite the fact that Datang has a population of several hundred million, in fact, Li's Bicycle Company does not sell many bicycles every year.

If everyone in the Tang Dynasty had a bicycle, their Li family would have become the richest family in the empire!

Unfortunately, this kind of thing can only be done in a dream.

But even so, Li's Bicycle Company has maintained a market value of hundreds of thousands of Tang Yuan by relying on the huge patent of bicycles.

It can be seen that the patents on these bicycles are still very important.

Li Yubo obtained a patent license from his home company, even if he paid a patent license fee, but strictly speaking, he still took advantage.

But Li Yubo, who directly gave shares or a partnership, was not reconciled. This gasoline engine was created by his mother's dowry!

In the end, Li Yubo proposed to give a higher basic patent licensing fee, and at the same time, he would also pay a share of the patent fee in the future, which was considered to increase the patent licensing fee.

At the same time, he also took the initiative to propose that the processing and production capacity of Qixiang Machinery Factory was insufficient, and he was going to hand over orders for some spare parts to the factory at home.

In this way, the opinions of the family have been initially calmed down.

With the signing of the military's order, Li Yubo directly found the Royal Bank to apply for a loan, which was then used for patent licensing fees such as the gasoline engine of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Then, under the leadership of the military, it reached an OEM agreement with Hanyang Precision Machinery Factory, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company, to borrow their advanced equipment to produce gasoline engines.

There is no need to question the technology of Jiangnan Weapons Company, especially in the field of high-precision processing.

Soon, Hanyang Precision Machinery Factory, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company, quickly built several prototypes based on the design data given by Li Yubo and delivered them to Qixiang Machinery Factory for various experiments and tests.

After all, the previous gasoline engine prototype has not been tested too strictly. After a simple test after it was built, it was directly installed and used.

Even though no obvious defects have been exposed yet, there are always a lot of small problems, which need to be constantly tested and improved.

Since Li Yubo adopted a large number of parts outsourcing at the beginning, his own Qixiang Machinery Factory was only used for final assembly.

Therefore, the first batch of spare parts was quickly obtained from various spare parts manufacturers for various tests and experiments.

At the same time, a second gasoline car prototype was built.

It is worth noting that this second gasoline car is not a two-wheeled, but a three-wheeled model.

This is considering that although the technology of the two-wheeled gasoline vehicle is simpler and the adaptability to the terrain is stronger, the balance is relatively poor, so the military side took the initiative to propose, can we develop a three-wheeled vehicle based on the two-wheeled vehicle? Wheel or four-wheel version.

Of course, this three-wheel or four-wheel version is not the same as the ordinary cars of Zhongyuan Automobile and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, at least the weight and body shape are different.

Because the difference in power is relatively large, even if a three-wheel or four-wheel model is produced, it must be smaller and lighter.

To put it bluntly, in fact, the military did not ask Li Yubo to come up with any four-wheeled vehicle, but simply wanted to add a wheel on the basis of the two-wheeled vehicle to make the balance better.

This simple requirement is naturally not difficult. Li Yubo only spent one night designing a tricycle based on his own two-wheeled gasoline vehicle.

As for the four wheels, he simply gave up. The power of his gasoline engine is too small, and the structure of the four-wheeled car will inevitably become larger. After the weight increases, the power of the gasoline engine will not be enough.

After all, the gasoline engine he designed was just a small gasoline engine with a cylinder volume of only 300 milliliters and a horsepower of only one horsepower.

This newly established tricycle is in the shape of a side triangle. This is to simplify the transmission structure, control weight and cost. The driving wheel is still only the rear wheel of the two-wheeled vehicle, and the side wheel is purely for balance.

At the same time, a seat is also added on the side wheel, which can be used to carry both people and cargo.

When representatives of the military saw the tricycle, they showed greater interest than the previous two-wheeler.

They had frequent test drives, and a whole bunch of people wrote numerous reports.

The size of this thing is still very small, with a total length of just over one meter, and a width of less than one meter, which is much smaller than the length of a car that is several meters long.

The main load-bearing structure of the body is made of steel, but other non-load-bearing structures are still made of wood, because the engine power is small, in order to control the weight of the body.

Because the military requires cost control, the entire tricycle is very rudimentary, with almost nothing extra except the necessary parts.

The military is quite satisfied with this. Just after the prototype car was produced, the military directly placed an order for 100 such tricycles. At the same time, it also modified the previous order and required that the two-wheeled vehicle ordered The car provides a design interface that can be modified.

So that ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can simply and quickly add a side wheel if there is a need, so that a two-wheeled vehicle can also be quickly converted into a three-wheeled vehicle.

For the military's order, Li Yubo was both happy and painful.

On the one hand, a large number of orders have been received, but now one of them cannot be mass-produced.

This means that the money is in front of you, but you can't get it.

This feeling is painful.

However, this situation did not last long. After the major spare parts manufacturers began to supply one after another, Li Yubo also asked the technicians of his Qixiang Machinery Factory to assemble the first batch of mass-produced two-wheel gasoline vehicles.

Although the initial order for this thing was from the military, Li Yubo still had great expectations for the civilian market, so he specially asked the designers to repackage it to set up a better-looking appearance, adding some accessories to increase comfort and so on.

Finally, the Qixiang brand two-wheeled vehicle was officially launched to the market.

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