Bicycles have been in the capital for several years, but they are expensive and are affordable. People who can ride bicycles on the streets of the capital are either rich or noble.

It was not until recently that the Indonesian plantations obtained enough natural rubber reserves from Hainan Island and finally solved the problem of rubber shortage. The government officially established the first bicycle shop and started to produce bicycles in line.

Chu Yun is also very concerned about this matter. After all, bicycles can facilitate travel, improve residents' living standards, and drive economic development.

A large amount of silver flows into the country from all over the world, which can easily lead to inflation and requires enough commodities to digest the wealth obtained.

"We have made an extremely important change to the original bicycle. We have developed pneumatic tires, which fundamentally changed the riding performance of the bicycle and solved the vibration problem." The president of the bicycle shop introduced their new products to Chu Yun.

At this time, the bicycle had wire spokes, roller bearings, foot brakes, springs, chains and other structures, which basically had the structures and parts that the bicycle in Chu Yun’s previous world should have! The emergence of pneumatic tires provided a novel industrial product design idea!

"How long has the factory been established?" Chu Yun didn't remember the bicycle business because he needed to pay attention to the progress of many projects.

There was no special bicycle shop a few years ago, but a factory arranged a group to conduct bicycle research. In the past few years, only hundreds of bicycles have been produced in scattered ways. For the huge market, it is a drop in the bucket.

Of course, the scarcity of bicycle production makes people in Beijing feel that things are expensive. Owning a bicycle is an enviable thing, a symbol of identity! This has led to the Beijing that can accept new things like bicycles, and it is also very fanatical!

"This year we developed pneumatic tires and started preparing to build a factory. We also need to contact the steel factory and the rubber factory to produce special raw materials for us. Then our bicycle factory produces the parts we need to facilitate the production of the whole vehicle and repair it." The bicycle manager proudly said to Chu Yun.

Perhaps after Chu Yun gave him funds to study bicycles, he gradually forgot about the bicycle industry because of other things, but he and his group of workers always strive for this goal.

The emergence of inflatable rubber tires made bicycles commercially possible. He also applied for funds from the Ministry of Revenue to open a bicycle shop and had its current factory.

Chu Yun vaguely remembered that the Ministry of Revenue did mention this matter at the meeting of the Six Ministry, but the amount was not very large compared to other major projects, so he didn't have a deep impression.

"We are preparing to produce the first batch of new bicycles in winter. After the spring, we will put 300 bicycles in Beijing and collect the funds approved by the Ministry of Revenue as soon as possible. In the past, when we were studying bicycles in the steel factory, we produced scattered bicycles, without their own names. The employees of our bicycle shop have discussed it and want to be shameless and ask the military master for a good name as our bicycle brand." The president rubbed his hands nervously and said.

To set up a sign for the bicycle? Chu Yun could not think of it for a while, and could only have a flash of inspiration: "How is the Phoenix brand? The king of birds has auspicious signs, and it also means flying in the clouds and fog."

"Phoenix brand! Let's use this sign!" The leader of the bicycle shop said excitedly.

"Bicycles are a vast market. If the products are reliable, they can be quickly popularized not only in the capital but also in various provinces of the empire, and they can also be exported to the West in the future." Chu Yun is naturally optimistic about the future of the bicycle market.

Before the cars appeared, many people were still happy to use bicycles to transport.

Speaking of cars, Chu Yun took some officials to Daimler's car factory.

If the bicycle shop has a lot of technical content, then the industrial technical content of Daimler's automobile factory that was spent a lot of effort to design and early cars using internal gas would be even more amazing.

Daimler's automobile factory was moved outside the city with the engine research factory, where there was a lot of land available for construction of automobile factory.

This is a three-story factory building built with cement.

When Chu Yun came to the three-story factory, he was a little shocked by the scale here, and the car was preparing for commercialization!

"The first floor is to process large parts such as cylinders, crankshafts, small parts on the second floor, and final assembly on the third floor." Daimler actively took Chu Yun to inspect the automobile factory and introduced the situation of the automobile factory to him.

Unlike the diesel engine team led by Diesel, which has experienced serious structural strength problems, Daimler's team has made considerable progress in the field of gasoline engines and is finding ways to commercialize the results of gasoline engines - automobiles.

When Chu Yun saw the first floor of the factory, he parked more than a dozen engines, big and small, as well as many engineers and workers.

"These are high-speed gasoline engines. Please come here. This is our new finished car. The engine is placed in the front of the car, and the passengers sit in the back in rows, equipped with clutch, transmission and rear drive shaft..." Daimler and Chu Yun and the others witnessed a new car.

Not a few years ago, Daimler showed Chu Yun the first four-wheeled car. At that time, Chu Yun also operated it in front of the people of the capital. Now Daimler has developed a car that is more in line with modern characteristics.

"How much is the expected annual output?" A car is a good car, but it depends on the production capacity.

"It is expected to produce at least 500 vehicles a year in five years," Daimler said.

Five years later, it will produce 500 cars per year... This kind of car is still a workshop-style production, and it is far from being a factory!

Chu Yun thought of Ford, which invented the Model T car, which produced the Model T car was fast and cheap.

But now it is not possible to bring Ford with the system, otherwise it can produce a large number of T-cars using assembly lines.

"Master Jung" are you not satisfied with our current progress?" Daimler found that Chu Yun did not show a very excited expression, and thought that there was something he was not satisfied with in his car factory.

"No, it's pretty good here." Chu Yun comforted.

There is no way, he has a higher vision from later generations and always wants to produce steel torrents on assembly lines.

In fact, even if Ford is summoned now, it may not necessarily form an assembly line. When Ford designed the T-car, it was almost ten years away from Daimler's prototype. Many parts were purchased from outside, and in this world, all parts have to be produced by themselves.
Chapter completed!