Despite the huge changes brought about by the steam industry and the further improvement of the level of mechanical manufacturing, various types of locomotives have emerged one after another in this world.

However, for towns like Zhaoqing that deviate from the coastal and industrial centers, the emergence of bicycles can still arouse the local people's great curiosity.

The iron wire and some kind of black and thick colloid wheels, as well as the bells that jingle when pressed, and do not use a cattle and horse to pull it. No matter where the structure is, which part attracts the eyes of these people.

The one riding on the bicycle was Qu Shisi, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and his staff. As the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he controlled the largest overseas trade export place in the entire Ming Dynasty. The frequency of new things he came into contact with was not inferior to Gong Yonggu, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Royal Industrial Company. Therefore, for this apocalypse bicycle, he naturally became the first to enjoy this new "technical product".

"I am late to welcome the emperor, and I am not well prepared. Please forgive me." Qu Shishi came in a hurry. Seeing that the soldiers of the Fifth Army who were guarding the Emperor Zhu Youxiao were about to raise their guns to be on guard, he hurriedly stopped the car and jumped down first, lifted his robe, and made a quick move to apologize to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao found it a little funny. In the Ming Dynasty, where there was no motor vehicle, a non-mechanical bicycle that had escaped animal power was considered a rare thing, just like the sweat-blooded BMW of the Han Dynasty. Today's eighth carriage carriage, in their opinion, riding is a very pretentious thing.

In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, it is naturally a very ordinary but even a bit unacceptable picture. When a second-tier official wearing a robe walked over on a Ming version of the bicycle without electroplating technology and paint spraying technology, it was just two iron wheels, a power system and a faucet with directional conversion and brake functions. The more annoying the scene, the more annoying the scene.

However, in fact, this is the case in the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, it is a medieval society that still uses clans and centralized dynasties as the grassroots and upper-level rule. On the other hand, various emerging products from the steam industry era are being taken out to show off more and more, which makes many people feel a sense of miss. Some people are grateful for their previous lifestyles that are much more elegant and do not spend huge sums of money to try out a new mechanical product produced by the Royal Industrial Company. Not only bicycles but also other things like pumps and boats that do not use paddles, but also spend huge sums of money to organize poetry meetings and build gardens.

"Get up," Zhu Youxiao couldn't say anything. This kind of bicycle could be seen everywhere in later generations, so he nodded and let Qu Shishi straighten down.

In front of Zhu Youxiao, Qu Shixiu didn't have time to ride a bicycle, so he had to follow Zhu Youxiao with the dragon head, but at the same time he felt a little relieved. He didn't know that His Majesty would arrive in Zhaoqing City today, so he rode a batch of Apocalypse carts he purchased from Guangzhou Prefecture to outside the city to inquire about the Luanyi of Zhu Youxiao's Luanyi's journey. He himself was just about to return to Zhaoqing City and received news from Guizhou that His Majesty was about to enter the city. He rushed over, but he didn't expect to meet Zhu Youxiao.

As a result, before Qu Shixi had time to hide the bicycle he had sold for huge sums of money, he was very afraid that His Majesty would suspect that he had embezzled huge sums of money, otherwise where would he get the money to buy such expensive goods?

Little did they know that in the eyes of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, such things that were incompatible with the Ming world that were everywhere in later generations and were completely incompatible with the E-Captain and Bo-Taiwanese.

Even when seeing Qu Shixi, the dignified Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, following him with a bicycle, Zhu Youxiao felt that this was like some officials in some TV series deliberately riding bicycles to inspect in order to show their integrity.

Zhu Youxiao set off for Guangzhou Prefecture without staying in Zhaoqing for long, which was the location of the Guangdong Maritime Tuiju Division, the largest customs in the Ming Dynasty. Since the customs was just established, a certain amount of troops were needed to maintain order. Zhu Youxiao directly asked Lu Jiayu, the general of the Fourth Army stationed in Guangzhou Prefecture, to serve as the governor of Guangdong and Maritime Tuiju Division.

Basically, the entire huge customs tax is collected and maintained by the Maritime Tuiju Department, and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is responsible for supervising and deporting it to Beijing.

Therefore, during the Ming Dynasty at this time, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Guangdong had similar powers in Guangdong and Guangxi.

There are not many Western shops in Zhaoqing City, but when you enter Guangzhou Prefecture, you can find that almost every street has various Western shops running their own business, including those selling Kunlun Road, those selling gems plundered from overseas colonies, and those selling Western and Eastern women directly. They even opened brothels mainly made of Western women, which was named "Hu Ji Feng Qing". It was a good business.

"These are all registered in the Tijuan Division. Depending on the goods, our Tijuan Division will collect different taxes. Some urgently needed goods in the Ming Dynasty can be tax-free, such as direct gunpowder and Western firearms, but they must be traded by designated Ming officials and merchants. Each store must take the initiative to come to the Tijuan Division every three months to fill out the tax payment form and complete the tax payment before it can continue to operate or will be forcibly closed."

Lu Jiayu was wearing military uniform and walked beside Zhu Youxiao with aura, introducing the business situation in the entire Guangzhou city to Zhu Youxiao.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao looked at a Western soft sailboat loading bicycles on board, and couldn't help but ask: "Is it common to illegally smuggle and buy and sell items prohibited from importing in the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not common after killing a bold Western fan. However, there are always desperate people who ignore the king's laws for small profits, so there may be some omissions. However, we try to minimize the omissions. We will strictly inspect every ship entering the port or exporting."

As he said that, Lu Xiangsheng pointed to Zhu Youxiao at the soft Western sailboat full of apocalypse bicycles and said, "Please look at your Majesty, now our people are going to go up and check."

Zhu Youxiao looked over and saw a team of people from the Fourth Army Gendarmerie who were temporarily acting as customs inspection and entered the Western soft sailboat with guns led by a ninth-rank civil servant and several clerks.

The owner of the Western soft sailboat respectfully saluted the people who carried out the inspection in the Ming Dynasty.

"Let's go, look angry." Zhu Youxiao said and walked up, but saw a clerk pulling out a pack of opium from the deck of the ship: "It's opium, the ship actually carries opium privately!"

When he heard this, before the Western Army could react, the military police of the Fourth Army here had fired more than a dozen shots at him, and all other Western Army were killed.

"Very good, decisive and straightforward," Zhu Youxiao said just a few words and looked at another Western soft sailboat that was about to leave Guangzhou Prefecture. Someone was checking it on it, but the ship fell smoothly. Nothing was found and was successfully released to sea.
Chapter completed!