Valley Emperor

Li Yubo shouted excitedly with the newspaper: "With it, I can build a real two-wheeled bicycle, a bicycle that can run on its own without the need for pedals!"

It didn't take long for Li Yubo to appear in an office with a newspaper.

In the office, Li Yangdong, the owner of Li's Bicycle Company, looked at the young second son and listened to what he said about a real two-wheeled bicycle, but he was full of disappointment in his heart.

His son is so obsessed with real bicycles that he even abandoned his studies. Last year, in order to toss this, he hid in his laboratory for more than a month and did not report to school, so he was ordered to drop out of school by Huguang University. It spread all over the upper class of Hanyang, and it almost lost all the face of his Li family.

His Li family is a family of gentry after all, and it is considered a decent family in the whole Hanyang mansion. He Li Dongyang was admitted to the army martial arts school when he was young, and served in the army until he was in his thirties, and finally became a captain. After retiring from the military rank, he once worked in the administrative department, but he resigned and returned to his hometown within a few years, and finally took over the family business, and also founded Li's own company.

His resume of the first half of Li Yangdong's body is the life experience of a standard upper-class child.

Young people study, young people apply for military academies, then join the army, and wait until middle age to retire to work in politics or business. This experience is almost a standard experience for most modern upper-class children.

Among them, military experience is indispensable.

This is not to say that they are willing to join the army. In fact, many people do not really want to join the army. After all, even being an officer is very hard and tiring, and they will be dispatched to the frontier or simply to serve overseas.

The hard work involved cannot be imagined by ordinary people.

However, in the current society of the Tang Dynasty, joining the army is a must-have experience for the children of the upper class, especially those who inherit the aristocracy, they are trying their best to make contributions in the army.

Because the aristocratic system in the Tang Empire adopted a degraded hereditary system, even a very small number of heroes would have the preferential treatment of inheriting the original title for several generations, or be reduced to the hereditary such as a lord, a baron, or a viscount.

However, these nobles who have received preferential treatment are very few. There are more than 5,000 nobles in the Tang Dynasty. There are only a few dozen nobles who have inherited the original title for two or three generations. , less than ten fingers.

Each of the above-mentioned families is the hero of the founding of the empire, and most of the other nobles are directly cut down after the hereditary.

Of course, Li Xuan also gave his courtiers a method, that is, every year, he would specially grant permission to a few heirs of the title to be able to inherit the original title.

But the conditions are also very harsh, that is, the heir to the title must be a success in the country.

No matter if you want to be a scientist to produce scientific research results, or to make meritorious deeds in the military, you have to make great deeds.

Otherwise, it can only be reduced to hereditary, and after a title has been reduced to hereditary several times, it can be reduced and become a commoner.

For more than 30 years in the empire, there have been many aristocratic families who have been inherited for several generations, and have been reduced to the people.

Even though the number of nobles in the empire has always been maintained at the scale of five or six thousand people (most of them are lords), but the empire is canonized a lot of nobles every year.

This also means that every year there are actually nobles who lose their titles and become commoners.

To ensure that the title of one's own family has been passed down, it is not small, and the path of being a scientist is not reliable for most people.

Difficulty is even more difficult than destroying a country by one person, but there are many expedition teams in Datang who go overseas and can destroy an indigenous kingdom at will!

But to be knighted by scientific research is much more difficult.

Family background is basically impossible to provide you with any help, because this thing tests IQ, there is no way to make up for lack of IQ, and Melatonin can't improve IQ.

Not to mention the knighthood of scientific research, even if you want to be admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology, it is not so easy, because the Royal Institute of Technology only recruits hundreds of students every year, but how many people does the empire have? Several hundred million.

How many geniuses are there?

The most important thing is that Datang attaches great importance to science and adopts elite education, which also makes the officials of the Datang Empire, especially the officials of the local government, eager for geniuses, prodigies and the like. If there is a genius with a super IQ, the local officials in charge of education would like to train it as a father and a mother, and then send it to the Royal Institute of Technology.

After passing the exam, not only the candidates themselves will benefit for life, but even local officials can get a lot of political bonus points.

At least, a good education comment is indispensable, and it takes a minute to get promoted and get rich.

If one day this genius becomes a high-ranking official or even a knight because of scientific research, it is equivalent to hugging a thigh in advance.

Therefore, many local officials are still searching for geniuses all over the world and providing the best environment for these geniuses. Usually, they will marry their daughters and granddaughters to him in advance, thinking that they can dig out a future scientific noble son-in-law.

The whole situation is even more serious than the pre-Ming period when officials paid attention to supernatural powers.

Therefore, in today's Datang Empire, many preparatory schools have more or less super geniuses waiting to apply for the Royal Institute of Technology. As for the Royal Institute of Technology, geniuses are everywhere.

It is impossible for almost everyone to apply for the Royal Institute of Technology, even if the powerful know it.

For many children of the rich and powerful, unless they are really super geniuses, no one would expect to be admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology, usually for the purpose of applying for the Army Officers Academy or the Naval Officers Academy. Of course, some people will. Choose to apply for four-year universities such as Guozijian and Jinling University.

Li Yangdong himself, who was a child of someone else's family, was successfully admitted to the Army Martial Arts Academy, but none of his sons were successful, and none of his three sons could inherit his reading talent. You can't even get into a military academy.

In the end, only his second son, Li Yubo, barely managed to get into Huguang University.

However, this second son was expelled from Huguang last year because he didn't go to class.

This matter made Li Yangdong very angry and at the same time deeply helpless.

This time, he is also the father of a child, so he can't fight again.

In the end, he could only do things in the family business, but what he didn't expect was that even if he did things in the family business, he would still be a bicycle all day long, a bicycle that could run on his own without the need for manual pedaling.

It's a waste of time and a lot of research money.

I bought a lot of steam engines, gas engines and the like, and those are not cheap.

Now, what kind of gasoline engine is still being built, you don't have to think about it, it will cost a lot of huge research and development funds.

This Li's Bicycle Company is nominally owned by the owner of the family, but in fact it is owned by the entire family. He previously funded too much research funds for the second son, which has already made the rest of the family very dissatisfied.

This situation can't continue, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid the whole family will be disturbed.

After taking a deep breath, I saw Li Yangdong saying: "The year before last, when you entered the university, you already had a crown ceremony, and you also married a wife and started a family. The so-called family and business, since you have a family, then it's time to start a business."

"I have asked the lawyer to arrange the documents. In the future, the machinery factory in Wuchang and the Xiangjiang Hotel will be under your name."

Li Yubo was stunned when he heard this!

Even though he is obsessed with technology, he is not unreasonable, and he can clearly hear the meaning of what his father said.

What this means is that he needs to fend for himself like the second sons of other big families.

According to the consistent tradition of the upper-class families of the Tang Dynasty, especially in recent decades, in order to ensure the inheritance of the family, the titles and assets of the nobles are completely bound together.

Before many nobles were alive, they would make a will through a lawyer to bind all their personal property to the title, and inherit the property together with the title. At the same time, it is generally stipulated that the personal property of the heir to the title will be unconditionally and unconditionally after inheriting the title. The title is bound together, and even some nobles stipulate that the personal wealth of the wife of the heir to the title must also be bound to the title.

This is the very popular inheritance system of titles and property in the aristocratic society of the Tang Dynasty in recent decades. This system is not officially promoted, but the spontaneous behavior of the nobles.

Not only the aristocracy, but many upper-class families, even if they did not inherit titles, would still pass on their wealth in a concentrated way!

In most cases, family wealth will be handed over to the eldest son to inherit, and other children generally only get a small amount of property to support their lives.

In order to ensure the long-term prosperity of the family, these families avoid the dilution of wealth from generation to generation.

So you will see that most of the people who are actually working hard outside are the second sons.

Because once these second sons are difficult to directly inherit a lot of wealth, they need to work hard.

Now Li Yubo knows that he has reached this day too, but he is not like the second sons in other families who are unwilling and even want to engage in various conspiracies to try to compete for the family business.

Instead, he felt relieved, and even looked forward to it.

This means that he will have enough money in his hand to support his research on two-wheeled bicycles.

When he came back from the company, Li Yubo already had a lot of documents in his hands. These documents were equity transfer documents, a small machinery factory, a restaurant, and some securities.

The total value is about 20,000 Tang Yuan!

One end of these transfer documents is his father's signature~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the other end is his signature Li Yubo.

After returning to his home in the suburbs, Li Yubo told his wife about the separation and his plans. He planned to sell the hotel, raise funds to invest in the machinery factory, and gather more people for research. bike.

After talking about his plan, he pointed to the gasoline engine above and said, "With this, my bike will be built, I promise!"

His wife took the newspaper and read it. After a long silence, she said casually, "Can it really be made?"

Li Yubo nodded: "The possibility of success is extremely high!"

He is not full of fever, and regardless of it, he has also considered what to do after failure.

His wife was silent for a while, then turned upstairs, but soon went downstairs again, holding a document bag in her hand: "This is what my mother secretly gave me when I got married, ten thousand yuan in the name of the Royal Bank. Promissory note, use this!"

"The restaurant...don't sell it!"