Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 276
Seeing that the signboard of Zhizhi Envoy was taken off and the sign of Zhenfu Envoy was put up, Wang Xiaolie said, "I haven't been in Xiangyang for two years, but the Yamen's sign has been changed several times. This sign is worth a lot of money. I hope it lasts longer this time."

Chen Yuyi on the side said: "How much is a brand worth? The yamen will naturally change according to the official positions under observation."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Those people are still in charge, and there is no need to change the officials. By the way, in the future, each of you will have an official office, and the subordinates below must be replenished in time. Now our yamen is short of people everywhere, this matter cannot be underestimated. gone."

Chen Yuyi and Chen Qiudao agreed together.

Entering the gate, in the middle is Wang Xiaolie's official hall.There are several clerks inside.There are also Cui Qing and other personal generals and soldiers.Wang Xiaolie has always wanted to find someone to manage his official documents, but there is no suitable candidate.To the east is the yamen in charge of Chen Qiudao, and to the west is the yamen in charge of Chen Yuyi.

Imitating the pattern of the imperial court, the civil servants in the east are in charge of the civil affairs of the state capitals under their rule.To the west is the military attache, in charge of military affairs.

Chen Qiudao is now also the counselor of the Zhenfu envoy, and the official hall is the signing hall in the east.There are also Changping Office, Academic Affairs Office, Finance and Taxation Office, and Auditing Office below. Each office has several cases and is in charge of civil affairs.Chen Yuyi's official office is the West Staff Office, which consists of Jiyi Office, Baojia Office, and Ordnance Office.

Now it's just a shelf, there are not enough officials, and the duties of each department are not clear.Without a reference, Wang Xiaolie has no choice but to gradually improve in practice.The most important thing is to have an attitude, Wang Xiaolie has to do things.

The establishment of the Zhenfu envoy determined by the imperial court is one member of the council, one who writes Jiyi characters, two officials who do office work, and the Zhenfu envoy Zoubi.Wang Xiaolie actually has three pacification envoys here, completely disregarding the rules set by the court.The status of a staff officer is higher than that of a councilor, but there is no organization. Chen Qiudao, Chen Yuyi, and Wang Ruohai can only refer to the councilor.

Now under Wang Xiaolie's subordinates, Chen Qiudao is in charge of civil affairs, Chen Yuyi is in charge of military affairs, Wang Ruohai is in charge of intelligence and spies, and also knows Caizhou.The commanding generals are headed by Shao Ling and Niu Gao, followed by Cao Zhiyan, Xie Linong, Yu Huan and others.Below that, there are Wei Yang, Xue Cheng and other controls.The generals are responsible for the training and combat organization of the army, while Chen Yuyi is actually in charge of mobilization and equipment.Organizationally, it is similar to the government of the imperial court and the Privy Council.

Walking around in the courtyard, Wang Xiao said: "The yamen has been refurbished, it is really different from before. Let's go, let's go to the restaurant by the river and have a good meal! Today is different from the past, with money in hand up!"

Chen Qiudao said with a smile: "It's pitiful to say. It's not a major event, and even the observation is reluctant to go to the restaurant by the river to have a meal. On the contrary, some wealthy officials in the city, in order to appear dignified, stay at the restaurant every day."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Besides the wealthy folks, how can they compare with their wealth? Yamen officials can't live a tight life, but they can't be the richest people in the world. This is a common thing, and it can't be compared. .”

Just talking about being rich and ruling the eight states, of course no one can compare with Wang Xiaolie.Now he is the governor, a vassal town, and the money collected under his rule is all his own.But Wang Xiaolie wants to support the army and officials, so he can spend as much as he wants.

When he went out, he saw Cui Qing leading a bullock cart with a few personal soldiers.This car has four wheels, three oxen in front, and the car body is made very wide.At first glance, it feels very stylish.

Wang Xiaolie said: "I'm the governor, and I'm not afraid of being laughed at when I go out in a bullock cart?"

Cui Qingdao: "Recently, the vehicle agency in Xinye has opened new agencies in Xiangyang and Dengzhou, and several new vehicles have been produced. We have tried it, and this kind of ox cart is the most comfortable to sit on. On the roads in the city, there is no It was so bumpy that not even a drop of water in the glass would spill out!"

Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "As officials, we can't just seek our own comfort. I am a general leading an army, so I should ride a horse. From now on, unless there are special orders, officials and generals must ride horses when traveling. What is the dignity of traveling in this kind of vehicle? !"

Seeing Wang Xiaolie's serious attitude, Cui Qing had no choice but to say yes.He ordered the soldiers to withdraw the chariot and bring the horse over.

In Xinye, Wang Xiaolie set up many clubs in preparation for development.After printing a new meeting and setting up a bank, the funds suddenly became abundant.In addition, the vehicle club newly produced several suitable vehicles, and opened new establishments in Xiangyang and Dengzhou, and officially opened for business.

Four-wheeled vehicles are relatively stable and comfortable on smooth roads.The car club has made a batch, one is to solicit passengers in the city, and the other is to serve as passenger vehicles for wealthy families.In order to increase his value, he also made one for Wang Xiao.

How could Wang Xiaolie sit?He is a military general leading troops, and if he goes out to ride an ox cart, wouldn't he be laughed to death?
Animal-drawn vehicles had two forms in ancient times.The mainstream in China is two rounds, while the mainstream in Europe is four rounds. This has been the case for thousands of years.This difference, Wang Xiaolie estimated, should be related to different harnesses.

Chinese harnesses are very well developed and relatively able to make full use of the power of cattle, horses and other livestock.For example, the main force of a cow is traction, and the harness mainly uses pulling force.Horses, donkeys, and mules can both pull and pack, and their strength is decomposed into pressure and tension.

Faced with this difference, the analysis of later generations is very strange.A common view is that four-wheeled carriages are more advanced, especially European vehicles have a steering gear design to facilitate turning.However, China did not invent the steering gear, so it could only use backward two-wheeled carriages.

This point of view emerged when Chinese folks became more interested in history and together with several advanced Western ideas.Wang Xiaolie was also attracted by this point of view, and carefully studied the difference between four-wheeled carriages and two-wheeled carriages, and their advantages and disadvantages.It's a pity that after searching all kinds of materials, except for the analysis of some people on the Internet, I found nothing in serious materials.Later, I didn't give up and went to learn the knowledge of vehicles by myself, trying to analyze it.When he really tried to conduct a scientific analysis, Wang Xiaolie discovered that this is not a task that he can complete, nor is it a task that those people on the Internet can complete.The so-called four-wheeled carriage research on the Internet basically has no scientific basis.

Wheels are commonplace, but the scientific dynamic analysis of wheels is very complicated.Strictly speaking, there is no relevant content in junior high school and high school education, and the vast majority of engineering undergraduate majors also do not.When it comes to two-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled carriages, it is completely impossible to conduct scientific analysis, not to mention only having high school knowledge, or even junior high school knowledge.Ordinary college students cannot complete this task.

The analysis of carriages requires not only the knowledge of the vehicle, but also the knowledge of the breed and strength of the livestock.For vehicles only, no scientific analysis, just a simple comparison.Modern heavy-duty trucks tend to decompose part of gravity and decompose part as pressure on the power part, thereby generating forward power, which is the characteristic of two-wheeled carriages.People-carrying vehicles generally do not do this to improve comfort, which is a characteristic of four-wheeled carriages.That is to say, the characteristics of a four-wheeled carriage are suitable for carrying people, and the characteristics of a two-wheeled carriage are suitable for carrying goods.Furthermore, it is also related to whether the power output of the livestock is traction or carrying force.The ox is the traction force, and the horse has both the carrying force and the traction force, and there are different differences.

This is just a simple analogy, not a scientific analysis.Practical scientific analysis requires a lot of knowledge.

In the reality of history, China imported three sets of carriages from the Soviet Union not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China.When developing the Northeast, the three sets of carriages played a very important role. Many people have heard the music and stories of the three sets of carriages.The three sets of horses in the Soviet Union were four-wheeled, but after China introduced them, they were changed to two-wheeled.It was already in the 70s and [-]s, and it was done by technicians, and their choice was obviously not unreasonable.Although this truth may be very complicated in theory, and ordinary technicians can't explain it clearly, they have practice.

In fact, the comments on the carriages on the Internet represent the ideological tendency of an era, and even represent a problem of literati.Those who first discussed this issue were more Westernized in their thinking, and believed that China was relatively backward, whether it was ancient or modern.Especially in science and technology, it is backward compared with Europe.Really scientific analysis, they can't actually do it.Most of the reasons cited are based on junior high school and high school knowledge, and they can't even explain the wheels.For example, the most common explanation is that four wheels can support the car, and two wheels cannot completely balance gravity. Of course, four wheels are less labor-intensive than two wheels.In fact, real vehicles need exactly this gravity to be transformed into forward driving force.

But literati have a problem, they like to express their opinions on issues that they are not familiar with.Carrying out scientific research on carriages requires a lot of knowledge, which ordinary people do not possess.But for this question that cannot be studied, I don't know how many literati followed the person who first put forward this opinion, and I don't know how many reasons have been given eloquently.Until a wrong statement became the common sense of some people.The Master said, knowing what you know is knowing, not knowing what you don’t know is knowing.Many of us don't actually have that heart.

To use a cart pulled by livestock, generally speaking, the four wheels have high comfort and are best used to sit on people.The two wheels carry a lot of load and are suitable for pulling goods.For most of Chinese history, it was rigidly stipulated that the rides of officials should not be comfortable.Rather than saying that China uses two wheels, which shows that ancient China could not invent four-wheeled carriages, it is better to say that China's perfect harness is more suitable for using two wheels.

(Ouyang Xiu has a saying, "If you don't innovate, you are proud of it, and if you don't go against it, you will be famous." As for the four-wheeled carriage, it has almost become common sense in historical works. I didn't want to say it again, so as not to be annoying. But for I also wanted to use this question in my own work at the very beginning. I searched a lot of information and spent a lot of energy. The final result is what I said in this chapter, and I will share it with readers as a little knowledge.)
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