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Chapter 161 Design a New Thing
The banners were unfurled, and the detainee team headed north along the post road.

Wherever you go, no matter how big or small the town is, there are always empty streets.

This expedition to Nanfeng is very secretive.For the sake of surprise, ordinary people including the four southern counties knew nothing before and after the expedition.

But half a month ago, the army broke through Hushou Pass.When Yuan Xingwen delivered the victory report to the imperial capital, he specifically asked for a military order to publicize it along the way.

So the people knew that the south had won a big victory.

Ren Ning drove the prison car all the way to the imperial capital slowly.Before that, Kuai Ma also sent the news of Nanfeng's destruction of the country to the imperial capital.

More than 40 years is not too long, and the people in the south still have more or less painful memories of the Nanfeng people fighting over.

At this time, when they heard the prison van passing by, everyone rejoiced like a new year, and ran out to see what happened.

"Children, you have to see the Nanfeng people in the prison car." A middle-aged man wiped his tears and told the next generation about the past.

"More than 40 years ago, the people of Nanfeng once led troops through our small town, killing, burning and looting everywhere, and the common people suffered a lot. Your grandfather and grandmother died under their butcher's knives."

"If your grandfather hadn't let me get into the mud hole at that time, I would have survived..."

As he spoke, he pointed to the flags in front of the team, "Remember these flags and soldiers, they avenged us."

"Gou Nanfeng, go to hell!"

The men's children slammed the prison car with rotten leaves and rotten eggs before looking up.

In front of the long line of detainees, six brightly colored flags were flying in the wind.

"Starfall Legion!" Someone exclaimed.

Among the six flags, the bright red flag in the middle is familiar to all Yunchui people.

But the other five sides are very strange, after all, they are all embroidered with big Chinese characters, so it can be said that they have no distinctive features.

Ordinary people can barely read, and they can't understand what it means.

Therefore, many people forget it after seeing it, and in the end they only remember the pattern of blocking falling stars with a knife and a sword.

Seeing that something was wrong, Li Hebai quickly sent someone over to publicize it.

The common people waited for a long time before they realized that Zhennanguan and the four southern counties had contributed to the battle against Nanfeng.

All the way to the north, the road along the way is not peaceful.

But unless people from Nanfeng go north to rob prisoners, no one will not pay attention to such a team.

So the journey was as calm as water.

But Ren Ning knew the importance of the prisoners in the team, so he didn't dare to relax his vigilance.In addition to checking the situation of the convoy every morning, noon and evening, Lei Er, Xiao Gang and others were also sent to the front and surrounding areas to scout the situation.

The days passed like this day by day.

However, it is a full [-] miles away from Zhennanguan to the imperial capital. At the current speed of the convoy, it will take at least two months.

On this day, Ren Ning was silently summarizing the lessons and experience of this expedition to Nanfeng.

Suddenly his heart skipped a beat.

Idle is idle anyway, why not get a pair of combined pulleys out.

Whether it was in Yanzhen Fortress or Guangxin's Yingshan Camp before, Ren Ning was either light cavalry, or temporarily turned into infantry in order to adapt to the mountains of Nanfeng.Neither carried baggage on a large scale.

Therefore, Ren Ning does not have much demand for lifting.

But this time in the siege of Nanfeng Capital City, he saw with his own eyes the tremendous effect and power of various heavy siege equipment, and he couldn't help but be moved.

It's just that everything in the world has advantages and disadvantages.

These apparatuses also have conspicuous shortcoming equally, that is exactly too heavy.Both handling and assembly are time-consuming and laborious.

For example, during the raid on Hushou Pass, Zhennan Pass was clearly behind, but most of the soldiers who wanted to attack the top of the city still had to risk their lives to climb the ladder.

There are not too many cattle and horses here in the south, and almost all the luggage is loaded, unloaded, transported and assembled by manpower.

A three-and-a-half-foot-high city-climbing vehicle needs the help of hundreds of people to move it using only levers, and the speed is as slow as a snail.

If Zhennanguan had lifting equipment in hand, these siege equipment could be transported to Song Dingcheng faster and assembled in time, then the battle of Nanfeng is probably over long ago.

After all time is money. The food and grass consumed by 10,000+ people every day is still terrible.

At that time, Ren Ning saw it and wanted to help.

It's just that he was busy fighting wars, surveying the terrain, sneaking into the city as a spy, and writing battle reports every day, so he couldn't find time for it.

No wonder scientists or inventors are mostly nerds.

Ren Ning complained silently.

If scientists and inventors do not have a stable environment and are always busy on the battlefield, either killing or being killed, many useful things must be born centuries later.

Thinking of this, Ren Ning found a car and sat down to start drawing the pulley combination.

Just drawing and painting, he stopped the pen again.

When it comes to pulleys, iron comes to mind.

More than three months have passed, and I don't know what happened to Qingshi County where the earthquake occurred.

There can be Yunchui's largest iron ore resources.

"Lei Er Xiao Gang, I have a task for you."

Ren Ning summoned two people and asked them to go to the front city to inquire first, to see if anyone or a caravan knew about the current situation in Qingshi County.

After more than an hour, the two came back on horseback.

"General, we have heard about Qingshi County." Lei Er took some horse favorite snacks and fed them to Zhuifeng.

"The disaster situation in Qingshi County is very serious. Most of the mines were destroyed, and the miners hardly climbed out. And it wasn't until the end of the first month that the imperial capital decided to let the second prince Chen Xiulan lead a team to rescue the disaster."

Snapped!
Xiao Gang next to him punched his palm heavily.

"The gang of assholes in Xingji City!"

Mixing with the soldiers of the Starfall Legion every day, he has long since lost the conversation and demeanor of a swinger in the imperial capital.

"There was an earthquake in Qingshi County at the end of December last year, and it took a month to set off for disaster relief. What kind of disaster is this relief?"

Xiao Gang was full of indignation: "The victims are short of food and clothing. When they arrive in a month, they will probably all starve to death or die of cold."

"That's true." Lei Er nodded, his face suddenly became very strange.

"However, according to the information I heard, the second prince's disaster relief seems to be very good. He was even named King Jin after he returned to the imperial capital."

Ren Ning looked up to the north in astonishment.

He still has some impressions of the third prince Chen Xiuzhu, also known as the King of Qi, but he doesn't know anything about the second prince Chen Xiulan or the King of Jin.

This imperial capital...

Ren Ning silently shook his head.

No wonder the general decided to kill King Nanfeng before the prisoner team arrived at the imperial capital.

It really is necessary.

Lei Er complained for a while, his eyes fell on the paper in front of Ren Ning.

"General, what is this?" He asked curiously.

"This is called a pulley combination." Ren Ning introduced the usefulness of this thing in detail.

Lei Er and the two have traveled extensively, and they are quite knowledgeable. Hearing Ren Ning say this, he is still a little at a loss.

"These few things can easily lift thousands of pounds of heavy objects?" Xiao Gang wondered, "Is it true?"

Lei Er laughed.

From Yanzhen Fortress all the way to the east, he has seen a lot of hardships of the people and misfortune in the world, and he loves and hates the imperial capital. However, knowing that he is powerless to change, his temper comes and goes quickly.

"The general's head is different from ours. If he says yes, he will do it."

"What's the use of this thing?" Xiao Gang was a little at a loss.

Usually nothing seems to weigh tens of thousands of catties...

As he was talking, he suddenly remembered the siege equipment outside Song Ding City, and his eyes widened.

"Just as you think." Ren Ning nodded with a smile, "This combination of pulleys has many uses. It can be used to carry siege equipment in the military, and it can be used to carry caravan cargo in civil affairs. I guarantee that it will be absolutely useful."

Speaking of caravans, Xiao Gang immediately became interested.

The Gu family caravan is one of the few profitable industries under the Zhongyong Bo mansion.

"Yes!" He slapped his head violently.

"Half a year has passed in a flash, and it is now the first ten days of March. Gu Shengnan and the others should have returned to Yunchui, where are they now?"

If the east-west route is still dangerous and difficult, let the Gujia caravan replace the north-south route and transport rubber products to Guangxin County.

(End of this chapter)