Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 347 The Use of Tricycles
"Don't look at these two wheels and a few iron pipes, there is a lot of knowledge in it."

Zhao Wen pointed to the bicycle that Li Xiaosan was pushing, and said to Sun Yuanhua.

As soon as the voice fell, a "plop" was heard.

It turned out that Li Xiaosan fell down on his bicycle.

"This bicycle looks easy to ride, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult?"

Li Xiaosan supported the bicycle, clutched his buttocks, and said embarrassingly.

The people around looked at the fallen Li Xiaosan, and they all burst into laughter.

Hai Lanzhu pointed at Li Xiaosan, laughed loudly and said, "Why did you fall down on the bicycle you were riding?"

Li Xiaosan clutched his buttocks, and said with a distressed expression: "It was quite easy when I saw Mr. Zongbing riding it, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult when I was riding it. Why does the handle of this bike keep leaning to the side? I just can't hold it in."

Zhao Wen walked up to Li Xiaosan and patted the bicycle.

"This bike looks simple, but it is really not easy to ride it well. If you really want to ride it well, you have to work hard."

I think I almost fell to my death when I was learning to ride a bicycle.

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaosan and couldn't help laughing.

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he looked at the tricycle again.

Zhao Wen pointed to the tricycle and said, "This thing is easy to ride."

Zhao Wen rode on the tricycle as he spoke.

Zhao Wen's tricycle is basically not much different from the tricycles of later generations. The front is a place for people to sit, and the back is a carriage.
Zhao Wen rode on a tricycle with both feet on the pedals.

Zhao Wen turned around and shouted: "Look, I'm starting to ride."

As he spoke, Zhao Wen kicked hard.

Because there are no rubber tires, it is quite strenuous at first.

Under the eyes of everyone, the tricycle moved slowly.

In the end, the speed of the tricycle was almost faster than that of the bicycle just now.

After a while, Zhao Wen stopped beside Sun Yuanhua.

"The carriage behind here can pull things, and this thing is perfect for transporting some things."

Zhao Wen jumped off the tricycle, pointed to the compartment behind the tricycle, and said to Sun Yuanhua.

Sun Yuanhua patted the carriage of the tricycle, and said excitedly: "Isn't this the wooden ox horse of Zhuge Liang? It can be pulled by manpower without ox or horse, and the speed is not slow. It is simply a wonderful workmanship."

"Haha, ingenuity doesn't count. It's just the simplest combination of machinery. Compared with steam locomotives, it's not a little bit simpler."

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaosan, "Little San, come here, come and try this tricycle."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaosan handed over the bicycle to a guard next to him, and ran towards Zhao Wen with a happy face.

Li Xiaosan rode on the tricycle with a smile on his face.

"Push on the pedals hard, hold the handlebars with both hands, and don't let go."

Zhao Wen stood beside the tricycle, explaining to Li Xiaosan in detail.

Li Xiaosan firmly held the handlebar of the car, and his legs suddenly exerted force.

The tricycle started to move slowly, Li Xiaosan was riding on the tricycle, his face was full of excitement.

"Haha, I never thought I could drive this mysterious tricycle." Li Xiaosan laughed while sitting on the tricycle.

At the beginning, Li Xiaosan was still a little nervous, but with continuous proficiency, Li Xiaosan relaxed.

"I didn't expect that just a few iron rods and iron rings could be turned into such a delicate thing." Li Xiaoying looked at the driving tricycle with a look of surprise on her face.

The nanny who was holding Zhao Mingyu looked at the tricycle under Li Xiaosan's crotch blankly. She couldn't understand how the tricycle moved because she couldn't read a few words, and only regarded it as a miracle.

The nearby people were also attracted by the tricycle, and surrounded the square in front of the General Military Mansion.

Seeing this, Zhao Wen asked the guards to let them go.

The main sellers of these tricycles and bicycles are them, and now we can take this opportunity to promote them well.

"What the hell is this? How can it still move? And it doesn't need someone to push a horse."

"Yes, yes, I didn't see any animals in front of me. How did it move?"

All of a sudden, the onlookers pointed at the tricycle and started talking about it.

There was surprise in their eyes.

"My lord, I can't stop. How can I stop this car?"

Li Xiaosan pedaled the tricycle faster and faster, and at the end he didn't know how to stop.

Zhao Wen hurriedly shouted: "Pull the car brake! There is a black iron rod on the beam under your crotch, pull it down hard."

Li Xiaosan hurriedly looked at his crotch, but fortunately the position of the brake was very conspicuous, Li Xiaosan saw the brake at a glance.

Li Xiaosan hurriedly pulled the brake, and according to what Zhao Wen said, he pulled the brake down hard.

Because there was no rubber, Zhao Wen glued rags together with paste and made a simple brake.

The tricycle stopped slowly under the gaze of everyone.

Li Xiaosan breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly jumped off the tricycle.

He didn't know how to stop just now, and almost scared him to death.

Although he is not afraid of being thrown, Zhao Wen made it with great difficulty. If it is broken, Li Xiaosan will definitely feel guilty.

Zhao Wen walked up to the tricycle, took the tricycle, and shouted to the onlookers, "What do you think of this thing?"

A middle-aged businessman with a bag hanging on his shoulder stood at the front of the crowd. He shouted at Zhao Wen: "This thing looks extremely delicate, and it can move. I just don't know how it moves, and it doesn't See someone pushing a horse."

"Yeah, how does this thing move? I'm confused."

For a while, the people onlookers started talking about it.

Zhao Wen pointed to the tricycle and explained to the people: "This thing does not need to be pushed by a horse, but only needs to be stepped on this pedal."

"Master Chief Soldier, is this true? You can move just by stepping on this pedal?"

The middle-aged businessman still looked at the tricycle in Zhao Wen's hand with disbelief.

Zhao Wen smiled and didn't explain any more, just got on the tricycle and demonstrated in public.

The onlookers stared intently at the foot pedal that Zhao Wen said, without taking their eyes off it.

After a while, all the people onlookers suddenly realized.

"It's really amazing to step on this pedal, this thing is really amazing."

"Yeah, it's really amazing. I'm afraid this thing is the legendary wooden cow and horse."

"Let me tell you, this thing is more than incomparable. Can you see the carriage behind it? This thing can also pull things."

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he looked at Sun Yuanhua, Li Xiaosan and the guards guarding Li Xiaoying and Hai Lanzhu, "Come here, five people!"

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Sun Yuanhua, Li Xiaosan and three guards ran over.

Zhao Wen pointed to the compartment of the tricycle and said to them, "Stand on it!"

"My lord, you can't do it, respect and order. If I go up, what will it look like?" Sun Yuanhua immediately understood what Zhao Wen wanted to do. Zhao Wen obviously wanted to demonstrate the load-bearing of the tricycle in front of the people.

Li Xiaosan and the guards beside him shook their heads hastily, not daring to go up.

Zhao Wen smiled and said, "I'm just demonstrating the weight bearing. Since you don't want to, then you can find some bricks."

Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief when he heard what Zhao Wen said.

Now that Zhao Wen is the commander in chief of Xuanzhen, he is likely to be the emperor in the future. Isn't it disrespectful for the future emperor to drive himself in a tricycle?How dare Sun Yuanhua get in the car?
He hurriedly led the guards to pull the flatbed carts for delivering bicycles and tricycles and ran outside.

Not long after, Sun Yuanhua, Li Xiaosan and the guards came in with a flatbed of bricks.

The flatbed cart was parked next to the tricycle. Zhao Wen pointed to the bricks on the tricycle, and said to the guard, "Give me these bricks and move them onto the flatbed cart."

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, the guards hurriedly moved the bricks onto the tricycle.

Before long, the bricks on the flatbed were packed to the brim.

"So many bricks probably weigh more than 1000 catties. They are so heavy, can they be moved?" The middle-aged businessman looked at the bricks on the tricycle, frowning tightly.

Zhao Wen patted the handlebar of the tricycle, and said with a smile on his face, "It's not me who decides whether to pull or not, but the tricycle."

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he stepped onto the tricycle.

After a few breaths, the tricycle moved slowly under the gaze of everyone.

"It moved, it moved, it really moved, so many bricks, it moved."

"So many things can be pulled? It's unbelievable here."

The onlookers looked at the slowly moving tricycle with surprise on their faces.

Hai Lanzhu and Li Xiaoying also looked at the tricycle with surprise on their faces. They never imagined that this small tricycle could pull so many things.

At the beginning, the speed of the tricycle was relatively slow, but as Zhao Wen kept stepping on the pedals, the speed of the tricycle gradually increased.

Things like tricycles can take a little effort when they are just starting, but after they are started, they need to save a lot of effort.

Zhao Wen rode on the tricycle, and the more he rode, the easier it was.

"Fathers and folks, what do you think of this tricycle?"

Zhao Wen kept making money in the square, shouting at these common people with a smile on his face.

"Master Chief Soldier is really a god in the sky. Such a heavy thing can be moved. This tricycle is really a good thing. With this thing, you don't need to rent a horse-drawn carriage for delivery in the future, and you can use this tricycle to deliver directly. Isn't that right? Can you save a lot of money?"

The middle-aged businessman looked at the tricycle driven by Zhao Wen with excitement on his face.

"Not only that, if you pay the emperor's rations in the future, you don't have to work hard to push the cart, and you can just ride this thing, which will save a lot of effort."

"That's right, if you want to go to the streets in the future, you don't have to walk dozens of miles. You can just ride a tricycle and pull a car full of people. This will save a lot of effort."

The onlookers chattered in unison.

Their eyes looking at the tricycle were full of fiery colors.

Nowadays, the people in Xuanzhen are much richer than those in other places, so after seeing the tricycle that Zhao Wen made, they were also moved.

(End of this chapter)