Daqin: The poorest prime minister, the first emperor begged me to corrupt

Chapter 58 Four-wheeled vehicles, rollers, and engineering reward system!
The Chinese ancestors' appreciation of jade has a long history and can be traced back to ancient times!
In this pre-Qin era, let alone the legendary story of Heshibi, who doesn't know who doesn't?
Including Confucius also praised the eleven virtues of jade. In short, it is extremely fancy. How can the gentlemen of later generations not love jade?
And the jade stones that Qin Mo poured out of the basket were each as big as an adult's fist.

Although the raw skin is simply rubbed off, the excellent quality of the jade has been revealed, and it is as tender and moist as suet!

The eyes of all the civil servants stared straight, and their breathing was a little difficult: "Is it really a gift to us?"

Qin Mo suppressed a smile and said: "You gentlemen, choose by yourself. If you find one you like, you don't need to carve it. You can just hold it in your hand and play with it. It is gentle and nourishing."

"However, it's still the same sentence, you must show off a lot. The prosperity of our Hexi country depends entirely on whether you show off!"

There was no reason why all the civil servants should not, and they all said: "If you get such a beautiful jade, you must invite relatives and friends to appreciate it together."

Qin Mo nodded in satisfaction: "Good, let's choose."

All the civil servants no longer held back, stepped forward to choose the beautiful jade, they were really picky for a while, they wanted every one they saw.

After a long while, all the civil servants held one each, and got up to express their thanks with satisfaction.

"May I ask Prime Minister Qin, did this caravan use these four-wheeled carriages when it left the customs and went out of the customs, traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers all the way to the outside world?"

Erlang God Li Yu looked at the four-wheeled carriages and asked curiously.

The civil servants were about to say goodbye and leave, but they couldn't help but stop when they heard the words, and looked at the dilapidated four-wheeled carriages.

From entering the courtyard, everyone's attention was attracted by the bloody horses, and then they robbed the horses and selected jade, and no one looked carefully at these carriages.

Let Li Yu ask this question at this time, and the civil servants looked at it again, and their hearts were full of doubts: "The four-wheeled carriage is quite capable of transporting things, but how to turn it? Do you want to drag it?"

Yingzheng used a four-wheeled cart, but it was pulled entirely by six strong horses.

Moreover, you can only walk on flat roads, otherwise you will be forced to drag, and the wheels and axles will be broken and you will not be able to turn.

"Of course it's not a dead end..."

Qin Mo shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, stretched out his hand to drag a carriage, and turned it around a few times for them to watch.

All civil servants looked at the front wheel axle, followed by Qin Mo's drag, and turned sideways under the car body, all of them were amazed.

Qin Mo stopped dragging, pointed under the carriage and said, "Look, gentlemen, is there an iron circular axle under the front wheel axle connected to the body?"

All the civil servants immediately attached themselves to watch, and they were all stunned and surprised a little bit.

Only Li Yu, the god of Erlang, was puzzled again: "Looking at Qin Xiang's dragging and turning, it seems to be very labor-saving, and there is not much friction and ear-piercing sound. Is there a mechanism in this circular shaft?"

Qin Mo couldn't help giving a thumbs up, let alone Erlang God, nodded and said: "There is indeed a mechanism."

With that said, he took out a caravan spare steering wheel from the carriage, and handed it to Li Yuguan for a look.

All civil servants also gathered around, stretching their necks to look at the novelty.

The structure of the steering shaft is simple. There are two grooved iron rings inside and outside, and iron beads are embedded in them. It is so simple that Li Yu and all the officials are dumbfounded.

It's just that they want to break their heads, and they can't understand how the iron beads are embedded, and they are so evenly distributed that the iron ring does not shift when it is turned?
Qin Mo saw their doubts, so he took the initiative to explain: "You don't need to think too complicated, just look carefully."

"In fact, there are two iron pieces in this shaft disk, which are called fixing frames, which are used to rivet and fix the iron balls so that they do not shift when rotating."

"So when inlaying, you only need to do a good job of size control, first arrange the inner and outer iron rings, leave a space on one side, and insert a few iron beads into the space."

"Then push them apart one by one, so that they are distributed symmetrically and evenly in a fixed position, and then rivet the two fixed frame iron pieces up and down, and it's done!"

Then, he pointed to the wheel road: "This thing can not only be used for axle steering, but also can be used as a roller to make the wheel turn more labor-saving."

The vehicles in the pre-Qin period actually had rollers, so that the wheels and axles did not have to rotate together.

It's just a roller made of copper or iron tiles. There are no steel balls in it, so it's lifeless friction. Needless to say, the sound is harsh, and it needs to be replaced from time to time when it wears out quickly.

This was also one of the reasons why Li Yu was surprised that there was no friction sound.

All the civil servants suddenly realized, clapped their hands and praised: "With this thing, the transportation capacity of vehicles will increase several times, it's really wonderful!"

Li Yu looked at Qin Mo and said, "Is this also made by Prime Minister Qin?"

Qin Mo shook his head: "The truth doesn't have a lot of time, it's like concrete, it's all about thinking of an idea, let the students in this academy slowly study and trial-manufacture."

Han Fei answered in a timely manner: "I declare in advance that a lot of iron was consumed during the trial production of this steel ball bearing."

"If the imperial court gives less rewards, I am afraid that the students will not be able to get back the capital of the iron materials."

"If the students of Baigong are chilled, even if Prime Minister Qin has a strange idea, no one will help him in the trial production in the future."

"The imperial court should weigh it, how much reward should it give?!"

The civil servants were dumb, but they also understood, exchanged glances with each other, and finally looked at Qin Mo.

Qin Mo is now the prime minister, so of course he has the most say.

And Qin Mo didn't pretend to avoid suspicion, and immediately said to the civil servants: "Then the truth will take this opportunity to propose a system."

"In the future, regardless of whether it is a civilian craftsman, an official craftsman, or a student of all kinds of crafts, as long as he has made improvements in all kinds of crafts, he can report the cost to the imperial court."

"After the examination and approval by the imperial court, if the reward does not cover the consumption, it will subsidize the money as appropriate. What do you think?"

Not all improvements are worthy of great rewards.

Some improvement experiments may cost a lot of money, but the results are somewhat useful, but not very useful, which is very embarrassing.

But then again, you can't go a thousand miles without taking a few steps. These seemingly weak improvements are just those small steps. If you want to travel a thousand miles, you can't do without them.

Therefore, the imperial court also needs to provide subsidies as appropriate.

All the civil servants raised their hands in agreement: "Qin Xiang is thoughtful, and it should be so. Tomorrow, we will jointly write a letter to His Majesty to promote this system!"

Qin Mo nodded, and said to Lao Wang Wan: "Old Minister Wang, the specific rewards for the bearings should be discussed and decided by you."

This is his style of doing things, only mentioning the rough details to the officials.

Old Wang Wan took the order with her hands in her arms, and murmured with all the civil servants on the spot, and then said to Han Fei: "This bearing is indeed of great use to the army and the people. Although it is not as good as concrete, it is not much better."

"The imperial court will reward the third-class nobles, and there will be money subsidies. After His Majesty's instructions, they can be rewarded with concrete and distributed to students together!"

Han Fei raised his hand and bowed: "So, I will thank you all on behalf of the students of Baigong."

Qin Mo let out a sigh of relief, with this system, the academy is finally on the right track!
(End of this chapter)