Destiny Only Han

Chang'an City.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the long street was still busy with traffic.

However, human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same.

For example, those vendors who come here from Xincheng (Xianyang) and Yueyang on the north bank of the Weishui River to do business.

Five days ago, they were still members of Neishi and belonged to the same administrative unit as Chang'an City.

But on the first day of the new year, the former was assigned to You Fufeng, while the latter belonged to Zuo Fengyi...

In just one night, they went from half-brothers with broken bones and tendons in the Imperial Capital to the moat of the Imperial Capital...

Who can be happy about this?
Therefore, correspondingly, those with thick smiles on their faces were naturally the people of Lantian County and Zheng County (today's Hua County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province) whose locations were divided into Jingzhaoyin.

Although they were also at the feet of the Emperor before the division... (Note [-])

So, this is just pure schadenfreude...

To the north of the long street is the venue of the 'First Han Empire Automobile Industry Exhibition'.

Lu Wan took her head back from the car window, looked at Liu Ying who was riding in the same car, and asked, "What is the big glass ball at the door for?"

Liu Ying said concisely and to the point: "Lottery."

Lu Wan frowned: "Lottery? What do you mean?"

You are one hundred thousand why... Liu Ying complained in her heart, but explained honestly: "There are too many people who want to enter the exhibition, which exceeds the reception capacity of the exhibition hall, so we give out two thousand numbers every day. Who can Whoever you win gets in!"

Lu Wan nodded and then asked: "Then we want to draw numbers? I seem to have seen a few old friends' butlers in the queue at the door..."

Liu Ying looked at Lu Wan with a look that looked at a little cutie: "Uncle Lu, if you want to queue up, go ahead and queue up. Anyway, I'll take the back door."

Lu Wan was silent for a moment and said no more words.

Do you really think he is a cutie?

He was just testing Liu Ying's tone to see if he could get his old friends to join the team, or go directly to the back door and enter the venue from the internal passage.

After all, Chang'an City has many honorable and high-ranking officials.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the imperial city of Chang'an where the exhibition hall is located, just throwing a brick can kill several high-ranking officials...

Therefore, privileges are concentrated only in the hands of a very few people at the top of the pyramid.

Therefore, the emperor's feet are a place where all living beings are relatively equal.

A moment later, Liu Ying's carriage stopped at the back door of the exhibition hall.

Liu Ying got off the carriage first, and the first thing he saw was Cao Shen, Wang Ling, Li Shang and other big officials who had been waiting here for a long time. On the carriage behind him, Liu Fei and Liu Heng filed down. , Liu Ruyi, and the three brothers Liu Jian, Liu Hui, and Liu You who also celebrated the New Year in Chang'an City.

Today, they met to attend the exhibition together.

Cao Shen and others hurried forward to salute.

"I will pay homage to Your Majesty, King Yan, King Qi, King Zhao, King Zhongshan..."

Suddenly, Cao Shen froze, staring straight at the man who finally got off the carriage.

I saw that the man had a plump face and a long face. Although his hair was as white as snow, his shoulders and back were straight, and his legs and feet were strong. Unfortunately, the black gauze covered the lower half of the man's face, making it impossible to identify him.

Well, no.

Cao Shen recognized it at a glance and it was Liu Bang!

After all, he was a native of Pei County who had worked with Liu Bang for more than 20 years and had known each other for 50 to [-] years. How could he hide his face with a black gauze covering his face?

But what puzzled him was why Liu Bang was so secretive?

This is not in line with the personality of a conspicuous bag!
Liu Ying raised her head and laughed wildly until she got kicked on the butt...

Liu Bang stared: "If you don't teach me, it's your father's fault! Look again? If you look again, I'll beat you!"

The king is humiliated and his ministers perish!Someone beats your emperor, but he is indifferent... Liu Ying looked around.

However, Cao Shen and others just looked away, as if they didn't see anything.

After all, I beat my son...

It's just that they are full of doubts and don't understand why Liu Bang said, "It's the father's fault if the son doesn't teach"...

Only Han Xin, who was standing in the middle of the crowd but felt like he was living alone, had some vague guesses.

He was also invited to Linguang Palace during the summer vacation and was responsible for teaching the art of war and formation to princes such as Liu Qi and Liu Yan. He had some idea of ​​what kind of character his future son-in-law would be.

That guy looks like a little Liu Bang!

Therefore, he hated that little brat.

But now, although he doesn't know what Liu Yan did to Liu Bang, he doesn't care. He has begun to like Liu Yan!
My true son-in-law... Han Xin looked at Liu Bang, whose face was covered by black gauze and whose veins were slightly exposed on his forehead, and he did not hide his joy.

Liu Bang was keenly aware of this and glared at the stabbing head opposite him.

Zizzizi... Liu Ying's brain-filling voice was filled with lightning.

Lu Wan laughed and stepped forward to smooth things over: "Since everyone is here, don't stand outside. Let's go in together and see what rare things there are!"

Cao Shen laughed awkwardly: "What King Yan said is true." After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Ying, bowed slightly, raised his hands and said, "I dare to ask your Majesty to lead the way."

Liu Ying nodded, reached out to pull Liu Yan, who was hiding behind Liu Fei, and strode forward.

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"Now, this is the most shining pearl in today's Dahan Automobile Industry!"

Liu Ying pointed to the eight-cylinder engine placed in the exhibition cabinet, illuminated by six beams of light from different angles, and introduced with some regret: "It's a pity that the engine forging technology is not mature yet, so this kind of high-horsepower engine can only It could be a hand-forged concept product..."

Cao Shen nodded.

In fact, he knows nothing about it, but he only needs to cooperate with Liu Ying's performance.

Anyway, Liu Ying would not ask him questions...

Behind Cao Shen, Liu Fei looked at the iron lump in front of him with longing, imagining that one day he would drive this car with the power of a thousand horses and run freely in the endless wilderness.

The same goes for Liu Ruyi.

Therefore, today's Liu Ying is extremely pleasing to him...

Liu Ying looked at it a few more times, then turned around and led Cao Shen and others to the other side where the steam engine was displayed.

There, it was crowded.

After all, people know more about steam engines than internal combustion engines. The important thing is that unlike concept cars, those four-wheeled carts equipped with steam engines are mass-produced models for public sale.

Cao Shen looked at those huge steam cars, which were about the size of two carriages, frowned at Liu Ying, and asked: "Your Majesty, if such vehicles are allowed to run on the road, not to mention frightening the horses pulling them, the roads It’s not wide enough either…”

Wang Ling and Zhang Cang also nodded secretly.

An important factor why steam engines were eliminated by internal combustion engines was that they were too bulky and not as convenient to use as internal combustion engines.

Liu Ying explained: "These are not passenger cars, but special vehicles."

Cao Shen asked with some confusion: "Special vehicles? I have seen those special vehicles before, don't they look like this?"

Well, he is referring to the excavators, bulldozers, road rollers and other vehicles equipped with steam engines. Over the years, the roads in Han Dynasty have gradually been paved from the county level to the township level. These large machines have played an important role!

Although smoke billowed everywhere and the ground was in a mess...

"I blame me for not making it clear." Liu Ying smiled and continued: "These steam vehicles belong to the agricultural category of special vehicles and are specially used for land reclamation and farming. There is also an expansion interface on the front of the vehicle, which can be equipped with mechanically driven A saw blade can cut down a tree several feet high in just one minute!"

Liu Ying said as she led Cao Shen, who was full of amazement, towards the booth.

There, in addition to those huge steam cars, there was also a weird-looking large iron claw, and under the iron claw was a gleaming saw blade. This was the tree felling machine Liu Ying was talking about.

"When the time comes, first fix the trunk with iron claws, then start the saw blade and cut down the tree directly from the root..."

"Then use iron claws to move the chopped tree trunk to a safe location..."

"Although there is a lot of waste compared to manual tree felling, especially in fuel costs, mechanical tree felling is very efficient. It is not a problem to cut down a hundred trees a day!"

After Liu Ying finished speaking, she touched the tree felling machine with a proud face.

Cao Shen Wang Ling and others looked at each other, frowned and asked: "Didn't Your Majesty have a ban on cutting? Why do you still want to build such a device?"

Han Xin sneered from the side: "If you can't cut down domestic trees, is it possible that you can't cut down overseas trees? For example, in Nanyang, the islands there are hot and humid. The most important thing for the overseas garrison every day is to send people to cut down trees on both sides of the road! "

"Otherwise, within three to five days, the entire military camp will be surrounded by forests and cut off from the outside world!"

Cao Shen nodded lightly.

He had also heard about things in Nanyang, but he had always regarded them as weird. After all, he grew up in the north of the Yangtze River and had never seen with his own eyes the scene of trees that had been made into tables taking root after a heavy rain...

Liu Ying just smiled and said nothing.

He built this simple and crude tree felling machine that could be used with a steam engine, not to cut down trees in Southeast Asia.

After so many years of development by the Han Dynasty, relevant industrial chains have long been formed there. The important thing is that Nanyang has a superior geographical environment, with abundant sunlight and rainfall.

Therefore, grain yield is high.

And with food, there is no need to worry about the population.

With more people, labor is cheap, and the cost of mechanical logging is much higher than manual logging.

The important thing is that if the machine breaks down, it still needs someone to repair it, but the lumberjack can replace it for free at any time. Anyway, there are many people there. Even in the most dangerous business and the bloody factory, there are still many people rushing to work!
Therefore, this tree felling machine is mainly aimed at the New World.

Well, that’s North America.

Because the aboriginal people there did not understand metallurgy, they could only watch the endless plains covered by forests, begging for food from their golden rice bowls all day long, and constantly migrating in pursuit of the herds of bison.

It's really a waste of money.

Therefore, we might as well temporarily lend the land to the Han people for farming...

Well, not right.

The so-called world is not the land of the king, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, so it is not a loan, but a return!

Note 22: Zheng County was established in the Western Zhou Dynasty.In the 806nd year of King Xuan of Zhou ([-] BC), King Xuan of Zhou granted his younger brother Ji You (Dong Huan of Zheng) to the land of Zheng, that is, the State of Zheng.During the period of King You of Zhou Dynasty, Duke Huan of Zheng ran eastward, so "Xinzheng" came into being, which is roughly Orleans and New Orleans...