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Chapter 1239 The Sixth Prince Builds a Car
In the next few days, Zhu Zhen divided the 16,000 coachmen he brought into hundreds of teaching teams and distributed them throughout Nanyang Lake.

Each driver takes six to seven students and teaches them step by step how to use the ice gun to control the ice cart.

Nansihu has become the largest driving school in the world. Ping An was appointed as the principal of the driving school. He will form an assessment team of 1,000 people to be responsible for assessing the teaching of all teaching teams. The Ming army is very familiar with this method. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, they have been assessed by Boss Zhu every year.

How to set clear standards, fair rewards and punishments... these are all done easily and there is no need for Zhu Zhen to worry about them.

His focus was on building the car. It’s not enough to have a driving school alone, you also need a car factory.

Zhu Zhen set up forty car manufacturing sites along the coast of Nanyang Lake. Let the craftsmen he brought from Peiping be the masters, and the local craftsmen from Shandong be the apprentices. The masters teach while doing, and the apprentices learn while doing.

It was different from what Zhu Zhen expected. It was indeed not difficult to make an ice truck, but it was still a bit difficult to make a large ice truck that could carry two thousand kilograms.

A normal ice truck can only carry a thousand kilograms. An ice truck with twice the load will almost double in size. Not only does this require more materials, but it also makes the ice truck bulkier. Especially after it is fully loaded, not to mention purely wooden ice sleds, even ice sleds covered with animal skins or iron sheets, it is very difficult for the driver to hold them up, and they are not suitable for such long-distance transportation at all.

Therefore, when making a large ice cart, craftsmen will embed two thin iron bars under two longitudinal wooden ice sleds. It's like putting skates on an ice cart. The only parts that actually come into contact with the ice are the iron bars.

Because the iron bars are smoother and narrower than wood, the contact area with the ice surface is smaller, which can reduce friction as much as possible.

"Two days later..." Zhu Zhen thought about it and frowned: "Then only 60,000 vehicles have been produced, and there is still a big gap."

Although the craftsmen of this era did not understand the reason, they still figured out an ingenious way to put skates on the big ice cart so that it could slide flexibly on the ice.

But it is impossible without accidents. Within two days, Wu Yin, who was in charge of material management, discovered that there was not enough material.

He quickly came to report to the prince: "Our existing wood can support production for two more days at most, and we will be forced to stop work after two days."

"There is no way. There are too many consumables for a two thousand kilogram ice truck, and the material requirements are also high. The plates must be of sufficient size, so a lot of wood pulled from Prince Lu's Mansion is unusable at all." Wu Yin He said with a grimace: "Your Majesty, how about we build less?"

In addition, when a person sits on an ice bed, the ice is under greater pressure and the melting point is lowered. A thin layer of water will melt under the iron bars, which acts as a lubrication and further reduces friction, allowing the heavy ice bed to be moved easily. Speeding across the ice.

If nothing else, completing the project on time will not be a problem.

Therefore, carpenters and blacksmiths had to work together to produce a large ice truck that met the requirements.

Fortunately, the ice cart has a simple structure after all. With the level of Ming craftsmen, it is not difficult to make as long as you master the know-how. After the masters in Peiping built a few cars, the craftsmen in Shandong were able to become apprentices... The production speed of the car manufacturing sites in various places increased day by day. From two hundred cars per day at the beginning, it soon increased to four to five hundred cars per day!

"No, one hundred thousand vehicles is a hard target, let's think of another way." Zhu Zhen said solemnly: "Collecting lumber that meets the specifications from the people, if it's not possible, demolish Prince Lu's Mansion..."

"Then, how dare you do that? Without the emperor's will, who dares to demolish it?" Wu Yin was startled.

"That's true." Zhu Zhen nodded and said, "Then think of other ways first. If it doesn't work, then talk about it."

"Hey." Wu Yin nodded in response. I thought to myself, it seems that the prince really dares to dismantle it...~~
The people of Yanzhou are still very helpful, as soon as the notice to collect wood was issued. Soon, peasants, farmers, and merchants sent the materials they had saved at home for making furniture and coffins to various car-making sites.

Some fishermen even towed their own boats and said they would use them first. The clerk at the shipbuilding site asked, how can we fish in spring?

Answer: Isn't it going to be some time before spring? Let’s talk about it then…

The Shandong fellows' noble performance of "giving me a papaya and giving me a Qiongju in return" deeply shocked Eleven and Twelve.

The two of them never expected that Sixth Brother's money-spending behavior, which seemed to be a waste of money at first, would one day be able to make back the capital with profits.

"I finally understand why those places in the south with simple folk customs and prosperous culture and education are called Zoulu on the seaside. The hometown of Confucius and Mencius is really well-deserved." Lao Shiyi sighed.

"Yes, the people in Shandong are the most honest, but it's a pity that the honest people always suffer the most." Zhu Zhen sighed, and then smiled proudly: "But in this king's place, honest people will never be allowed to suffer!"

He ordered that all people who donated wood must be registered and not only pay the market price on the spot, but also announced that the large ice trucks would be theirs after the transportation task was completed.

At that time, ordinary people can either dismantle the ice trucks and rebuild them to build ships and furniture, or they can keep the ice trucks and wait for next winter to use them... I believe that after my demonstration, ordinary people will realize the business opportunities.

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The people of Yanzhou tried their best to collect materials for Zhu Zhen's 30,000 large ice trucks, and the wood for 10,000 large ice trucks was still missing.

Even Zhu Zhen was about to give up now. He thought that if he did less, he would do less and he would make up for it in the spring of next year. We can't really tear down Prince Lu's Mansion and use those fine nanmu and mahogany rosewood to build an ice cart, right?

But it is a pity that we did not complete all the tasks...

Just when Zhu Zhen was about to teach his younger brothers that shortcomings are also a kind of beauty, Kong Na and Meng Keren came with members of the Confucius and Mencius families, and brought a total of 20,000 large logs!
"In order to collect 20,000 pieces of wood for the prince, our family's financial resources were completely drained." Kong Ne naturally wanted to show off his merits: "We even cut down 3,000 trees in Kong Lin."

"Really? Is that okay?" Zhu Zhen said in surprise: "Don't cut Kong Lin bald. That would be a sin..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Kong Ne hurriedly shook his head and said, "All the trees cut down were corner trees, so the ancestors were not disturbed. And I also prayed to the ancestors in advance and told them that this was to send food to the Polu army. I believe the ancestors won’t blame me.”

He would not tell Lao Liu that there were 100,000 trees in Konglin...

"Okay, okay." Zhu Zhen cheered repeatedly, gave a thumbs up and said: "From today on, I will look at Beikong in a different light!"

"Hahaha, so that the prince knows that our Kong family is full of loyal people." Kong Ne couldn't hide the smile on his face.

The investment is so worth it. This time Beikong gave the Sixth Prince a big favor. Will he speak for Nankong again in the future?

And those trees were cut from the cemetery reserved for Nan Kong...

(End of this chapter)