The Emperor is Above

Chapter 24 Are You Stupid?

"Doctor Shang is visiting?"

The villagers in Huaiqiu were all breathing in the cold air in unison, and all of them, young and old, were extremely shocked.

In their world, a corporal who is granted a title is a big shot who cannot be messed with, and a sergeant who is granted a title is as powerful as the sun in the sky and cannot be touched.

The lower-ranking doctor was a legendary figure, someone who had only been heard of but never seen. Now, a higher-ranking doctor had come from the capital to visit his father. This was truly shocking.

Qing Yi didn't bother to comfort the frightened neighbors, and hurriedly walked towards Huaiqiu with Daniu and Chai Yong. The other party treated him with such courtesy, probably just for the sake of Old Man Shi's face.

No matter what the reason is, he must go out to greet them immediately. This is in accordance with etiquette and he will not be regarded as impolite.

As soon as he walked out of the gate of Huaiqiuli, Qing Yi saw a team thirty steps away. Fifty soldiers were lined up in two rows, guarding dozens of craftsmen in the middle. The craftsmen were escorting five carriages carrying a lot of wood and tools.

At the front of the team stood a middle-aged man, about thirty-six or thirty-seven years old, with a tall and extraordinary appearance, a broad forehead, a high nose bridge, long eyes and thin eyebrows, full earlobes, a beard more than a foot long on his fair face, and his hair tied into buns on both sides.

The senior official was dressed in a black robe and a dark hat, black leather boots, and a dark crane cloak. He looked very elegant and gave people the impression of a gentle and kind gentleman.

"Your Excellency is the head of Huaiqiu Village, the son of Senior Commoner Mu Qing - Senior Commoner Yi?" The middle-aged man actually took the initiative to bow and greet in advance, "I am the Junior Minister of the Capital, my surname is Yuanmu, and my name is Qiujian."

"I am Qing Yi!"

Without bothering to complain about whether the other party's name was an attempt to catch fish in a tree or to find a sword in a boat, Qing Yi hurriedly bowed in return and greeted him warmly,
"Just now Mr. Shi said that someone from the capital was coming. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Doctor Yuanmu would come to visit me. I am so lucky."

"Oh? Could it be that Mr. Shi is still visiting Shang Shuyi's house?" Doctor Yuanmu was shocked and asked with great interest, "If he is here, I should go and say hello first."

"He was here just now, but Old Man Shi only stayed for a moment and then left, leaving his granddaughter Niuniu with me to play for a few days."

Qing Yi discovered that this senior doctor who was seeking swords from a tree respected Old Man Shi very much, and he became more and more suspicious about the identity of the thin and dark old man. The one who could be respected by the senior doctor must at least be a Shaoqing.

"bang bang bang-"

While the two were talking, fifty Huaiqiuli militiamen wearing armor, led by Chai Yong, lined up in two rows and lined up on both sides of the gate, holding their heads high and chests puffed out, looking mighty and majestic.

"What are you doing?" Qing Yi's face changed immediately, and he walked up to Chai Yong and asked in a low voice.

"Doesn't the other party have fifty private soldiers with him? Let's discuss it and see if you are ready to give you, the village head, some face?" Chai Yong also found something wrong.

"Shang Shuyi, what are they doing?" Yuanmu Qiujian looked puzzled.

"Ahaha, these are the village militiamen who came to welcome Doctor Yuanmu Shang!" Qing Yi laughed and immediately changed the subject, "The people in the pavilion are not very knowledgeable, and are far inferior to Doctor Yuanmu Shang's private army."

"Hahaha, these are the guards that Your Majesty allocated when I set out. How could I have such a private army?" Yuanmu Qiujian seemed to really believe Qingyi's explanation, and laughed as they walked towards Huaiqiu together.

"So they are the royal guards under the king! This is such a disgrace!"

Chai Yong and the fifty militiamen all looked a little embarrassed. They had wanted to show off their power by being fully armed, but they didn't expect to be showing off their skills in front of an expert.

"Look, that one is the sleigh my family made before. The other one is a new sleigh that can transport up to 20,000 kilograms of cargo. The four reindeer that serve as power are in the animal shed!"

Qing Yi walked into his yard with Yuan Mu Qiu Jian and pointed at several tools hanging on the wall of the animal shed. "These are harnesses for reindeer. They can reduce the fatigue of animals pulling carts."

When he walked into the yard, Niuniu was playing with the little white fox and the civet cat. Yuanmu Qiujian looked at Qingyi with a more friendly and kind look. He didn't care about the smell of feces in the animal shed and carefully observed the details of each supporting tool. The craftsmen who followed him were immediately shocked when they saw the sleigh in the yard:
"I said that since we came all this way, there must be such a tool."

"As the old saying goes, words are not enough. Who knows if this thing can really transport 20,000 kilograms?"

"Let's see if we can really transport 20,000 kilograms first. Brothers from the Royal Guards, get on the truck and give it a try."

Sure enough, dozens of guards threw up a dozen large stones, and then more than 20 people jumped up, weighing at least 20,000 pounds.

Then someone harnessed four strong horses and wanted to test the effectiveness of the sled on the spot to see if it was really as good as the legend said.

"Snapped--"

With the ear-piercing sound of whips, four strong horses galloped forward, but they were so tired that they were gasping for breath, and only went a few dozen steps, leaving two deep marks on the hard ground.

A craftsman of considerable status said to the crowd proudly: "See, I told you it wouldn't work. How can a car without wheels move so fast on the ground?"

When Yuanmu Qiujian saw this scene, his originally kind expression suddenly became embarrassed. He looked at Qingyi with a pair of eyes full of suspicion.

It was not until then that Qing Yi finally felt the pressure from the senior doctor. This senior doctor, who was trying to catch fish in a tree and looking for a sword on a boat, was definitely not a person who just sat there and did nothing.

But his expression remained unchanged, and he shouted at the proud craftsman: "Are you stupid? This is a sled, how can it move without snow?"

"Come on, come on, brothers from the guards, get down first and pull the cart outside the village and try again!" The soldiers and craftsmen did not bother to argue, they only believed the facts they saw with their own eyes.

Soldiers, craftsmen, and villagers from Huaiqiu, hundreds of people in total, rushed out of Huaiqiu.

The moment the whip sounded, the sled loaded with dozens of soldiers ran far away in the blink of an eye. Even a few craftsmen who didn't hold on tightly were thrown off the vehicle unexpectedly.

The four strong horses only had some difficulty in pulling at the beginning, but after they started walking, their hooves sounded crisp and it looked particularly easy.

After testing for more than half an hour, the Sima of the Royal Guard, who felt sorry for his own warhorses, finally ordered the team to stop. The horses seemed to be pulling the cart more easily than usual and did not look tired at all.

"Okay, okay, okay!"

Yuanmu Qiujian cheered and said excitedly, "It is indeed a powerful military weapon. If we have this sled, we can transport ten times the amount of supplies and food in previous years at the same price."

Then he turned around and bowed to Yi, saying, "I am extremely sorry for having suspected Senior Scholar Yi just now."

Qing Yi waved his hand indifferently and had a preliminary understanding of the character of Doctor Yuanmuqiujian. He should be a technical bureaucrat.

Then dozens of craftsmen stopped talking and quickly dismantled the various parts of the sleigh. They used various tools to measure and calculate continuously, and heated arguments broke out from time to time.

The materials transported on the carriage when they arrived were constantly taken down and used, and in just half an hour, the first finished sleigh was imitated.

But compared with Qing Yi's one, the newly made sled has undergone many changes, and even has some additional load-bearing structures.

Perhaps because Qing Yi had just called him stupid, a craftsman said proudly, "After our improvements, this sled can transport at least 30,000 kilograms of baggage, and possibly even 50,000 kilograms."

"The sleigh I built can carry more than 50,000 kilograms, but are you planning to use exotic beasts to pull the cart as animal power?" The chubby Tun Shigu couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)