Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 365 Battle Report Comes

Within a few minutes, Sun Xiangfu rode his bicycle around the cement road around the village in Xingfu Village. It was not as light as the bicycles of later generations, but the speed was not slow due to the large tire rims.

"Brother Dali, sit back, I'll try to pull you around." After braking the car, Sun Xiangfu stood on his toes.

"Can this car still pull people?"

Sun Dali looked at the long wooden board on the back seat. With his obese figure, he could actually sit on it. Although he was a little skeptical, he still tentatively wanted to sit on it.

"You have a wide body, and you sit sideways. There are two pedals underneath, one on each side, and you hold the iron ring on the cushion with your hands."

Sun Xiangfu still remembers when he was a child, his father rode his own car and took his mother to visit relatives with him. At that time, no family had a car or a motorcycle. Bicycles were one of the three major items of marriage. It is convenient for a family to travel.

In order to make the car more suitable for carrying people, Sun Xiangfu designed a cushion for the rear seat in the original design drawing. There is an iron ring for the handle in front of the seat cushion. Sun Dali wears long trousers, which can be opened to sit. Many people who wear skirts or gowns have to sit sideways. As long as a bamboo chair is installed on the tripod, it can be used for children to sit. Taking advantage of the flat concrete road in Guanzhong, a man who can ride a bicycle, with Two people can ride for twenty or thirty miles in an hour, which is not slower than a horse.

Soon, Sun Dali sat on the back seat of the bicycle according to what Sun Xiangfu said. He weighed more than 160. Sun Xiangfu struggled a bit when he started, but he was on the road soon, and his riding speed was not slow.

"This cart can really pull people, and it doesn't go slower than a horse, so it's a good thing."

"Of course, we have good roads in Guanzhong. As long as every family is equipped with such a car, the whole traffic will be alive. From Xingfu Village, you can go to the county town in one hour, and you can almost reach Chang'an in two hours. I will teach you first. You, you go back and teach everyone how to ride..."

At about the same time, Sun Xiangfu drove Sun Dali around Xingfu Village, and then began to support him and teach Sun Dali to ride a bicycle.

People who just learned to ride a bicycle like to look at the crutches under their feet. When they hold the faucet, their strength is unstable, and they panic when turning. Sun Dali has all these problems. However, after learning for more than an hour, Sun Xiangfu can almost Don’t worry about him. Adults have legs that can support the ground. When he panics, he can just hold on for a few times. After an hour of practice, he can basically ride by himself. He only needs to be more proficient in the future, and there will be no problem.

As for the tricycle, it is difficult to solve the problem of steering. You only need to learn to steer with the wheels as the axis on the faucet. In fact, it is easier to ride than a two-wheeled bicycle. Sun Xiangfu pulled six people in the trailer at once. After riding around Xingfu Village for two laps, everyone realized how powerful these tricycles are.

Its load is no less than that of an ox cart, and even when pulling lighter things, it has a slight advantage in speed. With the physical strength of an adult man, stepping on it can pull things weighing several hundred catties. It's dozens of miles away.

"Master, can we mass-produce these bicycles and tricycles?" Ma Sai said excitedly.

His starting point for raising this question is very simple, to help the surrounding villagers save a sum of money for renting a carriage, and let some people who come to the village to pick up goods with poles every day save time and energy.

"Not yet, the cost is too high, and people can't afford it. You have to continue to study how to reduce the cost. When the big smelter in Weinan starts to produce steel next year, the cost price will drop a little. By then, you can almost manufacture some for sale. gone."

Sun Xiangfu only needs to visually inspect the steel structure of the whole vehicle and the solid tires made of isinglass, and he knows that the cost of this car is as high as tens of pieces in terms of materials alone. It's so easy, and that's not counting the workers' wages for making these things, so for now, it can only be regarded as a concept car.

"I've thought about it just now. If we make all the parts into molds and then assemble them, it will save a lot of trouble. As long as the iron we smelt can reach the hardness that can be used directly..."

"Well, your idea is good. Continue your research on this path. Besides, aren't you researching alloys? There are some alloys that can make steel tougher, but the weight will increase. There are some alloys that can make steel tougher. As long as the hardness is enough, it is enough to be used as a bicycle. In addition to reducing its cost, you also need to consider it in a more convenient, lighter and more comfortable direction.”

"Well, with the direction, I know what to do." Ma Sai nodded confidently.

The site of Xingfu Village is too small, and it is only suitable for research. The big smelter in Weinan can make the most of the technology they have researched. Therefore, after seeing the axle, Sun Xiangfu has some confidence in the new chariot, and then The manufacturing cost of a chariot was also calculated.

The cost of a continuous crossbow chariot is more than 200 guan, and the cost of bed ballista and catapult is nearly 300 guan. If you buy 800, the cost of the light chariot is nearly [-] million guan, plus [-] horses. Horses and Ma Kai, [-] pairs of Hercules heavy armor, and arrows, stone bullets, etc. used in chariots, if all are complete, it is estimated that more than [-] million pieces will be used.

Seeing this figure, Sun Xiangfu was very troubled. The military expenditure for building [-] new tank troops would almost use up all the military expenditure originally planned.

However, in order to reduce the number of deaths on the battlefield, Sun Xiangfu wanted to promote the upgrade of the entire armament. Then, if all the other armies except the chariot troops were upgraded, the military expenditure for this Eastern Expedition may be more than 2000 million.

"Do it! It's only 2000 million."

After Sun Xiangfu considered for a long time, he finally made a decision, and then began to continue to study with the craftsmen how to make more standard ordnance in a faster and easier way.

The lathe for turning arrow shafts and gun shafts, you only need to place the wood, shake the handle, and you can cut them straight and round, with exactly the same size. Compared with the speed and quality of the original hand-cutting by the supervisor, I don’t know how many grades. , a lathe, and one person can make a bundle of arrow shafts or dozens of gun shafts in less than an hour.

After the press machine for pressing the steel helmet is finished, you only need to put the iron blank on the top, pull the motor buckle, let the heavy pestle poke down, and a round helmet will come out, just leave it on the iron blank. It can be firmly worn on the head by putting a rope through the two holes in it. It also has another function, which can be used as an iron pot for cooking porridge.

In fact, Sun Xiangfu, who has seen the safety helmet on the construction site in later generations, wants to add a shock absorber to the inside of the helmet. Since there is no such thing as plastic, it will be a bit troublesome to make it. At that time, he will directly make a liner made of cotton and fur. Inside the hat, this way, wearing a helmet in winter is also warm.

Just relying on a few such lathes in Xingfu Village can complete the production of a lot of equipment. After these lathes are mass-produced, Datang will manufacture similar weapons and equipment in the future, and the time and cost will be reduced several times. In terms of armaments, no country Can compare with Datang.

The process of R&D and creation was extremely slow. Sun Xiangfu stayed in Xingfu Village for more than ten days before returning to Chang'an.

At this time, it was nearly October, and Shanyang's army competition had long since ended, and the first battle report finally came from the east.

Fortunately, Su Dingfang did not disgrace his fate, and led a total of [-] cavalry from the four divisions, and went to more than ten cities including Siping, Fuyu, Hailong, and Kaiyuan. Selected [-] elite cavalry, divided them into four groups, and continued to harass the Goguryeo army. As for the brigade, they drove more than [-] Goguryeo people. The [-] Anbei Army light cavalry led by him were escorted to Shanyang.

And Yuan Gai Suwen was about to break up the army and encircle and suppress Su Dingfang, when news came that Beisha City was attacked by the Tang Navy.

However, another piece of news made him even more anxious. Li Shimin named Gao De, the son of Rongliu Wang Gao Jianwu, as the king of Goguryeo. Get in touch, define Yuan Gai Su Wen as a rebel, organize tens of thousands of troops, and launch an attack on the area actually controlled by Yuan Gai Su Wen.

As soon as this situation happened, Yuan Gai Suwen could no longer care about entanglement with Su Dingfang, and ordered people to deploy [-] troops to reinforce Beisha City after setting up defenses in the new city. Let Su Dingfang gain a foothold in the newly captured territory, and have time to allow more light and strong troops from the four divisions to enter the occupied area and build a line of defense.

In Li Jing's view, the temporarily organized troops supporting the Gao family would not be Yuan Gaisuwen's opponent. If they defended the city and retreated while fighting, they could last for a few months at most, so he suggested Li Shimin issued letters of credence to Silla and Baekje, asking them to send troops to help Gao's quell the chaos.

However, these two countries seem to have a tacit understanding with Yuan Gai Suwen, and they did not send troops, which made Li Shimin very upset. On the way back to Chang'an, he kept yelling that he wanted to destroy these two disobedient small countries. Of course, He also made preparations to prevent Yuan Gai Suwen from counterattacking, and ordered Li Daozong stationed in Lulong area to divide [-] troops to support Su Dingfang in Kaiyuan.

Sun Xiangfu returned to Chang'an, naturally because Li Shimin had a new task for him. Fang Xuanling suggested that Li Shimin move those Goguryeo people with a high degree of Sinicization to Guanzhong, and cultivate the fields that will be replaced by the family in the next step, so as to further assimilate They, Li Shimin agreed.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu now has another task. Taking advantage of the fact that no new crops are planted in the fields after the autumn harvest, he hastened to deliver the fields that need to be replaced with several families. , they will go to Guanzhong. If they can settle down as soon as possible, then next year they will contribute to the output of Guanzhong.

Measuring the land, counting the number of acres, and relocating the people are all very heavy workloads. Sun Xiangfu directly interviewed the representatives of the major families in Chang'an and asked them to leave their houses and necessary farming tools. , distribute the same number of new farm tools to them, and provide them with housing land and some materials for building houses free of charge.

Naturally, this proposal has been approved by all major families. You must know that it is not cost-effective to transport these items of low value to places thousands of miles away. It's still high. In this way, they only need to take the farmers under them on the road with light clothes, and Sun Xiangfu doesn't have to worry about settling the coming Goguryeo people. Both sides save a lot of trouble.

However, after negotiating this matter, Lu Wenyuan and others turned the topic to the issue of the mine. Ma Zhou had been preparing for the auction of the mine half a month ago. However, after Xiao Yu's decree went down, However, the local officials near Guanzhong did not report the number of mines, which led to the delay in holding the auction.

"Sun Dudu, most of the mines are in the deep mountains and old forests, occupied by bandits and bandits. It is obviously unrealistic for you to take back all the properties that were originally occupied by them to the court with a government order. How about this Well, there is no need to hold that auction. I will wait for several companies to contribute money to settle those ghosts and monsters, and then buy those mines from the imperial court at an appropriate price. Only in this way can the imperial court's demand for various minerals be quickly resolved. "

Hearing what Lu Wenyuan said, Sun Xiangfu quickly understood what he meant. They didn't plan to jump into the pit of the auction again. They were so easy to talk about before, and it was to pave the way for this matter. Moreover, they used some disgraceful words The trick is to create trouble for Sun Xiangfu.

(End of this chapter)