Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 383
Originally, the emperor's car should be the most dazzling presence in any place, but today, it was robbed of the limelight by a special car rushing obliquely in front of the Sun Mansion's gate.

"The old man heard that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Kongming, the famous prime minister of the Shu Kingdom, once invented a wooden ox and horse that could carry a load on his own. Could it be that the people under Dudu Sun imitated it, and the iron ox and horse were made? "

Fang Xuanling is now the Minister Zuo Pushe, with the highest official rank, and he and his master Sun Xiangfu stood in the front row to welcome Li Shimin. He was the first to see the bicycle that was slapped by Marseille and placed on the side of the road, and asked Sun Xiangfu road.

In order to celebrate, Marseille and the others painted the car with red paint early in the morning, making it look very coquettish. All the ministers who came out to greet Li Shimin also followed Fang Xuanling's question and looked at the car with inquisitive expressions. red bicycle.

However, he took a step ahead of Li Shimin's carriage, pedaled hard for a few turns, and finally, Sun Dali, who finally caught up with the welcoming team before the carriage stopped, hurried to the back of the team. They were all drenched in sweat.

Of course, at this time, the ministers' eyes also shifted from the two-wheeled bicycle to the tricycle he temporarily parked on the side of the road. Most of them didn't notice that Li Shimin had already stepped off the vehicle.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

The voices of the ministers were uneven, which made Li Shimin frowned. Could it be that he was late and the ministers were already drunk?

Then, when he turned around to help Empress Changsun get off the carriage, the corner of his eye inevitably caught sight of the two red cars parked by the side of the road.

After Empress Changsun got out of the carriage, Concubine Wei, Concubine Yan, Concubine Yang and many other concubines in the carriage behind also stepped forward together, following Li Shimin to the gate of the Sun Mansion like stars.

"Thank you for your welcome. I'm here for Sun Zhengming's family banquet today. It's good to have him as the host to entertain guests. You can come into the mansion with me to have a drink."

"Your Majesty can come to the full moon banquet for dogs and girls. It's really the humble house of your ministers. It's cold outside. Please sit inside." Sun Xiangfu clasped his fists to salute Li Shimin again after waiting for the ministers to die, and made an invitation gesture said.

"Shengming, don't be polite. If your house is a humble house, then there is no good house in this world. By the way, what are the pair of red objects in front of the door? Let me see. All the ministers were looking at it just now. Is it true?" What novelty?"

Li Shimin was not in a hurry to enter the house, and made a joke with Sun Xiangfu with a smile on his face, then turned around and pointed to the tricycle and bicycle lanes on the roadside in front of the mansion gate.

"This is a new type of rickshaw. Your Majesty, please enter first. Later, I will let Dali and the others ride the rickshaw to the front hall and explain it to you in detail."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, and led the ministers into the hall of Sun Xiangfu's house. This castle-like house in his house has a characteristic, that is, the interior space is spacious, the floor is covered with tiles, clean and flat, without the smell of cement , Dozens of long sofas and coffee tables, it doesn't matter if hundreds of people can sit.

There are fireplaces burning on the left and right sides of the living room, and there are many stoves for boiling milk tea, making the living room with hundreds of square meters of space warm.

Empress Changsun and a group of female family members entered the gate, and were welcomed by Yu Xiuer to the small living room on the second floor to talk, while Li Shimin was led by Sun Xiangfu, and sat on the sofa in the center. Ranking, sitting on the sofa from near to far, Sun Xiangfu first invited Li Shimin and the guests to drink some milk tea, after a while, he saw Sun Dali, Ma Sai, Yu Jie, wiped the tricycle and The bicycle was pushed into the living room.

"Your Majesty, Fang Xiang guessed that this thing was a wooden ox and horse invented by Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms period. In fact, it is not the case. The wooden ox and horse are used to make something similar to a horse-drawn cart move automatically, and this cart is required. Human pedaling can only walk, and it is a product that the workshops in Xingfu Village have just explored and produced, and it has not yet been mass-produced."

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, he set up the big stand of the bicycle, stepped on the crutches, and pointed to the chain road driven by the gears, "Your Majesty, please see, the principle of this bicycle is very simple. The disc drives the chain, thereby driving the gear disc on the bearing of the rear wheel, turning the rear axle to push it forward, and the front of the car is responsible for steering. In case of emergency or reaching the destination, just squeeze the handbrake to stop the car from moving forward , Ma Sai and Yu Jieer came from Xingfu Village on this bicycle this morning."

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, he pinched the handbrake on the handle, and immediately, the rapidly spinning rear wheel of the bicycle stopped spinning.

Seeing the demonstration made by Sun Xiangfu, Li Shimin stopped sitting down and understood the principle of bicycle riding. He had the idea of ​​trying it himself. He heard that Ma Sai and Yu Jie came from Xingfu Village by bicycle. Asked, "After the cement road is repaired, how far is Xingfu Village from here?"

"The cement road is basically built in a straight line. Although it is less than a hundred miles from Xingfu Village to here, it is more than 90 miles."

"The two of them set off in the morning. Doesn't it mean that it will take less than two hours to ride this bike from Xingfu Village to here?"

It is late in winter, and when the sky is dark, it should be past six o'clock, but now, it is only around ten o'clock in the morning, that is to say, they have only walked for more than three hours in total, with an average of [-] o'clock per hour. A little more kilometers, the speed is [-]-[-]% lower than that of some ordinary bicycles in later generations, let alone those good bicycles equipped with transmission devices.

In later generations, Sun Xiangfu owns an alloy racing car with a speed of over 35 kilometers per hour. Of course, this is not a good car. It is said that the fastest bicycle in later generations can reach a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, but it is already a high-tech product. Normal people can't use it because it's very unsafe.

However, it can be seen from this that there is still a lot of room for technical improvement on bicycles.

"If it weren't for Yu Jie, it wouldn't have taken so long! We have thrown the carriage from the village far away." Ma Sai answered the call in a low voice, but was overheard by Li Shimin and the ministers who were closer. go.

At this time, not only Li Shimin, but all the ministers in the court looked at the bicycle with their eyes full of light. Yuchi's claws had already unconsciously grasped the faucet of the bicycle. It takes a long time to reach the divine car hundreds of miles away, so I have to grab it to my own home to play!
"Faster than a carriage?"

Li Shimin turned to Sun Xiangfu in disbelief and asked.

"If you have enough physical strength, you can't lose to a horse-drawn carriage. However, people are like horses, and it is impossible to maintain a long-term fast ride. If you ride more easily like walking, you can travel forty or fifty miles per hour. The speed is not worse than that of a carriage, and it can be ridden for a long time. It has another advantage, that is, it can carry two people. If they ride in rotation, ordinary horses cannot compare with it, because horses cannot It keeps running, let alone running continuously with two adult men on its back, but it also has a weakness, that is, it has higher requirements for the road. If it is not for the cement road built from Xingfu Village to Chang'an and the muddy road, its speed It is not as good as a horse, and it is completely impossible to ride on a rough mountain road."

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, Li Shimin nodded and said, "That is to say, we already have a lot of roads to use this kind of iron cars in Guanzhong?"

"Yes, it's just that its cost is too high at present. It needs continuous improvement and cost reduction before it can be used by ordinary people. With these bicycles instead of transportation, it can make messengers, post stations and other institutions in the Guanzhong Plain less expensive. Use the horses, thereby saving money for the horse feed."

When Sun Xiangfu said this, Li Shimin and all the ministers were amazed again. They raised some horses, and raising horses required grooming. It was a continuous expense for food and use. With this bicycle, But it can save them a lot of expenses every month. After a long time, it will be a big sum.

"This is a precious car. I will push it back to imitate it and build it. Your Majesty, please let me go."

After Yu Chigong finished speaking, he was about to push the car out of the door, but Li Shimin grabbed the seat bag.

"You old bastard, how did you learn to be as shameless as Cheng Zhijie? This is a property of Zhengming's mansion. You are ashamed to take it home for nothing. If you want a car, let the workshop in Xingfu Village build you a new one later. No need to worry."

Being stopped by Li Shimin himself, Yu Chigong was naturally not able to resist. However, from their conversation, Sun Xiangfu heard that they all wanted this car. After the reference is taken away, a new car will be built later. It is a bit troublesome to compare the reference.

So he said, "This car is just an experimental product originally designed, and there are still many shortcomings. When it is officially mass-produced, the model will be lighter and more comfortable than this. A tricycle like this will not only make a pull For goods, they will also make people-friendly ones. The whole drag box is a sofa. It will be mass-produced in Weinan's factory in the next quarter of next year at the latest. good."

While talking, Sun Xiangfu pointed to the empty tricycle in the compartment, and everyone remembered that when Sun Dali stepped on the tricycle, there were several large baskets in the trailer box.

"This car is driven by manpower, how much cargo can it pull?" Li Shimin pointed to the trailer of the tricycle and asked.

"How about we try it on the spot?"

In fact, Sun Xiangfu already knew about the same data, but in order to give everyone a more intuitive feeling, he said.

"The old man is big, weighing more than two hundred catties, can this cart pull the old man?"

Yu Chigong has a rough figure, about 1.8 meters tall, and his whole body is covered with thick tendons. Sun Xiangfu does not believe that he only weighs two hundred catties. However, two hundred catties is nothing to a tricycle. Sun Xiangfu did it He gestured for Yu Chigong to get on the car, and then he said to the group of tall generals in the hall, "Several tall generals, you can get on the car together, and I, an ordinary man with strength, will ride the car." , See if you can ride or not."

After all, he got on the seat bag of the tricycle first, pressed the handlebar, and motioned for the person who came up first to sit closer to the bag. After a while, Qin Qiong, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, Chai Shao, Dugu Mou and Yuchi, there are six people in total, and the tricycle's tow box is full. These six people are all burly and big men, and their combined weight must exceed a thousand catties. They're all one size smaller.

However, when Sun Xiangfu stepped on the crutches, the tricycle began to move around in the living room.

"This car can actually pull a thousand catties with one person's strength."

At this moment, everyone in the living room showed a look of surprise. Sun Xiangfu, who was riding the bicycle, felt that the chain was very tight, but he could bear it. With his strength, it was very laborious to step on it, and the speed would not be too fast, but If it is stepped on by a wrestler with good foot strength, the speed should be able to reach several kilometers per hour, and the duration will last for a long time.

There were many people in the living room, and Sun Xiangfu just stepped on it for a while and then stopped and said, "Your Majesty, there should be no problem with this car. If it is converted into a two-person ride, or a three-person ride, you can use the trailer design The carriage is bigger than the carriage, and it can completely replace the carriage in Guanzhong.”

"Can it be converted into a multi-person ride?"

"Of course, you only need to add more chains and gear plates, and the carriage can also be changed to four wheels to make it more stable."

In some scenic spots in later generations, Sun Xiangfu once saw a five-wheeled vehicle ridden by many people. As long as the two wheels in the middle can solve the steering problem a little, it is like a bicycle, and there are two or three people riding at the same time, or even There are five people riding at the same time, the principle remains the same, and the design can be done with a slight change.

(End of this chapter)