Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 745 The Holy Glory Has Been Revealed
When Sun Xiangfu came to the garage, he was immediately amused by the delightful thing in front of him. It was a walk-behind tractor!
"The front of the car doesn't look big, is the horsepower enough?" Sun Xiangfu looked at the front of the car that had been completely wrapped in an iron shell and asked.

Sun Xiangfu said it was not big, but in fact, it was much larger than the front of the walking tractors of later generations, and even slightly larger than the front of Shenniu [-].It's just that it is smaller than the steam engine that Sun Xiangfu imagined, which can drive several thousand catties of goods.

"It's very big! We loaded [-] kilograms of goods on the carriage, and we can still drive at an easy speed per hour, and even climb a slope of more than [-] degrees." Yu Jie explained with some pride.

Since Marseille went to specialize in electric power research, Yu Jie has become the chief engineer of car manufacturing research. This is the third trial run of steam-powered cars. In the eyes of technical developers like them, all aspects have become perfect.

"Really? How many gears are the power designed?" Sun Xiangfu said, and he had already sat in the driver's seat, while Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Ke, who had seen the test twice before, were watching the front of the car. some changes.

"Four gears, the first gear can reach five miles per hour, the second gear doubles, ten miles, the third gear doubles, twenty miles, the fourth gear, doubles, forty miles. The load is five or six thousand catties, which basically does not affect the speed. speed.

Moreover, we have also added a reverse gear, which can control the speed of reverse through the handbrake. " Yu Jie pointed to the front of the car and introduced it to Sun Xiangfu.

"Really?" Sun Xiangfu said in surprise.

The reverse gear, but the problem they didn't solve in the previous two tests, this time, they also solved it together. Although the speed of [-] kilometers per hour is still a bit scumbag, it is no different from any tractor in the future that can reach the speed of [-] kilometers per hour. Fabi, but considering that it is a steam-powered tractor, this is actually quite good. It can have such a speed because the fuel it uses is gasoline with a high purity. However, again After several generations of improvements, it still has a lot of room for improvement.

Five or six thousand kilograms of goods can be transported to a place eight or nine hundred miles away in one day, which has already crushed all existing land transportation. Not only is the speed more than twice as fast, but the transportation cost has also been reduced several times.

Because pulling such a heavy cargo by a carriage requires at least two horses to pull it together, and it takes at least six to eight horses to change horses in a day. If it is stretched two or three times longer, the whole person will eat horse chews and labor costs will increase several times, and the price difference will therefore arise.

Of course, there is still a huge gap between this load and the internal combustion engine walking tractors of the later generations. Even if the [-]-speed walking tractors of the later generations have a load of five or six tons, they can run faster than it. Strong power is the characteristic of tractors.

"Start it, children, get in the car, and Daddy will take you around Weinan City." Sun Xiangfu smiled and saw the design of the gears, hand brakes and foot brakes, and grabbed the two handles of the tractor very familiarly. road.

"Well, you haven't learned how to drive it, can you drive it well?" Yu Jie asked worriedly.

"Remove the word 'what', such a simple thing, can it be difficult for me?" Sun Xiangfu smiled and said.

At this time, on the trailer box, the two big ones, Sun Jing and Sun Wanting, had already taken the first step and climbed up. Then, they reached out and took the more than 20 children, big and small, who were handed up by Sun Feng and Sun Wanyu into the trailer box. go up.

Sun Xiangfu really likes the tacit understanding of their automatic formation without any need for confession. After Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Ke, Cheng Chumo and Yu Jie sat up along the door panels on both sides of the trailer, the car finally started to move. .

"Hey, hey, hey, hey..." Sun Xiangfu grabbed the gear lever in the center of the armrest and shifted to first gear first. The car quickly left the workshop of the car factory and ran towards the road go out.

"Oh, run, run, run..."

In the trailer box, the children cheered proudly. Sun Xiangfu has dealt with this kind of agricultural machinery and equipment in later generations. Driving a tractor, tiller, and threshing machine is easy, which is why, he The reason why Yu Jie put forward many suggestions when developing this car.

"Sit still and support me, I'm going to speed up!"

Sun Xiangfu shifted the gear again. Soon, the train swayed and entered a faster speed mode. This is the disadvantage of the steam engine, which is not as easy to control as the internal combustion engine. The speed doubles every time the gear is raised. It's a bit too fierce, he thinks it should be divided into six to eight gears, and gradually increase from low speed to full speed.

Of course, this kind of low-gear shift will not cause too much bumps. When the last third gear is shifted to fourth gear, everyone feels that it is almost at the speed of a galloping horse, and you can feel a little whistling wind in your ears. sounded.

With a speed of [-] kilometers per hour, it would take two or three hours to drive back to Chang'an from Weinan!Naturally, Sun Xiangfu would not suffer that. Amidst the chirping of the children, Sun Xiangfu also communicated with Yu Jie and Li Chengqian about some drawbacks of this tractor, making the final mass-produced version a little more perfect.

Not long after, the car reached the main road with dense traffic in the city. Although most people would stop to watch this guy running forward, there was no unbelievable surprised expression, because, before, This car has been tested twice.

Compared with the steamships that are often seen at Weinan Wharf, it is not that unusual. Various factories have already started to install or are preparing to install some steam equipment, some of which are even more amazing than this tractor.

For example, in textile factories, there are looms driven by steam. Its continuous reciprocating motion can support the weaving capacity of dozens of female workers every day. Moreover, they are still constantly experimenting and improving. In the future, those female workers in charge of weaving will be able to More turning to tailoring, garment making and so on.

Almost all industries have made great progress in the past ten years of development, which is why the income of the people in Datang has increased, and prices have only risen slightly.

In the process of industry progress, the output of various industries is constantly increasing, and the cost is constantly falling. Even if the price of goods does not rise much, the profit margin of the enterprise has been steadily increasing. This is why, Datang and the Western Regions The nations are now the cause of this asymmetry.

Why do they owe Datang so much money?

It is caused by the complete inequality in the industry.

After Datang transferred all the pressure of inflation to these countries in the Western Regions, it was actually Datang's industry and commerce that defeated them.

When those kingdoms feel angry in the face of their own output, do you still expect them to calmly confront you?
For example, merchants in the country spend [-] guan to support a skilled weaver who can help them weave [-] bolts of cloth a year. Hundreds of cloth with better quality, do you think they will choose to weave their own cloth, or choose to buy cloth from Datang?
You know, it costs [-] cents to get [-] bolts of cloth, regardless of the difference in quality, this merchant still has to invest in raw materials for the production of cloth, which is quite a lot. In this, there is a possibility of saving It is double the price, and countless times the time cost.

What can the rulers do when the rulers bring their own products to the market, and the price and quality are completely inferior to those produced in Datang?Sell ​​it at a reduced price, and it must be more than doubled, or even tripled, in order to be barely competitive.

But when the price drops by one or two times, they will find that the money they sell is actually at a loss, and it can't meet the needs of the people in their country. Gradually, they will stop producing and start to rely on The output of Datang is just like the cost of toilet paper produced by later generations of fighting nations is too high, so they need to import from our country, which inevitably causes money to flow into our country.

If the outflow of money is not retrieved elsewhere, problems will naturally arise after a long time.

Although potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops were introduced from Datang, the yield they can grow is not as high as that of Datang. Although the food crisis is not so serious, people are alive, not just to barely survive, They all want better.

Among them, those who are rich and capable of learning, in order to change their lives, will choose to go to Datang. Therefore, their productivity soon entered a vicious circle, which became lower and lower.

Are there any self-sufficient countries?
Of course there are.

However, can these countries resist the temptation of Datang?

impossible.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, which is common in any race.

Even the princes of the Byzantine Empire could not resist the temptation of various products produced in the Tang Dynasty. Who else could resist?
When you meet an opponent like Datang, you can't compare with him in industry and commerce, and you are basically defeated. It is nothing more than a few old empires that last longer.

The continuous loss of wealth will make a country's economy more and more tense until it collapses. People in this era don't know anything about economic regulation or trade restrictions, trade protection, etc. Persia just thinks that it is close to the Tang Dynasty He didn't control his own spending, and first mortgaged both the royal city and the palace to the Tang Empire.

Even in later generations, it is difficult for many people or enterprises to escape from the road of borrowing, let alone people in this period when financial knowledge is basically blank. A set of tricks, forcing the ordinary people to ruin their families or become slaves.

And the economic volume has reached the current level of the Tang Dynasty. Playing capital can easily kill any country in the world. Of course, playing military can also easily kill any country. However, the reason why military restraint is because the people of various countries are religious The problem of belief is not easy to solve.

Among the surviving regimes in the world, only the Tang Dynasty was not influenced by religion, and firmly established the path of scientific development. The rest of the empires all had their own beliefs. Compared with the two, the further they go, the gap will only become wider. big.

For more than ten years, not all the people in Weinan New City have forgotten Sun Xiangfu's appearance. Although he has grown a beard, his painting style has indeed changed, but he drove a tractor on the main road in the city. After turning around on the road, the whole city exploded.

The managers and directors of each factory, who were escorted by the tractors, got the purpose of Sun Xiangfu's visit to Weinan this time, and opened their doors one after another. With a group of senior management, they stood at the door of the factory and watched with eager eyes. Looking at him, I just hope that he can enter his factory to inspect and inspect, and give guidance. Maybe, under his few words and words, this industry will once again experience earth-shaking progress.

Shannan Road, Lingnan Road, Yunnan Road, Luoxie Road, Dingxiang Road...

All right!Most of the people on the state roads across the country, when they saw Sun Xiangfu, they actually had the same attitude as them. Many people even secretly set up a shrine for him at home and burned incense to worship him.

At this time, in the divination pavilion of the Taishi Supervisor in Chang'an City, Li Chunfeng, who climbed up and looked south, stroked his beard in relief and said, "Poverty Taoism has never been counted as a miss. Holy is not far away."

(End of this chapter)