Sign-in space: I grew rich in ancient times

Chapter 108 Departure
Chen Boyu looked at the blueprint in his hand, looked at it again, looked at his daughter carefully, reached out helplessly, rubbed her head lightly, and said softly: "You really can't underestimate my sister Qiao, the car is not enough, and the carrying capacity is too big. So, what is the carrying capacity of this car?"

Chen Huiyin pointed at her index finger and said in a low voice, "It's more than twice as big as the truck pulled by two oxen. It can pull sixty shi at the lowest and a hundred shi at the highest. You only need to replace the four oxen pulling the cart with Six will do."

After a pause, seeing that Dad was still waiting for her next words, Chen Huiyin continued: "Different breeds of cattle have different pulling forces. Some cattle have a pulling force of about [-] stone. I think the car can be made bigger. If there is less cargo, reduce the number of cattle pulling the cart, and if there is more cargo, add more cattle, so the flexibility is much higher.”

Chen Boyu also thought it was a good idea, so he nodded: "It makes sense, then I will take the blueprints and find a carpenter to order a car in a while. I will also contact you for the three grains of rice, white flour and millet. I will count."

Their original plan was to have one kind of goods per cart, rice, white flour and millet all cost [-] shi. Chen Boyu wrote down the data and started to help his daughter run errands.

That afternoon, Gu Xinfang, Mu Yang, and Wei Chen came back smoothly. Gu Xinfang raised money, and took advantage of the opportunity to order the cloth through her own relationship. Silk cloth accounted for half of the total cloth, and the other half was various grades. of satin.

For rice, white noodles and millet, Chen Boyu just used his own contacts to introduce people to Gu Xinfang. The transaction was negotiated by Gu Xinfang himself, and Chen Boyu did not interfere too much.

However, for the team escorting them to the north, Chen Boyu did not hire an escort agency, but found Yu Jun. He still selected twenty logistics soldiers without disabilities from among the logistics soldiers. They had all been on the battlefield and seen blood. Even if he retreated, he couldn't erase the evil spirit on his body.

Another point is that although they can no longer go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they have rich experience in dealing with foreign enemies, which is more than enough to deal with ordinary bandits.

The news on the exchange market in Daqing Town was also handed over the afternoon before they set off. The exchange market in Daqing Town is controlled by the Shuofang Army, and there are [-] troops assigned to the exchange market in Daqing Town. Officials, since the opening up, except for the Beidi people who provoked and suffered losses in the early stage, those Beidi people no longer dare to be presumptuous.

Not long ago, merchants from the Western Regions who heard the news that the mutual market had opened also entered the mutual market for trading. In addition to these, there is also a list of the approximate value of various items on the mutual market.

The next morning, Zhou Jing got up early to prepare dry food for the children who were about to travel. From Lingwu County to the Daqing Township Market outside Zhongwei City, it would take about three days to ride a fast horse. Moreover, it is an ox cart that will not be very fast. If there is no accident on the road, it will take ten days to arrive. If there is an accident, the time it will take is unknown.

So Zhou Jing prepared the most dry noodles, plus a large jar of sour bamboo shoots and mutton stew, and a large jar of very fragrant bean paste, and also baked a large bamboo basket cake for them.After all, there were twenty young adults accompanying him, and they had a lot of appetite.

This time, in addition to the ox cart, there is also the mule cart they used for their study tour last year. To the north of Lingwu County, there is an endless grassland, and to the northeast is a grassland forest. However, there is a small desert near Zhongwei City.

On this road north, it is likely that all the way is sleeping in the wild, so there are quilts and other items for sleeping in the mule cart, and Chen Huiyin and Gu Xinfang are girls after all. When the weather is bad, there is a carriage that can take out the windshield rain.

After breakfast, Chen Huiyin set off northward with twenty guards and five trucks pulled by four oxen.

When going out this time, Chen Huiyin and Gu Xinfang were both dressed in men's clothing. Tang Yaoling, Mu Yang and Wei Chen brought their spears, bows and arrows, and Chen Huiyin also brought her own set of small bows and arrows.

At noon, the team rested on the spot, and everyone settled their lunch with warm water and pancakes, and then rested for another quarter of an hour before continuing on their way.

In the middle of the afternoon, Mu Yang and Wei Chen drove the mule cart and went ahead to find a suitable place to camp.

Half an hour later, Wei Chen turned around on his mule and said happily, "Da Lang, Brother Hui, Brother Gu, we found a forest with a water source. There are traces of camping there. place, we shot two rabbits by the way, let’s speed up, get to the destination quickly, hunt more wild game, and have a good dinner at night.”

Both Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling's eyes lit up. When they mentioned hunting, both of them got itchy hands, so they called the team to speed up.

About an hour later, Tang Yaoling joined Mu Yang. Tang Yaoling picked two people to go hunting in the woods. Mu Yang took four people to collect firewood. Helping Chen Huiyin and Gu Xinfang fetch water and set up the stove is actually protecting them.

This was what they discussed last night. When they entered the grassland, the three of them took turns guarding Chen Huiyin and Gu Xinfang's side.

Not long after, Mu Yang and the four guards came back with firewood. At this moment, Chen Huiyin and Gu Xinfang had already started to marinate the two rabbits that Mu Yang had packed up with spices.

This time because of the large number of people, the pot was too small to cook food for so many people, so they brought a big pot and a smaller pot. The smaller pot was used for cooking and washing water. The big pot It's for cooking.

Mu Yang and Wei Chen first put the big cauldron on the simple stove, then poured seventy percent of water into the cauldron, and then lit the fire. After they lit the fire, Tang Yaoling brought two guards and came back with a full harvest .

Tang Yaoling was carrying two pheasants in one hand, two hares in the other, two guards, one was carrying a small wild goat, and the other was carrying two hares in each hand.

In the evening, their dinner was noodles mixed with bean paste, roast lamb and rabbit meat, eight hares, plus a wild lamb, 25 people shared, although everyone ate the meat, but they didn't eat it openly.

After filling their stomachs, everyone sat around the fire for a while, and then prepared to wash. Tang Yaoling, Mu Yang, and Wei Chen discussed with the twenty guards about the night watch.

The twenty guards were divided into four teams, each with five people, and Tang Yaoling had three, each of them led a team, one guarded the first half of the night, one guarded the second half of the night, and the next day changed to the other two guards, and the three of them always took turns Take a class vigil.

It was a peaceful night, and the next day Chen Huiyin woke up early and stayed with Mu Yang in the middle of the night to help her clean up the two pheasants, chop them into small pieces, put them into the cauldron, add water, and feed the raw chicken into the stove. If there is no fire, I take people with buckets to fetch water and come back to boil water for washing.

After Chen Huiyin washed, when the pheasant was half-cooked, he poured the washed rice into the cauldron, and when everyone was aroused by the fragrance, it was dawn.

After washing up, the delicious and fresh chicken porridge served with porridge cakes, after eating and drinking enough, we continued on our way.

All the morning was peaceful, but in the middle of the afternoon, the group encountered trouble.

(End of this chapter)