Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 550 Is That For The Kingdom?That is greedy for its profit!

Zhao Huan looked at the flying boat on land, the flying boat wasn't even painted, it was just like the original wood color.

Zhao Huan can still see the pedals on the first floor, which have eight positions.

Unlike Zhao Huan's big driver who pursues comfort, this car doesn't have so many luxurious accessories and exquisite patterns.

Although a little rustic, it is practical and tight.

The power cabin on the bottom floor is very low, and people have to bend over to get in, just enough to sit down.

The second layer above is sealed, and Zhao Huan cannot see it from the outside. The top layer has a fence, and goods can be tied up in the open air.

The entire flying boat is less than three meters high, not very big, like a rectangular shuttle, lying prone on the ground.

It was Qin Shihuang who made the cars on the same track, and the distance between the wheels was about six feet.

"Why not paint it?" Zhao Huan asked looking at the land speeder.

"It would be too expensive to paint it in bright red..." Li Gang scratched his head and said.

Zhao Huan remained silent. This is the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty's war. From the seventh year of Xuanhe to the third year of Jingkang, isn't even the rich and powerful Song Dynasty a bit weak?

Li Gang saw that the official's face was full of worry, and said with a smile: "There are also painted cars, but the smell is very strong, so I didn't show it to the official."

After thinking about it, Zhao Huan understood why Li Gang showed him a log cart!

In fact, Li Gang's meaning is very simple, just two words!Make money!

This is crying poor!

Routine, Lee Dazai, you are not being honest anymore.

Zhao Huan walked up the escalator with a smile, got under the car and pedaled twice, tried, but didn't move.

"If the horse runs with it, can the boatman's pedaling speed catch up with the horse's running speed? Will it not hurt his feet?" Zhao Huan asked his own question.

Then I saw Li Gang's extremely suspicious eyes.

Li Gang took out a wheel and said, "I thought the officials would ask some other questions."

"This is a flywheel. It's a simple application in the official book on mechanics. When you push forward, the chain drives the flywheel to rotate forward."

"At this time, the inner teeth of the flywheel and the jack are locked together, so they can move forward naturally. When there is no force, the flywheel jack will all engage the inner teeth, and naturally the chain will not be driven. How can it hurt the boatman?"

Li Gang was full of doubts, Zhao Huan looked at the power cabin under his feet, and looked at the flywheel for a long time.

Only then did he understand that this land flying boat, to put it bluntly, is a bicycle running on rails!
Li Gang is so mysterious!

In the final analysis, it still relies on horses, and the role of people in the car is to assist.

Zhao Huan immediately understood what Li Gang had assembled.

I also understood what Li Gang's eyes meant.

His question is like asking, if a person does not pedal when riding a bicycle, will he be injured by the stirrups...

From this point of view, it is indeed very stupid.

Zhao Huan got out of the three-meter-long car. It was indeed a very interesting invention.

A horse-powered self-propelled rail car?
"How fast can this land flying boat fly?" He looked at the position of the pull ring and carefully monitored it. The reason why it was only two meters high was because it was afraid of tipping over.

Li Gang bowed his head and said: "It's easy to travel thousands of miles a day, but you have to change horses at each station. There are not many horses in Song Dynasty, so there are not many land flying boats."

"Those eight people pedaled in the car entirely to save horsepower."

Zhao Huan took a deep breath, no horse!

Since I came to Da Song, this topic has been lingering on my mind, and it has never been far away.

The current bad horses on the grassland are only enough for the army of the Song Dynasty. From this point of view, they are used to transport grain and grass, and their priority is not as high as that used by the military.

"Sun Yi is at the racecourse in Datong, hasn't he started yet? Isn't it called the million-dollar racecourse?" Zhao Huan asked as he continued walking.

Li Gang nodded and said: "Sun Yi and Director Yang's horse pens have only been in operation for less than two years. How can they be so fast?"

"What is this?" Zhao Huan looked at the car in front of him and asked curiously.

At the starting point of this Yellow River ferry, there are not only land flying boats and Zhao Huan's big jade wheel, but also a small car that is not very tall.

It is one meter high, less than two meters long, and about six feet wide.

Li Gang said with a sigh: "I haven't named it yet, but I just think it's too laborious and I don't know how to change it. I made a sample."

"This year, the Guangbei Siege Work has been doing the training of the land flying boat. As a result, there are no horses to use. The iron and wooden track with the fastest speed can only be done like this. Everyone is a little anxious, so they think about using manpower. .”

"Two people can sit in the middle, and it can be stepped on like a land flying boat, but sitting in it like this really takes up space. You can't put much stuff in it."

Zhao Huan nodded, he knew what Li Gang wanted!

The lack of horses in the Song Dynasty is a fact. Shangjing Road has just been recovered for less than a year. Let alone feeding back to the Central Plains, even self-sufficiency is still struggling.

If there is a shortage of horses, it is necessary to find a way to replace the power. Li Gang's idea is to replace horsepower with manpower.

Li Gang's improved idea can already be seen on the land airship.

What he wants to do now is a small rickshaw that can run on the rails, and first use the repaired iron-clad wooden rails.

"Bring a pen!" Zhao Huan yelled!
Just now, I was fooled by Li Gang's mysterious name and strange design, and now I have come to the part he is good at!
Hearing Zhao Huan's call, Zhao Ying followed another young eunuch and ran away. After a while, she carried a table and ran back with a pen in her hair.

Zhao Ying pulled the pen from the end of her hair and said, "Here, the official, it's not a pen. If the official is not used to it, I'll look for it."

Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ying who was out of breath, and said, "I don't need wolf hair, I can use it too."

Zhao Huan quickly drew a three-dimensional view on the paper, and then drew a few more pictures, looked at the little eunuch next to him and asked, "What's your name, I've been seeing you these days."

The little eunuch didn't seem to have reacted yet, when he heard Zhao Huan's question, he hurriedly said, "Your servant, Huangmen Sun Li."

The little yellow gate seems to have this small character, but the rank in the inner palace is not low.

Moreover, he was able to be taught by Zhao Ying's side by ear, and he seemed to be a smart person.

Just like just now, Zhao Huan wanted to pretend...

No, Zhao Huan wanted to paint, and Sun Li did a good job, suppressing the corners of the paper that were blown up by the wind.

Zhao Huan held the paper and pointed to the picture and said, "Human-powered rail car, you can call it a hand-rolled car, and it can be designed for two people, or it can be set up for four people."

"Using the principle of leverage, the inclined shaft is driven, and the inclined shaft drives the crankshaft. The self-weight is less than two hundred catties, and it can probably carry three to four hundred catties of goods."

"It perfectly meets your requirements. It doesn't need horsepower, it only needs manpower, and it runs pretty fast. It can run about eighty miles in an hour. It's not fast, and it doesn't pull much, but it's simple to manufacture."

Li Gang looked at this picture for a long time, bowed his head and said: "The officials are wise, this solves a big problem."

Zhao Huan knew that the human-powered rail car would be eliminated in the end, so he said with a smile: "Where is the big problem, it's just a small problem."

"When several racecourses come out, land flying boats will probably be the main force for freight. My two-person car is still too small."

Li Gang carefully put away the words of the official's painting, and said: "The official, I don't know something. This is a lot of money."

"Especially for this iron-clad wooden track, seven thousand guan is not enough for one mile. Yan Bianchi said that it cost nearly 700 million guan!"

"Not counting the cost of each station, and the replacement of all rails in the future, that is a high figure."

"In fact, Guangbei's siege operation is under a lot of pressure. This road has been repaired, but it has been unusable for a long time, and there is nothing to use! How many people are waiting to catch the pigtails of the work relief hospital, so they can read a book."

When Zhao Huan heard this, his face changed suddenly, and he said loudly: "I don't see who dares!"

Zhao Huan annoyed this kind of people the most, who would put up with the best state affairs and find faults desperately!

I wish I could become Hu Yuan and look at people with this magnifying glass all day long!

"Don't give time, don't give opportunities, don't look at everything, and even get entangled in groups to make this kind of state affairs that benefit the country and the people black."

"What is their purpose? It's very simple! When the imperial court has no money to build roads, when they buy these roads, they occupy them themselves!"

"Is that for the imperial court? That's for the profit of Jinqiao Silver Road!"

"Shame!"

Zhao Huan was so angry that Zhao Ying and Sun Li fell to the ground in an instant, not daring to take a breath.
When the officials killed more than 100 ministers in Wende Palace, they were not so angry.

Even Li Gang lowered his head and dared not speak. He originally only wanted to complain about the difficult state affairs, but he did not expect to provoke such a big anger from the officials.

Of course Li Gang has the right to complain, as Zhao Huan became the number one minister after Zhao Huan ascended the throne!
He has been a sole minister so far, he can't tell others about these complaints, he can only talk to the emperor.

Unexpectedly, a small complaint, complaining that Guangbei Siege Works could not design a suitable product, and a few idle chats attracted such a big anger from the officials.

Zhao Huan was still angry, thought for a long time, and said: "Even if the horses run along the road, it is faster than a carriage! It is less laborious than a carriage."

"One counts as one, whoever speaks the truth needs to stop."

"Leaving aside the court, the courtiers in the court will be fined for half a year for the first time! For the second time, they will all be thrown to Shangjing Road to plant pastures! Once again, they will be exiled to Lingnan."

"No! The second time, I will be dismissed from office and thrown to Lingnan! It's against the sky! Eat Guochao's food, don't do business for Guochao, and drag your legs. It's not too much to chop! Zhao Ying wrote it down and it became a routine! "

Zhao Ying asked tremblingly: "The official said to abolish the way, should he be deposed and returned to court or beheaded?"

"What do you think?" Zhao Huan asked with staring eyes.

Zhao Ying didn't dare to ask any more, so he recorded a beheading.

Li Gang was also wiping the sweat from his brow, he didn't dare to ask, and he remembered it as beheading...

After all, beheading is not too much, it's what the officials say, and a gentleman's words are hard to follow.

"Officials, why are you so angry?" Li Gang looked around, and he was the only one to ask.

Zhu Lian has been paying attention to Zhao Huan's place, and seeing Zhao Huan so angry, he also came over.Holding Zhao Huan by the arm, he said: "Officials, don't be too angry. What happened and what to do? You are hurting yourself. Zhao knows it. Go get some tea."

Sun Li hurriedly got up and went to fetch water from Chejia.

Zhu Lian said with a smile: "Drink your saliva and let your breath flow. Before the concubine left, I made some tea with ginger and brown sugar to dispel the cold and warm my stomach."

Zhao Huan finally calmed down more than half of his anger. This burst of anger was indeed somewhat unreasonable.

He looked at Li Gang and asked, "Li Dazai, what do you think is under our feet?"

Li Gang stomped his feet and said, "Officials, there is Song Dynasty under our feet!"

Zhao Huan nodded. Li Gang's answer is the standard answer, but that's not what he said.

He stepped on the gravel under his feet and said, "There are ballasts under our feet."

"Then Li Dazai, what's the use of saying this?" Zhao Huan asked with a smile.

Ballast is the layer of small stones under the iron and wood tracks.

Zhu Lian also looked at Li Gang curiously. It was the first time she had heard the match between the ruler and his ministers. Obviously this was not state affairs, so she could listen to it.

Li Gang said in a daze: "Drainage, shock absorption, heavy rain this summer, how can the water be drained without this layer of ballast? Each land flying boat weighs [-] catties, plus the cargo, without this layer of stones, it would have been a long time ago Pressed down."

"There is another magical effect! Li Dazai." Zhao Huan said with a smile.

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(End of this chapter)