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Chapter 23: One cart, eight horses, 100,000 catties

Because there was no need for delays in transporting the soil, the ditch was dug a little faster. After all, at this time, it is normal for a person to dig out more than a dozen cubic meters a day.

With a thousand steps paved on the gallop, Chen Ying couldn't wait to put the fabricated convertible transport vehicle on the track.

This kind of open-top transport vehicle is not a two-wheeled carriage running back and forth on Qin Chi Road, but like a siege vehicle, with twelve wheels on each side, a total of twenty-four wheels.

Due to the advent of spring steel, Chen Ying did not have to worry about no shock absorption.

The whole carriage is about six feet two feet long, about one zhang and two feet wide, and the car is four feet two inches and five minutes high, which can just transport 40 square meters of soil at one time, which is more than 50 tons.

Chen Ying was also not sure how many horses were needed to pull the more than 50-ton twelve-wheeled vehicle, so he decided to try it with two horses first, and it was obvious that the two horses could not pull such a heavy trunk at all.

Chen Ying said: "Add six more horses!" ”

Hu took out six war horses from his horse, and together with the original two, a total of horses and war horses and camel harnesses.

When preparing, Chen Ying also muttered silently in his heart: "God bless ......"

A horse can pull multiple vehicles, Chen Ying can only see it in an online forum, as if he remembers that a horse can pull five tons of goods on a soft mud road, two tons on a gravel road, eight tons on a railway, and 30 to 50 tons if it is pulling an unpowered flat-bottomed boat.

More than 50 tons of goods, Chen should use eight horses to pull it, in fact, it is already the limit. If you can't pull it anymore, you can't make such a large convertible, you can only reduce the length of the convertible and reduce the load.

As the horsewhip exploded in the air, it also pulled Chen Ying back to reality from his meditative state. Chen Ying looked nervously at the wheels of the convertible. Eight horses worked in unison. The wheels of the twenty-four open-top wagons, loaded with fifty-two tons of dirt, slowly moved forward.

One point,

One inch,

One foot,

One zhang.

"It's moving, it's moving!"

Chen Ying shouted excitedly.

Ge Tong didn't expect that eight horses could pull such a heavy amount of soil, if it was replaced with grain, this convertible car could carry nearly 100,000 catties, 100,000 catties is 1,000 stones, if it was an ordinary carriage, it would require 80 or 90 carriages and 890 horses.

Xu Jingzong was also dumbfounded: "It's incredible, it's incredible!" ”

Chen Ying said with a happy face: "Quick, fast, faster, run with all your might, and see how much time it takes to complete this thousand steps!" ”

Eight horses and thirty-two hooves galloped fast, and the convertible car was getting faster and faster on the tracks.

Chen Ying was excited like a child, dancing and shouting: "It's done!" ”

See how much time.

In ancient times, there were no clocks, and the way to calculate time was generally to use incense or an hourglass. The time calculations are certainly not accurate. An attendant who was guarding the incense took the extinguished incense and handed it to Chen Ying, who looked at the incense and found that it had only burned for less than three minutes. A pillar of incense is about five minutes, and ten quarters of an hour are drawn on this pillar of incense, and two scales are equivalent to one hundred and fifty seconds.

One hundred and fifty seconds, plus the difficult starting time, was calculated in a longitudinal way, so that the horse-drawn carriage could travel at a speed of twenty-four kilometers per hour on the gallop.

Chen Ying is very satisfied with this result. If more advanced bearings and more effective lubricants are added to reduce friction, the speed will be faster.

Chen Ying squatted down, looked at the grooves in the track, and frowned.

Looking at Chen Ying, it was still too simple, although eight horses could pull such a heavy convertible, but the wooden track was a little worn and bad......

At the moment when Chen Ying got up, he suddenly saw a familiar face and the eldest grandson Wuji with an iron face.

In fact, as early as when Chen Ying was preparing for the test. Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji took Hou Junji and Duan Zhixuan to Shanglin. Chen Jinyong, who was responsible for protecting Chen Ying, found Li Shimin and his party, and wanted to report to Chen Ying, but Li Shimin didn't let Chen Ying be alarmed, Chen Jinyong only had Chen Ying in his eyes, and he didn't sell Li Shimin's account.

Hou Junji and Duan Zhixuan hugged each other, and Chen Jinyong did not fall behind with one enemy and two enemies, but Chen Ying's sixteen servants were not the opponents of Li Shimin's Xuanjia army, and they were taken down as soon as they fought.

Controlled by others, Chen Jinyong also ate Hou Junji's two old fists. However, the eldest grandson Wuji, who was ready to sarcastically ridicule Chen Jinyong, a barbarian who did not know how to be polite, was unprepared, and was kicked in the lower ribs by Chen Jinyong.

When the eldest grandson Wuji wanted to use the killer, Li Shimin stopped the eldest grandson Wuji from drinking.

suffered such a big loss in vain, and the eldest grandson Wuji's lungs were about to explode. Chen Jinyong's kick was not light, the eldest grandson Wuji's lower ribs had already turned into bruises, with faint beads of blood, and his internal organs were like turning over the river and the sea.

Chen Ying turned around and bowed: "Chen Ying sees His Royal Highness King Qin!" ”

Li Shimin nodded slightly: "General Chen doesn't have to be polite!" ”

Chen Ying asked curiously, "His Royal Highness King Qin, what are you ......?"

"The lonely king has nothing to do, come out for a walk!" Li Shimin's eyes lit up with a terrifying green light, just like an old bachelor seeing such a superb beauty, looking at this fast-moving convertible with great interest.

Li Shimin did not know that Chen Ying built the road to facilitate the construction of ditches to obtain soil, and also to transport the = masonry and building materials for the construction of Chenjiabao in the future.

Li Shimin naturally thought that Chen Ying must have heard some rumors, and knew that the Tang Dynasty was preparing to unite with Dou Jiande to attack Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong was not a reckless man like Xue Renguo. Although Wang Shichong is a Hu native of the Western Regions, he changed his mother's surname to Wang, but he likes the art of war since he was a child.

During the great cause, to the Jiangdu palace supervisor, trusted by Yang Guang, and later participated in the pacification of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, the prestige was higher, the cause of the ninth year, Liu Yuanjin of Yuhang, Zhu Xie of Kunshan, and Guan Chong of Changshu were three rebels. Later, these three teams joined forces and promoted Liu Yuanjin as the main one, occupied Wu County, called the Son of Heaven, and established a hundred officials. Wang Shichong took his Jianghuai children to attack Liu Yuanjin and Zhu Xie, and even won the battle, Liu and Zhu were killed in battle, and the remaining 30,000 people surrendered and were killed by Wang Shichong. In 614 A.D. (the tenth year of the Great Cause), Meng Rang, the rebel commander of Qi County, set out from Changbai Mountain in Shandong Province to invade various prefectures and counties, and reached Xuyi, where it grew to more than 100,000 horses. was defeated by Wang Shichong's more than 10,000 Jianghuai troops, beheaded more than 10,000 people, captured more than 100,000 people, and only Meng Rang fled alone.

In the eleventh year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang was trapped in Yanmen Pass, and Wang Shichong led the army to Yanmen Pass to serve the king. The two support armies that arrived first, one of which was Li Yuan's army in Taiyuan, and the other was Wang Shichong's army, and Wang Shichong successively defeated Li Mi and Zhai Rang, but he was a fierce enemy who rose to the end with military merits.

If you want to attack Wang Shichong, it will definitely not work if there are fewer people and horses. If there are more people and horses, it will be very difficult to replenish. When Li Shimin saw Chen Ying building a gallop and building this kind of convertible, Li Shimin thought that Chen Ying was preparing for his expedition to Wang Shichong.

Li Shimin looked at Chen Ying and asked, "How much can a carriage like General Chen be loaded at one time?" ”

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Not much, just more than fifty tons!" ”

"More than fifty tons?" Li Shimin asked strangely: "What ton?" ”

Chen Ying realized that he habitually said the weight unit of later generations, and explained: "When Xia Guan was in Lingzhou, he once heard the Litehu people say that they called two thousand catties a ton over there! ”

"Oh, one ton is two thousand catties, and fifty tons is ......" Li Shimin said in disbelief: "One hundred thousand catties? ”

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