Father can be an enemy to the country

In the next few days, Zhu Zhen divided the 16,000 drivers he brought with him into hundreds of teaching teams and distributed them throughout Nanyang Lake.

Each driver brought six to seven students and taught them how to drive an ice car with a Lingqiang.

Nansi Lake became the largest driving school in the world. Ping An was appointed as the principal of the driving school by him. He will form a thousand-person assessment team to assess the teaching of all teaching teams. The Ming army is very familiar with this set of rules. Since the founding of the country, they have been assessed by Boss Zhu every year.

How to formulate clear standards, fair rewards and punishments... Ping An is familiar with these, and Zhu Zhen doesn't need to worry about them.

His attention is on car manufacturing. It's not enough to have a driving school, there must be a car factory.

Zhu Zhen set up a full 40 car manufacturing sites along the shore of Nanyang Lake. Let the craftsmen he brought from Peking be masters, and the local craftsmen in Shandong be apprentices. The masters teach while doing, and the apprentices learn while doing.

Unlike Zhu Zhen's expectation, it is not difficult to make an ice sled, but it is still not easy to make a large ice sled that can carry 2,000 kilograms.

The general ice sled can only carry 1,000 kilograms. If the load is doubled, the size of the ice sled should also be doubled. This not only requires more materials, but also makes the ice sled more cumbersome. Especially after it is fully loaded, let alone a pure wooden ice sled, even an ice sled covered with animal skin or iron sheet, it is very difficult for the driver to support it, and it is not suitable for such long-distance transportation at all.

Therefore, when making a large ice sled, the craftsmen will embed two thin iron bars under the two longitudinal wooden ice sleds. It is like putting ice skates on the ice sled, and the actual part that contacts the ice surface is only the iron bars.

Because the iron bars are smoother and narrower than wood, the contact area with the ice surface is smaller, which can reduce friction as much as possible.

In addition, when people sit on the ice bed, the ice is under great pressure, the melting point is lowered, and a thin layer of water will melt under the iron bars, which will play a lubricating role, further reducing friction, so that the heavy ice bed can easily fly on the ice surface.

Although the craftsmen of this era did not understand the reason, they still figured out a clever way to put skates on the big ice sled so that it can slide flexibly on the ice.

Therefore, carpenters and blacksmiths have to work together to produce a big ice sled that meets the requirements.

Fortunately, the ice sled is a simple structure after all. With the level of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they master the tricks, it is not difficult to make it. After following the master of Peking to build a few cars, the craftsmen in Shandong can become apprentices... The production speed of various car manufacturing sites has increased day by day, from two hundred cars a day at the beginning, it quickly increased to four or five hundred cars a day!

If nothing unexpected happens, it will not be a problem to complete it on time.

But it is impossible without any accidents. Within two days, Wu Yin, who was in charge of the materials, found that there was not enough material.

He hurried to report to the prince: "The wood we have now can only support production for two more days at most, and we will be forced to stop work in two days."

"Two days later..." Zhu Zhen calculated and frowned, "That's only 60,000 vehicles, there is still a big gap."

"There is no way. The two thousand jin ice car consumes too much material, and the material requirements are also high. The board must be of sufficient size, so many of the wood pulled from the Prince of Lu's Mansion are not usable at all." Wu Yin said with a bitter face: "Prince, how about we make less?"

"No, 100,000 vehicles is a hard target, let's think of a way." Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice: "Collect wood that meets the specifications from the public. If it doesn't work, just demolish the Prince of Lu's Mansion..."

"Then, how dare we? Without the emperor's order, who dares to demolish it?" Wu Yin was shocked.

"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "Then think of other ways first, and then talk about it if it doesn't work."

"Hey." Wu Yin nodded in response. I thought to myself that the prince really dared to demolish it...

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The people of Yanzhou were still very supportive. As soon as the notice for collecting wood was issued, scholars, farmers, merchants and workers soon sent the materials for furniture and coffins kept at home to various car-making sites.

Some fishermen even dragged their own boats there, saying that they would use them first. The clerk at the shipbuilding site asked, how can we fish in the spring?

The answer was: Isn't it still a while before spring? Let's talk about it when the time comes...

The noble behavior of the Shandong fellows, "giving me a papaya, I will repay you with a jade pendant", deeply shocked Eleven and Twelve.

The two never expected that the seemingly wasteful behavior of the Sixth Brother would actually make back the principal and interest one day.

"I finally understand why those places in the south with simple folk customs and prosperous culture and education are called the coastal Zou and Lu. The hometown of Confucius and Mencius is really well-deserved." Old Eleven sighed.

"Yes, the people of Shandong are the most honest, but it's a pity that honest people always suffer the most." Zhu Zhen sighed, and then smiled proudly: "But I will never let honest people suffer here!" He ordered that all the people who donated wood must register, not only to pay according to the market price on the spot, but also announced that after completing the transportation task, these large ice carts will belong to them. At that time, the people can either dismantle the ice carts to rebuild boats and furniture, or keep the ice carts and wait until next winter... I believe that after this demonstration, the people will realize the business opportunities. ~~ The people of Yanzhou tried their best to collect materials for 30,000 large ice carts for Zhu Zhen, and there was still wood for 10,000 large ice carts. Now even Zhu Zhen planned to give up, thinking that if he built less, he would transport less, and make up for it in the spring of next year. You can't really dismantle the Prince of Lu's Mansion and use those fine nanmu, mahogany and rosewood to build ice carts, right?

But it is a pity that we did not complete all the tasks...

Just when Zhu Zhen was about to teach his younger brothers that defects are also a kind of beauty, Kong Na and Meng Keren came with members of the Confucius and Mencius families, and brought a total of 20,000 large logs!

"In order to collect 20,000 pieces of wood for the prince, our family's financial resources were completely drained." Kong Ne naturally wanted to show off his merits: "We even cut down 3,000 trees in Kong Lin."

"Really? Is that okay?" Zhu Zhen said in surprise: "Don't cut Kong Lin bald. That would be a sin..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Kong Ne hurriedly shook his head and said, "All the trees cut down were corner trees, so the ancestors were not disturbed. And I also prayed to the ancestors in advance and told them that this was to send food to the Polu army. I believe the ancestors won’t blame me.”

He would not tell Lao Liu that there were one hundred thousand trees in Konglin...

"Okay, okay." Zhu Zhen cheered repeatedly, gave a thumbs up and said: "From today on, I will look at Beikong in a different light!"

"Hahaha, so that the prince knows that our Kong family is full of loyal people." Kong Ne couldn't hide the smile on his face.

The investment is so worth it. This time Beikong gave the Sixth Prince a big favor. Will he speak for Nankong again in the future?

And those trees were cut from the cemetery reserved for Nan Kong...