Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

The assistant officer appointed by Li Shimin immediately took his place, and discussed the military situation in the Chengqian Hall of King Qin's Mansion. Everyone discussed how to send troops, how to raise food, which route to take, how to cross the river, etc.

Suddenly, Li Shimin asked, "Is Chen Ying's injury healed?"

Changsun Wuji's face changed slightly when he heard this. Although Changsun Wuji couldn't produce direct evidence, his intuition told him that Chai Shao's death had an inescapable relationship with Chen Ying.

In fact, Changsun Wuji's intuition is very accurate. If it weren't for Chen Ying, Chai Shao would definitely live well, and finally become one of the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.

Changsun Wuji said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's not good yet. He even resigned from the position of secretary and supervisor. I heard that he is now building his manor in Qinglin, east of Bahe River."

Chief Shi Fang Xuanling said suspiciously: "The king means..."

Li Shimin said: "I want to march on Shandong Road this time, take him..."

Before Li Shimin could speak, Changsun Wuji stood up and said, "Your Highness, he belongs to the crown prince, the number one warrior in the Eastern Palace, we cannot win over such a person."

Li Shimin shook his head, and said lightly: "Gu, what you have to do is actually a gesture... It doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not, the important thing is, Gu wants to see if the prince has the capacity!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Xuanling stroked his beard and smiled, "Your Highness is wise!"

Du Ruhui frowned and said, "Will it be self-defeating? Chen Ying is already a general of the third-rank hussars at this time, and if he rises further, he will be Zhu Guo."

Li Shimin said with a smile: "Keming, when Chen Yingsheng has no chance of promotion, tell me, wouldn't it be better?"

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With the more than [-] pennies sent by Li Daozhen, the pressure on Chen Ying's money and food has been greatly relieved.Although there is still a big gap, there is room for maneuver.

What is more beneficial to Chen Ying is that he is a giant standing on the shoulders of historical giants. Based on Chen Ying's knowledge, if he wants to make money, it is actually not that difficult.

For example, now, only a small part of the weeds on the 3000 mu of land are actually burned, and the rest are cut down to make the roof of the shack and the mud walls on all sides. By chance, Chen Ying picked up a weed and Putting it in his hands and playing with it, Chen Ying suddenly saw that the purchase price of rice paper was as high as [-] yuan for a piece of rice paper.

At this time, the rice paper is not one hundred sheets, but seventy sheets, which means that each sheet of rice paper costs more than 20 yuan, and a piece of rice paper that is one foot six inches wide and three feet long is actually as high as twenty yuan. Converted into the price of future generations, it is almost 50 yuan a piece.

This price shocked Chen Ying a lot. In future generations, Chen Ying treated guests and gave gifts, and bought calligraphy works from the Calligraphy Association. He took the opportunity to learn that the raw materials for Xuan paper production are mainly green sandalwood, which is a special product in the southern Anhui mountainous area, and some straw. After long-term soaking, pickling, cooking, washing, bleaching, beating, fishing, adding glue, pasting and baking, there are 100 processes and more than [-] operations.

It looks very complicated, but in fact it is not difficult to manufacture.

At least this leftover weed can be used to make paper.

In this day and age, even authentic rice paper, the production process is not yet fully mature, and it is still in the stage of production and research. If Chen Ying can figure out the technology of rice paper and open a small papermaking workshop, he can try it no matter what. one time

For this reason, Chen Ying chose to set up a papermaking workshop, using papermaking technology to survive the immediate financial crisis.

Chapter 22 Inspiration from trains

Papermaking is destined to be just wishful thinking of Chen Ying.If you don’t do it, you don’t know. If you do it, you will be shocked.Chen Ying continuously asked hundreds of craftsmen, let alone papermaking, they had never even heard of it.Based on Chen Yingdao's hearsay of a little manufacturing process, God knows that paper can only be made in a year of the monkey?

Unless Chen Ying can dig a large number of skilled craftsmen from the rice paper workshop, but this idea is just a thought.In this era, it is no better than later generations, because people can be bought and bought now, such as shade households and tenant tenants are inherited from generation to generation, these core personnel cannot be dug out at all, even if they pry the corner, the price will not be small.

What's more, Chen Ying didn't have the time either. ,

Putting his whimsical thoughts out of his mind, Chen Ying went to the construction site to inspect.

Chen Ying originally thought that it would be very easy to dig a ditch with a length of nearly [-] miles, but more than [-] people moved up and down. A trench with a length of more than [-] steps, but in recent days, the progress has been getting slower and slower.

Chen Ying was displeased. He thought that these peasants were passive and sabotage, but when he came to the canal digging site, he felt confused.These folk craftsmen don't need to be urged at all. Those who dig the soil are sweating like rain, and those who pull the soil are also sweating like rain, but they still can't get up quickly.After thinking for a long time, I still haven't figured it out.

When Chen Ying calmed down to do some calculations, he realized that he was still too good at what he did.Since this ditch is not only convenient for irrigation, but also for transportation, the width is designed to be 29.61 feet 15.51 feet (about 370 meters) and [-] feet deep, and the bottom is [-] feet [-] feet (about [-] meters) wide. The area of ​​the entire ditch It is [-] square meters. For every one meter forward, [-] cubic meters need to be dug out. After the whole project, [-] million cubic meters need to be dug out.

In later generations, this kind of project is just a child's work, and all kinds of machinery can be put into battle, and it can be completed in more than a month at most.But in this day and age, such an amount of engineering is simply hopeless.

Even if it takes 500 people to dig the soil, each person has to dig out more than [-] square meters. Even if each person keeps digging every day, the engineering volume of ten cubic meters is already sky-high.But the transportation work is even more desperate. At this time, the main transportation method is a deer cart. In fact, it is a wooden wheelbarrow, and a cart weighs two to three hundred catties...

It's not that these folk craftsmen don't work hard, but that the amount of work is too much, which exceeds their limits.One hundred deer carts were transported non-stop, and they ran more than 100 round trips in six hours (at this time, the excavation site was very close to the place where the soil was unloaded). Based on the calculation of 300 jin per car, it can only transport 300 million yuan a day. kg of soil.The density of the soil is 1000. More than 12 million jin sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only more than [-] cubic meters.In other words, it is only the unearthed amount of [-] meters excavated from the ditch.

When Chen Ying found this problem, he approached Ge Tong and told Ge Tong bluntly: "The progress of these civilians is too slow. According to the current speed, I am afraid that this ditch will not be dug well in ten years. What restricts the speed of digging the ditch now is Do you have a better way to transport the dirt?"

"This..." Ge Tong was stopped by Chen Ying's question instead. He scratched his head and said puzzledly, "Isn't it always like this? Is there any better way?"

Chen Ying sighed secretly in his heart. He really missed the future generations. A heavy-duty truck can pull thirty to fifty cubic meters. For such a short distance, ten dump trucks can easily complete the transportation work of tens of thousands of cubic meters per day.The most powerful land transportation is the train. Calculated by the standard carriages for transporting coal, each carriage can carry [-] tons, and an open train can pull [-] trains, which is [-] tons.

"train".An idea flashed in Chen Ying's head, although in this era, it is almost impossible to build a steam train.However, Chen Ying thought of Chi Dao as early as the pre-Qin period.The Chidao built during the Qin Dynasty, when the Qin Dynasty destroyed Chu, used 60 troops, plus the soldiers who accompanied the army, the daily consumption of materials would be a huge number. With the transportation capacity at that time, it was almost impossible to do so. work tasks.

For this reason, the Qin Dynasty began to build galloping tracks. The principle of the Qin Dynasty’s galloping tracks was the same as that of later generations’ railroad tracks. The only difference was that the tracks on the Qin Dynasty’s galloping tracks were also made of wood, and the distance between the sleepers coincided with the horse’s steps. .Once the horse pulls the cart onto the track, it will involuntarily undergo "self-excited oscillation", and it has to run fast, and it is almost impossible to stop.

Chen Ying's confused mind gradually became clear.Directly use the embankment of the ditch, and build a double-type road along the embankment in the north and south. When digging the canal, it can be used to transport the excavated soil. After the ditches are completed, they can be connected with the official road of Datang to form a road. transport network.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying said excitedly: "Deputy Governor Ge, do you know Chi Dao in the pre-Qin period?"

Hearing this, Ge Tong was slightly taken aback: "Qin Chi said, the little old man has heard of it. In the early years, the little old man even made one in the yard for Chang'er to play with..."

Speaking of this, Ge Tong thought of his son who died young.However, he was shocked in his heart: "Grandfather, don't you want to build a Qinchi road? It can't be built, the cost is too high, and building a Chi road to Chang'an is almost like building another Chenjiabao!"

Chen Ying thought that this Ge Tong still had some knowledge, but it was good that he knew Chi Dao.Chen Ying analyzed the problem to Ge Tong: "Now, we are too slow in building ditches and docks. In the future, we will need to purchase a large amount of stone, iron ore, and coal. These things are very large. If we do not solve the problem of transportation Difficulties, not to mention making money, just the transportation cost will cause me a lot of headaches, so repairing Chidao is a must!"

Ge Tong naturally understands the truth, but as Chen Ying said, the two evils are the lesser of two evils. Although it costs money to build roads, it will be even more wasteful to use traditional transportation methods if they are not built.

More than [-] peasants transporting mud and wood suddenly realized that the steward told them to stop transporting mud to Chenjiabao, and instead spread the mud dug from the nearby ditch on the embankment on both sides of the ditch.In this way, their workload is greatly reduced.

However, they slowly discovered that the problem was not as simple as they imagined.

The wet mud was spread on the embankment, and they were asked to tamp it down one by one with wooden hammers to form a roadbed about six feet wide, but the work did not stop, but continued.The wet mud dug out of the ditch is mixed with lime and fine sand to form a specific ratio. This kind of compound soil is paved three feet on the road surface. After the three-foot compound soil is compacted, the carpenter will cut down the trees and process them into sleepers. , on a fixed road surface.

Naturally, wet wood cannot be used for sleepers, and it is better to use shade-dried wood for direct processing.Naturally, Chen Ying didn't have so much shade-dried wood, but Chen Ying knew that he could use a drying room to dry the wood quickly by using charcoal fire to remove the moisture of the wood itself, but it would not affect the use of the wood.

The track of Qin Chi Road, which is slightly different from the railway tracks of later generations, is concave instead of convex on the tracks of later generations.Enter the wheel in the raceway like this, be stuck in the groove.There is no need for a skilled driver at all, even if you don't know how to drive, you can drive horses or cattle to gallop on the galloping road.

Chapter 23 One cart with eight horses and one hundred thousand catties

Chapter 23 One cart with eight horses and one hundred thousand catties

Digging progressed a little faster because there was no delay in transporting the soil.After all, at this time of strong labor, it is normal for one person to dig out more than ten cubic meters a day.

With the laying of a thousand steps, Chen Ying couldn't wait to put the finished open transport vehicle on the track.

This kind of open transport vehicle is not a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage running back and forth on Qin Chi Road, but like a siege vehicle, with twelve wheels on each side, a total of 24 wheels.

Thanks to spring steel, Chen Ying doesn't have to worry about not having shock absorption.

The whole carriage is about 50 feet [-] feet long, [-] foot [-] feet wide, and the side of the car is [-] feet [-] inches [-] minutes high, which is just enough to transport [-] square meters of soil at a time, which is more than [-] tons.

Chen Ying was also not sure how many horses would be needed to pull the 50-ton twelve-wheeled cart. He decided to try it with two horses first, but it turned out that two horses couldn't pull such a heavy carriage.

Chen Yingdao: "Six more horses!"

The retinue immediately pulled out six war horses, together with the original two, there were a total of horses and camel harnesses.

While preparing, Chen Ying also murmured silently in his heart: "God bless..."