Datang romantic little landlord

Not to mention four draft horses, even four steers would not work.

But when all the more than 30 four-wheeled carriages started slowly and drove to the outside of Chang'an warehouse, the eyes of the subordinate staff and the laborers in Chang'an warehouse almost fell out. This carriage really pulled thirty stones of grain run!

The four-wheeled carriage convoy drove onto the post road and headed towards Yinzhou in the north.

This is the first time for Li Wangyou to travel far in the Tang Dynasty. Even the former owner of his body has never left Hu County and Chang'an, let alone a modern person who came from more than 1000 years ago.

Niu Wu drove the carriage in the middle of the convoy, while Li Wangyou sat aside, looking around curiously.

In the Tang Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, the Northern Shaanxi Plain was not the loess high slopes of later generations, and the vegetation and natural environment were well preserved.

Li Wangyou soon discovered that since the simple version of the four-wheeled carriage drove on the post road, it was not as bumpy as before.

These four-wheeled carriages didn't have any shock-absorbing equipment at all, and Li Wangyou specially brought a bearskin pad from home to protect his butt.

The bear skin was the black bear that scratched Niu Yong in Taibai Mountain.

After the black bear was killed by Niu Wu, it was cramped and skinned. After Li Wangyou rescued Niu Yong, the two brothers tanned the black bear skin and gave it to their husband.

But even with this thick bearskin as a cushion for shock absorption, Li Wangyou was knocked out of his wits and miserable in this four-wheeled carriage, which was only nearly a hundred miles from Dingzhou Village to Chang'an Warehouse. .

The roads of the Tang Dynasty are not the cement and asphalt roads of the later generations, and the bumps of the dirt roads can be imagined.

Li Wangyou turned pale at the thought of running back and forth on such a bumpy road for five or six days.

Mrs. Li from Hu County, I will never end with you!

Li Wangyou was so angry that he had to travel thousands of miles to suffer this crime.

But unexpectedly, after the four-wheeled carriage was filled with grain in the Chang'an warehouse and walked on the post road, it became much more stable.

Looking carefully at the post road in front of him, Li Wangyou couldn't help being happy.

Datang Yidao, the quality is very guaranteed.With Chang'an City as the center, Datang built an extremely dense road network.

The "Yuanhe County Chronicles" written by Li Jifu of the Tang Dynasty clearly and detailedly recorded the so-called "eight arrivals" of the states in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the road conditions and mileage extending from the center to all directions.

These post roads are generally paved with bluestone slabs or cobblestones, and the roads are very smooth.The main function is to transport grain, march, and deliver documents, which is somewhat similar to the national roads of later generations.

Since Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the carriages have the same track and text, and the wheelbases of horse-drawn carts and ox-carts have been uniform in size and width.

In this way, after the wheels are rolled repeatedly, two hard lanes with the same width as the wheels will be formed on the post road, which is a bit like the railway tracks of later generations.

The wheels of the four-wheeled carriage running in such a lane can significantly reduce horsepower consumption and axle wear, just like modern vehicles walking on asphalt roads, it is easy and comfortable.

The convoy of more than 30 four-wheeled carriages in Dingzhou Village ran quite freely on the post road. In less than an hour, they ran for more than 50 miles, far exceeding their previous expected speed.

When the convoy stopped to feed the draft horses and rest their horsepower, Lao Cunzheng had a bright smile on his face: "Xiao Lang, at this speed, we can go to Yinzhou for a business trip at most in two days."

Li Wangyou suddenly remembered something, pulled the old villager and asked, "Old villager, if we can reach Yinzhou in two days, we won't consume much food on the way. We only need to hand over [-] shi to Yinzhou Food, then the rest will belong to us?"

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Li Wangyou's words made Lao Cunzheng stunned, he had never considered such a thing.

It turns out that while serving corvee, in fact, what everyone fears most is the task of transporting food.Not to mention running back and forth for twenty days, and the food may not be enough to eat.

If there is a rainstorm or something on the road, and they cannot arrive on time, people will eat horse chews, and they will have to pay for the extra food they eat in the end.

The two hundred stones of grain, according to the speed of the four-wheeled carriage and the small number of them, calculated that they ate dozens of stones on the way at most, and how to deal with the remaining more than 100 stones of grain, the old village is also a little uncertain .

"Maybe the extra grain should belong to us, right?" Lao Cun Zheng estimated that he only needed to pay [-] shi for grain storage in Yinzhou, and the government didn't care about the remaining grain, whether it was too much or too little. up.

"That's great. When we arrive in Yinzhou, we can sell the surplus food and exchange it for money, so as to subsidize everyone's hardships in the past few days." Li Wangyou said with a smile.

When the Ding households in Dingzhou Village heard this, their eyes lit up.Li Jiaxiaolang's words are reasonable, these more than 100 stones of grain are worth a lot of money.

If they sell it in Yinzhou, each of the 70 of them will get a few copper coins.

It's not that Li Wangyou didn't think about transporting the 100 shi of grain back to the village. After all, he was about to face a plague of locusts, and no matter how good copper money was, it was not as good as grain.

However, the more than 100 shi of grain was, after all, the official grain that was confiscated and transported by corvees. If it was directly transported back to the village, I was afraid of trouble, so I gave up.

Everyone cast their earnest eyes on the old villager, after all, this matter needs the villager to nod.Lao Cunzheng thought about it for a while, then obeyed the public opinion, and nodded in agreement.

The enthusiasm of these people is even higher. Thinking that they can earn back a few copper coins this time, everyone feels like a pie in the sky.

However, Li Wangyou spoke again: "Everyone, although we are the only ones who have collected corvee this time, all the old and young people in the village have contributed. The money from selling grain should be distributed to every household. I suggest that The money for selling grain will be given to each Ding household, and the remaining households in the village will share it equally, I wonder if it is possible?"

"Naturally, without the help of various families in the village, these more than 30 carriages cannot be built. I support Xiao Lang's opinion!"

"I agree."

"Just do as Xiao Lang said, fair and reasonable, we have no objection."

In this regard, Lao Muromasa also nodded in agreement, and the matter was settled in this way.

After resting for half an hour, everyone set off on the road again and drove towards Yinzhou.

Before sunset, the grain transport convoy in Dingzhou Village had already traveled [-] miles in one go, nearly half of the journey.

Lao Cun was pointing to the post station in front of him and said, "We will stay in that post station tonight and drive the carriage there."

Everyone agreed, and drove the convoy to the post station not far away.

The post they were planning to spend the night in was a third-class post, and as soon as the convoy arrived at the gate of the post, a postman ran out.

"What do you do?"

"We came from Chang'an City to deliver official food to Yinzhou. This is our certificate." Lao Village jumped out of the carriage and handed the certificate to the postman for inspection.

When serving corvee to transport official rations, it is necessary to spend the night in a post station, which is also to ensure the safety of official rations.

The postman checked the receipt and put them into the post station.

Datang Post Station is divided into six classes.The first-class post has 20 postmen, the second-class post has 15 postmen, the number of postmen below the third-class decreases, and the sixth-class post has two to three postmen.

The post station also owns fields. According to "Cefu Yuan Gui", the top-class post stations in the Tang Dynasty had 2400 mu of land, and the low-class post stations also had 720 mu of land.

These post fields are used to grow alfalfa to solve the feed problem for cattle and horses. Other harvests are also used for the daily expenses of the post station.

The post station covers a large area, about tens of acres.More than [-] rooms are used for the accommodation of officials.The barn alone can easily accommodate hundreds of cattle and horses.

After Li Wangyou and his convoy drove into the station, the postman designated a parking area for them, and everyone began to get busy.

All the draft horses were unloaded from the carriage and led to the barn for hay.The other is to prepare a fire to cook and solve their food problems.

The post station will provide horse feed for free, but they need to prepare their own meals, and the post station will not provide them.Even those small households who are in corvée do not even provide lodging rooms at the station, and can only sleep in the courtyard of the station.