Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 250
While preparing for the competition, Lin Sen also made a special trip back to Zhuangzi. The Turkic caravan was ready and was about to leave. Lin Sen had to go back to boost everyone's morale.

In this caravan, apart from Xi Junmai, the private chief, there are several other younger generations in Zhuangzi, who are also big kids who have studied very quickly in the school. It is almost the age to start a family and start a business.

Lin Sen also wanted to let them practice more, so that they could apply what they have learned, so that they can grow up as soon as possible. In the future, the Lin family's property will definitely increase, and they need to be gradually supported by these smart people. Get up.

Their parents are naturally happy to see the results. Although they know that there will be certain dangers, they are still very grateful to Lin Sen.

In the future, if you have this job, or simply become the person in charge of a certain property of the Lin family, it will be much easier to find a wife to start a family and start a business.

What's more, the dealers who can participate in this caravan are basically masters who can stand on their own. With so many top masters, it is no problem to kill one or two grassland tribes in a surprise attack. The force is absolutely terrifying. The people Yao Jin and the others sent over were even stronger.

They went there in a team with those veteran killers, as well as people from the royal caravan. With this lineup, if they are determined to do business without money, the tribes on the grassland will have a headache and can threaten them. There are very few people in danger, and robbing them is even more self-defeating.

Unless the Turkic side dispatched a large army and was determined to be bad for them, the treatment of merchants on the grassland would not be so extreme, so their safety is actually guaranteed, and it is more just in case.

The goods brought over this trip are naturally the most inferior high-grade wine produced by the winery, and ordinary tea cakes, but popular luxury goods such as silk and porcelain are also indispensable.

However, there is a big problem in the transportation process, that is, the two-wheeled carriage is attached obliquely to the front pack horse, and the angle itself is not horizontal, so it is very unstable, and all the pressure is on the pack horse. The entire carriage will inevitably bump along with it.

And whether it is wine jars or those porcelain bottles and cans, they are very afraid of bumps, and they are worthless if they are bumped.

It is also a technical job to fix them all, and a lot of straw, rags, etc. are stuffed to absorb shocks, and to fill the gaps, try to keep them close to the car board, but this is not guaranteed. They were all shipped whole, and the loss on the way was a bit too much.

In addition, the two-wheeled carriage can basically only be pulled by one animal, and the load capacity is really limited. Even if each cart is loaded as much as possible, it is impossible to transport too many complete things and go too far.

This has led to the high price of ceramics on the grasslands. Only those tribal leaders or Turkic nobles can afford them, and they have become a status symbol.

But Lin Sen wanted to get off to a good start. If he had more luck this trip, he would earn more money, and the relative cost would be lower, right?

Seeing that the battle with the Turks is about to start, this caravan may not be able to go back and forth a few times. Taking advantage of the fact that business is relatively easy to do now, don't seize the opportunity to make more money.

When Datang conquered the Turks, it would become a happy place for Datang. There would not be too many caravans running to do business, and the pressure of competition would be much greater. It would definitely not be as good as it is now. If you do it, it will not be so easy to make money, so you still have to cherish this hard-won opportunity to make money.

In order to transport these things, and more importantly, to be able to transport more goods to the grassland in one piece, Lin Sen also painstakingly got a lot of remodeled carriages out.

He simply abandoned the structure of the traditional two-wheeled carriage, which has always been dominant in domestic transportation in history, and it does have inherent reasons and advantages.

On the one hand, it is naturally the confinement of traditional thinking, which makes people not value craftsmen very much. Smart people are more willing to move closer to officials. Everyone lacks enthusiasm for technological improvement, and this thing has been used all the time.

Another reason is that the land area is too large and the road conditions are very complicated, especially in the south-to-north direction. The terrain is still quite undulating. Two-wheelers have lower requirements on road conditions, and the scope of application is naturally wider. It seems to be more suitable for long-distance transportation, so no one deliberately thinks about it.

What's more, isn't there still river transport, or even sea transport as a supplement? There is no urgent requirement for the improvement of horse-drawn carriage capacity.

Perhaps there is another reason. If those officials dislike the slow speed of the carriage, they will choose to gallop on horseback.When riding in a carriage, there are often guards and relatives following on foot, and it is not necessary for the carriage to run so fast, the speed of the two-wheeled carriage can also meet the demand.

Under the combined effect of so many factors, no one thought about improving these two carriages.

But Lin Sen wanted it to pull more, and also wanted it to run fast and stable, so a two-wheeled carriage was naturally not up to the task.So he fiddled with the four-wheeled carriage very simply.

The biggest difficulty of the four-wheeled carriage lies in the front steering mechanism similar to a universal joint. With this thing, the four-wheeled carriage can turn relatively flexibly.

It won't be like those huge four-wheeled carriages with more than a dozen horses recorded in the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which can only be pulled obliquely by relying on animal power. That's not called turning, okay?

It was not difficult for Lin Sen to figure out this thing, and with the little knowledge left, he could also figure it out.

What's more, in his previous life, he often saw four-wheeled carriages in scenic spots for tourists, or simply for couples to take wedding photos. He is quite clear about the structure of these four-wheeled carriages, and he made them after a few simple experiments. .

Then add the necessary bearings to the key parts, so that whether it is turning or running, it will be lighter and more wear-resistant and durable.

Moreover, some modifications have been made to the materials. The key load-bearing parts are all made of stronger wood, and some of the wood has been modified very simply, making the entire carriage lighter and at the same time larger. load capacity.

At the same time, the car body will become much stronger. When necessary, it can even be used as a temporary fortress, which can completely provide farmers with an extra layer of security.

Compared with the original two-wheeled carriage, the load capacity of the four-wheeled carriage produced by Lin Sen has increased by 01:30 points, it can be said that it is not in the same order of magnitude.If the horse is strong enough, it can even carry a ton of cargo and still move forward as usual.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Two-wheeled carriages need to be carried on their backs, while four-wheeled carriages only need to be pulled. This is like the same person walking with something on his back and pulling a four-wheeled cart. It must be different.

To give an extreme example, some of the world's strong men of later generations can even drag a 737 aircraft and pull it out of the hangar.

But if you remove the front wheel of the plane and let him carry the landing gear to try, let alone dragging it away, he will not even be able to stand up, and he will be crushed into a puddle of meatloaf.

This principle is naturally the same when it comes to pack horses.

When such a row of four-wheeled carriages appeared on Zhuangzi, not only Lin Sen himself was extremely satisfied, but also the farmers were full of praise.

Not to mention walking fast and steady, this is too good for loading, it's hard not to make a lot of money this trip.

And the impact of this thing obviously doesn't stop there.

　It’s still the chapter that took the noon lunch break. There was an office director, but some work was left to me to do. I didn’t sit idle all morning. I really don’t know that she is a male secretary. What is it for...

　　After finishing this chapter, I hurried to pick up lunch, I was starving to death...

　　
　
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