In fact, Zhang Fangping wanted to make a train very much, but the railway from Daimyo's Mansion to Kaifeng Mansion had not yet been completed, and Shen Kuo said that the acceptance could not be completed until October at the earliest, and it could only be opened to trial operation in November.

As a result, he had to take a newly developed flat-bottomed motor boat, and Zhang Fangping forced the Beijing Garrison Division to set up a Shenwu cannon on board. People bitterly said that the Shenwu cannon was too heavy, it was not designed for ships, and it was inconvenient to set it up on a big ship, so Lao Zhang took a step forward and asked them to get a field gun to make a show on the big ship.

To this day, Zhang Fangping still feels very mysterious. Without being pulled, rowed, or sailed, the ship was able to pull and carry very heavy supplies, and the speed was not slow, at least as fast as a strong man walking on flat ground (eight knots).

This is a bit shabby, the original starting point, the design speed under Wang Yan's request is eleven knots. In fact, the third-generation steam engine produced by Beijing Machinery Factory could not meet the established thrust-to-weight ratio requirements, so the entire transmission assembly was revised, the speed ratio was reduced, and the propeller scale was redesigned. In exchange for space, the load still reaches the requirement of more than 1,000 tons, but the more economical speed is reduced to eight knots.

It is said that Shen Kuo, the son of a gentleman, once had the feat of soaring the speed to about ten knots. The problem is that the cost-effectiveness ratio is so poor that the speed has only increased by less than 30 percent, but the degree of wear and tear of the crew is tripled, and the coal consumption is also doubled, which is very uneconomical.

If the third-generation steam engine and transmission system manufactured by Funing Machinery Factory can increase the economic speed to about nine knots. However, Beijing Machinery Factory only made eight sections, but considering the practicality, at that time, it was necessary to transport it from thousands of mountains and rivers in Funing County, and the cost of the power system was too high, so it was still installed in the Beijing branch.

Speaking of the core team of Beijing Machinery Factory, production concepts and methods, etc., are the same as those of Funing County, and even most of the senior technical personnel in Funing County have been transferred to Beijing. But there is a gap, and the technical background is a difference. After these are summarized, there are two words, skills. From hundreds or thousands of production processes, all the details can ultimately affect the technical parameters of the steam engine.

On the river, now after dusk, darkness is coming, Lao Zhang is still wearing the sunglasses made by Shen Kuo and is unwilling to take them off, like a blind man A Bing, and walking on the big boat on his back.

As a result, it hit the load of supplies headlong, and many of the entourages were startled, and hurriedly went over to accompany the smiling face: "Xiangye, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, just a collision can't hurt the old man."

Zhang Fangping continued to wear sunglasses, shook them off and said: "It's just that the old man is very dissatisfied, as an important member of the imperial court, this is my special ship, and it is ridiculous to carry so many materials for Mao." ”

Everyone knows that he didn't mean that, that is, to find a reason to say it in passing.

After a while, Lao Zhang, who couldn't stay idle, finally took off his sunglasses, and went to the helmsman to observe it, and thought it was very interesting, so he pulled the helmsman away and said: "You can't do it, let the old man it twice." ”

Everyone was horrified.

Zhang Fangping operates the boat as if playing Taiji, either the left full rudder or the right full rudder, it is also considered that the horsepower is not large, the speed is low, the river is broad here, and the flat-bottomed boat is relatively stable, otherwise I am afraid that people will really have to turn over on their backs.

This process made Lao Zhang very emotional, the world is changing with each passing day, and many things are no longer understood. In addition to these sudden things that are like monsters moving on their own, there are already people flying into the sky, in Beijing, which Lao Zhang saw with his own eyes.

Zhang Jing, a gossip girl who likes to fly kites, also witnessed it together.

The Second Aviation Institute built a wind tunnel, and after having a lot of parameters, Shen Kuo designed the first generation of pedal gliders last month. It's really amazing, it's completely different from the situation when he first flew a test flight, the parameter structure of the wind is very reasonable, and it can make Shen Kuo glide far away when the wind is not very big, and he can also control the direction.

Although the pedal machine has little thrust and cannot sustain flight, it can extend the gliding time. The most amazing thing is that the wheels for landing are also designed, so that you will not be lazy when landing.

After witnessing the miraculous process, Lao Zhang also heard Shen Kuo promise: "If nothing else, at the latest, the plane of mechanical force will be able to go to the sky in three years at the latest." ”

At that time, Zhang Fangping and Zhang Jing said together: "I must try it when the time comes." ”

At that time, Shen Kuo's implication was to provoke Lao Zhang, and if he wanted to see the plane in the sky, he hurried to get Chen Fan from the 401 Institute out.

But a generation of new people replaced the old, just on Zhang Fangping's way to the capital, I heard that Chen Fan had been made out by Da Yan by hooligan means, Wang Yan fished for the details Zhang Fangping didn't want to complain, but he generally felt that he was getting old, and his role was gradually decreasing......

For most Song people, this season is a festive day for the upcoming harvest.

I heard that this year's Song Guo Dafeng. Especially in the area around the Daimyofu, due to the river canal built by Lao Zhang and Shen Kuo's opinions last year, a lot of fertile land was added, and two reservoirs were dug to improve the planting efficiency. In addition, due to the deployment of some steam engines in water conservancy regardless of the cost, I heard that the soybean harvest of the Daimyo Mansion will be very frustrated.

In the past, the Daimyo Mansion didn't have anything to do with other areas even in Dafeng, and it was basically in a state where it could not be shipped out. Of course, it is possible to forcibly transport, but the frantic freight leads to the fact that in addition to the overall planning of the government, no businessman will do such a livelihood, unless there is a famine elsewhere and there is no food, otherwise the freight can make the grain merchant lose all his underwear.

But now the situation is different, except for the Bianjing Railway, which was opened to traffic in November, all the tests of the 1,500-ton jumbo ship have been completed, and the procurement has been finalized and purchased.

Even the Industrial Party itself has to admit that water transport is cheapest wherever there is a river. Today's trains have a load of 30 tons and a speed of 15 knots. However, relying on the hedging of water buoyancy against gravity, the flat-bottomed wooden ships of the Beijing shipyard have a load of more than 1,000 tons and a speed of eight knots.

What is this concept?

In the past, if the Great Song Cao Yun wanted to take such a cargo, it required the investment of thirty or forty ships, the need to invest eight to nine hundred manpower, and the average travel speed of the Cao Gang was less than five knots.

Now it is amazing, the third-generation steam engine and less than a hundred crew members can send this more than 1,000 tons of materials to the area of the river at a very uniform speed.

In the past, there was not enough coal in Tokyo, and the price of coal was rising due to the transportation link being imported from the daimyo government, but now it has begun to ease, and a total of three large ships have been put into the city to start transporting coal. In addition to the visible railway, I heard that at least 15 additional ships will be put into it this year.

In addition to the currency of coal and iron ore, the most important thing is the soybean strategy.

Now the breeding industry of the Great Song Dynasty has basically been rolled out, and the most important main ingredient in this business promoted by Da Yan is beans. This year, there are very, very many beans in the Daimyo's Mansion, and they need to be exported quickly.

Considering the message of the appeal, Zhuo Luolan was leaving the Henan Military Division, intending to go to the Song Kingdom's Daimyo's Mansion. She thinks that the life of the Song people is really coming out now, but the Western Xia is very miserable, the little emperor willfully launched a war, and after the defeat, it is a disaster, and there are many things waiting for the aftermath.

The tens of thousands of people who died in the river were nothing, but because of the excessive conquest required for the war, it was the height of summer and it was necessary to be fully prepared for the cold and hunger that was coming. Otherwise, there will be chaos inside Western Xia, which is not worrying about Pang.

For the steppe people, cattle and sheep are everything.

However, the clansmen, including Zhuo Luolan, paid a lot of cattle, sheep, horses and other materials due to the needs of the war at that time. In the end, he lost.

Judging from the rise of the breeding industry in the Song Dynasty, feed is a more magical thing, and the main ingredient is beans.

This task was originally to eat more yourself. But after Manba lost the war, he didn't take power again, so Lao Wuqiang chose to hand it over to Zhuo Luolan.

This is because Pang also suspects that Zhuo Luolan and Wang Yan have a fart complex.

Zhuo Luolan felt that they were enough, the first general of the old lady Jin Ge Iron Horse, and he was once defeated by Wang Yan. In this rather faceless situation, sending a female general with a good posture to cater to a lewd politician who is known for being lustful is their plan?

Of course, objectively speaking, Zhuo Luolan also boasted that he really knew the magic machine, and negotiated with him, maybe others couldn't grasp the rhythm even more, and they would be cheated.

The Quadripartite talks in the northwest have come to an end. At that time, Wang Yan did not participate, but Han Qi and Dong Yu represented the Great Song Dynasty and Tubo, and Yelu Chongyuan and Zhuo Luolan represented the Great Liao and Western Xia, and the negotiation table composed of four people.

In order to prevent Shenji Yan from participating in the negotiations, the Liao State was also considered to be a hard worker, and a heavyweight such as Yelu Chongyuan was sent, so as a counterpart to the Song State, it must be Han Qi to go.

However, even if Han Qi went to Jisang, it was extremely difficult to negotiate that time, which made Zhuo Luolan remember deeply, and the old thing may not look better than Wang Yan, although he didn't want much land, as long as he had Xiliang Mansion, he promised to return Xuanhua Mansion to Xixia. But Han Qi disagrees with the "statement that the war is over".

In view of the fact that the hatred that Manba pulled in the Qingtang area at that time was too great and caused too much blood, the successor Dong Yu was brainwashed by the gods in the early stage, and was bewitched by Han Qi in the later stage, so he also threatened that the "Qingtang and Western Xia War" was not over. The so-called signing of the Quadripartite Talks is only a "truce agreement", so technically Qingtang and Western Xia are still in a state of war.

Han Qi and Dong Yu said that the truce could only be officially converted into the end of the war after the Western Xia compensation totaled four million taels of silver.

For this lost war, Western Xia has already paid too much price. However, it is necessary to not stop the war in a disadvantaged situation, and to pay compensation of four million taels of silver, which is undoubtedly worse.

Dong Yu admitted his death, and really thought that he should ask for this huge amount of compensation with the support of Song Guo, that was money, who didn't like it.

At this point, only Zhuo Luolan understood Song Guo's dirty thoughts: Wang Yan and Han Qi didn't want to continue to garrison in Qingtang, and they still refused to stop fighting after so many people died? Continue to use the cloud of war to hang over the heads of Qingtang and Western Xia, so that even if the volunteers want to leave, the Qingtang people will cry and shout please stay.

However, if you lose, it is evil, and if you win, it is right. Now that the battle of Dingding in Qingtang has been won by the gods, the national strength of the Song State is also thriving, even the so-called two million male teachers of the father of the Liao State do not want to easily touch the edge of the Song State, so the Western Xia will really have to live a few years of hard life and find a way to compensate.

As a robber and ruthless person, not all times you can answer "why do you want to pay back the robbery with your ability", it really depends on who you meet.

Now that the herdsmen of Western Xia have basically been hollowed out, this time there is no way to compensate Pang himself: in addition to asking Wang Yan for help, giving bribes and temptations, and finding some ways to make money from him, in addition to this, Pang has no way to compensate.

Zhuo Luolan also felt that there was only one way. You have to be self-reliant, and you have to find a way. Otherwise, although there will be no more war in two years, with the rapid increase in the strength of the Song State, at some point, they are no longer afraid of the two million cavalry of the Liao State, and that is when everyone changes their surnames together.

Although the times are difficult, there are good deals that can be seen. For example, Zhuo Luolan's tribal territory has a lot of coal and iron ore, and Zhuo Luolan firmly believes that there is no shortage of beans in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is a shortage of beans in the grassland, which is dominated by animal husbandry.

Such a deal was not possible before, because the cost of transportation was sky-high. But now it is possible, Tianyou Xixiayou and Nanjun Division, although it is far away, but Zhuo Luolan's territory happens to be in the fertile Yellow River Valley, and now Shenji Yan has a shipping capacity of 1,500 tons, and I heard that a ship of 3,000 tons is being designed.

If this trip goes well, and this trade route is reached to earn it for five years, and the difficulties of Western Xia can be passed, which is not only a good thing for improving the lives of the tribesmen and accumulating virtue and doing good.

"Uh-huh, that's it." Before approaching the northwest border of the Song Kingdom, Zhuo Luolan, who was on the way, nodded to himself.

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