An hour later, Gu Bei took two generals to carry more than one person's height and was wrapped in silk cloth into the carriage.

I didn't expect this glassmaker's craftsmanship to be really good! It's done so quickly, I don't know if the lady is happy when she sees it? Or are you happy?

Back in the mansion, Gu Bei asked Xiao Ran to carry the objects in the courtyard, and sent him out. I picked up the object and knocked on the door of the lady's room and walked in.

In the room, Bai Luoshi was sitting at the round table reading the accounts, and Qing'er was waiting. The door rang, someone walked in, Bai Luoshi didn't raise his head, and continued to look through the accounts in his hand.

Everyone knows her rules, and if she dares to push open the door and walk in, no one in Baifu dares to be so bold except for her grandfather, mother and him.

At this point in time, grandpa should be in the Fifth Military Camp, and my mother is probably still walking in the garden, and it is not him who else comes in.

After Gu Bei entered the door, he looked around the room, found a place, and placed the objects wrapped in red silk cloth on his shoulders against the wall.

Gu Bei waited for a while, and saw that the lady only had accounts in her eyes, so she couldn't help but glance at Qing'er.

Qing'er blinked her eyes, understood what her uncle meant, glared at him fiercely, and when she was about to step out lightly, the eldest lady's words sounded, making her stagnate.

"Qing'er, just stay here, don't go anywhere."

Bai Luoshi lowered her little head, and her tone couldn't hear joy, anger and sorrow.

Gu Bei beat a drum in his heart, knowing that the lady was really angry this time, and she was jealous.

The room was silent for a while, Qing'er stood aside, looking at the two of them strangely, a little uncomfortable, you two are awkward, why are you still involved with me, a little girl?

"Lady, I brought you a good thing for my husband, I promise you like it, do you want to open it and take a look." After a while, Gu Bei was the first to speak, and it was estimated that if he didn't speak, Bai Luoshi would be able to spend it with him all the time.

Bai Luoshi raised her head and glanced at him, and instructed Qing'er, "You go and prepare dinner first!" ”

After Qing'er took the door and went out, she stared at Gu Bei with scrutinizing eyes, making Gu Bei seem to have nothing to hide, so uncomfortable.

In fact, Bai Luoshi was not really angry, and she was jealous, and what made her angry was that she had to wait for an afternoon.

But she's a smart woman, a man? That's not eating in the bowl, thinking about the pot, just knock it a little.

Gu Bei's eyes lit up when he saw the lady walking away, knowing that the lady had forgiven him, he walked to the wall like a treasure, and stretched out his hand to uncover the red silk cloth.

Bai Luoshi looked at it, only to see that there was a glass mirror standing taller than her on the wall! I couldn't help but be surprised: "This is a diorama?" ”

Gu Bei nodded and shook his head again. There is nothing wrong with the mirror, but it is not a diorama, but a glassmaker made by himself.

The mirror process is very simple, put a thin layer on the glass, then pour mercury on it, and wait until the mercury dissolves and solidifies, and then firmly sticks to it to become a mirror. To complicate matters further, such a large mirror needed to be polished and smoothed, which took a lot of time on the part of the glassmaker and a few apprentices.

Bai Luoshi approached, looked at herself in the mirror, and found that it was better than the diora in her collection, and she could see it clearly.

It's just such a big mirror, and I don't know how much silver Gu Bei spent to buy it. You must know that when she bought a glass mirror that was only the size of a bowl, it cost five hundred taels of silver. How much silver is a mirror as tall as a person?

I guess it's a few thousand taels of silver!

It seems that her husband has a lot of private money! Facing the lady's smiling eyes, Gu Bei was puzzled.

With such a big mirror, shouldn't you be happy? Why are you still looking at us like this?

"Husband, there is a lot of private money!"

Belch? Where to start with this, heaven and earth can be learned, and we don't have more than ten taels of silver on our bodies.

I only heard Bai Luoshi continue: "Miss Ben buys a waterora with a big bowl mouth, it costs five hundred taels of silver, husband, this mirror is more than a few thousand taels high, right?" ”

The first thing Gu Bei thought of was that this business was really profitable......

But then I remembered that the lady was suspecting that he was hiding private money, and explained with a wry smile: "The lady has wronged her husband, this is a glass mirror specially made by the glassmaker in the afternoon." What's more, as a lady, you must not use the largest mirror, otherwise how can the lady's good posture be revealed. ”

Gu Bei is a sycophant, praising Bai Luoshi's heart is full of joy, women are pleasing to themselves, which woman doesn't want to dress up pretty, which woman doesn't want to have a glass mirror that can reflect the whole body?

Bai Luoshi pursed the corners of her mouth, stroked her abdomen, and said lightly: "Husband, do you mean that Miss Ben is fat?" ”

Ga!

Gu Bei was stunned on the spot, and after turning around, he hurriedly explained, "No, no, the lady is Ying Tian...... No, the most beautiful woman in the whole Great Xia, the lady is not fat at all, this is ...... This ......"

"Alright, Miss Ben has taken it." Bai Luoshi waved her hand and interrupted, she really couldn't listen to it anymore.

After coaxing his daughter-in-law, Gu Bei went straight to the study and began to grind it out.

Don't get me wrong, he's not thinking about making money with glass mirrors, and it's not the best time for him to make glass mirrors out now.

Just now, he received news from Chen Jinwang that the road from Luobei Port to Yingtiancheng had been completed.

This is really good news for him, and the construction of roads is very important for the development of Luobei Port.

Although Luobei Port has a waterway to the city, for Gu Bei, the big ships are still a little slower to transport goods, and the land route can be transported by ox cart or horse-drawn cart.

The pros and cons of large ships are obvious, the advantages are strong load capacity, slow transportation capacity, and a lot of time delay in loading. Although the ox cart or horse-drawn cart is faster, the load capacity is not good.

He was now thinking about how to improve the carriage so that the weight capacity of the carriage could be increased without affecting the speed.

The best way to solve these problems is to build a horse-drawn carriage.

Four-wheeled carriages have also been made before, because the four wheels are mounted on a fixed frame, so they cannot be steered, and the steering problem is solved by the strength of the oxen and horses.

Because the bogie was not invented, the ancients thought that it was more convenient to use the two-wheeled carriage, so the four-wheeled carriage was also shelved.

This is also the reason why the horse-drawn carriage and the ox-cart in Great Xia only have two wheels, but the four-wheeled carriage is completely explosive in terms of load.

Gu Bei remembered that the Napoleonic legions in Europe relied on four-wheeled carriages to solve the problem of military transportation, and at that time, each carriage with four horses pulled by horses had a load of up to 1.5 tons.

It is equivalent to a horse-drawn cart that can carry 30 stone of grain, and 1,000 stone of grain can be easily pulled away by more than 30 four-wheeled carriages.

Moreover, the speed of the four-horse carriage is far higher than that of the ox cart.

Ox carts can travel only seven or eight kilometers per hour, while horse-drawn carts can travel about twenty kilometers per hour. According to the distance from Luobei Port to Yingtianfu, it can be reached in an hour by ox cart, and half an hour can be reached in the city by horse-drawn carriage.

This is also the reason why Gubei wants to build roads, from Luobei Port to transport goods to the city by water, loading and unloading is a big trouble, but if there is a four-wheeled carriage, loading goods is not bad, it can be faster.

In addition, he built the four-wheeled carriage not only for the convenience of transporting goods, but also wanted to set up a carriage and horse shop to transport goods for people, just like the 'Shunfeng' company in the last century.

And when the four-wheeled carriage walks, the bumpy feeling is very slight, unlike the two-wheeled carriage, once it rushes up, it is shaky, and the bumpy feeling is obvious.

He even thought that if the four-wheeled vehicle steering problem could be solved, he would build some more 'buses' from the previous generation to travel between Nakbuk Port and the city.

Two healthy horses can pull more than a dozen people to run, and the price is also cheap, and ordinary people can also experience the horse-drawn carriage.

Of course, these are just thoughts, the first is to solve the problem of four-wheeled carriage steering.

Gu Bei recalled for a moment, picked up the pen and began to write and draw on the paper. After a long time, Gu Bei finally put down the charcoal.

Let the subordinates call Carpenter Wang, hand over the painting to him, and explain to him in detail the wheel steering problem by the way, Carpenter Wang listened with excitement, "Uncle, you are really a star in the sky, such gods know that if you succeed, Uncle, you are a great merit for the benefit of all people!" ”

In fact, the four-wheeled carriage is not complicated, the key is in the steering problem.

It's not difficult to turn to the problem, it's just a layer of window paper, and once it is broken, it is no longer mysterious.

The front axle of the carriage is connected to the chassis by a rotating pivot so that the front wheels can turn in direction.

The front and rear wheels of the carriage are small, the front wheels are responsible for steering, and the rear wheels are load-bearing.

Since it is four-wheeled, the load capacity of the vehicle itself will be higher than that of two-wheeled, there is no doubt about it.

As for the shock absorbing springs of the carriages of later generations, Gu Bei can let the craftsmen develop them slowly, and now solve the carriage for pulling goods first, so there is no need to consider the problem of comfort.

It was not surprising that he knew the structure of the carriage, since when he was a child, there was a carriage for transporting goods in his grandmother's village.

Moreover, the carriage was broken down several times, and every time it was repaired, Gu Bei watched from the sidelines, and when he came and went, he could figure out what was going on with the carriage.

[Cui Weiju] Wang carpenter's craftsmanship is really good, plus he helps repair the carriage in the house, and the wheels are ready-made.

It took him an hour to make a set of steering devices for a carriage out of wood, find the chassis of the carriage, and install it.

In a short time, the first four-wheeled carriage of the simplified version was built, and since it was temporarily modified from the chassis and wheels of the carriage, it looked a little strange.

Bai Luoshi, who got the news, also came to see the excitement, watched the 'four-wheeled carriage' turn around a few times, and looked incredulous, "Husband, can you pull thirty stones in this carriage?" ”

When she came, she happened to hear Gu Bei bragging to others about how the carriage was, so she asked this question.

Gu Bei smiled: "Try it and you'll know." ”

Let the carpenter Wang put four healthy horses on the carriage, and then beckoned his subordinates to start carrying grain, and the Bai family, as a large household, naturally stored a lot of grain.

Soon the wagon was filled with thirty sacks of grain, each of which was a stone, and it was piled up high to form a hill.

This made the people watching the excitement burst into discussions.

"Uncle, what are you going to do? It won't be like pulling a carriage with these four horses, right? ”

"Impossible, thirty stone of grain, with four healthy cows, it may not be able to pull it!"

"Isn't it? Who has ever seen so many things with horse-drawn horses? What's more, this car also has strange four wheels, tsk, it's really strange. ”

"I bet the horse won't be able to pull it, unless the gods manifest themselves."

This time, even Xiao Ran didn't believe it, even if he had seen the drawings of the carriage drawn by his uncle, and had seen Carpenter Wang build the carriage with his own eyes, but he didn't think that four horses could drag so much grain.

Gu Bei pulled Xiao Ran: "Old Xiao, will you catch the car?" ”

"Yes."

"Then you sit on it, drive the carriage to Luobei Port, calculate the hours of coming and going, and come back and tell me."

Xiao Ran looked strange: "Uncle, are you really going?" Isn't this going to tire out the four horses? ”

Xiao Ran was so urged that he had no choice but to climb into the carriage. The four-wheeled carriage that was improvised was basically a chassis with four wheels, and nothing else.

He could only sit on the sack of grain, tugging on the reins with both hands, and turned his head to look at Gu Bei.

"Uncle, I'm really in a hurry."

"Yes, yes, hurry! It's like a. Gu Bei urged again.

Xiao Ran was helpless, stretched out his hand and shook the reins, and made a sound of "driving" in his mouth, driving the horses to exert force.

Just as the people were amazed, they saw that the four horses had their necks hanging down, and their four legs were exerting force, and the carriage began to move slowly and miraculously.

"It's moving, it's moving! The carriage really moved! ”

"Uncle is really a god, four horses can really drag thirty stones of grain."

"Look, the carriage is really running!"

Xiao Ran drove a carriage full of grain, and actually trotted up on the road in Fuzhong and rushed out of the house.

"Uncle, how does this car turn!" Xiao Ran roared loudly in the carriage.

"It's the same as a normal carriage, there's no difference."

Xiao Ran drove the carriage out of Baifu and ran on the street.

At this time, a four-wheeled carriage with high grain was driving in the city, attracting the attention of countless people, and then rushed towards Luobei Port.

Just in the middle of the night, the four-wheeled carriage was in a uproar in Yingtianfu, and everyone knew about it, and those businessmen who were lucky enough to see this four-wheeled carriage were drooling with greed.

If you can use this. The carriage pulls the goods, which is simply time-saving and labor-saving.

Half an hour later, when Xiao Ran drove the four-wheeled carriage back to Baifu, the businessmen who paid attention to the carriage all knew that it was invented by Gu Xiannan.

Xiao Ranle stopped the carriage, jumped off the carriage, and shouted loudly: "Uncle, this carriage is too godly!" It can really tow thirty stone of grain, and it is no different from an ordinary two-wheeled carriage. Oh no, it should be easier to handle, and the turn is easier than a two-wheeled carriage. ”

When Bai Luoshi saw this scene, she couldn't help but think, what would happen if these carriages were used in the army to transport food?

It means that the transfer of grain will be faster, and the country will no longer need to requisition a large number of people, and the speed of military transfer is sometimes related to the success or failure of a war.

This invention of the husband is really for the benefit of all people!

The next moment, Bai Luoshi excitedly tugged Gu Bei's arm: "Husband, you really made this. Carriages, if Great Xia uses such carriages, do you know how much of a role it can play? Hurry up and give the carriage drawings to grandpa, and let grandpa play the court to ask for credit. ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to the lady for the husband."

It is rare for the lady to speak, Gu Bei will not refuse, he taught the drawings to make the lady happy, not for the credit of the court.

Early the next morning, a lot of businessmen came to the door and asked for customized vehicles.

Gu Beida waved his hand, no problem at all!

Why don't you make money if you have money?

"County man, I don't know how much this custom-made four-wheeled carriage costs?" Seeing Gu Bei's readiness in agreeing, one of the businessmen asked cautiously, he is a cautious person, and he thinks it is better to set the price first, who knows if Gu Bei will play any moths afterwards.

"Haha! What kind of money to withdraw, isn't it far away to withdraw money? can be more or less in business dealings with Gu. Gu Bei laughed, looking like we were not bad for money, and slapped the businessman's shoulder with a "bang".

Shang Jia smiled bitterly and asked, "County man, can you give us an accurate number." ”

"You said that you are also a successful person, how do you know how to withdraw money? It's so cheesy. Gu Bei pretended to be unhappy and glared at the businessman, and said unhappily: "Money, it's not everything!" But since you've talked about it, I'll tell you about it.

It only costs ten taels of silver to customize a four-wheeled carriage, but there is a condition that only people from Luobeigang enjoy this price, otherwise we will not sell it no matter how high the silver is. ”

The merchant almost bit his tongue off.

A carriage was ten taels of silver.

And you have to be from Luobeigang?

Ten taels of silver is not a lot for him, but he can't hold up a lot! The caravan runs the goods, not to mention the large caravan, and the small caravan has at least twenty or thirty cars.

Shang Jia smiled bitterly and asked, "How can you be considered a native of Luobeigang?" ”

The rest of the merchants also looked at Gu Bei with blank eyes, wondering how he would answer.

"It's very simple, as long as you have land, a house, and a shop in Luobeigang, whether you rent it or buy it, you can count it as a person in Luobeigang, and you can customize it as long as the conditions are qualified."

Got land, a house, a shop?

When some of these businessmen heard this, they immediately raised their eyebrows, and when they saw that some of them were annoyed, they secretly laughed.

Fortunately, we had the foresight to buy the shop in advance, and the conditions were qualified.

"Gu Xiannan, I bought a few shops a long time ago,"

"I also bought a house......

"There is also a ...... who rented a shop"

......

Gu Bei waved his hands, and waited for the businessmen to calm down before saying: "You really have a vision, if you meet the requirements, you can go to Luobei Port to find Chen Jinwang to register the number of carriages ordered."

Of course, if you don't meet the requirements, it's not too late to go now, as long as you find Lao Chen to handle it together. ”

Some of the merchants who have reached the conditions have slipped away in advance before Gu Bei finishes speaking, and they all know that the first they arrive, the faster the customized four-wheeled carriage will be used, and the later they go, the longer it will take to get the four-wheeled carriage.