Originally, the emperor's car should be the most dazzling existence in any place, but today, it was a special vehicle that rushed to the front of the Sun Mansion by an oblique thorn stabbing to steal the limelight.

"The old man heard that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Kongming, the famous minister of Shu State, once invented a kind of wooden cow and cow horse, which can carry the weight on its own.

Fang Xuanling is now the left servant of Shangshu, with the highest official rank, and he also stood in the front row to greet Li Shimin with Sun Xiangfu, who was the first to see the bicycle that was beaten by Marseille and placed on the side of the road, and asked Sun Xiangfu.

In order to celebrate, Marseille and they painted the car in red early in the morning, which looked very coquettish, and the eyes of the ministers who came out to greet Li Shimin also followed Fang Xuanling's questioning, and looked at the red bicycle with an inquiring face.

And one step ahead of Li Shimin's carriage, he stepped hard a few times, and finally, Sun Dali, who finally caught up with the team before the carriage stopped, hurriedly ran to the back of the team.

Of course, at this time, the ministers' eyes also shifted from the two-wheeled bicycle to the tricycle he was temporarily parked on the side of the road, and most people didn't notice that Li Shimin had stepped off the car.

"Ministers, ministers and other greetings to Your Majesty······"

The voices of the ministers were uneven, which made Li Shimin's brows furrow, could it be that he was late, and the ministers were already drunk?

Then, when he turned around to help Empress Sun get out of the carriage, the corner of his eye inevitably swept to the two red cars parked on the side of the road.

After Empress Changsun got out of the car, Concubine Wei, Concubine Yan, Concubine Yang and many other concubines in the carriage behind also stepped forward together, and the stars followed Li Shimin to the gate of Sun's mansion.

"You're all Aiqing to greet you, I'm here to go to Sun Zhengming's family banquet today, it's good to have him as the host's house to entertain guests, and you can go into the house with me to eat and drink."

"Your Majesty can come to the full moon banquet of the dog and the dog girl, it is really the humble house of the minister, and it is cold outside, please sit inside." After Sun Xiangfu treated the ministers for his life, he once again saluted Li Shimin with his fists and made a gesture of please.

"Zhengming, don't be polite, if your house is a humble house, then there is no good house in this world, by the way, what is the pair of red objects in front of the door, I see, all the ministers were looking at it just now, is it a novelty?"

Li Shimin didn't rush into the house, joked with Sun Xiangfu with a smile, and turned around and pointed to the tricycle and bicycle path on the side of the road in front of the house.

"This is a new type of rickshaw, Your Majesty will invite you in first, and I will let them ride the cart to the front hall later, and explain it to you in detail."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, and led the ministers into the hall of Sun Xiangfu's house, his castle-like mansion has a characteristic, that is, the interior space is spacious, the ground is paved with tiles, clean and flat, there is no smell of cement, dozens of long sofas and coffee tables, it doesn't matter if hundreds of people sit on them.

There are fireplaces burning on the left and right sides of the living room, and there are many stoves with hot milk tea, which makes the living room of hundreds of square meters warm.

Empress Changsun and a goddaughter entered the door, and were welcomed by Yu Xiuer to the small living room on the second floor to talk, Li Shimin was taken by Sun Xiangfu and sat on the sofa in the center.

"Your Majesty, before Fang Xiang guessed that this thing was the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Kongming invented the wooden cow cow and horse, in fact, it is not, the wooden cow and the horse, through the machine, let a thing similar to a cow carriage walk automatically, and this car is a manpower pedal, to walk, is the workshop of Happy Village just groped to make the product, has not yet been mass-produced."

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, he beat up the big stand of the bicycle, and then stepped on the crutches, and then pointed to the chain road that was constantly driven by the gears to rotate, "Your Majesty, please see, the principle of this car is very simple, use the gear disc to drive the chain, so as to drive the gear disc on the bearing of the rear wheel, rotate the rear axle, so that it pushes forward, the front of the car is responsible for steering, in case of emergency or to the destination, as long as you pinch the handbrake, you can stop the car from moving forward, Marseille and Yu Jie Er, this morning, is riding this bicycle, Came from the village of happiness. ”

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, he pinched the handbrake on the handlebar, and suddenly, the rear wheel of the fast-spinning rear bicycle stopped spinning.

Seeing Sun Xiangfu's display, Li Shimin didn't sit still, understood the riding principle of the bicycle, he had the idea of trying it himself, and heard that Marseille and Yu Jie were riding bicycles from Xingfu Village, and hurriedly asked, "After the cement road is repaired, how far is Xingfu Village from here?" ”

"The cement road is basically built straight, from Xingfu Village to here, although it is less than 100 miles, but there are more than 90 miles."

"The two of them set off in the morning, didn't they say that it wouldn't take two hours to ride this car from Xingfu Village to here?"

Winter is late, when the sky is bright, it should have been more than six o'clock, and now, but it is only about ten o'clock in the morning, that is to say, they have only walked for more than three hours in total, an average of more than 13 kilometers per hour, which is two or three percent lower than the speed of some ordinary bicycles in later generations, not to mention those good bicycles equipped with a transmission device.

In later generations, Sun Xiangfu had an alloy racing car that could exceed thirty-five kilometers per hour, of course, this is not a good car, it is said that the fastest bicycle in later generations can reach a speed of eighty kilometers per hour, but that is already a high-tech product, ordinary people can not use it, because it is very unsafe.

However, it can be seen that there is still a lot of room for technical improvement on the bike.

"If it weren't for Yu Jie, it wouldn't have lasted so long! We threw the wagons from the village far away. Marseille answered in a whisper, but was listened to by Li Shimin and the ministers who were closer.

At this time, not only Li Shimin, but also the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee looked at the bicycle, and the claws of the old man Wei Chi had unconsciously grabbed the faucet, which could allow two people to reach the magic car a hundred miles away in more than an hour, and they had to grab it to their own home to play!

"Faster than a carriage?"

Li Shimin turned his head to look at Sun Xiangfu in disbelief and asked.

"In the case of physical strength, it is not lost to the carriage, but people and horses, it is impossible to maintain a long time of fast riding, if it is like walking, easy riding, almost forty or fifty miles per hour, the speed is not worse than the carriage, and it can also be ridden for a long time, it also has another advantage, that is, it can carry two people, if you ride in turn, ordinary horses can not compare with it, because horses can not run all the time, and they can't carry two adult men, continue to run, but it also has weaknesses, It is that there are higher requirements for the road, if it is not from Xingfu Village to Chang'an to build a cement road, take the muddy road, its speed is not as fast as the horse, take the rugged mountain road, it is completely impossible to ride. ”

After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, Li Shimin nodded and said, "In other words, our Guanzhong Land already has a road to use this kind of iron car in large quantities?" ”

"Yes, it's just that the cost is still too high at present, and it needs to be continuously improved and reduced to allow the people to use it, and with these bicycles, it can make the messengers of the Guanzhong Plain, post stations and other institutions use less horses, so as to save the money for horse material."

Sun Xiangfu said this, Li Shimin and the ministers were amazed again, who of them did not raise some horses, raising horses to raise grooms, eating and using, is a continuous expense, with this bicycle to travel, but it can save them a lot of expenses every month, over time, that is a large amount.

"This is a treasure car, I'll push it back and imitate it, Your Majesty, let me."

Wei Chigong said that he was about to push the car out of the door, but Li Shimin grabbed the bag.

"You old goods, how did you learn to be as shameless as Cheng Zhijie, this is a thing in the Zhengming Mansion, you are embarrassed to take it home, if you want a car, let the workshop of Happy Village build you a new one later, no need to worry."

was stopped by Li Shimin himself, Wei Chigong naturally did not resist, however, from their conversation, Sun Xiangfu heard it, they all wanted this car, he didn't care about himself, that is, Marseille was a little worried that after they took away their own references, they would make a new car later, and it would be a little troublesome to compare the references.

So he said, "This car is just the initial design of the experiment, there are many shortcomings, and when the official mass manufacturing, the model will be lighter than this, more comfortable, like this kind of tricycle, not only will make a pull goods, but also make a pull people, the whole tow box is a sofa, at the latest next quarter next year, it will be mass-produced in the factory in Weinan, when the time comes, how much does the Duke want, go to the factory to get money to buy." ”

Sun Xiangfu said while pointing to the tricycle that had been emptied in the carriage, and everyone remembered that when Sun Dali stepped on the car just now, there were several big baskets in the trailer.

"This car is ridden by manpower, and it can pull up to a lot of cargo?" Li Shimin pointed to the tow box of the tricycle and asked.

"Why don't we try it live?"

Sun Xiangfu actually already knew the same data, but in order to give everyone a more intuitive feeling, he said.

"The old man is big, more than 200 pounds, this car can pull the old man?"

Wei Chigong has a rough figure, more than one meter tall, and his whole body is full of thick tendon meat, saying that he only has two hundred catties, Sun Xiangfu doesn't believe it, but two hundred catties is nothing for a tricycle, Sun Xiangfu made a gesture of please, signaling Yu Chigong to get into the car, and then said to the many taller generals in the hall, "A few tall generals, you can get on the car together, and I, a person with ordinary strength, will ride the bike and see if you can ride or not." ”

After a while, Qin Qiong, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, Chai Shao, Dugu Mou and Wei Chi, a total of six people, sat on the tricycle and the trailer was full, these six people were all burly and big, and their weights added up to more than 1,000 catties, and the thin Sun Xiangfu was in front of the six of them, and the whole thing was one size smaller.

However, when Sun Xiangfu stepped on crutches, the tricycle walked up and down in the living room.

"This car can actually rely on the power of one person to pull a thousand catties."

At this moment, the people in the living room showed a hint of surprise, Sun Xiangfu, who was riding a bicycle, felt that the chain was very tight, but he could bear it, with his strength, it was very laborious to step on, and the speed would not be too fast, but if it was stepped on by a wrestler with good foot strength, the speed should be able to go up to about several kilometers per hour, and the duration would be long.

There were many people in the living room, and Sun Xiangfu only stepped on it a little and then stopped, "Your Majesty, there should be no problem with this car." If it is converted into a two-person ride, or a three-person ride, the trailer can be designed to be larger than the carriage, and in the land of Guanzhong, it can completely replace the carriage. ”

"Can it be converted into a multi-person ride?"

"Of course, you only need to add more chains and gear discs, and the carriage can also be changed to a four-wheeled one to make it more stable."

In some scenic spots in later generations, Sun Xiangfu has seen a five-wheeled bicycle ridden by many people, as long as the two wheels in the middle, a little to solve the problem of steering, like a bicycle, there are five people and three people riding at the same time, five people riding at the same time, the principle remains the same, and the design can be done by changing slightly.