The Republican Army attaches great importance to the improvement of vehicles, because it is directly related to their logistical supply, especially the development of their transportation and logistics. With the rise of trade, logistics must develop rapidly, and wheelbarrows, the way people pick can no longer meet such a demand. Old-fashioned bullock carts can bring a lot of traffic, but the speed is slow, and the demand for goods cannot meet the needs of trade, in such a situation, the vehicle must be improved and upgraded. Because the price offered by the merchant is getting higher and higher.

Judging from the seizures on the Hedong battlefield, the Republican Army captured more than 15,000 horses, but unfortunately, the needs of scouts, communication troops, and cavalry, plus the needs of logistics units, the number that can flow into the market is not very large, at most 6,000 horses, but this also greatly relieves a certain amount of transportation pressure. With such a horse supply, the improvement of the vehicle is much smoother.

Shang Wu and Jia Xu came to the vehicle factory, which is generally a private factory. There are no special Republican factory, as long as there is a certain amount of vehicle manufacturing technology, they can make related vehicles.

Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages, as well as four-wheeled ox carts, have appeared. Because the road conditions of the Republican Army have changed a lot. The first step for local governments to alleviate all kinds of employment pressure is to build roads and build roads that extend in all directions, and the roads are extremely spacious. Four lanes in both directions. In the county seat, as well as in the city hall, it is common to build two-way eight-lane roads, and the wideness and improvement of the roads have given the vehicle innovation and the importance of four-wheeled vehicles.

The city hall, as well as the county seat, are smooth concrete roads. The official roads, as well as the expressways, are all rammed earth layers. Then a large number of stones were laid, and there were all kinds of fine sand on top of it. Stones, in this case, their situation will be much better. Of course. There are also asphalt roads, which are not very paved because of the asphalt production, and are usually only found at test sites and military schools.

"There are currently two kinds of vehicles, one is a little higher, this needs to be pulled by horses, the advantage of this vehicle is that the vehicle is fast, comfortable, and generally used for passenger transport, of course. Freight will also be delivered, but the price of freight is higher. A craftsman introduced Shang Wu and Jia Xu.

"This kind of vehicle is lower, it is an ox cart, his speed is slow, but it can pull more goods, usually the largest number of current purchases is this kind of vehicle, the steering is good, and the vehicle is also very strong, it is said that the mountain on the east side of the river. Just add a cow for traction and you can pull the cart up. It's also loaded with goods. All sorts of roads can also be crossed, this is not, this is the suspension suspension system. This kind of thing, but only on the carriage, is generally crazy, and there is only shock absorption. The craftsman excitedly introduced.

Shang Wu and Jia Xu nodded, they didn't express their opinions.

"Is that the only vehicle you have here?" Shang Wu then asked.

"Hehe, I knew that the chief was going to ask like this, in fact, our vehicle factory still has a secret weapon. There is no way, at present, many workshops have become small factories. Especially in the vehicle industry. There are a lot of people entering. The competition is still fierce. The craftsman said.

"We can't do it with either either, no, we're producing. Such a large vehicle. So saying, the craftsman led Shangwu to another storehouse, and they saw their special vehicle, an elongated carriage, with its own steering, with two wheels in front and four in the back, which was probably an ancient heavy truck. Because by doing so, his carrying capacity, his heavy capacity has increased a lot, and the entire frame is made of cast iron. Because the general structural frame cannot bear such a heavy weight.

"Hehe, this is the secret weapon of our vehicle factory. Such a car requires four oxen to pull it. It can be transported in weight of more than six thousand catties. Of course, it's not very fast, we noticed. Some machine shops need to transport some large special parts, and vehicles like ours can transport them. The craftsman said excitedly.

The reason why such vehicles are manufactured is mainly that some factories need to transport some special things, for example, in Handan, special vehicles are needed to transport coal, and iron factories need to transport a large number of iron ingots. Coke, in addition to this, some machine tools and equipment in the machine factory, ordinary ox carts simply could not carry out such transportation, so such vehicles were manufactured. It can be said that craftsmen actually invent and create according to certain needs.

The four-wheeled carriage has proven it. Under certain road conditions, its superiority is much higher than that of two-wheeled vehicles, and unicycles have been largely eliminated. Unicycles and two-wheeled vehicles are very small and inefficient, and can no longer meet the increasing demand for material transportation, in such a situation, they need a vehicle that can better meet their needs.

Shang Wu and Jia Xu were very happy, because this showed that the market was playing its due leading role, and the demand determined the market, which led to the various needs of production, which was a major progress, and such progress would make their situation much more favorable.

In addition to transport vehicles, there are also some agricultural machinery. This is something that the vehicle factory has to invent.

At present, the area of cultivated land is getting bigger and bigger, and it has reached a point where it is hard to believe. Not only that, but there is also a single variety of cultivation, which makes it easier to centralize management. With the advent of the summer grain harvest, such a large-scale harvest, if it is purely done manually, the effort will be very large. And efficiency will not help much, so that their situation can develop better, which is what they should pay the most attention to at the moment.

"These are agricultural harvesters that we invented, when the front ox cart is pulling, it drives the gears below, and then rotates to provide power and rotate the blades, so that a cow is equivalent to eight laborers, and the speed is fast, if you look at it from the speed point of view, twenty laborers can't catch up." The craftsman excitedly introduced. This is their invention, and such an invention is enough for them to have a larger market space.

"Is anyone here to buy these farm tools?" Shang Wu asked curiously, farm tools are good, and they are also very novel inventions, but the problem is that if no one buys them, or if they have no purchasing power, they will suffer very much, and this kind of loss is not good news for them.

"Yes. Absolutely. Usually people from agricultural companies come to buy it, and they buy a lot of it, and I heard that it seems to be a special loan issued by a bank. There is no interest, so they are willing to buy it, and we are willing to sell it to them. This is a good thing, if it was put in the past, such a machine, we did not build, even if we could build it, we would not make it, because no one came to buy it, no one said, we didn't have to do it at all, which would only make the situation worse, so, in this case, it was very good. The craftsman said excitedly.

Yes, the farmer, as well as some agricultural companies, are able to buy these farm machinery in this way, for a simple reason, because they have money, in fact, they don't have money, the land has just been annexed, the seeds, the liquidity is done by their own borrowed bank funds. But fortunately, for agriculture, the bank vigorously promotes all kinds of loans, the interest rate is very cost-effective, and there are special interest-free loans for the Republican Army. All these have greatly helped them to develop agriculture and make the development of agricultural economy faster.

"After reading these machines, those craftsmen are as smart and talented as those who read." Jia Xu said.

"Yes, as long as there are enough conditions to give them favorable development, they will create more value because they have a brain full of wealth. This kind of ingenuity is the most advantageous and the best situation for them, and their development will become much more beneficial. Shang Wu said.

"When you say this, I think this year's summer grain must be a bumper harvest." Jia Xu said with a smile.

"Hmm. It was a good year. Shang Wu said.

"What, upset?" Jia Xu asked.

"I'm thinking, how is our water conservancy? You know, the climate here is a continental monsoon climate, and once you enter the Xiaoice period, the situation will fluctuate in various ways. Drought conditions will continue to develop, and what will happen if there is no proper cement project? Shang Wu asked.

"We haven't got God under control yet, but we're going to do something as good as we can." Shang Wu said.

"Yes, the farmer is taking a lot of risk, what should we do if such a risk happens all at once?" Shang Wu asked.

"yes." Jia Xu said.

"So, after we have as much income as possible, we also need to provide water and more land, so that their situation can develop better, and in this way, their situation can become more favorable." Shang Wu said.

"Well, I agree to do that, it's also a way to reduce risk, and some of these risks will be a big development for us, and this development will make our situation more beneficial." Jia Xu said.

Agriculture is still good for the Republicans, but their agriculture is still weak in practice.