A month later.

A brand-new four-wheeled carriage is speeding along the road that runs through the town of Gegu......

An equally new road.

The roadbed is dug up and then tamped, and then the bottom is paved with a piece of stone about one cubic decimeter or so knocked out by hand, and the gap is filled with gravel and sand in the middle, and the upper layer is paved with small stones the size of walnuts, but the soil brought by the vehicles and pedestrians makes it completely become a hard shell, especially in such a cold winter season, the carriage runs on it as if driving on a hard stone slab.

"This is supervised by Yang Du, and it's okay to pull a carriage of one or two thousand catties!"

The coachman said proudly.

Song Yingxing, who was sitting on the cushion, immediately snorted coldly when he heard this name.

At the same time, Yang Xin's sinister face appeared in his mind, and Huang Daozhou, who was in the same car next to him, also reacted in the same way.

Their assessment is over.

Song Yingxing didn't pass the riding archery, but he entered the top three in arithmetic, so in fact, he has become a jinshi, even if he fails the test, it's okay, because the palace test will hardly be eliminated unless there are special circumstances, so his birth as a jinshi is almost certain. However, his brother Song Yingsheng failed to pass both of them, so he could only look at the results of the examination, but even if he was admitted to the examination, he could only stop at the top three, because he was not qualified to participate in the palace examination.

It can only be given to the same Jinshi background.

If he is not admitted in the examination, then Song Yingsheng will only be ranked first this time.

The zodiactic biathlon was passed.

Although he only barely passed, he finally passed, and as long as he was admitted to the entrance examination, he could take the temple examination.

However, this time the riding and archery test was an upset.

Lu Xiangsheng, a lifter from the south, actually won the first place in the riding and archery assessment.

This result embarrassed the northern juzi.

But the southern juzi is just as embarrassed.

Because including Wen Zhenmeng, Chen Renxi, the core figures of the southern lifters, 70 percent of the southern lifters did not pass the riding archery, although the standard of the riding archery assessment is already very low, as long as the horse is ridden in the horse with the lowest 40 catties of bow, the target on the eight-step distance can have one out of five.

But......

Thirty percent of the southern lifters can't even pull a forty-pound bow at all!

Not to mention pulling away on a horse.

Not to mention aiming.

In fact, nearly 200 lifters fell directly when they struggled to draw their bows on horseback, including Shao Mingshi, who had just been ruined because of signing the Great Righteous Jue Mystery, and finally the riding and archery assessment scene of the southern lifters was undoubtedly very joyful. There was even a lifter who almost shot the drummer who reported the number to death, and the drummers were so frightened that they put on heavy armor and trembled. In this case, Lu Xiangsheng, the southern lifter who ranked first in the riding and archery assessment, was as abrupt as a cicada in a swarm of flies, and the flies quickly kept their distance from him.

As for the level of arithmetic exams, there is no difference between the north and the south......

None of them are good!

But arithmetic first is also a southerner.

A previously unknown Huzhou juzi.

Mao Yuanyi.

The new four-wheeled carriage continued to pass through the winter town of Gegu, and soon they saw a shipyard, where some craftsmen were still at work, and a row of twelve new warships of more than 1,000 materials were being built, and they were all nearing completion.

"The sailors of the battalion, those were given to the Dongjiang Sailors before, and the sailors were withdrawn, and these new ones will be used when the sea opens next year!"

The coachman introduced.

"What kind of ship is that?"

Song Yingxing finally couldn't help it, and pointed to a special sailboat and asked.

This one no longer uses hard sails, but a whole canvas sail, all of which are like this on both masts, from top to bottom like huge white wings, but smaller than those thousand warships. In fact, it was finished, and a group of sailors were training to handle the sails, because unlike hard sails, they had to relearn how to use them, and they could even see a few clearly red-haired guys busy.

"This is newly created by Yang Dudu, he calls this a clipper, it is said to be faster than others, and it is also the best at sailing in the wind, and it will be used to deliver news and so on in the future. The red-haired people on the ship are Yang Dudu's house slaves, and they can use this kind of sail to some extent, but I heard them say that they don't have such a boat, but the people of what country use this, but fortunately, they can use a little bit, and Yang Dudu let them take it.

There is also a black one among these red-haired people, just like a demon, who is said to be a father-in-law.

But it's not our father-in-law. ”

The coachman said.

"Hmph, blatant overstep!"

Huang Daozhou said.

"Last time, there was an impeachment by the imperial history, he said what kind of Kunlun slave, the Tang Dynasty existed, it is said that His Majesty allowed him to raise it!"

Song Yingxing said.

"Listen to his nonsense, it is the black slave brought by the red-haired man, it is said that he was caught in a place overseas, and the heavenly side prevents the bloodline from being polluted, and all of them are purified first and then used."

Huang Daozhou said.

As they spoke, their carriage drove past the shipyard.

Song Yingxing reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

It was actually a schooner.

But at this time there was no Europe, Yang Xin purely built it for testing, the biggest advantage of this kind of ship is that it is fast, and it can quickly transmit information in this sea area, after the establishment of Dongjiang Town, the base of the Ming army has spread all over the north of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the transmission of information needs to go around a large circle by land, but the sea is a straight line. The advantage of traditional hard sails is that they are simple to maneuver and suitable for changing wind directions in the offshore sea, but navigation relies on tailwinds, although it is not impossible to sail when grabbing the wind, but the efficiency is very poor, so they often have to wait for the wind.

In fact, it mainly depends on ocean currents.

The northward movement is the Taiwanese warm current from south to north under the influence of the Kuroshio Current, and the southward movement is the coastal current, and in the middle is the circulation area where the Kuroshio and the coastal current work together.

And schooners are different.

The biggest advantage of this type of ship is that it can sail against the wind.

Yang Xin first took this ship as a test, if it is easy to use, it will be built in large quantities in the future, and even used for trade, after all, the speed advantage of this thing is too obvious, and his side is nothing more than short-distance trade such as the Korean and Japanese countries, so the defect of this kind of ship with less cargo is not worth mentioning.

The new way continues to move forward.

Soon a village appeared in front of it, even more prosperous than Gegu......

It's a small town to be exact.

And here is separated by a river, leading to a special bridge, perhaps because the water surface is too wide to build an arch bridge, so the bridge is completely made of wood and wrought iron, and the roots are combined in a peculiar way, and finally spans the water surface ten zhang wide.

But it looks pretty sturdy.

This structure, which was obviously carefully calculated, immediately made Song Yingxing's eyes widen.

"It's Song and Yang who are coming?"

A middle-aged man wearing a four-rank military attache uniform stood at the head of the bridge and greeted him with a smile and shouted enthusiastically.

Song Yingxing and the others got out of the carriage.

"I'm waiting, who is this general?"

Huang Daozhou asked.

"What general is not a general, in Xiahuang Town, it is just for Yang Dudu to welcome guests."

Huang Zhen said with a smile.

"There's something to do!"

Song Yingxing said.

Huang Zhen is now in command, and his promotion speed is also extremely fast.

Song Yingxing and the others were actually invited by Yang Xin this time......

Of course, the invitation that had to come, the invitation of Jinyiwei to the door, was completely like not coming to the banquet of Yang Dudu to get the edict to eat, and not only invited them, it is said that this time Yang Dudu invited more than a dozen of them to the incumbent officials. They were all escorted by Jinyiwei all the way, and Song Yingxing and the others arrived first, changed into this new four-wheeled carriage in Gegu, and came along this road, which was actually accompanied by the excavation of the reduced river, and the construction began at the same time, and was almost completed at the same time.

"Please, two!"

Huang Zhen said.

Song Yingxing and the others got out of the car and followed him to the wooden bridge behind, and the carriage then turned around and ran back to Gegu.

It also had to pick up the next batch of guests.

This kind of new carriage is also Yang Dudu just made, there are only twenty in total, one is dedicated to the emperor by the way to apply for a patent, one is left in the capital for use, two here as passenger transport, the rest are all in the two places to go back and forth freight.

Of course, manufacturing is fast.

But in the short term, it is still limited to these places in the capital, where the rich can sit comfortably.

It is unrealistic to expect it to quickly undertake the task of land transportation, and the fact that China's four-wheeled carriage is not popular is not because it cannot be built, in fact, it is in the Qingming Shanghe map.

Pulled by three cows.

This kind of thing is no different from a two-wheeled cargo when it is small, but it needs more horses when it is large, and the Mongolian horse-drawn carriage is not at all the same level as the Sher-horse, and the four-wheeled horse-loaded carriage of two Shar-horses is estimated to have at least five Mongolian horses. With the cost of raising those five horses, who still uses a carriage, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to hire a bunch of coolies to push the cart, or it would be more cost-effective to get a few small donkey carts and mule carts, not to mention that the four-wheeled carriage can go through the Bauhinia Pass or the rugged and narrow mountain road of Niangzi Pass? As for the comfort of the carriage......

China's rich people have sedan chairs!

Is a four-wheeled carriage more comfortable than a sedan chair?

Can the shock absorption effect of those inferior springs be comparable to the shock absorption of the human legs of a sedan chair?

It's not that this thing can't be made.

But the cost performance is too low, it is not attractive to the ancient Chinese, and to put it simply, there are too many people in China, and the horses are too expensive, so the advantage of the four-wheeled carriage is easily crushed by the advantage of manpower.

Of course, Yang Xin's is different.

He had this kind of road, which was only built on a large scale in Europe in the nineteenth century, and the large volume of freight between the two places, and the large number of heavy goods, the advantage of the four-wheeled carriage was reflected, and the cost of livestock was not a problem for him at all. But in the entire Ming Dynasty, unless the apocalypse has the money to build this kind of national highway system and introduce large pack horses from Europe, it will be difficult for four-wheeled carriages to popularize.

But it is indeed a development goal.

After all, if a national highway was built from the capital to Xuanfu and Datong, and then replaced with heavy horses such as Sharma, which were specially used to pull carts, the four-wheeled carriages would completely solve the problem of military supply in these two places.

Song Yingxing and the others, who walked across the bridge while studying the truss structure, looked at them in amazement......

"Welcome, welcome, warm welcome!"

The children's shouts suddenly rang out.