Chapter 209: Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse
Dai Zicheng proposed that when the Rakshasa envoys came to the capital, they would pretend to negotiate peace with them, paralyze them, and create favorable conditions for a surprise attack.
Gao Junshan agreed: "This move is feasible. While we negotiate with them, we secretly set them up. ”
"Do you want to send a telegram to Baili Shousuke now?"
"No hurry, no hurry." Gao Junshan shook his head and said, "This matter still needs to be discussed with the troops on the front line, you first send a telegram to Zhou Shichen and Jiang Guorong to see what they think." ”
Gao Junshan has always acted steadily, and he always has to discuss with the military advisors around him before making any decisions, and this time he is no exception.
After the telegram was sent, they did not receive a reply from Zhou Shichen for a day, and it seems that they have to take time to think carefully.
The next day, Pan Zide came to Gao Junshan again.
"Your Majesty, our people have copied a wooden ox and flowing horse of Zhuge Liang." As soon as Pan Zide saw Gao Junshan, he proudly reported it.
"Wooden Ox Flowing Horse?" Gao Junshan didn't believe it very much.
Pan Zide couldn't hide his excitement: "It's indeed a wooden cow and a flowing horse, Your Majesty can go to the scene to see it in person." ”
"Let's go, let's see." Gao Junshan waved his hand, and led Sun Kewang downstairs with Pan Zide, he wanted to see what this wooden ox flowing horse was.
Sun Kewang didn't dare to slack off when he got the order, and immediately prepared a carriage and waited at the gate of the headquarters.
Although it was in the city, the construction site was not close, and the carriage had been walking for twenty minutes.
The construction of this city is also too large, Gao Junshan thought in his heart, and he was not very happy.
"It's here." I finally heard this sentence from Pan Zide.
The horse-drawn carriage under the high mountain, under the guidance of Pan Zide, came to the construction site of transporting the earthwork, the workers here are in full swing digging and transporting the soil, some picking, some lifting, and driving the ox cart, one by one are busy transporting the soil, the most eye-catching picture appears in front of the high mountain, that is, a team pushing a wheelbarrow.
Wheelbarrow?
Gao Junshan's mind flashed, isn't this the wheelbarrow that later generations saw? Could it be that this is what Pan Zide said about the wooden ox and flowing horse?
Gao Junshan's eyes fell on Pan Zide, who was quite proud and introduced Gao Junshan's invention of the "Wooden Ox Flowing Horse".
Perhaps it is because people at no historical stage have different understandings of wooden oxen and flowing horses, and what Pan Zide interprets in his heart may be something like a wheelbarrow.
Wooden oxen and flowing horses, a means of transportation invented by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, are divided into wooden cattle and flowing horses. The history of Jianxing nine to twelve years (AD 231-234) Zhuge Liang in the Northern Expedition used, its carrying capacity of "one year of grain", about 400 catties or more, the daily itinerary for "special travelers dozens of miles, group travel thirty miles", for the Shu 100,000 army to provide food.
However, no one knows exactly how it was or what it looked like, so there have been various explanations for it throughout history.
The words that have been handed down in the world are only words, but not patterns. It is mentioned in the text that "the square belly is bent and the head is bent, and the feet are four-legged; The head is in the collar, and the tongue is in the belly. Carry more and travel less: dozens of miles for solo travelers, and twenty miles for group walkers. The bend is the head of the cow, the double is the foot of the ox, the horizontal one is the cow collar, the turn is the cow foot, the cover is the back of the cow, the square one is the belly of the cow, the hanging one is the cow tongue, the curved one is the rib, the carved one is the cow tooth, the standing one is the horn, the thin one is the cow martingale, and the photographer is the cow autumn axis. The ox is on its back, the person walks six feet, and the ox walks four steps. Each ox carries a month's worth of grain for ten people, and the people do not work much, and the oxen do not eat. ”
There are also "ribs three feet five inches long, three inches wide, and two inches and two minutes thick: the left and right are the same." The front axle hole is divided into four inches and two inches in diameter. The front foot hole is divided into two inches, and the front axle hole is four inches and five inches, and the width is one inch. The front bar hole goes to the front foot hole to divide the ink into two inches and seven minutes, the hole is two inches long and one inch wide. The rear axle hole is divided into one foot and five minutes by the front bar, and the size is the same as the front. The rear foot hole is divided into ink and the rear axle hole is three inches and five minutes, and the size is the same as the front. The rear bar hole goes to the rear foot hole to divide the ink two inches and seven minutes, and the rear load gram goes to the rear bar hole to divide the ink four inches and five points. The front bar is one foot eight inches long, two inches wide, and one inch and five minutes thick. Rear bumper with etc. Two square bags, eight minutes thick, two feet seven inches long, one foot six inches five minutes high, and one foot six inches wide: each piece is subject to two meters and three buckets. From the upper bar hole to the ribs seven inches: the same before and after. The upper bar hole goes to the lower bar hole and divides the ink into one foot and three inches, the hole is one inch and five minutes long, and the width is seven points: eight holes are the same. The front and back feet are two inches wide and one inch and five minutes thick. The shape is like an elephant, the length of the ego is four inches, and the diameter is four inches and three points. The three-legged bar in the aperture is two feet one inch long, one inch and five minutes wide, and one inch and four minutes thick, with the bar lug. ”
It's very careful, and it's strange that you can move what you make.
Now, this Pan Zide made a means of transportation that resembled a wheelbarrow, and perhaps he was built according to a certain guide to the Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse, we cannot deny him.
Gao Junshan smiled slightly in his heart and said, "Very vivid, very vivid." It is indeed a wooden ox and a flowing horse. ”
Pan Zide said with great interest: "Since the use of the wooden ox flowing horse I invented, the efficiency of transporting earthwork has been greatly improved, Your Majesty, please see, the amount of a wooden ox flowing horse is comparable to six strong laborers." ”
"Wait, wait!" Gao Jun said, "You invented the wooden ox and flowing horse?" ”
"Forgive the student's slip of the tongue," Pan Zide quickly explained, "It was the student's imitation of the ancient book." ”
Gao Junshan didn't blame him, but was just a little dissatisfied with the fact that the construction project of his city was too big. Now that the headquarters is here, and the transport team of the logistics department is here, it seems that this new city is full of people, and if we move to other places, won't the large-scale construction of the city be wasted? How many more people will come to live here? How many vacancies will there be?
Pan Zide didn't see Gao Junshan's thoughts, he was still constantly explaining his wooden ox and flowing horse, Gao Junshan didn't listen carefully, and he didn't want to understand the wooden ox and flowing horse he imitated, anyway, this thing is a good thing for construction site construction, this is undoubted, if it is used as a means of transportation for the journey, it will be a bit difficult.
Gao Junshan has an opinion on the overdevelopment of urban construction, and he is not good at discouraging Pan Zide's enthusiasm now, so he is ready to find another time to talk to Pan Zide, so that he can control the scale of urban construction within a certain range.
After Pan Zide finished his introduction, Gao Junshan praised him, and then went home.
As soon as he returned to the headquarters building, Dai Zicheng told him that Zhou Shichen had sent a telegram back.
Gao Jun went upstairs to read the telegram sent by Zhou Shichen.
Zhou Shichen said in the telegram that it is not suitable for our army to launch a surprise attack on the Rakshasa country at present. There are three reasons: first, after the troops arrived on the southern shore of Lake Balkhash, many people suffered from a strange disease and could not get out of bed and walk, and the combat attrition was very serious; Second, there is a lack of boats to cross the water, and even if there are boats, they will not have the effect of a surprise attack, because hundreds of boats are walking on the lake, and people will not be able to see them; Third, most of the officers and men of our army are not accustomed to water, and they take the risk of crossing the water to fight, but the enemy waits for work at ease.