CHAPTER XXVI

Seeing "Cybernaut", Chen Yufeng quipped, "You old thing, you don't stay in Xiurong with a few taels of silver, what are you doing here before the time comes?" ”

Yan Boju said with a smile: "You are so lively, let me smell horse urine in the horse market alone?" ”

It turned out that Yan Boju really couldn't stay stunned as soon as his heart moved. I had a few taels of silver, so I bought the grain first, and other things at home were arranged. began to ponder about the killing of Hukou and the south. When I had some ideas, I couldn't sit still. Riding a donkey, he came to the kiln.

Zhang Zhimu knew that there must be something wrong with this "Cybernaut", so he sat down and drank some tea. Yan Boju began to say it himself. There are two things to say this time, and I can't wait for Zhang Zhimu to tell me to leave, it will be too late. First, I want to remind Zhang Zhimu that from here to kill Hukou, there are seven or eight hundred miles to go around, and you can't go empty-handed, you have to bring goods back and forth. The things here, the food and the transportation there, all make money; The second is that he saw Li Mao, who bought Zhang Zhimu's horse last time, and knew that Zhang Zhimu was going to kill Hukou and buy a horse, and Li Mao wanted to meet Zhang Zhimu.

Zhang Zhimu is very grateful to this enthusiastic old man. Zhang Zhimu said that now there are eight large animals at home that can be used, and now he doesn't want to add livestock here, so he will take them all to kill Hukou. If you use this batch of animals to carry things, it will not be much, but if you put four wagons, you can carry more things, and people can also ride. I'll go meet Li Mao tomorrow and see if there's anything we can work with.

At noon, after being full of wine and food, Yan Boju rode away on a donkey. Zhang Zhimu told him that he would meet Li Mao at noon tomorrow at the tavern where he had been drinking that day.

Zhang Zhimu asked Chen Yufeng how many things a two-horse cart could pull. Chen Yufeng said that he could also pull ten stones. Zhang Zhimu thought about it, that is, more than 1,200 catties, too little, and he had to redesign the carriage. Zhang Zhimu knows that the main reason why there are fewer carriages now is that the current road is very bad, and the road is very bumpy. Affect the load capacity of the car, is the limit of the impact of the bumps, if the shock absorption method, the impact of the bumps is reduced, you can pull more goods. Zhang Zhimu began to design carriages with shock absorbers. At this time, he didn't know that this design would bring him countless wealth.

The next day, Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng went to the tavern first. After drinking tea for a while, Li Mao and Yan Boju came. Be polite, let the guy serve the food, it is the wine and the five flavors of the dishes. Li Mao said: "Last time, when I met Brother Zhimu, I felt very fateful, and I always wanted to be in a relationship, but I didn't have a chance. This time, when I heard Uncle Yan say that you were going to kill Hu Kou, I was tempted, hoping that I could further interact with Brother Xian this time. But I know that although this killing Hukou is only a few hundred miles away, there is no big difference between horses killing Hukou in the past and here. But this section of the road is now blocked by several bandits, and the price of this horse has doubled. ”

"Isn't there still someone who sells horses?" Zhang Zhimu asked.

"Then it depends on who has the ability to do it. In fact, everyone understands that this is a matter of officials, businessmen and thieves sitting on the ground to divide the accounts. You can't do this business without this ability. Li Mao said.

"We just want to break through and see if it's Longtan or Tiger's Den." Zhang Zhimu said.

"It's so heroic. I don't think Brother Zhimu Xian is a reckless person, he must have had a plan. So I have an idea, how about Brother Zhimu take a look? Li Mao said.

"Brother Li, please speak." Zhang Zhimu said.

"They all say that peers are enemies, and I don't think we can become enemies. The horses I sold started from Xiurong and went all the way to the north of the Yellow River, but the Yellow River. I think if Brother Zhimu Xian goes to sell horses, can he sell more horses, anyway, it's a trip. I want a hundred horses, just give them at a price that is double the price of the horses you bought at Killhukou. The horses you sell are going south, and they can't collide with the horses you sell. It was my 100 horses who crossed the Yellow River, and when they reached the south of the Yellow River, they were dripping into the sea, not to mention any collision. How about Brother Zhimu's appearance? Li Mao said.

Zhang Zhimu looked at Chen Yufeng and said, "I think it's okay." As long as everyone has money to earn. ”

Li Mao said again: "If Brother Zhimu Xian's money is not abundant, you can start with my first." In addition, I have some companions from the south, and I can bring you a few letters when you go south, and if you need them, you can go to them. ”

"We can solve the silver by ourselves, thank you Brother Li for your kindness. When I go south, I will take Brother Li's letter with me. That's it. Brother Li will be notified when we leave. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Okay, happy. As soon as I first saw Brother Zhimu, I thought it was extraordinary. Today, when I look at it, it is really extraordinary. I'm also a little famous in this industry, but what Brother Zhimu Xian wants to do now is still something I can't even think of. Li Mao said.

After another episode, several people broke up.

Zhang Zhimu was very happy in his heart, as long as he could get the horse back from killing Hukou, he would be able to earn money for a hundred horses!

However, Chen Yufeng was still very calm and said: "Let's think things through." There are so many things that cannot be done by such masters, and there is naturally a reason why they can't be done. ”

Zhang Zhimu also admires Chen Yufeng very much, the old man is very calm when encountering things, and his cautious attitude of thinking more about the bad in everything makes Zhang Zhimu feel that this is a rare helper.

When you go out of the city, tell Lao Wu that if you have a crossbow, you can get a few more crossbows, you can also get some waist knives, and if you have a three-bow bed crossbow, you also need it.

"What do you want a bed crossbow for?" Chen Yufeng asked.

"Our goals are getting bigger and bigger. In the future, we can build a watchtower, put a bed bow on it, and add a bow mine, and there will be no threat in a radius of two or three hundred zhang. Zhang Zhimu said.

Thanks to the addition of manpower, the house was built quickly. During this time, Zhang Zhimu observed that the few people that Uncle Chen brought back from Lingshui Wharf last time were really good, especially the two who brought their sons, one surnamed Fan is called Fan Chengkun, and the other is called Liu Chenghuang, which is even more prominent. When Uncle Chen was away, the two of them arranged their work, and the two of them were still very prestigious among several people.

The house was soon beamed, and when the beam was on, Zhang Zhimu set off a few firecrackers, and everyone was also festive. After finishing the beam, let Huang Yukun add two dishes at noon, and everyone had wine to drink.

These people are usually driven to work by others with whips, and few rich people look at them directly. Now, the food here is better than those rich people, and everyone is overjoyed when they are treated as human beings, which they have never encountered before, and they have never even dreamed of. So, it's really a top trick to get to work. Fortunately, the food here is very good, the staple food tube is full, there are meat in the meal, there is fish soup in the meal, and there are a few small pickles that are very good with it. Therefore, the physical strength can keep up, and besides, each face is ruddy.

All this made Zhang Zhimu feel very satisfied, thinking that this was just the beginning.

Now I'm waiting for Li Yunhe to rob it. In the past few days, Li Yunhe is leading people to assemble guns, telling Zhang Zhimu not to worry. Zhang Zhimu said that he wanted to ensure the quality, so he left him alone, and now he is very relieved of Li Yunhe.

When the house was tiled and the main work was completed, Li Yunhe's guns were also made.

Zhang Zhimu asked the hired workers to continue to complete the rest of the detailed work. The others went to the river and followed Li Yunhe to test the gun. In doing so, I also became familiar with the gun. After trying all the guns, Li Yunhe asked Zhang Zhimu, "This time you can go and kill Hukou, right?" ”

"No, there's one more important task for you to complete." As he spoke, Zhang Zhimu took out a few design drawings and told him that the drawings for building a carriage at this time.

After listening to Zhang Zhimu's careful explanation and asking a few questions, Li Yunhe said, no problem, as long as the musket is made, it will be very easy to rebuild these things. Zhang Zhimu is happy in his heart, this has initially trained a talent, and many things can be shared. Talents in other aspects should also be discovered and cultivated in the process of doing things.

Li Yunhe lit the reverberatory furnace again, smashed the steel that had been made last time into small pieces, burned it in a pot, and recast the castings used to make the carriage. Then the upper bed processing begins.

Li Yunhe first machined four axles two inches thick, and then eight horse-drawn carriage wheels with spokes. A bushing is inserted into the shaft hole of the reel so that it can be replaced with a new one in the event of severe wear. The shaft sleeve of the wheel and the contact part of the shaft were processed by Li Yunhe with a turning tool, and then one side was processed with a grinding stone and an oil stone, and then the surface was quenched. After attaching the wheels and axles, I saw that the coordination was quite good, and I pulled it with my hand, and the wheels kept turning. A ring of hardwood is used around the outer reel of the steel wheel to expand the contact area between the wheel and the ground, so that the steel wheel does not directly touch the ground. It's like the tires of a car in the past. Zhang Zhimu was wondering, can he get rubber when he goes south? With rubber, vulcanization, you can make real tires, and the carriage at that time was a carriage with rubber wheels. And then there's the production of spring plates. After the cast steel plate is burned red and forged again, it is burned red and pressed into a bow shape by stamping, and thrown into water for heat treatment. When it cooled, the two bows were riveted together, and a shorter curved steel plate was placed on each of the backs of the two bows. In this way, a set of springs is composed of four spring plates, long and short. Put two arched backs, one end riveted to the axle beam, and the other end fixed to the bottom plate of the carriage. The whole carriage is sat on the upper beam of the steel axle of the car by two sets of springs. When the load capacity of the car is light, two long springs will support, and when the load capacity is large, the car will be pressed down, and the two short springs will also play a role.

Here, Li Yunhe led the people and made steel parts. On the other side, the father and son of the Lu family led people to start making wooden carriages for carriages. This time, Zhang Zhimu asked the car to be made a little longer, so that it could fit twenty stone goods. The father and son of the Lu family said that the average carriage weighs ten stones, and the road is still good. Zhang Zhimu said, don't worry about it, do as I say.

A car has just been assembled, and men, women and children come to see the excitement. I have never seen a carriage like this. Zhang Zhimu asked people to put on two horses. Let ten people come up, big and small, the long spring piece has just bent down, but it has not yet made contact with the short spring. drove the carriage, ran around the crowd, and came back and said that it was too good, not bumpy at all. Zhang Zhimu asked everyone to come down, loaded two thousand five hundred catties, heavy objects, and short springs just bent a little, Li Wei got in the car and drove around, and came back and said, It's okay to add another thousand. The car runs very steadily. If it was a wooden cart in the past, people would have been turned upside down a long time ago.

Xiaoqing stood on the carriage and asked, "Uncle, what is this carriage called?" ”

Zhang Zhimu thought about it, he should choose a name. Commodity marketing, there is still a need to pay attention to the name, it must be catchy and easy to remember, and the characteristics of the product must be highlighted. Say, "It's called a steel spring carriage."

After the joy, Zhang Zhimu asked Li Yunhe to hurry up and make the other three cars. When I saw the father and son of the Lu family, I said that the craftsmanship of the two of you is too good, and the salary is one or two taels of silver per person. We'll talk about the rest at the end of the year. The father and son of the Lu family were very happy, and they were even more diligent in their work in the future.

Now, Zhang Zhimu is already thinking about killing Hukou.