"What is this?" Looking at the various lines on the crumpled paper like children's graffiti, Tang Shanzhi let out an unconscious moan.

"This is called a train, see no, this is an iron car to the wheel, and your steam engine is placed on this." Li Chengqian pointed to a black lump of things and said.

"And what are these two lines?" Tang Shanzhi was powerless to complain about Li Chengqian's painting skills, and in the face of the only guy in the entire Tang Dynasty who could prevent counterfeiting, any complaining was useless.

However, Li Chengqian did not have a trace of shame, and in the face of such an ugly painting, he said without changing his face: "This is the railroad track, this iron car is too heavy after being loaded with a steam engine, so it must be prepared for special use, and the rail is specially used for this kind of iron car." ”

"And what's that in the back of this lump?" Tang Shanzhi pointed to the small squares behind the largest black spot and continued to ask.

"This is a carriage, since there is an iron car, and the power is also installed on the iron car, then naturally there must be a carriage, otherwise the work ahead will not be in vain."

Li Chengqian struggled to identify what he had drawn on the so-called 'drawings', explaining to Tang Shanzhi what was on it little by little.

After a while, Tang Shanzhi finally realized what Li Chengqian was talking about, threw the crumpled paper to the side, and asked nervously: "Gao Ming, you mean that you can use the steam engine as a power system, and then use it to drive the wheels to rotate, so as to pull things that are much heavier than it, is that what you mean?" ”

"yes, don't you understand what I just said?" Li Chengqian glanced at Xiao Tang sideways, and blamed him with his eyes.

But soon Ya once again shifted her attention to the so-called 'iron car', picked up the paper that was thrown aside, and said excitedly: "I will call a train with this thing, if you can succeed, it will only take us a day to go to Luoyang in the future, and even better we can walk back and forth in a day." ”

"Take a round trip from Chang'an to Luoyang in one day?" Tang Shanzhi had not yet recovered from the shock, and was once again frightened by Li Chengqian.

After contacting Li Chengqian in the afternoon, Xiao Tang received too many new things, whether it was an iron car or a railroad track, it couldn't surprise him with Li Chengqian's last sentence.

The distance between Chang'an and Luoyang is nearly 800 miles, and Hongling can reach it on the same day if it is urgent, but if it is said that there is a round trip a day, and you can have a meal in another place at noon, this is a bit crazy.

Who doesn't know that the Hongling emergency report is eight hundred miles expedited, which is the fastest speed in the Tang Dynasty, and now Li Chengqian actually said that if the iron car is made, it can reach twice the speed of the Hongling emergency, how can this make Tang Shanzhi not surprised, how can he not think that he has met a madman.

"How? Have you thought about it? I can tell you, the future of the research agency is very promising, if you don't want to do it, there are still a lot of people waiting in line, if it weren't for my brother's sake, I really don't want to give you this errand. ”

Li Chengqian looked at Mu Ran's Xiao Tang, and Shi Shiran said, it seems that he can get the position of the Research Agency, and Xiao Tang should thank him well.

"Gao Ming, is what you just said true? Does it really take half a day to get from Chang'an to Luoyang? Don't lie to me. Tang Shanzhi couldn't care about what Li Chengqian's tone was and what he meant, he just wanted to know now if it really only took half a day to get from Chang'an to Luoyang.

"Good knowledge, if you say this, it will pierce your heart, you will say when I Li Chengqian cheated my brother, and you will say when I lied to you." Li Chengqian patted his chest and assured loudly.

But in fact, he didn't know whether the newly invented steam engine could make the train run so fast. The reason why he went to such great lengths was just to fool Tang Shanzhi into doing this thing.

After all, craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty have extremely no status, but few people will be willing to devote themselves to this industry whenever they have the opportunity, since Tang Shanzhi has been on a thief ship once, there is no reason why Li Chengqian will not continue to fool him this time.

"Okay, it's just a matter of being deceived, since you said so, I took this errand Tang Shanzhi." Xiao Tang, who didn't know the beans after eating a hundred beans, really fell for it, patted his chest and responded to the errand given to him by Li Chengqian.

Twice the speed of Hongling's urgent report, if this so-called railway is repaired to Liaodong or the Western Regions, how much credit will it be? Xiao Tang is not really stupid, and he is not so easy to fool, if there is really no benefit, Li Chengqian will not agree even if he shouts 'piercing his heart' 10,000 times.

And Xiao Tang also knew that Li Chengqian found his head, and he couldn't escape this matter sooner or later. Rather than being forced to take office after Lao Li's edict came down afterwards, it is far better to go with the river and agree to come down now, at least so that everyone can get by on face.

In this way, Tang Shanzhi once again accepted Li Chengqian's arrangement and retreated back to Chang'an to continue his research. And the eldest grandson Chong was liberated, and happily returned home to fight with the newly married concubine for 300 rounds, so much so that he couldn't get up the next day - his legs were weak.

After Li Chengqian arranged Xiao Tang's affairs, he temporarily entered the incubation period, and in addition to playing chess every day, he wrote and painted, trying not to attract the attention of others.

After all, he came to Xianyang to guard the old man's spirit, not to come here to relax, and it was somewhat worthless to be impeached if he tossed it too much.

During the period when Li Chengqian disappeared, Silla and Baekje fell into boundless panic because the Tang Dynasty's 'sea wolf' sailors occupied Tsushima Island, an important island between them and the Japanese kingdom, and expelled the islanders.

The two small countries have not forgotten, just half a year ago, they also united Goguryeo to confront the Tang army, and now the Tang Dynasty Navy Division appears behind them, and the outcome is unknown.

Therefore, after the two countries found that the huge warships of the Datang 'Sea Wolf' sailors were cruising near their coastline, they immediately became confused, and while sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, they reorganized their armies and planned to defend them strictly.

But what they didn't expect was that the envoys sent were blocked back without even going out of the border, and the Liaodong Army stationed on the border between the former Goguryeo and the two countries told them very tactfully: The front is a war zone, if you want to go over, please detour!

The helpless two countries had to let the envoy turn around and take the waterway, planning to go ashore from Dengzhou in the Tang Dynasty to Chang'an, but the sad result was that these guys had a bad life, and they met pirates just after going to sea, and before they had time to say a few words, they were brought into the bottom of the sea by people and brought people into the bottom of the sea to feed the sea king.

(End of chapter)