In the spring, the grassland is not good-looking, one in the east and one in the west, some white, some are remnant snow, some are green, and some are just sprouting, and then in the middle, there is a long, brown block, which is the road, and about twenty carriages are moving along the winding road. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The twenty four-wheeled carriages, pulled by the horses panting, tread on the brown road, which was specially paved. It can be seen that the carriage is quite heavy, but the horses are still burdened, and the road is in good condition, which has been slightly leveled beforehand, and the road has been smoothed with huge rolling stones.

Look at these horses again, the hooves are like bowls, the skeleton is thick, the height is strong, and they look pretty good, but no one rides this kind of horse, except for some countrymen.

It's not that this kind of horse is poor and useless, but that this kind of horse is a pull horse, and there are few people riding it. After Li Chen ascended the throne, he began to try to breed horses. After the recovery of Longxi, the Tang Longxi Horse Husbandry Supervisor was restored, and he vigorously cultivated all kinds of horses.

It's not just fast horses that need to be bred, but also horses. Li Chen invited Tianfang's horse breeding experts to come to Datang for guidance. Tianfang people are famous for their love of horses, and they have developed a set of systematic horse breeding techniques, which are worth learning from Datang.

The same Arabian horse is world-famous, and before the advent of the noble thoroughbred, this horse was the king of speed. However, I am very puzzled about the purebred horse Li Chen, why is it called a pureblood? Is it a translation problem, it's obviously a hybrid, it seems that the British used Arabian horses to mix with some other kind of horse, and they bred it, and they are a hybrid, why is it still called a pureblood?

That's not important, anyway, this kind of horse was bred later, with endurance, can bear weight, although the speed is not fast to pull the horse, it has been vigorously promoted, and the most horses in Datang are this kind of horse, which is widely used on the road.

There is a railroad carriageway, also known as a road, which is specially designed for horses to run, and later the train appeared, and this kind of heavy horse was not eliminated, and many caravans liked it. Li Chen improved the technique of the Datang four-wheeled carriage and horse-drawn carriage, so that two horses could easily pull up one and a half tons of goods, and because of the slow speed, no one liked to ride.

Except for some country manor owners, who are not picky, this kind of horse is easy to use, and can be called a good helper of the manor. Although you eat more, you may do more. It's a little slower, but it's a bit more exciting to ride.

However, this team was obviously not a caravan, and each carriage had two soldiers, who followed the carriage on foot, and they looked solemn, with guns on their shoulders and knives at their waists, and they were not wearing armor, but the armor was placed on the carriage, and if there was any emergency, they could be put on immediately.

Suddenly, several gunshots rang out in the distance, and instead of nervously looking at the source of the sound, the soldiers looked at the horses, most of which moved their ears and continued to pull the cart. Only a few looked uneasy, and the soldiers hurried to reassure them.

"These barbarians, don't give up." One of the soldiers said, "Isn't it, giving credit." "Why didn't the cavalry brothers let the two come over, and they also enjoyed us." "Go, put two? The day before yesterday, the fifth team ran into those two fish that slipped through the net, and they were blamed, how dare they let a few of them come."

The soldiers with solemn complexions and relaxed mood are already very common, and those steppe barbarians still want to use old-fashioned tactics to disturb the grain road, but it is useless.

The car went for a long time, and the soldiers took out the dry food, had a hasty lunch with cold water, and fed the horses by the way, and after walking for a long time, they could see a camp in the distance, which was only half a day's road from their starting point.

Every half day, there is a camp on the road, hoarding grain and grass, and a steady stream of grain and grass has to be transported from the rear to the front line, and then by the horse convoy to the front line, which has to be transported forward.

In fact, it is not impossible to feed the horses when they arrive at the camp, but the soldiers cherish the horses, eat lunch by themselves, and do not forget to feed the horses.

"Say, what if I retire and become a coachman? Get your own carriage and help people make deliveries. I think that's a lot of fun." "You're weird, it's all funny."

"No, it's not, mainly because I think there is a business opportunity here, now there are steamer carts, and the transportation between cities is fast and numerous, but when I get to the land, I always have to distribute it, and I will make a big carriage to help people transport goods, and I will make a profit." If nothing else, we soldiers can make some profit just because we soldiers have to consign."

"This carriage is very expensive. Not to mention horses, even a four-wheeled cart is not cheap." , nagging the soldier for a long time, his partner responded like this, pouring cold water on him, "You can rent it."

Li Chende's post station reform, in addition to mail, also opened the world's earliest freight. In addition to sending letters, you can also send various parcels. The first to benefit were the soldiers, who could send letters and souvenirs home from their stations.

After the post station was restructured, in addition to retaining the employees of the original post station in Datang, there was also outsourcing, which was the kind of relying on the line mode in later generations.

In later generations, many of the freight were used by self-owned vehicles, which were priced according to the daily business volume. There are many benefits to this, you can expand quickly, and you won't take up too much money just to buy a car. In the event of an economic crisis and a reduction in business, there is no need to pay for layoffs or depreciation of trucks.

Li Chen proposed this model, allowing people to bring their own horses, and four-wheeled carts can be rented at the post station, or brought by themselves. Although many people think that it is unnecessary, because people rely on it, there are not so many four-wheeled vehicles that can be relied on by the people, and most of them are still rented. Not even many horses.

Li Chen doesn't think so, putting forward this model, in addition to providing a business method for future generations to refer to, there is also that it will be easier to manage. It's very simple, if it's not your own car or horse, you won't cherish it.

"Horses can be bought with loans, and cars can be rented. We retired soldiers have land to allocate, and it couldn't be easier to get a loan from the bank to buy a horse. Also, in the logistics department, I also learned a lot, like this road, the grassland is muddy, we use sawdust, and straw to pave the road, so that the carriage will not sink. And the differential of this carriage, I also know the principle, if there is any problem, you can fix it yourself, and the horse will take care of it, no matter how I think about it, I think it is profitable."

Differential, which is the principle by which a horse-drawn carriage is able to steer. For thousands of years, China has never been able to make a four-wheeled carriage, just because it can't make this little thing.

When the carriage turns, the outer wheels should rotate faster than the inner wheels, otherwise it will not be able to turn. But the Chinese have not developed this differential for thousands of years.

Although many people find a lot of reasons and reasons why there are no four-wheeled carriages in China, there are soil problems, there are various reasons. It is also said that China also has four-wheeled and even more rounded cars, such as the six-wheeled Taiping car in the Song Dynasty.

But that doesn't work. Li Chen has seen the picture and knows at a glance that that kind of car can't turn at all, can't turn to the car, how to use it?

How do you know you can't steer? Needless to say, that kind of six-wheeled peace car, the wheels and the carriage are so close, how to turn? You don't even have room to turn, obviously you can't turn.

To put it simply, the Chinese just can't solve the steering problem. Until the middle of the twentieth century, in the fifties of the founding of the People's Republic of China, traditional ox carts were still used in the countryside. Three or four cows, pulling a cart and steering the problem, all rely on the bull to pull it with brute force.

Four-wheelers, the steering problem is on the differential. With the addition of a differential, the problem is solved, but the cost is also a lot more expensive, because the structure is much more complicated. However, this problem has also begun to decrease with the pace of Datang's industrialization.

As he spoke, the camp arrived in the distance. More than a dozen carriages entered the camp, and dozens of horsemen also roared back, they were Datang light cavalry. They belonged to a cavalry regiment and were responsible for protecting this section of the grain route.

They rushed into the camp gate majesticly, and a soldier of the logistics department looked at them enviously, majestic, but it was a pity that they entered the logistics department, and they were transporting food every day.

"Brothers, what is the harvest today." Someone shouted hello, and the hussar who was asked sighed, "These barbarians, don't dare to approach at all, put a few shots, put down two, and the others are gone."

"Coward." , the cavalry waved his hand and shouted with a strangely shaped musket, "Why don't you dare to come over, let's have a cavalry duel."

He yelled at him, and all he got in exchange was laughter, laughing at those brutes, and laughing at him. Li Chen instilled his long-range firepower strike concept into the Tang army, which can destroy the enemy from a distance, and will not put people closer, even if the cavalry is fast, and the cavalry has a short gun in his hand, because the barrel is shortened, the range is greatly reduced, unless they are ruthless and close with a attrition of more than sixty percent, it is possible to exchange for a chance to get a hand-to-hand combat.

However, sixty percent, if the grassland people could bear sixty percent of death, they would have swept the world long ago. What army can withstand sixty percent of the life and death, and still fight without retreating? Perhaps, but by no means these nomads.

However, this cavalryman shouted not empty words. Datang is focusing on long-range firepower, and has not relaxed its hand-to-hand combat training. Whether it is heavy cavalry, light cavalry, artillery and musketeers, they must go through strict melee training.

Even in modern times, there is no relaxation in bayonet training in the army, so Li Chen will not relax. If anyone really thought that the Tang army would be vulnerable when it was close, it would definitely surprise them.

Also under the sky, Datang's steamer car is constantly speeding to transport soldiers to the front line. The Taiyuan Fu Railway Station is now heavily guarded and under military control, and all idle people are not allowed to approach. However, not many people will come close, and not many people will be surprised.

Because this railway station, and even the entire railway line, has not carried any passengers and goods since it was opened, and as soon as it was built, it was requisitioned to transport soldiers and military supplies. It can be said that since the completion of this double-track railway, it has not carried any ordinary passengers and goods, and all the people who can come into contact with it are soldiers.

"It seems like it's a bit of a waste to build a double line." , an ordinary-looking train slowly approached the station. Before docking, an equally ordinary steamer car first docked, and many soldiers came down from it.

These soldiers and attire are similar to the ordinary soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but they have white feathers on their heads, and then the officers are red feathers.

After they got off the train, they quickly formed a line on the platform and then set up a defense at the train station. Another line of defense was arranged, and the already well-fortified railway station was built into a more impregnable one.

Then, the second regular train arrives. It was still a group of soldiers with red and white feathers on their heads, and they got off first, but there were not as many of them as the previous one, and this time there was no large number of defenses, but the defense line was arranged with the vehicle as the center, and then, Li Chen came down. After he got off the train, his first sigh was that the Beijing-Yunnan Railway didn't seem to need to be repaired with two lines.

The Jingyou Railway, coming out of Chang'an, passed the Fengling degree, and turned north to Taiyuan Fu. For the needs of this war, Li Chen and his habit of doing the best to do it were to change the original single-track railway to a double-track, so that the carrying capacity would increase greatly. It can be opened to traffic in both directions, and there is no need to avoid roads. However, this does not seem to be necessary, and for now, it seems that a single line can carry it very well.

Li Chen will appear here because he is driving a personal expedition and going to the grassland. Datang sent 200,000 troops this time, on the grounds that the coalition invaded Datang a few years ago, did not return the captured people of Datang, and frequently attacked the Datang grassland caravans, causing threats to the lives and property of the people of Datang, and sent 200,000 troops to level the northern grasslands in one fell swoop.

For this reason, he has been preparing for a long time, and began to stock up on grain and grass several years ago. Originally, he could have attacked a few years ago, but unfortunately there was a drought in the north, and there was another stall of stealing and selling grain and grass, so that he could rectify the rule of officials on the one hand, and on the other hand, he hoarded grain and grass again, which delayed a little time.

Until this time, he felt that he did not wait for me, and tried his best to disagree with the public, and after he recovered, the first court meeting retreated, and the prime minister was summoned to discuss the matter, and the matter of pro-conquest was announced. He decided to take command himself and go on an expedition to the north.

In order to avoid the obstruction of the prime minister, he also played some tricks. Although most of his insistence was able to pass, he was indeed a little unhappy in his heart, so he simply took the opportunity to do it.

will drive the expedition in person, because he has a sense of urgency, feeling that time is running out, and he has to stand up for the last shift for Datang. Originally, he was not in too much of a hurry.

His health has always been good, and he is not stupid enough to take poison by himself like the previous ones, take some elixir or something, always thinking that he can live for many years, and he will live a long life. But after falling into the water, he was so sick that he realized that the illness made him feel that he was not young anymore.

Since he is not young, it is really difficult to say how long he can live. In terms of the life span of the Tang Emperor, he is considered to have a long life. Before he ascended the throne, he was too old, and he has been a man for more than ten years, and he is fifty years old. Don't talk about ancient times, even modern times have reached his age, and it's not that he can go without saying go. Therefore, he has to take advantage of the fact that he is not dead and his brain is not confused, and he will do this last thing well.

And will play those tricks, on the one hand, he doesn't want to waste his lips and tongues with the prime minister, and on the other hand, he is not very happy, because during his coma, there is a prince in charge of the country. This made him not very happy.