"This, lord, according to the law, the Son of Heaven controls the sixth, the princes control the fourth, you are ......" Fang Xuanling blinked, approached me, and said cautiously: "I'm afraid it's not in line with the system, right?" ”

"Hehe, this system is not immutable, as the so-called world changes time, things are suitable for things because of the time." I paused and glanced at the civil and military ministers around me who were attracted by my words, well, this sentence of Chinese that I finally found an opportunity to show off is definitely the best answer to the things that this son often does out of the ordinary.

The meaning of this sentence is that the world is changing, and the situation varies according to the world, and the measures should be adapted to the current situation. This sentence is from the famous Han Feizi.

Seeing everyone's thoughtful expressions, Ben Gongzi continued to say aloud: "You must not know how much time it took for these two carriages to travel from Dada Chang'an in Hancheng County, right? ”

Everyone shook their heads in unison, and after taking a deep breath, Ben Gongzi said proudly: "Now, the cement straight road from Hancheng County to Chang'an has been repaired, with a total length of five hundred and twenty-seven miles, and this carriage has arrived here from Hancheng County in less than eleven hours. ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp and widen their eyes: "This, this is impossible, how can it be so fast?" ”

"Lord, you shouldn't be fooling the old minister, right? Lao Chen has also lived for nearly 60 years, and he also knows that it is no problem for a good horse to run 300 miles a day, but if it runs 600 miles, what kind of natural horse can't do it? Qu Tutong also looked incredulous.

"Dare to ask my uncle, how many miles can this good horse travel at the fastest speed?" I smiled and asked Qu Tutong.

Qu Tutong frowned. "If it is a good horse, when it charges, I am afraid that it can rush out of nearly ten miles with a pillar of incense, but it cannot be far. If it's a brisk walk. You can travel one hundred and forty or fifty miles at a time, and the journey of a hundred miles is at most one and a half hours. But this is almost the limit, of course, if you continue at this speed regardless of horsepower, you can at least drive another fifty or sixty miles, but if you really run like this, I'm afraid there will be a problem......"

"Uncle is reasonable, what Uncle means is that it can travel a hundred miles in one and a half hours, and if a crossbow horse travels a hundred miles, can it be reached in two hours?" I laughed. He is a veteran soldier and is very familiar with the various situations of horses.

"You can travel at least one hundred and twenty miles in two hours, and if you only travel a hundred miles, you can naturally do it, and the time it takes is about two quarters of an hour longer than that of a good horse." Qu Tutong replied in the affirmative.

"This is natural, isn't it the lord's trick?" Cheng Yanjin next to him said with a smile.

"Actually, this is the method I use, the carriage changes the horses every 100 miles, so that the horses pulling the cart can maintain sufficient physical strength and can run with all their strength. In this way, it only takes less than two hours to travel a hundred miles. Seeing these guys' round eyes and straight expressions, Ben Gongzi couldn't help but laugh loudly and gave an answer.

The six-wheeled and eight-wheeled carriage industry has been tested for nearly a month, and in twelve hours, it can run a distance of nearly 600 to 620 miles on the cement straight, including the time for eating. This is really not bragging. Although there were no rubber tires in this era, I dare say that the craftsmanship of the horse-drawn carriage today is already the best of the era, and it is definitely not inferior to the horse-drawn carriage of the seventeenth century.

As the drivers who drove the carriage and horses from Hancheng County to Chang'an nodded heavily to show their affirmation, all the important ministers were speechless.

"God, if there is a rebellion in Yixian County, which is about two hundred and fifty miles away from Chang'an, as last time, then, with this carriage, you can reach Yixian County within six hours to quell the rebellion, which is faster than rushing there with cavalry." Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but puff out his eyes and muttered.

I smiled and nodded, pointed to the carriage and said solemnly: "Do you know that such an eight-wheeled carriage, if it is in wartime, can load forty heavily armed soldiers, and it will take six or seven hours to reach Tongguan." Within one day, you can rush to a radius of 600 miles around Chang'an.

You can imagine that if there was such a convoy of a hundred eight-wheeled carriages, it would be possible to transport two thousand five hundred heavily armed soldiers six hundred miles away. For example, if Yan'an County, which is more than 630 miles away from Chang'an, reports an urgent military situation, then 2,500 heavily armed soldiers and an elite division of five battalions can rush to Yan'an County in about a day and immediately enter the battle......

Of course, it was necessary to have a large number of horses to replace them in the middle of the road, but even so, such a rapid march was more than twice the speed of the cavalry, or even faster, and the soldiers were able to get enough rest on the carriage to be able to plunge into the battle with the fullest vigor after arriving at the battlefield.

And although the cavalry is riding on a horse, but the horse really ran for 300 miles, if not dead, it will be half disabled, the cavalry and the horse are absolutely exhausted to death, at least have to rest for most of the day before they can return to the sun, but if there is really something, where may there be time for you to rest.

Fighting with a tired army was the last thing a general would want to do, and now, with this thing, it is absolutely unbelievable that the foot soldiers can rush to the place of the incident at the speed of cavalry, and then go into battle with the fullest spirit and fighting spirit.

One by one, the two of the military ministers were already bright-eyed, and their expressions were greedy like a group of thugs who had found the door of the bank vault open.

But if that were to happen, wouldn't the cost be too great? After all, such a vehicle must be expensive, and it requires a large number of horses to operate......" Wei Zheng frowned, looking worried, for fear that this son would be like Yang Guangxue, isn't it just a hundred carriages? Besides, how could an excellent traverser with profiteer potential like Ben Gongzi go into a loss-making business?

Cheng Yanjin's thick eyebrows raised and walked to Wei Zheng's approach, and his loud voice exploded in Wei Zheng's ears: "I said Lao Wei, what you said is too much, with such a chariot, our army can rush to various places in the shortest possible time to reinforce or deal with those enemies, this is a military matter, can it be said that just because there are two more money, it can't be done?" ”

"Although the country is big, the warlike will perish, haven't you heard this sentence?" Wei Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not afraid of Cheng Yanjin, who was half a head taller than him, and replied in a cold and hard voice.

"Dean Wei, don't forget, there is another sentence at the back, although the world is peaceful, forgetting to fight will be dangerous." Qu Tutong said with a smile.

Wei Zheng nodded: "Yes, the country must not forget to fight, but it must not be belligerent." If such a good carrying vessel is used for people's livelihood, Wei has no opinion at all. But if it is used for the military, then, I don't know how much manpower and material resources it will cost to maintain the road, just to say that Chang'an to the periphery, a total of seven cement straights, if on these seven cement straights, you need to leave a large number of horses for the replacement of this car, then, you yourself calculate how many horses are needed, how much grain and grass are consumed, and how much manpower and material resources are needed to maintain? ”

Hearing this, everyone present raised their fingers to calculate, and after a lot of effort, several masters of arithmetic couldn't help but gasp, especially Fang Xuanling, who was the head of the General Logistics Department under the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, and his face was wrinkled as if the severe fecal patient had hemorrhoids.

But anyone who has calculated the results knows very well that this is definitely not a small amount, and the need for horses alone is not a small amount, which only refers to a radius of about 300 miles from Chang'an, and now the farthest place in Hexi is thousands of miles away from Chang'an? Then the number of spare horses needed for this journey alone is probably in the hundreds.

Even Cheng Biting Jin, a reckless man, couldn't help but shrink his neck after calculating with his carrot-thick fingers, and then turned his face to look at me and said, "Lord, shouldn't you just use this thing to tease us?" ”

"Funny fart, what Dean Wei said is right, if it is only used for military purposes, it is indeed too wasteful." Ben Gongzi walked to the eight-wheeled carriage, patted the wheels that were about to catch up with most of the people, and was very satisfied with the quality of the wheels, using steel rings and steel columns as the skeleton, and the outside of the wheels was an arc-shaped wooden plank, and between the inner layer of the wooden board and the steel ring, a thick cowhide was used as a buffer.

"Could it be that you want to use it for both the military and the people?" Li Jing's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help asking.

"Not bad." I nodded, fortunately, at least this vote is not IQ disordered, and finally a sober person jumped out. "This kind of carriage is the main means of transportation for the national transportation company that I am going to establish."

"National Transportation Corporation?" The ministers all looked confused, and they didn't understand the meaning of the name at all, or they knew each other by taking these words apart, but when they were put together, they were all dizzy.

"Yes, the National Transportation Company is a large state-owned enterprise funded by the state, and its task, or its business scope, is the transportation industry, which specializes in the use of this kind of carriage to transport people or goods on all cement straights under my rule and charge a certain transportation fee, so as to circulate goods and facilitate people's travel...... "With the words of this son, all the ministers of civil and military affairs had a very speechless expression.

Well, it's a very familiar expression, every time Ben Gongzi comes up with something new or something new, these guys have such expressions, not for anything else, just because every time a new thing is added, they have to work hard to form a new department.

Although these newly established departments are more efficient and professional, the workload is too great, especially the one or two ministers who are like dirt.

“…… Think about it, in the future, when we unify China, cement straight roads will be paved all over the land of China, so whether it is our army or our people, if they want to go far away, will it be more convenient to take such a carriage that travels hundreds of miles a day? Ben Gongzi asked.