The two of them talked in the living room for a long time, and wrote several bamboo slips in the file.

Jiang Chong also reminded Liu Zhang to be optimistic about Xu Zhang, and not to let her do anything that harms the interests of the Han Dynasty, so as not to bring himself great trouble.

The next step is to investigate and monitor Xu Xuan to make sure that he did not secretly contact the Xiongnu.

According to the information available, Xu Xuan's father was the Huns' Dadanghu Lanmohe.

In the battle with the Han army, although he was killed.

Maybe some of the remnants of the forces will find a way to find Lan Mohe's children and continue to fight against the Han army under their leadership.

Jiang Chong left the Honghou Mansion to visit those witnesses.

Xu Xuan went to Chen Yun's side, and he could pick mulberry leaves in two days.

Take advantage of these two sunny days to clean and dry the tools you use.

In the afternoon, Liu Zhang heard that several elephants had passed through the Red Marquis Kingdom.

Chen Yun wants to see elephants, and she has only heard that elephants are very big and heavy since she was a child.

But no real elephants have been seen, and those who drive them will stay in the Red Marquis Kingdom for three days.

I heard that they came from the South Vietnamese country, and these elephants were going to be sent to Chang'an.

Since Chen Yun wants to see the elephant, then take her to see it.

The elephants that come to Honghou are Asian elephants, weighing three to five tons.

He took Chen Yun and Xu Xuan to see the elephants, and many people also went to see them.

Li Dan and Wang Shuo followed behind with guards to protect them, and they were really worried that the elephant would suddenly go berserk.

It's much scarier than a mad ox, and the elephant is tall and heavy.

It looks like a hill with a long nose.

The four legs are thick like pillars supporting a house, and the elephant's trunk is flexible.

They came to the Tuo River and saw the elephants locked in wooden fences.

There were many people watching from afar, and some people watching from small boats.

They were amazed, and most of them saw elephants for the first time.

They are also debating how to accurately weigh an elephant.

If an elephant is used to plough the land, is it more powerful than an ox?

Seeing that elephants are so strong, some people speculate that one elephant is top ten cows.

Everyone talked about the elephant in every way, and some people thought that the elephant was so big.

There must be a lot of food to eat, and ordinary people really can't afford to raise it.

"Ahh The elephant is so big, and the four legs are like four great pillars. ”

Chen Yun couldn't help but marvel when she saw the elephant, if she was stepped on.

With a petite body like hers, it is estimated that she will be trampled to shreds.

"As long as you don't provoke it, the elephant won't take the initiative to attack people."

Before Liu Zhang crossed, he had not only seen Asian elephants, but also African elephants.

Asian elephants have a docile personality due to the increased range of human movements.

The elephant population has been declining, at least five hundred years ago.

Elephants are active in the Yellow River Basin and the Huai River Basin, but elephants are now rare in the two river basins.

"Five hundred to a thousand years ago, there were more elephants in our area."

"Lang Jun, you know a lot. So why are elephants so rare in this place? ”

"Elephants used to be prey because people were cultivating land. The number of elephants is decreasing, and the ability of elephants to reproduce is relatively slow. ”

There is also the climate, nowadays, there are more elephants in the Lingnan area.

"yes, those elephants are pitiful."

Xu Mian is very sympathetic to the unfortunate plight of those elephants, and the strength of a single person is naturally not comparable to that of elephants.

But people are united, and they create traps. They will use tools to hunt, which leads to the decline of elephant populations.

Xu Mian has lived in the Monan grassland since he was a child, and it is rare to see a beast as big as an elephant.

More than 10,000 years ago, mammoths and mammoths also existed.

"There are elephants that are bigger than elephants, which became extinct more than 10,000 years ago."

"Really? Is it because of people's activities that elephants are bigger than elephants that are extinct? ”

Chen Yun was very curious, she felt that Lang Jun knew a lot.

"I'm not sure about that, at least more than 10,000 years ago. People were still gathered in tribes, and weapons and other tools were outdated. ”

More than 10,000 years ago, it was the Neolithic Age.

At that time, people fed on mammoths and mammoths, and the climate gradually warmed.

These two elephants did not adapt to the warm climate and gradually became extinct.

It was just his guess, and the two women looked at him with adoring eyes.

"Lang Jun, you have read a lot of books, have you described those extinct elephants in detail?"

"It's just a simple description in the book, that the extinct elephant is three times the size of the elephant we see now."

The three of them were talking about elephants that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, when people exclaimed.

This attracted their attention, and the elephant rolled its long trunk flexibly.

It was easy to lift a piece of wood, and that piece of wood was estimated to be seventy or eighty pounds.

Just lifted it so easily, Chen Yun couldn't help but be amazed.

"Lang Jun, do you think the elephant's trunk can lift me up?"

"Its nose is very powerful, and of course it can lift you up easily."

Chen Yun's weight was only eighty-five pounds, and the elephant lifted her very easily.

Listen to them talk about how much an elephant weighs, and ordinary weighing tools are not suitable for weighing an elephant.

"Lang Jun, do you have a good way to weigh an elephant?"

Xu was curious about how much elephants weigh, and their common scales were small.

For things like grain, there are special measuring tools.

Li Dan and the others are also looking forward to whether Liu Zhang can think of a good way, in addition to cutting the elephant into pieces one after another.

Weigh it in this way, and then the elephant won't live.

"I can only think of three ways to call an elephant, the first is to have a balance large enough. The second method is to use a huge seesaw, and the third method is to use the hull draft. ”

The third method is to use the allusion of Cao Chong to weigh the elephant.

He told them the specific operation of the three weighing methods.

This method is somewhat inaccurate, but it also gives you an idea of the approximate weight of the elephant.

Liu Zhang looked at the elephants, and their weight was about four tons.

Huge scales, seesaws, wooden boats, none here.

He has a weighbridge in his subspace watch, and it's not appropriate to take it out and use it.

There are actually more than three ways to weigh an elephant, as long as you are willing to spend time, it is very labor-intensive.

The elephant's weight can still be supported, Liu Zhang's eyes looked at the river.

"None of the three methods I'm talking about are currently available."

"If you can find a big boat, as you say. Put the elephant on it and look at the boat's waterline. ”

Li Dan understood just now that this method is easier to operate than a balance and a seesaw.

Drive the elephants into the empty boat and prop the boat up to the middle of the river.

Wait for the ship to sink and mark it. When people on a large boat are transferred to a small boat, they can get an accurate weight.

"You're right, but there's something wrong with that. But to the point of wanting to know the weight of the elephant, only we don't have such a big boat. ”

Liu Zhang spread his hands, and he looked at the river.

They are all small wooden boats that cannot carry more than two tons.

It's too time-consuming to make huge scales and seesaws now.

Chen Yun and Xu Xuan looked at the sparkling river, how much they hoped for a big boat.

Everyone continued to watch the elephant show, and the weighing thing was not to be thought about for the time being.

After about half an hour, Chen Yun saw a boat coming towards him in the distance on the river.

It is estimated that the boat is large and also meets the conditions for carrying elephants.

"Lang Jun, look. There's a big boat over there, is that boat going to work? ”

Chen Yun pointed to the distance on the river, and Liu Zhang looked in the direction he was pointing.

It was a relatively large cargo ship, and it was estimated that the deck of the cargo ship was relatively wide.

I don't know if the owner of the boat is willing to help weigh the elephant, and Liu Zhang doesn't care how much the elephant weighs.

Others wanted to know that it looked like the boat was going to dock here.

Many people looked over like the big boat, and they looked at Liu Zhang again.

With his identity, the other party will definitely agree.

Of course, it costs some money, and everyone can scrape together a little money.

The crowd waited on the bank of the river, and the boat gradually approached the shore.

The people on the boat also saw the elephants, and they saw the people on the shore looking over here.

The ship transported the goods to the Red Marquis to be sold and prepared to be unloaded at the shore.

Buy some daily necessities and sell them as soon as possible.

The owner of the ship always had a bad feeling that he saw a noble man standing on the shore.

Anyone who comes to the country of Honghou, there is no one who does not know Honghou.

Honghou has become famous recently, and he has saved many people with miraculous medicine.

When the boat docked, some people went to greet the owner.

Hoping to borrow a boat, they are willing to spend some money.

Seeing that the ship was full of cargo, the shipwrights began to unload the cargo.

There were also horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and donkey carts on board, which were used to transport goods.

The owner of the ship walked over to Liu Zhang to say hello to him.