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Li Wangyou chuckled and said, "Try it and you'll know."
Everyone pushed this extremely simple four-wheeled carriage back to Li Wangyou's home, which attracted many people in the village to watch.
"What kind of car is this? It looks weird? How come it has four wheels?"
"How can these four wheels be used?"
"Maybe it's some novelty made by the young man of the Li family, just take a look."
The four-wheeled carriage was pushed to the front of Li Wangyou's house, Li Wangyou didn't care about his two horses, he even brought the two horses ridden by Yang Zuan and his entourage, and let Carpenter Liu put them on.
Then he asked the brothers from the Niu family to help him carry the grain. The family stored more than 300 shi of grain, and asked them to move out [-] shi for experiments.
These grains are all packed in sacks, and one bag is one stone.The villagers who watched the excitement in the village also came to help, and quickly piled a full thirty stones of grain on the carriage, and piled it up high into a hill.
This even made the villagers who watched the excitement burst into discussions.
"What is the young man of the Li family going to do? You don't want to use these four horses to pull this carriage?"
"Impossible. Thirty stones of grain can't be moved by four steers!"
"Isn't it? Who has seen so many things with horses? Besides, this car looks weird, with four wheels, tsk tsk, it's really strange."
"I bet this horse won't be able to drag it, and it's almost the same if the gods appear."
Yang Zuan and Lao Cunzheng also didn't believe it. Even though they had seen the drawing of the carriage drawn by Li Wangyou and watched Carpenter Liu and his son build the carriage with their own eyes, they didn't think that four horses could drag so much. food.
Li Wangyou pulled Niu Wu over: "Erlang, do you know how to drive?"
"Yes."
"Then sit on it and try to drive the carriage." Li Wangyou pushed Niu Wu into the carriage.
Niu Wu had a strange look on his face: "Lang Jun, are you really going? Are these four horses going to be exhausted? I can't bear it."
Li Heng, the old housekeeper at the side, was even more heartbroken. The two horses at home were precious to him, and he was not willing to let them pull the cart, let alone [-] shi of grain.
Li Heng looked at Li Wangyou with pleading eyes, Li Wangyou pretended not to see it, and just urged Niu Wu to get on the carriage quickly.
Niu Wu was so forced that he had no choice but to climb into the carriage.This temporary four-wheeled carriage is basically a chassis with four wheels and nothing else.
He could only sit down on the grain sack, grabbed the rein with both hands, and turned to look at Li Wangyou.
"Lang Jun, did I really rush?"
"Yes, yes, hurry up! Why are you dawdling?" Li Wangyou urged again.
Niu Wu was helpless, stretched out his hand and shook the rein, and made a sound of "driving" in his mouth, driving the horse to exert strength.
Under the surprised eyes of the crowd, they saw that the four horses' necks were drooping downwards, their legs exerted strength, and miraculously began to move slowly following the carriage!
"It's moving! It's moving! This carriage actually moved!"
"My God, four horses can really drag thirty stones of grain? Damn, have I not woken up?"
"Li, Xiaolang from the Li family, I'm afraid he is really a fairy? Is this a magic spell cast on this carriage?"
"Hurry up, this carriage is really running!"
Niu Wu drove a carriage full of grain, and started trotting on the road in the village. All the surrounding villagers cheered and followed, wanting to see why this carriage is so magical.
"Lang Jun, how does this car turn?" Niu Wu suddenly shouted loudly on the carriage.
"It's the same as an ordinary carriage, there is no difference."
Niu Wu drove the carriage around the village, turned around under the elm tree at the entrance of the village, and ran back again.
"Lang Jun, this carriage is amazing! It can really drag thirty stones of grain, and it is no different from ordinary two-wheeled carriages. The carriage is still easy."
Niu Wule stopped the carriage, jumped out of the carriage excitedly, and shouted loudly.
Both Yang Zuan and Lao Cunzheng were stunned by this scene.
"Mingfu, do we have to serve the full [-] days of the spring corvee? What if we finish the task of transporting food ahead of schedule?" Seeing that the four-wheeled carriage was successful, Li Wangyou suddenly thought of something, and quickly grabbed Yang Zhuan asked.
"Of course you don't have to. Your corvee this time is to transport grain, and the corvee will be completed when the grain arrives." Yang Zuan replied casually, without taking his eyes off the carriage for a moment.
The next moment, Yang Zuan grabbed Li Wangyou's arm excitedly: "Ziyou, you can actually make such a magic weapon? If my Tang Dynasty had such a carriage, do you know how useful it would be? Hurry up!" Hurry up and give the drawing of the carriage to the county, and the county will go to court!"
Li Wangyou rolled his eyes helplessly, damn, I want to take away any good things I have, can I show some face?
Why are the officials of Tang Dynasty so virtuous?
"Mingfu, I can't give you the drawing of the four-wheeled carriage yet."
"Why is that?" Yang Zuan was puzzled.
Li Wangyou chuckled: "Let's talk about it after we finish this spring corvee."
Yang Zuan was taken aback, thinking of his question just now, he suddenly understood, pointed at Li Wangyou and smiled, "Ziyou, you, you! That's enough, the county understands, so the county will wait a little longer yes."
Li Wangyou's words made Yang Zuan immediately understand what he wanted to do.
However, he was not prepared to object. The so-called indecent behavior was not to reciprocate. Since Mrs. Li used such shameless means first, it was appropriate for Li Wangyou to fight back a little.
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After confirming that the four-wheeled carriage was indeed feasible, Lao Cunzheng was so excited that he almost knelt down to Li Wangyou again.
Originally thought that this time it was doomed, and that the whole village's strong labor force might be taken away to carry out the task of transporting grain in the spring, but I didn't expect that Li Wangyou would actually create such a magic weapon as a four-wheeled carriage.
The poisonous plan set by the Li family of Hu County for Zhou Village this time was so easily resolved by Li Wangyou.
This desperate plan was Xu Jingzong's idea for the Li clan.
Since the death of Li Zhou in Huxian County, there are only a few officials of the seventh and eighth rank who have been officials in the court.
Regarding the situation of the Li family in Hu County, Xu Jingzong is naturally very clear. After all, he is the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, and he is responsible for managing these royal family members.
So Xu Jingzong made such a plan for the patriarch of the Li clan.
At this time, it was time to adjust the spring, and he asked Li's Sihu to join the army to collect corvée from Dingzhou Village, and pushed all the food transportation tasks of several villages to Dingzhou Village.
Even if Ding Zhoucun wanted to sue this matter, he couldn't say no.
Transporting grain for a thousand shi and covering a distance of [-] miles is completely in line with the regulations for the transfer of corvees in spring, but due to the busy spring farming, the county government will not do this under normal circumstances, and it will delay the busy farming.
Ding households in a village are required to collect corvee once a year. If it is a task of transporting grain, whether it is two hundred shi or one thousand shi, it is in line with the routine.