"This, lord, follow the law, the emperor controls six, and the princes control four, you..." Fang Xuanling blinked, approached me, and said carefully: "I'm afraid it's not in line with the control?"

"Haha, this system is not static. As the saying goes, the world changes, and things are suitable for things because of the times." I paused and looked at the civil and military officials around me who were attracted by my words. Well, my classical Chinese, which I finally found an opportunity to show off, is definitely the best answer for me to often give some extraordinary things.

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

Seeing the thoughtful expressions of everyone, this young master continued to say loudly: "You must not know how much time it took for these two carriages to go from Dada Chang'an, Hancheng County?"

Everyone shook their heads together. After taking a deep breath, this young master said proudly: "Now, the cement straight road from Hancheng County to Chang'an has been completed, with a total length of 527 miles. It took less than eleven hours to arrive here from Hancheng County."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath and widen their eyes: "This, this is impossible, how could it be so fast?"

"Lord, you are fooling the old minister, right? The old minister has lived for nearly sixty years and knows that it is okay to run 300 miles a day for a good horse, but if you run 600 miles, is it a wild horse that won't be able to do it?" Qu Tutong also looked unbelievable.

"Dare you ask my uncle, how many miles can you do when marching at the fastest speed?" I smiled and asked Qu Tutong.

Qu Tutong frowned. "If it's a good horse, when charging, you may be able to make a nearly ten miles of road with a stick of incense, but it's not far. If you walk quickly, you can travel 140 to 50 miles in a row at a time, and a hundred miles may be at most one and a half hours. But this is almost the limit. Of course, if you don't care about horsepower and continue with this speed, you can at least run another fifty or sixty miles, but if you really run like this, you'll be afraid there will be problems..."

"My uncle's words are reasonable. My uncle's meaning is that it can take a hundred miles in one and a half hours. If a crossbow and horse can travel a hundred miles in a hurry, can it be reached in two hours?" I smiled. I am indeed an old soldier and am very familiar with various situations of horses.

"You can walk at least 1120 miles in two hours. If you only walk a hundred miles, you can naturally do it. The time it takes is about two quarters of an hour more than a good horse." Qu Tutong replied with certainty.

"This is natural. Could it be that the lord has some trick?" Cheng Yaojin next to him said with a smile.

"Actually, I used this method. Every hundred miles of carriage, the horses are replaced so that the horses pulling the carriage can maintain their full physical strength and run with all their strength. In this way, it takes less than two hours to travel a hundred miles." Seeing these guys' eyes widened and their eyes were straight, I couldn't help laughing loudly, and gave the answer.

The six-wheeled carriage and eight-wheeled carriage industry have been tested for nearly a month. In twelve hours, it can run from nearly 600 to 620 miles on the cement straight road, which also includes the time to eat. This is really not a bragging. Although there are no rubber tires in this era, I dare say that the current carriage craftsmanship is already the top of this era, and is definitely not inferior to the carriage in the seventeenth century.

As the drivers who drove the carriage from Hancheng County to Chang'an nodded heavily to show their affirmation, all the important officials were silent.

"God, if there was a rebellion in Zheng County, about 250 miles away from Chang'an as last time, then with this carriage, you can reach Zheng County within six hours to suppress the rebellion, which is faster than rushing with cavalry." Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but bulging his eyes and muttered.

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

You can imagine that if there was such a convoy of 100 eight-wheeled carriages, then 2,500 fully armed soldiers could be transported to 600 miles away. For example, Yan'an County, which is more than 630 miles away from Chang'an, reported an emergency military information, then 2,500 fully armed soldiers and the elite troops of five battalions could arrive at Yan'an County in about one day and immediately enter the battle..."

Of course, there must be a large number of horses on the road for replacement, but even so, the speed of traveling is more than twice the speed of the cavalry, and even faster. The soldiers can also get enough rest in the carriage and can devote themselves to the battle with the fullest spirit after rushing to the battlefield.

Although the cavalry was riding on horses, the horses really ran about 300 miles, and they would be half-dead. The cavalry and the horses were absolutely exhausted and wanted to die of death. At least they had to rest for a long time before they could get back to the sun. However, if there was something really wrong, there would be no time for you to rest.

To fight with a tired army is the thing that the generals are most reluctant to do. Now, with this thing, it is absolutely incredible that the infantry can rush to the place where the incident occurs at the speed of the cavalry, and then fight with the fullest spirit and fighting spirit.

One military minister, one and two were already shining with their eyes, and their expressions were as greedy as a group of thugs who discovered the door of the bank vault opened.

"But if this is done, isn't the price too high? After all, such a vehicle must be expensive, and it also requires a large number of horses to operate..." Wei Zheng tightened his brows and looked worried, afraid that this young master would be like Yang Guangxue, wouldn't it be a hundred carriages? Besides, how could this young master have the potential to be a profitable business like this young master, how could he do a loss-making business?

Cheng Yaojin, the guy with thick eyebrows raised and walked to Wei Zheng, with a loud voice blew in Wei Zheng's ear: "I said Old Wei, what's that right? With such a chariot, our army can rush to various places to reinforce or deal with those enemies in the shortest time. This is a military and national event. Could it be that it's just because of two more money?"

"Although the country is big, war will perish. Have you never heard of this sentence?" Wei Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not afraid of Cheng Yaojin, who was half a head higher than him. He replied with a cold and hard voice.

"Director Wei, don't forget it. There is another sentence later: Even if the world is peaceful, if you forget to fight, you will be in danger." Qu Tutong said with a smile.

Wei Zheng nodded: "Yes, the country should not forget to fight, but it should not be wary. If such good carriers are used for people's livelihood, Wei has no opinion at all. But if they are used for military purposes, then I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be used to maintain it. Just talk about Chang'an, there are seven cement straight roads around. If there are a large number of horses on these seven cement straight roads, you need to leave a large number of horses for replacement of this car. Then, do you calculate how many horses you need, how much food and material resources you need to consume to maintain it?"

Hearing this, everyone present pulled their fingers to calculate. After a short while, several quick-witted masters couldn't help but take a breath, especially Fang Xuanling, who was the general logistics department director of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, had a wrinkle as if the patient had hemorrhoids.

Anyone who calculates the results is very clear that this is definitely not a small amount. The amount of horses alone is not a small amount. This only refers to Chang'an in a radius of about 300 miles. Now the farthest Hexi land is more than a thousand miles away from Chang'an? Then the number of spare horses needed on the way alone is probably hundreds of huge.

Even after Cheng Yaojin, the rash man who calculated the fingers as thick as a carrot, could not help but shrink his neck, then turned his face and looked at me and said, "Lord, you wouldn't just use this thing to make fun of us, right?"

"That's a joke, President Wei said it well. If it is used only for military purposes, it would be too wasteful." This young master walked to the eight-wheeled carriage and patted the wheels that were almost half a person's height. He was very satisfied with the quality of the wheels. He used steel rings and steel columns as skeletons. The outside of the wheels was an arc-shaped wooden board, and thick cowhide was used between the inner layer and the steel rings.

"Master, do you want to use both the military and the civilians?" Li Jing's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but ask.

"No," I nodded. Fortunately, this person at least has not had an IQ problem, and finally a sober person jumped out. "This kind of carriage is the main transportation tool of the National Transportation Company I am preparing to establish."

"National Transportation Company?" All the ministers looked confused and didn't understand the meaning of the name at all. Or they knew these words separately, but they gathered together, which made them all dizzy.

"Yes, the State Transportation Company is a large state-owned enterprise funded by the state. Its mission, or its scope of business, is the transportation industry. Its carriage is used specifically to transport people or goods on all cement straight roads under my rule and charge a certain transportation fee to circulate goods and facilitate people's travel..." As my son talked about it, all the civil and military ministers all had a speechless expression.

Well, a very familiar expression. Every time I make something new or something new, these guys have such expressions. Nothing else, because every time I add a new thing, they have to work hard to form a new department.

Although these newly established departments are more efficient and professional in handling affairs, the workload is really too large, especially the civil servants and two are as beautiful as earth.
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