Chapter 0055 Wheelbarrow
It took Xun Yu only four or five days to manage the county of the country in an orderly manner. Even Hua Hu, the chief clerk who had been watching the position of a county lieutenant and wanted to see him laugh at, had to accept the disadvantage and believed that he was the best candidate for the county lieutenant.
Xun Yu's performance was long expected by Han Zhan. He knew in his heart that when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought for the world, the reason why they won the final victory when they were repeatedly defeated was because Xiao He kept replenishing his troops and supplies, so he could recover his vitality in the shortest time every time. The reason why Cao Cao could defeat Yuan Shao was not only because of the soldiers in front, but also because of the talent like Xun Yu in the rear who was proficient in internal affairs.
Han Zhan felt happy whenever he thought of the most powerful Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia and others who were all poached by him.
Xun Yu, who was discussing matters with Han Zhan, suddenly grinned when he saw Han Zhan, couldn't help but frown and coughed heavily. After Han Zhan focused his attention on him again, he continued, "Zhan'er, have you heard what I just said?"
Han Zhan quickly sat upright and pretended to be serious and said, "I heard, I heard. My uncle said that to speed up the repair of the city wall, we must find ways to improve the current transportation conditions."
After Han Zhan finished speaking, Xun Yu sighed and said, "That's right, Shiguo County is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and one faces water. The roads are rugged and difficult to move. The city lacks horses to pull carts. The stones needed to repair the city wall can only be carried by people on shoulders and carried out from the mountains. The efficiency is too low."
The transportation problem has troubled Han Zhan for a long time. I thought Xun Yu could find a suitable solution, but this matter was still an unsolvable problem for Xun Yu. The two of them stared at each other for a long time, and Xun Yu said frowningly: "Even if you send someone to the north to buy horses at this moment, it will take about a month to go back and forth, which will still delay the process of repairing the city wall."
"Uncle," Han Zhan asked with a fluke mentality: "Is there really no other way?"
"What else can I do?" Xun Yu said with a wry smile: "Unless you can sprinkle beans and become soldiers, you can turn hundreds of Trojan horses that don't eat grass."
Trojan horse?!Han Zhan suddenly felt his eyes lit up when he heard the word Xun Yu said accidentally. He quickly picked up a charcoal pen on the table and drew what he suddenly thought of on the blank paper. Xun Yu tilted his head and stared at the strange objects that appeared under Han Zhan's pen.
After Han Zhan put down his pen, Xun Yu asked curiously: "Zhan'er, what is this you are painting?"
"Uncle, please see, this is a kind of unicycle that Zhan'er just came up with." Han Zhan explained to Xun Yu: "The frame is installed on both sides of the unicycle, and is pushed by one person's palm and two handlebars. You can also push it forward and backward, and carry people and things. Don't look at the smallness of this kind of car, I guess there should be no problem with the load of four or five hundred kilograms."
After hearing Han Zhan talk about this, Xun Yu quickly asked: "Can you drive on the mountain road?"
Han Zhan nodded and continued: "Because this kind of small car is a wheel-to-wheeled car, it can be unobstructed, regardless of the plain official road or mountain road. It is definitely a transportation vehicle that can surpass human burdens and is not inferior to carriages."
Xun Yu took the sketch drawn by Han Zhan and looked over and over for a long time. His lips were trembling with excitement. He asked nervously: "Zhan'er, have you seen such a unicycle where?"
Han Zhanxin said that this kind of unicycle is Zhuge Liangming's "wooden ox and flowing horse". It has not appeared yet. He quickly shook his head and shamelessly took Zhuge Liang's Ming for himself: "Uncle, this is what Zhan'er figured out by himself, and he has not had time to practice it..."
Before he finished speaking, Xun Yu grabbed his hand, pulled him and walked out of the lobby, saying, "Okay, Zhan'er, don't say it anymore. Let's find someone to make a sample car and try whether this kind of wheelbarrow is suitable."
Han Zhan and Xun Yu came to the construction site where the city wall was repaired. Hua Hu, the chief clerk who supervised the work, saw the two of them coming together, and hurriedly met them and asked curiously: "Encourt, county magistrate, do you know what important things are here today?"
"Is there a carpenter on the construction site?" Xun Yu grabbed Hua Hu's arm and asked impatiently: "The carpenter who wants the craftsmanship group, the county magistrate wants him to make something."
"Some, some." Hua Hu nodded repeatedly and said, "There are many places on the construction site that need to be used by carpenters, so they are naturally indispensable. I will immediately lead the two to the carpenters."
Hua Hu brought the two of them to a shed and shouted to the busy carpenters: "Everyone, stop for a while, and I have something to say to you."
The carpenters stopped their work and surrounded them. Seeing that there were about twenty carpenters here, Han Zhan raised the picture in his hand and asked loudly: "Who can make such a single-wheeled car? I will be rewarded!"
Hearing that there was a heavy reward, the carpenters surrounded them. After seeing the things on the drawings clearly, they shook their heads and walked away. Seeing that the carpenters were all dispersed, Han Zhan's heart couldn't help but feel cold. He thought that this kind of unicycle was quite simple, wouldn't anyone do it?
Just when he was disappointed, a lame carpenter with dark skin and bearded face limped to him, looked the drawings carefully for a long time, and asked, "Do you plan to make such a small car?"
"Yes," Seeing that someone was finally interested in this kind of small car, Han Zhan nodded quickly and said, "Can you make it?"
The lame carpenter nodded and said with certainty: "As long as you tell me the detailed size, I can make the car in at most an hour."
"That's great, this is really great." When he heard that the cripple carpenter could make a wheeled car, Han Zhan immediately expressed his opinion to him: "As long as you build a small car within one hour, I will reward you with ten yuan."
He thought the carpenter would be happy after hearing this, but the other party shook his head and said, "Eunuch, Caomin is a family that is not hungry if he eats one person and does not need so much money. Why don't you give Caomin a few jars of good wine?"
"No problem." Han Zhan nodded and said solemnly: "As long as you can build such a small car, I will not dare to reward you with ten coins of money, and I will also send you five more jars of fine wine."
When he heard that Han Zhan was going to give him his wine, the carpenter was immediately overjoyed. He said to Han Zhan with a pleasing voice: "Eunuch, please tell Cao Min the size of this wheelbarrow cart, and Cao Min immediately starts making it for you."
When Han Zhan was a child, he saw this kind of unicycle that was called a "chicken bus" in the countryside, but he was not very clear about the size, so he could only gesture to the lame carpenter and talk about some rough sizes. The lame carpenter may be the highest-level carpenter here. Although Han Zhan said the size is not very detailed, he still started to make such a rare car based on his years of experience.
In less than half an hour, the first single-wheeled carriage took shape. Immediately, a curious young carpenter ran over and pushed it around the yard. Han Zhan asked loudly at the man: "How do you feel?"
"Reply to the envoy's words," replied the young carpenter: "Although it's a wooden wheel, it's easy to push."
Seeing that the young carpenter was having a lot of fun, Huahu hurriedly urged: "Okay, you can move a few bags of things on it and try to see if the car is strong."
As soon as the young carpenter stopped, someone next to him put two bags of grain on it and urged the young carpenter to push it twice. The young carpenter pushed the wheel cart with two bags of grain and walked around the yard twice, saying, "This is great. This wheel cart pushes the grain without any effort." Hearing that the young carpenter pushed it easily, Han Zhan asked someone to put a few bags of grain on it and continue to test the load-bearing capacity of this vehicle.
Xun Yu stood beside him without saying anything, but just watched Han Zhan silently ordering people to put food on the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow cart with ten packs of grain ran less than half a circle in the yard, then straddled it and broke it apart, scaring the young carpenter to the point of being stunned.
The cripple carpenter sitting beside drinking water stood up and walked to Han Zhan, saying to him: "Eunuch, the grass people have carefully considered it. This kind of car must be made of hardwood to last for long-lasting. Carrying five or six hundred kilograms will not fall apart even if it runs for hundreds of miles."
"You can just push a car with a load of 500 kilograms and walk like a flying car," Xun Yu looked at Han Zhan and said with satisfaction: "It seems that the unicycle that Zhan'er came up with is really not bad. If you marching and fighting in the future, using this car to transport supplies will greatly reduce the consumption along the way."
"Encourt, my subordinates have an idea." Hua Hu took advantage of the carpenters' re-made new unicycle and hurried to Han Zhan and made his suggestion to him: "If you install a wooden box with grooves on the bottom on the car, you can transport soil on the construction site, which can greatly improve the degree of repairing the city wall."
"Chief of Hua," Han Zhan said to Hua Hu with a smile: "Since I have asked you to be responsible for construction site affairs, then the matter here is up to you. I will never interfere with it."
Chapter completed!