Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

It was still early, and Li Xin took Runniang, Wang Gui, Zhang Ben and Chen Hu out of the house, heading straight for his fief. His fief Lantian County is not far from Chang'an City, only forty miles away, with the help of horsepower, it can be reached in half a day.

In the Tang Dynasty, most men liked to ride horses when they went out, riding horses and raising whips, which was the masculinity most in line with the Tang people's aesthetics. Zhang Ben and Chen Hu were like this, each riding a fast horse, galloping on the dirt road outside Chang'an City.

It is said to be a fast horse, but in fact, the horses in the Tang Dynasty were not the same as the horses in the impression of people in later generations. The good horses in Li Xin's impression are the tall horses seen on equestrian shows on TV. In fact, most of those racing horses are artificially bred, and almost all of them have the blood of Western horses.

The most common native horse breed in ancient China should be the Mongolian horse. It looks a little shorter and not as good-looking as a tall horse. However, it has better endurance and does not require high breeding conditions. Generally speaking, it is easy to feed. Most people in Datang ride this kind of horse.

Of course, there are occasionally better horses to be seen. For example, the legendary Dawan horse or sweaty horse. The appearance of these horses is very close to the good horses in modern people's perception. They are tall and big, with slender limbs, and they run fast and handsome. These horses basically come from the Western Regions, they are very rare, and almost all of them are concentrated in the hands of nobles.

The so-called BMW with a hero, Li Shimin also fought a lot of battles in his early years. He was a serious warrior, so he also liked BMW very much, and collected many good horses in the palace. There are also generals including Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, Li Ji, etc. Most of their families also have such good horses from the Western Regions. Li Xin also has one at home, but he is not very good at riding, so he just put it aside.

No matter how you think about it, horse riding is still not suitable for Li Xin. He sat silently in the four-wheeled carriage that had been improved by him, and nodded with satisfaction: it is still comfortable to ride in the carriage.

Li Xin's original carriage was two-wheeled. In fact, most of the carriages in ancient China were two-wheeled carriages, because the ancients did not seem to have figured out a way to solve the steering problem of the four-wheeled carriages, so they could only ride in two-wheeled carriages. But the stability of the two-wheeled carriage is very poor, and it can make people doubt their lives when running. After Li Xin had ridden once before, he never wanted to sit again.

He originally wanted to solve this problem by adding a shock absorber to the carriage, but he soon discovered that this idea would not work. Because he has no suitable spring.

The small spring looks simple, but it is actually very complicated, involving a very professional metallurgical process. It doesn't mean that if you just forge a piece of steel and roll it into the shape of a spring, it will really bounce. Regardless of whether it is a carbon steel spring or an alloy spring, it has high requirements on the material. At least for Datang, who is not even mature in basic steelmaking technology, the spring is still a high-tech product.

So, if Li Xin had to build a spring to solve the problem of the carriage being too bumpy, he would first have to build the entire steel production line from scratch. This is obviously too huge a project.

Therefore, he had no choice but to take the next best thing and change the two-wheeled carriage into a four-wheeled carriage. The so-called four is stable, four wheels are much more stable than two wheels.

In fact, in the long history of China, many people have tried to manufacture four-wheeled carriages, trying to solve the steering problem of four-wheeled carriages, but unfortunately, none of them have come up with a more successful solution.

After all, Li Xin came from later generations, and he possessed knowledge that the ancients could not master no matter what. He knew that the most perfect solution to the steering problem of four-wheel vehicles in later generations was the differential. It was cumbersome to explain and cumbersome to make, so he cut the plan almost immediately.

In addition to the differential, there is an easier way to solve the steering problem of the four-wheeled carriage: divide the chassis of the carriage into two sections, the front section is suspended from the horse and has two wheels, and the rear section is seated and also has two wheels. There are two wheels, and the front and rear sections are connected by a turntable.

In this way, the originally bulky one-piece carriage has become two sections. When the horse turns, it will drive the front suspension to change direction, and then drive the rear section of the carriage to change direction accordingly. It can be said that this is the best solution that Li Xin can do so far.

Of course, compared with the differential, this segmented solution still has its flaws-it cannot change direction rapidly, and the radius required for turning is relatively large. However, Li Xin had no choice but to ignore this flaw. If you can't change direction quickly, just run slower, and he's not in a hurry.

The speed of the carriage is not very fast, but it is still much faster than human feet. Zhang Ben and Chen Hu each rode a horse, running unhurriedly behind the carriage.

Zhang Ben looked at Li Xin's carriage with novelty eyes, and then said to Chen Hu beside him, "My lord is just making some weird things. It's the first time in my life that a carriage with four wheels can be so flexible." See you."

Chen Hu nodded, and said: "And it looks very stable, it must be very comfortable to sit on."

Zhang Ben said with a smile: "Forget it, the carriage is still used by nobles like the prince. I'm used to being rough, so let's ride a horse honestly. It's comfortable to bump your butt."

Chen Hu also smiled and nodded.

Li Xin in the carriage could not hear the conversation between the two. He is suppressing the guilt in his heart and enjoying Run Niang's service. Oh, of course it's just beating his legs, don't get it wrong, after all, Run Niang is only an eleven or twelve year old child, no matter how beastly Li Xin is It's not like a beast to this point.

In fact, when Li Xin brought Runniang out, his original intention was to just take her for a stroll. Unexpectedly, Runniang was very terrified that she could sit in the car with her master. No matter how much Li Xin tried to persuade her, no matter how hard she tried to make her sit on the soft cushion, she refused to give him a thumping of his legs to feel at ease, as if she had reached some kind of inner fair deal: she helped Li Xin Beating her legs, Li Xin let her ride in the car.

Seeing that he couldn't hold back this girl, Li Xin had no choice but to let her go.

Don't tell me, it feels really cool for little loli to beat her legs.

It's a sin, a feudal society is so damn corrupt, it's in vain for me, a new generation of good young people who grew up under the red flag, to be defiled like this, it's uncomfortable. It's really uncomfortable.

Li Xin thought with a smile.

The carriage didn't know how long it had been running, and finally stopped slowly. Wang Gui, who was sitting in front of the car and driving the car, said, "My lord, we are here."