Please ask me to be the emperor

Taking advantage of the absence of the female family members in front of Zhang Shun, Xiao Qinhu looked around with a big, honest head, and then mysteriously took out something and handed it to Zhang Shun.

Zhang Shun saw how funny this big man was, and he became curious. He opened the cloth and saw that there was a dry object inside. The front is full of thorns, like a small mace, with a strip of dried meat attached to the back.

Zhang Shun picked it up and smelled it. There was a fishy smell, as if it was really dried meat. Zhang Shun asked strangely: "Second brother, what is this? Why did you bring it to me as a gift?"

Xiao Qinhu chuckled and said: "This is the tiger whip that third brother used to kill a tiger last time. I concocted it specially and kept it. Second brother, I have been working hard all day and am not a womanizer, so I don't need this." Something. I saw that my third brother is pale today, so I would like to use this thing to make up for it. I will ensure that my younger brother and sister will be docile in the future."

Before Xiao Qinhu finished speaking, Zhang Shun pulled his face and pushed him out. While struggling, Xiao Qinhu persuaded: "We are all men, what is there to be embarrassed about? Although I don't know if you recognize it or not, at least if we are brothers, will the second brother still cheat you?"

Zhang Shun was so angry that he had to turn his face and said: "You are a single man, so don't get involved in my brother's family affairs. As for matters between men and women, I guess you have only seen wild couples mate, so why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf!"

After finally driving the guy away, Zhang Shun turned around and came back, just in time to see Li Sanniang and Zhu'er coming out with tea. When Li Sanniang saw that the guest had left, she asked strangely: "Where are the people? We have to boil water and make tea, so we have been busy for a long time in vain?"

"Ah? Second brother just left because of something urgent. I can't even keep him!" Zhang Shun said quickly.

"Oh, it's getting late that day, what are you going to eat tonight?" Li Sanniang asked, "Is it the same as last night?"

"Huh? No, it's okay. Eat light today, and eat wine and meat another day, another day!"

The next day, Zhang Shun woke up and felt much better mentally and physically fuller. Then he happily went to deal with yesterday's affairs. Due to the unforeseen incident with the Xing family, Zhang Shun was not ready to leave Zezhou for the time being, so he took the opportunity to arrange for his generals to find some carpenters.

It turned out that after Zhang Shun got a lot of silver, he became dissatisfied with the original baggage train. The four-wheel trucks of this era did not even have a steering system. The four wheels could only move forward and backward, but could not turn left or right.

If you want to turn, you can only rely on the brute force of oxen and horses to pull. This resulted in Zhang Shun's baggage carts being heavy and slow, making it difficult to keep up with the speed of the team. Before, we only had some food, and our family had strong military force, so no one dared to take action against them. Now that he had so much silver, Zhang Shun had no choice but to be on guard, so he came up with the idea of ​​improving his vehicle to increase its mobility.

This four-wheeled ox cart is commonly known as the "Taiping Car". People at that time had a song that said: The Taiping Car does not run around and goes straight to the southeast, northwest and northwest. Expressed figuratively, it turns to difficult questions.

When Zhang Shun arrived at the baggage camp, Chen Jindou was already waiting there with about a dozen carpenters. These carpenters are holding saws, planes and other tools, and there are some finished wooden accessories, semi-finished products and finished products scattered next to them.

Zhang Shun first looked at a big wheel and asked, "Who made this? Can you explain it to me?"

At this time, an old carpenter took a step forward and said a little fearfully: "Your Majesty, it was made by a young man. What's the problem?"

"Explain it to me casually. After all, I don't understand this either. I want to understand it!"

"Ah? Okay, okay! This wheel is called a big wheel, and it is used for carriages. There is a formula called 'Nine rims and eighteen spokes, one hundred single and eight generals'. The nine rims are the nine pieces of wood outside that make up the wheel. "These eighteen spokes are the eighteen spokes on the inside; as for the one hundred and eight generals, they are the one hundred and eight iron nails on the outside."

"Oh? Then why do you do this? Is there anything special about it?" Zhang Shun, as a later generation, likes to ask why everything happens.

"Well, this is what our ancestors taught us, and that's what we do. Why?" The old man was a little embarrassed, and he hesitated for a moment before replying, "However, according to my experience, old man, this is the best quality. Old man, I also made wheels with eight rims and sixteen spokes, but they often cracked, so I stopped making them later.”

Does it make any difference? Zhang Shun was puzzled. He picked up the wheel with nine rims and eighteen spokes and rolled it on the ground. After some research, he discovered the reason. It turns out that when the wheel with nine rims turns to the overlap between rims, there is a rim above the wheel that pulls the wheel structure horizontally; if the rims are an even number, the wheel will press against the overlap, and the wheel will The upper part also happens to be the overlap point, which is prone to breakage due to uneven stress.

Zhang Shun was happy when he came up with the results of his research. He was about to put down the wheel when he suddenly remembered something. He remembered watching movies and TV shows about the late Qing Dynasty in his previous life. He remembered that the Western cannons at that time had two big wheels with a cannon in the middle.

The technological development of later generations has advanced for more than 200 years. If there is something to be said for it, why not order craftsmen to imitate a gun carriage in accordance with the law and give it a try to see what the effect is?

The wheels happened to be ready-made, two pairs of carriage wheels, with a diameter of five feet, and the combined size of later generations was 160cm. Then, according to Zhang Shun's request, the carpenter found another solid elm wood, cut it clean, and installed it on the axle.

Later, Zhang Shun ordered someone to bring over a three-inch caliber Tiger Crouching Cannon and tried to have the carpenter install it on the sports car. Since Zhang Shun did not have cannon ears when he cast these tiger squatting cannons, he had to ask the blacksmith to punch out three iron bars to hoop the cannons on the elm wood of the cannon carriage.

In order to adjust the natural muzzle orientation of the artillery, the carpenter used an ax and a plane to flatten the section that rested on the axle, and then hooped the artillery up. After the artillery integrated into the artillery carriage was completed, it almost looked like later generations of artillery. Zhang Shun was very happy and quickly ordered Li Shi'an to take him to the school field for a test firing to see the effect.

As a result, after one shot was fired, the artillery rolled back very far. Zhang Shun saw that it was quite convenient to use, but he couldn't resist the recoil. He ordered a carpenter to cut a hole at the rear end of the gun mount, then nailed it to the ground with a large iron nail, and tried firing again, with good results.

Zhang Shun couldn't help but excitedly clenched his fist with his right hand and hit his left palm, thinking: I didn't even think of such a simple structure. With this thing, our artillery will be invincible in the world!

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun quickly ordered the blacksmith to forge some iron parts to strengthen the structure of the gun carriage, and generally studied how to easily tow this kind of artillery.

Thank you fans for the reward of "No. 00 Silk"! The description of this chapter is a bit boring, but it can be regarded as another kind of "farming". I will post some pictures in the comment area later to help understand it!